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useless talents
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I just twist my wrist, when I have my arm on my back and then put lotion all over. Only one arm at a time. My doctor says I have hypermobility in my shoulders, arms and knees.. He means that as a bad thing, but all Im thinking is why I dont have it in all of my body. Would be so cool to be a flexible poledancer!! 🙂
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Haha! This is fun. I remember ridiculous details about things. Like I'll meet someone and we'll talk. I might see them six months later but I remember what college their kid is going to or their favorite wine or whatever. I also know random, stupid trivia.
I'm a speed reader. I can read a 300 pg book in about 2 hours. You could argue that is an awesome talent, but I can only do it with fictional novels and the like. I can't do it with textbooks. Boo! 🙁
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I have the "weird details thing" going on too. And I research things when I get curious, and end up with a bunch of worthless info (unless I ever get on Cash Cab or something lol) I didn't know that Hasbro bought Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers prior to 1987. Thats the year my husband was born, he was going off about Hasbro "when I was growing up this, and when I was growing up that" So, I had to go find out what actually went on with all these toy companies. They were all Hasbro before he was even born lol!! They own EVERYTHING. They even have their own studios where they make the cartoons that go along with their toys (My Little Pony, GI Joe, Transformers, ETC) I had no idea, and now, I will know fooooreeeeverrrr lol.
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Dang you guys!!!! I guess I'm just useless lol no talent here lmao
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Have you ever seen people thanking me on here for finding stuff and old posts? I have a ridiculous visual memory (but I cannot remember people's names in person to save my life). Although this really is not a "useless" talent.
I can also clover my tongue.
I have a knack for packing and making stuff "fit". My husband still cannot repack the popup after a trip without having leftover "stuff". This is part of my visual ablities. I am surprised at how many people I meet that cannot visualize maps or even in 3D. This helps a lot with breaking down moves too as I can watch a move and visualize it from a bunch of different angles in my head. It allows me to teach a move that I cannot physically do myself. Not too long ago I was able to explain a devils point shuffle to someone strictly from memory.
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Chem, I relate to that one, but I don't consider it useless, so I didn't include it here. I definitely notice you as "reference guide" around here. I used to do a lot of that on other forums, but then one day, I just decided I'd rather just read and see where it flows. I used to really love "directing traffic" for newbies, just modding forums really. I don't love it as much these days, but I still love my research. <3
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I can do a mean whinny. It wasn't useless when looking for horses in a large pasture. I whinny, they whinny back. But it's pretty much useless now.
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i can make sounds like sheep, and i've had several lambs answering my cries. i also make a pretty decent chicken sound, and can imitate a child's voice perfectly. apart from that … probably my biggest "talent" (and most annoying for myself, lol) is noticing the nervous tics (fads?) a person has within absolutely no time and then being constantly annoyed by them, while no one around me has ever noticed them until i point them out (and sometimes not even then, lol). https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif
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I always seem to find "that spot" for cats and dogs, where if you scratch it, they both love it and tweak out pretty good. I also know how to pet birds, and get in under their feathers. I've actually had a hyacinth macaw refuse to leave my arm because she liked what I was doing- for over an hour, I think! She was as tall as my entire torso, too, so trying to tell her "no" was a little… dangerous!
I'm also a translator for strange people noises. You know, when people mumble something, or have food in their mouth, or just make some kind of sound in leu of a word? Yeah, I can understand that stuff, most of the time. Sometimes this means that I have to explain one person to another person (sometimes people don't connect when they are actually trying to communicate), and sometimes this just means I hear someone mumble something and react, and get strange looks for it 😛
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CapFeb, I can pop my eardrums without moving my jaw, too! It comes in pretty handy on airplanes and when diving. If I keep them open, though, it makes me yawn. =)
I can also recite the alphabet backwards, which hasn’t been terribly useful yet. -
My grandfather and I spell talk, been doing it since I was about 8 years old. Basically, it's just spelling outloud and having a conversation with a person by spelling what you want to say to them, really fast. It sounds easy but it really isn't. I've tried doing it with other people and they just don't get it. Also tried to teach my husband and he wasn't getting it at all lol. My grandfather and I are the only ones in the family who can do it and it's something only he and I share 🙂
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My grandfather and I spell talk, been doing it since I was about 8 years old. Basically, it's just spelling outloud and having a conversation with a person by spelling what you want to say to them, really fast. It sounds easy but it really isn't. I've tried doing it with other people and they just don't get it. Also tried to teach my husband and he wasn't getting it at all lol. My grandfather and I are the only ones in the family who can do it and it's something only he and I share 🙂
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I can sort myself to the group who remembers useless things as well. For example, at the university I remembered where I sat at each exam for a long time.
I didn't remember the exact table, but nevertheless if I was in the front or the back section, and then if I was somewhere in the left, right or middle, back or front in that section. I could recall where I sat the first exams in year one five years later. I guess it's a bit strange, since the others didn't even seem to remember which auditory we were in.
I've as been "used" as a phonebook since I can remember numbers pretty well. But I guess that proves to make me more useful than useless:).
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I just remembered/realized another one. I can "count" sounds. Like, if there's a series of tapping, such as a plate falling to the ground, or something breaking, I can count how many times it hit very quickly.
I… actually can't really think of a time that this has ever really come in handy. I just seem to be able to determine how many times a sound happens in a short period of time. It's weird Oo;
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Runemist34 – I have a friend who is an audiologist and she has not been able to 'count' sounds from birth, and as a result she had to undergo speech therapy as a child. It's actually very integral that we can measure sounds in speech unconciously as it relates to cadence and stuff (I dont understand much about it, but it's very integral to her job as she has to make sure children who come in to be tested can do it – so apparently we all need to be able to, just unconciously!).
I can make very realistic baby and turkey sounds. Though, as you'll see in this video, even incredible unrealistic and poor-effort turkey sounds are all that might be required for this to be even remotely useful! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJ-NJ7pFSc
My friend is so inflexible in her muscles (can't even touch her toes), but she can put her legs behind her back front-ways (opening at the hips, inner thighs along her ribs), and put the backs of her knees over her shoulders (feet in front of her face) and walk around on her hands. Useful for horror-themed zombie photo-shoots only.
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