Name your secret talent (possibly tmi)

[chaoticbear]

@interface2x

I’m pigeon-toed so the bones in my leg are both turned slightly inward. When I was little it was really obvious when I walked, but as I’ve grown older it’s self-corrected a lot. Regardless, we use to have to do this stretching exercise in gym class called the butterfly (see image here) in school. I’m a 30 year old guy and I can still pull my legs so far in that I can sit on my feet. I can also pull my feet back behind me, bending my knees, in such a way that it freaks everyone out. Yeah, I’m a popular guy.

So, how you doin’?

[janis_and_c0]

@Amygdala

I can do what I think is called a “clam tongue.” I fold in the edges of my tongue so that it looks sort of like a “W.”

I am not the girl in this video, but here is an example in case you’re not sure what I’m talking about.

Supposedly only a small percentage of the population can do this. I’ve only met one other person whom I knew for sure could do it, and that was my across-the-street neighbor when I was in fourth grade. She did it for my brother and me, and later I tried it and realized I could do it, too. I’ve only ever shown my “talent” to my SO, so I suppose that makes it a secret.

Ohh, I can do this too!

[missred]

I can talk and sneeze like Donald Duck…little kids like hanging out with me.

[matt_mcl]

@missred

I can talk and sneeze like Donald Duck…little kids like hanging out with me.

I can do rather a good Cartman imitation, which is weird because I’ve seen like four episodes of South Park in my life.

[Scubaqueen]

@GargoyleWB

Huh, I thought everyone could do that. Yay, I have a super power!

crunch pop crunch crunch squinsh crunch pop

add me to that list. scuba divers often learn to do that. kinda useful when your hands are full and you need to equalize pressure RIGHT NOW!

i can wiggle my ears too, altho i can’t do the independent of each other thing.

[Sunspace]

I sound like Kermit the Frog. Quite a number of people have told me this, including one Doper after hearing a recording of my voice; two drunk girls on a country road outside Huntsville, Ontario; people at school; and people at work.

I am certain that this is related to my Mysterious Woman-Repelling Powers, which I suspect are akin to ArrMatey!'s powers to confer marriage upon those he breaks up with. It would be interesting to date one of ArrMatey!'s former girlfriends; doing this might cause the universe to implode.

On the other hand, I am good at playing on the floor with my friends’ kids. Two weekends ago I was Danger Cow!, carrying them all around the living room on my back. I even briefly had three on my back at one time. Working out has made this a lot less stressful.

[BrainGlutton]

I can sneak up on people without meaning to. I don’t understand it at all – I don’t try to be quiet, I cough all the time, but people always seem to be surprised to find me standing there.

[Infovore]

I can cause streetlights to turn off (or on) by walking under them. Doesn’t work every time, but often enough that it’s a little freaky.

I’m also a synesthete (I see letters and numbers in color), but I don’t know if that counts as a super power.

[FourPaws]

@Mangetout

If you get someone to put their ear against yours, they will be able to hear that little soft, crunchy sound it makes. Honestly.

I thought all could do this. Never realized it was a talent!

[FourPaws]

@Astroboy14

Oh I forgot another one… if I turn my ankle to the side and rotate my foot, I can make a loud crunch noise as the tendon (or ligament?) scrapes over my ankle bone (artifact from post-astronomy accident ankle surgery). The main use for this is grossing my wife out.

I can do this one, too, every since I was a little kid. Except I don’t have to move my foot. I can move the tendon

But I never had an accident. It’s just been that way.

[The_Weird_One]

@winterhawk11

I’m also a synesthete (I see letters and numbers in color), but I don’t know if that counts as a super power.

I think so! I find synesthesia fascinating and really cool. Have you considered starting an “ask the synesthete” thread?

[Infovore]

@The Weird One

I think so! I find synesthesia fascinating and really cool. Have you considered starting an “ask the synesthete” thread?

I have considered it, actually, but I believe that others have done it before me. Didn’t want to duplicate other threads.

[Lynne_kilii]

People occasionally catch me (I do it without thinking) flexing my pectoral muscles, creating independantly bouncing boobies.
I’m practicing to be able to do it with my glutes as well. I can do them independantly, but not quite yet reliably.

[Alistair_McCello]

@Thinks2Much

I can move my eyes independently of one another - I have to start from being cross-eyed, but I can move either eye out and back again while leaving the first stationary in the cross-eyed position. It isn’t exactly a sexy look, though, so I don’t do it much anymore. It was more fun as a kid to creep people out.

Hey! I can do that too! I haven’t let that whole aging thing get in the way of me having fun by creeping people out with it though.

[nikenik2069]

Okay, first with the whole ear crunchy thing, i am unable to do that. I am actually sitting here at work trying to do it.

Second this isnt my talent but i thought it was cool to share: a friend i had once could turn his tongue sideways and wiggle it back and forth. So far him and his twin are the only two people i have met that can do this. I really wanted to date him : )

[Leiko]

@Mangetout

If you get someone to put their ear against yours, they will be able to hear that little soft, crunchy sound it makes. Honestly.

Once my ear infection clears up* and I’m not paranoid about having people by my head, I’m so making people listen to my ear crunchy sound.

I didn’t even think of self-opening ear tubes as a talent, but now I shall claim it as a talent and not just an ability.
*Turns out that the intense urge to take lots of baths should always be accompanied by caution that water in your ear WILL lead to pain if you don’t get it out right away.

[chaoticbear]

Speaking of weird feet things, I also remembered that I can pop my left toe (the one next to the big toe) a seemingly infinite number of times. I just crack it by putting pressure on it with the big toe and pop pop pop etc.

Whereas every other one of my joints I can only pop once before having to wait a while.

[bbs2k]

I can kill any thread by simply posting.

Just watch.

[interface2x]

How will I know if it worked?

[Ale]

@Capcha

Or doing the flex thing, bending my fingers so they look like the figure seven, and wobble the first parts up and down (with my other hand, or i let others people try). Does that make any sense?

I can do that, also the ear popping on command. I´m not sure if it´s unusual, but I can stand with my two feet in parallel… and pointing in oposite directions. I can open and close my nostrils at will.

I also have an uncanny ability for eyeballing measurements, from milimeters up to tens of meters; for example, on a previous job, years ago, I went with a coworker to measure a billboard for an advertisment we had to design and print. The thing was on the roof of a house, I said something like “9.7 meters”, and I got it nailed to within 10cm. Or someone wants to measure something, while they scramble for a ruler I say “X.x centimeters”, they look at me funny, find the ruler, measure and look again even more funny… “Told you so”.