# Odd but inconsequential things about yourself **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609 "2006-11-16T00:55:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/41 "2006-11-16T15:43:50Z")
There’s so many people in my office that I’m working from a standing position. And no, I’m not a bartender… the office hosts the Quality, IT, Finance and HR departments for a company, has space for about 200 people and there’s over 250 in today. My chair is being warmed by the ass of a Finance guy. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/42 "2006-11-16T15:53:10Z")
I can whistle a tune, but I can’t do that whistle-thing with two fingers in your mouth to call someone’s attention. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/43 "2006-11-16T15:59:18Z")
My upper canine teeth _used_ to be long and sharply pointed, very vampirish (and I am part Transylvanian!). But my dentist filed them down without asking because he “kept cutting myself on them!” ---
**Author:** ![Ima\_June\_Bugg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Ima\_June\_Bugg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ima_June_Bugg)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/44 "2006-11-16T16:02:04Z")
I have a faulty sense of balance / center of gravity. Seriously - my center of gravity is apparently at about chest level. I can’t skate, surf, ski, or waterski. I’m a pretty fair athlete (I played football in college), but sports that require grace and balance, phffffft. ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/45 "2006-11-16T20:08:11Z")
My pubic and facial hair were both bright red until I turned 30. Oddly enough, the day after is when my beard went to a mottled brown and I got a white chest hair. Oh, and I remember sets of numbers up to 12 at a clip. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/46 "2006-11-16T20:12:01Z")
I have perfect pitch and I can identify a tone by its note as easily as most people can identify colors. You’d think I’d be a professional or even an amateur musician, composer, songwriter or something where I could put this rare ability to use, but I am none of these, though I have played the trumpet, the guitar and the piano. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/47 "2006-11-16T20:14:25Z")
I had to have eight impacted wisdom teeth removed. ---
**Author:** ![Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebecca_DiMwitter)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/48 "2006-11-16T20:34:00Z")
I haven’t been able to produce armpit hair since I went through my first pregnancy 18 years ago. Not a drawback at all, actually. However, during the same pregnancy I also began growing a single black hair on the top of my left breast, which has to be watched for & plucked out from time to time. All the worse since I am of fair to pale complexion and have light brown or blonde fuzz in the rest of the “hairy” areas of my body, so when it’s there it is noticeable. Interesting trade-off from pregnancy hormones. I’ve never broken a single one of my bones in my life, & I’ll be 49 next month. I can touch the tip of my nose with my tongue. –Beck ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/49 "2006-11-16T20:39:58Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] I had to have eight impacted wisdom teeth removed. [/QUOTE] Was this at the same time or did they grow back or…? ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/50 "2006-11-16T20:51:20Z")
I can snap my fingers with my right hand. I can’t do it with my left. I’m right handed, but I can only open up stubborn bottles or jars with my left hand. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/51 "2006-11-16T20:54:57Z")
I can spell like a motherf----r. I am directionally dyslexic. I will point toward the right but tell someone to turn left. I get disoriented in strange places. I’m always afraid of getting lost, although I have gotten better at the panic. I can do the alphabet in sign language. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/52 "2006-11-16T20:57:06Z")
[QUOTE=Rebecca DiMwitter] I’ve never broken a single one of my bones in my life, & I’ll be 49 next month. [/quote] Neither have I, but I’m younger than you. > [@Rebecca DiMwitter](#): > > I can touch the tip of my nose with my tongue. So can my son. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/53 "2006-11-16T20:57:32Z")
[QUOTE=Sonia Montdore] Tell us something odd but inconsequential about yourself. I’ll start: I can’t whistle. [/QUOTE] I can’t whistle too. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/54 "2006-11-16T20:57:50Z")
I have dark eyelashes except for a single albino eyelash on the lower lid of my right eye. [QUOTE=Mangetout] I have voluntary control over the muscles that open my eustachian tubes to equalise the pressure in my middle ear. [/QUOTE] For some reason I read this as \*fallopian \*tubes, and I was trying to figure out how anybody could open their fallopian tubes, and how that could possibly affect the pressure in your ears. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/55 "2006-11-16T21:15:00Z")
[QUOTE=Eleanor of Aquitaine] For some reason I read this as \*fallopian \*tubes, and I was trying to figure out how anybody could open their fallopian tubes, and how that could possibly affect the pressure in your ears. [/QUOTE] Well, if you put your ear up to– On second thought, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/56 "2006-11-16T21:47:56Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] I had to have eight impacted wisdom teeth removed. [/QUOTE] Same! Except my first set weren’t impacted. The first 4 were removed about 15 years ago, then four years ago my dentist told me my wisdom teeth would have to come out. They already came out, says I. Not so much, says he, and pointed to my x-rays. He didn’t believe me that I already had them out (in another state, and the doctor had since retired and I couldn’t locate my original file/x-rays). I said, well then maybe the first time they weren’t wisdom teeth, but the last molar. Nope- no evidence of other molars that aren’t still in my mouth. He said in rare cases there are 2 sets of wisdom teeth. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/57 "2006-11-16T22:12:55Z")
I’m ambidextrous when it comes to talking or spelling in sign language - I’m strongly lefthanded but I can lead with my right hand almost equally as well as with my left hand. This comes in useful when I’m trying to teach a righty the right way to do a sign. I can spell better than Samuel L. Jackson, but I’ve never won a spelling bee. 😛 I can crack my neck, shoulders, wrists, knuckles, spine, ankles, and toes. If you press down on my shoulders when I’m sitting and simultaneously twist, I sound like a bag of popcorn. I read faster than most people - I devour your average paperback SF/F novel in about 2-3 hours. My method of touch-typing uses about six to eight fingers and is pretty idiosyncratic, but I usually peg in at about 85-90 wpm. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/58 "2006-11-16T22:15:39Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Was this at the same time or did they grow back or…? [/QUOTE] At the same time. I had 36 teeth! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/59 "2006-11-16T22:15:58Z")
IMHO: **Yoga: 48, male, tightest hams in the world, should I bother? Can super-hot people be trusted?** ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609/60 "2006-11-16T22:22:48Z")
My feet make a lot of popping noises, and always had, ever since I was a child. I can make them pop on command by moving the toes a certain way, and they will also pop when I walk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-but-inconsequential-things-about-yourself/380609.md?page=4)