I’m good at deciphering those 3D Magic Eye photos. I just mess up my vision and sort it out, I don’t have to bring the picture close and far and close again to my eyes.
I’ve never quite been able to get the hang of this. I can roll the coin backwards and forwards on my hand, not always very smoothly admittedly, but I just can seem to get how to get to coin from the last knuckle to the first one.
Do you also roll it into little balls?
Nah, I usually leave that to those who write on bathroom walls.
I am excellent at spotting leopard slugs in the dark.
I also have a very steady hand. I can paint adjoining walls and ceilings contrasting colors with an incredibly sharp edge exactly at the seam where they meet.
I can also paint a straight line along seams and edges that are completely irregular and achieve the illusion of an absolutely straight line. Comes in handy living in old, plaster walled houses. Saves me a bundle on painters tape, too. I guess it’s not a completely useless talent.
I can fart like no other. My mother-in-law, sitting two rooms and closed doors away, says: “how can a human make such a sound?”
Also very useful . . . I find gift-wrapping to be tedious and painful and I’m bad at it and then always feel like a terrible human being when I present my awkwardly-wrapped gift to the giftee and OHMIGOD but they must be noticing the crooked tape and how is everyone else’s wrapped so much better than mine???
Only dancing makes me more anxious and self-conscious. Oh, and sport-playing. But I can avoid the latter pretty well.
Yup, am clearly social force to be dealt with.
Wow, you kinda had to dig for that one. Here’s the first google entry:
Even your link gives “gleek” as a secondary definition of “gleet.” I’ma stick with my original usage.
Wow, I kinda didn’t. That’s pretty much every entry that came up with a Google search *for the term’s definition *(anything I deleted was more of the same), and I can’t get to urbandictionary.com from work. Some dialects may have come to use gleet as a synonym for gleek, but it sure didn’t start out that way. Not to mention, the only entry in an *actual *online dictionary (as opposed to the “shit people make up” entries you can get on UD) agrees with the definition I pulled up. If anybody’s digging here, it’s you.
Note: Which isn’t to say that your definition for gleet isn’t equally valid–just that it’s the less commonly accepted one.
I don’t know from either “gleet” or “gleek” but we used to call spitting through your teeth as “skeeting” and I was pretty good with that in high school days. The cool wore off by the time I was in college, though.
I always wanted to be able to fart on cue, but burping is as good as I’ve been able to get.
Just for laughs, do any of you other Burp Experts have favorite words you burp with? Mine include “Gack” and “Zarf.” Occasionally I’ll use “Framp.”
And how often have you burped, farted and sneezed at the same time. More room out than in, sort of thing.
OK so what skills still need to be represented? Can anyone–
** **tie a cherry stem in a knot inside your mouth?
** **walk on your hands until you’re tired of it?
** **part your hair perfectly in the dark?
** **wrist-flip an egg without breaking the yolk or getting it on the ceiling?
** **balance a chair on your nose?
** **step through your clasped hands like a jumprope?
** **consistently skip a stone 6 or more times?
** **mysteriously make any baby stop crying?
** **walk a tightrope?
** **predict the weather?
** **do a perfect Phyllis Diller impression?
** **identify which Wisconsin town someone comes from by accent?
** **fart a melody?
** **fold a map perfectly every single time?
** **find actual needle in an actual haystack?
** **shell a walnut without breaking it every time? (or pecan?)
** **gauge distance by eyeball alone?
** **spit with deadly accuracy?
** **put makeup on while driving, including eyeliner or it doesn’t count?
** **speak cat?
** **catch an M&M in your mouth every single time?
** **spin toss pizza dough to paper thinness?
** **guess the number of beans in a jar?
** **make a perfect martini every single time without measuring?
** **explain directions to a stranger without any ambiguity or confusion?
** **whip together a gourmet meal using nothing but the contents of the refrigerator door?
** **read a Tolkien book aloud with distinct voices for every single character?
** **land a paper airplane exactly where you intended to?
** **lie your way out of any situation?
** **make a bed tight enough to bounce a dime off of with no fitted sheets?
** **get along with any date’s parents?
** **fold an entire load of laundry without looking at it once while you watch TV?
** **other________________________________________________?
I’d forgotten one I used to be able to do without fail. I could make one of those paper water bombs the exact size of the amount of piss that was in my bladder. It was for tossing out the window of the 13th floor of our building without regard for what it might hit. It was for the thrill, you understand.
I’m not sure if you can count it as ‘speaking’ cat, but I can make cat noises that sound remarkably realistic. I mostly use it to further annoy one my parents’ cats when she wants down and I don’t want to let go. I imitate her. It’s funny as hell, and thus not at all unimportant.
I’ve also used it (making nice sounds) to get stray / outdoor cats to come over to me before we had cats.
Yeah me too. I’ve bottle raised a couple rescue newborn kittens, and I kind of “learned” the vocabulary as they did. I could honestly communicate very specific things with them. It freaks stranger cats out sometimes, when I’m walking down the street and give them the “Yo dude whut up” [meh?]. I can do that territorial warning kind of gobbly *miararararrrr *thing too. It’s really funny to do that out of the side of my mouth when I pass a cat in the neighborhood; they do actual double takes.
I can also make little bird sounds into my fist, so that my cat thinks I’m clutching some tiny little prey animal. Freaks their shit out when I won’t open my hand so they can get at it, and then even moreso when I do open it and it’s “escaped” before they can get it. One cat would, when I opened my hand, swivel-jerk her head in all directions trying to see where it went, then look for it for a while, figure out where it was hiding.
I’ve never done it with a chair, but I’ve done pretty well with a peacock feather.
I can’t balance a chair on my nose - but I used to be able to balance various things on my head.
OK, I’ll bite…not bragging, mind you. Just helping the cause.
Worked at 9-1-1 for a few years, directions are easy IF the stranger in question knows concepts like North, South, East and West. Let me tell you, that’s a big if.
-val
I can fold gas stations maps back up fairly quickly and easily, and untangle string. Also, if you show me a two-dimensional paper pattern of any solid shape (cone, cube, rhomboid, whatever) I can tell you what shape it will be when it’s cut and folded and glued.
Useless? No. Will you please come out of retirement and work at my local supermarket? Even with scanners, seems like everything is wrong when I look at the receipt.