Weird Skills

[Zephrun’s Imperium they/he]

Hey, does anyone have any weird and cool, yet slightly useless talents or hobbies? I can write in Dwarvish. 

[Lunamor she/her]

I can make a clover shape with my tongue.

[Nathrangking he/him]

I can write poetry.

[Zephrun’s Imperium they/he]

18 minutes ago, Nathrangking said:

I can write poetry.

Poetry isn't weird. Is it weird? I've never really caught that drift... 

[Nathrangking he/him]

6 minutes ago, Shard of Thought said:

Poetry isn't weird. Is it weird? I've never really caught that drift... 

Depends on who you ask. In some circles that may be considered a useless talent.

[Jaywalk he/him]

I can be myself. That's pretty dang weird.

[Zephrun’s Imperium they/he]

Well, that's certainly a great skill to have!  

[Jaywalk he/him]

Just now, Shard of Thought said:

Well, that's certainly a great skill to have!  

Agreed

[+Invocation]

I can alter my body temperature at will.

[GoWibble he/him]

I can make a noise described as reverse hiccupping

[Karger he/him]

I feel no real discomfit in 40 degree weather assuming no humidity or wind chill, I can also wiggle my ears and waste impressive amounts of time.

Edited January 2, 2020 by Ookla the Prolific

[+Doomstick he/him]

41 minutes ago, Ookla the Prolific said:

I feel no real discomfit in 40 degree weather assuming no humidity or wind chill, I can also wiggle my ears and waste impressive amounts of time.

same to 1 & 3

[Chiberty]

I can play songs just by clapping my hands a certain way in front of my mouth.

[Quantus he/him]

In the topic of hobbies, I have a lot of skills that are useless now but are one zombie-outbreak away from being awesome.  This is everything from metalwrok (smithing, casting etc) to small scale livestock farming and from scratch bread-making to energy beam weapons out of junkyard parts (as soon as they start to rise, get your hands on as many microwave ovens as you can, thank me later...)  Im working on getting usable metal from Ore right now.  

There are tons of these Primative Technology youtube channels, they are awesome

[Rask]

I can whistle, this could be a useful skill if not for its incredible annoyance for those around me. Perhaps it can be weaponized. 

[GoWibble he/him]

13 hours ago, Ookla the Prolific said:

I feel no real discomfit in 40 degree weather assuming no humidity or wind chill, I can also wiggle my ears and waste impressive amounts of time.

I found another of my kind!

[Quantus he/him]

Likely that means you both have above average amounts of "Brown Fat" which converts stored energy directly to heat at the cell (rather than normal shiver-based heating).  Some genomes that are adapted to cold climates see that trait (Siberian natives being the topic of the documentary I saw).  

[Karger he/him]

2 hours ago, GoWibble said:

I found another of my kind!

We were clearly separated at birth!

[SingingMosaic]

I can map sound. I'm nowhere near as sensitive as a computer, but before I knew much about waves and the shapes they made when drawn by programs, people used to toss different noises at me to see if I could describe them. According to them I've been pretty accurate. I still don't know much about them, but I know some now. Used to listen to Orcasound's hydrophone streams all the time. Anyway I digress. Who knows how something like this comes about? Sadly the information is rusty, but the skill never seems to be, I use it to echolocate now, so it's not wholly useless.

[Snakenaps she/her]

My friend is truly the one with all of the weird talents (jack-of-all-trades kinda fellow), and one of the most useless but wonderful skills he taught me is how to punch out a candle. Makes me feel like a firebender. 

I can also draw 30 horse heads in 5 minutes. A talent I developed in high school as a TA while grading. 

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

On the subject of fire, I can stick a match in my mouth and put it out, and stick a lighter in a closed fist and create a mini explosion out of the opening at the top.

Edited March 2, 2020 by Truthless of Shinovar

[Retrac he/him]

I can...

 

I can also be the worst person ever.

Edited March 3, 2020 by Retrac

[Kelsier'sGodComplex she/her]

I can make a piano part for any song if I know the guitar chords. Is that weird enough?

[The Awakened Salad they/them]

I can do a really mediocre pen flip?

[GoWibble he/him]

5 hours ago, The Awakened Salad said:

I can do a really mediocre pen flip?

I can do an above mediocre basic pen flip