Weird Skills

[Kelsier'sGodComplex she/her]

I can be so ignorant that I do not even know what a pen flip is!

[Ghanderflaffle she/her]

On 1/2/2020 at 0:07 AM, Karger 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.

 

On 1/2/2020 at 1:17 PM, GoWibble said:

I found another of my kind!

Me too! I don’t get cold easily. It's nice during Nebraska weather.

 

I can also make a clover with my tongue, fold paper cranes out of some really small pieces of paper, show sheep (this technically isn’t useless until I get too old to show in 4h and FFA!), make gerbil noises, block out all noises while reading, and sing extremely off-key.

[The Awakened Salad they/them]

6 hours ago, Kelsier'sGodComplex said:

I can be so ignorant that I do not even know what a pen flip is!

It’s basically just spinning a pen in your hand. I’m really bad at it though .

Edited March 3, 2020 by The Awakened Salad

[Eluvianii he/him]

I can make a sound uncomfortably close to this

by whistling.

[Failsafe she/her]

I can fold boxes closed at an absurd speed. 

[Rushu42 she/her]

I can read a book with one hand while peeling a hard-boiled egg with the other. Does that count?

[Zelly]

On 1/2/2020 at 0:41 AM, GoWibble said:

I can make a noise described as reverse hiccupping

I had to look this up (you're not alone) to listen to it.

I learned how to pick locks as a teenager (in innocent geek fashion, nothing sketchy).  It's a useful, but weird and suspicious skill, so I don't share with people actually I know.  Also I discovered that my state is 1 of 3 where simply owning lock picks is a crime.  

Also I can juggle.  Once upon a time my saintly patient parents paid for me to go to a very, very nice summer camp in the hope that I would ride horses and sail.  I did those things, but I also signed up for a juggling class.  Man, my childhood was a lot more interesting than adulthood. 

[+Doomstick he/him]

I can vibrate my head

[AonEne he/him]

15 hours ago, DoomStick said:

I can vibrate my head

I can do that too! Sometimes it hurts though 

[+Doomstick he/him]

2 hours ago, AonEne said:

I can do that too! Sometimes it hurts though 

Do you do it by locking your jaw?

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

Apparently, I’m very good at digging holes for trees.

[AonEne he/him]

2 hours ago, DoomStick said:

Do you do it by locking your jaw?

Nope, it’s at the base of my head/top of my neck, I think? 

[+Doomstick he/him]

34 minutes ago, AonEne said:

Nope, it’s at the base of my head/top of my neck, I think? 

Yeah, I can lock my jaw (not quite, but I can’t find a better term) with the muscle I use at the base of my head, and I also use the top of my neck

[AonEne he/him]

2 minutes ago, DoomStick said:

Yeah, I can lock my jaw (not quite, but I can’t find a better term) 

Is that what that’s doing? I can’t think of a better term either. I guess it is close to the jaw. 

[+Doomstick he/him]

6 minutes ago, AonEne said:

Is that what that’s doing? I can’t think of a better term either. I guess it is close to the jaw. 

By base of head I am assuming you mean the muscle that is at the top of the neck and goes to below the chin?

[AonEne he/him]

11 minutes ago, DoomStick said:

By base of head I am assuming you mean the muscle that is at the top of the neck and goes to below the chin?

I think so? 

[svmuri]

I don't have weird skills, but I have a weird preference... I can't eat triangle sandwiches, hhahahah 

[Elend Venture he/him]

     I can pistol shoot about nine minutes of angle and fence Lecküchner Messer as well as a bit of Venetian Rapier for what it's worth.

I also sing and play the keyboard, but I wouldn't necessarily call those unique or weird skills.

[The_Archivist he/him]

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block out all noises while reading

Me too! But even if it's wierd, don't presume that it's useless, I have read many a book while my classmates fought to the death without even noticing. Also if you're advanced enough you can do it while doing other things too.

[Guest]

Mine is being able to focus on one thing, and being oblivious to everyone and everything else. 

[Eluvianii he/him]

I just realized, I can get off my bed, walk the distance to my phone and back, and turn off five alarms across the span of half an hour. All of this without waking up.

[SingingMosaic]

You sound so much like me that I had to scroll up to check the username and make sure I hadn't posted that in my sleep.

No seriously, I've managed to have entire conversations with people in my sleep. When I lived at my mother's, she would come in and ask me to do stuff and I apparently responded completely coherently, even she thought I was awake. I used to set multiple alarms and when that didn't work, I set multiple different alarms and when that didn't work, I set them on several different devices and when that didn't work, I set them on devices I had to talk to and when that didn't work, I set them on devices in different parts of my environment. I'm pretty sure my roommate has had enough of alarms going off for hours that I didn't even wake up to, or me just turning them off and coming out hours later wondering why I hadn't gotten up earlier. I'm honestly at a loss now. Someone told me to try alarms made for deaf people.

[Eluvianii he/him]

14 hours ago, SingingMosaic said:

You sound so much like me that I had to scroll up to check the username and make sure I hadn't posted that in my sleep.

No seriously, I've managed to have entire conversations with people in my sleep. When I lived at my mother's, she would come in and ask me to do stuff and I apparently responded completely coherently, even she thought I was awake. I used to set multiple alarms and when that didn't work, I set multiple different alarms and when that didn't work, I set them on several different devices and when that didn't work, I set them on devices I had to talk to and when that didn't work, I set them on devices in different parts of my environment. I'm pretty sure my roommate has had enough of alarms going off for hours that I didn't even wake up to, or me just turning them off and coming out hours later wondering why I hadn't gotten up earlier. I'm honestly at a loss now. Someone told me to try alarms made for deaf people.

I feel you. I've been in that exact situation actually. People sometimes get mad at me for not doing things I apparently said I would do when they came to my room earlier and I'm just like "What do you mean? I literally just woke up."

What does an alarm for deaf people do?

Edited April 7, 2020 by Eluvianii

[SingingMosaic]

Apparently it rattles your bed. Haven't done much research yet, one of my friends told me about it two or three days ago.

[Illwei]

I can play the violin really really poorly