What the title says :cheeky:
Anyways mine is that I can sit criss crossed
Spoiler for like this:
EXCEPT, I can put both my feet above my knees. Then I can use my hands and lift myself off the ground
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What the title says :cheeky:
Anyways mine is that I can sit criss crossed
Spoiler for like this:
EXCEPT, I can put both my feet above my knees. Then I can use my hands and lift myself off the ground
I can make a deep "whistle" sound by blowing air through my curled tongue.
I can make my eyes vibrate/shake rapidly.
I can do this:
http://limbermen.com/Stephen_c/Legs_..._Reclining.jpg
OH YEAH, I remember sometime ago everyone was like WTF HOW DO YOU DO THAT to me everytime I ate my lunch without looking at it >_>
I can thread shit.
I can too, but not as tightly.
I can also whistle almost any tune after I've heard it a time or two.
I can bulge my eyes without raising my eyebrows :D And I've been known to yawn with my mouth closed.
I can also do a "spider walk" where I throw my legs above my shoulders, lift up on my hands and then walk alternating hands and suspended feet.
I can move my ears a little!
Dunno exactly how 'unusual' some of these are, but here goes.
I can:
- Wiggle my ears (the left more than the right).
- Cross one eye while keeping the other straight.
- Say the alphabet backward in about 4 seconds.
- Name all 50 states in alphabetical order, in less than 20 seconds.
- Make the idle 'clicking' sound that The Predator makes.
- Make a sound like a Wookie (Chewbacca)
- Do a flip with a half twist off the edge of a pool (backwards on a trampoline) with no training
- Wave, floor-glide, pop and tut (dancing), which you don't see very often, nowadays.
- Spin/mix records
- Whistle while either blowing air out of my mouth or sucking air in.
- Cut a deck of cards in one hand, placing the top half on the bottom, without using a surface like a table.
- Draw nearly anything I see.
- Play music by ear and improvise to nearly any song I hear, on guitar.
- Flip/spin rifles (was on the exhibition drill team in ROTC).
- Create 3D models/artwork (I don't know that I'd say I'm 'talented' at it, but I'm getting there. :P)
- Give an amazing massage set to music (you ravers and blow-up party fiends out there know what I'm talking about. Lol)
Oh, and I can whistle properly through my teeth.
I can move my scalp without using my hands or moving my eyebrows
I can whistle whilst blowing out and sucking in
I can make a clover with my tongue, roll it over both ways, "split" it in half, and curl it without the use of lips/teeth/fingers
I can force cramps (not fun but I've done it many times :?)
And I can lucid dream :cheeky:
Cool talents everyone :)
My daughter can do that thing with her tongue, Burke. I think that is so cool lol
I can "roll" my tongue but that's it.
My step-daughter can tie the stem of a cherry into a knot using only her tongue. Well, she could when she was about 9 years old. I don't know if she still can :lol:
I don't see anyone being able to do this so far...
Spoiler for Unusual Talent:
- I can solve a Rubik's cube in about a minute.
- Eat unusually large amounts of food and never gain any weight. My BMI is underweight. :|
- Play tetris ridiculously well.
- Play piano just by reading off sheet music.
That isn't a talent when you are on a lucid dreaming website. :P
I envy people who have the ability to whistle. :c (I can't snap my fingers either). :P
I can do that too! It's more the back of my head though.
Lol, I never seem to gain any weight either; I can either pig out on sugary foods or wolf down a whole pizza but nothing will happen to me. Surprisingly I don't have high blood sugar or anything. On the flip side, I'm hungry every five minutes.
It will get to you.... like it did to me! (not really). I used to be 140LBS and be able to eat anything... then I ballooned to 180LBS. And I've been hovering there for a while now. Like 2 years, lol. I recently lost 3-4 pounds :P
Also, I have the strange talent of being able to be very acrobatic when it comes to jumping and climbing, yet completely clumsy and hopeless while just walking normally.
I second what OldSparta said.
I weighed 98 pounds each time I became pregnant (4). Once I hit around 30, my metabolism bottomed out. I now weigh 150 pounds. I don't eat any more than I did when I was younger. I actually eat a WHOLE lot less. But I'm not as active as I was either.
Enjoy it while you can!!!
New thread rules:
You must now post video proof.
Like... my metabolism Bottomed out... then picked up again. lol. I sorta of understand why, that was a tough year. But yeah... Now I hover at 180, lol.
I can lower my left eyebrow while raising my right one.
It's like a superpower, or something.
I seem to be in a perpetual state of amusement because my left eyebrow is almost always raised lol. I can't raise the right side though
This is now an eyebrow thread.
http://i657.photobucket.com/albums/u...l-eyebrows.gif
I never used to be able to do that either, then I watched a 'how to' video on youtube and by following the instructions, I managed to do it. It was quite difficult and it hurt my fingers at first, but it felt cool to be able to do it. All my life I just couldn't figure out how it was done and then this one little video showed me how. For a few months after that, it became an annoying habit. I snapped my fingers constantly. I guess I was catching up on all the years I couldn't do it. It's a simple thing, but the fact that so many other people can do it while you can't makes you feel kinda left out.
As for unusual talents, I don't know. As long as I can remember, I've been able to flip my eyelids inside out. Other than that, I don't think I have any weird abilities. Quite boring, really.
I can't snap my fingers, whistle, or do anything special really, but I can talk like donald duck.
I can unintentionally burp and fart at the same time.
ahahaa, can flip my eyelids too but I haven't for years. It's very irritating lol I learned it from my dad when I was about 5 years old because he'd do it to try to scare me and other kids (in fun).
My baby brother knew how to whistle before I did. He was 5 years old or so and I just couldn't have that :lol: So I used to stand at the top of a really big wavy slide at the park next to my house. At sunset, the electric lines would be filled with some sort of black bird. I don't know just how long I listened to them, but before long I was perfectly mimicking them and a habit was born :)
I've never been able to do the really loud whistle where people put their fingers at their mouth. I can't whistle using a leaf either. I think those are the neatest things lol
But I've always been able to snap. I can't imagine someone not being able to do it, it seems second nature to me.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7181/6...cd8880e2_z.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7193/6...c5eeb41e_m.jpg
I could go farther but it's hard to take a photo where you only have ten seconds to do that before it goes off XD.
hehee- awesome Mancon :)
I "speak" fluent sign language.
also I tend to write things double backwards (the way so that you can read it correctly in mirrors)
hahahaha mancon!
I'm embarrassingly good at DDR. I don't think a video exists anymore, thank god. I basically looked like dis mofo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPDdultxBSc
http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...xn_eyebrow.jpg
http://livelearnloveleave.com/wp-con...onkey-1938.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nGdb6dsSgy...4/s1600/4.jpeg
^came up when I searched "sexy eyebrows"
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg...rgxco1_500.gif
I might be able to do something with my belly, but I'm out of practice.
Hmmm, double jointed thumbs? I might be talentless...
Oh and my knees might be double jointed or something like that, because they bend and make my legs look pretty weird. But again, not really a talent, in fact, when people notice it they ask, "Whats WRONG with your legs?"
Oh I can also whistle by holding my hands together... xD ask forceez and a few other miscellaneous others
and make my tongue into a clover shape
I'm working on my DDR skills recently (technically Pump it Up since I like the placement of the arrows for that better) because it's my new obsession, but I doubt I'll ever be that good. :eek:
I can do that. Probably the only weird trick I can do, though. :O
I can DDR like a mad god.
I can dance and hula hoop at the same time.
I can get two songs stuck in my head simultaneously.
I can de-motivate myself out of anything.
When I have hiccups I can make it stop on command, without having to do anything like holding my breath or drinking water fast.
I can make fart sounds on my hands like this (please note, that's not me in that video), and also with my eyes.
I can wiggle my right ear.
Also I can make my eyes vibrate, though this seems to be less unusual than I thought.
Make it stop, make it stop. Making sounds with your eyes is giving me the major heebeejeebies.
My youngest daughter can squirt liquid out of her eyes. I don't even........
hehehe. Worse than nails down a chalkboard :chuckle:
I can turn my feet backwards.
I can give women orgasms. Does that count?
i can write with both hands, print or script.
i can run backwards faster then someone jogging forward at normal speed.
haha, in high school we set up a few tournaments at the local arcade. Fun times. I lived in nyc last year and went down to the infamous Chinatown fair video arcade (big tournament spot for fighting games) for some DDR a couple times. Kids there were DAMN GOOD! I held my own for quite awhile until they started pulling out the paranoia survivor and other 270+ bpm songs that wear an out-of-shape me down way too quickly.
♫ I can keep rhythm with no metronome ♫
Well I know this is a bit weird, but my milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard.
- Touch my nose with my tongue
- Move my thumb as if it's dislocated (hard to explain, but it's definitely unnatural, and I can do it with only 1 of my thumbs)
- I can strain muscles around my eyes to make my eyes look seriously weird
- Move my ears
- Move the wings of my nose
- I can lucid dream (how is it possible that no-one mentioned that yet?)
I'm pretty good at Tetris, and somewhat ambidextrous.
Not all that impressive, but whatever.
I can make owl noises when I roll my Tongue and breathe out
Spyguy, I understand about the thumb. I used to be able to do that with my left thumb only. When I broke my wrist a couple/few years back I lost the ability. For me, it was like sticking my thumb out to hitchhike , but then I could pop my thumb back further.
I can touch my nose with my tongue too :)
I can also "bulge" my eyes and flare my nostrils, but I can't wiggle my ears or my nose.
Don't know if this is really an unusual talent but I can hear REALLY well. Like when people are whispering to each other and they don't think I can hear them...but I can.
can I have your ears?
I can distinguish right from wrong. For some reason, that ability is one of the most uncommon in the world. And I can study really well (no bragging intended)
how is distinguishing right from wrong an unusual talent. I don't see this to be uncommon at all. I'm fairly sure people know when they're doing something they probably shouldn't. Also, morality is subjective. That entire sentence just made you sound extremely pompous and arrogant.
Well, sorry if I came across as such. What I was talking about is that the world is filled with hate, racism, hooligans, people who insult others while they just walk on the other side of the street, etc. That makes it special. I meant that a whole lot of people are terrible at it, not so much that I'm great or anything. So sorry if I came across as arrogant, I was just kind of criticizing the world
I can stand on the floor and kick the top of a standard door frame.
Oh yeah, I can catch a tennis ball on many other things on the back of my hand.
I can consciously affect pupillary response without requiring a varying light source or provocative stimulus. Yeah....it's as amazing as it sounds.
I'm also talented at spewing out verbal diarrhea - though only I call that one a talent.
With a couple simple tools I can turn metal wire into chainmail armor.
With a couple simple tools I can turn metal wire into bent metal wire.
Um, I guess I can read quite fast.
Oh, I can also spot Wally before anyone else. I always carry a pocket size Where's Wally book in my inside pocket, because it makes great conversation at a house party.
I can make snake-like movements with my hands clasped together.
Useless talent #1
I can yell really loud like a damn beast on the loose, making everyone be like O.O
I can burp the ABC's and burp every second for as long as I want to. And I can also make my voice sound like somethin' off a horror flick. lalalala
Forgot to mention that I can type really fast. I'm not quite as fast as I used to be around my Senior year of high school, when we used to have speed-based text RP fighting competitions, but it comes back to me every now and then. I almost wouldn't say that it is an 'unusual' talent, but at my best, I really do think I'm 'unusually' fast.
http://timlukens.com/pwn.png
123wpm - Suck it, nerds.
My mind is blown.....
A lot of nerds suck at typing. Take programmers for instance. It's estimated that if they were to type up a years worth of work, it would only take a few days. This is because it's necessary to think, consult documentation, etc. So as a nerd that sucks at typing (49wpm according to a test I just took), I have no plans to suck anything and certainly not "it" whatever that may be.
I'm a programmer for a living. I'm also a nerd. I type quickly, therefore all ya'll other nerds are behind the times.
mmhm, I said all ya'll.
I very much dislike any sort of web dev, so I'm not a fan. Right now I'm doing audio development for iOS - music app type stuff, so I'm an Obj-C guy right now. And a lot of C++ for the actual low level audio dsp.
And blunt, anyone in IRC will back me up. We used to do those typing race thingies where you all type the same stuff at the same time racing to the end. As for 123, that particular typing test doesn't have any punctuation except apostrophes, which make cruising through the words pretty easy. On -real- typing tests with every character on the keyboard, including symbols and such, I can usually do about 90-95 if I push.
I was kind of hoping for a more ardent denouncement of it but I'll accept that. I've never played with Obj-C. C++ is ok but I prefer to work in Python/C.
I'm actually writing a web framework right now. I get to write custom compilers for my DSLs. Fun stuff.
Do you like any Lisps?
Never used LISP or any derivatives. Why do you prefer python over c++? Also, C??? Do you like paper-cutting the webs of your fingers and pouring lemon juice in them? Procedural programming is fucking annoying if you want to do anything large scale. Linked lists? NO THANKS, I'LL DO OBJECT ORIENTED PLZZZ!
Obj-c is sweet cause it will compile pure C (like c++) as well as C++, all in one source file. You basically get the best of all three worlds.
I am pretty good at BSing things, being fakely racist, acting like a ignorant fool, and pissing people off.
My preference is for strongly, dynamically typed languages. I also like first class functions and proper lexical scoping, i.e. closures. C++ is a weakly (you can't call a language with void* in it strongly typed), statically typed language. It gains some of the benefits of dynamic typing with templates but even that is all resolved at compile time AFAIK, so it's not true dynamic typing.
Also metaclasses that let you customize how inheritance works on a per class level hierarchy? Yes please. Coroutines? Awesome. Syntactic support for the decorator pattern that does so much more? I'm sold. Built in hash tables available by typing '{}'? This is too good to be true.
And I see no reason to manage ones own memory in this day and age. I can do it but I prefer to have a garbage collector. After all, if I don't have a garbage collector then I'm just going to end up writing my own anyways for any reasonably sized project. Add to that list comprehensions, easy generators (just use yield when defining the function instead of return), generator expressions, built in set data types and a rocking library and I don't feel like C++ holds a candle to Python. Aside from speed. I readily concede that Python (running on a stack based virtual machine and being very hard to optimize due to its dynamic nature) is significantly slower than C++. It's fast enough for a lot of tasks though.
Also, python has good support for functional programming which I very much enjoy. OO is okay but given a choice, I'll always approach a problem with a composition of pure functions. This is easier to debug because they don't have state and always provide the same output on the same input. When too much state gets involved things can get hairy. Python lets me use a mix of the two approaches as well as procedural where that's appropriate.
One can very well write object oriented code in C. Object orientation is a way of organizing code, not a set of keywords. That being said, my normal work flow is to write the whole program in pure python and then port any heavy computation to C. The two languages operate very well together. One can implement Python classes entirely in C and access them from Python code or just call out to convenience functions.Quote:
Also, C??? Do you like paper-cutting the webs of your fingers and pouring lemon juice in them? Procedural programming is fucking annoying if you want to do anything large scale. Linked lists? NO THANKS, I'LL DO OBJECT ORIENTED PLZZZ!
I would like to look at Objective C though. I hear very good things about it vis-a-vis memory management.
Does not being fussy with food count as a talent? I eat all my veges? :puppydogeyes:
He's a programmer. Although my programmer friend doesn't seem to type too fast. It depends on individuals.
I actually attribute most of my typing speed to IRC and other various chat protocols. When you're arguing on the internet in real time, the fastest typer always wins :P
I've never had an argument in IRC, or not much, the most it'll be with a friend I'm close to. Usually they happen on forum, and I'll take a long time to type my post. At the end of the day, I realised most people are too self-centered to read what you said. That sucks.
It's not actually unusual really, since I play a lot of poker; but I can riffle a deck of cards, then strip it, then cut it, all whilst keeping the top card the same. It can fool most people at a poker table, and can give you an advantage if you either know the top card or if you make sure it's an ace when you're dealing yourself first. If you're sharp-eyed and looking out for cheats then it's easy to spot though.
I've never actually used it in a money game, since I didn't actually learn it to cheat... I just wanted to be able to do it.
A couple of years ago we caught one of our university poker society members cheating whilst dealing in a cash game. It was very obvious, he just looked at the cards, put an ace on top, then dealt himself first without shuffling. It's amazing no one noticed for so long. One of us took a video of him doing it so he couldn't deny it. I put it on youtube so our committee could all see it, here it is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4I4P...e_gdata_player
TypingTest.com
I'm much faster when I don't have to read what I'm typing (like in chat), but I'm still not quite as fast as I used to be.
And DAMN, Artelis! :P
Spyguy and Zhaylin, I can also move my left thumb like that!!! Somehow my right thumb just doesn't do that. :-?
Another one I just remembered (because I had to do it) is that I can get rid of hiccups whenever I want. I have a friend who I showed this to like 2 years ago and, to this very day, he still believes that I tricked him somehow. :chuckle:
[Edit] Just thought of another one (I get the feeling someone brought this up before, but I really don't feel like re-reading every post in the thread to be sure): I can bend all fingers except the thumbs and pinkies of both hands at the very top joint, keeping the lower 2/3's of the fingers completely straight.
"I can tape all of your buttcheeks together!" :D
Holy cow! I can't do more than about 60WPM with no errors. I am also out of practice, and I seem to type better when I don't have to look at what I type and even when I can't see the keyboard, like when it's dark.
I can do both of these also. Hiccups, gone, just a matter of controlling my diaphragm.
Fingers, bent, and like you on both hands.
I can also bend the last digits of my first fingers completely backwards (by pushing on them) at the same time, so when I place the middle finger and the index finger next to each other they form a T.
I can have multiple orgasms, and lots of them. Not necessarily a talent, so much as a gift.
Do you mean all at the same time without pushing them against something? I can bend my thumbs like that forward and backward without using anything else, and I can do it backward with my index fingers and pinkies if I use other fingers or something to pull them back. That's the full extent of it.
Agreed. I've also noticed that I'm usually at my absolute fastest when I've got a buzz, and I'm not thinking too much about typing. My fingers just kind of go off on their own.
Exactly correct, and you are officially the only person I've ever known (besides myself), who had that figured out. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by melanieb
Inb4 "prove it" :chuckle:Quote:
Originally Posted by melanieb
Yup!
http://i.imgur.com/2kvGXl.jpg
^^^is that as far over as they go?
I would have thought they would be more...perpendicular to the rest of your finger.
I don't think I can prove that "gift" on this forum, though I am open to suggestions for methods.
I have super powers but they only work with little to no geomagnetic activity
hmm, my first attempt on "Test Instructions"
TypingTest.com
Here is Astronauts try #1:
TypingTest.com
I think I got 61wpm for astronauts, around 72wpm for test instructions.
But if she can regularly have multiple orgasms then it doesn't work for proving my statement. I'm looking for a twenty or older female DV member that's never had an orgasm through intercourse before. When she regains the ability to formulate thoughts and comes on here ranting about how she busted her nut fifteen times, I'll consider my proposition proven.
Dunno how uncommon this is, but I only know one or two people who can do it.
http://i42.tinypic.com/30mbngw.jpg
holy cow, artelis. I had 69 typing speed. Still not toooo bad, right?
http://i.imgur.com/WMYWDl.jpg
That's about as far as they go, individually, and it kinda hurts to do. Lol.
Mine go farther.
Damn hard to take a picture of it though.
I took a couple and they are blurry, I'll see if I can get my son to take one that looks better.
Hmm.. Why are we talking about flexibility as a talent? What about stiffness as a talent? :mwahaha:
Im pretty decent at learning languages...I guess thats it :D
I can do a front flip on a trampoline!
Earlier you asked for a photo of the chainmail that I can make out of metal wire. Well this should work now, inserting photo.
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n.../chainmail.jpg
I can pig squeel...
I'm not sure if this is a talent or vaaaaaaaat but I meow opera when I'm bored pooping.
How old are you Blunt?
Not to sound morbid, but does defying death count?
I have Google Chrome installed but I'm not changing my browser every time I can't see something just because some people like a different one. I swear, the arguments people have over what browser is better, it's just stupid. They're all good browsers, and each has good and bad points.
I see Red Xs. I'll deal.
You seeing red Xs is not the point. The point is that IE stands apart from all other browsers. I can write an HTML/CSS page and every browser will render it correctly. Except IE. It's because the other browsers follow web standards and IE doesn't. I just got so sick of of hacking around it that I quit web design/development. I sleep on the beach instead of having a good career as a web developer because of people like you. Feel bad. Feel very bad.
Your mental tricks won't work on me. Unlike that American, I have self-esteem.
I'm enjoying my theme music.
Almost forgot an unusual talent...I can wiggle my nose. :D
Wtf is this 'inb4' madness now? Give it a year and every user will be a precog.
Edit - I think I'm getting old....new internet lingo doesn't right to me now. Oh dear.
guys, seriously, the links are pointing to someone's private account. No one but the account holder can see them. This isn't a browser problem...
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Sorry, Forbidden.
You don't have permission to access this URL on this server.
Who said it was a browser problem?
I didn't say that it was a browser problem. The red X is how IE displays images which 404. I inferred that you were using IE but any browser would hit a 404 unless there was some sort of browser detection going on to deny access to IE users..
IE sucks. That's all I was saying. I didn't say downloading a new browser would let you see images that aren't there, I said that web designers wouldn't hate you any more.
I expect more from you Melanie. You're usually sharper than this.
Once again, you can't fool me by changing your tone. I know what you said and I know what you meant.
And you're wrong, and I'm okay with that.
I'm sharper than you give me credit for, another talent of mine.
I've known plenty of web designers. Austin is a haven for them, just as much as Austin attracts musicians.
Funny thing about web designers, they're just as full of it as the rest of humanity.
Hey, want to go swimming? I bet I can hold my breath longer. :)
Let's dissect this.Quote:
Originally Posted by me
The last sentence is "Rectify the situation...". What could the referent of "the situation" be?
Well, the last problem that I alluded to was that every web designer hates you. I should probably make that "every competent web designer."
Hence wouldn't that be the natural referent of "the situation"?
Also, make sure you're talking to a competent web designer before you take their opinion seriously. Do they hand code their CSS and HTML or do they just accept whatever bloated crap dreamreaver spits out? Do they understand separation of concerns? Do they already not support IE 6 and are they itching to dump support for IE 7? Do they care about their craft or do they just use frontpage?
Also, swimming sounds nice. I bet you can hold your breath longer.
I can surf!!!! and I have badass lucid dreams everynight.
also i am very good at reading people :eh:
I can reduce my resting pulse by thinking about it. Combine this with a breathing exercise then I can get really relaxed.
Something tells me you are into having the last word. Don't worry, after this, you can.
Austin is a high-tech city, so it's not hard to find competent people, including web designers. I believe the ones I know take their jobs just as seriously as you suggest they should.
I'm pretty sure they don't hate me, no matter what browser I use. But don't take my word for it. Feel free to ask them personally.
You are clearly doing your best to avoid being responsible for your own words, and that's okay. I've encountered your type before.
Your dissection is flawed, and you know it, but it makes you feel important to tell people they misunderstood you, or inferred something from your post that wasn't there.
Trust me, I get you.
:cheeky:
I'm pretty good at cooking, level 81 on RS to be exact.
Drop it about computer systems and discuss my finger bending awesomeness like you should have in the first place, even if you haven't seen the important pictures.
I can do some pretty useless things. I can cross one eye. I can cross my pinky beneath my other three fingers (imagine crossing your pinky and ring fingers, then adding the middle and index fingers next to the ring finger).
I can make a frog with my hands, though that's not really a talent.
I can also do this (the following man is not me, just an example image):
http://www.yogaartandscience.com/pos...ana%20arms.jpg
I can shake hands with myself this way. Most people only seem able to have their fingers touch.
I can do that behind-the-back handshake. My son can't.
I can crack my left jaw, like how you crack your finger joints! Heh heh!
It's not a good thing though... :(
I can crack my spine every 5 minutes because it's pretty long and bodged.
I didn't know this was unusual, I thought everyone could reach their back like this. :cheeky: I just tried the hand touch behind my back like this and I did it. Well I guess being able to do this really helps when you are putting on sunscreen and there is no one around to get your back. I do that all the time in the summer.
I can put both arms in those exact positions, but my hands are no where near each other. So I can't do that. It implies that my forearms are shorter than my upper arms. wow, go me.
Edit - Tell a lie. Just managed it, so was a problem with proprioception.
Yeah I had a good few clicks.
I can bend the first joint of my finger and keep the rest straight!
1. I can whistle in a way that sounds like a cricket
2. I can play the piano, while lying on the floor under the piano, facing away from the keys, with my arms criss-crossed
3. You know the "I can take my thumb off" trick? I can do it with my ring finger because I'm double-jointed. It looks horribly real.
I know what you mean, I can do that too. They look like crazy alien fingers.
Pianos are the most sacred of instruments.
I love the sound of guitar and all my favorite musicians are guitarists primarily. However I have noticed that, with a few exceptions, if a band doesn't have good keyboard and base players than you can pretty much forget it. Look at Page's normal intro to Bathtub Gin. Those kinds of noise don't come out of any instrument in the hand of any player and they make the hair on the back of my neck stand up every time. His intro to Llama is another good example. Page makes Phish.
^^ So what's your unusual talent then? Outside of your uncanny ability for spontaneous non sequitur.
It's bass player by the way.
I don't know why I pick on you, I guess it's kuz I luv you :P
So far I've cited the ability to give women orgasms as my unique ability. I can also do that hand stretched behind the back thing and catch things on the back of my hand.
I can also program in various dialogs of the secret mighty wizard langauge. That's Lisp for those in the know. It's not unique but no talent is.
Also, it's not that much of a non-sequiter to say that keyboard makes the most incredible band playing today what it is after a post saying that keyoard (ok ok, "piano") is the most sacred instrument. That's ok though. I dig chicks that can pick on me.
Ben Folds *drools*
how about this talent: I can play/sing 8 songs by ben folds on the piano, solos included :3
I can type really loudly.
So you get what I mean when I express the narcissistic internet equivalent of loving to hear oneself talk?
I can play a variety of flutes, and serenade nature in the perfect harmony with my sound. :shadewink:
I Can Clap With One Hand If That Counts :3
**Please Note** I do not mean to convey that any things listed below are or are not unique.... or can even be considered "Talents"
-I can play the guitar and the keyboard (not necessarily a talent).
-I used to be rather good at Quadrupedal Movement.
-I can crack pretty well anything I wish, and tend to do so regularly... to the dismay of some friends and co-workers.
-I can do some voices (old british guy, stereotypical first nations etc)
-I can whistle very well. Fast arpeggios. Very low, very high etc. "Hum whistle"
-I can Overtone sing.
-I can Bark (little, medium and large dog. Yips, growls, howls etc. as well)
-I can purr and meow rather well too.
-I'm good at keeping a straight face. Lots of deadpan comedy at work.
-I've got great long-term memory / can pick up, and keep, lots of random facts.
-Used to be good at faux-wipeouts. Falling down stairs... running into stuff etc.
I think I can add: somewhat shameless.
I am a database for useless facts. For example; when a group of people is talking and they forgot the name of a celeberty or what something is called they turn to me for the answer (or I just say it and I will have to repeat it for like 4 times because everyone is thinking outloud and they don't hear me)
^^^Even better, make them pay you for the information. :D
Who needs a smartphone when you have a chicken?