I’ve mastered the ability to take any idea or thought and transform it into anxiety. Jitters McGee
I learned to open bottles using a lighter, and then taught my friends. After a while, we just started referring to lighters as “bottle openers”.
I can read UPC, UPC-8, ISBN, and EAN bar codes. Tear the numbers off the bottom of the bar code, hand me the lines, and I will tell you the numbers you tore off.
I used to work the midnight shift at a call center back in the late 90s. It was incredibly boring because we weren’t allowed to browse the internet when no calls were coming in (which was most of the time, got maybe five calls total per night). So I picked up a copy of Yahoo! Internet Life, a now-defunct technology-centered magazine. This issue had a how-to section for wacky shit like that, so I committed it to memory because wtf else was there to do?
Well that’s cool. Can you write in scan-able barcode?
No, there is too much precision required.
If you got graphpaper?
I suppose that might work, it never occurred to me to do so.
I can aolve a rubiks cube with my left hand only.
Not your right hand? I Am do it with either, it just takes a long time
I can also do it with my right hand, but i did it with my left first cause there is this german phrase “doing something with left” which means something is so easy for you, you don’t even need your dominant hand for it.
I learned to ride a unicycle.
I’ve wanted to do this but I’m afraid at my age I’ll be seriously injured trying.
If you fall on an unicycle you land on your feet
Usually yes, but it partly depends on how big the tire is and how tall the unicycle is…
I learned on a 24 inch tire with 6 inch pedal cranks, not stupid tall. I wasn’t going for the circus, I just wanted to learn to ride.
My experience says no to this. Maybe usually, but I fell on my ass a few too many times and gave up trying to learn the rest.
I fear you may overestimate my physical prowess.
I learned to ride when I was 17. It took me like 2 months to learn to ride.
I just turned 42 today. If I didn’t already know how to mount and ride a unicycle already, I’d probably be like F that as well.
I can palm a tennis ball, roll it down my arm, bump launch it with my bicep, and catch it. Freaks people out who are standing close as the ball launches right at them, but I’ve always caught it. Discovered later I could do it with anything that rolls like a microphone.
This is amazing. I’d love to see this. Probably wouldn’t pay, but I’d clap vigorously afterwards.
Hmmm, how many things roll like a microphone? That seems very specific.
I was a dj for about 20 years.
I have an uncanny ability to do things that are unpopular, that later become popular, but I can never imagine them becoming popular when I do them.
Saw Nirvana in a crowd of 30 people before they got famous, certainly never thought they would, it was so different from what was on the radio then. Bought a shirt from them, out of their little van parked in the alley behind the bar!
Used to wear vintage dresses from the thrift store in the 1980s, nobody around me was dressed anything like that, but later all of them got bought up by flippers.
Had tattoos when it was remarkably unusual for a woman, like if another woman with tattoos saw me they would stop and talk to me, I never ever ever would have thought they’d be mainstream.
Lots of stuff like that, like I’m out of synch with time but I can never capitalize on it because I don’t have the vision to understand that it will catch on!
What are some things youve done that have not caught on? What are you into currently?
Gardening in the last few years, sourdough and home fermentation I’ve done for 15 years or so. I don’t really think those will catch on generally because most people don’t cook but I will say a few people have asked for some of my starter lately so who knows? Tepache I’ve been making for years and I just saw some being sold in whole foods, so maybe. But more likely that happened as an offshoot of the Kombucha craze, which I was not a part of. Have been using henna to color my hair for years too, that hasn’t exploded in popularity.
I have been late to the party on things too - mobile phones I held out as long as I could, Pokemon Go, late adopter. Electric bike. Fontaines DC.
On the really spooky side though - I had this dining room set from the 1940s, the upholstery tore so I went to the local commercial upholstery shop and found sparkly red vinyl from the state fair rides, reupholstered them (badly) with silver trim.
Couple years later was at Target and they had a reproduction set exactly like my old one - exactly the same chairs, covered in the exact same sparkly red vinyl I’d used. It was precisely like my kitchen table set just better execution. What the actual fuck?
Target legit steals designs from lesser known artists, even here in Australia they’ve been caught doing it
I can absolutely believe that, but I don’t think I had any Target executives over, and it was before social media. And that’s really why I think it’s a useless skill, someone else could have looked at it and thought “huh, that would sell” but all I was thinking was that it would look unusual and cool and not sellable.
You’re constantly ahead of your time, without foresight. So you can’t seem to capitalize on it - oh well, money ain’t everything. You’ve got experiences no money can buy.
i can roll quarters down my fingers continuously because I saw Val kilmer do it in Real Genius and I wanted to be cool like him.
Ha, I saw Val Kilmer do it in Tombstone and always wanted to do it, but never followed through.
he does it in tombstone?
i must have completely forgotten about that.
haha he definitely must have told them that he could do it from practicing on set at Real Genius and they should let him do it in tombstone too, that’s hilarious haha.
Yep, when he’s playing cards here. I didn’t realize he’d done it in other movies. I’d look for excuses, too.
Fuck I love that movie.
ha, thanks for the clip! thats great.
Im a top 1% player in Rocket League after playing for 4500 hours. The skill gap between me and the best players in the game is the same gap as between me and a brand new player.
But i will still beat 99% of the game’s population.
Yeah same, but with like 2K hours. At some point I was Grand Champion 1 or something. I could probably win against 2 noobs without me using jump and boost, but in the few moments I played against pros I got equally clapped. It’s insane to me how much better pro players are.
After Epic bought it the whole game slowly went to shit though. Psyonix once treated the game and its community as their baby, but it just became a soulless money printer without any decent innovation. So I barely play anymore, even though the core game is ultimately still fun.
Same for me, but with Tetris. I’m not the best, but I’m confident I can handedly beat the vast majority of the population. I spent most of my lockdown days just doing Tetris.
Similar on Splatoon. Before the recent rank reset I was S+6, it blows my mind that people go up to like S+20. But when the season ends, all the S+x ratings reset to S rank, and playing with normal S rank people recently reminded me of that.
I was literally just about so say same for splatoon, I just hit my highest elo ever and I’m really proud of myself 🥺
Do you play much x rank? I’m surprised to see someone refrencing their anarchy rank as opposed to x power
I don’t do too much X rank, I mostly stick to anarchy. Though I do jump into the occasional X game when I’m feeling masochistic.
My main goal really is to master as many kits as I can and to learn their roles, and X games are not the tier for experimentation. Anarchy is a bit more lenient.
Gotcha, I can see why you’d be more into anarchy then. Congrats on S+6 ☺️
Did you mean “handily?” Or “single-handedly,” implying some sort of Teamtris?
Yup, thanks! I was trying to figure out which word I was thinking of. I must have malaphored myself
As an 800 hour player that has to put the game down because of competitiveness making me a curmudgeon – Wow, gotta say. That’s so much work.
Did you use the practice modes to get to be that level or did it just come to you during play?
Played 932h (around 900h actual playtime) and almost exclusively played ranked or rumble/dropshot but never casual.
Best rank was Diamond 2 or 1 not sure anymore.
Played it only on keyboard. No controller ever used. Gave it up as a sort of protest against the buyout and never went back.- Tons of freeplay
- Tons of mods/workshop map
- Ive had some coaching
- And I also play in an amateur league
As long as you always play to improve, watch videos to keep up on mechanics/metas, and just immerse yourself in the game, you’ll always climb up. If you play at least 2 hours a day, you’ll be insane before you know it.
But in the spirit of this post, you could spend your time doing something so much more productive than a video game lol
I’m really good at putting sharp objects up my nose (from sideshow)
I can tell what coke was smuggled in with. Recently, bananas.
I can stand on one foot and tie my shoe in the air
I taught myself to balance on one foot by brushing by teeth on one foot for a few months lol
I can fluidly open a trash bag, pull it into a straight line, and toss it like a dart, landing it in an open trash can from up to 30ft.
This only works with those cheap bags that businesses use and this was honed over years of changing trash at various businesses. Not useful, very majestic though.
Alternating between American and British spellings like it’s nothing. I just use whatever spelling I vibe with at the time. I’ll do the same with units of measurement as well.
As a a Canadian, I just do this naturally as well.
I remember reading about a Pa Kua Chang master who could walk through a crowd with a full teacup and not spill any. For whatever reason I started to practice walking with a full to the brim teacup (with or without a handle) and now I can go up and down stairs with one or two and not spill anything. Usually
I can clap with one hand
I just tried and was successful. I have long fingers which probably helps. But it’s not as loud as when I clap with two hands.
Finally answering the zen question of “what is the sound of one hand clapping?”
What’s the sound of one hand clapping? ;-p
It sounds similar to normal clapping but more faint, and lonly and with echo, the damn echo!
That’s pretty useful of you’re at a concert holding a beer though!
Oh yeah!
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엄청난!
My grandma loves miniature everything, especially cute homey things (she has sets for different “rooms”). Whenever I travel anywhere I’m always on the lookout for them cos she’d appreciate these more than the generic city/country souvenir. Always really hard to find though. These look amazing!
Useless? I feel like you could get some commissions from urban restaurants to put these in their street-facing food displays
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Not really good at it
I disagree, I would totally eat those thinking they were some fancy snack
That is cool as fuck.
