Im really good at doxxing people based off the useless skill they are proud of.
I learnt to whistle by whistling inwards first, so I can constantly whistle without needing to stop for breath, aswell as maintain the correct pitch and note for when it comes to tunes between breathing in and out. Dont know if that’s much of a skill, but eh, I like whistling
I can make two sounds that I haven’t been able to locate in the IPA chart. They’re a voiced and voiceless pair. I can only describe then as the sounds of a goose or duck.
I took inspiration from the primitive technology youtube channel and managed to make a ceramic pot by extracting clay from mud. The pot looks a bit shit, but it holds water!
Tempted to try and make a bigger one sometime.
would love to see some pictures
This is one that I started a few days ago, its still wet currently and as its winter I doubt it will dry very fast. Want to wait for it to dry a bit more before smoothing it and then leave to completely dry and at some point start a fire in the garden to finish it.
Used a slab of clay as a base and placed leaves around it so that it doesn’t stick to the pot as I make it but to also give a bit of a sturdy platform I can pick up and rotate. From a previous attempt picking it up often caused the clay to flex and crack. Although that is probably also due to being pretty poor quality clay, this was done the next day with a different batch that has far better plasticity. Or it could just be that the first one needed more time for water to soak into the clay as it had been pretty much completely dry before.
Using leaves to prevent something sticking seems like it could be a useful method to mould clay against the object. Perhaps a way to make use of the lower quality clay that cracks very easily when trying to shape it normally.
Yooo! Imagine eating soup from a bowl you made. That’s so much cooler than it should be!
Soup might be difficult if I wanted to make everything myself, stew I could do though. Ideally would want to make a spoon which I tried with the first batch of clay but it cracked too much. Second batch might be good enough to make a spoon from. Plus getting better at working with the clay would probably help too.
Alternatively just cook the stew and use a pointy stick to get the solid bits and slurp from the side of the bowl to get the liquid.
Not sure on the legality of making crab traps here, line and open nets are ok but I think with a proper trap I think there is stuff about making sure it doesn’t catch other things which something made from sticks is clearly not going to meet. Which is a shame as its a lot easier to make that than twisting enough fiber to make a net. Mussels are easy enough to find but I would probably avoid them being filter feeders and its not the cleanest water here, at least a crab you can scoop out its stomach and not eat that bit.
Seconded! I’ve always wanted to try this.
I can detect whether apples are “sandy” (or whatever the actual term is for when they have that fugly apple meat that feels like eating sand) or not.
I mastered the melon slap technique to absolute perfection. I can pick the tastiest melon of the bunch, and I sometimes buy an extra melon so I can pass it along to friends who didn’t master such technique.
A fellow connoiseur! I too am a master of this delicate art and I have passed this gift on to my children.
After the selection has been made it is quite entertaining to look back the aisle and watch the other shoppers cautiously tap the remaining melons, trying to make sense of what they just saw.
I think most people can. Or do you mean without biting into it?
Hah. Of course, just by the sound they make :P
I can run any piece of machinery with an hour of goof around time. Doesn’t matter what it is. Let me poke around it for an hour or so and I’ll have all the controls and most quirks figured out.
Sadly it’s useless because employers won’t give me a chance to prove it.
I can do a spot-on impression of the standard deep, booming monster-truck rally advertising voice.
“This FRIDAY! (Friday… Friday…) Only at the Gigantodome! Beer Swiller Productions presents MONSTER TRUCK MAYHEM! You’ll pay for the entire seat but you’ll only need the EDGGGGGGGGE!”
Well… of course you can’t hear it, but if you could, seriously, it’s dead-on.
No no, I heard it, it was good.
I can sit down and calmly read an entire manual from front to back.
Lol it has to be printed, and not like, a textbook
I can balance a soda can at a precarious looking angle. A modern soda can has two rims on the bottom, the major diameter and a minor diameter. With the right amount of soda in the can, it will balance on those two rims.
I actually found a use for this skill, it’s good for teaching weight and balance in flight school.
I have been told by multiple Korean, Chinese, and Japanese immigrants that I could make a decent living as an extra eating with chopsticks in the background of their TV/ movies. I use a pair of stainless steel chopsticks with no notching, so they are totally smooth, making them “master level” difficulty to use. Apparently the fact that I’m left handed is a bonus. Oh, I’m the whitest kid you know with sandy blonde almost brown hair.
I’m a very large person (250lb/110kg, over 6’/1.8m) and I walk almost silently, unless I’m trying to be loud. I’ve learned to make some kind of noise when approaching people from behind, because otherwise it almost guarantees a jump scare
I’m the opposite. Petite 5’0" lady who sounds like an entire community of elephants when I walk.
A group of elephants is called a parade.
I call it my “stealth field.” I’ve had multiple people look directly at me, multiple times, and then jump scare when I move. I’m 6’3", and 240. The walking silently is just a bonus, though it sounds very loud to me.
Hahaha I’m the same. Totally perfected ninja walking
As someone living in a noisy appartment building, can you move in next to me please!
I’m a ridiculously good mimic - if I hear a sound I can often immediately repeat it; crow call, human voice, chickens. Anything in my limited vocal range. Not after the memory fades, but really so close right after. Once in the car one of my kids was whining and I so perfectly repeated it that all of them collapsed in laughter, whiner included.
I can pick things up with my toes. Not completely useless, maybe, but not exactly the pinnacle of tricks!
Yoooo, I have fingertoes too!
Me too! I blame it entirely on my literal childhood interpretation of someone telling me to “cross my fingers and toes” - learned how to cross all of my toes, then picking things up came naturally after that 😂
Haha me too! When I was a kid my podiatrist told me it would be good physical therapy for the growing pains I had along with flat feet. Not sure if it worked but it definitely kept me entertained!
I can smell when it’s going to snow.
Lately I’ve learnt that not everyone can hear snow? Smell is real though.
Sick
I thought everyone could?
I can hide my tongue behind my soft palate.
I’ve said to my kids, “Where’s my tongue?”, then opened my mouth and it’s not there.
I can also make a mushy pile of skin on my knee by gathering skin inside the circle of my thumb and index finger (like an ok sign). It feels gross when you push it.
I’m a fun dad.
