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  • Weird skills
  • anagallis_arvensis
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    I can identify most grass species in the uk from just the vegetative parts…well I could..bit out of practise now.

    deadkenny
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    greatbeardedone – Member 
    Making my eyeballs vibrate.
    (How the hell did I learn to do that?)

    Same here. Been able to do it since fairly young and no idea how I discovered I could. Often freaked out family/friends. 😀

    Only later on watching the 70s (and best) version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers did I discover someone else could do it (Brooke Adams)

    I can do rotating like this but also a rapid side to side vibrate.

    Not sure it counts as a skill though, but is weird.

    Pook
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    I have basic shorthand

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    aracer
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    If juggling is sufficiently weird for this thread, then I’ll topper you – I can juggle whilst riding a unicycle. Badly, but then I can only juggle badly even when not riding.

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    Cougar
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    So do I. Is knowledge / memory a skill, exactly? Dunno if that counts.

    I can recite the alphabet backwards, and pronounce it as a single word. I can also recite it in QWERTY order.

    RobHilton
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    I have basic shorthand

    As did Jeremy Beadle

    enfht
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    I can hypnotise flies then squash them with my finger. Blue bottles are easiest, the stupid bastards. Do I win a prize?

    Northwind
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    Pook – Member

    I have basic shorthand

    Mods, can we move this to the Trump thread?

    themightymowgli
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    I used to have a mate that could fit 50 pence worth of 2p coins in to his foreskin…….not that it’s a talent as such……Or particularly useful…..nor was anyone willing to compete……not with the same coins, at least

    TheDTs
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    I used to have a mate that could fit 50 pence worth of 2p coins in to his foreskin……

    What a B£ll £nd!

    stu170
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    Cougar – Moderator
    So do I. Is knowledge / memory a skill, exactly? Dunno if that counts.

    I can recite the alphabet backwards, and pronounce it as a single word. I can also recite it in QWERTY order.
    I weirdly learnt it backward before the correct way, and can still recite it quicker backwards rather than forwards.

    vickypea
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    I can make loud bird noises, much to my family’s annoyance 😀

    honeybadgerx
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    While being stuck on the west coast of Ireland for three months doing my undergrad dissertation project, my mate and I started speaking backwards to each other to the point where it became fluent. Can still slip into it now and then 10 years later….

    garage-dweller
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    I can consistently use the left hand lane on a motorway when not overtaking…

    While…

    Driving a German car.

    Cougar
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    I started speaking backwards to each other to the point where it became fluent.

    Doogy rev.

    breadcrumb
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    I can roll my belly. Everyone used to get freaked out by it but I wasn’t sure why until I looked in the mirror one day!

    It makes my stomach churn.

    Cougar
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    Get out.

    honeybadgerx
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    Oom swoc gnidnats pu was a favourite.

    seadog101
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    I can blush on command.

    welshfarmer
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    Everything I say is a lie

    breadcrumb
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    Cougar – Moderator
    Get out

    I had a gut feeling that would happen.

    Sorry.

    TiRed
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    I can write mirror image handwriting backwards. My financial Signature has therefore always been a mirror image of my normal one. I can also undo a bra through almost unlimited layers of clothing with my non dominant hand in an instant. But we won’t go there!

    ajantom
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    I can pop my ears – loud enough for a room of people to hear.

    In the same way you would hook your finger in your cheek and pop it, I can do this with my ears.

    I appear to have extra large openings that make this possible (I can insert my little finger to the first knuckle in the ear hole – which I suppose is a weird skill in itself!)

    mikewsmith
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    I had a mate who claimed he could teach anyone to juggle, I’m the exception.
    I can visualise flow of people/materials/stuff – yep that is me mentally rearranging the airport/supermarket queues in my head while I wait.
    I managed to devine for water.

    neilthewheel
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    When I was a kid, if I held my nose and blew with my mouth shut, the air escaped through my eye. I seem to have lost that talent now.

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