[Closed] On the basis you can be an expert on one subject........

Ok I'm an armchair expert at most things

That pretty much describes everyone on STW.....

footflaps - Member

That pretty much describes everyone on STW.....

Is that an expert opinion?

The problem with declaring oneself an expert is that there is always someone out there better at it than you.

There are others in here who know more than me about
Excel
Biomass boilers
Chainsaws
Landrovers

And that's my inadequacy laid bare 🙁

Procrastinating

[i]Procrastinating [/i]

*wanders off to make a cup of tea before answering and oooh look the bird feeder's empty and the tumble dryer needs a refill*

As stoner elucidated, it very much depends who you are mixing with.

With normal people it might be bikes and bike maintenance but if mixing with an STW crowd I could be considered wanting on that subject whilst my experience with the laydezz could be considered extraordinary! 😉

If we take out my work

Photography and cameras?

Im sure I have a few talents but I may fill a niche with knitting - I bet its not something many know a lot about around here 🙂

on-one. 😀

Hmm, unicycling?

Depends Wench.... this lot seem to have plenty of handbags to swing around......
They could be keeping the knitting needles in them for close quarters ....

Through many conversations I believe I may have accumulated the requisite knowledge to consider myself the world expert in my failings as a human being.

16th Century Bengali Vaisnavism and associated text. Been studying for 20 years and just scratching the surface.

punk. cant remember what happened last week but still seem to have retained pretty much all my punk knowledge 😀

i wish i could really play a guitar (and build them also)

sadly am rubbish at playing one,and am hopeless at making things also 🙁

A couple of years ago I was definitely an expert at EVE Online PvP.

At the moment I don't really feel like I'm an expert in anything.

persestance and speeling

Cake

Fluffy kittens

I used to be a hay meadow and chalk grassland expert, not anymore. I can still id most grass species vegetatively though.

Preparing an area of garden for seeding with grass is my speciality...

Can't really profess to being a true expert in anything. Perhaps I should pick a subject and really put some effort in.

I think I'll take reviewing pornography as my first subject

With no small amount of pride I can confess I am an expert of nothing!

After tonight's encounter not squash!

I am mediocre at a wide range of things.

Only in my modesty do I excel 😉

Photography and cameras?

Are you really an expert on photography and cameras? I appreciate you may have many years of optical design, advanced aspheric/low dispersion glass manufacture behind you, a good grounding in CCD/CMOS digital on chip processing, sound colour reproduction theory (colourspaces etc( L.A.B./CMYK/RGB) conversant with Bayer array and 3-4 layer sensor technology, micro lenses etc not forgetting silver halide/E6/c41 etc and that's before we get to the actual photography.

Maybe you have all of the above and the imaging industry looks to you to help develop new products? Would love to know what's round the corner sensor wise if you are that person.

Speling.

telly

Star Trek iii's on now, think I'll slap in a bit of Robson Green extreme fishing too. I love being thick.

Building f1 cars so I can be the new adrian newey

Used to be really good at flipping prints and posters.. Made a fair bit of cash on Banksy and blek Le rat prints.
Also quite an expert at ripping the piss out of people at work, sarcasm, and cooking Thai food.

XC MTB racing - I was offered places on several pro teams, but their training schedules always clashed with my voluntary work at the orphanage.

Used to design and build all my own frames, but gave it up so I could turn the garage into a rescue home for animals with broken legs, wings, tentacles, etc.

I have grown the world's largest Bonsai. I am semi bi-lingual. I can afford to travel to work every day in my own personal Concorde - but when I do, I always sit in tourist class so as not to be showy.

Also, bullshitting - but that's not a skill that I would ever employ here.

Sturmey-Archer hubs.

@hammy - probably be more useful to make some of these for some of the inhabitants of this forum - all that waving about in the winter . . . .

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waving about in the winter

In the winter there is very little to wave about. In fact I think you could save a lot on materials if you went into production....

Expert?
'Ex' is the once was, 'Spurt' is a drip under pressure.

Used to be an expert on the Big Bang, and I don't mean Sheldon, either.
Now an expert on trying to get out of 4th Cat racing.
OCD and an ability to assimilate information makes me an expert on OCD.

In the day job, I'm an expert on the Clinical Pharmacology of monoclonal antibodies.

Well considering one rule of thumb for becoming an expert is 10,000 hours of practice, I can only think of two possibilities.

1. Walking across the hills without a GPS without getting lost.
2. Sleeping.

Axe throwing and Boomerangs*

* [i]this is not on my CV[/i] 😉

Second-hand Bontrager stuff.

I don't know how current I am now but I used to know basically everything you could want to know about BACS and direct debits. Chicks love this.

Also if you want a '98 to 2002 Suzuki SV650 built for handling and reliable street use (non-minitwin-legal), you could do worse.