[Closed] Weird skills

I have basic shorthand

As did Jeremy Beadle

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

Pook - Member

I have basic shorthand

Mods, can we move this to the Trump thread?

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

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

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 can make loud bird noises, much to my family's annoyance 😀

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....

I can consistently use the left hand lane on a motorway when not overtaking...

While...

Driving a German car.

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

Doogy rev.

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.

Get out.

Oom swoc gnidnats pu was a favourite.

I can blush on command.

Everything I say is a lie

Cougar - Moderator
Get out

I had a gut feeling that would happen.

Sorry.

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!

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!)

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.

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.