[Closed] What unlikely or niche talents do you have?

Your maffs degree ain't up to much if you can't tell whether 1 is odd or even. (-:

I know all the words to ‘The Equestrian Statue’ by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. So does my daughter but she wouldn’t be in the room at the same time.

Well I declare!

Same skill different song which would be Megadeth's Train of Consequences. At one point I could have done the whole of Countdown to Extinction.

Most of my talents in any normal environment are covered here including random and unusual quotes from HHGTTG and Monty Python. I have an irritating habit of hiding metal / rock lyrics in day to day conversation.

I appear to be biologically incapable of giving a monkeys about any kind of football. As a result I am also adept at not having anyone to talk to when in rooms of 29 alpha males + me. Not really a talent more an unfortunate design feature!

You appear to be me other than I'm not quite that confident about the Megadeth bit (I could probably mumble along to CtE but it's the only album of theirs I really know).

I have a pathological compulsion to hide quotes and pop culture references in emails just to see who's paying attention. I can't help it, I do it in complaints. H2G2 would be one of my Mastermind subjects.

I don't know if I can still do it ( arthritis in my feet) but I was able to open a box of matches with my feet, take one out and strike it. all just using my toes

Apart from being more modest than anyone, I can knock on a surface by clenching my left hand quickly (forearm resting on the surface). I can also make creaky floorboard noises with my ankles.

I can solve a rubik's cube. Not fast, a good time is under 2mins, I know the moves, just don't have the dexterity.

Another bassoon player here....do we need to get the forum renamed....SingletrackandBassoonWorld.com?

Another bassoon player here….do we need to get the forum renamed….SingletrackandBassoonWorld.com

Maybe there's some weird correlation between Bassoon playing and MTBing?

Asking stupid questions on the internet. Before that it was killing threads on the internet.

I can solve a rubik’s cube. Not fast, a good time is under 2mins, I know the moves, just don’t have the dexterity.

As can I.

Dexterity isn't the main key to speed IMHO, it's optimisation and a half-decent Cube. I have the latter but unfortunately not the former.

Remember the Bishop knife hand trick from Aliens?

I can do it so fast my hand is a blur and never hit a finger. Can do it fast with a blindfold on too.

I can take large quantities of blood from the veins of neonates. Very useful in conducting pathology investigations.

I can fly a plane, a helicopter and pilot a submarine.

I can also operate a wide variety of industrial 3D printers and design things for them that will print and work first time.

I have a 9" tongue & can breathe through my ears.
Pass me your wife/girlfriend.

I can solve a rubik’s cube. Not fast, a good time is under 2mins, I know the moves, just don’t have the dexterity.

A relative of mine can do it in, IIRC, 18 seconds. Handsome and well-paid chap he is too. I hate him.

My only unique talent I can think of is that I still can remember the lyrics to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle song. I also appear to be a frog whisperer.

Just thinking about what I have been doing the last few days, which is shearing my sheep. Not exactly niche or unlikely, but I hazard a guess there won't be many on the forum who would be confidently able to shear one if it was plonked in front of them?

(if there is and you fancy a job? I hate doing it)

I can burp at will.

I can deliberately move my ears fore and aft ever so slightly.
Additionally they move autonomously when there’s a new or sudden sound, often actually not audible, such as someone outside the house when I’ve got loud music on. So I ‘feel’ the noise rather than hear it.

I’ll get my coat 😺

I can burp at will

Can't we all?

I can move my eyes independently; I can go cross eyed in one or the other eye, or both together. I also have a weird wide peripheral Vision; The weirdest bit is that my eyes aren’t Particularly far apart or dangling from my temples.

Remember the Bishop knife hand trick from Aliens?

I can do it so fast my hand is a blur and never hit a finger. Can do it fast with a blindfold on too.

"Five Finger Fillet." Doing it blindfold is a talent.

I can burp at will.

As can I.

(Will usually isn't impressed.)

Not that nice or unlikely, but I can barefoot trim horses' hooves. Saves over a grand a year when you've got four of 'em..

I can go crossed eyed, but with only one eye (easier on the right..).
Like what Mildred says above.
The hangover of having a squint as a kid.

@welshfarmer
but I hazard a guess there won’t be many on the forum who would be confidently able to shear one if it was plonked in front of them?

I wouldn't be skilled, but having grown up on farms and lived rurally for many years, I'm happy to give it a shot again.

I have very bendy thumbs, almost bend back 90° at the knuckle.

Also I can roll my belly from top to bottom.

joshvegas
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I can pour a 20 leaf latte art tulip. Bit niche that one.

Pffft i can do really disformed genitals, male or female.

I can fold my pinky down indipendently of my third finger – all other fingers remain upright

I can do it with either pinky and can flip to that stupid star trek hand sign too and put the pinky up and down at will in the star trek sign.

I can also get my eyes to move like that ball bearing cradle thing. Or get one eye to move independently of the other (hurts though).

Curl my tongue.

Oh and I can build a pump capable of delivering 19000 psi.

I can make my eyeballs vibrate left to right.

It makes me feel odd, but it makes other people feel odder

I can juggle Mills' Mess, but like playing the bassoon, that might actually put me in a majority on this thread.

Being inspired by Bob Mortimer I learnt how to pull an apple in half with my hands.

Mills' Mess - Nice. Never managed it, but I did use it as a password for a while (back in the 90's) as a reminder of the aspiration.

I can tell the colour of the underwear women have on, just by feel, I sometimes get it wrong, but hey ho.

I can throw 5 teabags into five different cups at the same time from one hand.

I know the difference between illicit and illegal, illegal is a sick bird.