Overtone singing. I can do Amazing Grace because the melody fits within the available notes, but I don’t like that song. Usually just sing random melodies to the dogs & they give me the head tilt.
Absolute pitch. Can spot a lie just by the sound of your voice. It makes relationships hell.
I want to see you test this. I had no idea that lies had different pitches
I can tie a knot in a spaghetti while it’s in my mouth.
I can find a location based on a picture.
last time I showed anyone was at work. one of my coworkers began sharing pictures of their trip through Europe while on vacation. it was kind of obnoxious, so I started to post the latitude and longitude of where the person standing was when the picture was taken along with gifs of Jason Bourne.
my coordinates were so accurate they accused me of somehow extracting the deleted geodata from the images.
it freaked everyone out, and nobody shared their vacation pictures with me again.
I can do it with video too. interestingly, I’ve even pinpointed locations and dates videos were recorded on based on what what playing on the TV or radio in the background.
the point I always try to make to people is that if I can do it, DOHS has been able to do it for even longer.
So i guess you either love geoguesser or think its mundane people find it challenging.
I enjoy it. if anything it helps me keep the skill sharp.
obviously the more information captured in the photo the better. most people don’t even realize how much information is in a picture they take and share online.
people post pictures of their kids at school sporting events, unknowingly giving information about age, gender, location, dates, times, etc. or folks post enough pictures on their social media to accurately draw the floorplan to their homes. even when they post shows their schedule of when they are working, sleeping, or just generally out of town.
it’s one of the many reasons why I don’t post pictures of myself or family online.
How was their fun obnoxious to you lol
you?
obnoxious to
is this
I don’t know.
I can bend my knees backwards to about 200°. It’s just not that interesting + difficult to show off in normal pants + gives away that I’m secretly a horse.
I can remember 70 items passwords.
I can write on a blackboard with both hands simultaneously, my left hand mirroring the right one.
And talking of blackboards, at some point I mastered drawing doted lines with chalk in a single stroke.
Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l789l6np-qAEdit: I can whistle painfully loud using my fingers, when I was a kid it was a rather common skill. Not so much now.
Watch that video with subtitles.
I can do that loud whistle, too. My dad has season tickets for an NFL team for many years, so I went to a lot of games. I could whistle so loudly that the people in my section would flinch, and turn to glare at me. Fuck all of ya, it’s a football game!
Tuvan throat singing
Hell yeah.
Mastered it?
I’m pretty good, but mastered, I would never claim that level
Sweet.
I muck around trying to mimic the style, but can not really hit it. Great sound to be able to make.
I can impersonate a pretty good Indian accent, it’s not super culturally accepted to walk around telling people they’ve called Microsoft customer service
I used to, then I grew up. However, what I’ve found is that being able to do accents can occasionally help communicate a word. If you’re talking to someone that has a different accent and you just can’t get them to understand some particular word, pronouncing it how you think they’d pronounce it might help. It changes how certain letters and combinations are pronounced, helping the other person visualize the letters and therefore the word.
There’s times between English and Spanish where the spelling is functionally the same, but pronunciation is incredibly foreign in the other language. Words ending in -tion are “shin” in english but -cion is “see own” in Spanish. Many such words have latin roots, so the base word is similar like “communication” on “construction”.
But, first and foremost, enunciate clearly. Speaking slower doesn’t help if you’re still dragging your consonants the same way.
I can do a perfect cartoonish witch cackle. My friends love it lol.
I can also unhinge my left jaw like a snake. My jaw on that side is just flat on the top and bottom, so there’s no actual joint. I was born like this and it’s pretty painful, but seeing people get freaked out over me opening my mouth much more than it ought to is great.
You would be getting burned in the witch trials. Witch laugh + weird snake jaw and im convinced you probably are a witch
I can play Christmas carols by making farting noises with my hands.
Kinda useless but I can remember numbers for a really long time. Still remember all the plate numbers of every car I’ve had or my parents had from 1990 to today. All the phone numbers and addresses I or my family or friends had from the same time range. Every debit card and bank account number I’ve had.
I’m terrible with names but great with numbers. Trade off, I guess.
Kind of similar here. I have an almost photographic memory, but only really for numbers.
When I newly moved here, I went out shopping for furniture. At the cash register, the lady asked me what my postal code was for delivery. At that point, I had never properly read my full address, but it was on the contract I had signed. So, I went into the back of my brain, found a screenshot of that and could read out the code. Then I obviously double-checked, but yeah, I got all 5 digits right.
This is actually very useful!
I can do a pretty decent Smeagol impression, complete with moving about on all fours. There really isn’t a time and place for that to emerge, sadly.
Pretty sure I’ve seen that Farming While Beige guy on YouTube do both in a video.
Surely you whip this out on halloween or in a dark alley way
That’d be a great way for me to get dragged along, showing some stupid hobbitses the way into Mordor
Someone I knew ran a “talent show” about a decade ago for a summer show at a local theater.
What they wanted was a showcase of musical talents and things related to musical theater specifically. They neglected to put that in any of the advertising materials.
I was quite upset when they didn’t include a little girl who did a spot on Gollum impression with movement, props, and full scene reenactments. She was super excited to show everyone, and while everyone else was blown away, “this isn’t really the type of talent we’re going for” is all he could muster.
That girl was a solid 10/10, and should have been allowed a slot in the show.
Her talent is wonderful, a truly hidden artform. It’s a shame the talent show organizer couldn’t recognize that fact.
You expect me to believe “Butt Master Flex” cannot find an appropriate time to say “my precious” and stare intensely while twiddling your fingers Mr.Burns style?
You sir, need to find your bootstraps
I’ve got a good Smeagol and a good Stitch. Never comes out
I’m a super smeller, and I’ve trained it well and made myself some party tricks. For example, I can identify a coffee down to the grow region and altitude based on the scent of a fresh cup.
Also I can roll myself up into a little ball and be very compact. I used to date someone with a thing for contortion, I don’t think I’ve really shown it off since.
I’ve got a very specific ‘talent’ in that regard. I can smell when tomato sauce has the right amount of salt.
I put that into quotation marks, because it’s more of a learned skill probably, since I have cooked potentially literally a metric ton of tomato sauce in my life.
My mum once joked that she’s surprised I’m not orange from all the tomato sauce I eat.Gus?
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I wouldn’t call myself a super smeller, but I smell things to check how hot they are because hot things smell different. My wife cannot believe in my ability and mocks me and says I’m just feeling the heat with my face.
Well, similar to how hot things sound different when poured because their viscosity is different, the heat would also cause different compounds to be released and likely also release more aroma in general I guess.
I suck a mean dick.
What about a kind dick? 😊
Kind Dicks Remain Unsucked by Kolanaki
I have no idea why my voice to text capitalized the beginning of that.
Makes it sound like a punk rock song. I’d at least give it a listen.
We could get @assassassin to scream it out.
but why do you almost never show this ability?
Cuz most people don’t lemme suck their dick. 🤷♂️
