• @[email protected]
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    123 minutes ago

    The only contests I ever won were an eating contest (6 large Pizzas) and one where I had to correctly identify 6 different brands of Cola in a blind test.
    My other biggest strength is extreme long distance endurance. I’m not fast, but I can be “not slow” for 40 hours.

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    I know the frog mating calls for all species of frogs in my area and volunteer for the local DNR to survey frog populations in my county. It’s a good indicator of water quality.

    I took a random amphibian research class as an elective, loved it, and still do it 20+ years later.

  • spicy pancake
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    22 hours ago
    1. I can make exquisitely intricate paper snowflakes, and have them turn out exactly how I visualized them.
    2. I can perfectly control the browning level and inside melted-ness level when I roast marshmallows. My favorite way to do them is: warm but unmelted center surrounded by ~¼" thick melted layer, evenly medium toasted outside, with just one top corner briefly ignited and immediately extinguished for just a hint of char flavor and a bien cuit aesthetic.
  • @Protoknuckles
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    22 hours ago

    I can almost always figure out that boardgame you played that you can’t remember the name of. Came in handy when I was the manager of a game store.

  • bizarroland
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    I can talk just like Hoggle in the Labyrinth, and I learned the trick on how to roll the balls around on my hand the way David Bowie does in the movie.

    • bizarroland
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      And yes, I know that David Bowie was not the person who did it. And no, I can’t do it as well as the person who did it did.

  • @rockSlayer
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    187 hours ago

    I’m a very large person (250lb/110kg, over 6’/1.8m) and I walk almost silently, unless I’m trying to be loud. I’ve learned to make some kind of noise when approaching people from behind, because otherwise it almost guarantees a jump scare

  • @[email protected]
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    86 hours ago

    I can read text in any orientation, even if mirrored, as easily as if it was right side up / not mirrored. Not sure why, and almost completely useless, but was surprised to discover that supposedly not everyone can do this?

      • @BlindFrog
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        I laughed in my head about this. Then sometime ago, I realized emergency vehicles had this on purpose because it looked the correct-way-around when I saw it through the rearview mirror

    • @[email protected]
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      35 hours ago

      Just as easily from every angle? No slowdown at all, even for mirrored text?

      That’s pretty cool, even if it is mostly useless.

  • @RebekahWSD
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    258 hours ago

    I can pick things up with my toes. Not completely useless, maybe, but not exactly the pinnacle of tricks!

    • @[email protected]
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      46 hours ago

      Me too! I blame it entirely on my literal childhood interpretation of someone telling me to “cross my fingers and toes” - learned how to cross all of my toes, then picking things up came naturally after that 😂

    • @[email protected]
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      36 hours ago

      Haha me too! When I was a kid my podiatrist told me it would be good physical therapy for the growing pains I had along with flat feet. Not sure if it worked but it definitely kept me entertained!

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    298 hours ago

    I can do a spot-on impression of the standard deep, booming monster-truck rally advertising voice.

    “This FRIDAY! (Friday… Friday…) Only at the Gigantodome! Beer Swiller Productions presents MONSTER TRUCK MAYHEM! You’ll pay for the entire seat but you’ll only need the EDGGGGGGGGE!”

    Well… of course you can’t hear it, but if you could, seriously, it’s dead-on.

    • Tanis Nikana
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      297 hours ago

      No no, I heard it, it was good.

  • @[email protected]
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    97 hours ago

    Tuvan throat singing. Nobody knows I can do it. I perfected it during a 3hr commute to work each day for a decade.

  • @[email protected]
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    97 hours ago

    I’m completely ambidextrous. It comes into “handy” when one hand gets tired doing a task, like writing for a long time, but no one has ever noticed and I don’t think anyone would be impressed.

    • veroxii
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      42 hours ago

      That sounds amazing. I’d give my left arm to be ambidextrous.

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    I’m basically a drug dog but for Dr. Pepper.

    When my friends and family get different dark colas in their food orders and can’t determine which is which they have me sniff it out.

    Can’t quite do it for other colas but it’s a fun little hill I’ll die on for others’ benefit (I hate Dr. Pepper).