Unusual Talents?

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**KingCracker**

Cheesecat wrote:I have a bottomless pit for a stomach and can't seem to gain weight.

Oh god that would be nice. Id be willing to bet my giant of a brother could take you though. The man is just unnatural

I saw him eat 2 and a half fully ordered grande meals from taco bell, oh and 4 large cokes in one shot. 20 fully loaded chilli dogs once. an entire xlarge 3 topping pizza on his own. Its almost sickening watching it, but its more funny then anything

**dreadlord**

I can find the clitoris. That's a talent right?

**Cheesecat**

dreadlord wrote:I can find the clitoris. That's a talent right?

Only if your girlfriend is morbidly obese.

**nitty**

I can do trig in my head.

everything else would probably get modded out.

**ShivanAngel**

Cheesecat wrote:I have a bottomless pit for a stomach and can't seem to gain weight.

On behalf of numerous people, you suck....

**KingCracker**

nitty wrote:I can do trig in my head.

everything else would probably get modded out.

If your serious, thats a pretty good talent.

I can pull movie quotes out like a mofo. Dunno if thats a talent or not, but its funny at times.

Example, I was walking on the sidewalk past a car wash about a month ago, and my brother happened to be in one of the stalls about to wash his truck. He was sitting in the truck and just looked up as we crossed eyes, so naturally I turned and did the Pulp Fiction classic " Motha Cussword" It was hilarious

**yani**

I have an ability to make my self look like a fool in front of the opposite sex....

**Golden Eyed Scout**

I can do belly flops without feeling pain.
All you gotto do really is angle so your chest hits first, then the stomach.

I can spew out so many cuss words I would make a sailor blush.

**notprop**

I can read the intawebs for hours and simply not be that bothered by the drivel it seems to generate.

I've also got that reaction thing down as well, not quite peter parker in the cafeteria but almost. I put this down to being so clumsy and havinf plenty of practice.

**FM Ninja 048**

I can fall asleep anywere, it's really useful, sometimes.

I also retain all the useless knolage that will only ever be good proving someone wrong, but forget all the really useful stuff

**J.Black**

I pick up foreign languages very quickly: It took me about a year to learn french properly.

**Phryxis**

I can make myself go unconscious

I can also make Mr. Self Destruct go unconscious.

**Cheesecat**

ShivanAngel wrote:
Cheesecat wrote:I have a bottomless pit for a stomach and can't seem to gain weight.

On behalf of numerous people, you suck....

Well it's most likely due to puberty and having a high metabolism, I'm sure that once I've gotten out of my teenage years I'll have to be more careful about what I eat.

**Dreadwinter**

Me, I can whistle really well and move my tongue very quickly. What does this equal? Crazy bird whistling. Among other things, with ladies, and my tongue moving.....

VikingScott wrote:I don't dream. Is that wierd?
I just fall asleep then wake up.

Not to poop on your talent, but you do dream. If you didn't, you would die. You would die a terrible exhausting death.

aka_tizz wrote:I read about that, i also did about deja vu. They're not like what i experience. I know it's weird, and i don't believe myself as some psychic guy or whatever. I know there's a logical explanation, i just haven't found it. Yet

If you don't remember the dream until the event that resembles your dream is happening then that is what it is. I have had the same things happen, rarely, but that is it. You just have some receptors in your brain receiving what is going on and associating it with a dream you once had.

**Cadet_Commissar_Ludd**

Dreadwinter wrote:

VikingScott wrote:I don't dream. Is that wierd?
I just fall asleep then wake up.

Not to poop on your talent, but you do dream. If you didn't, you would die. You would die a terrible exhausting death.

What? he still sleeps, he just doesn't dream, am I missing something here?

**dogma**

J.Black wrote:I pick up foreign languages very quickly: It took me about a year to learn french properly.

I'm similarly gifted. In the last 10 years I've picked up Spanish, French, Arabic, and Portuguese; plus a few regional variants like Catalan and Corsican. Unfortunately I'm only fluent in Spanish and French due to a lack of practice with the others.

I also have an eidetic memory, at least to the extent that the concept can be considered useful. It may simply be better to state that I have an exceptionally good memory.

**aka_tizz**

Entao dogma, falas Portugues ?

I also like to learn foreign languages and do it quite fast (i learned a great deal of Portuguese in some 7-8 months - i was quite forced in fact because there was no one around to talk to in Romanian, or even English

, but it really helped).

As for English, at some 7-8 years i was able to carry out basic conversations. And now i'm forgetting lots of stuff i've learned in school simply because lack of practice (Dakka is basically the only place where i get to practice my English)

I would also like to learn German or Russian, i just don't know anyone IRL who could help me with it

**Soladrin**

My stomach likes meat more then anything, food that isn't meat, I can eat like 1 plate and I'm stuffed. All you can eat meat fest? Put down a minimum of 5 plates or someone will be grumpy.

I am always at my best when it involves beating a douche. I've bested the dutch Halo 1 champ, like 2 days after he won it. And a lot of this kind of stuff at minor competitions with all sorts of games.

I can run while prone.

**J.Black**

Dogma wrote:
I'm similarly gifted. In the last 10 years I've picked up Spanish, French, Arabic, and Portuguese; plus a few regional variants like Catalan and Corsican. Unfortunately I'm only fluent in Spanish and French due to a lack of practice with the others.

I also have an eidetic memory, at least to the extent that the concept can be considered useful. It may simply be better to state that I have an exceptionally good memory.

Yeah, if I spend long enough around people speaking different languages, I pick it up quickly. But when they leave it all kind of evaporated :(

**Tazz Azrael**

squilverine wrote:I have a photographic memory. I also have very fast reactions when it comes to catching things (thrown objects not STI's you dirty lot!) and the like.

Unfortunately this is offset by an unfortunate talent for rubbing up the wrong way people who are in a position of authority.

Man i have the reaction time thing aswell, its horrible for in the cooking industry at times, yesterday my knife started to fall off the table and my hand just shot out to catch it, resulting in said knife to cut almost to the bone and nicking a small vein (I wiould bet 30$ that my knife is sharper than a Space Marine power sword

), i am now the angry owner of a few stiches in my thumb. (sorry for the life story everyone

)

**KingCracker**

I worked with a guy that could just fall asleep anywhere as well. The weirdest part of his talent though, was without a clock or watch or alarm of anykind, he would spring back to life just intime to go and clock back in. I seen him do it many many times, and still to this day, all I could think of to figure it out, was he was counting......while snoring.....
TALENTED!

**WarOne**

I can go from serious to sarcastic in the same sentence. I am also good at being able to alliterate.

**FM Ninja 048**

KingCracker wrote:I worked with a guy that could just fall asleep anywhere as well. The weirdest part of his talent though, was without a clock or watch or alarm of anykind, he would spring back to life just intime to go and clock back in. I seen him do it many many times, and still to this day, all I could think of to figure it out, was he was counting......while snoring.....
TALENTED!

Yeah thats the great part, if i'm in a car or on the bus or train I wake up just before my stop. soooo useful

**dogma**

aka_tizz wrote:Entao dogma, falas Portugues ?

Depois uma moda.

aka_tizz wrote:
I would also like to learn German or Russian, i just don't know anyone IRL who could help me with it

Your English is good, so German shouldn't be terribly difficult; its definitely the language I've had the least difficulty with. Russian, on the other hand...

**halonachos**

When it comes to languages I can pronounce most european words and names correctly and can guess the meanings of some words I haven't learned yet.

I also want to learn german, know enough spanish and some latin still.

I also know everything about nothing, need a useless fact and I got it. By useless I mean anything Jeapordy wouldn't have as a topic on the show.

I can troll naturally in real life.

I can also pick up most things using the hands pretty quickly, knots, fishing, woodworking, baking, art(except for fething faces), except for musical instruments.

I may also have a small psychic touch. In our chemistry class we had quizzes at the beginning of the class and the quizzes had only one question. I was able to guess the correct answer before the quiz about 80-85 percent of the time. I also predicted the next major earthquake when a friend of mine really wanted me to test myself with that.

**Anshal**

Talents? I can do absolutly NOTTINg for absurd amounts of time. and I can eat burgers like there is no tomorrow. Oh and i can spend loads of cash on smal plastic men that are overpriced

**micahaphone**

n0t_u wrote:l I occasionally have dreams that predict the future. Not as useful as you'd think. The best explanation I can think of is watch a video and pause it, then skip ahead a random distance (better if someone else does the skipping without you knowing how far). Then watch about 20-40 secs of it before putting it back where it was originally paused.

That leaves you with basically getting a sneak peak at whatever boring thing you'll be doing in an undisclosed amount of time. This ends up just being stuff like fragments of conversations that are rather useless until then, random test results but not knowing when or what test it is. Basically the only way to turn it into something useful would be to be always looking at the date and time as it appears to just be whatever you experience at the time it happens.

Generally you don't see whatever has been predicted coming until it happens and then it's just the realisation then it's over with. To really make use of it you'd have to pretty much have awesome deductive skills to see how these small fragments could fit into anything.
I don't look too much into it as it's rather useless as I've mentioned and simply makes you look crazy to talk about it, but strangely it's on topic here

Its random small snippits of your own thoughts or conversations, or things you can see. You sometimes don't even remember the predicting dream until the moment happens, which some people say is deja vu, except trust me, it is far stronger and a little different. Does it mean I'm borderline psychic?

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n0t_u wrote:

For even more unusal I occasionally have dreams that predict the future. Not as useful as you'd think. The best explanation I can think of is watch a video and pause it, then skip ahead a random distance (better if someone else does the skipping without you knowing how far). Then watch about 20-40 secs of it before putting it back where it was originally paused.

That leaves you with basically getting a sneak peak at whatever boring thing you'll be doing in an undisclosed amount of time. This ends up just being stuff like fragments of conversations that are rather useless until then, random test results but not knowing when or what test it is. Basically the only way to turn it into something useful would be to be always looking at the date and time as it appears to just be whatever you experience at the time it happens.

Generally you don't see whatever has been predicted coming until it happens and then it's just the realisation then it's over with. To really make use of it you'd have to pretty much have awesome deductive skills to see how these small fragments could fit into anything.
I don't look too much into it as it's rather useless as I've mentioned and simply makes you look crazy to talk about it, but strangely it's on topic here

Same thing happens to me. Random snippets of your own thoughts or conversations, or what you see. a day to up to 4 months in advance. Sometimes I don't even remember the predicting dream until the event happens. Some would call this deja vu, but trust me, it is not.

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I also know boatloads of random trivia. I am captain of my school's quiz bowl/ knowledge bowl team.

I'm a good baker/cook and a great student.

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In case someone is going to say that the prediction thing is deja vu, I will occasionally wake up remembering a dream, think about it for a while, and them forget about it, mostly. When the event happens, I recall the memory of thinking about it before.

**Slarg232**

I can crack my thumb anywhere from 10-30 times in a row, occasionally it will go off machinegun fast. CRACK-CRACK-CRACK-CRACK

I also get dreams that seem to come true, but not in the style of what everyone else is: My dreams are full of symbols that make no sense, but I can remember them, and I know it was one of those "dreams", because of the style of it. I'll sit there and try to figure out what it was saying, but it almost never makes sense until whatever has happened and then it all suddenly clicks together.

I also seem to have a very good reaction time for being a total clutz. I can trip over my own feet, but once I was driving and I don't remember HOW, but I narrowly missed this guy I should have ran over. In dodgeball, I am practically unhittable, especially if I don't have my glasses on.

Also, I seem to have a very good talent of making people very very ANGREH!

**squilverine**

Tazz Azrael wrote:
squilverine wrote:I have a photographic memory. I also have very fast reactions when it comes to catching things (thrown objects not STI's you dirty lot!) and the like.

Unfortunately this is offset by an unfortunate talent for rubbing up the wrong way people who are in a position of authority.

Man i have the reaction time thing aswell, its horrible for in the cooking industry at times, yesterday my knife started to fall off the table and my hand just shot out to catch it, resulting in said knife to cut almost to the bone and nicking a small vein (I wiould bet 30$ that my knife is sharper than a Space Marine power sword ), i am now the angry owner of a few stiches in my thumb. (sorry for the life story everyone )

I feel your pain mate, I used to work in pubs and quite often covered in the kitchen. I can't say I've ever cut a vein but there was a time when I was deep frying some fish, the tongs slipped through my greasy fingers and before I had time to think I had deep fried the best part of my index finger trying to grab the tongs back. That gave me one bastard of a blister!

**Dreadwinter**

Cadet_Commissar_Ludd wrote:
Dreadwinter wrote:

VikingScott wrote:I don't dream. Is that wierd?
I just fall asleep then wake up.

Not to poop on your talent, but you do dream. If you didn't, you would die. You would die a terrible exhausting death.

What? he still sleeps, he just doesn't dream, am I missing something here?

Yes, dreaming is an important part of sleeping. Shows that you are getting the right amount of rest and that your brain is active in the right ways.

If you don't dream, you're not resting correctly. It can lead to death.