"Identifying cars’ make/model by their headlights at night"
"I can smell ants. Apparently it’s like a genetic thing. They kind of smell like an earthy sulfur. They smell awful. I hate them."
"I do a really good impression of Teddy from Bob’s Burgers"
"I can do a wave with my eyebrows"
"Competitive Minesweeper. Was 15th in the world at one point"
"I’ve worked in a deli most of my life. I can weigh things in grams eerily accurately with just my hands. Some customers get pretty mind blown."
"I can pronounce the Welsh town of “Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch” coherently and without hesitation."
"Ability to sneeze with 118 decibels measured. 120 is already treshold of pain as an interesting fact."
"I can send and receive morse code at 65+ words per minute. Completely pointless skill"
"I can bend my pinky down to my palm without all my other fingers coming with it."
"Twirling, flipping, and spinning writing utensils. Like, really intricate sh#t, effortlessly. A skill built up with hours and hours of fidgeting. Seems to impress a lot of people, apparently. Gets plenty of compliments."
"I know the Gettysburg address, preamble to the US constitution and the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. I’m still waiting for some random person to ask me to recite these."
"It’s not a useless skill, it’s actually quite useful. but most people would likely consider it useless because it isn’t gonna give me any kind of “come up” in life and it’s definitely not gonna make me money…
I’m oddly good at untangling things. Cords, necklace chains, sting/thread, even fishing line. To the point that everyone who’s witnessed me do it has mentioned how quickly I can get things that seemed done for, untangled like they are at least mildly impressed. It’s like a puzzle and I can get most everything untangled in a pretty short amount of time, relative to the tangled item."
"I can correctly identify every country flag in the world"
"I can correctly predict what time it is without ever looking at a clock, I’ll wake up in the middle of the night and be like oh its only 3am and then I look at a clock and i’m right"
"I have very dexterous feet. I can open a door and even write my own name.
Literally returning to monke."
"I can make friends with any stray dog. In my town there’s a huge stray population, and I’ve made friends with most of them over time.
They all respond to the names I’ve given them, I’ve taught a few commands like sit, come, wait and other useful tricks for walking together.
Every weekend I go on a hike with my dog at the local park and as we walk there all the strays that we meet just join the group. Some days I’ll be hiking with 3-4 dogs that aren’t even mine, and we all have a blast
They’ll escort us home at the end of the walk and then just go about their business. Taming strays is very useless, but my favorite thing ever"
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My useless skill: I can whistle in a very high chirp and very loud. It sounds like a cicada and confuses people I visit who then think they have these critters at their home, seeking for them.
:)
There are huge chunks of time.. at night.. where I’m just asleep. For hours. It’s ridiculous.
lol
How is "knowing morse code" a useless skill?
kinda seems like a humblebrag posted in the wrong forum