What are your worthless skills?
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
the value of Pi to ten places
I think I know pi to around 23 places. Let's see... 3.1415926535897962684323 And the actual digits are... 3.1415926535897932384626 Darn, I always mix up the "323" and "626".
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While I was running up the stairs some minutes ago, something that I usually find myself thinking is that I have several skills that are really worthless. For example, I am very good at walking and running silently. And they are worthless because: 1 - I'm not a criminal 2 - The job market for Ninjas is really low nowadays. I have many skills that I'm really good at but are worthless because they don't matter anymore or it makes no difference in my life or in other people's lives. What are your worthless skills?
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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While I was running up the stairs some minutes ago, something that I usually find myself thinking is that I have several skills that are really worthless. For example, I am very good at walking and running silently. And they are worthless because: 1 - I'm not a criminal 2 - The job market for Ninjas is really low nowadays. I have many skills that I'm really good at but are worthless because they don't matter anymore or it makes no difference in my life or in other people's lives. What are your worthless skills?
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
I can execute a fairly decent spinning jump hook kick, shatter 2" ~ 3" of lumber, and land on my feet most of the time, which isn't bad for an old fart. But it's quite worthless, as I've never been attacked by lumber. Well... other than that one time I attempted to build a deck in a windstorm. :-O
Will Rogers never met me.
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Bravo, WizardZZ, that gets my vote for the "Stephen Wright" award of the week. Also reminds me of the place in the play "Comedians," by the late Joe Orton, where the older comedian says: "the essence of humor is that somebody else qets hurt." I am quoting from memory here based on seeing a live performance of that play in Washington, D.C. in 1977 or 1978, with Robert Prosky as the lead (Prosky went on to national fame on U.S. TV as the second sergeant on the "Hill Street Blues" series): so I may not have got the quote exactly right. Much better, I think than Freud's statement (1916): "The essence of humor is that one spares oneself the affects to which the situation would naturally give rise and overrides with a jest the possibility of such an emotional display. Freud, S. (1916)" On the hand Freud did get off a zinger (what Mark Twain would have called a "snapper") when he was required by the Nazis, to get permission to emigrate (after intervention by very powerful Austrians), to make a statement that he was treated fairly. His comment was: "I can recommend the Gestapo to everyone." best, Bill
"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us." Kurt Vonnegut
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While I was running up the stairs some minutes ago, something that I usually find myself thinking is that I have several skills that are really worthless. For example, I am very good at walking and running silently. And they are worthless because: 1 - I'm not a criminal 2 - The job market for Ninjas is really low nowadays. I have many skills that I'm really good at but are worthless because they don't matter anymore or it makes no difference in my life or in other people's lives. What are your worthless skills?
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
I a musician Drums, Bass Lead and rhythm guitar. Better than average songwriter. Useless.
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I a musician Drums, Bass Lead and rhythm guitar. Better than average songwriter. Useless.
C'mon you could still use your skills to entertain your friends or even give a little hand to score with the ladies (if applicable) :)
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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C'mon you could still use your skills to entertain your friends or even give a little hand to score with the ladies (if applicable) :)
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
Fabio Franco wrote:
score with the ladies (if applicable)
:wtf:
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While I was running up the stairs some minutes ago, something that I usually find myself thinking is that I have several skills that are really worthless. For example, I am very good at walking and running silently. And they are worthless because: 1 - I'm not a criminal 2 - The job market for Ninjas is really low nowadays. I have many skills that I'm really good at but are worthless because they don't matter anymore or it makes no difference in my life or in other people's lives. What are your worthless skills?
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
Now that my days as sexual athlete, and orgiophantic virtuoso, seem over, I'd have to say my most worthless skills, excepting my bogus modesty, are in devising esoteric off-topic digressions which contain over-elaborated self-referentiality, literary quotes and japes, obscure sub-textuality, and archaic or out-moded vocabulary, as if were I were an architect designing twisted mirrors for fun-house add-ons to funeral-parlors. Perhaps that's why I feel a certain "kindred spirit" bond with DD, although DD's advanced abilities as a cunning linguist hierophant of the gustatory, and olfactory, senses, in the context of bibuolosity, are, ipso dipsomaniacal: nonpareil. Well, those are my latest lame excuses. As Groucho said: "these are my principles; if you don't like them: I've got others."
"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us." Kurt Vonnegut
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While I was running up the stairs some minutes ago, something that I usually find myself thinking is that I have several skills that are really worthless. For example, I am very good at walking and running silently. And they are worthless because: 1 - I'm not a criminal 2 - The job market for Ninjas is really low nowadays. I have many skills that I'm really good at but are worthless because they don't matter anymore or it makes no difference in my life or in other people's lives. What are your worthless skills?
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
Kicking with my left foot or throwing with my left arm. ;p
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Canadia is cheaper to visit. Last time I was up there, the only thing I recognized was poutine. :)
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Sword, dagger and halberd fighting spring to mind.
That sounds really cool. And I don't think it's that useless. It's exercise, unless you think exercise is useless...
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
It's great exercise if you have the right fighting partners and the appropriate insurance in place - which I don't here in Bournemouth (my old group is 50 miles away). So, that's all been on the back burner for years. At the moment I use running as a form of exercise, which seems to work well and is strangely addictive.
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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While I was running up the stairs some minutes ago, something that I usually find myself thinking is that I have several skills that are really worthless. For example, I am very good at walking and running silently. And they are worthless because: 1 - I'm not a criminal 2 - The job market for Ninjas is really low nowadays. I have many skills that I'm really good at but are worthless because they don't matter anymore or it makes no difference in my life or in other people's lives. What are your worthless skills?
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
Since I was bitten by a radioactive teddy bear, I have developed a number of Useless Skills: 1) I can communicate with fruit. 2) I can read my own mind. 3) I have invisible handwriting. And last, but not least: 4) I can detect human stupidity!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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While I was running up the stairs some minutes ago, something that I usually find myself thinking is that I have several skills that are really worthless. For example, I am very good at walking and running silently. And they are worthless because: 1 - I'm not a criminal 2 - The job market for Ninjas is really low nowadays. I have many skills that I'm really good at but are worthless because they don't matter anymore or it makes no difference in my life or in other people's lives. What are your worthless skills?
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
I can lick my elbow. How many of you have tried it?
[www.tamautomation.com] Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing.
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Sword, dagger and halberd fighting spring to mind. Not much call for those skills these days (if I ever have to use those skills in anger, you can guarantee I won't have the equipment with me at the time...). Then there's being capable of walking or cycling significant distances without listening to music. That seems to be a bit of a lost art here in Bournemouth.
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Sword, dagger and halberd fighting spring to mind
Should you and Beth ever go full-bore corporate, this skill will come in handy for keeping the sales and marketing mucks in line. I've always thought they performed better with an edged weapon to their throats.
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Then there's being capable of walking or cycling significant distances without listening to music
Good for you! I've never been able to do that myself. I hate ear buds, and running with full cup headphones is just silly. Besides, there's the whole not-being-able-to-hear-the-truck-bearing-down-on-you thing.
Software Zen:
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While I was running up the stairs some minutes ago, something that I usually find myself thinking is that I have several skills that are really worthless. For example, I am very good at walking and running silently. And they are worthless because: 1 - I'm not a criminal 2 - The job market for Ninjas is really low nowadays. I have many skills that I'm really good at but are worthless because they don't matter anymore or it makes no difference in my life or in other people's lives. What are your worthless skills?
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
I can quote lines from movies I no longer remember or haven't even seen. In a sub-worthless skill, I can quote a significant amount of Monty Python material, despite never actually having seen the show.
Software Zen:
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Now that my days as sexual athlete, and orgiophantic virtuoso, seem over, I'd have to say my most worthless skills, excepting my bogus modesty, are in devising esoteric off-topic digressions which contain over-elaborated self-referentiality, literary quotes and japes, obscure sub-textuality, and archaic or out-moded vocabulary, as if were I were an architect designing twisted mirrors for fun-house add-ons to funeral-parlors. Perhaps that's why I feel a certain "kindred spirit" bond with DD, although DD's advanced abilities as a cunning linguist hierophant of the gustatory, and olfactory, senses, in the context of bibuolosity, are, ipso dipsomaniacal: nonpareil. Well, those are my latest lame excuses. As Groucho said: "these are my principles; if you don't like them: I've got others."
"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us." Kurt Vonnegut
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Canadia is cheaper to visit. Last time I was up there, the only thing I recognized was poutine. :)
AspDotNetDev wrote:
the only thing I recognized was poutine.
You go to my kind of places... oh, I thought you said puta, sorry.
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While I was running up the stairs some minutes ago, something that I usually find myself thinking is that I have several skills that are really worthless. For example, I am very good at walking and running silently. And they are worthless because: 1 - I'm not a criminal 2 - The job market for Ninjas is really low nowadays. I have many skills that I'm really good at but are worthless because they don't matter anymore or it makes no difference in my life or in other people's lives. What are your worthless skills?
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
I don't think I have any. :sigh: You guys don't know how good you have it.
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I can lick my elbow. How many of you have tried it?
[www.tamautomation.com] Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing.
I think everyone I know have tried it... And believe it or not, I have a friend that succeeded.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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AspDotNetDev wrote:
the only thing I recognized was poutine.
You go to my kind of places... oh, I thought you said puta, sorry.
Puta teen? :~ Nope, can't say as I saw any of those up there.
