What are your worthless skills?
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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.
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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".
AspDotNetDev wrote:
Darn, I always mix up the "323" and "626".
It's damn not dam. The 323 is a four cylinder car while the 626 has a 6 cylinder engine. Hope that helps clarifies it for you.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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AspDotNetDev wrote:
Darn, I always mix up the "323" and "626".
It's damn not dam. The 323 is a four cylinder car while the 626 has a 6 cylinder engine. Hope that helps clarifies it for you.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Michael Martin wrote:
It's damn not dam
It's "darn", not "dam".
Michael Martin wrote:
The 323 is a four cylinder car while the 626 has a 6 cylinder engine
So one is a cylindrical car and one has a cylindrical engine?
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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
Fabio Franco wrote:
What are your worthless skills?
I was a killer 6502 assembly language programmer - I could read 6502 in hex, for pete's sake. Marc
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Fabio Franco wrote:
What are your worthless skills?
I was a killer 6502 assembly language programmer - I could read 6502 in hex, for pete's sake. Marc
Well, like I am good at x86 assembly, but I guess I'll never use it for a meaningfull purpose.
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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Michael Martin wrote:
It's damn not dam
It's "darn", not "dam".
Michael Martin wrote:
The 323 is a four cylinder car while the 626 has a 6 cylinder engine
So one is a cylindrical car and one has a cylindrical engine?
AspDotNetDev wrote:
It's "darn", not "dam".
I had to copy and paste to Notepad and have a look in Courier New to see that you were correct.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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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
The most appropriate one for a programming forum: COBOL. The others, well, what happens in the harem stays in the harem.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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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 move my ears!!!! And cook yummy food!
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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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
Pretty good at visualizing the correct/fastest line through a corner. Useless because: 1. I am not a race driver. 2. I (now) drive responsibly.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. [Chineese Proverb] Jonathan C Dickinson (C# Software Engineer)
