What are your worthless skills?
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I can pronounce paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
After a good day of practice, I can now speedily say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I can also rapidly say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious forwards and backwards. Looks like I'll now have to learn paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde. :)
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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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Well, Paris is always a good place to test your wings :thumbsup:
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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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A mate of mine was bored one evening so sat down in front of a mirror and spent several hours learning to move his ears.
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Haha, it seems I know a lot of useless stuff. I can do that too.
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After a good day of practice, I can now speedily say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I can also rapidly say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious forwards and backwards. Looks like I'll now have to learn paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde. :)
AspDotNetDev wrote:
Phew! It'll take a while to learn that one.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Turning invisible, but only when no one is looking.
:laugh: That made me laugh, really.
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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- I can run about 22 MPH, though I suppose that could be useful for outrunning some animals.
- I know how to flick my throat to use it as a musical instrument, which I learned from an episode of MacGyver (from a character played by Bruce McGill, IIRC).
- I can crack my knuckles repeatedly for a virtually unlimited number of pops. And I only need one hand to do it.
- I can contort my stomach into a shape that seems impossible.
- I can play DDR for at least 6 hours straight.
- I can program in VB.Net.
AspDotNetDev wrote:
- I know how to flick my throat to use it as a musical instrument, which I learned from an episode of MacGyver (from a character played by Bruce McGill, IIRC).
That made me remember that I can move my ribs and can mimic a bird flapping wings.
AspDotNetDev wrote:
- I can program in VB.Net.
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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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After a good day of practice, I can now speedily say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I can also rapidly say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious forwards and backwards. Looks like I'll now have to learn paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde. :)
For the first time I wanted a dictionary with a play button....
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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.
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
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Haha, it seems I know a lot of useless stuff. I can do that too.
Me too :) Also can stretch and shrink my nose holes. And move only one eye brow at a time in both sides and I crack pretty much every bone in my body.
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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For the first time I wanted a dictionary with a play button....
I have been waiting years for Merriam-Webster to come out with a 12th edition of their dictionary. I have the 11th edition dictionary, and it came with software. Really useful in theory, but very poor execution. I'm hoping the next version of the software won't suck. I would write it myself if I could get a hold of a recent collection of dictionary data (words, definitions, pronunciations, etymology, synonyms, sample usage, sound files, image files, and so on).
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Me too :) Also can stretch and shrink my nose holes. And move only one eye brow at a time in both sides and I crack pretty much every bone in my body.
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
Hopefully none of my coworkers are looking at me. I'm trying all this stuff out right now. :-D
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I have been waiting years for Merriam-Webster to come out with a 12th edition of their dictionary. I have the 11th edition dictionary, and it came with software. Really useful in theory, but very poor execution. I'm hoping the next version of the software won't suck. I would write it myself if I could get a hold of a recent collection of dictionary data (words, definitions, pronunciations, etymology, synonyms, sample usage, sound files, image files, and so on).
Must exist somewhere, wouldnt you think? But I have been suprised before, that things I expect to find simply does not exist, or that they are so expencive that I dont know what to say. I guess you could make adobe read the word to you. Perhaps microsoft speech could do that too.
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Hopefully none of my coworkers are looking at me. I'm trying all this stuff out right now. :-D
LOL You could also try moving the ribs like flapping wings, so far I've never met anyone besides my brother that can do it... I wonder if this freak of nature is only in my family.
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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LOL You could also try moving the ribs like flapping wings, so far I've never met anyone besides my brother that can do it... I wonder if this freak of nature is only in my family.
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 think I'll wait until I get home. That will require a little shirtless mirror time. :-O :laugh:
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I think I'll wait until I get home. That will require a little shirtless mirror time. :-O :laugh:
AspDotNetDev wrote:
I think I'll wait until I get home.
Good Idea.
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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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
