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What impressive thing can you do?

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RandomAmanda · 02/08/2019 21:51

Blow your own horn time! What is your talent/special skill? Can you do anything 'cool' or 'impressive'? Can you do the splits? A handstand? Can you stop trafiic with your 'Disney princess' voice? Or can you sketch to perfection? Shout about it here and let me live vicariously through your amazing skill...

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DontCallMeShitley · 02/08/2019 23:29

I can hold an entire box of pencils under my boobs.

Babyiwantabump · 02/08/2019 23:29

I can roll my tongue into a flower shape

DontCallMeShitley · 02/08/2019 23:31

I can also attract cats just by being there. I will be walking along minding my own business and there will be a cat wanting to be petted, weekends away can be quite distracting because they pop out from everywhere.

julensaor · 02/08/2019 23:32

I can fall backwards into a crab/bridge and lick my heels. I can put an entire box of matches lit at once into my mouth and quench them. But I am a loser in every other way.

Elisheva · 02/08/2019 23:35

I can see things that have been left on the stairs and carry them up. I am also fluent in sign language and I can sing in an overtone.

chocolateworshipper · 02/08/2019 23:35

I can float on my back and am always amazed that not everyone else can!

I can also roll my tongue and do the Vulcan "live long an prosper sign with my fingers.

SpeedyShutter · 02/08/2019 23:37

I can still do handstands.
I can take a great photograph and make it look like a painting.
I can bend my thumb right back.

DeeCeeCherry · 02/08/2019 23:42

I can dance. Very well to the point people look when I dance socially.

I can also demolish a large pack of Walkers cheese & onion crisps in 2 minutes flat, a skill I wish I didn't have.

I can touch my toes.

1wokeuplikethis · 02/08/2019 23:49

I can put my tongue up my nostril...yes, yes I can.

I can sprint really fast.

I can juggle.

I can make my hips click by squeezing my pelvic floor. That’s not impressive and probably will see me a shuffling biddy by 70.

I can make conversation with anyone. But I’m an introvert.

KurriKurri · 02/08/2019 23:55

I'm ambidextrous - can do most things equally well with either hand.

And I've got a pretty disgusting one which is quite cool if you like grim medical yukkness. Read no further if you don't.

I have a non healing permanently infected wound in my abdomen for a year, if I breathe out hard I can make pus spurt out of my middle. Don't all faint from jealousy Grin It is temporary though - next week I am hopefully having it all cut out.

BlackeyedGruesome · 02/08/2019 23:55

I can lift my ring fingers independently of other fingers.

I can turn strings into.things...blanket squares mainly. I make up.my own crochet square patterns.

YoTheGinPussy · 02/08/2019 23:58

I can and do drink my own body weight in gin.

I am a cat magnet as well.

blueshoes · 02/08/2019 23:58

I can wiggle my ears independently.

I can squeeze through very small spaces.

I can synthesise complex legal, financial and commercial information from various sources, draft a concise analysis of it either objectively or to build a compelling case around it, for senior management consumption.

evilharpy · 02/08/2019 23:59

I can touch type at about 105 wpm with almost complete accuracy while carrying on a conversation. This sometimes freaks people out.

I’m brilliant at sack races.

If I sit on the floor with my legs straight and outstretched and knees not bent I can lie on my legs.

I can do two spin classes back to back and not die.

I’m really really good at getting stains out of things, I know all the tricks.

GingerFoxInAT0phat · 02/08/2019 23:59

I can take a 7 minute nap before the school run without setting an alarm

haverhill · 03/08/2019 00:12

I can wiggle my ears.
I can ‘click’ a muscle in my ears which makes everything sound echoey.
I can sing pretty well.
I can do reasonably good impressions of people.
I can do cartwheels at 49.
None of these will make me rich.

HeartboxTeddy · 03/08/2019 00:16

I can write upside down and mirrored (if you held the paper up to a mirror it would look like the writing was right) but never tried both at the same time.

I can do a lot of trampolining tricks whilst trying not to pee myself.

The ONLY song I can play on piano is "I will wash your fathers shirt".

I am my DS's safe place. I am the only one he wants 95% of the time and usually the only person who can settle him (even his Dad can't a lot of the time). It always makes me feel very special and oddly proud to have created such a good bond despite an awful birth.

IdblowJonSnow · 03/08/2019 00:22

I can count to ten in 5 languages (Not really proud of this)
I can do headstands for a really long time (proud of this one!!)

Luaa · 03/08/2019 00:26

sink that is majorly impressive!

Like a pp, I can tie a knit in a cherry stalk with my tongue, I tested if I could still do it last week.

If floating on your back is a skill then I have that too. Surely everyone can float on their back though?!

Ohyesiam · 03/08/2019 00:26

I’m a really good judge of character, it’s always been obvious to me who is trustworthy and who isn’t. I can generally tell if people are lying or not.

hellenbackagen · 03/08/2019 00:30

i can do robotics (although my oh sys i look like im chasing a fly round the room with my eyes)

i do burlesque

i also touch type as ferocious speeds.

ErrolTheDragon · 03/08/2019 00:31

I can make invisible links.Grin

elonmusk · 03/08/2019 00:38

I can make the sound of a water plop by flicking my cheek or chin or by hitting the top of my head.

I can sing eternal flame backwards.

lekkerkroketje · 03/08/2019 00:45

I've just discovered I can tile! Everyone said there's no way I'd be able to do it.

Otherwise, I can finally get in and out of my hammock without smashing my face on the floor

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