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Most useless thing you know how to do

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NotARealAvery · 01/02/2020 12:43

I know how to say ‘I am 13 years old’ I’m now 32 and count up to 10 in German.

That’s all I can remember from my German lessons in school.

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EBearhug · 05/02/2020 13:41

I know the sign for sausages in BSL, which is all I remember from an assembly by the deaf unit at my junior school c 1980 before the deaf unit got closed down.

Timeforatincture · 05/02/2020 14:33

@Tillygetsit when our kids were small, as a family we set ourselves the challenge of learning Jabberwocky off by heart. And we found it works really well if you sing it to the tune of "There is a tavern in the town" if you repeat certain parts of lines, thus:

Twas brillig and the slithy toves (slithy toves)
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
(In the wabe) all mimsy were the borogroves
And the mome raths outgrabe (raths outgrabe)

It's immensely good fun and we still do it as a family from time to time even though they are all grown up now.

Try it. You won't regret it.

Timeforatincture · 05/02/2020 14:35

Also, I know all the words to "Telephone Man" by Mari Wilson, and WILL sing it when I've had a few unless you stop me. Not massively useful most of the time.

iklboo · 05/02/2020 14:38

Also, I know all the words to "Telephone Man" by Mari Wilson, and WILL sing it when I've had a few unless you stop me. Not massively useful most of the time.

Me too! A much underrated song IMHO Grin.

icannotremember · 05/02/2020 14:45

Fold cloth napkins into fans.

Remember the entire script of Dirty Dancing, right from "that was the summer of..." to "You looked wonderful out there".

Calculate standard deviation by hand instead of just sticking it into SPSS- WHY THEY MADE ME DO THIS I WILL NEVER KNOW WHO THE FUCK NEEDS TO DO THAT BY HAND MY GOD.

MrsTerryPratchett · 05/02/2020 15:44

If you can do macrame you can make bobbin lace, it's the same knots on a tiny scale.

Now that is interesting @sashh

jaspercatx · 05/02/2020 15:49

I can tie a strawberry lace with my tongue... its pretty cool

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