What is the most useless knowledge or skill that you have?

[Sweetener12]

Mine would be an ability to recognize any tv commercial in 0.0001 seconds

Knowing the 17 times table.

I can sex aubergines.

I have an encyclopaedic knowledge of Carry On films.

@YellowJellyfish

Knowing the 17 times table.

Darts player?

I can recite the Kings & Queens of England, in order, from William the Conqueror to Queen Victoria.

Useless 😂

Mending cassette tapes.

General knowledge, in this internet age, though I'm still in demand for pub quizzes.

I can play the harmonica - quite well. Not fond of it at all so I don’t. No one around me enjoys it either. Harmonica gathers dust.
I am an extremely good back seat driver. For some reason no one appreciates that skill. I’d say I am advanced in that skill.

I can recognise anyone's voice. So I could tell you the entire cast of an animated movie including the unknown voice actors that may have done work on other movies. More annoying than useful

I can tell if batteries are empty by holding them.

It's pointless because nobody believes me. DH tested me once with a whole bowl full (20+) of random batteries and I was right every time and he still doesn't really believe me!

I never need to use a bookmark, I can find my place in a book instantly even if I haven’t read the book for several weeks. Totally useless skill

I can recite all the poems from the Alice books. Hence my user name. I suppose I used it when DD was tiny and I was too tired to open a book, but that's it. And other poems.

@InDispairThisWeek

I never need to use a bookmark, I can find my place in a book instantly even if I haven’t read the book for several weeks. Totally useless skill

No, I'd like that one! Definitely not useless. I'm always reading and realising I was further on than I thought.

I remember some useless stuff from history of English language (like a great Vowel Shift), know how to replace photo background with your own picture in Photoshop or Photoworks (nobody has ever asked me to do that, sad!) and can play flute

@InDispairThisWeek

I never need to use a bookmark, I can find my place in a book instantly even if I haven’t read the book for several weeks. Totally useless skill

Wish I could do the same! I can forget where I stopped and sometimes I read the same pages twice before I remember that I've already been through them.

I can recite all the books of the old testament. I have used this skill precisely once.
I can sing oh christmas tree in german.
I can sing the spanish version of frere jacques.

Ability to discern small differences in weight. I only found out I have this when I said something to my carer about one kindle being lighter than another.

I can recite the Latin noun cases in order.

(Nom voc acc gen dat abl, in case you were wondering).

Also lots of Latin noun declensions have sat in my brain for the past few decades.

Ha Literallynoidea, let me mess with your mind...

The order of the Latin noun cases differs in different places/books. I was taught nom gen dat acc abl voc. The textbook I am currently teaching from does nom acc gen dat able voc.

The periodic table, drummed into me as a teen.

Aubergines have a sex ?

I can "weigh" ingredients for a cake fairly accurately just by looking at them and can cut the exact weight of butter I want off a block. My mum taught me to bake in pounds and ounces and I could "see" ounces but when I worked in the industry I used grams and now can only do metric.

I've memorised the London postcodes and can recite them

I have a heightened memory for faces.

I can say the Danish tongue twister "Da de hvide kom til de vilde, ville de vilde vide hvad de hvide ville de vilde"

My pronunciation of actual useful Danish phrases is average at best!

I can remember the names of everyone in my primary school class (32 pupils), and can recite them in alphabetical order, in the way the class register was read out. I can also remember the birthdays of at least 15 of them.

These are people I haven't seen or heard from since I was 11 and I am now 52. Why can't that knowledge just bugger off out of my brain and make some room for the important stuff I can never remember?

@evilharpy
Croupier :)