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

I am generally good at remembering what year something took place, even if it wasn't very important at the time. This applies to events in friends' lives as well sometimes.

@hotcrosswhat I have been trying to learn them all. The 'M's always get me!

@SEE123 ooh best of luck with your learning! I found the NS and Ws the hardest haha. I learned them as part of a song, if that would help, it's called Fifty Nifty United States

Madonna like a prayer album.. Know all the words to all the songs.
Know all the words to grease 2 and dirty dancing.. So proud of myself

I can smell sugar or sweetener in hot drinks.

I can bring my lower leg back and up, and lock my ankle behind the front of my hip. Both sides, but not at the same time (I could when I was a kid, but I'm fat and middle aged now).

I'm really good at opening champagne bottles delicately, with no vulgar exploding, dribbling, or flying cork. But have no reason to do it, don't even drink!

I can say "I can speak Russian" in Russian. It's the only phrase I know.

I can break an apple in half just using my hands. No one then wants to eat the half apple because my hands have been all over it.

I can get my toes in my mouth. Absolutely nobody wants to see this.

Oh, and I can read and write in Dwarfish runes (from The Hobbit)... since age 9

I have really good general knowledge - pointless aside from Trivial Pursuit or pub quizzes!

I also remember birthdays - even horrible exes 🤣

I can tie a knot in a cherry stalk whilst it is in my mouth using just my tongue.

Weirdly good at the missing vowels round on Only Connect. And making cakes.

I can tell the age of a fish using one of it's ear bones.

As a result of doing a semester of my mental health nurse training in Finland, I can ask about your use of illegal drugs, history of sexual abuse and which types of medication you use in Finnish, but I cannot order food in a restaurant or dat anything useful in day to day life.

I can recite a rhyme which is an aide memoire for remembering which prepositions take which case, in German.
Potentially useful, but by the time I have recited it, it's usually too late, and the moment has passed.
I can also sing part (!) of a song in a particular German dialect. Not useful.
I used to be able to read hex dumps, which is what our mainframe computer used to spew out when a programme crashed. Reading them was essential for diagnosing why it crashed. A skill very much of its time, like being a lamp-lighter or something.

I (and my DD), can make a noise with our throats that no one else I've ever asked can. You kind of close your throat over and then force air through it to get it to vibrate and make a noise. Each one you do sounds sort of like a frog 'ribbit'

I can fix a leaky o ring in a gear box upside down.
Recognise 90% of working boats by their engine sound.

Weirdly good at the missing vowels round on Only Connect

Ooh yes. Me too. Are you good at crosswords? That really helps me.

I am also frighteningly good at the Missing Vowels round on Only Connect. And sight-measuring butter. I can mimic most accents.

Cannot drive a car.
Can, however, drive a horse and carriage.

I can say ‘chicken fucker’ and ‘scrotum washer’ in Dutch. Also I can say the word for ‘ the thing on top of the door which makes it close slowly when you let it go’ in Dutch. No, there is no word for this in English and yes, now you mention it that is a gap.

@EElisavetaOfBelsornia

I can say ‘chicken fucker’ and ‘scrotum washer’ in Dutch. Also I can say the word for ‘ the thing on top of the door which makes it close slowly when you let it go’ in Dutch. No, there is no word for this in English and yes, now you mention it that is a gap.

Literally a door closer 😁

I was (and possibly still am) a dab hand at using several different kinds of wordprocessing software that have now been steamrollered into oblivion by Microsoft Word.

I can judge ingredients by eye almost spot on everytime. Spent my teen years as a deli assistant and I could do any amount of cheese with the cheese wire.
I can write with both hands and both feet at the same time. It's amazing. Sadly I can only do my full name nothing else. Mirror writing for the left side.
I can recite all the books of the bible, old and new testament. Never once used this skill!.