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What’s a weird/unusual but ultimately pointless, mundane fact about yourself?

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awkwardusername · 23/08/2021 22:21

Mine is that I always end up sleeping with my head at the foot of the bed. Don’t know how I end up there or why I do it. Partner never notices me performing backflips either!

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OutrageousFlavourLikeFreesias · 23/08/2021 22:24

I can get my whole fist in my mouth, but only my right one (I'm left-handed, so my left hand is a small but crucial amount bigger). My right-handed brother can do the same, but with his left hand. We both discovered this when we were mildly bored at our parents' house and wondered if we could do it.

This has literally never come in useful at any point in either of our lives.

Welshiefluff · 23/08/2021 22:25

I currently need a poo but it is not fully brewed yet.

AnnoyedByAlfieBear · 23/08/2021 22:34

My heart is back to front.

gardennewb · 23/08/2021 22:38

@awkwardusername

Mine is that I always end up sleeping with my head at the foot of the bed. Don’t know how I end up there or why I do it. Partner never notices me performing backflips either!
I somehow managed to do this once in a narrow bunk which was the middle bunk in a triple bunk bed. This meant that my head was under the very low but which is only supposed to have feet under it, I sat up in the dark and absolutely clonked my head! That's the only time tho, how weird it must be to do it all the time!
vampirethriller · 23/08/2021 22:39

I can dislocate my shoulders and put them back.

BackInBlackAgain · 23/08/2021 22:47

I can spin round really fast loads of times and I don’t get dizzy, my son was wobbly legged and with a spinning head from the waltzers but I was fine. I can’t remember the last time I got dizzy

Mummyoply · 23/08/2021 22:48

I'm double jointed but only the joints in my arms and hands, this has literally never been of any use to me ever! Well maybe once or twice when I was younger and at the pub! I used to enjoy freaking drunk people out by twisting my arm around to almost 360 degrees with the palm of my hand flat on the table. Not sure if I've explained that very well.....

FrangipaniBlue · 23/08/2021 22:49

@OutrageousFlavourLikeFreesias

I can get my whole fist in my mouth, but only my right one (I'm left-handed, so my left hand is a small but crucial amount bigger). My right-handed brother can do the same, but with his left hand. We both discovered this when we were mildly bored at our parents' house and wondered if we could do it.

This has literally never come in useful at any point in either of our lives.

Is anyone else currently trying to see if they can fit their fist in their mouth?
TeamSpike · 23/08/2021 22:50

I sneeze every time I have a bath, which is everyday as I don't have a shower

Mogloveseggs · 23/08/2021 22:51

I have 3 nipples

Hellocatshome · 23/08/2021 22:52

I can sail a sailing dinghy but I dont.

OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 23/08/2021 22:53

I can pick up things with my toes. Useful when playing badminton barefoot, but not for much else.

I’m pretty damn good at catching and killing fleas. Not a talent anyone wants to need to develop.

Somehow I’ve also ended with my head at the foot of the bed a couple of times. I have no idea. DH also has never noticed.

I can still chew my own toenails, if I wanted to that is Grin

Susannahmoody · 23/08/2021 22:55

Had emergency appendix removal during scheduled c section

lborgia · 23/08/2021 22:58

I don't have any tonsils, and never have.

Galassia · 23/08/2021 22:58

I have mucus eye fishing which I have no intention of ever getting rid of.

My eyes look perfectly normal but if I pull down the bottom of my eye and swipe my finger I can pull out a small string of mucus.

A short time later I can then pull out a long string of mucus like a magician pulling bunting out of a top hat and it is extremely satisfying to watch in a x20 magnified mirror!

ClumpingBambooIsALie · 23/08/2021 22:58

I have two ordinary nipples, two accessory nipples, and two tiny patches of hair that would've been nipples given half a chance.

Whattheschitt · 23/08/2021 22:59

I've used the toilet in Mick Hucknall's house.

ClumpingBambooIsALie · 23/08/2021 23:05

And weirdly, the hair patches and my second accessory nipple (which is, slightly more weirdly, in my left armpit) only popped up during puberty :-/

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 23/08/2021 23:06

I didn't realise that buttons on cuffs had a function, I thought that they were just there for decoration. Then one morning I was watching DH doing up his cuffs and thinking that it would have been easier to do them up and then put his shirt on when I suddenly realised that he couldn't because his hands were too big. I have small hands and in my whole life I think I've only had one blouse that I needed to open the cuffs to put it on.

I suspect that I can see colour better than most people, especially yellow. I have no proof of this and I'm just basing it on conversations about colour (I crochet and quilt, there has been a lot of colour based conversations).

DillonPanthersTexas · 23/08/2021 23:06

I can fit five bags of Haribo starmix in my mouth, can't chew them though.

Snugglepumpkin · 23/08/2021 23:06

If I have the hiccups & I say the words "I have the hiccups" aloud they stop instantly even if nobody is there to hear me say it.
If I don't say it, they just keep on going until I get tired of waiting for them to stop & I say the words.

This has worked for me every single time I've ever had the hiccups (which I don't get often to be fair) since I was a young child & has never ever worked for anyone else I've ever met so is of no use to anyone else in the world except for me.

Mybalconyiscracking · 23/08/2021 23:09

I was the first woman ever to make Marmite and the first woman ever to make Horlicks. This is incredibly outing, but I make a point of changing my name on here all the time so probably doesn’t matter!

SallyOMalley · 23/08/2021 23:09

After a particularly nasty sinus infection 15 years ago, I now have to shut my right eye when I blow my nose. If I don't, fluid spurts out of it.

bamboocat · 23/08/2021 23:10

@Whattheschitt

I've used the toilet in Mick Hucknall's house.
You win Grin

I have webbed feet - in between the 2nd and 3rd toes on each foot.

And @Mummyoply - I know what you mean, my MIL, DH and DD can do that 360 thing with their hands too.

MrsRobbieHart · 23/08/2021 23:11

I can stop myself from sneezing