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What's your useless talent?

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MrOllivander · 10/05/2022 16:58

Making cottage pie and was thinking!
I can always make 5 portions of anything. Pasta, cottage pie, stew. It weighs exactly to split into 5 even if I don't weigh the ingredients Confused

What's yours?

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VintageGibbon · 10/05/2022 22:35

devildeepbluesea · 10/05/2022 22:03

I have perfect pitch.

That is so not a useless talent. Take it from someone who has no idea what note will come out of my mouth even if the right one is clear as a bell in my head.

Svolvaer · 10/05/2022 22:37

I can slice unsliced bread into perfectly even slices as if done by a machine. Useless talent now as I buy sliced bread but came in useful when I worked in a bakery and the bread slicer broke down (frequently).

Bouledeneige · 10/05/2022 22:45

I can also flare my nostrils. I can also sing 'How much is that doggie in the window' backwards.

I also can list all the books in the New Testament.

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FluffyLamkins · 10/05/2022 22:48

I can spot four leaf clovers with ease, I found twenty yesterday when walking the dog. I wish I had a talent that made me money.

What's your useless talent?
Simonjt · 10/05/2022 22:51

I can do the splits (both ways), absolutely no use at all.

CaptainThe95thRifles · 10/05/2022 22:51

I'm a crack shot and I can lasso a barrel at 20 paces. Pretty useless skills in modern Britain 😂

I can also complete a rubix cube while on a galloping horse. That's a useless skill in any reality!

TheGrinchsDog · 10/05/2022 22:59

Fuuuuuckit · 10/05/2022 21:44

I can move both eyes independently. Like going cross-eyed but then can move one eye (at a time) on its own.

Great for freaking out kids, useless for anything else.

Fighter pilots can do this I think?

My useless talent is that I can make origami water bombs out of paper. It's the only thing I can make out of origami and it stopped being useful about a week after I learned it one summer as a teenager lol.

Shannith · 10/05/2022 23:00

I can automatically feel exactly 20 chips in my hand (casino chips- I was briefly a croupier)

I can also shuffle chips, sort of mix yep lots of 10 into 20 in one hand.

Makes staff very wary the few times I've been to casinos in later life because the only people who can do that are croupiers (you are not allowed to go to any other casinos if you work for one - in th UK anyway) or a serous high roller. As I'm clearly not the latter I always get followed around by pit bosses.

Shannith · 10/05/2022 23:04

For someone who is mildly dyslexic, I'm spectacularly good at crosswords.

TheGirlWhoLived · 10/05/2022 23:20

I can catch things. Very random, badly thrown, particularly weighty or not things. All things. I can usually catch them.

what a waste Grin

WhoIsCarolWright · 10/05/2022 23:49

When I attempt a celebrity impression or accent it often transforms into a perfect imitation of something else altogether i.e. Mick Jagger will emerge as on Janet Street-Porter, Swedish accent goes Geordie!

Marcipex · 11/05/2022 00:03

I can walk on stilts and do hundreds of jumps on a pogo stick.

Schulte · 11/05/2022 08:17

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 10/05/2022 21:46

I know if something is spelt wrong even if I don't speak the language...

Seriously? Any language? Like, Czech, Finnish, Hungarian?

FindingMeno · 11/05/2022 08:21

I can strip and reassemble a machine gun blindfolded, and do a Mexican wave type belly muscle roll.

Schulte · 11/05/2022 08:21

And no, not everyone can flare their nostrils when they want.

Doing the splits both ways would be very useful to me, I lost that ability when I was 19!

YouCantBeSadHoldingACupcake · 11/05/2022 08:42

I can pick things up with my toes, and read and write upside down.

AffIt · 11/05/2022 08:59

I can do an uncannily accurate impersonation of a goat bleating.

Thesefeetaremadeforwalking · 11/05/2022 09:02

I can flare my nostrils and roll my tongue...(at the same time)

DropYourSword · 11/05/2022 09:05

AnyFucker · 10/05/2022 21:38

I can make a shamrock shape with my tongue

Me too!!

In all the useless skills, this is the uselessest!!

Toddlerteaplease · 11/05/2022 09:12

Not everyone can flare their nostrils?!!! I can wiggle my eyebrows together and independently.

Peterpater · 11/05/2022 09:21

I can milk a cow! I was born and grew on a small island in a small holding so we had lots of animals and a cow for milk!

GertrudeKerfuffle · 11/05/2022 09:22

I can burp on command, as loud as you want, and 'speak' whilst I do it. It's disgusting.

Schulte · 11/05/2022 09:23

Ok, you don’t like my nostrils 😂

Here’s an alternative one. I can jump into my ski bindings. Both feet at once.

Does that count?

Furrbabymama87 · 11/05/2022 09:23

I'm a little bit psychic. It would be useful but I have no idea how to control it.

DorritLittle · 11/05/2022 09:24

I can remember the birthday of every friend I made between 1982 and 1994.

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