What are your underwhelming skills that you’re privately quite proud of

[Breakfastburrito]

Mine are:

Being exceptionally good at slicing bread (straight, even slices every time, even on squishy, unevenly shaped loaves)

Uncannily accurate at guessing the time when I haven’t looked at a clock for hours - I’m never more than a few minutes out.

Tell me the things you can do that are not that impressive!

I’m severely directionally challenged though and most of the time wouldn’t have a clue where I am. I am so thankful for satnav. My memory is also shit and that annoys me because I rarely remember events from years ago and also can’t place how old I was at the time that things happened. Makes me sad that I’ve lost so much unless I’m reminded of it.

@tinkywinkyshandbag

Wow, that's out there,surreal very interesting very quiky (very unausaul skill to rember medical obscure medical facts and conditions especially they are often/allways Latin Terminology .

Is there anybody in your family who is involved in the medical field in any way or do you know if you have any ancestors who were a doctor, or nurse etc?
Fascinating subject post thread op has chosen.
Really glad she did,as its refreshing ,different and thought provoking and very quiky good.

I am the best dishwasher loader in my house. I reckon I can get at least 25% more dishes in it because I load it in such a strategic way.
When I fill my car with petrol I play the “on the money” game with myself and always get it bang on!

Also enlightening and original post thread post thread op has chosen.

I can read books very fast. I am also excellent at composing google searches:D

@CrayonInThreeBits

Oh, and I can see spelling/punctuation errors in a page of text without reading it — they kind of stand out, as though they're in an almost-imperceptibly different colour.

Me too! And I can draw an almost perfectly straight line without rules.

[quote PuntasticUsername]**@TheFiend* how do you do the rice? How?* Please share. Rice terrifies me [/quote]
First measure the rice in a mug. I usually do 1 1/2 mugs for 6 of us. Wash the rice several times until the water is clear. Leave to drain. In the meantime, put a knob of butter in a pan and fry off the rice for a minute, to coat the rice. Then add the water. I use just under double the ratio of water to rice. Make sure you use the same mug you used to measure the rice in. So if I use 1 1/2 mugs of rice, I use just under 3 mugs of water. So 2 1/2 mugs of water. Bring it to the boil on a high heat, cover with a tight fitting lid, put the heat all the way to the lowest and time exactly 12 minutes. Don’t open the lid at all during cooking. After 12 mins, leave the lid of for another 15 mins or so, so the rice carries on steaming. Fluffy with a fork and you will have perfectly fluffy, separate rice every time!

This is for basmati rice, btw. Any other rice I just boil and drain.

I can write backwards fluently, and neatly. It can be read perfectly in a mirror.

YY to dishwasher loading here too.

Also proofreading, editing. Though not always on my own posts here...

I can remember lots of things without difficulty .

I can tell you who my patients were on my first day at my job, what beds they were in, what was wrong with them, and how they were discharged .

Can remember random patients death dates and times .

Can remember most peoples phone numbers

Can remember my way around the town I moved out of at age 18 months despite only being back once, and accurately remember my neighbours garden, house, layout despite having not been there since same age

Ditto places like my first school (not been in in 20 years), my dads house (22 years), my gran’s house (24 years), my aunts house (28 years) - I could tell you exactly what they were like .

Can remember eg what day we did certain things at playgroup, nursery, school, uni - down to what I was wearing . Very odd .

I am really surprised by how many people have the ability to know the right time. I have it too, but I always thought that I had developed it when I worked in an office when I was a teenager. I was such a clock-watcher, I was constantly checking to see if it was time to go home. I thought that I must have trained myself to become very aware of the passing of time.

Now I'm beginning to think that it must be an innate ability in some people.

I can read very fast. I’m not sure how much faster than average but I didn’t realise it was unusually quick until I became an English teacher and my department were all saying WTF at the speed at which I read stuff in meetings

I've no idea what Tetris is but I can ask children for three different topics, open my mouth and a story pops out. Used to do this when I was a primary school teacher and couldn't be bothered to go to the library for a story book.

Tongue twisters. No one can say Peter piper faster than me.

@Bella34

Do you feel a de vue sense of instinctly feeling if you vist a medieval town/place that you have been there before in the past?
(even if that is the first time you have ever visited that place ?

Have you been to Shakesphere Birth place then?

If you did how did you feel about this place then?

Do you feel as if you belong to a different time period in the past or feel as you are out of sorts with modern living and feel more at home , visting or exploring historical places and or activities linked to traditional skills such as tapestry /or the art skill of Calligraphy etc?

Do you like seeing historical medieval family festival events ect?

I am just very intrigued and fascinated and want to find out explore more about this.

One thing I’m really good at is any sort of geoguesser or geography guesser game on the internet. The ones where they show you a random photo from google earth and you have to stick a pin in the map of where you think it is. I’m normally within a few hundred miles even when it’s an obscure village in South America or Africa. My best one is within 40km of a tiny village in Bolivia.

[quote thosetalesofunexpected]@CrayonInThreeBits

What is a "Tertris" mean then?[/quote]
Huh? I'm guessing I made a typo at some point? I'm lazy and don't always scroll back up before I hit post

@Wallyandasnog I’m good at picking things up with my feet too. My husband thinks I’m part monkey

I can remember meals eaten by myself and others from events years earlier eg my mum will say “oh remember that party we went to in Margaret’s garden in 1996?” And I will remember exactly what was eaten and by whom.
Also the internal clock thing

I'm also a Clockless time teller and awesome sense of direction. Also I take great delight in always putting my bins out before the neighbours. Yep I'm sadly proud of all these !!

I can read and write forwards, backwards and upside down. I can spot a spelling or grammatical error in any text.

I can smell when it’s going to rain, and when the seasons change.

I believe in the collective conscience and that if I put an idea out there, soon enough someone invents it or writes about it (spotify and Netflix were my fave ones I thought of before they launched. Just wish I knew enough about IT to do my own ).

Just thought of something else - two leftovers from teaching.

1. I can shout across any size room and make myself heard.
2. In a mums and tots group I can make mums quake if they dare talk when I'm telling their kids a story, merely by giving them the gimlet eye followed by an icy smile. The children (2-4) sit and listen beautifully. I SO SO SO miss telling stories. I really hate lockdown.

Some of these are incredible!!

Me, I am good at getting jammed paper out of photocopiers or printers, I am as yet undefeated and I work in a school.

I can invent jokes on the spot. Give me any word, and I will make it into a joke (disclaimer: they’re not that funny, they only need to be good enough for my class of 7 year olds!!)

Im a retainer of useless knowledge.
I can bake a cake without measuring ingredients (to be fair i make them for a living, so its 10+ years of experience).
I remember everyones birthdays and ages. As soon as I buy a new work diary I can put in all my regular clients orders without checking dates.

@CrayonInThreeBits

Oh, and I can see spelling/punctuation errors in a page of text without reading it — they kind of stand out, as though they're in an almost-imperceptibly different colour.

Me too!