Machines speak to me.
Not literally of course. In my youth I discovered that I could hear changes in the sound machines make a LOT earlier than anyone else. Even people who spend hours every day with said machine and that was the first time I had been around it.
I can do it even to this day. I have worked in IT for the past 30 years and the number of hard drives I’ve predicted to fail and then they went on to fail is well into the thousands. All because I walked past the rack in the data center and heard something “off”. For those that work in data centers you know just how f’ing loud they are.
My wife’s last car was a 2003 Camry that I almost never drove. She was backing out going to work and she saw me give her car a weird look. She stopped, drove back into the garage and told me to look. At that time we had been together almost 10 years so she’s seen my ability numerous times. I looked under her car and sure enough the flexible connection between the exhaust manifold and exhaust system had a small hole. It wasn’t enough to be loud, it was just enough to change the note the car made. Even being told what to listen for, my wife could not pick out what was wrong.
For the record, while I’ve never been diagnosed it’s a given that I’m neurodivergent.
I can perform oral sex basically indefinitely. I’m just happy to be there. It’s like my favourite place.
Edit: I guess I show it quite a bit. Just not to most people
My tongue is my favorite muscle. Want to know why? ;)
I actually kinda do. >>
I’m ADHD. I’ll find a new one by next week.
Never had a problem falling asleep. Bed, couch, chair, floor. Indoors, outdoors, as long as it’s not sweltering hot or freezing cold I’m out in under 10 min.
Such a fantastic skill to have. Saw my dad fall asleep in the dentists chair, as an ultimate flex of this excellent talent.
Based on my own dad, it’s a talent that becomes a liability when you get older and can’t stay awake through a single movie
I’ve been able to fall asleep pretty much anywhere. Airplane seat bolt upright, office chair, it matters little.
It does suck now getting older that it is less of a choice.
Jalous
As someone at the opposite end of this spectrum, I was envious but…
Everyone I knew with this talent eventually got diagnosed with severe sleep apnea, which does get worse as you age.
Get tested, just saying
I have an internal CAD. It’s very useful when building something like a deck for my home. Technically, I show no one this. They only see the end result.
I can tie a knot in a spaghetti while it’s in my mouth.
That’s impressive.
Back in the day there was a TV show called Twin Peaks. On this show one of the actresses did this with a cherry stem. Later on Saturday Night Live, they spoofed this with one of the comedians trying a bow, like you would get on a Christmas package. Cracked me up.
I can calculate IPv4 subnets in my head with ease. Usually when I set up a network I use 26, 22 or 20 bit masks and it drives my co-workers nuts.
I can be happy, depressed and horny all at the same time.
I can bend my knees backwards to about 200°. It’s just not that interesting + difficult to show off in normal pants + gives away that I’m secretly a horse.
I can write on a blackboard with both hands simultaneously, my left hand mirroring the right one.
And talking of blackboards, at some point I mastered drawing doted lines with chalk in a single stroke.
Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l789l6np-qAEdit: I can whistle painfully loud using my fingers, when I was a kid it was a rather common skill. Not so much now.
Watch that video with subtitles.
I can do that loud whistle, too. My dad has season tickets for an NFL team for many years, so I went to a lot of games. I could whistle so loudly that the people in my section would flinch, and turn to glare at me. Fuck all of ya, it’s a football game!
Brrrrrr d d d d d d lol
Speaking Spanish. Haven’t needed it in years and my actual grasp of the language is tenuous at this point but every native speaker I interact with says my pronunciation is great. Understanding the differences between English and Spanish phonetics helps a ton in that regard.
I hear you on this, I spent my late teens through my 20s and 30s living abroad and learning other languages. I’ve since moved back home and had kids. I had to break out my Spanish a few times in the past year or so and both my kids did a double take/didn’t know what the hell was happening when they saw me speaking passable/semi-fluent Spanish to native speakers.
I’m just your average stay at home Dad living in a small town nowadays but had a wildly international life before settling down. When they saw me speak another language the questions started to come out about where I had been or what I had been doing.
I hadn’t spoken about it much to my kids when they were younger but now, based on their questions, I half suspect that they think I was some sort of international spy. Nope, just a lot of wanderlust, a knack for languages and learning about the psychology of other cultures first hand.
I’m good at drawing detailed gore.
Have anything you’d like to share?
Hhhhmmm… No. Not from those drawings.
But I use “Tattorack” as my username everywhere, so if you’re motivated enough you could find them.
Valid. I’m not going to look it up, but I believe you.
Overtone singing. I can do Amazing Grace because the melody fits within the available notes, but I don’t like that song. Usually just sing random melodies to the dogs & they give me the head tilt.
I can find a location based on a picture.
last time I showed anyone was at work. one of my coworkers began sharing pictures of their trip through Europe while on vacation. it was kind of obnoxious, so I started to post the latitude and longitude of where the person standing was when the picture was taken along with gifs of Jason Bourne.
my coordinates were so accurate they accused me of somehow extracting the deleted geodata from the images.
it freaked everyone out, and nobody shared their vacation pictures with me again.
I can do it with video too. interestingly, I’ve even pinpointed locations and dates videos were recorded on based on what what playing on the TV or radio in the background.
the point I always try to make to people is that if I can do it, DOHS has been able to do it for even longer.
So i guess you either love geoguesser or think its mundane people find it challenging.
I enjoy it. if anything it helps me keep the skill sharp.
obviously the more information captured in the photo the better. most people don’t even realize how much information is in a picture they take and share online.
people post pictures of their kids at school sporting events, unknowingly giving information about age, gender, location, dates, times, etc. or folks post enough pictures on their social media to accurately draw the floorplan to their homes. even when they post shows their schedule of when they are working, sleeping, or just generally out of town.
it’s one of the many reasons why I don’t post pictures of myself or family online.
I’ve done this before when people have shared pictures on the internet. Usually harmlessly just to warn them that they accidentally doxxed themselves, but sometimes they get really upset by it.
I also got on an episode of podcast Endless Threads because of something I did on Reddit. Turns out my geolocation was wrong and it caused a whole big drama for the landowner and the podcasters lost in Ohio or something, but later I found the real location while they were on the hunt. Meanwhile I was in Australia.
I’ve done that before on Reddit. I frequent some of the NSFW subreddits and sometimes they post a picture with a work name-badge in the background which has alot of information on it.
I stopped doing it after my account was banned. now I just report the posts for doxxing and let the mods sort it out.
You’re the reason I never share pics online lol.
How was their fun obnoxious to you lol
you?
obnoxious to
is this
I don’t know.
I can impersonate a pretty good Indian accent, it’s not super culturally accepted to walk around telling people they’ve called Microsoft customer service
I used to, then I grew up. However, what I’ve found is that being able to do accents can occasionally help communicate a word. If you’re talking to someone that has a different accent and you just can’t get them to understand some particular word, pronouncing it how you think they’d pronounce it might help. It changes how certain letters and combinations are pronounced, helping the other person visualize the letters and therefore the word.
There’s times between English and Spanish where the spelling is functionally the same, but pronunciation is incredibly foreign in the other language. Words ending in -tion are “shin” in english but -cion is “see own” in Spanish. Many such words have latin roots, so the base word is similar like “communication” on “construction”.
But, first and foremost, enunciate clearly. Speaking slower doesn’t help if you’re still dragging your consonants the same way.
