My boring super power isn't something I can monetize, but it's useful regularly: being able to pick the best sized Tupperware container to put leftovers in.
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that's on the fly volume calculation. very useful for when you have to pack a truck.
also helps if you have some Tetris experience. so def monetizeable
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The actor who played Oscar in The Office also was in The Italian Job (Marc Walberg, Charlize Theron). He was the security guard for the rich guy (Edward Norton) and said maybe two lines while checking ID.
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I wonder if OP is faceblind and has slight recognition but not completely.
I’m terrible at this. [It’s maybe because I watch my shows in black and white due to a cognitive processing disability].
No completely true. You can win gift cards at bar trivia.
I know this because, in college, I had to take Greek mythology to get an engineering degree. I can honestly say I've never used the Greek mythology knowledge anywhere but bar trivia.
I think you could get more creative with your language, with that knowledge. If nothing else, reading the Bible (or catching the cliffs notes) and getting a firm understanding of 'The Classics' gives you an immense wealth of phrases and references to help illustrate your point that are so ingrained in Western culture and media that you're likely to strike more points with it than without.
I'm still making my way through that herculean effort, that sisyphusian task. I struggled like Odysseus returning home to get through the Bible the first time, but once you get through all the parables and their Lot, there are some really interesting stories that make for easy metaphors and similes.
And metaphors are useful because it makes language a bit more digestible and accessible to people who understand those metaphors.
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There have been few things in my life more satisfying than being in a room full of generally smart, knowledgeable people, and being the only one who knows the answer to a trivia question. It's happened a few times in my life, and usually it's about mythology.
One time while scoring the round, the quizmaster was asking the questions aloud and letting the crowd shout back the correct answers. When it came to the Greek mythology question I was the only one who shouted, "Tartarus!" Someone in the back of the room shouted, "Nerd!" Later in the round he found me and apologized, but it didn't bother me.
For my first baby shower we hired our quizmaster to host trivia. In the interest of fairness, our six person team was split across three of the teams. It ended in a three-way tie, and the tiebreaker was the name of Odin's horse. It was Sleipnir, which means "Slippy". Slippy the eight-legged horse. That one was especially satisfying.
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IMDB used to have an amazing cross-search. You could put any combination of actor, crew, movie/show title and it would bring out common movies/shows.
That sounds cool I wonder why they stopped it
I’m guessing Amazon bought them and dicked everything up.
Guessing, I have no idea if that’s true but it would add up.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_recogniser A latent skill perhaps?
Also the new Dad in Will Trent is Bob the Street Tough from Seinfeld.
I have facial blindness but I'm a super recognizer of voices.
Don't give me the remote when watching a show on Prime. That X-Ray feature is dope.
I can say the alphabet backwards, really fast. I also know all the digits of pi in ascending order
I dated a girl who could recite pi to a hundred places.
Yeah, well I know all the digits of pi in base pi
You almost got me there 😆
Ascending order? So like, 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9?
That is the joke, yes.
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woah
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My SO identifies people by their teeth. Scary as f for me. Like a Zorro would have caught if he opened his mouth.
My skill? Boring, I wanna talk about people with between zero and one lines on a show ages ago.
Teri Hatcher played a slut on the sitcom Night Court in the late eighties. That's unfair, she was a sex worker and sex work should not be illegal but I remember her as playing a slut.
...to quote my boss from my third professional job: "i may be a whore, but at least i'm not a slut: sluts don't get paid"...
I know we’re all here for the LOLs, but just a quick reminder: it’s ok to enjoy things without being able to monetize them.
Especially when that skill is "remember a face."
While of course it is, also if you have natural talent for something and enjoy it then monitizing it means you you might be able to do a job you enjoy.
Very wise.
Do you have a Patreon?
In this economy?!
My bills have bills to pay!