I can stand on one foot and tie my shoe in the air
I taught myself to balance on one foot by brushing by teeth on one foot for a few months lol
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I learned to open bottles using a lighter, and then taught my friends. After a while, we just started referring to lighters as “bottle openers”.
I remember reading about a Pa Kua Chang master who could walk through a crowd with a full teacup and not spill any. For whatever reason I started to practice walking with a full to the brim teacup (with or without a handle) and now I can go up and down stairs with one or two and not spill anything. Usually
I can palm a tennis ball, roll it down my arm, bump launch it with my bicep, and catch it. Freaks people out who are standing close as the ball launches right at them, but I've always caught it. Discovered later I could do it with anything that rolls like a microphone.
Hmmm, how many things roll like a microphone? That seems very specific.
I was a dj for about 20 years.
This is amazing. I'd love to see this. Probably wouldn't pay, but I'd clap vigorously afterwards.
I have an uncanny ability to do things that are unpopular, that later become popular, but I can never imagine them becoming popular when I do them.
Saw Nirvana in a crowd of 30 people before they got famous, certainly never thought they would, it was so different from what was on the radio then. Bought a shirt from them, out of their little van parked in the alley behind the bar!
Used to wear vintage dresses from the thrift store in the 1980s, nobody around me was dressed anything like that, but later all of them got bought up by flippers.
Had tattoos when it was remarkably unusual for a woman, like if another woman with tattoos saw me they would stop and talk to me, I never ever ever would have thought they'd be mainstream.
Lots of stuff like that, like I'm out of synch with time but I can never capitalize on it because I don't have the vision to understand that it will catch on!
You're constantly ahead of your time, without foresight. So you can't seem to capitalize on it - oh well, money ain't everything. You've got experiences no money can buy.
What are some things youve done that have not caught on? What are you into currently?
Gardening in the last few years, sourdough and home fermentation I've done for 15 years or so. I don't really think those will catch on generally because most people don't cook but I will say a few people have asked for some of my starter lately so who knows? Tepache I've been making for years and I just saw some being sold in whole foods, so maybe. But more likely that happened as an offshoot of the Kombucha craze, which I was not a part of. Have been using henna to color my hair for years too, that hasn't exploded in popularity.
I have been late to the party on things too - mobile phones I held out as long as I could, Pokemon Go, late adopter. Electric bike. Fontaines DC.
On the really spooky side though - I had this dining room set from the 1940s, the upholstery tore so I went to the local commercial upholstery shop and found sparkly red vinyl from the state fair rides, reupholstered them (badly) with silver trim.
Couple years later was at Target and they had a reproduction set exactly like my old one - exactly the same chairs, covered in the exact same sparkly red vinyl I'd used. It was precisely like my kitchen table set just better execution. What the actual fuck?
Target legit steals designs from lesser known artists, even here in Australia they've been caught doing it
I can absolutely believe that, but I don't think I had any Target executives over, and it was before social media. And that's really why I think it's a useless skill, someone else could have looked at it and thought "huh, that would sell" but all I was thinking was that it would look unusual and cool and not sellable.
Whistle like a pidgeon and mourning doves
I used to be deadly accurate throwing a paper book of matches. A useless skill even when they were readily available.
Not if you were at a restaurant that serves flambé dishes...
I am better at helping others flesh out ideas and expanding on them than I am making up my own ideas. I'm good at troubleshooting problems better than most I've ever met. I owe both to PC troubleshooting over the last few decades (from Apple 2e and Pentium II to present). I find that people these days have tunnel vision and focus on short-term gains over long-term payoffs, often to the detriment of future productivity.
I won't say "mastered" as I have lost the ability now, but back in college Pokemon endgame content gave me the ability to read braille by looking at it.
That's about as useless as possible.
I can solve a 3x3 rubix cube in under 60 seconds.
Just practice and memorization, it’s not that hard.
Back when I was 15 or so I spent a summer solving one, no guides or resources used. Took me about 3 months and it would take me about 10-20 minutes to solve after I figured it out. I was always proud of that haha
I can jump up a small flight of stairs (3-4 stairs) in a way that makes it look like I just floated up the stairs.
I got good at it because in high school I thought it would be funny to be able to do this so I started practicing.
wtf ? I need a video of it
not happening
I wouldn't say I've mastered it but with my current set up I am as good as I can get with macrophotography.
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