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Party Tricks, Weird Skills, other Tomfoolery
Double_Faces
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So I've always been interested in people who have a plethora of "tricks" and skills they've amassed in their days on this planet. For example, I knew a guy in high school who played a slew of instruments, yet none of them were normal. He played that Irish drum/stick thing, recorder, Digeridoo (sp), and ocarina. He also was a black belt in karate and spoke fluent Spanish, though he was the whitest, dumbest kid I knew.
Good friend. Terrible with women.
So here is what I'd like to ask. What skills do you have that are not "run of the mill". While I don't mean physical oddities like, "My arms can bend this way" stuff, but rather what skills do you possess that not everyone has.
For me, since I took acting classes, I have the ability to change my dialect to numerous other ones including but not limited to French, Spanish, German, British, etc. I also can write in phonetics with no need for a reference.
What about you guys? Can anyone do anything crazy/interesting?
Good friend. Terrible with women.
So here is what I'd like to ask. What skills do you have that are not "run of the mill". While I don't mean physical oddities like, "My arms can bend this way" stuff, but rather what skills do you possess that not everyone has.
For me, since I took acting classes, I have the ability to change my dialect to numerous other ones including but not limited to French, Spanish, German, British, etc. I also can write in phonetics with no need for a reference.
What about you guys? Can anyone do anything crazy/interesting?
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Requires a bit of dexterity, but the end result is totally worth it.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
The Bodhran?
As a product of my boredom in middleschool, I can play songs by striking many various parts of my face (or a pen held in my teeth) and changing the shape of my mouth. A friend also taught me how to make incredibly loud percussive sounds by clapping your hands just so in front of your mouth. It reverberates really well in movie theater parking lots.
I'm working on learning how to throat sing. I'm not terribly good at it yet, but I can weird people out in bathrooms, or rooms with humming machinery as they try to figure out where the buzzy whining sound is coming from.
Weaksauce.
OOh I can do a crane too! And a square box, and a twelve-pointed star. What's a chevron fold?
I can jump from my shoulders to my feet, I think it's called a kipup.
I can, holding my left foot in my left hand, lower my knee to the ground, and stand back up. (Try it, it's tough. Can't do the lifting with my left leg, currently)
I can do a bunch of things from 11 years of karate, kicking the tops of doorframes seems to impress people.
I can play just about any melody by clucking my tongue, with a somewhat limited range of pitch. Can't whistle, though.
I've done a bit of overtone singing.
I have a fantastic, but very simple, magic trick, which impresses every time.
I can do that thing where you bend your arm back on itself horizontally, so my hand's palm-up on my shoulder, then stack coins up its entire length, and in one motion drop and catch them all.
It's called a Tam Tui. It's not too bad, just a little balance and a lot of muscle.
Edit, do you mean holding your left foot in front or behind you bent?
Years of osteopathic treatments and biofeedback training have given me some kind of sixth sense with regard to trouble spots. I can just lightly touch someone's back with my fingertips until something in my head goes *ding* and then go from there. Frankly I have no idea why or how what I do seems to make such a big difference, but people claim that I can fix everything from headaches to nausea to blocked sinuses. I'm like magic acupressure man.
What's really fun is doing it to people who think I'm full of shit, and then suddenly I find some spot that makes their foot stop hurting or whatever. Sometimes I wonder if I should take a course or something.
Behind, bent. I don't even know how it would work, otherwise.
And yeah guys, be careful. I always forget to say that.
The worst was when a girl tried to duplicate my jump-over-the-leg trick, and kneed herself in the boob.
Did you offer a massage?
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Nope.
Reason 1: Had a girlfriend at the time.
Reason 2: Never really been the type to do that sort of thing. Always afraid of coming off creepy.
Reason 3: She almost certainly would have kicked my ass.
*whap whap whap*
There, I just cured your scoliosis.
Or was that the five-point palm exploding heart technique? I always get those confused.
This.
I'm working on learning the harmonica, though. I can almost do the fanfare from Star Wars.
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Heh.
"It's a great trick, but I can only do it once!"
One summer when I was painting dorms, we found a bunch of tennis balls in one of them. One of the guys I worked with said, "Hey look guys! I can juggle." He picked up 3 balls, and proceeded to juggle them for a few seconds. We go "Neat, when'd you learn that?"
He goes, "Just now. Seriously. I've never juggled in my life. That was supposed to be a joke. I'm kind of freaked out."
He spent the rest of the summer actually learning juggling.
You could hear them.
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I actually taught myself how to do this, though I can't say they were ever audible. Are you sure she wasn't a robot?
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Yeah, I can kick myself in the head, too- I just checked.
Both at the same time, though? Kinda reminds me of a dutch jump.
I only ever tried it a few of tries, once was on a trampoline, one I landed on a couch and once I was really pissed and actually landed it.
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Does that count?