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I can do a perfect cartoonish witch cackle. My friends love it lol.
I can also unhinge my left jaw like a snake. My jaw on that side is just flat on the top and bottom, so there's no actual joint. I was born like this and it's pretty painful, but seeing people get freaked out over me opening my mouth much more than it ought to is great.
You would be getting burned in the witch trials. Witch laugh + weird snake jaw and im convinced you probably are a witch
I can write entire sentences with my toes very easily. It’s a bit sloppy, but legible. However my toes cramp up quickly and I can’t perform all day. There goes my circus career.
Edit: with a pencil to be clear
I can write upside down pretty well. This once got me a job offer after I did all the example problems so they were upright for the interviewer.
I've freaked people out by being able to read upside down, so this is next level.
I can independently move my eyes.
It's become more difficult and painful to do as I get older though
Can you describe the vision you have when you did it? Always wonder what do chameleon see when they do that.
Kinda useless but I can remember numbers for a really long time. Still remember all the plate numbers of every car I've had or my parents had from 1990 to today. All the phone numbers and addresses I or my family or friends had from the same time range. Every debit card and bank account number I've had.
I'm terrible with names but great with numbers. Trade off, I guess.
I can burp at will. When my last partner revealed that burping excites them, it became a bit of a thing.
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'm capable of sleeping at any time, anywhere, on command. I don't usually let people watch me sleep
~$ sleep
Listen here you little shit, right after this nap I'm going to kick your ass
I can do metal screams pretty damn well, and have been practicing for 15 years. My car is really the only one that has ever really heard though 😅
I have an almost surreal intuition that scare people sometimes
I don't think this is actually much of a big deal, but I can tune a guitar by ear no matter how out of tune.
My uncle is a guitar afficionado, and we got into an argument when I said I could. He said you needed some kind of reference note or something like that. Wouldn't give up. So I grabbed a guitar, scrambled all the tuning and tuned it.
He bowed in awe, but I think he just never realized he's not as musically inclined as he'd like to be? Maybe it's not common, but I highly doubt it's impressively rare.....
I am a partial spirit level. I can be three rows away in the office and see someone has an object on screen that is 2mm out. Unfortunately I then struggle to focus.
As for house hunting it’s like curse looking about. It’s like I have to switch off all internal sensors.
My boss is like this. Having drawn and done arts and stuff I used to have a pretty decent visual level (before the glasses). At least I could wing it pretty good. But he could walk out, take one glance at something and immediately tell if anything isn't perfectly square.
Sometimes I would scoff and check with a measure but he was always right.
I remarked on it one time and he said it was more of a curse.
I can identify a pitch without any external reference, making it look like I have absolute pitch, but I don't. I'm just super fast at inferring pitches from memory. It was a real, useful, tangible talent/merit when I used to teach the shamisen and Western music theory, but now it just adds a little depth to when I listen to music.
iirc this is typically called quasi-perfect pitch; essentially it's relative pitch but a few reference pitches are memorized
Gleeking and blowing spit bubbles with my tongue. The spit bubbles float all on their own. It’s not like I’m drooling spit bubbles no, it’s a full on bubble floating. And in frozen air they’ll freeze too!
I can play Christmas carols by making farting noises with my hands.
Absolute pitch. Can spot a lie just by the sound of your voice. It makes relationships hell.
I want to see you test this. I had no idea that lies had different pitches
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.
I actually can do math pretty well. I just really, really hate it.
I can stick my pinky entirely inside my nose and expel air from my tear ducts, separately or simultaneously.
