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Hi Pandas, what random skills do you have, but no longer need?
I can marshal aircraft (worked with tiny planes all the way up to 747), but I don't work in aviation any more.
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#1
I can do formal logic, but since nothing makes sense in this world, I rarely need it.
Final score:
43points
#2
I have really good memory for random facts or anecdotes. Want to know the code names of all operations of WW2? Got them. Name of the lookout that spotted the iceberg on the Titanic? Know it. Number of cannons aboard HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar? Yep. Mozart's stage directions for Don Giovanni? Sure.
But... What's the name of the coworker I have known for almost a year or where did I leave my keys? No clue...
Final score:
41points
#3
I can recognize any song from listening to it for a few seconds and remember all the lyrics in one listen. It’s pretty dumb but its good for one person karaoke at 2am.
Final score:
37points
#4
I can make a duck call and tap dance, not necessarily separately.
Final score:
23points
#5
I can put my foot behind my head, and make a Donald duck impression
Final score:
22points
#6
i know 4 languages, but majority of time using only English... sometimes another one but that's that :( my grandpa used to know 5, but due to not having anyone to talk to - he forgot. Afraid same will happen to me after years.
Final score:
22points
#7
I can snap with my toes. I don't know how, but we're talking a full on snapping noise.
Final score:
22points
#8
I can flare/ wiggle my nostrils at will. Besides an occasional "Hey guess what I can do" moment it has no use.
Final score:
21points
#9
Not me, my husband. He can waggle both eyebrows separately. Total wave action. Our kids are very jealous.
Final score:
21points
#10
Due to a past life where I wanted to be a star of the theater, I can sing about 25 different Broadway musicals start to finish from memory. I am not in the theater. I do have the nerdy reputation for having a song for every situation though. Not to mention, my 5 year old thinks I am an improvisational queen!
Final score:
20points
#11
The ability to fall asleep at work without anyone noticing.
Final score:
18points
#12
I'm very creative with snarky sarcasm. No longer need it because I pi$$ed off all my friends and family with it. Oops
Final score:
18points
#13
All the math I learned in highschool. I've never come across a problem in life where I was like "You know what I need? Trigonometry!"
Final score:
18points
#14
rifle iron sights shooting. i'm pretty gifted at that. but as i'm vegan it's actually totally useless
Final score:
17points
#15
I served in the US Marines..I can put one helluva spit shine on a pair of combat boots.
Final score:
16points
#16
I have hypervigilance causing my brain to listen to every conversation in the room unwillingly.
Final score:
14points
#17
I can roll up hills. You know how you get into a "mummy" position and roll down a hill, usually angling off to the side a little? One day, for whatever reason, I decided to see if I could roll uphill. To my surprise (and everyone else's), I could. It's easier than it sounds.
Final score:
13points
#18
I'm very flexible especially my fingers but it's not very useful in daily life. Just a fun party trick.
Final score:
12points
#19
Can suck my lip so far back in my face you can see bone structures
Final score:
12points
#20
I can write upside down, and backwards, in cursive.
Final score:
12points
#21
I can clap with one hand. The sound of one hand clapping is clapping not silence. Sometimes people who think they are clever need to be one upped.
Final score:
11points
#22
The ability to make myself nauseous.
I earned this skill when I was deep in my ed. really don’t need it now but I can’t get rid of it :(
Final score:
11points
#23
I can p**s off a lot. of people online by having a different point of view or opinion. Don't know how I got it, just developed it.
Final score:
11points
#24
I can do a full range of very realistic cat vocalizations.
Final score:
11points
#25
I can tie a cherry stalk into a knot in my mouth
Final score:
10points
#26
I learned to manually space letters for signs, posters and such. Then computers took over...
Final score:
10points
#27
I can remember the most uncommon and obscure movie quotes. Even movies I haven't seen in years. Ill be having a conversation with someone, they'll say something, that triggers my movie roledex, pulls out movie x, and I quote a line from that movie. Happens in an instant. People are amazed sometimes but is it "useful?" Nahhh bruhhh.
Final score:
10points
#28
I have perfect pitch, but it is nearly useless.
Final score:
9points
#29
I can train cats - to come on call, walk through an obstruction course, high five, wave, ride a skateboard etc., - but since I've had my spleen removed I'm in danger of getting seriously ill if I get bitten or scratched by an animal.
Final score:
9points
#30
I can bark like a dog. Like really well. It causes the dogs in the vicinity to start barking. Only useful for a lot of noise
Final score:
9points
#31
Procrastination. I g t so good at it by not doing anything else.
Final score:
9points
#32
I can whistle with my mouth open. Because I can whistle like that, I can do a perfect cricket impression... I just vibrate my lips and it sounds exactly like a cricket. Yup it's useless.
Final score:
9points
#33
if I know anyone's name, even years later I can still remember their name
Final score:
9points
#34
I can program in BASIC on punch cards OR paper tape!
Final score:
9points
#36
I can weld razor blades together edge to edge. I learned that after welding together soda cans got to easy. I weld every day for work but I do structural welding and lift fixtures.
Final score:
8points
#37
Not a skill but I can win Uno everytime. I have great intuition.
Final score:
8points
#38
I have relative pitch, and it does come in handy sometimes during orchestra and violin lessons, but literally any other time it's completely useless
Final score:
8points
#39
i can bring my left elbow to the right side of my head behind my back and vice versa. this only has use in shocking and disgusting people. one guy legit turned away and gagged immediately. everyone else jist froze and said " what the F**K"
Final score:
8points
#40
I'm a credit counselor, but live on a fixed income, so that's useless.
I know a lot of about chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons, but since I'm retired, no one calls on me for any information on that...
Final score:
8points
#41
I can sing “Ten Green Bottles” in Latin! I’m a must at parties!
Final score:
8points
#42
I can vibrate my eyeballs voluntarily. Like, not shake them. Literally VIBRATE my actual eyeballs. Google it if you don't believe me. I can also fold my thumb behind my hand.
Final score:
8points
#43
Long division. Not useful at all, even though my math teacher always told me that i would need it.😭
Final score:
8points
#44
I can recite the alphabet backwards and I randomly diagram sentences for fun.
Final score:
8points
#45
I recognize actors/actresses voices if they were in Star Trek, even if it's one episode with full prosthetics.
Final score:
7points
#46
I know fourteen different ways to hit you with a stick. Actually a honbo, from studying Ninjutsu, but still....
Final score:
7points
#48
I can cuss in three languages, French, English, and German
Final score:
7points
#49
I can operate one of those old-timey peg and wire switchboards that phone operators used about a thousand years ago. :-)
Final score:
7points
#50
I'm obsessed with medical diagnostics, but I'm looking into careers in nursing. Hope I get to do something with that, though :)
Final score:
6points
#51
i can see and count all of my ribs without breathing in. i’m 13
Final score:
6points
#52
I can only draw Alastor from hazbin hotel
Final score:
6points
#53
I can associate almost any word with song
Final score:
6points
#54
I love making maps! I will pull up google maps or google earth and make a complex map. Sadly, there isn’t really jobs for mapmaking as most of the world is mapped already.
Final score:
6points
#56
I can make farting sounds with only my hands! In person, I'm also pretty decent at making people believe absolute rubbish
Final score:
6points
#57
My master's degree. I've never worked a single day in my field.
Final score:
6points
#58
I can…
Tell when people are lying (extremely easily)
Do a good impression of Shrek
Bend the tips of my thumbs backwards, not my force, they just bend that way
Identify all my local birds and most common garden plants and trees
Final score:
6points
#59
I can identify any movie just watching 10 seconds, also if you Humm a song to me I can pinpoint the movie and find the lirics with Google or Shazam (hyperfocus who?)
Final score:
5points
#60
My ability to ignore pain longer than my siblings. They complain and I'm like "suck it up buttercup" even though I'm going through the same thing. I just tend to say "I've been through worse" and shrug it. Like one time I got stung by a bee in a pool and kept swimming the I noticed something was not right (like a pinching sore feeling) and so I went to the shallow end and the adult pointed out a stinger in my shoulder.
Final score:
5points
#61
Give me three descriptive words, I'll create a character for it. Then I'll make a whole universe, storyline and other related characters to join them. reasonably useful for, say, an author, but I'm not an author. Also this one is genuinely useless, if someone gives me a number i can probably tell you what SCP has that exact number and give you a rundown of what they do. And if I can't I'll go look it up and I'll know everything about it next time somebody asks me.
Final score:
5points
#62
I can bend my knee up to the point where if I bend it backwards far enough I can touch my armpit with my toes. Sounds gross but it's kinda cool to me lol
Final score:
5points
#63
I'm a teen and I can over complicate things and work technology from the 60s-90s.
Final score:
5points
#64
I can learn the basics of any instrument in about 2 hours but I never get a chance to use it):
Final score:
5points
#65
If you give me any word, I can almost always burst into a song based on that word. I’ll prove it if you want. :)
Final score:
5points
#66
I am wicked fast and can run 15 miles without stopping .never use except for pleasure
Final score:
5points
#67
Can lay out a defensive position and call in artillery. Not much use for it hereabouts lately :P
Final score:
5points
#68
I am amazing at remembering anything that goes to a melody, along with song title, and the artist’s name.
Final score:
5points
#69
I am a caring person, considrate, hard-working and creative.
I take a stand and have an opinion .
Not wantend by employers.
Final score:
5points
#70
I taught myself to juggle about thirty years ago. I can still do it when I'm steady enough on my feet to stand like that.
Final score:
4points
#71
I have more control than everyone I have ever met over my face muscles, it has no use except impressing people sometimes
Final score:
4points
#73
I don't know if that's a skill, but I'm a very calm and nonjudgmental person. I always say only two things get on my nerves: if someone messes with my dogs or if someone cuts in front of me when I'm in line for a concert. I can listen to any story, doesn't matter how shocking, with the same blank face, probably the reason strangers feel at ease talking to me. I was the star intern and had great reviews at uni when I was studying to be a psychologist.
Final score:
4points
#74
i can jump really high, which is only useful when my tall cousin is being irritating lol
Final score:
4points
#75
With the power of toe grip I can open a door with my foot.
Final score:
4points
#76
Cooking. I'm not really good, but I'm perfectly adequate. I've always hated it and pretty much avoid all but minor tasks.
Final score:
4points
#78
I can remember really random details that will never be needed in a conversation or easy or anything really.
Final score:
4points
#79
I'm double jointed in both my fingers and my toes, to the point where I can bend them back so far you can see the bones (idk if it's possible but I think that I almost dislocated all of my fingers and toes).
Final score:
3points
#80
I can come up with dramatic and edgy monologues and quotes as well as describing a scene graphically.
Final score:
3points
#82
No matter the brand or number of items, I will ALWAYS find the chocolate praline with the gooey pink filling. I hate that.
Final score:
3points
#83
I can sing embarrassingly well but I'm self-conscious and cherish my anonymity. Even my fella doesn't know how well I can sing. I don't think I'll ever make money from it and I would never sing in public. I would shake with nerves but when I have free time, with the windows closed so the neighbours can't hear me, I go...to town!
Final score:
3points
#84
I took photography during my last semester in college, so now I can develop film and make photo prints. Problem is, I no longer have access to the campus darkroom, any of the materials, or chemicals. Shame too, seeing as I was apparently the stand out student and often used as the example for well made prints. Besides, in a world of digital photography, who's going to justify paying $10 for one roll of black and white film?
Final score:
3points
#85
I can balance a glass half filled with liquid tilted on an angle on a dime.
Final score:
3points
#86
Making angry responses. This is almost ended a few relationships. Getting better at restraining it though!
Final score:
2points
#87
Crushing on a boy (often times actors) 2.8 seconds after I first see them.
Help.
Final score:
2points
#88
I’m really good at sneaking around for no reason and if you make me angry because you don’t believe me about something that I know is correct or wrong I will research it and write a full essay with all sources cited
Final score:
2points
#89
Can imitate pig's grunts astonishingly realistic by inhaling through nose and vibrating my soft palate. Only came in handy once when teaching animal sounds to a 2 year old
Final score:
2points
#91
I can put a piece of watermelon in my mouth and spit out the seeds at once
Final score:
2points
#92
I used to be a body piercing artist. Very useless skills outside of a shop.
Final score:
2points
#94
I can read upside down. There are so few opportunities for this to come up in conversation. And people just aren’t that impressed, sigh
Final score:
2points
#96
My friend can move each eye separately. Freaks everyone out.
Final score:
2points
#99
I can milk a cow. Not something I need to know since my parents sold the cows and retired 15 years ago. I can also do many other things usually done on farms. Kind of uneseccary as an accountant.
Final score:
2points
#100
I can write in cursive upside down, backwards, left handed and read upside down with ease.
Final score:
2points
#101
I live in Japan and can, most of the time, estimate the approximate epicentre and magnitude of earthquakes I feel.
Final score:
2points
#102
I have long toes that I can move like fingers and so I am able to use my feet as another pair of hands. Unfortunately, I am requited to wear shoes at work, and so it doesn't help me there. But this skill is very helpful when I am doing DIY projects at home. Have you ever been trying to do something and felt that you needed a third hand? I have a third and fourth.
Final score:
2points
#103
I know the ABC. My pupils asked me, why they need to learn the order and I genuinely couldn't find an example. Damn you Google.
Final score:
1point
#104
I can make a clover with my tongue and move something in my arm to make weird noises (not sure what exactly or why, it just happens). Not useful at all, but they're neat tricks.
Final score:
1point
#105
I can make my friend mad at me in one second. It only works on that one friend tough.
Final score:
1point
#106
Common sense and a 3 digit IQ. It makes your life more difficult nowdays....
Final score:
1point
#108
Only *occasionally* useful: I don't have a gag reflex and I can swallow with my mouth open...
Final score:
1point
#109
I can contort my fingers into all sorts of shapes, without pain or feeling.
Final score:
1point
#111
I can click my nose. If you don’t understand I can make a clicking sound with my nose
Final score:
1point
#114
I can meow like a cat, bark like a puppy, and bark like a dog. All very realistic. Once I meowed at lunch and everybody thought there was a cat inside. I can also do cloverleaf tongue, bend one section of my middle finger, and put my fingers one after the other in both ways. All of these are useless but they are pretty cool to me!
Final score:
1point
#115
I can look at any nut or bolt and know the exact mm socket I need. It’s a skill I’ve had most of my life but I didn’t work with cars until a few years back when I started vinyl work so I don’t know where I picked it up. It’s not a completely useless skill but it isn’t really useful either. Lol. And I can wiggle my nose. Maybe I should be the Easter bunny for kids. :) that would be somethin. Bipolar Easter bunny? Yes please! Otherwise the nose wiggle is just here to weird out the dog and cats!
Final score:
1point
#116
I can come up with terrible, groan-inducing, dad-level puns basically on the spot. My friends are all sick of them so I've been asked not to do it anymore, but maybe I could have a career writing kids' joke books or punny valentine cards.
Final score:
1point
#117
I remember addresses very easily and can give the address of every place I stayed plus all my friends current and past addresses. I also remember the layout of houses and buildings years after. So I can walk into a place I have not been to in years and instantly know where everything is. Don't ask me to remember names of people though or recognise people, that I am hopeless at.
Final score:
1point
#118
I can name a gun's caliber with a quick glance, bout it lol
Final score:
1point
#119
I can recognize a movie I've seen just by hearing a few seconds of music, or dialogue. Annoys my sister because I still like to confirm it, and she has said, "if you know what it is why are you asking?!"
Final score:
1point
#120
I can sing (cluck?) any song like I'm a chicken. Not that this is really a SKILL because I'm sure it's something anyone can do. WHY someone would want to do it is a whole 'nother question! But it's something I find MYSELF doing almost unconsciously, especially when the song fits the style. (The theme song to Star Trek is a perfect example of a song that fits the style! LOL!)
I can also tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue!
Neither of these are useful in any way!
Final score:
1point
#122
I have an innate sense of when grilled cheeses are done.
Final score:
1point
#123
I can clean and sterilize surgical instruments. I was a processing technician for 5 years and know hundreds of surgical instruments and their proper methods of cleaning and sterilization, but I don't do that anymore so it's just a bunch of useless information hanging out in my brain. It's not often I get to explain the proper use of glutaraldehyde..
Final score:
1point
#124
double jointed, and can bend my arms in the wrong direction. useless, but can freak people out.
Final score:
1point
#125
My battle with Breast cancer started 4 years ago, after so many Chemo, Radiation and other natural therapy treatments that I took just to cure my Breast cancer, it all did not work for my condition. I was treating this disease for almost 4 year, I was cured with World Rehabilitate Clinic formula. This is medication that totally kills cancer cells. They also have a cure for hysterectomy issues, Alzheimer's Disease and more other chronic diseases. Contact ( worldrehabilitateclinic.com or WhatsApp +17278553511.
Final score:
1point
#126
Former combat engineer & armorer, USMC. 30 minutes in Home Depot then a couple of hours at home in my shop, and I can walk out with a couple of functioning 12 guage boom sticks and enough exolosives and associated pyrotechnics to take out my cul-de-sac.
Final score:
0points
#130
I can name the General for Carthage during the Punic Wars.
Final score:
0points
#131
everything from P.E, also microsoft access, science of sports equipment, drama class, religious education
social studies, we mostly did trust games
we used to learn humanities but they stopped teaching us that after a year, i cant even remember what that subject even is
and geography was useless too, all the teacher wanted us to learn about was Zimbabwe because she liked the place
Final score:
0points
#134
I got my Masters in Clinical Social Work, with a 4.0 average, a few years ago. I was in my early 60's, and not one agency within 4 states, would even give me a job interview. They all required me to reveal when I got my first college degree and that 1970's date sent my app straight to the black hole. There is a desperate need for therapists in this country but age discrimination is much stronger than the public interest. Many older adults are in a similar position and their years of skills are being wasted due to stereotyping and other factors. There is almost no enforceable legal remedy for this form of discrimination.
Final score:
0points
#135
I’m ambidextrous, which in itself can be sorta useful: It doesn’t matter whether the mouse is or left or right side of the keyboard for example, and back when I worked as a teacher kids found it funny that I started writing with my left hand and continued with the right on the chalkboard. Anyway, as the world is mainly set up for right-handed people, I quietly pretend being one myself, as well.
Final score:
0points
#136
I can be calm in chaos. It's definitely a useful talent these days.
Final score:
0points
#137
I can tie a cherry stem with my tongue, but, alas, I'm not sexy.
Final score:
0points
#138
In Monster’s Inc. Boo would always say “Mike Wazowski” in her toddler voice and I can do the impression perfectly.
Final score:
0points
#139
I play the flute, but haven’t touched it since this one time at band camp.
Final score:
0points
#142
I can turn my eyelids inside out- freaks the hell out anyone who asks to see it, but it's never used in life!
Final score:
0points
#143
I developed a system for writing coded messages with a friend of mine when we were 10. Still remember how it works, so I could write messages no one else understands. Not really useful
Final score:
0points
#144
I can identify famous paintings by artist, date, period and style!
Final score:
0points
#145
I can make this weird honking noise that others can't seem to mimic. I can also touch my elbows behind my back, and drop my ear to my shoulder.
Final score:
0points
#146
I can know a lot about WW2 tanks…but high school doesn’t really call for that
Final score:
0points
#147
Honesty. Unfortunately lying works better and I never learned how to do it convincingly.
Final score:
0points
#148
I can hold almost $10 worth of quarters in my collarbone indents (supraclavicular fossa) and walk around without dropping any but it gets uncomfortable with the tensing needed to hold them all.
Final score:
0points
#150
i can play drums. like, very good, after listening to any song.
AC/DC and Nirvana is the best to play drums to. (sorry if dissapoiting)
[sorry for my spelling too]
Final score:
-1point
#151
I am pretty good at driving a tractor. I have only tried it once
Final score:
-1point
What do you think ?
Janet Williams 2 years ago
Not knowing or explaining the reason why we need to know ABC order? Seriously? How about the library or Barnes & Noble, where books are kept in ABC order by author's name? Working in the medical field where patient charts are organized in ABC order. Filing papers in just about any office. Yes, we are going paper free these days, but all my client files are computerized and sorted by name. So still a necessary skill, not useless!
NicNor5560 2 years ago (edited)
I can belly dance. I use to BD when my colleagues and I were in a stressful time at work. They would start clapping and laughing and just go back to work with a lighter heart. It took less than 5 minutes and my job was done. I'm going to add that I have a really keen sense of smell. When my brother's GF mixed up all his herb garden after they dried, he called me over so I could undo the chaos in his kitchen: thyme, oregano, etc. She was shocked "you're just gonna go with what she says???" Yep he did. (her and I don't really like each other...).
Janet Williams 2 years ago
Not knowing or explaining the reason why we need to know ABC order? Seriously? How about the library or Barnes & Noble, where books are kept in ABC order by author's name? Working in the medical field where patient charts are organized in ABC order. Filing papers in just about any office. Yes, we are going paper free these days, but all my client files are computerized and sorted by name. So still a necessary skill, not useless!
NicNor5560 2 years ago (edited)
I can belly dance. I use to BD when my colleagues and I were in a stressful time at work. They would start clapping and laughing and just go back to work with a lighter heart. It took less than 5 minutes and my job was done. I'm going to add that I have a really keen sense of smell. When my brother's GF mixed up all his herb garden after they dried, he called me over so I could undo the chaos in his kitchen: thyme, oregano, etc. She was shocked "you're just gonna go with what she says???" Yep he did. (her and I don't really like each other...).
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