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aviona's avatar

Do you have a rare or hidden talent?

Asked by aviona (3260points) April 7th, 2009

Can you move your eyes independently or flip your eyelids inside out? What makes YOU special?

For example, I can roll my tongue (but I guess about half the population can do that). I can also roll my stomach and do this weird thing with my lips that looks like I’m pulling them up with a string. I can wiggle my ears, fit fist in my mouth, and almost lick my elbow.

Boy am I special!

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chyna's avatar

@aviona Scary is more the word I would’ve chosen.

cak's avatar

I can flip my eyelids inside out.

I can dance on Pointe – I didn’t learn until my 20’s, but I always wanted to be able to do it – I learned, and love it.

I can speak pig latin, quickly and say the alphabet backwards – really fast.

I can talk like Kermit the Frog and Marvin the Martin.

aviona's avatar

hahaha @chyna I guess when I think of talents I think of all the weird shit I can do with my body…

@cak : nice!

Jude's avatar

I can move my baby toes (and just the baby toes while the others are still) on each foot. According to my sister, it’s odd and most people can’t do it. <<shrugs>>

cak's avatar

@avionaah! I have one more! I can touch my tongue to my nose. I have no idea why I know this.

DrBill's avatar

I have a talent that most people (untruly) brag about, so no one would believe it anyway.

aviona's avatar

Please share, @DrBill!

cak's avatar

@DrBill -—Inquiring minds want to know!

Edited to add: @DrBill – if you are going to say that you are better at pig latin than I am, sorry buddy. I got you on this one!

Likeradar's avatar

I have freaky finger-toes. I can actually open a wallet and take out a card just using my feet.
And I can make my tongue into a clover, like rolling it 3 ways at once. It’s hard to describe… hum, can you link pictures on here? Oh… here. http://s733.photobucket.com/albums/ww336/Likeradar/?action=view&current=weirdtongue.jpg —not really sure why I felt the need to share :p—

aviona's avatar

@Likeradar, yes you can link pictures, but I totally know what you’re talking about!

DrBill's avatar

@aviona
@cak
Check for a PM

TheLoneMonk's avatar

I have pretty much, point on, gaydar. Rest assured American Public, I only use to for good!

casheroo's avatar

@DrBill i want to know too!

i don’t think i have one. i used to crack pretty much every joint in my body (all the ones i know about anyway lol) it would always gross people out.

gimmedat's avatar

@cak, I can make the baby toe on my right foot go over the next toe!! Oh yeah, let’s hear it for talented tooties!!

gimmedat's avatar

Oh, and I am ridiculously criminally-minded. I believe that I missed my true calling of being a member of a mafia. I don’t get to floss that talent often, but it’s there.

DrBill's avatar

@casheroo

PM has the answer your looking for…

…and I can crack a joint where there is not a joint, wrap your brain around that one.
it probably is what you’re thinking

eponymoushipster's avatar

i’m awesome and sexy. but it’s hard to tell because my personality is so wonderful.

asmonet's avatar

I can roll my tongue, play eyeball ping pong, roll and tuck my upper lip under my nose w/o assistance…it’s hard to describe, wiggle my ears, move my eyebrows independently and set them to pretty much any music, pat my head and rub my tummy, I’m ‘double jointed’ everywhere, I can fold my eyelids, pop my jaw, put my feet behind my head, do finger origami, wiggle my pinky toes and move my other toes independently, and touch my tongue to my nose. Oh, and at camp I learned how to ride a unicycle.

I can do Elvis and Tim Curry voices, as well as a passable Sean Connery. I cannot however impersonate a single woman that I know of. At all. If you ever hear me do any of these, consider it equivalent to finding proof of god. Demonstrations are impossibly rare.

I can bend all of my fingers, including my thumb BACKWARDS to touch the back of my arm. That’s not over the palm, folks – lest you be confused.

In conclusion, I did not have a TV for the majority of my childhood. This is what happens, parents, take note.

@cak: I can do marvin the Martian too! I love you.

@DrBill: I’m gonna need one of those messages.

asmonet's avatar

And I’m done bragging.

Bluefreedom's avatar

I see dead people.

casheroo's avatar

@asmonet this makes me lurve you even more.

asmonet's avatar

I could entertain your kid for hours. You know, provided I can’t find any jelly beans.

aviona's avatar

@asmonet did you type that in one breath? I feel like you did…

casheroo's avatar

you should move to PA! be my live in nanny

aviona's avatar

Hahaha! @casheroo I thought that comment was directed @DrBill after you got his PM…!

asmonet's avatar

@aviona: Yeah. :’(

My fingers is hurtin’.

jrpowell's avatar

Well asmo, I’m terribly confused. Part of me finds all that hawt. the other part is wondering what is wrong with the other part.

casheroo's avatar

@aviona LOL no! I have my husband for that ;)

asmonet's avatar

@casheroo: Only, and I mean only if on the days I look after the kid he’s dressed as a food or fluffy animal.

@johnpowell: lol4rl. You love it.

casheroo's avatar

@asmonet i’m pretty sure Cash needs this

aviona's avatar

@casheroo my exboyfriend was that for Halloween a couple years ago! He stole it from his job at Jamba Juice…a bigger version of course. He wore it to a school dance, too, he said. He lay on the ground and they spun him in a circle!

asmonet's avatar

@casheroo: I am not exaggerating when I say my breath was taken away, then I started choke laughing. Does that solidify things for you? Pretty sure?

Fuck that. Buy it.

El_Cadejo's avatar

May i direct your attention over this way

aviona's avatar

ohoh! I can also do this

(that’s not me, I just Google image searched it)

buster's avatar

I can witch water. I can hold a piece of L-shaped copper wire in each hand and walk around a house or street and the ends of the wires swing together when im directly over buried waterlines. It works everytime for me. Im not sure if i could find deeper water for a well because I never dug one.

La_chica_gomela's avatar

I have two and I love them!

Okay, no one really uses CD players anymore, but back when I did, I could set mine on the floor, and then control the buttons with my toes! It was awesome.

I can also peel an orange with the skin intact. I have a secret fear the most people could do this if they tried, but most people don’t try, so it’s all mine.

aviona's avatar

@La_chica_gomela I can do the orange thing too! Not to burst your bubble…

cak's avatar

@asmonetI am so in love with you! I cannot impersonate a single female, but I can impersonate males. I thought I was the only one.

@DrBillthat is a talent!

@gimmedat- had I not broke my toes, I could still do that, I bow to you! criminal mind, huh? I’m keeping that one on mental note!

asmonet's avatar

@aviona: Thank you, darling.

@cak: Win! High-fives!

Allie's avatar

I can do the taco tongue thing, too.
I can double cross my fingers (that’s crossing my pointer and middle fingers, and then crossing my pinkie and ring fingers) without any assistance from the other hand. I can do this for both the left and right hand.
Umm.. I don’t know what else. I guess I’m boring.

cak's avatar

@allie – you boring? No way. I can’t do the finger crossing thing, I look like I’m in pain.

ubersiren's avatar

@asmonet : I can do the thumb thing! My thumb bends back flat against my radius! Though, it’s getting stiffer with age…

I have a pretty good memory. I remember what month all of my elementary school classmates were born in.

Also, I’m a killer in the sack.

wundayatta's avatar

I’m so jealous. I have no idea why. These are stupid talents. But I want one. or more

chyna's avatar

@daloon You have that great cheek talent!

wundayatta's avatar

Anyone can step into the tattoo parlor. Still, I appreciate the effort.

cak's avatar

@daloon – unique, different, silly….not stupid. Marvin the Martian is not stupid. Please, the dude can annihilate the planet…do you think it’s wise to call Marvin the Martin, stupid? Stop talking out of your ass, man!

asmonet's avatar

@daloon: I ping pong is super easy. Maybe I’ll make a YouTube video and teach ya’ll how.

asmonet's avatar

@cak: Fuckin’ a.

Blondesjon's avatar

I have the uncanny ability to simultaneously piss off every single human being within a 50 foot radius of me.

i have to spend a good 4 or 5 hours drinking first

cak's avatar

@Blondesjonare you sure you aren’t my husband? That’s why he’s not big on drinking.

@asmonetClearly, someone doesn’t understand the danger of Marvin!

Zen's avatar

I can do many of the muppets, and the We are the World song, with all the original voices.

wundayatta's avatar

@cak: As you are wont to say, I spit out my coffee when I read your comment well, I would have, had I been drinking coffee.

Apparently, my childhood was flawed (ok, ok, that was proven long ago), and I have no idea who Marvin the Martian is. However, I am sure that the great pink slug in heaven can take him, with one foot tied behind it’s back.

cak's avatar

@ daloon – Marvin

He loves to say, “I’ve come to annihilate the planet Earth!” He’s very proper. Seemingly well educated, too. He’s just a kick-ass little guy.

wundayatta's avatar

We didn’t have TV when I was growing up. Warped me forever, I think.

cak's avatar

@daloon – I stopped watching tv, not too long after this phase. It’s never too late to appreciate Marvin, though.

wundayatta's avatar

I’ll see what I can do [<—-liar]

cak's avatar

^^^^chicken. You are afraid of Marvin. giggles

wundayatta's avatar

@cak [buuuck, buck, buck, buck!]

Dansedescygnes's avatar

Well, I can do a backflip like the one in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUBrg8fiXzk

I can also do a backflip off anything. Here’s a video of me: http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff293/Onnajanai/?action=view&current=FlipBW1.flv

Other than that, not much. There are some weird things about me like my synesthesia (I see single-digit numbers as having inherent color. 0 is white, 1 is black, 2 is yellow-orange, 3 is blue, etc.) I also see certain groups of numbers as forming pathways in space in mind, usually like a staircase.

aviona's avatar

@Dansedescygnes I kind of have a crush on you just because of that

Sorceren's avatar

Yes. But I can’t tell anyone about it. (It’s rare and hidden!)

28lorelei's avatar

I can bend back my thumb pretty far, and make my eyes vibrate. I also can tell you what key your car horn is in:)

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