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Dumb skills/talents most people have but you don't

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by subtomic, Sep 1, 2004.

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  1. Stack24

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    what's your changeup at?
     
  2. m_cable

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    When you're packing heat like that, you don't need not steenking changeup.
     
  3. Stack24

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    Dude you got to have at least a 16mph slider to compensate...have you been working with the big Unit.

    On another note i used to love those things at astroworld where it would measure your speed pitching.

    It was great to see grown men try their hearts out and through like 30 miles and hour then you would see this little leaguer come up and smoke him with a 60mph pitch....loved it..
     
  4. francis 4 prez

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    my ability to time commercials during rockets games is legendary. i can flip around and have even forgot about the game and inevitably my mind will all of a sudden think of the game and i'll flip back just as they are coming back from commercial. i'm good at normal tv commercials (my sister always wants me to turn it back too quickly and i have to convince her they're still going) but on rockets commercials i just have the gift.


    i can't whistle for crap. if i wet my lips a lot and form them just perfectly i can get a monotone whistle to come out eventually. but playing around with the whistle, doing it to a song, i can't even begin to do. and God forbid i ever have to do that real loud whistle where you put your fingers in your mouth. no clue there.


    also, like someone else mentioned, i can't spread my fingers well. like when i try to form a gun with my hand, i can't bend my fingers all the way in while keeping the pointer finger straight. on that note, if i clench my left fist real quick, my right middle finger flinches no matter what. it's very weird.


    edit: oh and i may very well be the worst person ever when it comes to finding my way around places. saying go north or west means nothing to me. i literally have to look at the sun and figure out which direction it must be at right now then think about the directions for a while to know what someone is talking about. and remembering street names and such i'm just terrible at. tell me to turn at the light by walmart or something because the street name will mean nothing.
     
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  5. m_cable

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    My advice: Take off the Chinese Finger Cuffs.
     
  6. moestavern19

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    I never learned how to roller skate, I failed many times and never tried again, same with rollerblades.
     
  7. m_cable

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    That reminds me. I don't know how to ride a bike. It's pretty embarrassing. My parents bought me a bike when I was a kid but I was never able to get my training wheels off. Although the fact that my parents didn't even try teaching me didn't help matters. I mean seriously. How many 8 year olds can learn to ride a bike by themselves (And if you did do this, try not to rub it in. A patronizing pat on the head and a, "Poor Baby" will do).
     
  8. moestavern19

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    haha wow dude you're a ****ing loser. :D
     
  9. Sane

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    I have to inhale, rather than exhale, when I whistle.

    I can and have played any and all sports, but I can't do tennis. I can play squash. But I just can't frikkin' play tennis.
     
  10. m_cable

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    Tsk, tsk Moe. I would have thought you would be more on the ball than that. I throw a softie like that and it goes straight over your head.

    :Shakes head in disappointment:
     
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    Oh, So you can't throw a baseball either.

    :(
     
  12. m_cable

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    Ouch. I fell right into your trap of "luring me into a mixed metaphored baseball referance that ties in perfectly with a bunch of posts earlier in this thread." I've been skooled, or pawned, or repode or whatever it's called nowadays. I bow down.

    Now if you'll excuse me, I have some rollerskating I have to do.
     
  13. moestavern19

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    If I had a nickel for everytime i've gotten someone to fall for that one....






    hmmmm you know what...







    Pull my finger.
     
  14. meggoleggo

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    I can do just about everything anyone has mentioned.

    Some of the things I can't do - any athletic activities whatsoever, stand completely straight, or sleep for more than an hour and a half without getting horrible pains in my hip.
     
  15. moestavern19

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    Geez, is he really that desperate now.
     
  16. red

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    i loath you damn whistlers...
     
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    HA HA moe. DT and I don't live together, and when he is around we rarely, if ever, occupy the same bed.
     
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    I do the same thing. I'm getting better but I still catch myself doing it from time to time.
     
  19. arkoe

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    That would explain your nick.
     
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    I used to be quite good at whistling. I once whistled the entire 'My Grandfather's Clock' on stage during a school performance.

    But, I suck at parallel parking, finding my way in a new surrounding, and bargaining.
     

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