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Unscrambling jumbled words. I can usually do 5-letter ones at a glance, and 6-letters in a few seconds.
Pub trivia contests?
God forbid we have a piece of our lives that isn’t monetized for the grind.
Well hey, if you you can monetize it YouTube will just demonetize it without warning for no reason anyway.
My father was frustratingly difficult to watch movies with, because of this exact thing. He would pause the movie to explain that the actor on screen had been in some other obscure movie a decade ago. It was especially bad if two actors had previously worked in the same project, because then he would start listing off other cast and crew they had worked with in the past.
Okay, great, please press Play. I just want to watch the goddamned movie.
lmao My friends and I do this, but we do not pause the movie. We can keep track of what is happening, give obscure info, tell jokes, even, if it’s necessary, we do pause the movie to go to youtube to watch some video because someone remembered see some similar scene or something. Maybe that is our useless skill
I think you might have a very useful skill of actually finding good, compatible friends.
My wife and daughter do this a lot, but their version is to quietly look up the actors and then announce their results during a lull, so it works out fine. I just do it in my head so I’m like yeah I know, she was also in whatever with Val Kilmer.
My boring super power isn’t something I can monetize, but it’s useful regularly: being able to pick the best sized Tupperware container to put leftovers in.
now find the lid
Heh, my wife went through the drawer a few years ago and threw away all the containers that didn’t have lids, and lids without containers. I was amazed at how many there were. Not sure how that happens. Must be with the missing socks.
that’s on the fly volume calculation. very useful for when you have to pack a truck.
also helps if you have some Tetris experience. so def monetizeableFunny, I just had to help someone pack a house into one of those POD things and they ended up saying, “You’re better at this, you say what goes where.”
I don’t think I’m as good at it with really large volumes, but the storage container thing is pretty handy.
I’d like that skill!
The actor who played Oscar in The Office also was in The Italian Job (Marc Walberg, Charlize Theron). He was the security guard for the rich guy (Edward Norton) and said maybe two lines while checking ID.
The guy from Reno 911! and Curb Your Enthusiasm!? Holy shit, he really ended up doing alright for himself.
My wife has your skill. I hold that skill to be of no value whatsoever.
I wonder if OP is faceblind and has slight recognition but not completely.
It used to be Simpsons quotes. But now it’s been so long that I’ve forgotten most.
I can shitpost
No completely true. You can win gift cards at bar trivia.
I know this because, in college, I had to take Greek mythology to get an engineering degree. I can honestly say I’ve never used the Greek mythology knowledge anywhere but bar trivia.
There have been few things in my life more satisfying than being in a room full of generally smart, knowledgeable people, and being the only one who knows the answer to a trivia question. It’s happened a few times in my life, and usually it’s about mythology.
One time while scoring the round, the quizmaster was asking the questions aloud and letting the crowd shout back the correct answers. When it came to the Greek mythology question I was the only one who shouted, “Tartarus!” Someone in the back of the room shouted, “Nerd!” Later in the round he found me and apologized, but it didn’t bother me.
For my first baby shower we hired our quizmaster to host trivia. In the interest of fairness, our six person team was split across three of the teams. It ended in a three-way tie, and the tiebreaker was the name of Odin’s horse. It was Sleipnir, which means “Slippy”. Slippy the eight-legged horse. That one was especially satisfying.
mythology… isn’t that a horse with 4 legs and 2 arms (the almighty centaur)?
I think you could get more creative with your language, with that knowledge. If nothing else, reading the Bible (or catching the cliffs notes) and getting a firm understanding of ‘The Classics’ gives you an immense wealth of phrases and references to help illustrate your point that are so ingrained in Western culture and media that you’re likely to strike more points with it than without.
I’m still making my way through that herculean effort, that sisyphusian task. I struggled like Odysseus returning home to get through the Bible the first time, but once you get through all the parables and their Lot, there are some really interesting stories that make for easy metaphors and similes.
because stories they are… lest you believe they’re history events
And metaphors are useful because it makes language a bit more digestible and accessible to people who understand those metaphors.
IMDB used to have an amazing cross-search. You could put any combination of actor, crew, movie/show title and it would bring out common movies/shows.
That sounds like it would be a pretty simple program to create a replacement for if IMDb’s data is scrapeable, but I don’t know anything about programming
I’m sure some AI cuck will steal that idea and act like he’s god for creating it with vibe coding.
It used to have amazing discussion forums as well, fuck you amazon
amazun, IMDB… what do they have in common?
One owns the other, less see if you can figure out who’s the owner
That sounds cool I wonder why they stopped it
I’m guessing Amazon bought them and dicked everything up.
Guessing, I have no idea if that’s true but it would add up.
I can say the alphabet backwards, really fast. I also know all the digits of pi in ascending order
i once was asked to recite the alphabet backwards for a dui stop. after the pig wanted to breathalyze me first and I told him "don’t we have to do a little song and dance? (walk in a straight line).
been practicing ever since.wait… ALL the digits? fucking mastermind over here
I dated a girl who could recite pi to a hundred places.
Ascending order? So like, 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9?
No, like 0 0 0 0 0 … 1 1 1 1 1 … 2 2 2 2 …
and I forget the rest, but I’m pretty sure I know the last digit
That is the joke, yes.
Yeah, well I know all the digits of pi in base pi
You almost got me there 😆
woah
I know we’re all here for the LOLs, but just a quick reminder: it’s ok to enjoy things without being able to monetize them.
Very wise.
Do you have a Patreon?Especially when that skill is “remember a face.”
In this economy?!
My bills have bills to pay!
While of course it is, also if you have natural talent for something and enjoy it then monitizing it means you you might be able to do a job you enjoy.
I’m terrible at this. [It’s maybe because I watch my shows in black and white due to a cognitive processing disability].
