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I’m good at navigating places, but GPS has made it a less useful skill.
It’ll be hugely useful in a post apocalyptic world though
Pub trivia contests?
That’s a fun skill! You’re also clearly good at picking usernames
Thank you! I like making up usernames, and on reddit used to abandon them when I got tired of them. Past ones include HeebieMcJeeberson, MadJackMcMadd and AmiableBowelSyndrome. This was also a way to keep zeroing my karma so I didn’t feel so addicted to reddit. I really like not having a cumulative Lemmy score.
This one’s definitely my favourite. A great thing with lemmy is you can change instances and change your name whenever you fancy it! I look forward to seeing your future costume changes.
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.
Ah shit. I do this and I just assumed my kids were cool with it. Thank you for being the mirror I didn’t know I needed.
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
Yeah you try this with me and I’ll definitely pause the movie until y’all be quiet unless it’s a trash fire type watch
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.
There are certain TV shows where you could spend the whole time figuring out who used to be in what - in the 80s Murder She Wrote featured just about every middle-tier actor from the 60s or 70s. Before that they were on The Love Boat. Seems like there must be a modern show full of 90s through 2010s actors but I don’t know what it would be. Hey, there’s Topanga!
God forbid we have a piece of our lives that isn’t monetized for the grind.
Well hey, if you monetize it whatever service you monetize on will just demonetize it without warning for no reason anyway.
Why anyone would even start a YouTube channel right now is beyond me. Unless you’re planning to go full Louis Rossman and DGAF.
Unscrambling jumbled words. I can usually do 5-letter ones at a glance, and 6-letters in a few seconds.
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.
conspiracy!
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.
It used to be Simpsons quotes. But now it’s been so long that I’ve forgotten most.
Hmmm your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
dental plan
If we give up our dental plan… I’ll have to pay for Lisa’s braces!
I wonder if OP is faceblind and has slight recognition but not completely.
My wife has your skill. I hold that skill to be of no value whatsoever.
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.
Reminds me of a story of a friend of mine… She did her undergrad and masters in classics and archaeology. As part of her studies she participated in a summer dig on the island of Cyprus. She spent the summer working on remote archaeological sites in the rural countryside.
Well one day she needed to go into town for something. She goes in to the only store in town, a tiny little grocery store. She finds what she’s looking for then goes to check out. Suddenly, with horror, she realizes, “wait, I don’t know how to talk to this guy. I can’t speak modern Greek.”
So she attempts the next best thing. She tries to talk to the shopkeeper…in ancient Greek. She tried to have a random conversation with someone in ancient Greek in modern Cyprus.
The shopkeeper looks at her like she has two heads, pauses for a moment, and says, in English, “lady, no one has talked like that here for two thousand years!”
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)?
Sleipnir isn’t a centaur. It’s a horse with eight legs.
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.
And metaphors are useful because it makes language a bit more digestible and accessible to people who understand those metaphors.
because stories they are… lest you believe they’re history events
I can shitpost
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 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?In this economy?!
My bills have bills to pay!
Especially when that skill is “remember a face.”
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 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
