What's your talent?

SimonAH
SimonAH Posts: 3,730
edited September 2011 in Commuting chat
My daughter asked me what my talent was the other day. An odd question I grant you (and presumably spurred by a collection of fairy stories in which each fairy has a particular talent) but it got me thinking, and it was a very hard question to answer.

I can do a lot of things to a reasonable level of competency, but what would I pick as something I was better at than anyone else I know? (Which would I guess, be the definition of ‘talent’). The only thing I could think of is building / fixing things against all the odds using whatever I have available in a McGyveresque manner.

So, playing the spoons? Faking an orgasm? Driving a tank? Chasing a cheese down a steep slope? What’s your power awesome? ™ apparently
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  • walkingbootweather
    walkingbootweather Posts: 2,443
    I'm really really good at subbuteo 8)
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  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    i can belch the alphabet.......
  • mickbrown
    mickbrown Posts: 100
    Hand farts
  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    In my life I have won two limbo competitions.
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    erm....my "talents" are more like party tricks really

    i can dislocate both shoulders

    i can wiggle my ears an nostrils

    ohh an i can touch my nose with my bottom lip without touching my lip (if that makes sense)

    i think im destined to be a gurner
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    I can fit the end of a can of redbull in my mouth, have to be careful where I show that talent off though.

    I'm quite handy on the drums (or was anyway)
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    I don't age like normal people.
    Swim. Bike. Run. Yeah. That's what I used to do.

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    I've never lost at Go-Karting, and always get the fastest lap of the group (been maybe 20 times?)
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    I can swear better than Cartman.
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  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    I can move my eyes independantly of one another.

    My other superpower is eating doughnuts. I am awesome at this.
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  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    I've never lost at Go-Karting, and always get the fastest lap of the group (been maybe 20 times?)

    That's because you weigh the same as a 10-year-old.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    DesWeller wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    I've never lost at Go-Karting, and always get the fastest lap of the group (been maybe 20 times?)

    That's because you weigh the same as a 10-year-old.

    :cry:

    It's a talent isn't it?
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    I've never lost at Go-Karting, and always get the fastest lap of the group (been maybe 20 times?)

    That is surely because of your grossly inferior weight, giving you an unfair advantage during acceleratio and allowing you to win "last of the late brakers", no?
    Swim. Bike. Run. Yeah. That's what I used to do.

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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    I can burrow through an elephant
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    Now Kieran, you know that's not true. How many times have you been told not to tell porkies?
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    I can burrow through an elephant

    You'd better not even try!
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    I can burrow through an elephant

    next you will be telling us you could be thrown off beachy head in a barrel!!
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    DesWeller wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    I've never lost at Go-Karting, and always get the fastest lap of the group (been maybe 20 times?)

    That's because you weigh the same as a 10-year-old.

    :cry:

    It's a talent isn't it?

    What is? Weighing as much as a 10 year old? I way as much as 2 10 year olds! Uber talented!
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,377
    DesWeller wrote:
    I can move my eyes independantly of one another.

    My other superpower is eating doughnuts. I am awesome at this.

    I was born cross-eyed, and although I had an operation to straighten things up (scars on my eyeballs = nails), one eye does tend to swing out a touch and my binocular vision is a bit rubbish. As a consequence I can choose which eye is dominant. Does mean I'm crap at judging distances within arms reach (you should see me trying to pour a bottle of wine).

    I can waggle my ears too.
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Greg66 wrote:
    I don't age like normal people.

    crazily faster that is...
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  • meanredspider
    meanredspider Posts: 12,337
    I think my talent is for not being talented at anything but being reasonably good at most things (if that makes sense - a Jack of All Trades). The one thing I'm hopeless at is singing
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Headhuunter wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    DesWeller wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    I've never lost at Go-Karting, and always get the fastest lap of the group (been maybe 20 times?)

    That's because you weigh the same as a 10-year-old.

    :cry:

    It's a talent isn't it?

    What is? Weighing as much as a 10 year old? I way as much as 2 10 year olds! Uber talented!

    Pfft. People call big rugby players talented for being able to smash into other big (ugly) players.

    I've beaten other women who weigh less!

    Next you'll be saying Usain Bolt isn't talented, he was just born with amazing muscles that are perfect for sprinting :P

    It's my talent and I'm sticking with it.
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    meanredspider wrote:
    I think my talent is for not being talented at anything but being reasonably good at most things (if that makes sense - a Jack of All Trades). The one thing I'm hopeless at is singing
    I'm remarkably similar.

    I can pick up a golf club and do reasonably well at the pitch and putt. I can ride a bike pretty well, I can play football without embarrasing myself, I can do basic car mechanics, I can replace bits in a computer. But I'm not 'great' at any of those things, and I'm woeful at anything musical!
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Rick Chasey wrote:
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    I've beaten other women who weigh less!
    Other women?

    Mrs Rick Chasey? :lol:
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    bails87 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
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    I've beaten other women who weigh less!
    Other women?

    Mrs Rick Chasey? :lol:


    Out of context that looks very very bad.
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    It's my talent and I'm sticking with it.

    When you weigh as much as your namesake RC we'll leave you to it or rather get the remote and drive you about the place...
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    bails87 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    [

    I've beaten other women who weigh less!
    Other women?

    Mrs Rick Chasey? :lol:


    Out of context that looks very very bad.

    Yes....there's that too. Pick on someone your own size.



    Like a ten year old. :lol:
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  • king_jeffers
    king_jeffers Posts: 694
    Jean Claude Van Damme facts :oops:
  • Keith1983
    Keith1983 Posts: 575
    I can release what should be loud rasping farts, almost completely silently so no one knows it was me!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Pfft. I'll let all the lightweight climbers in the Tour and ToB know their climbing isn't a talent they're just skinny!

    I'll give you their love on Sunday!



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