It seems, to me anyway, that the last few days have been wrought with uncertainty and a balance in which negativity outweighed the positive. Time to lighten things up – who’s with me?
Almost everyone has a completely useless talent. It’s not easy to find an appropriate reason to show them off, is it? So here’s your chance.
My useless talent is the ability to recite the ingredients of a Big Mac – backwards. A girl who sat in front of me in the fifth grade had them written on the back of a t-shirt and, as boring as geography was, I memorized them.
What’s your useless talent? Show ’em off in the comments!
This post is part of Just Jot It January. Click on the link and join in: it’s never too late! https://lindaghill.com/2015/01/01/just-jot-it-january-pingback-post-and-rules/
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January 20, 2015 at 10:09 pm
Getting upset when the on-the-fly, in depth plan that I just spent the last five or ten minutes putting together turns out to not be needed.
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January 20, 2015 at 10:17 pm
Oh how frustrating! I hope it doesn’t happen too often, Martha!
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January 20, 2015 at 10:21 pm
(*shrugs*) There are moments. It bugged me the most in high school.
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January 19, 2015 at 2:33 pm
Strangely enough, when I peruse my list of ‘talents’ the most useless one is writing and reading backwards. When I was studying in school and making study notes, I found writing them backwards seem to help me memorize them. Probably geography was in there somewhere. Don’t think it worked for chemistry or physics. But then physics might has well have been backwards to start with.
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January 20, 2015 at 4:09 pm
Haha! Yeah, physics makes little sense to me either. But the talent wasn’t useless if it helped… at the time at least. 🙂 And hey, now you can use it as a party trick! 😀
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January 19, 2015 at 1:24 pm
oh, and reading…!
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January 19, 2015 at 1:23 pm
editing, lol
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January 20, 2015 at 3:33 pm
*sigh* I often feel like my own editing abilities are pretty useless. 😛 But reading? Imagine what life would be like without it? O_O
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January 19, 2015 at 11:25 am
I have loads of useless talents, but to be honest, I can’t think of a single one right now. I just loved your post and the comments! I severely needed to laugh. Thanks, Linda! 🙂
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January 20, 2015 at 3:31 pm
Glad it made you smile, Helen. There are some really good ones here! And hey, if you think of anything, let us know! 😀
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January 19, 2015 at 10:26 am
My years of working in retail has granted me the gift of being able to organize ANYONE’S closet lol. I use different hooks, hangers, and folding techniques that have stuck with me for over 10 years now haha 😛
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January 19, 2015 at 10:28 am
You’re invited!!! 😀
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January 19, 2015 at 9:08 am
I can swear in a number of languages but only really *bad* swear words. As such, if you want to completely escalate a situation in Thailand, mainland China or Hong Kong, I’m your man.
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January 19, 2015 at 9:20 am
Nothing better than having a go-to guy. 😀
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January 19, 2015 at 8:01 am
Well… I can part my index and middle finger on my right hand far far further than on my left… comes from throwing forkballs extensively in my youth, used to shove a softball between my fingers to loosen them up. It’s a trick that goes over great at parties, really it does…. god I suck.
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January 19, 2015 at 9:23 am
Hahahaha! My youngest son has loose joints all over the place. He thinks it’s hilarious to make people cringe.
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January 19, 2015 at 3:16 am
I can balance a stack of coins on the back of my arm, flip them over and catch them, usually in my fist. It takes about 3 seconds and sometimes the entire batch goes scattering across the floor but usually I’m successful. It’s all really quite impressive and very useless. By the way, I had one of those Big Mac shirts….nice to know I was perhaps helpful to someone else in furthering a useless talent!
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January 19, 2015 at 9:26 am
Having to pick them all up only increases the determination to get good at it, doesn’t it? Haha!
I sure didn’t expect to find anyone with a Big Mac t-shirt – thanks for letting me know. Are you wondering now how many people followed you around trying to memorize it? 😉
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January 19, 2015 at 11:32 am
Yes Linda I am wondering that!
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January 18, 2015 at 11:35 pm
Talking like Donald Duck can’t be a useless talent! Two year olds eat it up. That’s tantamount to saying yo-yoing is a useless talent. Using old words like tantamount is my useless talent. Cool post.
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January 19, 2015 at 9:28 am
Donald Duck – indubitably! 😉 Thanks, Kelly. 🙂
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January 18, 2015 at 10:25 pm
I have two: (1) the ability to read upside down and backwards, as when someone is sitting across from you reading a newspaper, and (2) I can talk like Donald Duck.
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January 18, 2015 at 10:27 pm
That would actually be useful if you worked for Disney and they refused to hand you the script…
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January 18, 2015 at 10:28 pm
True. I hadn’t thought about it that way.
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January 18, 2015 at 10:29 pm
Put it on your resume! You never know what might come of it. 🙂
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January 18, 2015 at 10:20 pm
I can remember the words to all my favorite songs from when I was a teen. What makes this useless is that I can’t carry a tune.
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January 19, 2015 at 9:29 am
I was going to say you could learn to rap them… but then I thought about making up a rap version of “All By Myself”… Ha!
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January 19, 2015 at 9:33 am
You flatter me, go back another decade and try rapping Eve of Destruction.
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January 19, 2015 at 9:37 am
Hahahaha! Yeah, wouldn’t that be fun? 😉
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January 18, 2015 at 8:26 pm
I can whistle like a bird. 😉
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January 19, 2015 at 9:30 am
Cool! Any particular kind of bird?
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January 19, 2015 at 9:40 am
Nah, just a high-pitched generic bird. I seem to silence the birds at Petsmart all the time. So it’s useless. 😁
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January 19, 2015 at 9:46 am
Oh I dunno. An employee with a hangover may beg to differ. 🙂
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January 18, 2015 at 8:10 pm
I am wonderful at Spoonerisms. I sing them beautifully. For instance “Delta Dawn, what’s that flower you’ve got on?” converts readily to “what’s that glower you’ve fot on?” Isn’t that delightful?
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January 19, 2015 at 9:31 am
Haha! I didn’t know there was a name for that. It’s a talent, for sure!
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January 18, 2015 at 6:59 pm
Great series. I love the spontaneity behind the post as well!
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January 19, 2015 at 9:32 am
Hey, Jack! Long time no see. How’s the weather in your part of Canada?
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January 19, 2015 at 12:11 pm
Cold, so far! 😉 There’s more to come this week with the temperatures dipping to -18 or so with a windchill of -30. Yikes!
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January 20, 2015 at 3:29 pm
Yep, that be cold. Being not that far away from you, we get whatever you get a few hours later. Thanks for the forecast! 😀 hehe
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January 18, 2015 at 5:53 pm
Double jointed!
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January 19, 2015 at 9:33 am
Which joints?
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January 19, 2015 at 8:02 pm
Thumbs and pinkies, and I can flip my wrist so that my thumb lies flat along my arm, which someone told me was odd.
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January 20, 2015 at 3:28 pm
Yep, that’s pretty flexible all right. 🙂
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January 18, 2015 at 5:48 pm
Thanks for the cheer-up Linda. My useless talent is being able to say the longest Welsh place name with an almost Welsh accent:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Hard to believe, I know. On all fronts.
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January 19, 2015 at 9:34 am
Wow. That’s… wow. Very impressive. You must record this and post it to your blog!
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January 19, 2015 at 10:41 am
Now that did make me laugh, Linda! Not something to be inflicted on the world only on my nearest and dearest, who simply sigh loudly.
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January 19, 2015 at 11:13 am
Ahh, but I bet they love you for it. 🙂
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January 18, 2015 at 5:43 pm
Useless talent? hmmm…well I can fold the paper covering from drinking straws into these cool snake-looking things. That’s pretty useless…
Great post 🙂
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January 19, 2015 at 9:35 am
Origami! Haha! Thanks, Kellie. 🙂
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January 18, 2015 at 5:21 pm
I think my good handwriting is a useless talent.
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January 19, 2015 at 9:36 am
Sample! I want a sample! Post it to your blog! 😀
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January 19, 2015 at 2:53 pm
Um…err…Okay.
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January 19, 2015 at 2:56 pm
😀
…okay, too enthusiastic? hehehe
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January 18, 2015 at 5:15 pm
Hmmmm I have a plethora of useless talents, although, most can be put to some use now and then; my favorite is the ability to make a sound like a wild cat.
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January 19, 2015 at 9:38 am
Great if you’re hiding in the bushes and someone you don’t like walks by! Hahaha!
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January 19, 2015 at 9:42 am
Yes, that would be fun
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January 18, 2015 at 5:05 pm
I have no tallant useful , useless or otherwise!
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January 19, 2015 at 9:39 am
Oh nonsense! You’re an AMAZING poet, Willow! One of the best I know here on WordPress! 🙂
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January 19, 2015 at 1:50 pm
Well Linda I did think about this and have now remembered that I have a useless talent for repeating strange but often relevant snippets of imformation heard on the radio…. I can often surprise some of my more educated friends! I also have a good eye for colour!! 🙂 Thank you so much for your kind words!! ❤ xxx
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January 20, 2015 at 3:26 pm
Those are a couple of pretty good talents, Willow. 🙂 Depending on how you use them, they could come in quite useful!
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January 20, 2015 at 4:05 pm
Or not!! 😉
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January 20, 2015 at 4:06 pm
Up to you! 🙂
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January 20, 2015 at 4:06 pm
😉
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January 18, 2015 at 5:01 pm
I know a lot about the game of Cricket. As a kid I played and read about it. I wasn’t so great at it but I knew heaps of useless stuff. I find now that socially all that knowledge leads to a quiet life.
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January 19, 2015 at 9:41 am
That may actually be fascinating to someone here, since Cricket isn’t a sport we play. You need to come to Canada! … before my funeral! Ha!
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January 19, 2015 at 6:06 pm
I am thinking of visiting Canada before I die. Have a good evening.
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January 18, 2015 at 4:40 pm
I am really good at pinball, Linda G. Shuffleboard, too. And now you can find neither in a bar anymore. 😦
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January 18, 2015 at 4:43 pm
You can’t? Well that sucks. You’ll have to invest in your own, Mr. Mark! There’s a definite trick to both – hand/eye co-ordination practice and all that.
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January 18, 2015 at 5:28 pm
The lost barroom Olympics. Like you said, Linda G. Useless talents. Puck bowling, too.
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January 19, 2015 at 9:44 am
Puck bowling! Now there’s a talent!
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January 18, 2015 at 5:13 pm
Ooooo, I’m really good at pinball too. I found a machine in a theater a few years ago, but I haven’t seen one other than that in quite awhile.
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January 18, 2015 at 5:31 pm
You are lucky to have found one anywhere, Leigh!
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January 18, 2015 at 5:33 pm
I’m not sure it’s still there; now you’ve got me wanting to run over there and check! LOL
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January 18, 2015 at 4:37 pm
yes indeed – I like your blog!! Bravo!!
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January 18, 2015 at 4:40 pm
Thanks!
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