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toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days ago

What's a skill or talent you learned as a kid that you still do today?

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What's a skill or talent you learned as a kid that you still do today?

toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days ago
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    18 days ago

    Masking.

    • Lady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com
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      Yeah I never got any good at that

    • FrameForm@piefed.social
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      18 days ago

      Heh, yeah.

  • forbiddencherry@lemmy.today
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    Riding a bike

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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    🌈imagination🌈

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    I learned how to fixand build things with my dad and grandpa. Now I’m a mechanical engineer and use those same principals I learned from them 30 years ago.

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      I learned how to fix and build things with my dad. Now I have a list of projects to do around the house because I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay someone $1000 to install $300 of flooring…

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    Walking as quietly as possible around the house.

  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org
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    Reading

  • Weirdfish@lemmy.world
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    Got my first skateboard 41 years ago, am as excited as I’ve ever been that I get to go skating today.

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    When I was nine another kid taught me how to make this really cool paper airplane that looks more like a shuttle than an airplane and flies pretty well too. I still make them when I’m bored, and when my kid is old enough I’ll teach him too.

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    reciting pi to this many digits from memory any chance I get:
    3.1415926535897932384

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      Over the years I’ve added digits to what I knew as a kid. I’m no master memoriser and haven’t made a huge effort, but I’m out to the first 0, which has no business being so late.

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        So cool! (there are dozens of us!)

        I think I knew 25 digits stone point, but I’m pretty sure I’ve forgotten a few over the years.

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    I can usually tell by someone’s gait and posture whether or not they’re likely to try to hit someone in the next hour or so. If it seems likely I offer them drugs. Usually by the time my coworkers are able to tell it’s too late to offer.

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      What’s the context? Security job in a club or a mental institution?

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        Second one

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      I don’t feel like hitting anyone but can I have some drugs anyways?

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        They’re not very fun they actually make you stop seeing interesting things and sometimes knock you out :/

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          I’ll take 37

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    Peeing in the potty

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    I can swallow air and belch on command. Maybe I should list it as one of my skills on my resume

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    Whistle with my fingers, took a good few weeks of practice over one summer blowing spit all over my fingers but eventually I learned. Still a really useful skill today.

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    Wiggling my nostrils

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    I can roll a coin or a pencil through my fingers. Do this mostly in boring meetings.

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