I mean, what’s something you can do that people are like, “really? You know how to do that?”

  • kelpie_is_trying@lemmy.world
    12·
    6 days ago

    I can click my tongue really, really loud. Like a baseball hitting a bat hard. Aside from making people jump, I have yet to find any practical use for this talent.

    • HuskerNation@lemmy.zip
      4·
      6 days ago

      I never forget a face but damn if I can remember their name. Drives my wife nuts, when she asks me who that was

  • Enkrod@feddit.org
    6·
    6 days ago

    I’m a huge guy, 6’8" and immensely heavy, people do a double take when I tell them I can and do windsurf.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
    6·
    6 days ago

    Cooking. IDK why but everyone assumes I don’t know how to cook. I must fit a stereotype or something. The last time I lived alone I cooked (or had leftovers of something I cooked) every night for like 8 months. I tell people that and they are always surprised. It’s a big reason I hate living with roommates because the kitchen situation is so chaotic I can’t really do that anymore.

    • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Same, and especially baking bread, which people seem to think is an involved, laborious process that requires dedication and being obsessed. I learned it on youtube lol. Making a loaf of really good bread takes like 10 minutes of actual work; the rest of the time it’s making itself.

  • RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    6 days ago

    I’m able to forget most things my dad says … he has an opinion of everything and will babble for 20 minutes about stuff no one else in the house cares about.

    Also, I can picture a blueprint in 3d.

    • Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      3 days ago

      I’ve been criticized for that, lots of people say “use the mouse, it’s better”. I say “how is it better?”. They say “it just is”.

      The truth is that they can’t do the keyboard shortcuts and are jealous.

      • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 days ago

        I’m certainly no vim wizard but just knowing a good number of shortcuts really saves time doing precise clicks and selections with your mouse

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    Somehow, it’s a surprise to people that I’m a competent trumpet player. As if every high school in the state doesn’t have a band class. Fully half of my graduating class in high school were musicians of some kind between chorus, orchestra and band classes. But somehow nobody expects a random dude in his mid-30’s to pick up a trumpet and play a few bars of Ravel’s Bolero.

  • philpo@feddit.org
    5·
    6 days ago

    I can put a needle in any body cavity (of someone else). Or a wire or a catheter. Besides the skull and a few more delicate ones I also know how to do that without actually killing the person. Well,at least not “certainly” killing… accidents happen.

  • njordomir@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 days ago

    People are surprised that I can jodel a bit. My geeky high-schools self worked hard to build this skill.

  • Kuma@lemmy.world
    6·
    7 days ago

    I surprise ppl with my drawing skills, and they always say my place is nice and cosy. Everyone who comes over for the first time gets weirdly surprised. I am not sure if that is a skill tho xD

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    811·
    8 days ago

    I’m a father living in Japan, so any competent display of childcare is still met with shock and confusion.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    70·
    7 days ago

    I’m a tall burly cisman so people are always surprised that I know how to sew. I mostly hand-mend my clothes but I made my own pants in high school when I had access to a sewing machine.

    • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Sewing seems like a good hobby for anybody who likes to work with their hands. In my 20s my housemate let me borrow her sewing machine to put together a thinsulate jacket from a Frostline kit. It was a blast, but that was the last sewing I ever did.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
      27·
      7 days ago

      Sewing fellas unite!

      I usually make hats and tool wraps, but I mend dresses or alter clothes for friends too.

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      7 days ago

      sewing is mine also. I don’t think I’ve talked to a single person in the 15 years I’ve been sewing that hasn’t reacted with shock to some degree or another upon finding out.

      i like repairing clothes and making backpacks.

    • Rossi199@lemmy.world
      10·
      7 days ago

      Hand-sewing is my “something to occupy my hands while watching tv” hobby. I usually take shirts that I buy at a thrift store and customize them (side panels to make them fit better, add lacy pieces, etc.).

        • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
          4·
          7 days ago

          I think that would be antithetical, or paradoxical. Redundant means superfluous (=more than is necessary)

          • spicy pancake@lemmy.zipEnglish
            8·
            7 days ago

            See the common conception of boat owners is that they’re rich. And they certainly might start out that way. But a boat is a hole in the ocean into which money is thrown, and thus boat owners quickly become not rich