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I always love picking up little skills and tricks and things to show off with. What's your repitoir of random party tricks and just general neat tricks you can do? Just yesterday I started practicing rolling a coin over my knuckles. I've gotten to the point where I can do it regularly but not very smoothly. My list of other similar stuff is:

moving eyes independently
juggling (3 balls)
flipping eyelids
make a rose out of a napkin
make an a animal face with my hands
salsa dancing (comes in handy)
flagpole (hold myself sideways) for a couple seconds
origami crane/boat/ball/whale/windmill
tabling (climbing around a table without touching the floor, only for climbing parties)

Things I want to learn are juggling (4 balls), and contact juggling

oh yeah, I can also recite pi to 20 some digits (only in the right company)
and recite a bunch of Robert Frost and Macbeth
 
I can do a wierd thing with my thumbs, hard to explain. My right big toe is brown, thick, and it sheds every few years.
 
That's quite awesome. I am also interested in party tricks, but haven't really got a need for it since I don't go to parties :p

I can:
Flap my ears
Pen spin (not very well)
I guess I could easily Table, since I have good balance.
I know one card trick, and many card games
That's about it.
Know any sites where you can learn stuff like party tricks?
 
I can jiggle around and shake my boozoms really well. It makes cool splashes when i do it in a pool.
 
Can't be bothered thinking of anything atm, but i can do some cool zippo tricks
 
I can:
roll a great joint in about 15 seconds
wiggle my ears independently
touch the bottom of my chin with my tounge
say the alphabet backwards
name every element on the periodic table
touch my foot to my head
juggle (3 balls)
pen spin
...and many other random useless things
 
Good thread Dan :)

I can do a few little things, nothing too exciting:
- Can put my legs behind my head
-Can do a few card tricks and magic (palming and such)
-I can walk on my toes, with them bent backwards.
-Make a crane + frog origami style!
-I can crack my jaw very loudly that you can hear it from the other side of a room, i can also crack my toes (probably related to 3rd one)
-Can do some pretty extensive eyebrow wiggles!
- Can recite entire office script.
- Can transform into robocop (only on tuesdays)
 
short recoil said:
All of my skills are actually useful.
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lol I just noticed you took the pic I posted and made it your sig and avatar.
 
oh yeah, and I can walk a slackline
 
I have a hitchiker's thumb
can crack several joints in my body
do that thing where you go crossed eyed and move one eye around. at least, I think I can, I can't look in the mirror and see D:
I can skank
I'm really hot :naughty:
I can do this thing where I sort of inverse my arms, then fold them, them bring them around and stick my head through.
I can snap my figners in two different ways
whistle really good
I have this other secret whistling technique where I don't have to move my mouth at all, and people can't tell
stuff like, tosing things in the air, and catching them, I can do that pretty well. I'm actually pretty boring.
 
Thanks for the links Dan. Will learn most of these :)
 
btw, girls only like guys who have great skills.

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You can take a lighter and hold the flame to your lips and suck in very hard, the flame shoots into your mouth, it looks awesome, doesn't burn.
 
lol I have lotsa random pointless skills like these I guess.


I can spin a pen round my fingers on both hands stupidly well (can thank boring sixth form lessons for that)
I can do the coin thing.. allbeit somewhat inconsistantly
I can spin staff which i tend to do with a pool cue which can be quite cool i guess
I can do some acrobatic crap like handsprings, sideflips and one handed cartwheels (trying to get no handed ie aerial :))
I can walk on my hands.
I caaan... err oh yah, i know one or two zippo tricks too. :)
 
I am an amature psychologist, despite being 14.
 
Most coordination skills like juggling or spinning objects around or whatever are simply a matter of practice. There aren't any secrets or tips that will help you get better, just repeat it for 10-20 minute sessions throughout the day when you're waiting for the bus or have some free time and you'll quickly get better.

If you want a fun circus kinda skill that you can practice out in the park, go to any MEC or climbing equipment store and buy about 10m or so of tubular webbing. It's pretty cheap stuff. String it up between two trees as tight as you can (which usually isn't really very tight). Make sure not to use any Granny knots or you'll be cutting your line down at the end of the day. If you have some old carabiners (meant for taking real loads, not keychain ones) you can use those to make a pulley system to tighten your line. Then practice balancing and walking back and forth across your slackline. At first it feels impossible, like your leg just shakes back and forth when you try, but put some trust and commit to it and eventually you'll be walking around. Then you can try stuff like jumping onto it or juggling or some other trick while balancing. It also gets you lots of attention from the people that walk by.
 
I share a talent with Dave Barry: "I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent."

I can offend most people and groups without trying.

I can keep a totally monotonic voice in all scenarios. (Actually, it's more that I am incapable of intonation.)

I amaze people with my knowledge of the chemical structures of paraffin, TNT, and several other substances. (I live in Arkansas. Simple minds.)

I can lose at any game of logic, especially those that I should be able to win.
 
Raeven0 said:
I share a talent with Dave Barry: "I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent."
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Apples are better than oranges because they are les messy.
 
Nat Turner said:
wtf!!

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My argument was so perfect that it raped his ass from a distance of a few hundred miles.

That, gentlemen, is how argument is done.
 
Jintor said:
I am an amature psychologist, despite being 14.
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14 seems a little early to ruin your life with a terrible job.

-I can play Franz Liszt pieces at 16 (He wrote some of the most difficult music in the world) Girls are ridiculously impressed.
-Related to above, I can do interval scales and regular scales at incredible speeds up and down the piano.
-I can roll quarters pretty fast on my knuckles (related to above?)
-I can answer trig questions really fast.
-I can do a backlfip from higher ground (easier than it seems, just a lil scary)
-I can jump from rail to rail and keep balance (harder than backflips and equally scary. The thing is it took me one try to get a backflip, you just gotta go for it. Rail to rail jumps take a lot of practice).

I think that's pretty much it in terms of superficial skills.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I can win any argument whether my point is fundamentally correct or not. At least so far.
 
Que-Ever said:
I have a hitchiker's thumb
can crack several joints in my body
do that thing where you go crossed eyed and move one eye around. at least, I think I can, I can't look in the mirror and see D:
I can skank
I'm really hot :naughty:
I can do this thing where I sort of inverse my arms, then fold them, them bring them around and stick my head through.
I can snap my figners in two different ways
whistle really good
I have this other secret whistling technique where I don't have to move my mouth at all, and people can't tell
stuff like, tosing things in the air, and catching them, I can do that pretty well. I'm actually pretty boring.
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i ca do the inverse arms stick through head thing too,
my mate can take hsi arms and climb though them and bring tem all the way around his body, is wel creepy:P
 
Juggle
Coin rolls (I have really agile fingers)
Text message like a mother****er
Blow fire from my mouth using only a cigarette lighter
DANCE!
Drawing
Origami

Wheee!
 
Wiggle ears
Wiggle nose
Wiggle individual toes
Wiggle my penis
Wiggle my eyes
Wiggle my right eyebrow
 
I can stick my tongue out well past the bottom of my chin/the tip of my nose
I can dislocate my shoulders on command
I'm "doublejointed" (no such thing, but most people go by that term anyway) in all ten fingers
I can cross my eyes to an absurd degree
I can make my eyes vibrate veeery quickly
Aaand a bunch of other crap.

Also, I have three testicles, and they all fall off on occasion, to grow into more JNightshades.
 
I can fall asleep anywhere, I've fallen asleep in a park once, I've fallen asleep on a train, I've fallen asleep at a party with music blaring at ear bursting levels and my personal best is falling asleep in the middle of the road, standing up.

Beat that mothersuckers
 
rae said:
I can fall asleep anywhere, I've fallen asleep in a park once, I've fallen asleep on a train, I've fallen asleep at a party with music blaring at ear bursting levels and my personal best is falling asleep in the middle of the road, standing up.

Beat that mothersuckers
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This one time I fell asleep while someone was punching me in the face...
 
Nat Turner said:
This one time I fell asleep while someone was punching me in the face...
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That's called being knocked out.
 
-I can flick my tongue in and out very fast.
-I can crack all of my fingers
-When I bend my pointing finger on my left hand, it makes a little cracking sound because of the hard part on the end (don't know the name in English) doing something. I can do this all the time and it doesn't hurt a bit :p
-As everyone here, sometimes my reaction times are off the charts.
-If I move my left foot in a certain way, it also cracks :p
-Some pen turning with my left hand
-Same with pennies :p
-A way too vivid imagination :p

Nothing more that I can remember right now :p
 
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