What would you consider yourself to be talented in?

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Everybody knows I can play hand egg, but curious to what you guys excel at?

[Atramental]

Visual problem solving.

Which is a fancy way of saying I make websites and logos look less like shit.

[Great Rumbler]

trolling

You certainly aren't being very convincing.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Charming

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Visual problem solving.

Which is a fancy way of saying I make websites and logos look less like shit.

Definitely a good skill to have as 99% of websites look like shit right now. For instance what the FUCK did they do to cnn? It is horrible.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

but seriously

1) I can read pretty fast.

2) can occasionally be very in tune with what other people are thinking/feeling. gift and a curse

3) Good cook, i think. And only getting better.

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4) this is going to sound weird but i have the ability to absorb a pretty big hit. I've never been knocked out. or broken a bone (aside from falling 3 stories that one time). Played football and boxed, been hit with a metal bat etc) don't ask why

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Let me tackle you once, we'll see if #4 is applicable   

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For both of us

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[Am_I_Anonymous]

In terms of football I played in a flag football league with mostly early to mid 20 year old guys. I though for sure at over 35 I'd probably only play marginally okay at that point in time.

I fucking dominated that league. Had the most receptions, td's, interceptions, and I don't think anybody scored on me all year. When we played the title game the other squad had some 26 year old kid who had played for Akron at WR and everybody figured I'd get schooled. I broke that dude mentally in 3 plays. He didn't have a catch.



I remember the kid saying "man you the real deal dude, you better now than dudes that was covering me in college"

Shit made my day and had me confident for weeks.

[I'm a Puppy!]

I can make a good pun. Well a pun in any case.

[Cerveza mas fina]

catch

interception

football

 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

catch

interception

football

 

You play offense and defense in flag football dude. It's 7 on 7.

[Rufus]

Foreign languages. I pick up the vocab and pronunciations quickly and I'm not afraid to look like a fool, which helps with grammar practice. Monkey see monkey do, and monkey do pretty well without trying.

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It's a complete loss though because I'm too lazy. German, English and (passive) Bosnian will have to do. "Use it or lose it" would make what I learned evaporate anyway, same as it did for French, Spanish and Swedish.

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[Am_I_Anonymous]

To be fair to the Akron kid I use to have to D up Tim fucking Brown, Terry Mickens, and James Jett (very very fast) and comparatively speaking a 5'8" dude running a 4.6 at that point wasn't too scary

[Human Snorenado]

I'm awesome at logistics. Like, looking at a situation and figuring out if everything is working as well as it can, or figuring out ways to improve existing systems, etc.

[Madrun Badrun]

Well I thought I was smart until I went to gradschool.  Now my only talent is being super awkward around good looking girls.

[Rufus]

Hey, you're working on making people like me irrelevant, that's pretty cool.

[Van Cruncheon]

trolling; hedonism; assholery; ruining the lives of insecure coworkers

esch: i took a crowbar to the head in high school. which, in hindsight, explains a lot

[Rufus]

If hedonism counts then I'm right there with you.

I'm good at writing(my grammar here sucks mostly cause lol forums), playing guitar, I'm obnoxiously good with math despite never really using it, and diffusing situations before they get really bad(have been doing this tooooooooo much )

Not sure about other stuff, guess I have a really high tolerance for drugs and alcohol. Takes a lot to fuck me up. I'm also very good at repelling women.

So jelly. Numbers terrify me.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

esch: i took a crowbar to the head in high school. which, in hindsight, explains a lot

Jesus, you 80's cacs were NOT fucking around.

[Madrun Badrun]

Did you take college level math? Because it is pretty different and interesting after highschool stuff. 

[Madrun Badrun]

If your good at math you get to be a dick

[bork]

Fucking

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my hand

 :'(

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PSYCH I'm married

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Which means I'm not joking

 :'(

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Or am I
 

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Actually I think I'm pretty good at making all these spoiler boxes.  Yeah.

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[T234]

Cannabis. I got some that is clearer than my fucking glasses are over here.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Cannabis. I got some that is clearer than my fucking glasses are over here.

Dat underrated Canadian bud 

Living in Ohio we get to see much of that. Been a real big year for Kush and Blueberry down here. Thanks guys!

[king of the internet]

Laying in bed for hours.

[Great Rumbler]

I'm no Christopher Paolini, but I can write well enough to put out a full-length novel that non-family members tell me they really enjoyed.

[mormapope]

I can guess what time it is and be within 5-25 minutes most of the time.

[Reb]

Being really eloquent.

[Boogie]

Cannabis. I got some that is clearer than my fucking glasses are over here.

Dat underrated Canadian bud 

In what world is Canadian bud "underrated"?

Also, by your response are you assuming T234 is in Canada? 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Cannabis. I got some that is clearer than my fucking glasses are over here.

Dat underrated Canadian bud 

In what world is Canadian bud "underrated"?

Also, by your response are you assuming T234 is in Canada? 

Not all of us live by Vancouver bro. In Ohio we simply consider Kentucky to be the mecca. (Well not me but most)

As to where he's from? Just went by his title

[jakefromstatefarm]

If its anything, its writing. I picked up reading quickly, I've been keen on language since the jump

I think the difference is i know what good writing looks like, I tell people I'm not a good writer, I just know which writing to copy.

[Boogie]

Anyhow:

1)  drafting police-y legal applications.  God help us that it is the case, but drafting complicated/intensive warrant applications is something I'd be considered an expert in among my peers.  It's good to have a rep for it, but it gets annoying when no one else wants to take on the "paper writer" role.

2). Hockey.  I mean, I'm not good good, like, to an impressive  competitive degree, for this country.  But at the "rec men's league" level I do pretty good.

3) Brazilian jiu jitsu.  Again, not in a competitive "winning a bunch of tournaments" sense, but in the "I have a brown belt so I know my shit" sense.

[Boogie]

Cannabis. I got some that is clearer than my fucking glasses are over here.

Dat underrated Canadian bud 

In what world is Canadian bud "underrated"?

Also, by your response are you assuming T234 is in Canada? 

Not all of us live by Vancouver bro. In Ohio we simply consider Kentucky to be the mecca. (Well not me but most)

As to where he's from? Just went by his title

T234 is the Kentuckyian that other Kentuckyians build statues of.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Well see there. At least I know where some of the good shit comes from.

Thanks T234

Love,

Ohio

[recursivelyenumerable]

snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

[dkdk]

To be fair to the Akron kid I use to have to D up Tim fucking Brown, Terry Mickens, and James Jett (very very fast) and comparatively speaking a 5'8" dude running a 4.6 at that point wasn't too scary

James Jett speed 

Were you around long enough to go heads up with Rocket Ismail?

[Phoenix Dark]

I was pretty good at basketball. Mainly played center until I joined AAU, where I had to play PF and SG since I wasn't bigger than everyone. Transitioned well, even impressed some scouts.


I'm good with numbers. Shout out to Karakand.

and I'm good at making tanky characters in ARPGs that aren't particularly viable dps wise.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

To be fair to the Akron kid I use to have to D up Tim fucking Brown, Terry Mickens, and James Jett (very very fast) and comparatively speaking a 5'8" dude running a 4.6 at that point wasn't too scary

James Jett speed 

Were you around long enough to go heads up with Rocket Ismail?

Ismail was quicker to top gear to about 15 yards but when Jett got his strides going there wasn't 10 guys in the league that could stride with him.

FYI:  James Jett, West Virginia, 4.27 40 


FYI FYI   Darrell Green? 4.15 40 

BO JACKSON  4.12 40, no fucking shit. 4.12 breh.


Me:   4.51 

[ToxicAdam]

Scrabble/anagrams I guess.


Although the internet has an incredible way of humbling yourself about anything you think you're good at.

[Steve Contra]

Buying wine

[dkdk]

Im decent at soccer. Used to be a baller then i hated it by HS. One of my few regrets considering the student loan debt i have now. I was on track to atleast get a scholarship like most of my old teammates did.

Still have all the instincts so I bag goals for fun when i play now but my trick moves are long gone.

To be fair to the Akron kid I use to have to D up Tim fucking Brown, Terry Mickens, and James Jett (very very fast) and comparatively speaking a 5'8" dude running a 4.6 at that point wasn't too scary

James Jett speed 

Were you around long enough to go heads up with Rocket Ismail?

Ismail was quicker to top gear to about 15 yards but when Jett got his strides going there wasn't 10 guys in the league that could stride with him.

FYI:  James Jett, West Virginia, 4.27 40 


FYI FYI   Darrell Green? 4.15 40 

BO JACKSON  4.12 40, no fucking shit. 4.12 breh.


Me:   4.51 

My pops would get a kick out of that raider intel. Hes a huge raider fan.
I remember Darrell winning the fastest man comp while he was the oldest in the league

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Im decent at soccer. Used to be a baller then i hated it by HS. One of my few regrets considering the student loan debt i have now. I was on track to atleast get a scholarship like most of my old teammates did.

Still have all the instincts so I bag goals for fun when i play now but my trick moves are long gone.

To be fair to the Akron kid I use to have to D up Tim fucking Brown, Terry Mickens, and James Jett (very very fast) and comparatively speaking a 5'8" dude running a 4.6 at that point wasn't too scary

James Jett speed 

Were you around long enough to go heads up with Rocket Ismail?

Ismail was quicker to top gear to about 15 yards but when Jett got his strides going there wasn't 10 guys in the league that could stride with him.

FYI:  James Jett, West Virginia, 4.27 40 


FYI FYI   Darrell Green? 4.15 40 

BO JACKSON  4.12 40, no fucking shit. 4.12 breh.


Me:   4.51 

My pops would get a kick out of that raider intel. Hes a huge raider fan.
I remember Darrell winning the fastest man comp while he was the oldest in the league

If he has any questions feel free to PM me man. I'm more than glad to spend a little time helping your dad gather some intel.


Just don't ask me who was fucking who or how many drugs were being done back then 

[I'm a Puppy!]

Oh and I've forgotten more about the minutiae about classical music than  even most classical musicians know.

[Steve Contra]

Oh and I've forgotten more about the minutiae about classical music than  even most classical musicians know.

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=43021.0

[sarslip]

Buying wine

Buying beer

[Positive Touch]

despite how i post here, i know words. was always top tier in school and standardized tests in that subject.  also in another life I'd be a food-eating champ. i can desolate a buffet.

and even tho i try to hide it, i have a ridiculously encyclopedic knowledge of videogames. like i could crush most anyone in a trivia contest. that's nothing to be proud of tho.

[Kara]

Handling high stress situations, though the yang to the yin on that is that I struggle to successfully exist outside a pressure cooker.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Yes, got all A's.

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I sound like a dick, forget it

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even college level math doesn't get really interesting until senior year or so, imo

[nudemacusers]

look good enough in a suit to convince others of my importance while hiding my deficiencies as a human.

[Mr. Nobody]

Most things dealing with computers.

Disassembling/reassembling things.

 

[eleuin]

Procrastinating

[Van Cruncheon]

esch: i took a crowbar to the head in high school. which, in hindsight, explains a lot

How'd it happen?

One of the richer kids on my football team used to let us come over after practice on friday. His dad had an underground batting cage or whatever since he used to play for the Cardinals. So breh lets us have our rounds or whatever. I step out of the cage after my turn not looking where i'm going and i take a full aluminum practice swing to the temple... with my helmet in my hands instead of on my head

ah, this is one story that i have no moral high ground to assume.

so, in shop class, i would weld fence and trim nails to large washers and bolts to make pseudo-shurikens. an upper-classman, legendary for stealing trucks and repainting them, and also simply being monstrously stupid -- and who committed the cardinal infraction of being poorer than me -- was sitting in our run-down auditorium eating lunch when i decided to chuck a couple at him from the top seats. i nailed him in the back and leg and made him screech, to which my friends and i laffed and laffed.



a couple months later, we were in the parking lot of the strip mall sears between centralia and chehalis (or was it the yard birds?) blowing up chunks of asphalt with little pieces of primer cord (and claiming it was my friend's shitty dodge backfiring when people squawked) on the fourth of july. he rolled up behind us, took a crowbar (or tire iron) out of his rig, and smacked me on the back of my head and i blacked the fuck out. my friends said i went down like jelly.

my old man reamed the fuck out of me for that one, since he was on the aid call (he was a fireman/paramedic) and he had to explain why his dipshit boy was out-the-fuck-cold. according to him, i took the hit where my skull and neck meet and my muscle sucked up most of the damage. (i am a bit of a meathead nord.) didn't press charges, especially after my dad found out i effectively started it, and since all i had was a terrible headache and a week of a humiliating neckbrace. (also, dude was crying; when i went down, he thought he killed me.)  bad times; bad times; CAC TIMES

 

[Van Cruncheon]

i may be a scooter-ridin', jrpg-playin', software-codin' suburban archponce, but i grew up serious yokel. 

[Kara]

When I was a child, I spatted as a child.

[tiesto]

I don't think I'm that great at it but I've gotten a number of compliments on my DJ sets.

[benjipwns]

Eroding the legitimacy of the state.

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Remembering useless knowledge like NBA history, or TV show events by season like with Buffy or Star Trek or Firefly, really any "history" in general, like DC Universe history, or prices so I know how I'm slowly being ripped off, or just absurd facts in general.

Being serious 100% of the time. Opposing the use of sarcasm or facetious arguments.

Holding myself back due to what seem to be diagnosed mental issues.

Getting increasingly negative as I post about myself.

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[nudemacusers]

(i am a bit of a meathead nord.)

You're also talented at understatement.

/prances away

the really fucked up part is that I know exactly which strip mall you're talking about

aladdin's castle tho

[benjipwns]

Aladdin's Castle's best part was the archaic and barely maintained machines in the waaay back. And like only half the lights in the ceiling worked for some reason.

[nudemacusers]

lol this was a cacdemon redneck aladdin's castle in a half-closed stripmall. every machine was barely maintained.

i did go to a couple birthday parties there as a kid. might even have a couple of tokens somewhere.

[benjipwns]

Mine maintained like the Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter machines in the front, but that dropped off the further you went back.

[nudemacusers]

I saw my first fatality at an aladdin's castle. sub zero's spine rip. I was like whoaaaaaaaaaaa rad*.


*hey I wore hypercolor tees and lizards-with-tank-tops apparel.