Someone I knew ran a "talent show" about a decade ago for a summer show at a local theater.

What they wanted was a showcase of musical talents and things related to musical theater specifically. They neglected to put that in any of the advertising materials.

I was quite upset when they didn't include a little girl who did a spot on Gollum impression with movement, props, and full scene reenactments. She was super excited to show everyone, and while everyone else was blown away, "this isn't really the type of talent we're going for" is all he could muster.

That girl was a solid 10/10, and should have been allowed a slot in the show.

You expect me to believe “Butt Master Flex” cannot find an appropriate time to say “my precious” and stare intensely while twiddling your fingers Mr.Burns style?

You sir, need to find your bootstraps

Surely you whip this out on halloween or in a dark alley way

I've got a good Smeagol and a good Stitch. Never comes out

Pretty sure I’ve seen that Farming While Beige guy on YouTube do both in a video.

What about a kind dick? 😊

but why do you almost never show this ability?

I wouldn't call myself a super smeller, but I smell things to check how hot they are because hot things smell different. My wife cannot believe in my ability and mocks me and says I'm just feeling the heat with my face.

Gus?

I've got a very specific 'talent' in that regard. I can smell when tomato sauce has the right amount of salt.

I put that into quotation marks, because it's more of a learned skill probably, since I have cooked potentially literally a metric ton of tomato sauce in my life.
My mum once joked that she's surprised I'm not orange from all the tomato sauce I eat.

This is a skill I am genuinely impressed with

Did you say M as in Mancy?

“T as in tsunami”

I did a ten month stint in a call center to make ends meet once. I had to quickly and unexpectedly learn this. And, occasionally put up with the, I'm guessing, old vets who insisted on rattling it as fast as possible when reading off serial numbers, etc. And, WOULD NOT slow down to accommodate me at all. So, I'd just ask them to repeat it sometimes four or five times, until I got it.

Agreed! Worse, when I try to spell my name over the phone with the NATO alphabet, people just kind of mentally vapor lock. I guess they can't work out what letter "papa" represents? And, then, when I use the conventional "p as in Paul," sometimes they copy down b, as in ball.

I’m learning that medical receptionists/nurses in admin duty are not used to hearing this these days. Tried giving my email address multiple times recently and, as a soon to be former proton user, giving them an “@ papa mike dot mike echo” resulted in @papamike.mikeecho multiple times.

"A as in Apple"

Ffs, me too..me too. 💀

M as in Mancy

Why does it have to be alpha or bravo or delta? What difference does it make if it were apple, boy, Dennis? As long as it does the job.

ICAO FTW

Is there a time minimum on open mic nights? Just go up for one big, hearty metal scream.

wtf go join a casual band. Practicing for 15 years for something you never use seems wild.

How would you differentiate your skill from perfect pitch? I just replied to a different comment they might gave perfect pitch. Identifying a pitch without reference is one of the things identified on the wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_pitch

iirc this is typically called quasi-perfect pitch; essentially it's relative pitch but a few reference pitches are memorized

~$ sleep

Military or physically demanding trade background?

Those are the two sectors that, in my experience, can pretty much conk out anywhere and any time.

I used to be like this too. It was a side effect of usually working 12 hour night shifts five weeks straight, a few timezones away. Readjusting to a new sleep schedule was a side effect of sleep deprivation at first, but it slowly became a useful skill instead.

Can't everyone burp on command?

I feel like farting on command is the rare trait

I can do that too, it's like a contraction in the throat for me. It was fun when I was a kid, I don't think adults would like to know now.

You could probably make a few bucks from that

Hell yeah.

Mastered it?

My boss is like this. Having drawn and done arts and stuff I used to have a pretty decent visual level (before the glasses). At least I could wing it pretty good. But he could walk out, take one glance at something and immediately tell if anything isn't perfectly square.

Sometimes I would scoff and check with a measure but he was always right.

I remarked on it one time and he said it was more of a curse.

Can you describe the vision you have when you did it? Always wonder what do chameleon see when they do that.

Same lol

You got to keep honing this skill it seems important for human biodiversity.

This is actually very useful!

Kind of similar here. I have an almost photographic memory, but only really for numbers.

When I newly moved here, I went out shopping for furniture. At the cash register, the lady asked me what my postal code was for delivery. At that point, I had never properly read my full address, but it was on the contract I had signed. So, I went into the back of my brain, found a screenshot of that and could read out the code. Then I obviously double-checked, but yeah, I got all 5 digits right.

You would be getting burned in the witch trials. Witch laugh + weird snake jaw and im convinced you probably are a witch