A talent you rarely use

[Night Fury]

I know there are a trout tonne of talented peeps on this site. Lots of great writers, lots of funny folk, stylish folk, artistic folk....

But what's a talent you have that you rarely use?

For me, it's singing. I'm a pretty good singer but I've never performed and I honestly don't sing all that much unless I'm home alone really. My Nana thinks I waste my musical talents

[Pike]

Can't think of any I have really, other than weird encyclopedic knowledge about obscure topics (watchmaking, horse racing, fishkeeping, etc.)

Edit: There was a point about ten years ago where I wrote a lot of music and I wrote one or two songs that were actually okay (for me to admit this about myself is a big deal). That was a long time ago though.

[Freya]

I have a wicked good ear for music. I can pick up instruments easily or decently fairly quickly but then I get bored and don't touch things for decades and forget it. I used to be able to play the tenor sax well and some piano. I just don't have any instruments to fiddle with!

[Psychotic]

I have a wicked good ear for music. I can pick up instruments easily or decently fairly quickly but then I get bored and don't touch things for decades and forget it. I used to be able to play the tenor sax well and some piano. I just don't have any instruments to fiddle with!

Oh, me too! Whenever I am near a piano or keyboard I will just start picking away and after a few minutes of experimentation can play the melody to most songs.

[Galuf]

i havent even found a talent, let alone rarely use one

[Crop]

Bending time and space. It just gets too complicated.

[SammieBabe]

I can fit my fist in my mouth. There is rare opportunities to use this skill.

[Bri]

Traditional island poi and fire dance oh and I can cross both my eyes and move each in different directions lol

[Aerith's Knight]

I was going to say smurfing as a joke, but it hit too close to home started being depressing.

[Iceglow]

A few years ago I'd have probably have said that my least used talent was that of picking up languages fast. However, as I now do a lot of translation in my current job, that's not so much the case. Though I don't do it for fun any more which is a shame.

I miss sitting at home and simply going off on a tangent and teaching myself a small bit of a new language.

These days, I'm going to be honest, computers. I'm pretty damn good with them, I can build them, repair them and not just PC's we're talking console repairs and other hardware too. But I rarely do it any more. I'll fix my own junk but even then, I chose to buy a pre-build rather than buy the parts to make a PC, mostly because I couldn't be arsed.

[Mr. Carnelian]

Piano. I still practice once every couple of months, but I haven't done a performance in about three years.

[FFNut]

I was called a genius all the time. I out smarted all my class mates as the teacher would say way to go genius! I must have been funny too because everyone in class would then laugh.

Well enough of the horrendous jokes. I was trained musically as a kid as my mother is a high end music teacher who plays in orchestra's. I gave it up at 14 but sat at a piano last year and played without a mistake. I also picked a a flute and figured out how to play within 30 minutes so I guess music. However I never play or use it.

[Vasher]

Neglected "Talents" ;

-Carpentry
-Framing
-Electrical (wiring+)
-Masonry
-Machining (Master Machinist)
-Coding (CNC mills+)
-Welding
-Plumbing (though, I do get to use it more often than other skills at home)
-I can build a computer from scratch, hack video game consoles (haven't done that in a decade though)
-I'm a certified forensic finger print specialist (never used "it")
-Both a certified EMT and Paramedic (delivered my first son, in hospital)
-Certificate in Administration of Justice (many moons ago considered being a detective, even had a class inForensic science instructed by the Head Coroner at USC, he used to be on the "Forensic Files" TV show)
-thought about a doctorate in Pharmacy, so knocked out Pharm Tech in 3 months (other than required hours for completion, never used it, PharmD pay isn't enough for green pea crap hours)
-My mother taught me to read sheet music and play the piano, grandma taught me guitar and banjo, learned to play the clarinet in middle school (I need to "relearn" them, been ages)
-BMX & "Freestyle"- I used to race and built bikes for freestyle
-Dirt Bike/Motorcycle riding- I was an avid rider, been on a bike since "day one". Dad raced pro in his youth, he's still riding. I quit when I realized that my need for speed would kill me (do have a 500+hp car to play around with)
-skateboarding, gave that up as I grew up
-speed skating, quit as HS gf didn't particularly like me being "hot dog" at the skating rink. I was rink guard, worked the snack bar, and tore my pec/broke ribs there
- I'm quite the sailor. My dad had boats, but I really got into racing on my friends (from the gym) boat. We entered races (with a team), often took first in our class.
- Marksman. I used to go shooting with pops, but time doesn't allow for that. I'm also against the idea of having guns in my home (still have a bunch in my dads safe)
-Archery, dad taught me. One of my eldest sons X-mas presents was a really nice compound (he was already familiar with a recurve). Have take him to practice more
-Horesback riding. My parents have horses, used to enter shows/ride in parades. Not in forever.
-Fishing. Each year I renew my fishing license (fresh+ ocean, + second pole), but I didn't go at all last year (wife freaks out when we go to the islands, she was pregnant, afraid of "complications"). I can set a rig for any fish, catch that fgr too. Used to do trips out in Mexican waters every year also, not since all the bs though (white boy don't want to get caught up in cartel trout).

And following FFNuts lead, a joke...

-I used to kid that my second son was advanced because "he hit the terrible two's early" (though I'm pretty sure he will be advanced, as our eldest).
-I can open a beer bottle with ANYTHING. I used to play this out at parties. People (mostly girls) would bring me their beers to watch what I would do next. It would culminate with me "betting" that I could open the beer with my flip-flops. No one ever believed it could be done with rubbery flips. I'd take one off, smack the top of the beer with it, the cap goes flying, and everyone explodes in a drunken uproar. Little did they know that my "Reef" flips had a bottle opener on the bottom and that I was proficient enough to "hit it" just right every time.

Reminded of more "skeeeeelz".

-Darts, pretty damn good, being modest here.
-Pool. My game is so much better after a few. Forced to concentrate more, fact.
-Foosball. I am God. I mastered this at one of our "go-to" pubs, Pickwick's (always played on pops table in the gameroom, as well). Back in the day they had a Foosball table, countless hours on it. I got so good that even the best of 'em couldn't take me, two on one. I had a table at my house for awhile, but I couldn't play on it because I would demolish everyone, then no one wanted to play. "Master Level", the most that 2 players ever scored on me was 3.
-Street Fighter/Marvel vs Capcom. I've been a Street Fighter junkie since the original was released. My friends and I would own so hard at local arcades. We entered tournaments (and won). We'd always stop in on the big arcade in Vegas, just for some quick smashing. More often than not, we'd pick Zangief in the MvC games. Everyone immediately thought they had it easy, scoughing at our choice, but would soon be eating Russian Sausage (our nickname for the spinning pile-driver), taking turns systematically wrecking the next quarter. I can still pick up a controller (when my son or his friends throw out a challenge) and bust out air combos all day. Their confidence shattered. Pretty damn good at Mortal Kombat, Primal Rage, Killer Instinct, etc. RIP Family Fun.



I should stop there. How in the world did my parents have all that time? How did I?

[Formalhaut]

Neglected "Talents" ;

-Carpentry
-Framing
-Electrical (wiring+)
-Masonry
-Machining (Master Machinist)
-Coding (CNC mills+)
-Welding
-Plumbing (though, I do get to use it more often than other skills at home)
-I can build a computer from scratch, hack video game consoles (haven't done that in a decade though)
-I'm a certified forensic finger print specialist (never used "it")
-Both a certified EMT and Paramedic (delivered my first son, in hospital)
-Certificate in Administration of Justice (many moons ago considered being a detective, even had a class inForensic science instructed by the Head Coroner at USC, he used to be on the "Forensic Files" TV show)
-thought about a doctorate in Pharmacy, so knocked out Pharm Tech in 3 months (other than required hours for completion, never used it, PharmD pay isn't enough for green pea crap hours)
-My mother taught me to read sheet music and play the piano, grandma taught me guitar and banjo, learned to play the clarinet in middle school (I need to "relearn" them, been ages)
-BMX & "Freestyle"- I used to race and built bikes for freestyle
-Dirt Bike/Motorcycle riding- I was an avid rider, been on a bike since "day one". Dad raced pro in his youth, he's still riding. I quit when I realized that my need for speed would kill me (do have a 500+hp car to play around with)
-skateboarding, gave that up as I grew up
-speed skating, quit as HS gf didn't particularly like me being "hot dog" at the skating rink. I was rink guard, worked the snack bar, and tore my pec/broke ribs there
- I'm quite the sailor. My dad had boats, but I really got into racing on my friends (from the gym) boat. We entered races (with a team), often took first in our class.
- Marksman. I used to go shooting with pops, but time doesn't allow for that. I'm also against the idea of having guns in my home (still have a bunch in my dads safe)
-Archery, dad taught me. One of my eldest sons X-mas presents was a really nice compound (he was already familiar with a recurve). Have take him to practice more
-Horesback riding. My parents have horses, used to enter shows/ride in parades. Not in forever.
-Fishing. Each year I renew my fishing license (fresh+ ocean, + second pole), but I didn't go at all last year (wife freaks out when we go to the islands, she was pregnant, afraid of "complications"). I can set a rig for any fish, catch that fgr too. Used to do trips out in Mexican waters every year also, not since all the bs though (white boy don't want to get caught up in cartel trout).

And following FFNuts lead, a joke...

-I used to kid that my second son was advanced because "he hit the terrible two's early" (though I'm pretty sure he will be advanced, as our eldest).
-I can open a beer bottle with ANYTHING. I used to play this out at parties. People (mostly girls) would bring me their beers to watch what I would do next. It would culminate with me "betting" that I could open the beer with my flip-flops. No one ever believed it could be done with rubbery flips. I'd take one off, smack the top of the beer with it, the cap goes flying, and everyone explodes in a drunken uproar. Little did they know that my "Reef" flips had a bottle opener on the bottom and that I was proficient enough to "hit it" just right every time.

Reminded of more "skeeeeelz".

-Darts, pretty damn good, being modest here.
-Pool. My game is so much better after a few. Forced to concentrate more, fact.
-Foosball. I am God. I masters this at one of our "go-to" pubs, Pickwick's (always played on pops table in the gameroom, as well). Back in the day they had a Foosball table, countless hours on it. I got so good that even the best of 'em couldn't take me, two on one. I had a table at my house for awhile, but I couldn't play on it because I would demolish everyone, then no one wanted to play. "Master Level", the most that 2 players ever scored on me was 3.
-Street Fighter/Marvel vs Capcom. I've been a Street Fighter junkie since the original was released. My friends and I would own so hard at local arcades. We entered tournaments (and won). We'd always stop in on the big arcade in Vegas, just for some quick smashing. More often than not, we'd pick Zangief in the MvC games. Everyone immediately thought they had it easy, scoughing at our choice, but would soon be eating Russian Sausage (our nickname for the spinning pile-driver), taking turns systematically wrecking the next quarter. I can still pick up a controller (when my son or his friends throw out a challenge) and bust out air combos all day. Their confidence shattered. Pretty damn good at Mortal Kombat, Primal Rage, Killer Instinct, etc. RIP Family Fun.



I should stop there. How in the world did my parents have all that time? How did I?

Now I just feel inadequate.

[Shiny]

Clearing entire rooms with my flatulence.