What's your curse? and your special talent?
A local radio "personality" was saying that their curse is new TV series. Each season she gets into a few new shows, and every single one she gets into gets cancelled. My curse is gas prices. When I fill up, the gas price immediatley drops 20c. If I need to fill but am late and have no time to stop, the price jumps 20c before I start my journey home.
My special talent, though, is finding needles in haystacks. If you lose something tiny in an impossible place, I will find it, and pretty quickly. Recently, I 've found a tiny (eyeglasses) screw on a huge grey "sculptured" carpet, and a regular-sized bolt on a half mile stretch of road.
My glasses came off in the ocean and I found them. Really. But that wasn't luck, I immediately devised a system and stuck to it. It worked.
My wife's nose ring came off at Whole Foods. I went immediately to the place where we had dawdled around the most - in front of the beer section. It was there, on the ground. She was impressed.
That said, I can't seem to find a pair of scissors when I need one.
But my special talent/curse isn't finding things, it's Asperger's.
Regarding finding scissors, we solved that one by buying more until we reached saturation point.
(my finding skill isn't "luck" either, but don't tell anyone.....)
I can "read" people... get to the root of their personality, very quickly.
Acting came very naturally to me, I discovered the objective/obstacle, both internal and external in characters within a few lines for most plays while others were just discovering the plot.
I do this in life too.
Superstitious people think I'm psychic when they talk to me about themselves... it's very annoying because I could care less.
I can "read" people... get to the root of their personality, very quickly.
Acting came very naturally to me, I discovered the objective/obstacle, both internal and external in characters within a few lines for most plays while others were just discovering the plot.
I do this in life too.
Superstitious people think I'm psychic when they talk to me about themselves... it's very annoying because I could care less.
and your talent...?
My special talent is only a curse to people who just can't *get* the bagpipes.:cool:
and your talent...?
The same was stated for both. True man.
My curse is money, lately. The more I make, the less I have. I'm not spending it on anything new, I just have something stupid come up. My friend lost his job and has been on my couch for two months, when i had just gotten a new job.
Uh, talent? Well, interesting things happen around me. Just completely weird and unnatural shit, all the time and it's annoying. Sometimes good, sometimes bad... I just wish I was bored sometimes.:neutral:
I can "read" people... get to the root of their personality, very quickly.
No, you can't. Hate to be the one to tell you.
My curse is causing the companies I work for to be taken over. It makes references tricky sometimes.
My first ever job was working Saturdays and Sundays at a family run restaurant. I lost my job when they closed - the restaurant was bought out by Deep Pan Pizza (where I worked next) but sadly they are still there.
I then worked part time for a frozen food company called Bejam. They were sold out to Iceland with a year of me leaving.
My first full time job was at Equitable Life Assurance Society. They were doing so well they had 2 buildings built especially for them and rented another 3. After I left things went downhill pretty quickly - to the extent that they are being sued by some of their customers (complicated financial stuff). I'm not even sure if they have an office here now.
I also went to work for a newly purchased off-shoot of a marketing company. I was employed in Thame, Oxon and moved to London to work on Sloane Street. I got homesick after a few months and moved back. The off-shoot closed within a year, although it had been running for 10 before it was bought up.
My favourite ever job was at Dr Solomons Software. They were bought out by Network Associates (our biggest rival for the UK market) and effectively eaten.
And finally I worked for Leicester City West PCT. We merged with Eastern Leicester PCT and many of the management team who knew me were shuffled off to other PCTs or simply made redundant.
My talent is finding food. It's partly just having a good memory - someone will mention something they like, haven't had for ages, doubt still exists. Weeks or months later I will see it and buy it for them. I've already surprised HM by having things he craves in the store cupboard. Actually my bro did it to me the other day - I was yapping away on the phone and said how I really fancied a Time Out but they seemed to have stopped selling them. He sent me one in the post - choked me up.
But my special talent/curse isn't finding things, it's Asperger's.
That helps me to understand you man. Thanks.
I would not be surprised if many of us here are semi-Aspergerish.
That helps me to understand you man. Thanks.
I would not be surprised if many of us here are semi-Aspergerish.
ass burgers? :yum:
ass burgers? :yum:
I thought it was asshats. I just can't keep up with all the changes in the slang.
my curse is smelling BS. It's also my special talent.
wait....i meant....my talent is believing my own bs.
A local radio "personality" was saying that their curse is new TV series. Each season she gets into a few new shows, and every single one she gets into gets cancelled. My curse is gas prices. When I fill up, the gas price immediatley drops 20c. If I need to fill but am late and have no time to stop, the price jumps 20c before I start my journey home.
My special talent, though, is finding needles in haystacks. If you lose something tiny in an impossible place, I will find it, and pretty quickly. Recently, I 've found a tiny (eyeglasses) screw on a huge grey "sculptured" carpet, and a regular-sized bolt on a half mile stretch of road.
I'm like you monster- I can find anything lost on a whim. This is also my curse because it seems too uncanny that I could find a lost item so quickly. This makes it look like
I misplaced it or tried to
steal it....So I have decided only recently to quit helping.
This happened for the first time in memory when I was about 10, and I recovered my grandmother's wallet. (It was behind her drunk, I mean, wet bar) From that moment on I
should have recognized that this kind of uncanny talent is a curse and could get me in trouble.....
:p
Haha. I also have the finding talent. Even now, from time to time my ex will call up in distress having lost something important (a wallet full of cash, a telephone number on a scrap of paper, a pen-drive) and I'll end up down his house helping him look.
I tend to be better at finding other peoples' stuff....and I don't have to have been in the house before, or be at all familiar with my surroundings. I think I just understand what happens to 'stuff' in the course of a day and the kinds of places it settle in :P
My curse is generally being able to see both sides of an argument. Does my mates' heads in from time to time. When one of them is angry at someone and expressing that to me, it isn't always helpful to start putting the other person's point, or explaining the other person's actions to them...
No, you can't. Hate to be the one to tell you.
LOL! Thanks for that.
But my special talent/curse isn't finding things, it's Asperger's.
That explains a lot. :eyebrow:
My special talent is my biting, acerbic sense of humor.
My curse is that I end up using it around people who end up finding it offensive and/or insulting.
I can touch my tongue over the tip of my nose. I used to also be able to lick my own boobs, but I can't really do that anymore.
My special talent is my biting......
That was all I needed.
My curse is that I have an invisible-to-me indicator of some kind that says to people "This is is a good listener and doesn't mind if you spend the next 45 minutes telling him your life story or about how the person you're dating is an idiot but you still love him/her." The worst part is that this indicator must hide my give-a sh!t meter, because they go on and on and my meter is at 0.
My talent is recall of trivia. Many kinds. For little if any good reason.
ooooh...good one. i think i have that too. mine comes with a crazy guy lure built in too.
Curse, I am a nut-magnet.
So is my wife.
Crazy people are attracted to each of us. When we are together it is awful!
There can be 1000 people on a street, the craziest person will make a bee-line for one of us to exorcise their particular fantasy without provocation or prompting of any kind. We can't figure it out or get it to stop.
Our friends and family think it's a hoot.
rk, Is that why you're attracted to each other?
Refuge from the nuts? I don't know.
Curse, I am a nut-magnet.
So is my wife.
rk, Is that why you're attracted to each other?
Refuge from the nuts? I don't know.
Umm... that would be one interpretation of HLJ's question. :cool:
""With great power comes great responsibility." This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-man."
I guess my curse/talent, is that I have a "listening" ability as well. I think I should have desk plate that I can change from - Secretary, Psychiatrist, Counselor and Problem Solver. All the guys here at work, tell me almost everything, our vendors/salespeople, will sit in my office and talk to me for over 30 mins or more. Even my UPS guy will chit chat, much longer than necessary. It's no biggie, though, it's actually kind of funny - Almost every report card I received in elementary & middle school - stated that I was "Too Talkative", oh well.:)
I think it's funny (funny-strange, not funny ha-ha) that more than a couple of dwellars think they are magnets for people who need to vent/dump/unload, etc. I always felt like people sought me out to vent--listen to their life fucking story--and I HATED it. Where were all you perfect sympathetic listeners when I needed you, huh? It seems to me the world has more of the "need to vent" kind than the "sweet listener" kind.
My curse---being me.
My talent---making being me tolerable.
Where were all you perfect sympathetic listeners when I needed you, huh?
They didn't say they were sympathetic... they just said people dumped on them!:blah:
Where were all you perfect sympathetic listeners when I needed you, huh?
I was SO there for you.
...snip... I always felt like people sought me out to vent--listen to their life fucking story--and I HATED it. Where were all you perfect sympathetic listeners when I needed you, huh? It seems to me the world has more of the "need to vent" kind than the "sweet listener" kind.
Guilty.....sorry :blush:
Aw--I'm just bitchy from pain. Pay no attention!
SteveDallas--you're on notice!
;)
I was SO there for you.
I know. And I just
used you.
I feel so dirty now. :D
I'm good at listening..... for about two minutes. But if you're not done with your summary by then, you're obviously not in desperate enough need for the answer :p
SteveDallas--you're on notice!
;)
Pffft. I've been "on notice" so long I forgot what it's like to be off.
Pffft. I've been "on notice" so long I forgot what it's like to be off.
Well. I could try to get you off.
Are you sure that would be safe?
I do have curse - it concerns cars - no matter what, if something can go wrong in a car, it will with me.
I have had 2 - to catch on fire (while I was driving)
1 - that 3 of the 5 lugs came off (while I was driving) wtf - is that racket? DOH - better pull over, can ya feel that?
Driving down the interstate, (road work going on), one of those "big barrels" was in my lane. Not because the lane was blocked, but I believe someone had hit it earlier, driving to fast as usual - I veered over into the “emergency lane”, but instead of hitting the brake, I hit the gas. There was a decent amount of gravel in that area for whatever reason I turned the wheel a little sharp (got nervous) and started spinning in circles, at least 3 times. That was exciting.
Several more, but those are the highlights.
Well. I could try to get you off.
I dont think that would be hard
Finding the G-spot.
Talent... curse when you have done it consistently for few days on a psycho.
does it move around or something? i mean.....once you find it....?
It can be a bit different and needs different treatment with different women.
I'll say!
What is it?
For many women, it's a highly sensitive, highly erotic area that provides hours of pleasure. For others it's a knobbly bit that, when touched too much, creates an overwhelming sensation of needing a wee. Some women can't feel any sensation at all while others don't seem to have one at all.
....just wondering -are you a formenr urologist or gynacologist? I know you're multi-talented/experienced, but can't remember if it extends to the medical field? Otherwise why would you be finding the g-spots of lots of psychos? Hazard of the modelling industry?
I did not do much modeling... I was an actor. Yes, major hazard of acting.
sorry, mybad -I thought you said modelling in metaforum, but I would not be remotely surprised if i misread -I'm knackered.
Finding the G-spot.
Talent... curse when you have done it consistently for few days on a psycho.
It can be a bit different and needs different treatment with different women.
must have been quite a party
I have been studying sex since I was a kid... call it a hobby.
I have been to some serious parties. Benifits of acting are few, but they did make-up for a lot of the BS.
There is a fun thing you can do...
Put her pelvis up on a pillow, so she is "up" at an angle, don't fully penetrate when you are at your hardest and she is about ready, then press and rotate your thumb between her pelvic bone and her navel, where her g-spot is, pressing it between your penis and your thumb.
Use short, quick, strokes with your penis while you massage with your thumb from the outside... gently but firmly.
This should stimulate her G-spot from both sides, and with two different directions.
It gets results if your aim is good.
ok, did I just log into drsex.com?
No... I'll take it off if you want.
it's ok. I don't care if it's there or not. Others might find it a bit confronting though.
yes well...we know you're a sex goddess ducksy. ;)
Dunno bout that, I just a dirty slurry :)
No ladies...you are missing RK's point. It is ok now to have sex with someone before you intend to create a baby. Unless it is a psycho. You may still be a slut...but if Rk's done it....
Rk finally admits that he might have engaged in such activities?
My curse: insomnia
My talent: knowing powers of 2. (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 .....65,536 ... etc)
Well, as a child I was often lying awake at night, got bored of counting sheep, and starting multiplying by 2 instead. Of course, this was before we had the internet. But not, I note, before aspbergers.
My Curse: always feeling the need to be prepared for major natural disasters.
My Talent: being just out of range of major natural disasters (1983 Adelaide bushfires, killed dozens - missed me by 10 km. 2003 Canberra bushfires, killed four, missed me by 10 km. In Japan I've dodged two typhoons and one significant earthquake, by luck.
I have more but they're less interesting.
No ladies...you are missing RK's point. It is ok now to have sex with someone before you intend to create a baby. Unless it is a psycho. You may still be a slut...but if Rk's done it....
Rk finally admits that he might have engaged in such activities?
I used protection and have always known I was personally against abortion and am willing to do what is right if the slim-chance that it did occur.
I live up to my obligations.
I never stated I was celibate, I simply stated that if you engage in sexual activity with contraceptives that you KNOW are not 100% perfect you must be accountable for your actions... I have always been willing to do that.
Let me know if you don't understand this either. I'm sure there are shiny things about.
I object to the idea that a woman who makes a decision tohave an abortion is not being accountable for her actions.
""With great power comes great responsibility." This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-man."
Be responsible and keep your gooey web stuff away from me, kthxbai.
Rk snippy~Let me know if you don't understand this either. I'm sure there are shiny things about.~Rk snippy
Yea....must be the glare from your gross incongruities.
LOL!
I never stated I was celibate nor should anyone be.
I only stated that if anyone chose to have sex that they should be prepared to accept all possible outcomes...
If you have any evidence of the opposite, please, cite.
Circ's special talent... killin' a party.
that's right, just keep on thinking it is other people who are the problem. don't you get it? your cool guy "i don't care" attitude sucks. most guys gave it up in the 8th grade. if you just drop your attitude, maybe some people would get off your case.
If you learn not to take a simple debate personally, like an 8th grader, then you will understand that I really don't care. No attitude.
but see, there is the catch. people who really don't care don't usually feel the need to point out how much they really really really don't care at every possible chance.
I care about the constant harassment and stalking... that I care about.
It is annoying and rude.
I hope that one day you will learn that all your whining will add-up to nothing.
I think this should be aimed at a few people.
Seriously....double standards much guys?
This IS like fucking high school.
Oh sure, its annoying n shit when RK bangs on about the same things, but when some of the *cool kids* do it...its funny n cute and is basically encouraged.
I think this should be aimed at a few people.
And what gave you the impression it wasn't?
Seriously....double standards much guys?
back atcha
(these pics are from RKs "thread bombs" thread...... ah forget it :rolleyes: )
I object to the idea that a woman who makes a decision to have an abortion is not being accountable for her actions.
www.m-w.com
account
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French acunter, from a- (from Latin ad-) + cunter to count
Date: 14th century
transitive verb
1: to think of as : consider <accounts himself lucky>
2: to probe into : analyze
intransitive verb
1: to furnish a justifying analysis or explanation —used with for<couldn't account for the loss>
2 a: to be the sole or primary factor —used with for<the pitcher accounted for all three putouts> b: to bring about the capture, death, or destruction of something —used with for<accounted for two rabbits>
So - intransitive verb 2b: used with for <accounted for my baby>
I believe the unborn child is the one being held accountable...
I cannot seem to find just the right Smilie or icon to put at the end of this post. Do they make an animated one that shows a smiling face (you pick your favorite color) that is sucked apart by a little vacuum? Or one that is ripped to pieces by a surgical instrument? Or perhaps one that dies from poisoning?
Oh well -- I will settle for this one: :sniff: .
2: to probe into : analyze
intransitive verb
1: to furnish a justifying analysis or explanation —used with for<couldn't account for the loss>
In what way has a woman who makes a decision to abort her baby not accounted for her actions? In what way has that woman not engaged in analysis and decision making?
I believe this thread is becoming my curse.....
Hey Doctor, Dana, and anyone else who is interested in that topic: Let's go to the Men, Abortion, and Choice thread! It's a fun place full of very dark things. You'll love it.
I should have not let that "sexist" comment hang there for months anyway.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming, sorry for the interruption.
:)
*chuckles* oh Cic, I'm well aware of the darkness that lurks in the Abortion thread. :P
*chuckles* oh Cic, I'm well aware of the darkness that lurks in the Abortion thread. :P
No that was for
army, I noticed that he has never posted in that thread. Or anywhere that real issues are being discussed for that matter.
I sometimes wonder about people that use their job descriptions as their title in chat rooms and message boards. Especially ones that need to have security clearance.
Army doctors would know that anonymity is very important in social circles like message boards and civilian haunts. It's comparable to wearing your uniform to the movies or out to a pub off duty......on base it is appropriate sometimes, but off base...not so much.
Hopefully he isn't using the gov. computer my tax dollars paid for to post anti-abortion fundamentalist hooey here on the cellar.
I'm only saying that because if he's going to come on here as an army doctor and not preserve his professional anonymity (security)- well anything can happen from there. Not really a smart move.
Welcome to the Cellar army...but you might want to wear some plain clothes here if you are going to speak on highly political and social topics that are famed for controversy.
If you are a Doctor then you are probably an officer and know that what you are doing is against your own protocol.
he/she is still anonymous and hasn't broken any regulation. he/she hasn't stated if they are a past/current/future doc, active/guard/reserve, rank, specialty, location, assignment.
if he/she wore their uniform and gave a television interview preaching the horrors of abortion and why it should be against the law, then that would be completely inappropriate. as it is, they've created a screen name in a faceless internet community and given their opinion. just like all of us.
My guess by their profile is that they are active and working in the emergency rooms.
I did not say regulations I said protocol. This person also has security regs. to worry about that I know nothing of. There I said Regs.
Well if he/she is going to be usarmy I hope they represent it well. I'm not about to broadcast my company. I would have to put a disclaimer at the bottom of every one of my posts.
I think we putting a little too much weight into someone's username here :P
Circ's special talent... killin' a party.
Way harsh - C - isn't a "Party Pooper"
Hmmm...how does RK know about that night?!? I'm innocent!!!
:)
And when was I named Circ? That only makes since if you are dyslexic. Which I am. Sometimes....
Back to the topic!!!
My other special talent is procrastination. There is a subtle art to not doing something...and not doing that thing well. In fact, I can be doing many great things in avoidance of doing what I am supposed to be doing, which makes what I'm supposed to be doing seem trivial, less fulfilling, and downright less productive. My quality of life even seems to be enhanced while I'm running from the priority, but I seem to do it just in time, and it is usually ends up being awesome....I am great at doing just a little more than expected, just all at once. And my superiors still seemed to be impressed. The art of procrastination is just that..an art. You have to look like you are doing what you are supposed to, be good at what you are actually doing, and deliver the final product, that is impressive, in the nick of time. If you are really good, you just look like you are multi-tasking but you are really procrastinating!
Talkin' to me? Huh?
I don't get it!
procrastination is also a specialty of mine, and you caught me just at that point where I might really need to start thinking about preparing for Thor's party which is at 5 tomorrow after 3 soccer games and buying a new fridge....... I usually decorate the cake while the kids play pass-the-parcel.
And what gave you the impression it wasn't?
back atcha
(these pics are from RKs "thread bombs" thread...... ah forget it :rolleyes: )
Meh, I quoted you, but my post wasnt directed at you in the slightest.
I agree....forget it :rolleyes:
I was looking for the Special Talent thread.
I forgot it went through a Spectacular Row phase.
Never mind, all over now.
Still - I remembered today that one of my special talents is an exceptionally loud clap.
You might be thinking - yeah, right. You might think everyone claps the same volume.
Oh Noes!
I can clap SO loud!
It's all about cupping the hands. I learned it in my school production/ am-dram days.
And as it's technically clapping, Mum can't protest. But I swear, it's the loudest clap in the room. Noisy am us.
Okay I have also been known to whoop when family members are being acknowleged (niece & nephew for example.) But only when officially sanctioned. And I don't stand up. Because I've been asked not to.
Not going back on any of my curses, you've had enough of those.
I was looking for the Special Talent thread.
I forgot it went through a Spectacular Row phase.
Never mind, all over now.
Still - I remembered today that one of my special talents is an exceptionally loud clap.
You might be thinking - yeah, right. You might think everyone claps the same volume.
Oh Noes!
I can clap SO loud!
It's all about cupping the hands. I learned it in my school production/ am-dram days.
And as it's technically clapping, Mum can't protest. But I swear, it's the loudest clap in the room. Noisy am us.
Okay I have also been known to whoop when family members are being acknowleged (niece & nephew for example.) But only when officially sanctioned. And I don't stand up. Because I've been asked not to.
Not going back on any of my curses, you've had enough of those.
Kind of ironic. Usually the clap would fall under the "curse" category.
:D
How so?
I give the clap big time.
Why the issue?
I've no idea why they call me Mary.
I had a friend in college we used to call Kit Kat...I probably shouldn't say what her special talent was...
I had a friend in college we used to call Kit Kat...I probably shouldn't say what her special talent was...
Getting eaten?
It may be a Brit thing.
Fingers....?
Who would you do for a Klondike Bar?
I had a friend in college we used to call Kit Kat...I probably shouldn't say what her special talent was...
Well maybe you
shouldn't, but I think you have to now.
I was looking for the Special Talent thread.
I forgot it went through a Spectacular Row phase.
Never mind, all over now.
Still - I remembered today that one of my special talents is an exceptionally loud clap.
You might be thinking - yeah, right. You might think everyone claps the same volume.
Oh Noes!
I can clap SO loud!
It's all about cupping the hands. I learned it in my school production/ am-dram days.
And as it's technically clapping, Mum can't protest. But I swear, it's the loudest clap in the room. Noisy am us.
Okay I have also been known to whoop when family members are being acknowleged (niece & nephew for example.) But only when officially sanctioned. And I don't stand up. Because I've been asked not to.
Not going back on any of my curses, you've had enough of those.
This post really made me laugh. I do know the logistics behind the loud clap, the whole cupping of the hands thing, but I'm not that good at it. :p
However, I can flip a bottle cap faster and farther than any of you! That is my special talent.
My curse? Eh, just being me. ;)
I just found a video demonstrating the bottle cap flip. lmao!
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1785494/bottle_cap_flipping/It may be a Brit thing.
Fingers....?
yeah, only two over here.....
Just be glad it wasn't fork handles!
Sundae Girl said
"Still - I remembered today that one of my special talents is an exceptionally loud clap.
You might be thinking - yeah, right. You might think everyone claps the same volume.
Oh Noes!
I can clap SO loud!
It's all about cupping the hands. I learned it in my school production/ am-dram days.
And as it's technically clapping, Mum can't protest. But I swear, it's the loudest clap in the room. Noisy am us."
Ah ha......Sundae girl!!! You sound like my sort of person. We share this same talent (or curse depending where you are standing..or even sitting). 'Tis so true that not all claps are the same and some of us do have this ability to destroy eardrums with but a clap! My clap is also very loud and yes...it is all down to the cupping of the hands. I was taught how to do it by my grandfather when I was but a boy. Maybe we can compare claps sometime hahaha!
Howdy Loud Clapping Dave!
And a big HELLO to you, oh lovely Queen of the Ryche! Thanks for the welcome. How's your Loud Clap haha? :
