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What skill or talent would you love to possess?

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    #32
    RedXIV
    Registered Users Posts: 8,408 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    I want to be able to throw a fireball like Ryu from Street fighter. How awesome would that be?

    Standing in the smoking area. Hot girl fumbles for lighter beside me.
    Hot girl: "Got a light?"
    Me: "why yes I do..... HADOUKEN!!!!"

    Hot girls eyebrows evaporate in amazement


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    #33
    RonanP77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,182 ✭✭✭RonanP77


    I'd like to have a photographic memory.


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    #34
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Cheese Wagstaff wrote: »
    I play guitar, piano and funnily enough I have a degree in...Maths & English. Want to attend my seminar? It also doubles as a typing workshop.

    Myself, I would love to have "perpetual charisma", I suppose like always being in the zone. Sometimes in life when you meet people, you're not at your best and you'd give a bad impression or not come off the way you'd hoped. The ability to avoid that would be great, it would help you to maximise all potential opportunities that could come your way.


    That's one of those "be careful what you wish for" kind of things, because it can be difficult to switch off, leading to all sorts of other issues. I agree with you that it does help maximise your opportunities, but then it can also lead to you overthinking all sorts of permutations which will drive you nuts! I should know >_>

    I'd sign up for your seminar though in guitar lessons and English, could well do with improving my English in order to communicate more effectively! :o


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    #35
    ElizaT33
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭ElizaT33


    To walk on water ....! ;)


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    #36
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    dark crystal wrote: »
    What skill or talent would you love to possess?

    Time manipulation. To be able to erase the mistakes that I, family & close friends have made in life. And of course, nip ahead to get the Euromillions winning numbers and then pop back to the present to buy a ticket.


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    #37
    Yurt2
    Registered Users Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    I'd love to know an effective martial art like Judo or Krav Maga really well. Got jumped a few years back by a couple of scummers and always regret I wasn't able to prevent it or defend myself a little bit. Still makes me angry thinking about it.


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    #38
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    daisybun wrote: »
    In perfect harmony?
    That's the song I hear


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    #39
    Mountainsandh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    I'd love to be good at crafts, making pretty things with my hands. I'm ok with drawing, but I just can't handle icing and decorating buns. The other Mums always have such pretty cakes they're like Pinterest ones, and mine are the misshaped plain madeira cakes. :(


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    #40
    dark crystal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    Sing, I love singing but I can't do it :(


    I can sing very well, but I haven't found it attracts the opposite sex as much as people seem to think it can...Opera singing now that's a different story.

    The piano thing, I took a year of piano lessons, but still never made it anywhere near professional level. I can play by ear pretty well, but I'd love to be able to play really well.


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    #41
    Royal Legend
    Registered Users Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭Royal Legend


    I'd love to be a clairvoyant so as I could help loads of people to speak with their dead relations.


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    #42
    daisybun
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭daisybun


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    That's the song I hear

    Let the world sing today, so...


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    #43
    Yarf Yarf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 289 ✭✭Yarf Yarf


    I'd love to be a great artist. Not just good at painting portraits and landscapes, but to be able to create art out of concepts and feelings and being able to express myself through art. It just seems like it would be really cathartic or something.


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    #44
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    dark crystal wrote: »
    I can sing very well, but I haven't found it attracts the opposite sex as much as people seem to think it can...Opera singing now that's a different story.

    The piano thing, I took a year of piano lessons, but still never made it anywhere near professional level. I can play by ear pretty well, but I'd love to be able to play really well.

    Opera singing is difficult as bejaysus. Step aside jillian michaels abs workout
    I don't know how they do it for 4 hours


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    #45
    dark crystal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Opera singing is difficult as bejaysus. Step aside jillian michaels abs workout
    I don't know how they do it for 4 hours

    Jillian Michales is hard! I find singing easy, but playing the piano like Chopin, Rachmaninov or Shostaokovic elludes me.


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    #46
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    I'd love to be able to stop living inside my own head and actually become the genius inside.


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    #47
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    @ DC: Do you do classical / opera yea? The support stuff from the core with the accent method kills me!
    Piano is great. Haven't played in years. Hammering out some rachmaninov is the way to kill stress :D


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    #48
    JohnFalstaff
    Registered Users Posts: 874 ✭✭✭JohnFalstaff


    Dancing the Spiral


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    #49
    Cheese Wagstaff
    Registered Users Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Cheese Wagstaff


    dark crystal wrote: »
    I can sing very well, but I haven't found it attracts the opposite sex as much as people seem to think it can...Opera singing now that's a different story.

    The piano thing, I took a year of piano lessons, but still never made it anywhere near professional level. I can play by ear pretty well, but I'd love to be able to play really well.

    I'd agree on that. I find singing very easy, and you'd get maybe praise and the classic "I wish I could do that", but if it's swooning girls you're looking for, it's not quite the abundant phenomenon people build it up to be.

    Not that it hasn't worked on a couple of occasions, it's just not the Pied Piper of Hamelin story that we all wish it was.


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    #50
    gidget
    Registered Users Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭gidget


    I'd love to be bilingual in many languages

    I'd love to be able to do sign language too


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    #51
    ima_believer
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭ima_believer


    Love to be able to sing well!


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    #52
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    gidget wrote: »
    I'd love to be bilingual in many languages

    I'd love to be able to do sign language too

    Perhaps in two? :p


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    #53
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Sing
    Play sports


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    #54
    Sauve
    Registered Users Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    I'd love to be a really good natural runner. Like the Kenyans that lollop along without it knocking a bother out of them. That level of natural talent is so lovely to watch.

    As opposed to seeing pictures of myself run, every single one of them could be a meme :pac:


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    #55
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    To be able to control an Orgasm

    21/25



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    #56
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    Teleportation. That'd do me.

    It would take care of the drive to work of a morning anyway.

    I suppose that it would make bank robberies easy as well.


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    #57
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    I'm really surprised by how many people really want to be able to sing. I bet you all have lovely voices.


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    #58
    guitarzero
    Registered Users Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭guitarzero


    To be able to play like this guy on drums (7.48mins on...)



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    #59
    ascophere
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭ascophere


    Che Guevara's roguish looks and charm.
    Hitler's oratorical abilities.
    Pol pot's smile and virility.
    Obama's marketability.
    Gore Vidal's sense of humour.
    Noam Chomsky's complete lack of a sense of humour.
    Wolverine's healing ability.
    Finally to be able to pot every ball from a break on a pool table every time without fail.


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    #60
    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    Languages would be a nice one if its a real skill/talent

    If we can make them up then I'd like to FLY


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    #61
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    I'D LIKE TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE IN LOWER CAPS.


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