Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

What are you an expert in?

13567

Comments

  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Candie wrote: »
    I get the USB lead in the right way round, first time. Every time.

    I can also slam revolving doors.

    Sadly, USB-C is about to make you obsolete.

    We'll still love you though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,471 ✭✭✭7 Seconds...


    Hammer89 wrote: »
    Do you break his socks in half?
    No I can't say that I do:).


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    Boob grabbing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Boob grabbing

    And Jim bob scratching


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    anna080 wrote: »
    And Jim bob scratching

    Both ends too :pac:


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    The DC2 Integra Type R. I have owned 4 of them over a period of 10 years and pretty much know absolutely every nut bolt and wire in them. I am/was an administrator on the biggest Integra forum and I'd say there is very very little I don't know about them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭Dufflecoat Fanny


    being in the wrong profession (until yesterday). :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Getting the measure of a person on first meeting them, never been wrong yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,476 ✭✭✭neonsofa


    73Cat wrote: »
    Getting the measure of a person on first meeting them, never been wrong yet.

    My brother has this talent too. I'll introduce him to a friend and he'll say afterwards that they're weird/untrustworthy/whatever and I'll ignore him and then he'll turn out to be right. Every time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    anna080 wrote: »
    Did my thesis for my undergrad on Oscar Wilde. Must have read every play, novel and poem he ever wrote and every biography and book dedicated to him. So I know a fair bit about him.


    “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,571 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Broadish knowledge on many things, some subjects more so than others, but no true expert in anything really. I'm handy at what I do for a living if that counts.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭my3cents


    neonsofa wrote: »
    My brother has this talent too. I'll introduce him to a friend and he'll say afterwards that they're weird/untrustworthy/whatever and I'll ignore him and then he'll turn out to be right. Every time.

    So what you are really saying is that you are an expert at attracting weird/untrustworthy people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,476 ✭✭✭neonsofa


    my3cents wrote: »
    So what you are really saying is that you are an expert at attracting weird/untrustworthy people.

    It really is a gift. I do it so well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭Sue Pa Key Pa


    Providing very well for my family with minimal effort. I'm a lazy fecker


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,560 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.

    I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.

    Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets. I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I’m bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.

    I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don’t perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat .400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me.

    I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.

    I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four-course meals using only a Mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.

    Jeez, you nearly had me there, until I got to the bit about Elvis... :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Running Balance


    Would have said the history of the Irish college in West clare - remember I did it in leaving cert history. But just remembered I actually copied/regurgitated my sister's essay from 3 years earlier.

    So I know f**k all about it that she doesn't know..

    So in answer to your question - nothing


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭my3cents


    neonsofa wrote: »
    It really is a gift. I do it so well.

    Don't worry your not the only one :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Uninformed posting.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭dbagman


    Skullduggery

    And what a truly magnificent and underused word it is.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Boasting. But I dont like to talk about it too much.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    Expert in various asylum and human rights legislation since 2000-when I say expert-they pay me for my opinion -

    Not trying to bust your bubble but it's hardly unique.
    I mean as far as I can see everyone in after hours is qualified in this.the only difference is they don't get get paid to give their opinion.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Harry Potter trivia.
    Naming, locating and knowing the capitals of all of the countries in the world.

    Bullsh!tting about myself in interviews. Now that's a real skill.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    The DC2 Integra Type R. I have owned 4 of them over a period of 10 years and pretty much know absolutely every nut bolt and wire in them. I am/was an administrator on the biggest Integra forum and I'd say there is very very little I don't know about them.

    That sounds like a "come at me bro" at Wibbs.
    Thread could get interesting.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    That sounds like a "come at me bro" at Wibbs.
    Thread could get interesting.
    I'd know a bit about them, more on the production/history end and specs than on the nuts and bolts(I'd be more amateur on that end). I've driven them for longer though so I'm ahead there at least :D(drove the very first officially sold in Ireland example way back in 98).

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    1970s Honda and Kawasaki motorbikes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭chupacabra


    the industrial output of the Ottoman empire during WWI


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,165 ✭✭✭enda1


    anna080 wrote: »
    Did my thesis for my undergrad on Oscar Wilde. Must have read every play, novel and poem he ever wrote and every biography and book dedicated to him. So I know a fair bit about him.

    I'll be in front of his grave in about 20 minutes :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    enda1 wrote: »
    I'll be in front of his grave in about 20 minutes :)

    I was there a few years ago. Jim Morrison is buiried there too!


  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    anna080 wrote: »
    I was there a few years ago. Jim Morrison is buiried there too!

    Chopin is also buried there, and since both the French and the Polish claim him as one of theirs, the Polish Embassy delivers a bouquet of flowers to be laid on his grave every week. Proust, Balzac, Bizet and Rossini are also buried there.

    You could spend a couple of days exploring the place, easily.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Candie wrote: »
    Chopin is also buried there, and since both the French and the Polish claim him as one of theirs, the Polish Embassy delivers a bouquet of flowers to be laid on his grave every week. Proust, Balzac, Bizet and Rossini are also buried there.

    You could spend a couple of days exploring the place, easily.

    You really could. It's like a maze. When I was there, there were several guards protecting Jim's grave as it had become a popular place for fans to overdose and kill themselves!
    I think Edith Piaf is buried there too


Advertisement
Advertisement