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What is your Superpower?

  • 05-12-2013 08:56PM
    #1
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭


    Everybody has some kind of weird quirk or thing that they can inexplicably do
    better than others in the most random/mundane of activities.

    I call these ordinary person superpowers:

    My Dad for example can get to sleep within a couple of minutes no matter where we are - very annoying watching him drop off to a nice sleep on any journey lasting longer than 30 mins!

    And then a friend of mine can drink a whole pint in about 2-3 seconds (couldn't attest to how much he enjoys them though! :p )

    So good people of AH, what are the little things that you can do that make you super?


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  • #2
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    I can put a fruit pastille in me mouth without chewing it. ;)


  • #3
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    emm, I can reach down to the bottom of a Pringles tube...?


    ..I have small hands..


  • #4
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Can patiently listen to the most boring Father Stone styled conversations for hours on end....


  • #5
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    wprathead wrote: »
    emm, I can reach down to the bottom of a Pringles tube...?


    ..I have small hands..

    Thought you were going to say with your tongue there for a second.


  • #6
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Can take a perfect picture of a mirror without my reflection getting in the way.

    Unlike the countless photos clogging up by facebook feed, generally taken by girls, when they ALWAYS manage to get their reflection in the shot.


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  • #7
    The One Who Knocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    I never get hangovers....


    ...cause I don't drink


  • #8
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    I can eat over a tenner worth of food in McDonalds, and still be hungry.


  • #9
    weemcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,588 ✭✭✭weemcd


    A complete and total lack of empathy


  • #10
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    I always get the USB in the jack every time, even in the dark.


  • #11
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    MJ23 wrote: »
    I can eat over a tenner worth of food in McDonalds, and still be hungry.

    Yeah I find that too! Kind of weird that it doesn't really fill you up...haha I also always feel like I need a shower after a McDonalds :D


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  • #12
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Temptamperu wrote: »
    I always get the USB in the jack every time, even in the dark.

    That's a euphemism. I know a euphemism when I see one and that's a euphemism!!


  • #13
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    weemcd wrote: »
    A complete and total lack of empathy

    Same here , its cost me countless problems working in homeless/drug services.

    "Yer what ? hungry , yeah so "

    and my favourite "is there a doctor here ? yeah me "


  • #14
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    I can swallow cocktail sausages whole. Straight down the hatch. I do it wherever a plate of cocktail sausages may be laid down in my vicinity.
    Any more than 3 is a struggle. It's tough on the digestive system.


  • #15
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    MJ23 wrote: »
    I can swallow cocktail sausages whole. Straight down the hatch. I do it wherever a plate of cocktail sausages may be laid down in my vicinity.
    Any more than 3 is a struggle. It's tough on the digestive system.

    I'd be really impressed if they had the little pointy sticks in them when you swallowed thwm


  • #16
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    Photographic memory, never found a real use for it though..


  • #17
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    SV wrote: »
    Photographic memory, never found a real use for it though..

    **** bank?


  • #18
    Ilyana 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    I have a freakishly good long-term memory. I'm usually called upon to settle disputes about stuff that happened when I was, like, six.

    I'm pretty good at spelling too; in those DAT tests we did in secondary school I scored in the 99th percentile for spelling and grammar.


  • #19
    CFlat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,099 ✭✭✭CFlat


    I can watch a full hour of Vincent Brown and understand what he's on about.





















    P.S. Actually, no I can't.


  • #20
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    The Pheasant2 wrote: »
    **** bank?

    Thought that myself .


  • #21
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    Right yeah, I guess the problem is finding things that are good enough to go in that bank.


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  • #22
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    I can blink without actually closing my eyes.


  • #23
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    I can tell if someone is Asian merely by looking at the back of their heads.

    Oh and op, they are called very mild superpowers as discovered by David O'Doherty.


  • #24
    stampydmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭stampydmonkey


    King of spacial relations..whatever that means


  • #25
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    MadsL wrote: »
    That's a euphemism. I know a euphemism when I see one and that's a euphemism!!


    Is that a euphemism for "your wife has a huge fanny"?


  • #26
    CFlat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,099 ✭✭✭CFlat


    SV wrote: »
    Photographic memory, never found a real use for it though..

    Don't worry, someday you'll snap out of it.


  • #27
    Jester252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    I can fall asleep within 5 minutes of any journey and wake up just before I get to my destination. Handy for an hour or more bus trip.
    I can swallow pills whole.


  • #28
    Feathers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Feathers




  • #29
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    SV wrote: »
    Photographic memory, never found a real use for it though..

    Law degree sir, law degree!!!


  • #30
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Jester252 wrote: »
    I can swallow pills whole.

    Ermmm...


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  • #31
    Jester252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    MadsL wrote: »
    Ermmm...

    with water or any other lubricant ;)


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