Reyali ,

Lots of things that ultimately come down to hyper-mobility (thanks Ehlers-Danlos!), including:

  • Lick my elbow
  • Pull my shoulder visibly out of socket (not painful at all, and happens if I carry something heavy if I’m not careful)
  • Pop my hip out of socket while standing (sometimes painful, always somewhat unpleasant, so I’ve had to learn how to not do it)
  • Hold my hands behind my back and pull them to my front
  • Rotate my arm >360°
  • Bend my thumb to my forearm
Nefara ,

I can whistle in three different ways. The classic pursed lip whistle, a whistle using just the tip of my tongue and the roof of my mouth, not using my lips at all, and then another using the tops of my bottom teeth. I can make decent bird sounds using my bottom teeth, but I can do pretty much any tune I can think of with the pursed lip method. It has been relevant to my life exactly zero times, except to entertain myself.

Deadrek ,

Ah! I have another whistling method! I can use my throat. It's like a heavily modified sigh? It's the best way I can describe how to even try to do it.

With practice I think I could get it loud enough to be disorientating to the unsuspecting though. Lol

Nefara ,

Ha! I haven't heard of that, but maybe I should try to learn it just to know more ways. Not that I'm doing much with the ones I do know at the moment, lol

Ephera ,

I've got a tooth gap through which I can whistle. And it's working so well, that I can also audibly whistle while breathing in. So, I can actually whistle pretty much continuously for like 10+ minutes, until my cheeks start hurting. Only really useful getting on someone's nerves...

Nefara , (edited )

That's how I learned the bottom tooth whistle! One of my bottom front teeth was a bit crooked and created a tiny gap at the top, and I learned to whistle through it. When I got my teeth straightened I lost the ability to do the invert whistle and some of my control but I can still do it well enough with the pursed lip method.

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

I can roll my R's like a Spaniard and move my boobs on their own but that's it.

morphballganon ,

Video of both at the same time?

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

How does one do that on here?

GnomeKat ,
@GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Pop my knees

kionite231 ,

My knees pop even when I just casually walk. Maybe I should see a doctor.

ohlaph ,

You can partially wave at the wall in a dark, but cold and loud room.

Feathercrown ,

We don't talk about The Room

MicrowavedTea ,

I can bring my hands from the back of my body to the front (and the opposite) while holding them together. There might be a use for this if I ever get tied up.

Rocketpoweredgorilla ,
@Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca avatar

Me too. the local police even stopped handcuffing me behind my back because I'd just step over so my hands were in front again.

lol_idk ,

So your talent the handcuffing thing or your familiarity with the police?

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

Would've been a nice skill for me to have at one point.

JayEchoRay ,
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I can fold my ears twice - so from the top of my ear I fold it towards the bottom of my ear and at the point where it folds I can fold it again across over the first fold.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S ,
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I can poop on the floor. But I bet you can too.

Rocketpoweredgorilla ,
@Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca avatar

Instructions unclear. Anyone know how to clean a popcorn ceiling?

Deadrek ,

Pre or post pop?

shinigamiookamiryuu ,
FancyPantsFIRE ,
@FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee avatar

This is my time to shine, my body is full of useless, I can:

  • gleek intentionally (saving people a search: it’s causing the salivary glands under your tongue to shoot saliva, people often do it unintentionally when yawning)
  • open my jaw wide enough that it goes out of socket, and twofer I can then move it side to side and produce a loud popping noise
  • bend my thumb down to my wrist
  • cause my heart rate to spike for short periods even when at rest
  • make a three leaf clover with my tongue
  • click my tongue extremely loudly
Interstellar_1 OP ,
@Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

By shoot, does it have force or do you mean it just comes out?

FancyPantsFIRE ,
@FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee avatar

It has “force”, but it’s not very impressive, I can shoot saliva in approximately a 1ft / 30cm arch.

thefool ,

I can also gleek but it's nowhere near what my grade 11 English teacher could do. I don't know how it came up in class, but, in front of the class, she turned sideways and made the biggest arc I'd ever seen: maybe 6 feet long

ramble81 ,

I remember when I was a kid we were all trying to gleek and some of us could do it easily. I never could, so anytime as an adult I accidentally do it, I can’t help but laugh.

vivavideri ,

A friend taught me how to gleek in 7th grade. I never stopped doing it lmao

Hadriscus ,

oh my god, so that's what I'm doing when I yawn! It started happening a few years ago...

Sasha ,

Tongue clicks are absurdly useful. In my family we use then to communicate over long distances and to find each other in big crowds

whoisearth ,
@whoisearth@lemmy.ca avatar

click my tongue extremely loudly

Learn Xhosa.

Bonifratz ,

I can crack the knuckles of my big toes at will (only moving my toes, no hands involved).

casual_observer ,

Ditto.

Bishma ,
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If I press on the corners of my eye it forces air down my naso-lacrimal duct (that lets tears drain into our sinuses) and it makes a squeak loud enough for people sitting next to be to hear. I have a built in nose flute.

r0ertel ,

A nose flute, awesome! I have the opposite where I can blow air out the other way, but sometimes it will squirt out a stream of tears.

FeelThePower ,
@FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I can make fart sounds with only my hands

kionite231 ,

I can too with my hand and armpit ;)

ArbitraryValue ,

Sometimes when I open my mouth really wide, I somehow spray a little stream of saliva, like from a squirt gun. It makes me feel like the dilophosaurus in Jurassic Park, but so far I haven't been able to do it on purpose.

Rhynoplaz ,

The gleek. Someone else mentioned it on here. I've known a few people who can do it on command.

Vanth ,
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King of the middle school boys in the '00s was the one who could gleek the furthest.

Rhynoplaz ,

Middle school in the 90s wasn't much different.

tiefling , (edited )

I can hammer nails and icepicks into my head. I'm very fire resistant and eat fire. I have a split tongue. I can keep my eyes open for a VERY long time.

TBF I'm a sideshow and fire performer so I'm cheating

Feathercrown ,

Are you a demon and who summoned you

tiefling , (edited )

Yes

Kolanaki ,
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I can inhale through my butthole to fart on command.

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

What are you, a turtle?

Whitebrow ,

Heheheheh. Turdle.

shinigamiookamiryuu ,
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