I am unable to do the magic eye things, my eyes just don’t focus on that way. Good thing I never am required to

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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    50 minutes ago

    I have a nervous tick test only comes out in very rare situations (access to a particular weight of cloth at hand height) and caused me to develop a thick callous on the thumb side of the first knuckle on each middle finger.

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    1 hour ago

    Turns out I only have one kidney. Went in for a scan of my bladder (which was fine), and the nurse doing the scan just casually mentioned it. I had no idea. I was 43 at the time.

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    4 hours ago

    I never learned to ride a bike and every attempt has been met with injuries as soon as I build a modicum of confidence. But I can rollerblade like nobody’s business, so I got that going for me.

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      How do you slow down / stop with rollerblades? I had the reverse experience: any kind of hill, I’m fine on a bike but I always crash on rollerblades. I would love to learn though.

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      I had a dream I was rollerblading last night… the last time I put on roller blades was in 2006!

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    4 hours ago

    A near-complete lack of rhythm and profound tone deafness. I can’t keep a beat to save my life, and my singing sounds like the wails of the damned. But like damned chimps or something.

    Anyway, all music is sorcery as far as I’m concerned.

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    6 hours ago

    My right foot is almost one size wider than my left foot. Finding a good pair of shoes is hard.

    And I can’t remember what kind of clothes people are wearing. Colours, sometimes, but it’s like my visual cortex dedicates zero processing power for clothes.

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    Due to an old eye injury, I do not have a functional drain tube for my left eye (that channel that drains from the corner of your eye and into your nose).

    Normally it’s not something anyone notices, but in cold headwind and anything else that causes my eyes to water, it looks like I’m crying my heart out but only with one eye.

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    I can’t roll my r’s. I speak pretty decent Spanish (took 5 semesters in high school), but have never been able to figure out how to roll the r’s, despite years of trying on and off to figure it out.

    It’s never a problem. On the rare occasions that I actually need to speak Spanish, nobody cares that I can’t roll my r’s.

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      I have the same problem, except one day I figured it out! I was rolling rrrs all day! But the next day I woke up and could only sort of do it. And now I can’t do it at all again, despite trying to learn.

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      You might have a physical limitation, I’ve met native people who can’t roll their Rs, it’s still fairly simple to understand as long as you’re pronouncing them as Rs, or something close/distinct enough, e.g. English R (How an English speaker pronounces the R in for example Row)

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      6 hours ago

      Is it a tongue issue ? a girl I knew in school couldn’t do the english “th” because the leash below her tongue was too short

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      I have this same problem and my wife is actually from Mexico City and I travel to Mexico pretty often.

      It’s really fun though, I refer to our chihuahuas as “los perritos” but it sounds like “little farts” due to my pronunciation. Her family loves having me read things in Spanish poorly as if I don’t know the language (which is hard!).

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    I I don’t know what Roblox is. I do know what discord is, but I seem to be unable to use it correctly? Also, although I have downloaded some stuff from GitHub a few times, I can never remember how to do it the next time, and the layout and UI make zero sense to me, every time.

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      I’m with you on github for sure. I assume people who use it regularly think it has a decent layout but to me it seems so random and disjointed that I can’t imagine how that’s possible.

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        GitHub and all the other sites like it are a bit odd from a UI perspective cuz they’re catering to both regular users (including the “where exe” crowd) and devs, who need to access the million options git gives and all the extras it doesn’t (automated build and testing systems, for example). Going to a project and downloading prebuilt binaries is kinda a tertiary purpose for them, so the UI is more focused on the project’s source code + build instructions and the tooling to work with those instead.

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    9 hours ago

    Can’t whistle loudly. I can barely do it quietly. I certainly can’t do that badass thing where you put fingers from both hands into your mouth and blow.

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      I once told someone, “I can’t do it, but I’ve seen people demonstrate it. You have to push your tongue back so it curls up, and…”

      Then I demonstrated what I was shown, and it worked!

      And then I was never able to do it again.

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      8 hours ago

      I hate when people “show you how to do it”, they’re always showing you the back of their hand, like that’s supposed to help.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    8 hours ago

    I can’t whistle with my fingers. Like thr thumb and index finger ring or just both pinkies. Totally understand the principle of it with splitting the air (I’ve even made flutes and ocarinas from clay), but just can’t do it with my fingers.

    But I can whistle equally as loud inhaling as I can exhaling. 🤷‍♂️