Special or unusual skills

[fingal]

Does anyone have any special skills or talents to tell us about?

I can use chopsticks really well, and manipulate a coin back and forth between the fingers of one hand (it took a lot of practice).

[easuter]

manipulate a coin back and forth between the fingers of one hand

sort of like the evil masterminds in hollywood movies?

hmmm lets see..i'm 1,95m tall, so i'm always the one to paint the seiling or clean the chimney.

[fingal]

sort of like the evil masterminds in hollywood movies?

Yes! You'll sometimes find me sitting in a bar doing that. A good way to start a conversation.

[djap]

Special skills...
I can be quiet in several hundred different languages...

But seriosly talkin nothing comes to my mind right now.

I can use chopsticks really well, and manipulate a coin back and forth between the fingers of one hand (it took a lot of practice).

I would want to learn to use chopsticks. I actually asked one chinese friend to bring me them as a suiveneir when she left to visit her parents to china... but she forgot them.

[fingal]

Special skills...
I can be quiet in several hundred different languages...

But seriosly talkin nothing comes to my mind right now.

I would want to learn to use chopsticks. I actually asked one chinese friend to bring me them as a suiveneir when she left to visit her parents to china... but she forgot them.

Here's some info. about how to use chopsticks. It refers to Japanese ones which are shorter, but the technique is the same.

[Dapper Dan]

Hi fingal,

I'm convinced Chinese food taste better when eaten with chopsticks. Using them has become second nature to me.

Other "talents?" Let's see...

I can juggle, tie a cherry stem into a knot with my tongue, and my greatest talent is opening a bottle of beer with my teeth, (not the screw off caps).

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i can get pretty wasted without getting a hangover the next morning.

[fingal]

Hi fingal,

I'm convinced Chinese food taste better when eaten with chopsticks. Using them has become second nature to me.

Other "talents?" Let's see...

I can juggle, tie a cherry stem into a knot with my tongue, and my greatest talent is opening a bottle of beer with my teeth, (not the screw off caps).

Hi Dan

Definitely! I love eating food the way it's meant to be eaten. The trick with the bottle cap is impressive. I would probably break my teeth if I tried that.

[cousinlucky]

Back in the 1970's a woman named Joy invited me to her apartment for dinner. There were about thirty bowls containing different macrobiotic foods, but no forks. My Grandmother was a prize winning cook so I know good food.

The delicious smell was driving me crazy, so I could not eat until I learned how to use her chopsticks. I learned later that silverware disrupts the energy within the food; so I seldom use silverware any more.

In my wallet I keep a chart that I compiled about nine star ki. When I meet people that I am going to have to deal with I ask them when they were born. Then I tell them what kind of relationship we are permitted to have. I am very bad at remembering names, but I always remember who they are according to the chart.

Some people get a little scared about this basic understanding of Yin and Yang. The older I get the more I realize just how ignorant I am of all there is to know.

[fingal]

Hi cousinlucky

Thanks for bumping this not very popular thread! I love using chopsticks, but don't get to use them as much as I'd like. I had some Thai food recently and that was fun.

Someone told me they'd be impressed if I could use the chopsticks to replace a bottle top and screw it back on - which I did - but they weren't actually that impressed!

fingal