What's your useless skill?
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Also just for any kind of sales, honestly. I’m always surprised that regular customers at my bakery like being recognized, but they generally do. I was once in the Taco Bell drive through and the cashier asked me how I get my hair to grow so quickly (I grow it out until it’s long enough to donate, then chop it off and start anew), which implied a very long term recognition, so I stopped going to tb for a few months, because I hated the idea of being observed. I’m autistic and not especially social, though, so I can understand that I’m the outlier here.
I would be proud of being recognized at a local bakery, and similarly uncomfortable being recognized at a Taco Bell.
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Also just for any kind of sales, honestly. I’m always surprised that regular customers at my bakery like being recognized, but they generally do. I was once in the Taco Bell drive through and the cashier asked me how I get my hair to grow so quickly (I grow it out until it’s long enough to donate, then chop it off and start anew), which implied a very long term recognition, so I stopped going to tb for a few months, because I hated the idea of being observed. I’m autistic and not especially social, though, so I can understand that I’m the outlier here.
I think it's very context dependent.
Pharmacists often recognize me and I'd rather they didn't. But I get it. I'm there almost every week for something.
My favorite bubble tea place now recognizes the car I drive so they will prepare my tea as I'm parking and it's ready by the time I get to the counter. I did tell them that on occasion I'll order something different but I appreciated it nonetheless.
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I kinda have both. I have to know if that cardassian holographic doctor was someone in scrubs. And why do I recognize the chicken from the chicken ad in Bojack horseman and how is it not Terry Crews?
Wasn't the cardassian holographic doctor on Doogie Howser?
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IMDB used to have an amazing cross-search. You could put any combination of actor, crew, movie/show title and it would bring out common movies/shows.
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Wasn't the cardassian holographic doctor on Doogie Howser?
No but he was in a lot of medical shows
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I know we’re all here for the LOLs, but just a quick reminder: it’s ok to enjoy things without being able to monetize them.
While of course it is, also if you have natural talent for something and enjoy it then monitizing it means you you might be able to do a job you enjoy.
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Also just for any kind of sales, honestly. I’m always surprised that regular customers at my bakery like being recognized, but they generally do. I was once in the Taco Bell drive through and the cashier asked me how I get my hair to grow so quickly (I grow it out until it’s long enough to donate, then chop it off and start anew), which implied a very long term recognition, so I stopped going to tb for a few months, because I hated the idea of being observed. I’m autistic and not especially social, though, so I can understand that I’m the outlier here.
I like it when I'm remembered because it means that I was worth remembering.
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If you give me a pair of knipex snips, I can tell you the generic resin of a polymeric material by cutting it.
I wonder whether I could stump you. The place where I work makes a couple of very niche polymers.
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Also just for any kind of sales, honestly. I’m always surprised that regular customers at my bakery like being recognized, but they generally do. I was once in the Taco Bell drive through and the cashier asked me how I get my hair to grow so quickly (I grow it out until it’s long enough to donate, then chop it off and start anew), which implied a very long term recognition, so I stopped going to tb for a few months, because I hated the idea of being observed. I’m autistic and not especially social, though, so I can understand that I’m the outlier here.
People recognize my husband (visual disability) and my twin (distinct dress style) around and it makes me so fucking uncomfortable when they do. Especially now here in the us. Please don't remember us. Forget us and leave us alone. But they act like I'm an asshole for being super uncomfortable with people just fucking coming up and being all "oh you're from x place!" cause also just because they recognize someone doesn't mean you comment on that?? I was taught that was rude as fuck?? You also don't know us at all????
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IMDB used to have an amazing cross-search. You could put any combination of actor, crew, movie/show title and it would bring out common movies/shows.
That sounds cool I wonder why they stopped it
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No completely true. You can win gift cards at bar trivia.
I know this because, in college, I had to take Greek mythology to get an engineering degree. I can honestly say I've never used the Greek mythology knowledge anywhere but bar trivia.
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That sounds cool I wonder why they stopped it
I’m guessing Amazon bought them and dicked everything up.
Guessing, I have no idea if that’s true but it would add up.
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I’m terrible at this. [It’s maybe because I watch my shows in black and white due to a cognitive processing disability].
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I can say the alphabet backwards, really fast. I also know all the digits of pi in ascending order
Yeah, well I know all the digits of pi in base pi
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I know we’re all here for the LOLs, but just a quick reminder: it’s ok to enjoy things without being able to monetize them.
Especially when that skill is "remember a face."
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IMDB used to have an amazing cross-search. You could put any combination of actor, crew, movie/show title and it would bring out common movies/shows.
It used to have amazing discussion forums as well, fuck you amazon
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No completely true. You can win gift cards at bar trivia.
I know this because, in college, I had to take Greek mythology to get an engineering degree. I can honestly say I've never used the Greek mythology knowledge anywhere but bar trivia.
There have been few things in my life more satisfying than being in a room full of generally smart, knowledgeable people, and being the only one who knows the answer to a trivia question. It's happened a few times in my life, and usually it's about mythology.
One time while scoring the round, the quizmaster was asking the questions aloud and letting the crowd shout back the correct answers. When it came to the Greek mythology question I was the only one who shouted, "Tartarus!" Someone in the back of the room shouted, "Nerd!" Later in the round he found me and apologized, but it didn't bother me.
For my first baby shower we hired our quizmaster to host trivia. In the interest of fairness, our six person team was split across three of the teams. It ended in a three-way tie, and the tiebreaker was the name of Odin's horse. It was Sleipnir, which means "Slippy". Slippy the eight-legged horse. That one was especially satisfying.
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No completely true. You can win gift cards at bar trivia.
I know this because, in college, I had to take Greek mythology to get an engineering degree. I can honestly say I've never used the Greek mythology knowledge anywhere but bar trivia.
I think you could get more creative with your language, with that knowledge. If nothing else, reading the Bible (or catching the cliffs notes) and getting a firm understanding of 'The Classics' gives you an immense wealth of phrases and references to help illustrate your point that are so ingrained in Western culture and media that you're likely to strike more points with it than without.
I'm still making my way through that herculean effort, that sisyphusian task. I struggled like Odysseus returning home to get through the Bible the first time, but once you get through all the parables and their Lot, there are some really interesting stories that make for easy metaphors and similes.
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I can say the alphabet backwards, really fast. I also know all the digits of pi in ascending order
I dated a girl who could recite pi to a hundred places.
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In this economy?!
My bills have bills to pay!
