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Cappuccino

Diamond Member
Feb 27, 2013
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My mum bought me a crappy Piano when I was 12 years old and she always tells me that I have good ears because I can pick out simple melodies from anything and transfer it on the Piano. I play The Piano for fun but I do admit I do have mad skills on the Piano :D
 
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Kaido

Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
Feb 14, 2004
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Destroying furbies. I hate them.

;)

Back in the day, I got my girlfriend at the time a pink Furby for Valentines day. It was the freaking creepiest thing we'd ever seen after unboxing it.

Also, it would randomly activate...the eyes would pop open & it would start talking in the middle of the night for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I was tempted to pour water on it just to see what would happen...:D
 

Majes

Golden Member
Apr 8, 2008
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I was excellent at Warcraft 3 back in the day. I ran the best 4v4 clan for a long time and regularly made top 16 in the different tournaments Blizzard held.

Currently I like to think I'm pretty good at Spikeball. I've played in tons of tournaments and have taken a game off of the consensus top player.

I wish I was good at Powerball.
 

SKORPI0

Lifer
Jan 18, 2000
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Smelling Bullshit.

I-smell-Bullshit.jpg
 

purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
53,544
6,368
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I'm pretty good at being able to find and fix bugs in code, even if it's not an area I'm too familiar with. I just have a knack for being able to use debuggers and just know how to pinpoint what is causing a lot of bugs through various methods and tricks I've just learned over the years. I've had nicknames at my previous 2 jobs and current one based on being able to do this. My teammates always joke when I go on vacation about how the workload doesn't look like they got as much done in the sprints because I wasn't around.
 

Thebobo

Lifer
Jun 19, 2006
18,574
7,672
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I was pretty good at EQ
I suck at WOT. But still play it.
I'm a pretty good Radio Control Sailplane flier.
I'm real good at watching TV.
 

cbrunny

Diamond Member
Oct 12, 2007
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I'm terrible at watching tv. For real. I do it but i can never keep track of who is who. Takes me a really long time to associate faces with names and roles.
 

clamum

Lifer
Feb 13, 2003
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Sleeping. Probably not a lot of people that can sleep, or like sleep, as much as I do/can. Best part of my day is getting in bed with Kindle app on my phone and ecig and reading/vaping for a bit before bed. Kitty jumps up and snuggles ftw.

Other than that, I seem to pick up anything new pretty quickly but that's not a hard and fast rule. I'd say in general I'm a fast learner but like RedSquirrel, master-of-none. I tend to get bored with something before I become expert at it.
 

madoka

Diamond Member
Jun 22, 2004
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Sleeping. Probably not a lot of people that can sleep, or like sleep, as much as I do/can.

Before entering the workforce, I used to sleep 10-12 hours per day. Now I can only get 9-10 hours a day. :(
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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i like to place tools in one location, need it a few seconds later, then i'll waste a few minutes looking around for it. i've been doing this for 20+ years.
It's amazing how tools disappear. I'll be sitting on the ground working on something, put the tool down next to me, not change position at all, and the fuckin' thing's disappeared when I reach for it. Feel all around, get up and look, look again, ponder if I somehow walked off with it in some kind of waking coma, look some more, and there it is... :bangs head:
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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It's amazing how tools disappear. I'll be sitting on the ground working on something, put the tool down next to me, not change position at all, and the fuckin' thing's disappeared when I reach for it. Feel all around, get up and look, look again, ponder if I somehow walked off with it in some kind of waking coma, look some more, and there it is... :bangs head:

I had this happen once with a Pex "go no-go" tester. It's just a device you place over the ring after you crimped it and it tells you if you crimped it properly. It came with my crimper. I was doing plumbing once and I lost it. It just vanished. I never actually found it even after doing a full blown cleanup and everything. It literally just vanished, poof, gone. I still can't explain that one. It was just a flat piece of metal with a properly calibrated C section so not super sophisticated but I could not find anywhere to buy it separately. None of my pex connections have ever had issues so meh, I just don't test them after.
 

TXHokie

Platinum Member
Nov 16, 1999
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Losing my keys

Wife bought me one of those thingy to attach to my keys so that I can now find it with my phone....now if I can find out where I left the phone. Don't even get me started with the wallet.