What is your pointless talent?

I love a good pastiche!

 

I can name that tune in one note.



...no, seriously, I can. I wish I could profit off that. My musical/pop culture knowledge is ridiculous, but completely and totally useless.

 

drinking

 

I too am very good with maps and I don't get lost. I am most uncomfortable when I don't know where I am (which only happens when I am in a new city and haven't yet oriented myself. Once oriented, all is well in the world).

 

Well ok... but drosophilae are like pointlike object for me!!
Here's another talent, I know latin, but I'm italian, and almost comes with the package...

And about oriented like talents, I think general good orientation is pretty useful, expecially for common travellers... But mine is pretty useless: I think that my orientation works as "pass tracking" counting subconsciusly passes and keeping a virtual "compass" in mind...
The problem is that is only applicable if walking (not in car!), and only for not to big/confusing cities... e.g. I have a splendidly good orientation sense in the maze city that is Venice (only if I'm not too much distracted, that in Venice comes pretty easy...), but I'm hopeless in my city Milan since streets are slightly divergent and miles long...

Another one is that I've pretty good grasp with "what if" stories... since childhood I tried to answer those great "what if" questions, like "what if Carthago won the war against romans, we should still have bidet?" and "if nutella was never invented, what will be the menial food prize for good children?"...

 

my talent is that I can talk to total strangers and suddenly get their life stories out of them, I have been asked many times if I was a policeman or detective as I am so good at extracting information from people before they realise they have just divulged something gross or embarrassing.
I think this stems from my job and that I meet so many new people every day that I am completely comfortable making conversation. Others have said that they just feel an urge to share everything with me.
This could also explain why so many of the dates I went on turned weird.

 

Always rehearsing in my head, future events.

 

If I drive someplace, I can dive that route from memory the next time.

I'm a guy and can have multiple orgasms.

 

Oh yeah, I have an amazing talent of pissing off my kids.

 

Every job I've ever had required me to have eyes in the back of my head, 3 pairs of hands, a filing cabinet at the tip of my tongue and the ability to read the boss's mind. I must have possessed all these talents as I was never fired for lack of these abilities.

 

like craven, I am an excellent drinker.
and I can shake my booty in time to the rhythm without looking like an awkward white person.

 

This sounds to me like the basic necessities a teacher needs. How are these pointless unless you don't utilize them?

 

I can tie a cherry stem into a knot using my tongue, and though I haven't tried it recently I used to be able to fold a paper airplane that way as well provided the paper didn't dissolve. You'd think unwrapping a starbucks in my mouth and taking out a paper airplane would impress more girls.
Almost all of my joints will dislocate readily... but not in any way that is useful to me.
I continually discover new ways to make farting noises, often by accident.
High tolerance for pain. You'd think it's useful but really there's no point to being able to leave your hand in a bowl of icy saltwater until you get frostbite.

Pre-hernias:
my legs were almost a second pair of arms
I could contort to do just about anything without getting out of my desk (or car/airplane/bus seat). Actually this might count as legitimately useful.
Standing... sounds crazy until you actually try standing around waiting for many hours. No-go with a collapsed arch though.
Durability. I wasn't strong mind you, just I kept getting up after running facefirst into a wall, crashing my bike, or catching a soccerball with my face for the third time.

 

Everything I do is pointless. Do I win?

 

Cayvmann: I like your answer best thus far as it was the answer I was considering giving. You first tho'--you are the winner!

 

genetically, I have 13/20 vision and can read a standard novel from about 30 feet away. also, i'm 38 and have never had a cavity in my teeth.

i write and swing a bat/tennis racket left handed, but kick and throw a frisbee right sided.

i bowl without using the finger holes and am good enough to be in a league.

i am clumsy enough to often begin to drop something, but dexterous enough to recover or catch my bungle 90% of the time.

i have an uncanny psychic radio when it comes to connecting my friends with other people or things that help them along their chosen path in life even if it's completely outside my general repetoire.