Mine‘s getting so accustomed to cold showers that I a) absolutely do not mind cold water for swimming etc. anymore and b) could not enjoy warm or hot showers anymore. They just weren’t nice at all.
I can basically just choose not to throw up, unless liquor is involved in which case it depends how much I’ve drank.
After over half a century of action, a lot of it in “extreme sports”, and countless injuries, I have yet to break a bone.
Congrats! Must be all the malk.
We don’t have any malk, but I can get you some MILK
Good god, I have to rewatch that right now. Thanks, I’m not the only one thinking of that video!
Now with vitamin R!
I have succeeded in life, despite myself.
I have a hyper sensitive sense of smell. Sometimes useful, most often a nuisance.
At work the roof had small leak few years ago, I could smell the wet concrete several days before the water reached the ceiling of the upper floor office and became visible. I told my boss about the leak as soon as I had first smelled it and located the correct room. “There is no leak here, you’re just imagining things” was the response after I showed the room to my boss. “There is and we shall see in a few days.” After 4 or 5 days the ceiling started dripping water and I received an apology.
I’ve been able to mentally bypass most of the awful smells of the world and people around me as long as I can remember, so it isn’t so bad. But after a few drinks the mental filter turns off and I can smell everything, including my own metabolized alcohol infused sweat. That is not fun at all.
Are you like the person that posted they can smell ants? Dude was able to find a single ant by sense of smell.
I do not know. I have never actively tried to smell ants nor had them inside any apartments I’ve lived in. I shall test this when summer returns one day. But I do remember that the ant guy wrote about having some genetic quirk that ables him to register some compound that’s out normal human range of smell.
actively tr[ying] to smell ants
Is my funniest mental image for today, thanks. Just some person outside creeping around the ground vigorously sniffing ants.
The ant-smelling trait is a genetic thing. I have a co-worker that can smell ants, but otherwise their sense of smell is unremarkable
Dude has the super sniffer
Elevators full of perfume must be hell
I am fascinated by you. Please tell me you’ve written a book or long thread?
Also please don’t get Covid
I don’t usually bring this “gift” of mine up in real life, it tends to create pretty awkward and unpleasant situations.
“Oh, if you have such sharp sense of smell, then tell me what deodorant/lotion/perfume I’m using?” How the hell could I know the names of every hygienic/cosmetic product, especially when the reek of detergent, fabric softener and sweat is mixed with the scent I’m supposed to recognize?
Or people just laugh at me and call me a liar.
But my friends are aware of my talent, when someone is considering to buy an apartment they often ask me to accompany them for a presentation. I can tell almost instantly if there’s water damage or mold. When I was buying my own apartment I found one spot under the stairs that had a very faint but odd smell, like wet cement mixed with the smell of a wet dog. There were no water pipes or sewers even near that wall, nor were there any signs of leaks from above. I called the seller to ask about this and he started laughing. The spot was their old dog’s favourite place to curl up for a sleep after a walk in the rain. And it was years since the dog had passed away, they had even painted the wall once and renewed the floor laminate after that. So no worries, I bought the place.
On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog
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I was a super smeller but lost the sense during Covid. It still hasn’t fully returned. I have good days where I’ll surprise myself by picking up something subtle and off days where popcorn smells like vomit or skunks smell like brake dust. I was considering a sommelier course prior to this.
Yeah, Covid was a freaky experience. I got off easy, no fever or other symptoms, I just realized one day that I was unable to smell freshly cut grass. Then I realized that I did not smell anything at all.
My sense of smell started coming slowly back after a few days and I can’t tell if it’s diminished or not. But after Covid every brand of whiskey smells and tastes like vomit to me, so there was a price to pay. Also the smell of someone eating rice cakes became utterly disgusting, as well as yogurt. Before Covid I barely registered these two.
I would hate this superpower. Having grown up with brothers, I learned to breathe defensively without smelling, but it’s also so nice to be able to use scented products and perfume without it hurting.
Perfumes or scented products are not a problem for me at all, unless of course someone uses way too much. Like I said, I kind of block all the unpleasant stuff unconsciously and focus on the good ones.
It’s kind of like listening to radio, all the channels are broadcasting all the time, simultaneously, but you still tune in to listen only one at a time.
And when I’m intoxicated, theyre all blaring at the same time and cannot be silenced :(
I’m double jointed.
As compulsion, I watch YT tutorials at breakneck speed: 2.5x-3x.
YouTube tutorials can be pretty low information density. Sentences have important pointers every 5 seconds or more (“The thing is, like, if you’re trying to do this, or this, do X first” – predictable/less functional words), and the first third of a YouTube video is often useless. Of course, denser videos get slowed to normal and have clips replayed.
Internally, this stems from nervousness of wasting time (oops), and it hurts my head if I do it too long ( but looks cool beforehand B) )
I also usually watch videos at around 1.3 to 1.6 times speed depending on the type of video
Wait, since when does the speed increase go up to 3x?
You can get browser extensions to have more control over video speed
enhancer for youtube extension in firefox for me.
How much information do you actually retain?
Not OP, but most of it.
Tutorials I might need to go a bit slower, remembering broad strokes isn’t enough, and detailed steps in order is probably too much, but that would be true at 1x speed as well.
For videos generally I watch almost everything at 2x or higher. Headphones help, it would be much harder if there were any competing audio stimulus. If I’m forced to go at 1x I retain almost nothing.
That I can go three days without pooping if I’m out backpacking.
Three days ia nothing. Being a shy kid on two weeks summer camp there was a challenge to poop just once in the middle… I almost made it. My friend succeeded though.
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…mizu?
Cool Story Bro! Have you thought about maybe writing up a post about this here on Lemmy?
That’s about it. I call it “Camp Constipation Mode”.
I once ate 6 pizzas in one sitting.
I have never not gotten the job.
You’re telling me that if you go on indeed or linkedin, you’re getting every job?
No, just for all those to which I have applied, I have been offered the gig. It isn’t many: a few as a teenager and 7 since I left the military. But I’ve just been really fortunate, and not been rejected.
I can guess the right socket/wrench I need from looking at the bolt 90% of the time
I’ve never heard a single Tool song, and I’m a prog rock/metal fan.
That is a mistake you know?
Also a prog rock/metal fan, and I don’t enjoy most of Tool’s work. There’s a few good songs but I like Maynard’s work as Puscifer soooo much more. Drunk with Power, Dozo, and Momma Sed are fantastic.
You are missing out. I’m not really a Tool fan, they are fantastic live. Seen them 4 times, each show was amazingly different. They are very talented musicians.
But you are absolutely missing out by not giving Lateralus at least a once over. It’s a musical masterpiece. IMO it’s their magnum opus and one of the great musical creations of our generation.
This answer best fits the brief I think. That is very strange.
I used to drive a Ford Flex. I was frequently assured of its weirdness.
Start a limo service in Vegas with a fleet for the novelty.
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I have two uvuulas. The regular one, and one underneath my tongue.
I have a stomache of steel. Nothing will pass my digestive tract alive or intact. I never had any kind of stomache trouble and I can not puke. I ate every dish in south-east-asia that landet in front of me, even from some dirty streetfood shack in the middle of the burmese jungle. Most of the stuff would have killed the average middle european slob. Not me.
It even goes so far that I cannot use edibles. Which is funny, because all the growmies make fun of me now.
I have a pretty ironclad stomach, but not as strong as yours. I’ve been with my wife for 13 years and she’s witnessed the horror that is me puking twice. And the first time came 4 years ago. My friends say it sounds like I’m “calling the dinosaurs” and it is very traumatic for me.
Edit: I forgot my point. I’m jealous.
The dog-barf…
I can not puke
No gag reflex you say? 😇
This is genuinely so cool.
Street food is often the safest anyhow, its the hotels and water you have to worry about
Cash money, that’s where the real danger lurks. Even if you can drink bottled water and eat pre-packaged food, you have to handle the money. And that stuff is really, really nasty in some parts of the world.
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