What's the cleverest thing you understand or know how to do?

Fuzz · 27 Dec 2011 at 13:34

How to stay single!

I don't even have to try.

More seriously, I can take one of these apart and put it back together again without the need for a manual.

|Thomas| · 27 Dec 2011 at 13:53

Judgeneo said:
I know complex maths and physics

i^2 = -1

Simples

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I know how to construct the standard model of particle physics... Well ok, I'd have to look up the finer points, but I could give it a go!

stiv121 · 27 Dec 2011 at 13:56

I can get a woman

PermaBanned · 27 Dec 2011 at 13:56

Nothing too complex right now... but i seem to have a knack for picking up anything to do with Physics pretty easily.

sbi5ar · 27 Dec 2011 at 15:30

Antimicrobial discovery and development and the associated "gubbins"

sbi5ar · 27 Dec 2011 at 15:34

edscdk said:
It's a dead cert you can, it's weather the patient lives or not...

Reminds me of a quote I've seen on here before... "A good landing (in a plane) is when every one gets off alive, after a great landing however, you can reuse the plane"

D1ngd0ng · 27 Dec 2011 at 15:42

I'm a parent, other parents will understand where I'm coming from

Cleeecooo · 27 Dec 2011 at 15:50

basic addition

oh ,and ,good ,gramer ,and, speleeng

elmuzzy66. · 27 Dec 2011 at 15:53

I launch balloons which reach 30km into the atmospheare.

G-Dubs · 27 Dec 2011 at 15:54

I work in MRI so I hunt cancer for a living (amongst other nasties, believe me you don't want to know how many things are out there that are much worse).

Hobby wise I'm a shooter and can shoot a 3inch group at 600m without telescopic sights (7.62 with diopter sight).

other helpful skills include
having a sense of knowing when to duck
being able to cook a roast dinner
knowing when i've had enough to drink
knowing when I haven't had enough to drink!

The Funktopus · 27 Dec 2011 at 15:54

5UB said:
Misdirection and manipulation.

That's nothing special, women are born masters of those arts.

FISHGUTS · 27 Dec 2011 at 16:02

Build a House

D1ngd0ng · 27 Dec 2011 at 16:17

G-Dubs said:
knowing when i've had enough to drink
knowing when I haven't had enough to drink!

I'd have been more impressed if you'd have said you know when to stop drinking. we all know when we've had enough

semi-pro waster · 27 Dec 2011 at 16:27

Moses said:
I guess I know more about law than 99% of the forum (based on the fact that 99% of people post a load of rubbish, when anything legal comes up... not because I'm God, ha).

It is sometimes a bit worrying what people will state as fact with regard to the law even when they're demonstrably wrong. It's a fascinating subject though and one I should probably know more about but the effort of keeping up to date is higher than the value I'd find in doing so.

The Funktopus said:
However, by far the most impressive thing I can do at a party is to open one beer bottle with another. The mostly Filipino crew of the ship taught me that one, as that's how they roll in the Philippines, they never use bottle openers. And to be fair it is quite handy. I've found myself doing some stupid things when I've found myself caught out without a bottle opener in the past.

You can do it about as easily with a cigarette lighter too.

I don't know if there's anything particularly clever I can do, there's a variety of simple things I can do passably but I generally figure that if I can do it that probably mitigates against it being hugely complex.

TNGL · 27 Dec 2011 at 16:28

Anything to do with computers, more so networking. I can also speak Spanish.

Kosmiche · 27 Dec 2011 at 16:37

amigafan2003 said:
I've built my own car:-

To this:

I've also built my own electric bike.

Which is a caterham, so infact you didn't build it you assembled it.

SexyGreyFox · 27 Dec 2011 at 16:42

semi-pro waster said:
It is sometimes a bit worrying what people will state as fact with regard to the law even when they're demonstrably wrong. It's a fascinating subject though and one I should probably know more about but the effort of keeping up to date is higher than the value I'd find in doing so.

I sometimes wish I knew the very basics.
This last month I've had 3 phonecalls from different departments asking me a legal question and they've needed the answer immediately and both times the respective experts were out of the office.
I did have a 4th but I answered that because I'd had that one a couple of months earlier so knew the answer.

PermaBanned · 27 Dec 2011 at 16:45

Eames said:
Which is a caterham, so infact you didn't build it you assembled it.

Interesting point, but by that logic wouldn't only Steve Chamberlin and Bill Buzbee (and maybe a couple of others) have built a computer?

233 · 27 Dec 2011 at 16:49

getting a valid home address from someone too drunk to stand.

its a fine art honed with years of taxi experience,

i'm also skilled in the quickest and easiest ways to remove vomit from the inside of a vectra

ChrisD. · 27 Dec 2011 at 16:55

I have this really great skill of annoying the girlfriend by doing nothing to annoy her.