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I watch alot of anime/manga in different languages and they seem to be mostly japanese and i slow begin to understand it and its without subtitles my mates find it odd and so do i. my parents a english and australian, we dont know any japanese people and i got next to no friends at my school(i dont get along with alot of people)
does anyone else have any wierd skills or characteristics about them like mine

Unless you count havening a perfect 86 step plan for complete world domination i got nuthin'...

I do a fairly decent Harry Caray impression (not the Will Ferrel as HC impression, Harry Caray as the original MLB announcer).

Fun stuff, wish I could do Madden.

I don't quit have unusual abilities like yours, but I do have some.

I have a tendency to destroy equipment on purpose, and then put it back together in order to be destroyed, again. To me destruction and creation are part of an infinite cycle. Don’t follow what I am saying? Then go to the Media Board and watch MAD video to see a demonstration of my "unusual abilities".

The weird thing is, no matter how much I ruin something, I can always rebuild it to make work the way it is suppose to work. I guess that’s the trait of an engineer.

I don't know. I guess something I have is a weird luck factor that balances everything out in one way or another. Like not doing homework only to find out it wasn't due the next day. Or winning five dollars in a poker game after "temporarily misplacing" an important cord.

I can clap my tongue. But that's more of a stupid human trick. (I can't even begin to explain it, you just have to see it for yourself XD)

I uh, can clench my toes into a fist and walk/jump on them. Totally useless, but it makes for good bragging.

I can dislocate my shoulder at will. Doesn't even hurt.

I can also somewhat read people's minds. l mean that in a very minimal sense. I had one friend that I could tell what he was gonna say before he said it. Regardless of how crazy or unrelated to the conversation at hand the comment was. And there were other times that I could tell what random people were gonna say, before it was said. It varies from person to person.

I can do quite a few other little tricks that are so much more common that I don't think they qualify.

If you listen to enough of another language and read the subtitles over time you will pick up on it- its a trait common to us "American Otaku" and foreign film fanatics. However while you pretty much understand it- you wont be able to understand it completely but you will be able to pick up on key words, phrases, and little girl talk- seriously - little girls have a different way of talking very different from little boys- and males in general (A friend of mine lived in Okinawa for a while- his mother was Japanese but he spent more time with the Americans at the airbase - so he learned most of his Japanese from his mother- when he went out people teased him because he talked like a little girl). It just so happens most animes feature lot for females and once again- you are hearing more of them than you are of almost anything else.

It's still something pretty interesting, if it were more than that it would be amazing, like if you could speed it fluently after watching a show- even if you had to watch an anime for 20 minutes to be able to speak it fluently for 10 minutes before ya forgot it all- that would be awesome, and funny...

My brother is psychic in his dreams.
(Doesn't happen all the time but when it does, it's neat.)

Does me being really good at almost any videogame count?
Also, I can put my legs behind my head.

I can dislocate my thumb...


My claim to fame. :cry:

@ Chaosye, where did your avatar come from? Never quite seen any Sonic & Tails artwork that wasn't cartoony before, then again I've never looked.

I can stick my right leg underneath my ribcage.

And I have excellent hearing. But that's not as exciting.

I can flip my tongue upside down.....not all that impresive but kinda funny when you gross people out.

I had 4 or 5 premonitory dreams that happened about 2 years later. (I kinda weird when it happen)

And eating a complete Delissio pizza while I'm only 130 lbs, does that count ? (and not gaining any fat about it :P )