Since someone mentioned in the hippo hiccup split their lame super power is the ability to destroy hiccups, i was curious - and bored - and this is a Super Hero Kinda place
What's your Real Life Lame Super Power?
Mine is the ability to forget 90% of what I've read after 3 months or so, meaning I can go back to old books and they are almost like new!
Sucks for tests though.
I can lick my own elbow.
Actually, I have a lot of lame superpowers, but this has to be the most useless of the lot.
Mine is the aforementioned hiccough-stopping. Also the ability to shake exactly two Tylenol from the bottle.
I can cook awesome food, as long as it is breakfast food.
I know exactly what song is coming up next in the radio... about a half-second before it starts... and it only works 50% of the time.
I have the incredible abilty to be completely self absorbed!
I have the incredible power to remember useless trivia. I can't remember what I ate yesterday or what I need for an exam or at work, but I can tell you the name, casting cost, power/toughness, and effects of like 100+ MtG cards (I haven't played in over a decade). I'm full of stuff like that. Quotes from movies no one has seen; stats from games I don't play anymore.
This. I can go entire conversations from Space Ghost, Lost Skeleton, Gleaming the Cube (thanks to my sister's Christian Slater obsession that one summer), and any Ed Wood film.
No one but me knows I've been doing it. It's fun.
Um...I actually do know martial arts in real life, if we're counting that as super powers. Also the ability to be well meaning and awkward and to run off of five to four hours of sleep every day.
I have an uncanny ability to stop fights before they break out. That or I'm just in the right place at the right time a whole lot. But I'm not even close to kidding when I say that I'm personally responsibility for calming down at least 9 different situations that would have resulted in a fist fight. A few examples:
Last year, some friends and I were out at the bars for a Halloween celebration. We were heading to the next bar and walked past a club where two guys were at each other's throats, cussing and pointing fingers while an audience of smokers enjoyed the free show. I guess the acclaimed girlfriend of one of them danced up on the other one and now these dudes were about to tear into each other (sadly enough, it looked like the girlfriend was loving the attention and trying to fan the flames). I ran up to them, yelling "Hey! Be cool, be cool! There's a cop car right in that lot!" and pointed to the partially covered lot across the street. They both backed up a bit and quieted their voices, still arguing, but now in a manner of talking and less screaming. The girl, now bored, says "Let's just go, Guy's Name," and they turn around and walk off. The dude still standing there tells us the rest of the story, how the girl danced with him, he had no idea she had a boyfriend, all of a sudden the boyfriend is in his face, threatening him etc. and I admitted that there was never a cop car. We just shook our heads and laughed and went our separate ways.
A few weeks ago, I was on the bus heading home from work, just reading my book. A group of drunk, obnoxious teenagers hop on the bus, obviously looking to cause trouble out of pure boredom. They're blasting music through speakers, yelling and laughing, nearly running around, jumping over seats while the other passengers rolled their eyes and did the best to ignore them. A man walked up to them and asked them politely to knock it off, to which one of them responded "Yes, Officer!" The man did not like that and screamed in the kids face. "WHAT THE ___ DID YOU SAY TO ME?!" and from there the teen started to talk smack, boasting how he'd beat him up and such saying "Hey, I'm getting off on 26th; get off on my stop and we'll make something of it." The man sat back down, the kids continued to laugh and mock him. Finally, the bus stops on 26th. The kids get off and the man, fists clenched and breathing heavy, makes a split second decision to stand up and head for the door. As he's walking past me, I stick my arm out and say "They're just kids; it's not worth it." He still looked absolutely pissed and didn't say a word to me, but still, he stopped, turned back around and sat down.
I don't know, it's crazy. I have so many more of these stories. Maybe I just put myself in rough areas where these things are prone to happen? I guess if it can be considered a super power, it is a pretty cool one. Being able stop a situation from escalating is exactly what a hero would do, right? Well, that's what I tell myself :)
I arguably have super dreaming powers, but those aren't at all lame. I also have a very peculiar ability which is too X-rated to discuss here.
Hello me, it's me again!
Not sure what you're going for, but for me that's a quote from Sweating Bullets by Megadeth, which actually reminds me of another lame superpower I have. I have an incredible ability to attribute quotes to a secondary source. For instance, for many years I believed the phrase "hindsight is always 20/20" came from that same song, like they invented it.
Yes indeed. (And looking back is still a bit fuzzy.) I used the quote of a way of saying I was much the same, in the regard you were speaking of.
I can (usually) find people I'm looking for by thinking that I want to find them, then stopping paying attention where I'm going. They're usually in the next room I randomly wander into.
I can sometimes tell things before they happen. This has spooked out some of my friends. When I was a kid, I'd say "Wouldn't it be cool if..." just before mentioning what would happen, and then it would. I've been able to predict songs on the radio, dice rolls, and pieces/cards people would play this way.
I have dreams about my next day. Usually detailing little issues, and sometimes blowing things out of proportion. One time I dreamt of a giant trough filled with white powder with a fly in it. The next day, I found a fly in an open box of baking soda in the bathroom.
Sometimes I have dreams about what is going to happen months or years in advance. Those dreams I can usually remember very well for a long time.
I have a very good memory for cards and for Star Wars.
I can also ask for it to rain or stop raining (on an appropriately weathered day, i.e. cloudy and raining/not-raining) and it will do so.
But I don't know how to stop hiccoughs!
My power is having a bunch of really weak, crappy powers. Including, but not limited to, memorizing things with startling speed -- but underwhelming precision -- destroying hiccups, making references that no one else gets, and having the most obscure and ecclectic ipod soundtrack in existence.
My superpower only works in a choir environment - it's the ability to sing loudly and confidently enough that the rest of the alto section think I'm right and follow me, whether I'm actually right or not.
Oh, forgot to mention, I get constant deja vu, which makes me think I have precognitive powers but only access their predictions with a split-second warning. I also have periodically suspected that I have the questionable gift of "anti-prophecy"...that anything I anticipate WON'T come true (but this doesn't work for making wishes in reverse or anything like that).
I really want this power! My clearest dream from my childhood involved being attacked by a bear and rescued by a dragon.
I have the uncanny ability to tell exactly when the microwave is about to go off. No other timers, mind you, just the microwave.
Dude, I think I might be your evil twin:
People like to talk to me. People I know tell me about their lives. People I don't know tell be about their lives.
I've had someone finish saying something to me, only to end with "wait... I just told you pretty much my entire life story, didn't I?"
Most people don't realise it.
That's awesome!
I forgot one about deja-vu. When I get it, it is linked to a past or future event and I can get bits of that event and know if it has happened or will happen. Once I had deja-vu linked to four different events! My deja-vu predicted monks in World of Warcraft 7 months before they were announced. Which is awesome because monks rock.
@BlueHairedMeerkat I already have an evil twin. He has the goatee too (so people can tell us apart). You could be an evil triplet, though.
I have the power to make people lose track of where I am in completely ordinary circumstances. Like, I'll be walking down the sidewalk with a friend, and they'll start gradually angling towards the side of the path that I'm walking in, so I'll switch to the other side of them where there's more space, and then they'll look around confused and be mildly surprised to find me standing next to them, as if I arrived there by teleportation. People I'm with seem to forget I'm there and always look in my direction last.
In high school I somehow became at least mildly liked by nearly every student and teacher that became aquainted with me. Even the people I myself disliked still behaved friendly towards me, despite some of them being total jerks to my actual friends. I think I just found some sort of niche where I could be kind of cool without being popular in any way. I was pretty studious and got good grades, but my learning disabilities kept me in college prep courses rather than honors or advanced placement, and I still couldn't keep up with the rest of the class in terms of work output despite my good grades. I was mild-mannered and well-behaved, but I had my own views and wasn't afraid to let teachers know it if I disagreed with a book's message or a unit's theme. I didn't really talk much, but occasionally I'd speak up if I thought of something clever or funny to say. And whenever we got a project assignment that allowed for any amount of creative freedom, I'd do everything in my artistic power to make it look or read as impressive and entertaining as possible. People tended to listen slightly more whenever I presented something. Basically, I accumulated respect from everyone without really realizing it. People didn't really pay attention to me most of the time, but whenever someone ended up interacting with me it was usually on a "friendly aquaintence" level.
Lastly, there's my green squid hat. The one in my avatar. It has its own power that activates when I wear it. For reasons that completely elude me, females of all ages suddenly become very interested in talking to me, sometimes actually wanting a picture. This one time I was just sitting in the subway when these two women( I'm bad at guessing ages, but they were somewhat older than I was, maybe late 20's?) sitting accross from me said they liked my hat and cheerfully had photos taken with me. I feel like this hat's powers could be really useful if I could just get better at talking to people I don't know...
I have been accused of happening to know someone everywhere I go.
I can cause my eyes to shake violently without moving my face. The common reactions are:
"Eww, gross!"
"Neat."
"I know someone else who can do that too!"
Hey, I can do that, too. At least, I could when I had my real eyes…
I don't have any lame superpowers
I'm just weird :D.
I have the power to know a lot of people and constantly run into them (in my hometown, of course), and not seeing a lot of classic movies everyone has seen. However, that movie power is slowly waning. Watching movies is my kryptonite.
I have this, especially for the geekier movies my friends watch all the time. Same with TV. Consequently I don't know any actors either, and the game of Name a Movie That Anna Has Seen is challenging enough to be fun even for people who know me well.
I have seen movies. I just haven't seen the movies that people would expect me to have seen.
My lame superpower?
I refuse to disclose my other powers.
It would have worked!
From personal experience, I am guessing that the staff shut down construction on this project before it was quite as tall as it could have been?
@Julia
Actually, this time, it did work (and the staff didn't notice). We have a mutual friend, however, who has fewer stacking powers but even more desire, when drinking, to stack things than Christopher, and that is a classic line of his.
Paul.
You needed more commas in that last sentence.
I'm just saying, we're still not close to our punctuation quota, even with my blatant overuse of exclamation points.
My lame superpower is the ability to keep rambling about a subject that everyone else has stopped talking about.
That's true! We'll *really*, I think, need to use, or at least type, a significant number of commas, exclamation point, periods, colons, asterisks, etc., in the coming weeks if we're to work through this office's supply; our montly pallet, or possibly large box, of various punctuations (which I'm sure is a real word) will arrive, punctually, on May's first day.
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I can cause my eyes to shake violently without moving my face. The common reactions are:"Eww, gross!""Neat.""I know someone else who can do that too!"
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I can stomach watching evan shake his eyes.
That stemware is your weakness. There's almost never perfectly level. I've got more of an obsession than super power, we always used to 2-man it.
Also finding a bar with a really level floor is a big deal. We have one here (It's an old Mill) and until it's really busy they only check upstairs every 15 minutes or so. We've gotten 10 ft. before, but that time we got kicked out when it did fall.
They also have wooden coasters, so really it's their own fault.
I have thought of one!
I do not check my email often but when I do it is within minutes of someone sending me one, like I have some sort of electronic sixth sense.
The bad thing with this power is that if I reply it looks like I have been obsessively sitting there, waiting for the reply to come in.
With lame power comes lame paranoia.
I have creative road-rage. Not sure my mother would approve, but there is a certain satisfaction in some of the phrases...
Also puns
EDIT: Also, I seem to be able to flsuh any toilet where there is a knack to it (like needing to flush twice with a gap of about a second)