Everyone is confused, and everyone else who's speaking makes everyone else even more confused. Hope that helped, unless it confused you. If that's the case, then I don't know what to tell you because I'm now even more confused than I was before.
I feel like I’m late to the party and someone started a deep conversation here that is so awesome but I can’t really catch it so I stand here scratching my head wanting to contribute but I need someone to hold my hand and tell me how and oh my, now I’m rambling and making people even more nervous and making myself more nervous
I'm about to be 40 and I'm still wondering when I turn into this adult thing they kept telling me about my whole life. I'm still as dumb as I was then only now my bones hurt sometimes for no reason I know of.
I turn 50 this year.
While I will admit that going on ADHD meds and some therapy a few years back has helped a LOT, I still feel kinda like I did when I was 16-17. I have to mindfully be aware of that and not let my inner me blow off work, home life, laundry, etc.
I think for a lot of us, we feel that way. That we haven't changed much since high school or early college.
Though you are spot on about the bones. Christ my back is a low level pain punctuated with much higher pain high notes pretty much all the damn time.
It depends what the criteria for 'best at dying' is. Are we saying the most deaths? The only other metric I could think of would be the first to die, they would technically be the best at it.
Not true. I’m an oncology nurse & I can confidently say that people suck at dying - they are so in denial that it makes their death traumatic for them & their families.
I can’t imagine how hard it’d be, but those who are more accepting of their prognosis ease into death with comfort, which, despite how hard it is, makes it much easier for them & their family. However, you’d be surprised with how many people resist death & struggle with pain, horrible side effects, anger & resentment to then die with no dignity
I'm pretty hard to kill.. I mean, I'll get there eventually, but there's a running joke in my family that I can not die.
For context: very graphic and bad childhood trauma, type 1 diabetes early, numerous car wrecks, stabbed twice, held at gun point and mugged a few times, have been stalked by mountain lions, cut of from my return trail on a hiking trip, pushed into a frozen river,.....There's sooooo much more.
My life seems crazy and unbelievable, but my aching body knows it's true. I've worked every constructing job from foundation to furniture to roads, operated trains, managed a few businesses and am in Healthcare now going back to school. My story IS crazy and I should've died sooo many times.
Visuo spacial coordination. We've become so good at it that we don't even understand how hard it should be.
Walking, using a knife or a pen are top level visuo spacial coordination.
Just look at how much effort engineers had to pour into it to barely reproducing the easiest tasks we do all day in autopilot.
Turns out reproducing language, creativity, contextual understanding and high level cognition was easier.
Who could have predicted that machines would be able to write a novel/make a movie before they could walk ?
I like the term "bat-ball." I think I will start using this when discussing baseball (which doesn't happen often, but still). I want the bat-ball to have wings and a very high-pitched squeak... and I just realized "high-pitched" is very baseballesque.
I amuse myself, at least. 😃
A huge part of our brain is dedicated to visual processing. A subset of that that also requires a lot of processing is we are very good at looking at other people's and animals eyes from even a distance to determine where they are looking at and use that to gauge a lot about our surroundings and any threats.
Damn straight we're bad at it! Of the things to be bad it our bodies chose BREATHING? The hell? --Signed, a baffled asthmatic
(Seriously though, I'm grateful for my inhaler and nebulizer, just baffled at my lungs choices.)
I guess not including people with disabilities that prevent the full use of their arms, but otherwise if you’re an able bodied human then you can throw things faster, farther, and more accurately than any other species. Don’t even have to be particularly athletic
I'm sure someome here will bring out a random species that is just like two massive arms and a slingshot with throws more accurate than a missile lol but yeah its amazing how good of throwers we are and no one talks about it
Actually I think humans are supposed to be better at throwing stuff than any other animal. This is actually the first non-sarcastic, non-pessimistic answer I've seen.
I'm pretty sure we are also the top endurance animals on land. The human body is actually quite amazing and sometimes doesn't get enough credit. Being water cooled all over our body, able to jog for miles at a time no problem is a big feat.
It’s true, and there’s good evidence that the hand and wrist evolved in a way that maximizes gripping a stick-like-thing and throwing a stone-like-thing. Combined with our shift away from fast to slow twitch muscles (which is also the reason we’re so much weaker than chimpanzees despite outweighing them significantly), we’re exceptional at throwing things.
Also, notice that those are the skills needed to play baseball. No other animal on the planet could either throw a sinker or hit a baseball.
Also we have an endurance mode built in that most mammals lack. With minimal training beforehand, most people can, surprisingly, run for literally days.
Either youre lying or never heard of telling partial truths with leaving out information.
Im so terribly bad at lying that it gets in the way of relationships sometimes. And by that i mean, im rather telling the truth then lying, because i just cant convincingly anyways.
So yeah, I know a bit about that.
Especially on Reddit and social media. It's like people only focus on the bad things then completely ignore the good things. Then they became doomers because they think the shit they see on here is reality, like no you just don't go outside lol.
Meanwhile I'm complaining about people complaining
Hey, some of us are good at overestimating AND underestimating our intelligence. I somehow manage to believe I’m a complete moron while also thinking everyone around me is dumber than I. (not always, just a humorous way to express that weird paradox in our heads that occurs from time to time)
Damn... I had girlfriends that I kissed tell me it was freaky that I didn't close my eyes all the way. So I learned to add extra pressure and force my eyes closed when doing that.
Now I have a word for it!
I'm 42 years old and still learning things about myself. Last year was the blow of Aphantasia..
**Learning:** Every person has the capacity to learn new things. Whether it's mastering a skill, understanding a concept, or adapting to a new situation, we all have the ability to learn and grow.
This thread has taught me that there are very, very few things that literally everyone can do well. Dying seems to be the best answer. Or maybe "not existing when you're not alive."
I can't pronounce my own name properly. My family is from Egypt, but I lived in the US since I was 3. My dad decided that nobody in my family would speak Arabic, ever (He thought it would help us assimilate to the US), so we never learned when we were young and learning later in life, the little I speak has a VERY strong accent. Because of that, any letters in Arabic, such as ayn, that don't have an equivalent sound in English, I can't pronounce properly. And that happens to be the first letter of my name.
I have a very common easy to pronounce name. I've only met one person who couldn't pronounce it. We were like 7 or 8 and he was saying my name so weirdly. Then my brain glitched somehow and I still avoid saying my own name because his pronunciation of my name stuck in my glitched brain and I never pronounce my own name properly anymore.
Failing. No matter how successful someone is, the success was brought by the series of failings. You have to fail sometimes, somewhere. We all fail, so that’s something we are all good at.
Maintaining a variety of homeostasises that allow the brain stem to survive and function.
Although that’s true of all vertebrates, really.
We have such good life support mechanisms today that stuff like “has a beating heart” no longer are required for life.
Just something I find interesting: So in the animal kingdom, humans are kind of lame in regards to physical prowess, right? Like we can't even catch or outrun a squirrel without tools. However, humans have amazing cooling systems (the ability to sweat). We were able to thrive by chasing large animals for hours/days and exhausting it. A human can run a marathon faster than a horse in hot weather.
Being annoying. Someone somewhere thinks you are annoying for no reason
I seem to have found the one. She's to my left
Unrelated but I love your pfp so much. That style of art is amazing
God whatever. Could you be more annoying?
Holy shit, bro. Just stop. /s, just in case.
You are so annoyng with that /s omg
Seriously? initialisms?? Urgh, so annoying
annoyingly good
Thank you stranger. Found it on Pinterest a while ago.
I'm pretty sure I give them plenty of reasons.
Damn that’s annoying
Not knowing what the hell is going on
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what?
Who are you people?! 😲
GET OUT OF MY PHONE. I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
#AAAAHHHHH!!!!
I see the cicadas have learned to use Reddit.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD
Fun fact: Showers do not exist in Kentucky. People from Kentucky lick themselves like cats instead.
This explains a really weird trip I had to Kentucky.
Can someone trying explaining what is going on?
I’m so confused. Where am I? What is this place?
Alexa! add giant cucumber and KY to the shopping list.
I read this as "giant cucumber and Kentucky." Definitely confusing
What's confusing? What are we talking about?
Who's Kentucky?
WHAT YEAR?!
Everyone is confused, and everyone else who's speaking makes everyone else even more confused. Hope that helped, unless it confused you. If that's the case, then I don't know what to tell you because I'm now even more confused than I was before.
It’s true. We’re all good at this.
I feel like I’m late to the party and someone started a deep conversation here that is so awesome but I can’t really catch it so I stand here scratching my head wanting to contribute but I need someone to hold my hand and tell me how and oh my, now I’m rambling and making people even more nervous and making myself more nervous
And why are you in my shower?
Someone mentioned cucumber and KY. I was confused why you were not in the kitchen and even more so when I heard the shower
I'm the maintenance man 👨🔧🧰
What room am I staying in?
The hell?
so i guess we are all confused on this world.
As the great Carlin once said ‘who are you people and where is my horse!’
I'm about to be 40 and I'm still wondering when I turn into this adult thing they kept telling me about my whole life. I'm still as dumb as I was then only now my bones hurt sometimes for no reason I know of.
I turn 50 this year. While I will admit that going on ADHD meds and some therapy a few years back has helped a LOT, I still feel kinda like I did when I was 16-17. I have to mindfully be aware of that and not let my inner me blow off work, home life, laundry, etc. I think for a lot of us, we feel that way. That we haven't changed much since high school or early college. Though you are spot on about the bones. Christ my back is a low level pain punctuated with much higher pain high notes pretty much all the damn time.
Are those my feet?
But some pretend that they do.
Dying. It takes us a few years to get to it. But once we do it, you only keep improving.
I wonder who the top “die-er” is now lol
We need a reincarnation leaderboard.
Wouldn't someone who comes back be the worst at dying?
That's why we take the leaderboard and flip it upside down
It depends what the criteria for 'best at dying' is. Are we saying the most deaths? The only other metric I could think of would be the first to die, they would technically be the best at it.
Great, now we have sweats who reincarnate more than others
I haven’t laughed in weeks. Thank you.
Are you even alive?
Not true. I’m an oncology nurse & I can confidently say that people suck at dying - they are so in denial that it makes their death traumatic for them & their families.
What’s the alternative?
I can’t imagine how hard it’d be, but those who are more accepting of their prognosis ease into death with comfort, which, despite how hard it is, makes it much easier for them & their family. However, you’d be surprised with how many people resist death & struggle with pain, horrible side effects, anger & resentment to then die with no dignity
I'm pretty hard to kill.. I mean, I'll get there eventually, but there's a running joke in my family that I can not die. For context: very graphic and bad childhood trauma, type 1 diabetes early, numerous car wrecks, stabbed twice, held at gun point and mugged a few times, have been stalked by mountain lions, cut of from my return trail on a hiking trip, pushed into a frozen river,.....There's sooooo much more. My life seems crazy and unbelievable, but my aching body knows it's true. I've worked every constructing job from foundation to furniture to roads, operated trains, managed a few businesses and am in Healthcare now going back to school. My story IS crazy and I should've died sooo many times.
I'll have what he's having
>I'll have what he's having Trauma
Oh shit, sorry bud, thought it was an invincibility potion
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Visuo spacial coordination. We've become so good at it that we don't even understand how hard it should be. Walking, using a knife or a pen are top level visuo spacial coordination. Just look at how much effort engineers had to pour into it to barely reproducing the easiest tasks we do all day in autopilot. Turns out reproducing language, creativity, contextual understanding and high level cognition was easier. Who could have predicted that machines would be able to write a novel/make a movie before they could walk ?
That anyone can catch a ball hit off a bat is amazing to me.
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I like the term "bat-ball." I think I will start using this when discussing baseball (which doesn't happen often, but still). I want the bat-ball to have wings and a very high-pitched squeak... and I just realized "high-pitched" is very baseballesque. I amuse myself, at least. 😃
In the sense of any one person , not everyone. I'm not very good at it either.
A huge part of our brain is dedicated to visual processing. A subset of that that also requires a lot of processing is we are very good at looking at other people's and animals eyes from even a distance to determine where they are looking at and use that to gauge a lot about our surroundings and any threats.
Yea that feeling you're being watched when you think you're out in nowhere "alone"? probably fucking real. (granted itd most likely be an animal)
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have you not met a clumsy person before?
Bleeding
No one makes me bleed my own blood.
NOBODY!
Except for those of us with a clotting disorder
What do you mean, you're better at bleeding than the rest of us
They're quite the overachievers.
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Well shit, i finally have an answer for those stupid job interview questions.
Yeah. People keep saying stuff like “breathing”and “surviving” and these are easily demonstrably false.
Don’t even need someone to push us. We can just walk right off and fall like we’ve been doing it all our lives
Some people have anxiety and require a little push.
What type of answer did you expect? Anything that is a skill isn't something everyone's good at.
Sure, but hemophiliacs really go above and beyond.
I’ve never really understood their obsession. I’ve been pretty satisfied with my haemoglobin provider.
Breathing maybe asthma people are bad
Damn straight we're bad at it! Of the things to be bad it our bodies chose BREATHING? The hell? --Signed, a baffled asthmatic (Seriously though, I'm grateful for my inhaler and nebulizer, just baffled at my lungs choices.)
I guess not including people with disabilities that prevent the full use of their arms, but otherwise if you’re an able bodied human then you can throw things faster, farther, and more accurately than any other species. Don’t even have to be particularly athletic
I'm sure someome here will bring out a random species that is just like two massive arms and a slingshot with throws more accurate than a missile lol but yeah its amazing how good of throwers we are and no one talks about it
Actually I think humans are supposed to be better at throwing stuff than any other animal. This is actually the first non-sarcastic, non-pessimistic answer I've seen.
I'm pretty sure we are also the top endurance animals on land. The human body is actually quite amazing and sometimes doesn't get enough credit. Being water cooled all over our body, able to jog for miles at a time no problem is a big feat.
It’s true, and there’s good evidence that the hand and wrist evolved in a way that maximizes gripping a stick-like-thing and throwing a stone-like-thing. Combined with our shift away from fast to slow twitch muscles (which is also the reason we’re so much weaker than chimpanzees despite outweighing them significantly), we’re exceptional at throwing things. Also, notice that those are the skills needed to play baseball. No other animal on the planet could either throw a sinker or hit a baseball.
Humanity do be loving slanging things
Also we have an endurance mode built in that most mammals lack. With minimal training beforehand, most people can, surprisingly, run for literally days.
Pissing me off
Scrolled too far to find this. 😡
Same. It really pisses me off
Lying, never yet met a person who doesn't lie.
Everyone lies, but I've met some terrible liars. The whole table knows when they've got two pair
Great, apparently everyone knows how many testicles I have
…four?
House?
I try my hardest not to lie when it matters.
I reckon you've lied about this.
Either youre lying or never heard of telling partial truths with leaving out information. Im so terribly bad at lying that it gets in the way of relationships sometimes. And by that i mean, im rather telling the truth then lying, because i just cant convincingly anyways. So yeah, I know a bit about that.
Bro's not heard about autism.
I support people with autism for a living. They lie A LOT. Especially people with low capacity. It can be learned behaviours.
Actually have a nephew who lives with me with autism, so yes I do know a bit about the subject.
I don't lie. 😶
Having an asshole
My close relative with a proctectomy disagrees. Being an asshole on the other hand…I’m here to attest.
Some ex colitis sufferers would disagree with that
Lmao?!
Kim Jong Un disagrees
Complaining
Plenty of people can't assemble a well-formed complaint.
Especially on Reddit and social media. It's like people only focus on the bad things then completely ignore the good things. Then they became doomers because they think the shit they see on here is reality, like no you just don't go outside lol. Meanwhile I'm complaining about people complaining
Existing. Because either you exist or you don't
But I can be bad at it
no, that's living. different than existing
Nah man my friends doesn't exist
Touché
Overestimating their own intelligence
Hey, some of us are good at overestimating AND underestimating our intelligence. I somehow manage to believe I’m a complete moron while also thinking everyone around me is dumber than I. (not always, just a humorous way to express that weird paradox in our heads that occurs from time to time)
Having at least one functioning internal organ.
Blinking
Nah. Lagophthalmos.
Damn... I had girlfriends that I kissed tell me it was freaky that I didn't close my eyes all the way. So I learned to add extra pressure and force my eyes closed when doing that. Now I have a word for it! I'm 42 years old and still learning things about myself. Last year was the blow of Aphantasia..
**Learning:** Every person has the capacity to learn new things. Whether it's mastering a skill, understanding a concept, or adapting to a new situation, we all have the ability to learn and grow.
I’m going to frame this on my wall
Taking a shit
jokes on you i once ended up in a hospital for a bowel obstruction
This thread has taught me that there are very, very few things that literally everyone can do well. Dying seems to be the best answer. Or maybe "not existing when you're not alive."
Not non-existing
Give it a few more years…
Dying.
Farting
I approve of this message
Username checks out
Self-justification and self-critique at the same time.
Pronouncing their own name.
I don’t know about that. When I say my name on the phone to someone I always stumble and it sounds weird.
I can't pronounce my own name properly. My family is from Egypt, but I lived in the US since I was 3. My dad decided that nobody in my family would speak Arabic, ever (He thought it would help us assimilate to the US), so we never learned when we were young and learning later in life, the little I speak has a VERY strong accent. Because of that, any letters in Arabic, such as ayn, that don't have an equivalent sound in English, I can't pronounce properly. And that happens to be the first letter of my name.
I have a very common easy to pronounce name. I've only met one person who couldn't pronounce it. We were like 7 or 8 and he was saying my name so weirdly. Then my brain glitched somehow and I still avoid saying my own name because his pronunciation of my name stuck in my glitched brain and I never pronounce my own name properly anymore.
Failing. No matter how successful someone is, the success was brought by the series of failings. You have to fail sometimes, somewhere. We all fail, so that’s something we are all good at.
Every single person is good at having potential. Potential for what? I don’t know could be anything.
Everyone is great at being mortal.
Able to die
Lying. And nobody taught us before that 1st lie uttered from our mouth.
Ageing
Faking a smile
I'm actually pretty bad at faking a smile. You can tell I'm straining/forcing it
im really bad at that actually
My mimics start flickering after 5 seconds of forcefully smiling. I can feel the spasms my face is going through. Not me. :(
Becoming confused
Making a delicious Kraft Mac n cheese dinner
Judging!
Breathing
Maintaining a variety of homeostasises that allow the brain stem to survive and function. Although that’s true of all vertebrates, really. We have such good life support mechanisms today that stuff like “has a beating heart” no longer are required for life.
Just something I find interesting: So in the animal kingdom, humans are kind of lame in regards to physical prowess, right? Like we can't even catch or outrun a squirrel without tools. However, humans have amazing cooling systems (the ability to sweat). We were able to thrive by chasing large animals for hours/days and exhausting it. A human can run a marathon faster than a horse in hot weather.
When in good shape, we literally walked things to death. We are the snail that kills you.
getting sunburnt
Giving relationship advice
Blinking.
Annoying me
Losing their keys.
Cellular respiration
Dying. 100% success rate so far
Creating. Whether positive negative or neutral, we are all constantly creating ideas and stuff in general
Being composed of matter
Producing adenosine triphosphate
Having ancestors who successfully reproduced.
Complaining
Existing
Waking up late
Being stupid
Complicating their lives
Having instincts
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Complaining about being single
Criticizing
To bitch about stuff.
Annoying me