Do you have any superpowers ?

tone1 · January 2018

I know when it's a Full Moon even when it's cloudy.... I feel it like the Sun.

Stevepage · January 2018

I can open jars without saying out loud "bloody hell that's on tight"

usedtobe · January 2018

I get a terrible sense of foreboding before I get dumped.
Does that count?

Guitar_Slinger · January 2018

tone1 said:
I know when it's a Full Moon even when it's cloudy.... I feel it like the Sun.

(Parklife)

Stevepage said:

I can open jars without saying out loud "bloody hell that's on tight"

(Parklife)

usedtobe said:
I get a terrible sense of foreboding before I get dumped.
Does that count?

(Parklife)

All the people
So many people
And they all go hand-in-hand
Hand-in-hand through their parklife

tone1 · January 2018

Guitar_Slinger said:

tone1 said:
I know when it's a Full Moon even when it's cloudy.... I feel it like the Sun.

(Parklife)

Stevepage said:

I can open jars without saying out loud "bloody hell that's on tight"

(Parklife)

usedtobe said:
I get a terrible sense of foreboding before I get dumped.
Does that count?

(Parklife)

All the people
So many people
And hey all go hand-in-hand
Hand-in-hand through their parklife

Do I get a writing credit?

Guitar_Slinger · January 2018

First line, where my phone ballsed-up the formatting.

(Parklife)

Emp_Fab · January 2018

Emp_Fab said:

Skipped said:

I hope this thread is partially serious.
Absolutely. Hence my request to refrain from the funny comments at the beginning. I’m very serious indeed about the unusual abilities thing. With that in mind, I am going to pass judgement now on the claims to superpower status. So far, we have a small handful of serious claims. The rest are just silly. The claims that I think deserve the status of unnatural ability are; Maynehead and his microscopic vision, Sporky and Dano and their hyper-accurate mental clocks, JezWynd and his ability to summon people by thought alone and DrCornelius’s ability to predict the near future.

The team has now expanded to include Skipped for his ability to remotely sense trouble, Johnnyburgo joins Sporky and Dano for his mental clock - I think they should be titled "The Timelords", and Tone1 for the ability to sense a full moon. Not sure how that could be used, but it's definitely a paranormal ability.

breakstuff · January 2018

Saw this the other week.A lady who can apparently smell Parkinsons Disease.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-42366104/the-woman-who-can-smell-parkinson-s-disease&ved=0ahUKEwju_o7O-bvYAhXB-qQKHUuvDD4QjjgIMjAA&usg=AOvVaw12UdKwByXvRVJdVgFNK2l_

sinbaadi · January 2018

Procrastination Man.

midlifecrisis · January 2018

i think im overly sensitive to electro-magnetic energy. I can feel when someones mobile is about to ring or when im in a room i feel a slight tingle from mobiles, have tested this with people powering them down.

Panama_Jack666 · January 2018

I can plug USB sticks in correctly on the first attempt.

Emp_Fab · January 2018

midlifecrisis said:

i think im overly sensitive to electro-magnetic energy. I can feel when someones mobile is about to ring or when im in a room i feel a slight tingle from mobiles, have tested this with people powering them down.

That’s interesting. I knew a chap once who had a more extreme version of that. He was with Iggy & Bowie, and had to keep all his recording gear in a shielded room in his home studio. He reckoned the electromagnetic radiation made him ill. Bit of a bummer if you’re doing a stadium gig I would imagine!

Either way... Superpower. You’re in.

Panama_Jack666 said:

I can plug USB sticks in correctly on the first attempt.

Now, if you’d said “I can fly by just flapping my arms” or “I can walk on water”, you’d have been in with a chance, very small, but a chance nonetheless. However, your claim is SO laughably unachievable, nobody will ever believe you.

bodhi · January 2018

Whenever my sister-in-law starts bestowing some wisdom upon me, I can summon up this tune in my head at will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5Sa2Yq-2g

sev112 · January 2018

Emp_Fab said:

Skipped said:

I hope this thread is partially serious.
Absolutely. Hence my request to refrain from the funny comments at the beginning. I’m very serious indeed about the unusual abilities thing. With that in mind, I am going to pass judgement now on the claims to superpower status. So far, we have a small handful of serious claims. The rest are just silly. The claims that I think deserve the status of unnatural ability are; Maynehead and his microscopic vision, Sporky and Dano and their hyper-accurate mental clocks, JezWynd and his ability to summon people by thought alone and DrCornelius’s ability to predict the near future.

The rest of you are just charlatans.

Any others endowed with logic-defying abilities ?

I wish to challenge your logic of charlatan identification

i restate my case whereby I just drive to a town I have never been before and get to where I need to go without a map or direction signs - an internal compass if you like, just like an internal moral compass without the ethics stuff

usedtobe · January 2018

Tinnitus?

beed84 · January 2018

Well, at least Marvel know where to come for inspiration for their next X-Men instalment. It's freak central here.

Emp_Fab · January 2018

sev112 said:

Emp_Fab said:

Skipped said:

I hope this thread is partially serious.
Absolutely. Hence my request to refrain from the funny comments at the beginning. I’m very serious indeed about the unusual abilities thing. With that in mind, I am going to pass judgement now on the claims to superpower status. So far, we have a small handful of serious claims. The rest are just silly. The claims that I think deserve the status of unnatural ability are; Maynehead and his microscopic vision, Sporky and Dano and their hyper-accurate mental clocks, JezWynd and his ability to summon people by thought alone and DrCornelius’s ability to predict the near future.

The rest of you are just charlatans.

Any others endowed with logic-defying abilities ?

I wish to challenge your logic of charlatan identification

i restate my case whereby I just drive to a town I have never been before and get to where I need to go without a map or direction signs - an internal compass if you like, just like an internal moral compass without the ethics stuff

You can really do that ? Like really really?

The Human Satnav. You will guide us on our crime-fighting missions. Actually, we need to decide if we are going to fight crime. The other option of course is that we create crime. Dark side and all that. There’s more money in it.

JezWynd · January 2018

Neill said:

Ok, being serious about this I have met a number of very clever people who believe that humans have any number of special "powers" that in pre-historic times we would have employed, even relied upon, to stay alive. Over thousands of years we have "progressed" to the point where these powers are no longer needed, a bit like we still have an appendix even though it has no physical function.
.....

I go along with that. I'm not sure that they're old powers that have become surplus to requirements but, for instance; just because I've never seen a ghost doesn't mean that some other people can't see them. We each have things that we excel at and others at which we are quite poor.

I think I'm quite good at knowing what people are thinking (if I'm in a room with them), I can often sense accurately their unspoken thoughts. It's not an especially unusual power, lots of people have it to some degree; but there are others who completely lack the ability - or perhaps they simply don't bother to enquire of themselves what someone else is thinking. Someone I was close to once told me that they'd never put themselves in another person's shoes - they'd never considered how a situation might appear to someone else. I was shocked, esp. as I thought I knew what others were thinking (or not thinking in this case).

Emp_Fab · January 2018

JezWynd said:

..just because I've never seen a ghost doesn't mean that some other people can't see them.

Yes it does. Because they don’t exist. If I said “just because I haven’t seen a real dragon doesn’t mean other people can’t see them”, you’d question my sanity

RiftAmps · January 2018

Yes, quite a few...

- Even when I'm paying no attention whatsoever, I can repeat the last sentence that someone said when they then say "You're not listening, what did I just say?". I developed it in Secondary School when I used to daydream in class and the teachers would call me out. Now it's very useful when the Mrs is blabbering on about cushions or candles.

- I can tell when a woman is a few days away from menstruating, I can smell it on them. Sort of a mix of lavender and goat's cheese.

- Sometimes I'll just start left-foot braking in a car as though it's completely natural.

- Despite being right-handed, some things that I do are south-paw like Golf, Cricket, Snowboarding, Baseball.

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