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    Wow guys. How about trying... "You know, crying so that you make me feel bad in order that you get your own way is a really harsh passive aggressive strategy and is deeply deeply childish?"

    Just saying...
    • CommentAuthorNinja Ross
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2009
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    drunk tyiping. i spell better when pissed. that seems to be a common thing here.

    i reckon i could rush into burning buildings and not choke on the smoke, since i smoke so bloody much.
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    And if that's what she were doing, that'd be bad. But crying because "Why are you such a dick to the people I care about?" is perfectly reasonable.
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    Hah! Indeed so, indeed so.
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      CommentAuthormagatsu
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2009
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    Plagerism with style is a definite skill.

    I learned this during junior high, and it served me well throughout high school, college, and oddly enough my two major post-college jobs. The unwritten parts of the job description.
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      CommentAuthorBexx B.S.
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2009
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    I can play the I'm SOBER game pretty well.. and also my drunken homing system is pretty top notch.
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      CommentAuthoroldhat
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2009
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    I have sealed many deals as well as made quite a bit of money off of lying really really well. Hurrah for acting lessons as a child.
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    @Audley: yeah, exactly what Brendan said.
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      CommentAuthormister hex
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2009
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    Looks like drunken navigation is a fairly common skill here at Whitechapel. Which could be part of some bizarre initiation rite we scare new people with ... just sayin', is all.

    I wish I knew more about camp-craft but I hate camping. (The Outdoors are fine, provided there are Indoors to eventually retreat to.) I hate camping, as a city boy at heart. If I wanted to live in the 19th Century, I'd build a fucking time machine. (I fully expect to be killed quickly in any survival situation.)

    That said, knowing how to build a lean-to won't help you survive on the mean streets of wherever you live. (Or will it?)
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    I attribute my good sense of direction, map-reading skills and ability to familiarise myself quickly when in a new place with the many many hours I spent playing computer games as a kid when I should've been studying or out making friends.
    • CommentAuthorE0157H7
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2009
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    I basically learned my skills with electronics, hardware hacking and people manipulation due to the unrelenting compulsion to cause mischief and undermine authority during my school years. Thanks to me all my high school friends knew the administrator password to the computers, as well as how to hijack the sound systems in the classrooms.
    • CommentAuthorAlexGBYMR
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2009
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    Plagerism with style is a definite skill.


    I could not agree more.
    • CommentAuthorIan_M
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2009
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    I can get 8 hours of solid work done when all I want to do is lie in bed with the lights off, pay my rent and bills when I truly don't care whether or not I end up on the street, feed myself once a day whether I'm hungry or not, fake being interested in people when the sound of human voices pisses me off, and generally act as a functional human being when I am in fact deeply ill.

    Thanks, clinical depression!

    Oh, and the drunken navigation/avoid hangovers thing.
    • CommentAuthorE0157H7
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2009
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    Thanks to long stretches of insomnia-induced sleep deprivation and vacant stretches of working without breaks, I've learned that hallucinations can't get me and can be ignored as I carry out daily activities.
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    How could I forget my advanced bullshitting skills which come from never doing the required prior reading. I find that the best tactic, as similarly espoused in Wedding Crashers, is not to hide in the corner and hope you don't get called on, but vigorously attack everyone else's point like you've not only read the article, but you care deeply about its conclusions, whatever they may be. It's a wonderful feeling at times, like dancing on a knife edge.

    Another tactic which I wouldn't recommend as I don't actually know how I did it comes from one first year history class that was in the afternoon preceded by a morning class then a three hour gap that I'd spend in the pub, so I'd come in to class 10 minutes late, a little worse for wear and promptly pass out, only to, according to my friends in the class as I have no memory of this, wake up when I was called on to answer a question, give a succinct and cogent relevant answer then promptly pass out again. I wish I knew how I did this.
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      CommentAuthormister hex
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2009
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    I can fast for extended periods of time. Called the Poverty Diet. Eating three times a day is nice but not necessary.

    Sleep deprivation is easy, once you get your Second Wind and you have something to occupy your time. Slow down and you're done.

    Another strange skill (and one well represented on Whitechapel) is humour. I don't know HOW many beatings I've avoided or mitigated just by being a clown.

    Whitechapel : We're Funny, We're Drunk, We Can Find Our Way Home!
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    @mister hex
    I'm convinced Jerry Seinfeld got beat up in junior high. I have the same skill, I suppose.
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      CommentAuthorExploder
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2009
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    I once wrote the second half of a short story while blackout drunk, which was the closest thing I've ever experienced to time traveling, so basically I have the ability to travel forward through time at the actual speed of time but it feels like it only took a few moments.
    • CommentAuthorE0157H7
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2009
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    Habitually falling in with groups of people characterized principally by drug abuse and serious emotional problems has made me really good at talking people down off of ledges and making them feel better. There's an art to dealing with someone who's having a bad trip or a breakdown.
    • CommentAuthorseverian
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2009
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    Not quite the poverty diet, but I only eat solid food once a day. Evening is best if you're doing 3-5kCal in 1-2 sittings. This is due to minor (as far as I'm concerned) health issues that will leaving me in pain so bad I'm non-functional unless sitting/laying & so doped up on painkillers that I might as well call it a day. It taught me how to pace my energy, love a balanced diet, and actually exercise so that I have some energy reserves.

    Three fingered typing in this day & age means you get very fast at typing. If my brain could only keep up with my fingers I'd be fine.

    I don't do drunk navigation; it's on all the time. This is due to the sad fact that after several years I still know so little about where things are. This is mitigated by the fact that if a city is laid out according to grid rules, I can find anywhere given the address.

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