Unusual skills developed because of laziness

Started by Blizzard, August 07, 2010, 05:54:06 am

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Blizzard

Do you possess such skills? I thought of one the other day. Since I am always too lazy to pull out a wooden board, when cutting bread, so I don't damage the table with the knife, I have developed a high precision while cutting stuff with knives and better spacial orientation by better estimation of how things look on the side that I don't see. How? Simple. Since I have to stop cutting the bread before the knife reaches the table (usually 2-3 cm), I turn it by 90° and continue cutting while I continue rotating it slightly. That way the knife never touches the table and the bread has a clean cut. Of course, when I started doing that the cuts weren't clean at all. I always made a bit of a mess and slipped onto either side while cutting the bread. xD
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I learned to cook awesome meals out of nearly no indigrents at all, because I was too lazy to go and buy food. I have about 10 recipes I made up myself that can be done with things you always have at home, like a pasta sauce made only out of margarine, spices and random vegetables (the ones I can find, really) and it actually tastes awesome.

G_G

My hand-eyed coordination is pretty good. I'll be sitting at my computer or on my bed watching tv. Don't have the remote? No problem. :D

I always have one of those curtain rods next to me for 2 reasons. Back scratching and pressing buttons on the tv. Much like blizz, I wasn't great at it at first but now I can hit any button just like that. Its came pretty useful over the years.

poxy

Years ago I had a VCR I lost a remote for, so I taped a button pushing lever to the thing and tied a string around it. The string went under the VCR along the wall and the ceiling to the other side of the room above my bed.  8)

Though I could only change the channel one way..
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tSwitch

I buy sliced bread.

It just occurred to me that the things you list as lazy skills were actually produced by constant practice and determination, and thus produced by effort.  Not lazy.


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SquareMan

i learned to always use keyboard shortcuts on my pc.
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WhiteRose

Quote from: Square Man on August 10, 2010, 10:44:23 pm
i learned to always use keyboard shortcuts on my pc.


Well, that's certainly unusual, alright.

Blizzard

August 11, 2010, 02:30:11 am #7 Last Edit: August 11, 2010, 02:31:19 am by Blizzard
Quote from: NAMKCOR on August 10, 2010, 09:33:09 pm
It just occurred to me that the things you list as lazy skills were actually produced by constant practice and determination, and thus produced by effort.  Not lazy.


Not necessarily. They may have been produced by effort, but that effort was minimal. It took me years to learn to cut bread that way since:
1. I don't eat/cut bread that often.
2. The effort needed to do that is minimal.
3. The effort is less than taking the cutting board and then cutting.
4. Just because effort was put into them, doesn't mean that laziness isn't the cause of those skills.

You're completely missing the point of this topic.
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Quote from: Blizzard on August 11, 2010, 02:30:11 am
Quote from: NAMKCOR on August 10, 2010, 09:33:09 pm
It just occurred to me that the things you list as lazy skills were actually produced by constant practice and determination, and thus produced by effort.  Not lazy.


Not necessarily. They may have been produced by effort, but that effort was minimal. It took me years to learn to cut bread that way since:
1. I don't eat/cut bread that often.
2. The effort needed to do that is minimal.
3. The effort is less than taking the cutting board and then cutting.
4. Just because effort was put into them, doesn't mean that laziness isn't the cause of those skills.

You're completely missing the point of this topic.


I was making a joke.


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G_G

Quote from: Square Man on August 10, 2010, 10:44:23 pm
i learned to always use keyboard shortcuts on my pc.


My god so do I xD I started doing it when I first got my laptop then it stuck to me. I hate using the mouse.

Blizzard

Quote from: NAMKCOR on August 11, 2010, 08:56:41 am
Quote from: Blizzard on August 11, 2010, 02:30:11 am
Quote from: NAMKCOR on August 10, 2010, 09:33:09 pm
It just occurred to me that the things you list as lazy skills were actually produced by constant practice and determination, and thus produced by effort.  Not lazy.


Not necessarily. They may have been produced by effort, but that effort was minimal. It took me years to learn to cut bread that way since:
1. I don't eat/cut bread that often.
2. The effort needed to do that is minimal.
3. The effort is less than taking the cutting board and then cutting.
4. Just because effort was put into them, doesn't mean that laziness isn't the cause of those skills.

You're completely missing the point of this topic.


I was making a joke.


*is looking for the sarcasm smiley* I can't find it.
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Quote from: Blizzard on August 11, 2010, 09:25:13 am
Quote from: NAMKCOR on August 11, 2010, 08:56:41 am
Quote from: Blizzard on August 11, 2010, 02:30:11 am
Quote from: NAMKCOR on August 10, 2010, 09:33:09 pm
It just occurred to me that the things you list as lazy skills were actually produced by constant practice and determination, and thus produced by effort.  Not lazy.


Not necessarily. They may have been produced by effort, but that effort was minimal. It took me years to learn to cut bread that way since:
1. I don't eat/cut bread that often.
2. The effort needed to do that is minimal.
3. The effort is less than taking the cutting board and then cutting.
4. Just because effort was put into them, doesn't mean that laziness isn't the cause of those skills.

You're completely missing the point of this topic.


I was making a joke.


*is looking for the sarcasm smiley* I can't find it.

That's because sarcasm is pointless when indicated with a smley. It's most fun when people think you are serious.

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Quote from: Blizzard on August 11, 2010, 04:20:52 pm
That isn't sarcasm, that's misleading.


joke != sarcasm.
Also I know Ms.Leading and she's a very nice woman :(


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element

I have a really usefull skill.
I can make myself sick in bout 10 minutes of thinking.
usefull when u don't want to go to somewhere.

Zeriab

Quote from: NAMKCOR on August 11, 2010, 01:17:34 pm
smiley or it wasn't a joke.

Fixed*

I am not sure if I have any skills unusual or not which I developed due to laziness.
It requires introspective thinking which I am too lazy to do

tSwitch

Quote from: Blizzard on August 12, 2010, 02:09:39 am
You had sex with her, didn't you? :V:


I would have but it turned out she was a guy, and I don't appreciate being misled.
If he had just told me from the start things might have been different.


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