What's your superpower?
 

(I swear this thread already existed somewhere on TFP, but I can't find it. Mods, please merge if anyone can locate the original.)

Do you have a talent that goes beyond mere ability? Do you possess a superpower? Does it have any particular use?

I just realized that I possess a superpower. I can cause seeds to spontaneously generate in clementines. These are supposed to be seedless, but somehow I (and only I) can cause the seeds to appear. In the clementine I ate yesterday, a single segment contained 5 seeds! My wife and son never get seeds in theirs.

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I challenge anyone out there to reveal a less-useful superpower.

I confirmed this weekend that alcohol does not cause other people I'm around to have hangovers the next morning, but I actually cause people to have severe hangovers.

I can fold sheets all by myself, even the bottom sheet...all while im standing up

I can tell time.


EDIT: Oh, that is, without the aid of any analog/digital components, I just guess at various times during the day, or when I wake up after a nap, and 7 times out of eleven, I pinpoint the time within a few minutes(usually less than ten). This is especially helpful since the only time-telling devices I own are my laptop(when on) and the daily news on TV.

I can cause utter disaster, by just showing up

-Will

Always having zip ties and duct tape.

People think I'm amazing for carrying them.

Turns out they're really useful items.

I can tell what people are wearing just by chatting with them.

my favorite superpower was possessed by a guy i knew in ithaca whose job it was to kill baby chickens that failed to mutate in the course of genetics laboratory experiments and who carried a complete baseball diamond and equipment for two baseball teams around in the trunk of his car. at all times.

"because you never know when a baseball game might break out," he once explained, "it pays to be prepared."

my superpower lay in meeting people like this.

I can parallel park in any tight spot, with a stick shift, on a steep city hill... without doing damage to my car or the ones in front/back of me. (Light touching of the bumpers does not count.) :D

"Mutate, damn you! MUTATE!" *SMASH*

This guy should run for President. Seriously. Absolutely amazing story.

Contrary to popular beliefs that one sock from a pair will eventually permanently disappear while doing laundry, I ALWAYS find the missing sock.

But by that time, the other one that was not lost is lost and I don't have that particular superpower yet.

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I have an uncanny ability to calm hysteria where ever it may rear.

You also possess the ability to eyeball unlikely fractions...

I have the ability to identify the line that should not be crossed in conversation and cross it faster than a Mexican running across the border.

I can turn the nicest person in the world into a complete asshole by just saying, "Excuse me, can I get more iced-tea please."

My superpower? It burns when I pee.

Many years ago, the NY Daily News Sunday magazine had a weekly contributors' page and this very question was asked. This was my 3rd place winner(I got a tshirt):

I have the amazing ability to find any short line in any store or bank and, simply by standing in it, make it come to a complete halt. I do not have to actually be at the point of service;merely going into line will cause complete stoppage. This power has been known to last as long as 20 minutes.:thumbsup:

I have the incredible power to uncontrollably spell words with my hands with I get very nervous. Makes for very fast signing, but the deaf people I know make fun of me for it, haha. It's still awesome. People think that I am flipping them off when I do it.

I have the amazing and unerring ability to find porn where-ever it may be hidden.

take me to the house (that I've never been in) of someone that I've never met and IF there is porn there, I'll be viewing it within an hour, usually within 10 minutes...

I have the power to take no for an answer. This isn't something I was born able to handle. But events in my life revealed this power to me and I've been able to harness this power to prevent disappointments.

i can find a good parking spot, and i always have exact change.

Under the influence of my uncontrollable supervillainy, my superpower takes form when I wreak havoc on lineups. Something always goes wrong in the line I choose. I bend circumstance with my mind! Either someone ahead of me takes waaaay too long in comparison to the average or what is acceptable, or something goes horribly wrong at a till or information desk.

The severity of the incident is usually, if not always, measured at an inverse proportion to the relative unobtrusiveness of my patronage.

I'm deceptive like that.

I can fart the tune to the Star Spangled Banner.

I am now fully toilet trained.

i have this awesome thing where i inadvertantly say the most hilarious things of all time

i have that superpower too PLUS the person directly in front of me will be paying by check.

my other ability is i can cause complete strangers to hit jackpots on slot machines. doesnt work for anyone i know, just strangers.

I have the power to make brand new light bulbs burn dead whenever it is least convenient.

Also, no matter what direction I face, I can make make it windy coming from behind me.

I have the ability to kill landscaping plants with my mind, simply by willing them to live. The reverse is also one of my powers. I can sustain the life of any ugly, rotting, half-dead tree, for a decade or longer, merely by wishing it to fall down.

tonight I've been discovered to have the uncanny power of asymmetrical groutious maximus calefaction.

This only works in person (as in, not over the phone, not on the internet, etc), but I have an absolutely infallible bullshit detector. Even if we just met... I just need about 3 minutes of conversation before it kicks in. I can't be lied to or deceived. Again, this only works in person.

I have the power to say no to trendiness, fads, and all things popular in all of their forms. Wether it be fashion, tattoos, piercings, popular music, you name it. I think I may very well be the ONLY person at my workplace that doesn't have tattoos or piercings.

superpowers many have I
 

I can set a microwave timer to any given to any given interval, walk away and do something else, and come back within two seconds of the timer going off.:eek:

I can also beat the bog by peeing like a madman whilst flushing the toilet and finishing!:eek: :eek:

If I concentrate enough at bedtime, I can set my own internal clock!

I can make smokers' smoke come toward me and STAY around me, just like a magnetism for cats as well.

I can also tell when people make up their own superpowers:thumbsup:

That settles it. I am never wearing pajamas while in the chat room again.

I can make a neutral comment, such as "good morning" or "the sky is blue", and two people will argue with each other about it without involving me in their conversation.

I have the ability to make small children run away from me simply by holding a toothbrush or a pair of kids pajamas.

At work I'm told my superpower is that when I leave messages, people never call me back. And I mean NEVER.

I can go nearly 2 minutes straight without thinking about sex (I'm a male).

Edit -- Apparently, I have the power to turn off other people's sarcasm detectors, simply by saying something sarcastic.

No! Really?

I have the superpower to make 99% of the milk disappear from the milk jug, simply by opening the refrigerator door.

I also have the power to make all the toilet paper disappear just by opening the bathroom door.

I just wish I could turn off these powers.

I can eyeball a wad of paper very accurately. Example: if I need 18 sheets of paper, I grab a bit of the pile without leafing through it and... lo and behold, I've picked somewhere from 17 to 19.

My other power is always being chip leader in poker.... for the first 1/3 of the game. :(

I can bring conversation to a screeching halt.

I have super fast reaction times in situations where it is often unwarranted. I can be across the room in an instant at the slightest sound of unnatural movement by my kids, only to find nothing out of the ordinary when i got there...but i was there fast...just in case.

Though there have been times where my ninja reflexes have come in handy, like the time i caught a full gallon of milk as it fell out of the fridge. That resulted in a dislocated thumb, but i had saved my family from certain doom from having to clean up a gallon of milk.

I have the ability to buy a loaf of bread and have it go moldy on me, pdq.

My buddy has the uncanny ability to have his car batteries go bad back to back to back.

I have the ability to make traffic lights turn red the moment my car enters their line of vision. This power seems to be more effective when I'm at my most impatient or late.

I also possess the ability to find the broken ATM - this only works when I actually need money.

Oh, and I can make street lights go out by just driving past them.

What? Beat the bog? Am I missing something here??

At work:

With no outside stimulus whatsoever, I can inflate my ego to galactic proportions.

I can make everyone in the room think that all the good things that happened were the result of all my hard work when I didn't lift a finger.

I can magically attract new revenue streams that no one else even thought existsed.

At home:

I can play the purple blanket game with Max. No one else can. Granted, I don't understand it, but apparently I play it better than anyone else.

I am topical beyond comprehension.

That sounds like my friend Pace.

I am behind and ahead of the time spent on reaction,
split before the art of anticipation.

I have the ability to make ungodly amounts of money relative to my level in the game World of Warcraft.

I haven't even hit 60 and I have almost enough money for my flying mount, which I can't get until 70.

I have supersonic hearing. Those bloody things on the roof that squeal at a pitch that humans are not supposed to hear, yea, I can hear them. The sounds of chains clanking together makes me cover my ears and run due to the pain. The sound of a crinkling plastic shopping bag (not all of them, just the ones that are not stretchy, the really crappy shopping bags) hurts my ears so bad I cant wait for it to stop.

On the plus side I can always hear someone coming, I can be in the basement and hear if someones phone in the upstairs received a message, I can hear anyone in the house saying pretty much anything if I concentrate or if they are talking about me.

It is a curse as much as it is a blessing.

I can also tell time fairly accurately using no time telling devices.

We are not so alone as we thought.. eh?
How about flourescent lights.

A true super power would have the ability to incapacitate them.

I will ask santa.

Can you hear televisions change scenes? 'Cause I can. Some music videos, where there are lots of rapid bright/dark changes, are unbearable to my ears.

I can make really bad jokes... :D and amazingly... sometimes ppl even laugh.

It does count :mad:
Heh, join the club. I was tested and can hear up to 22232hz

I have the amazing ability to go from completely flaccid to fully erect & ejaculate in 10 seconds........women just love that, Not.

Actually I saw that in the movie "Kinsey", pretty amazing though.....

Well, what the heck are bumpers for, eh? :orly: I'm not talking about smacking into them and causing paint damage, c'mon. I mean a little kiss, at like 1 inch per hour... and when I'm done, there's always ample room for the other person to get out. I've checked bumpers afterwards to see if anything was amiss, and there never is. I'm good, man. :)

i know that school of parallel parking, abaya.
it's from philly, where parking is a contact sport.
and when i'm driving, i'm a devotee of that style.

o i know, other people say that i could just park further away from the Destination, you wont have to squeeze into a spot 3 inches on either side longer than the car is, you wont have to do that pinball thing back and forth bump bump bump...but there are rules and the main rule is park as close as possible to the Destination.

adhering rigidly to this rule makes you a parking commando.
every day a new adventure.
having adventures is my other superpower.

I can close my eyes at the exact moment a person tries to take a photo of me. And I have to forcefully open my eyes to the point that they dry out for a longer than necessary time.

*or*

I lack the ability to notice that there might be a line to be crossed. Someone please help me...

Oicha!

I can stupefy you in 90 seconds.

I can never get stuffed and too full to eat one(and then) more food.

I can escape reality.

I can liken the uncanny into something more than coincidence and create a new state akin to premonition.

I can discover treasure most anywhere I seek to find it.

I can transcend existence.

I can make you laugh.

I have the uncanny ability to set up any combination of TV, VCR, Surround Sound, etc. I am the go to man for most of my friends and colleagues when it comes to this.

I can tell when women are menstruating by body language/scent/weird mojo (not sure which - I just KNOW).

A parallel to this is that I can tell when women are pregnant if i spend more than a few minutes with her. I've been known to do this before the woman knew she was pregnant for sure.

I also know what perfume will sit well on a woman, and what will smell like cat piss, based on some unconscious feeling. I've managed in the past to comment "Oh, you should try such and such" only to find it's the only scent that they like. I have no idea how this works.

You win! WOWOW! :thumbsup:

The rest of us aren't worthy!!! (having lived next to San Francisco in Sausalito for years and never able to parallel park in the City.)

I can always open a book open to the start of a chapter. I can name the chapter out loud and open the book and be there.

Nothing comes out when I sneeze.

I have no knuckles on my pinky and ring fingers on either hand. (I'm hoping something Wolveriney will happen).

I've never lost on proline (a legal sports gambling system in Atlantic Canada. I've probably won over 100 times. I don't play very often though).

I can and do inadvertently say the MOST sexually-innuendo-laced things without even trying--to me, it's a completely innocent answer/remark. And suddenly everyone around me is howling with laughter or sputtering.

And I laugh along, having no idea why everyone is reacting, until I repeat in my mind 2-3 times what I just said...

Good example:
Was talking with guy friend who was teasing me about how women have to use the facilities so much more often than guys. He was including me in this group (obviously). In exasperation, I respond (rather loudly, of COURSE), "Why you criticize my pee-ness?!?" Conversation stops, while I ponder in my head, "Pee-ness. Pee-ness. That sounds like a word already...OH GEES."

1) smoke will always find me. it doesn´t matter how many people are around or what i´m doing, smoke will ALWAYS find me. my friends have commented on this multiple times.

2) i have the ability (probably helps how much i´ve driven) to read EXACTLY what traffic is doing and slice through it like a knife through butter. the boy racer may zoom past me at 3x the speed limit but after the next traffic lights i´ll be 4 cars in front. this has caused a few scenes....

3) i have the power to move you.

I discovered a new one! I have the supernatural ability to find the worst barber shops in the SF Bay Area. Do not, under any circumstances, go to the barber shop on the corner of Minnesota and Bird Ave. Ever.

Post a pic, or we don't believe you. :D

I didn't take a pic of what resulted from the bad haircut, but I am sporting a pseudo-Lance Armstrong, which was my only solution. I'll see if I can post a pic later (my digicam was stolen a few months back).

I've reordered time. I have an amazing ability that no matter what time I arrive to meet people, they somehow are always taking their lunch break. All I need is a pair of tights and I can fight crime.

My superpower is finding threads that I have created in the past!

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=131318

and then killing them