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What's something weird and mostly useless that you can do with your body? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (7 children)

This is my time to shine, my body is full of useless, I can:

gleek intentionally (saving people a search: it’s causing the salivary glands under your tongue to shoot saliva, people often do it unintentionally when yawning)
open my jaw wide enough that it goes out of socket, and twofer I can then move it side to side and produce a loud popping noise
bend my thumb down to my wrist
cause my heart rate to spike for short periods even when at rest
make a three leaf clover with my tongue
click my tongue extremely loudly

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I remember when I was a kid we were all trying to gleek and some of us could do it easily. I never could, so anytime as an adult I accidentally do it, I can’t help but laugh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

A friend taught me how to gleek in 7th grade. I never stopped doing it lmao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

click my tongue extremely loudly

Learn Xhosa.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

oh my god, so that's what I'm doing when I yawn! It started happening a few years ago...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

By shoot, does it have force or do you mean it just comes out?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

It has “force”, but it’s not very impressive, I can shoot saliva in approximately a 1ft / 30cm arch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Tongue clicks are absurdly useful. In my family we use then to communicate over long distances and to find each other in big crowds

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I can also gleek but it's nowhere near what my grade 11 English teacher could do. I don't know how it came up in class, but, in front of the class, she turned sideways and made the biggest arc I'd ever seen: maybe 6 feet long