now considered useless traits

[rwc101]

Was pretty good at keeping tamagotchis alive.

 

[Falcon75]

I miss it. Working 60 to 80 hours a week and then trying to do 120 acres of small bales wasnt gonna work while starting a family. Someday again maybe.

Isn't that why you have lots of kids to stack bales on wagon and put hay up in the mow while you drive the tractor? Or let the 3 year old drive if none of the bigger kids are around to pick up just 30 more bales that didn't fit on wagons. My little guy loves to make hay since he was 2. Picked up the bigger kids to help and left him at grandma's. He bawled and screamed till grandma brought him to the field 1 hr later and then he just sat on a bale trying to catch his breath for another hour. At 3 he would use his butchers meat hook/hay hook on you if you tried to take his bale in the rotation in order to get ahead of the baler.

 

[RobG]

Backyard mechanic, especially after shot-gunning beers and/or winning quarters by rolling it off my nose.

 

[Gr8bawana]

Someone mentioned working on their own vehicle. I do 99.9% of my own car and truck repairs and maintenance and people look at me like I'm crazy.
I do take pride in being able to sharpen knives on an old-fashioned stone. No need for any gadgets.
Spelling has also been one of my strong points since I was a kid.

 

[Gerald Martin]

Making snarky comments on Hunttalk...

 

[Gellar]

Making snarky comments on Hunttalk...

I didn’t realize that talent had been considered useless…

 

[220yotekiller]

My wife and I can use our thumbnails to put the guts back in a cassette tape.
Knowing the reference numbers for books in the library.
Using a hacksaw to cut steel instead of a grinder.
Knowing how to sharpen a knife off of an old Arkansas stone, I hate replaceable blades on knives!

 

[VikingsGuy]

virgin until married

Ken, would you be so kind as to add a meme to my post

A good thing folks got married at about 13/14 back in the day

 

[Dave N]

Apparently, being able to sing along to most of the KISS library isn't worth diddly squat...

 

[geetar]

Waiting for @shrapnel to add starting the Battle of Little Bighorn all over again without even meaning too.

 

[VikingsGuy]

I am really good at taking those fill-in-the-dot tests - if it wasn't illegal I would have paid my way through college taking SAT tests for various dimwitted Kennedy kids so they could go to Harvard. And more recently, my prices would have been much cheaper than the $1 million dollars some parent paid to fake their kid's membership in a rowing team to get into Yale. But alas, not an option so I have to work a 9-5 for my paycheck.

 

[noharleyyet]

Making snarky comments on Hunttalk...

 

[LuketheDog]

The post on "best advice" got me thinking about specific traits or specialties you posses that most people either laugh at or consider useless.

For me its working an Axe. I don't brag on myself much, but I can absolutely equivalently handle an axe.

My dad and I had a logging company growing up. We sold firewood. All hand cut, hand split and delivered. We cut, split and delivered well over 5,000 cord of wood. I split every one of them. I when I say a cord of wood, I mean real cord of wood, not today's math.

I cant for the life of me understand a log splitter. Our neighbors got one when I was about 15. My dad bet them a few cases of beer i could beat him and his son with it. I did and it wasn't even close. I cannot confirm nor deny that the ol man may have shared the beer with me.

Seems like now everyone has to have a damn log splitter. I am 52 and to this day will still out split anyone, anytime, anyplace, especially a damn log splitter.

Like I said useless trait. But if your ever stuck in woods trying to build a fire, I am your guy!

Where I grew up the trees were coastal live oak and eucalyptus, I dare you to race the splitter

 

[JohnCushman]

Making snarky comments on Hunttalk...

Challenge accepted

 

[Misguided]

Speak pig Latin…fluently

 

[LuketheDog]

Skiing sans helmet. Why can’t anyone ski bareheaded these days?

You can, but it's stupid

 

[belshawelk]

Where I grew up the trees were coastal live oak and eucalyptus, I dare you to race the splitter

The other shitty tree to split is wild Cherry. You have to peel the bark to split Cottonwood when wet is not much fun. Dry its a piece of cake. Give me some good ole NW Alder, Birch, Maple ( gods greatest tree), fir and all its cousins ad your on. Just to keep things fair we can throw a few pieces of juniper or pine to slow me down.

LOL

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

Making friends on a internet forum and actually going on a hunting trip with em without ever even meeting them before hand sometimes...... my wife thinks I'm weird AF and says I'm asking for a problem. I told her she's crazy and that you can't believe everyone on this world is a psychopath.

I guess if I sit back and look at it more..... I'd still what I'm doing. Been lots of fun some great people on here!

My wife insists on asking me to go to every damn work function thing they have all over the damn place because I can talk to anybody and make them feel good she says and she hates talking to random people so I'm being used as the icebreaker. My skills are rewarded tho with fancy hotel accommodations and fancy dinners on the water users dime. Plus I usually get to do mtmuley's useless trait in the fancy hotels.

 

[BrentD]

The other shitty tree to split is wild Cherry. ...

LOL

Huh?

I split cherry by the ton. We heat with wood and cherry might be our most common firewood. Splits great with a splitting axe or a 6# maul. No hydraulic splitter here.

Elm sucks. I don't even bother.

 

[justdada]

Is converting scotch to urine a useless trait?
...seriously though, auto repair, plumbing, non-uber-transportation (in the city), the ability to work an 8 hour day.