What's something weird and mostly useless that you can do with your body?

Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 134 points –
246

You are viewing a single comment

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

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.

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

click my tongue extremely loudly

Learn Xhosa.

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

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

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

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