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LearnUselessTalents

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Learn all sorts of things that make you stand out in a way that makes people go "that's cool but why do you know that?" We're why! This is a place like a how to guide to teach or learn how to do everyday cool things. Like solving a Rubix Cube, pen spinning, or how to roll a quarter through your fingers.

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[–]Jawthumb 138 points139 points ago

It was from the askreddit "what skills can be learned in less than a month" thread.

[–]iamsofuckedseriously 92 points93 points ago

Which you can thank me for. No please. No thank you's. No seriously stop.

[–]Jawthumb 13 points14 points ago

DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO

[–]icameow14 35 points36 points ago

SHUT UP AND TAKE OUR THANK YOUS!

[–]arCyn1c 15 points16 points ago

Yup. That's what brought me here.

[–]QWERTYthebold 1 point2 points ago

What was it before that thread?

[–]Jawthumb 12 points13 points ago

About 6,000, if I'm doing my basic, obvious math correctly.

[–]SavAndres13 6 points7 points ago

Yup

[–]Billobatch[S,M] 100 points101 points ago

THANK YOU ALL SOOOO MUCH! You have no idea how much it means to me to have 16,000 subs. I had lost my old account, and my reddit account now is very bare... But having the help of my other mods and helpful redditors made this possible. Thank you. Please... POST POST POST Stop being shy and don't hide your talents. We want to see them. Cheers, Billobatch

(also, we need an idea on flair, and a theme... So any help on that would be awesome. Let's make useless talents look nice.)

[–]noahjk[!] 27 points28 points ago

About time to get a theme, eh? I'm your man.

here's some of my work:

/r/Glitch_In_The_Matrix
/r/PureBattlefield
/r/Millersville

I'd love to help out with theme-ing and modding!

[–]Billobatch[S,M] 4 points5 points ago

Yeah. These look great and if you throw up a rough plan I would love to see it.

[–]noahjk[!] 1 point2 points ago

Give me a little bit, working on a theme for /r/dreams right now, but after that I'll be back!

[–]noahjk[!] 1 point2 points ago

here's a logo I asked to be made specifically for this subreddit, how do you feel about it?

http://www.reddit.com/r/redditlogos/comments/xw75i/request_logo_for_rlearnuselesstalents/c5q95uu

[–]Billobatch[S] 1 point2 points ago

This will be changed whenever I get the time to.

[–]sirmarcus 0 points1 point ago

Hmmm these are pretty great, would you ever consider helping us with a redesign over at /r/futurebeats maybe? :D <3.

[–]noahjk[!] 0 points1 point ago

I'd love to! I probably won't get around to it until the week of the 20th, going out of the country this next week - but definitely! Looks like a subreddit I could have some fun with :)

[–]sirmarcus 0 points1 point ago

Awesome! We also have a sister subreddit /r/futurepopmusic with the same style but with an adjusted color scheme. Let me know if you're still interested by the time you're available because that would be the best. We have just hit 16,000 and it's time to shake things up and we've done the best we can thus far but none of us mods are the best at CSS. Thanks for being awesome and at least interested <3.

[–]noahjk[!] 0 points1 point ago

Added to my to-do list!

http://i.imgur.com/rVIu8.jpg

Add me as a mod and I'll see what I can do :)

also I just did /r/dreams stylesheet but haven't applied it yet - does it look okay? /r/csstestsub

[–]sirmarcus 0 points1 point ago

:O, very easy on the eyes and love the banner. I'm going to have to get the okay from the rest of the mod team to move forward this way, I've just asked them and they are quite active so we should get a green light pretty soon. We will probably talk about what we would like to see in the meantime, just let me know when you're ready to rock and roll. Thanks.

[–]noahjk[!] 0 points1 point ago

Sounds good! I would love to know what you guys want out of this - it really helps when I'm not trying to force an answer out of you guys, haha! I'll send some mod mail too and just introduce myself and say what's up, sound good?

[–]sirmarcus 0 points1 point ago

Sounds great :].

[–]ReptarFart 16 points17 points ago

How bout for flair the alien is juggling? Just a thought.

[–]Rikicarvu 5 points6 points ago

juggling with one hand, holding cards in the other?

[–]I_decide_up_or_down 7 points8 points ago

While Moonwalking over hot coals.

[–]Rikicarvu 4 points5 points ago

and spouting the greek alphabet backwards?

[–]I_decide_up_or_down 4 points5 points ago

Wearing a hand knitted scarf.

[–]cobra_2109 1 point2 points ago

While breathing.

[–]Txep 1 point2 points ago

As a connoisseur of useless knowledge, I'm glad to be a part of this sub

[–]TheYe 0 points1 point ago

I would post any talents i have, but i don't know have special talents, so i went here to aquire some.

[–]Llim 0 points1 point ago

aww, we love you too! <3 this subreddit.

[–]BlitzTech 15 points16 points ago

I'm not sure, but you may want to post in /r/LearnUselessTalents about "how to make a popular subreddit".

PS, this is one of my favorite subs.

[–]alexdelpiero 9 points10 points ago

I came to know about this sub-reddit when someone gave the link in one of other sub reddit's thread. Glad I came here. Cheers!

[–]impactmuffin 5 points6 points ago

I found this through a random link. I'm going to have to start following more of them.

[–]yze 0 points1 point ago

same here, found this sub through some random link a couple days ago. love it

[–]cobra_2109 3 points4 points ago

Subscribed when there were like 50 people here. Yeah, I guess you could call me a bad-ass.

[–]Nakken 4 points5 points ago

or just a hipster. Snap!

[–]cobra_2109 1 point2 points ago

I prefer the term "OG".

[–]Audihoe 2 points3 points ago

  • this subreddit is awesome
  • im so glad i subscribed
  • its def talent time

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[–]SSV_Kearsarge 0 points1 point ago

I'm really loving this subreddit. Thanks for not giving up on it or whatever, glad I could be fun part of this!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

I'm glad this subreddit is getting the attention it deserves. Hopefully the rush of new users will also bring along new content.

[–]Mikethrillmas 0 points1 point ago

I came here to make people respect me as a magician.

[–]tomsawyer101 0 points1 point ago

Billobatch we made it man! Way to go!

[–]TheYe 0 points1 point ago

Happened to land here a few days ago and thought "Why not? Could be interesting"

[–]Rikicarvu 0 points1 point ago

I love this subreddit! Somebody recommended the website memrise to me and I already have all the capital cities of Europe down.

[–]TypicalBetaNeckbeard 0 points1 point ago

I see...Moldova?

[–]Towls 0 points1 point ago

Mm

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