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Useless subjects you would like to be an expert in.
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BoholDiver



Joined: 03 Oct 2009
Location: Canada

PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Classics (Mythology)
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DorkothyParker



Joined: 11 Apr 2009
Location: Jeju

PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Volcanology would be my #1 choice.
Other than that, I don't know about getting degrees because I am still feel burnt out by the system even if cost and time wasn't an issue.
I'd love to learn to blow glass, make cheese and brew beer. It would also be cool to be an expert in steampunk or a specific sci-fi universe.
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MyNameIsNobody



Joined: 12 Jan 2011
Location: Here

PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:14 am    Post subject: Useless subjects you would like to be an expert in. Reply with quote

Mythology and pop culture. They're "like" the same thing.

More seriously: out in the wild type survival skills, dance, dead languages, fables, oral-tradition based stories, bottom of the seas, furthest reaches of space, and mythology.
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kiknkorea



Joined: 16 May 2008

PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Vaudeville and cricket.
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adventuregal



Joined: 31 Dec 2009

PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

DorkothyParker wrote:
It would also be cool to be an expert in steampunk or a specific sci-fi universe.


I've met some people that are fluent in Klingon... it's more useful than you'd think!
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magni



Joined: 11 Mar 2011

PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fine arts. Oh wait, I already did that.
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mithridates



Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency

PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've already got a few mostly useless skills of my own, like runic and Ido. On top of that I'd like to know how to use an astrolabe, learn Old English / Anglo-Saxon, Manchu (Xibe), and just about any previously widespread skill that has since died out. Cool thread.
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Koveras



Joined: 09 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The subject of shaving with a sharp knife.
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rumdiary



Joined: 05 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

adjummaology
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NohopeSeriously



Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea

PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Learn how to become a professional cat whisperer. Very Happy
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machinoman



Joined: 12 Feb 2010

PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

korean and/or poking myself in the eye with a sharp stick
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postfundie



Joined: 28 May 2004

PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Medieval Weaponry
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rchristo10



Joined: 14 Jul 2009

PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1. Networking...oh opps...the anal refer to it as Network Analysis (where you take out the constant and look only at the connections then claim that these connected "people," unbeknowest to even themselves, are connected in an un-breakable bond of supreme significance...blah blah blah).

2. Esperanto--The International Language (and write a book like Umberto Eco...and then visit that little island where people actually speak a dialect of this man-made contraption).

3. Facial Communication (w/ a minor in Biopolitics).

4. Trash & Poop Analysis (I know the later actually exist, but can think of what it's called..skatology?)


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Gimbap Lover



Joined: 06 Mar 2011

PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mithridates wrote:
I've already got a few mostly useless skills of my own, like runic and Ido. On top of that I'd like to know how to use an astrolabe, learn Old English / Anglo-Saxon, Manchu (Xibe), and just about any previously widespread skill that has since died out. Cool thread.


Classic mithridates. Pompous, pretentious and always reaching for the obscure to feign genius.
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cyui



Joined: 10 Jan 2011

PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bird watching :shock:
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