What's the cleverest thing you understand or know how to do?
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i^2 = -1
Simples
.I know how to construct the standard model of particle physics... Well ok, I'd have to look up the finer points, but I could give it a go!
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I can get a woman 
Soldato
Nothing too complex right now... but i seem to have a knack for picking up anything to do with Physics pretty easily.
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Antimicrobial discovery and development and the associated "gubbins"
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Reminds me of a quote I've seen on here before... "A good landing (in a plane) is when every one gets off alive, after a great landing however, you can reuse the plane"
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I'm a parent, other parents will understand where I'm coming from
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basic addition
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I launch balloons which reach 30km into the atmospheare.
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I work in MRI so I hunt cancer for a living (amongst other nasties, believe me you don't want to know how many things are out there that are much worse).
Hobby wise I'm a shooter and can shoot a 3inch group at 600m without telescopic sights (7.62 with diopter sight).
other helpful skills include
having a sense of knowing when to duck
being able to cook a roast dinner
knowing when i've had enough to drink
knowing when I haven't had enough to drink!
Hobby wise I'm a shooter and can shoot a 3inch group at 600m without telescopic sights (7.62 with diopter sight).
other helpful skills include
having a sense of knowing when to duck
being able to cook a roast dinner
knowing when i've had enough to drink
knowing when I haven't had enough to drink!
Soldato
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Build a House
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I'd have been more impressed if you'd have said you know when to stop drinking. we all know when we've had enough
Man of Honour
It is sometimes a bit worrying what people will state as fact with regard to the law even when they're demonstrably wrong. It's a fascinating subject though and one I should probably know more about but the effort of keeping up to date is higher than the value I'd find in doing so.
However, by far the most impressive thing I can do at a party is to open one beer bottle with another. The mostly Filipino crew of the ship taught me that one, as that's how they roll in the Philippines, they never use bottle openers. And to be fair it is quite handy. I've found myself doing some stupid things when I've found myself caught out without a bottle opener in the past.
You can do it about as easily with a cigarette lighter too.
I don't know if there's anything particularly clever I can do, there's a variety of simple things I can do passably but I generally figure that if I can do it that probably mitigates against it being hugely complex.
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Which is a caterham, so infact you didn't build it you assembled it.I've built my own car:-
To this:
I've also built my own electric bike.
Man of Honour
I sometimes wish I knew the very basics.
This last month I've had 3 phonecalls from different departments asking me a legal question and they've needed the answer immediately and both times the respective experts were out of the office.
I did have a 4th but I answered that because I'd had that one a couple of months earlier so knew the answer.
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Interesting point, but by that logic wouldn't only Steve Chamberlin and Bill Buzbee (and maybe a couple of others) have built a computer?
