-
Play spooky games and earn badges in our first community game challenge event! Read all the details here.
What's the most useless thing you have memorized
- Thread starter bellydrum
- Start date
- Pronouns
- he/him
The climax of JFK's "we choose to go to the moon" speech.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I can recite the alphabet backwards. It’s pretty useless.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I just remembered that I had this scene memorized in high school and can probably still recite 90% of it.
It’s pretty cringey in hindsight.
OP
OP
- Pronouns
- he / him
CLUCK YOU!!4 8 15 16 23 42
(this is probably a whole tv watching generation's issue though lmao)
Oh boy do I have a lot of that show memorized. It was one of my obsessions in high school lol
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Hell yeah! I know people have their feelings about the ending but that is still peak tv viewing to me, theorising with friends about every little detail week to week haha
OP
OP
- Pronouns
- he / him
God it was the best.
OP
OP
- Pronouns
- he / him
I think they added a few recently
OP
OP
- Pronouns
- he / him
I don't know how many it is but I know 3.1415926535897932384626
- Pronouns
- He/Him
2 things:
1) There’s a genus of fish
in the antartic sea that have a non-functional hemoglobin gene 
so they don’t use hemoglobin to transport oxygen in their blood 
, it’s dissolved directly in the plasma and their whole body has adapted to still work despite of this.
Completely useless knowledge, but one time I told this to a pediatrician during an internship and he was blown away because according to him I was very cultured and gave me a really good evaluation because of my ability to memorize useless and trivial knowledge despite the fact that I hated that internship. My friends still bother me with the “hemoglobin fishes” even to this day.
2) Back in the day (like 12 years ago) I memorized the Daft Hands video on youtube the day before a final exam because I was bored.
Edit:
The video in question
1) There’s a genus of fish
in the antartic sea that have a non-functional hemoglobin gene so they don’t use hemoglobin to transport oxygen in their blood , it’s dissolved directly in the plasma and their whole body has adapted to still work despite of this.Completely useless knowledge, but one time I told this to a pediatrician during an internship and he was blown away because according to him I was very cultured and gave me a really good evaluation because of my ability to memorize useless and trivial knowledge despite the fact that I hated that internship. My friends still bother me with the “hemoglobin fishes” even to this day.
2) Back in the day (like 12 years ago) I memorized the Daft Hands video on youtube the day before a final exam because I was bored.
Edit:
The video in question
Last edited:
kennzoil
Rattata
- Pronouns
- he/him
I haven't installed the update yet, is it better than v2016.01.20
OP
OP
- Pronouns
- he / him
Uh, if you mean doesn't install spyware, self-delete entire programs, and end up causing a major crash that almost required a full reboot, yea
NabiscoFelt
Chaos Plumber
- Pronouns
- he/him
I have a bunch of random things memorized that are pretty useless: Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy, the names of every US President, and a bunch of random songs from children's shows
But I think the most random is the first sentence of the US Declaration of Independence. No, not "we hold these truths to be self evident...", I mean, "when in the course of human events...". I don't know why I decided to go the extra mile there but I can tell you it was not worth it
But I think the most random is the first sentence of the US Declaration of Independence. No, not "we hold these truths to be self evident...", I mean, "when in the course of human events...". I don't know why I decided to go the extra mile there but I can tell you it was not worth it
OP
OP
- Pronouns
- he / him
This is the stuff this thread was made for
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I can recite the whole of Jigsaw's monologue on the cassette tape from the end of the original Saw movie, and did so once live at a Halloween gig my friend's headlined. They opened by playing the Hello Zepp theme as my backing lol pure spur of the moment but I guess maybe it wasn't so useless in the end?
4 8 15 16 23 42
It baffles me that the first episode was 17 years ago, 2 weeks ago. It still holds up so well.
on-topic
The dumbest thing I know is duck's penis size in relation to its body, its weird shape, and its spring-loaded abilities.
it ranges from about half the size of the duck itself to the same size as the bird
Or is that just a fact and not something I've memorized?
even more on-topic:
I still know all my friends' parents home telephone numbers from when used landline on a daily.
....
OP
OP
- Pronouns
- he / him
Bro? What??
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Tiz true. Reptiles, not dinos.
TheQuietone
The Dread Captain
- Pronouns
- They/them
I had every Pokemon's evolution method/level until Sword and Shield memorized. Probably wouldn't take long to memorize them just feel lazy when Google exists. I also had every type advantage, neutral, and disadvantage memorized until fairy's introduction. I think I have it memorized too but think I only know the weaknesses. Kinda useless now with Google but back in Red/Blue and Gold/Silver it was pretty useful.
Yzz
Shy Girl
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Pikmin 2 was pretty much my childhood game, and I ended up memorizing every dungeon's sublevels (both in story and challenge mode) and almost every variation of said sublevels. So when I played the game for the 12th time (not an exaggeration), there was no element of surprise in the dungeons. It's pretty insane the amount of handcrafted level design that game has.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
My landline number.
Brofield
Famicomrade
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
I fucking love me some dino facts. Same shit goes with aquatic reptiles. Icthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, reptiles and not dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are exclusively terrestrial.
...until they weren't.
Back in April of 2020, a new discovery of Spinosaurus was made public (and rendered the AC museum skeleton obsolete and outdated in less than a month of release, which in the paleontology world is about par for the course when it comes to artistic designs of Spinosaurus). The sail of the Spinosaur wasn't just limited to it's back, but a remarkably complete tail skeleton found in Morocco suggests the spine also went down it's tail. With the new weight and height, it's hypothesized the tail was not only used for balance on land, but for steering in the water like a massive oar. Spinosaurus was certainly a carnivore and fed primarily on fish and other aquatic prey. With the evidence mounting, it only makes sense to deduce that Spinosaurus Aegypticus is the world's first and only known aquatic dinosaur.
Also I have like the first 151 Pokemon memorized in order because of a poster I had above my bed when I was younger and I would count them in order in the spiral they were presented in instead of counting sheep to fall asleep.
I can't find an image online of the specific poster, but I did bring it to a convention once and had it signed by Veronica Taylor because the poster also had Ash in the middle.
Subrosian Link
'You and Rosa? No way!'
- Pronouns
- He/Them
The movie that was on a private satellite channel in Spain on December 1st, 1999. I loved Robbin Williams when I was a kid, and that day they were broadcasting Patch Adams, but we were leaving to USA to spend a week on a family trip to DisneyWorld, which was amazing for me, obvs, but it pissed my younger me off so much not being able to watch my beloved Mrs. Doubtfire and that useless piece of information sticked to my mind 'til this day.
Vantell
Cappy
A nightmare I had when I was young I think it has been 20 years ago and I can still vividly remember the dream. Furthermore whenever I think about that I think about the movie Signs when the aliëns walk past the camera for the first time and that scared the shit out of younger me lol.
ArchedThunder
Uncle Beerus
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Pokemon names.
7threst
Harry Muesli & De ontdekking van de zemel
- Pronouns
- He/him/his
There are actually quite a few websites that use it for some easter eggs: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.th...mi-code-websites-unlock-easter-egg-jokes/amp/
Sailor Moon
Cappy
- Pronouns
- she/her/they/them
This is just to say
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
MrFlibble
Rattata
How to calculate the focal length of a thick lens in air is:
F=1/f=(n-1)[1/R1-1/R2+(n-1)d/nR1R2]
Haven't used that formula in about 10 years and I still know it by heart.
Also, the blood code for Mortal Kombat on the Mega Drive/Genesis is ABACABB. Haven't used THAT in about 20 years.
F=1/f=(n-1)[1/R1-1/R2+(n-1)d/nR1R2]
Haven't used that formula in about 10 years and I still know it by heart.
Also, the blood code for Mortal Kombat on the Mega Drive/Genesis is ABACABB. Haven't used THAT in about 20 years.
Sailor Moon
Cappy
- Pronouns
- she/her/they/them
I remembered that code because it was the name of a Genesis song
I’m a big nerd, basically
I’m a big nerd, basically
Diddy Kong
Rattata
I know the lyrics to Yakko's World.
