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[–] FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee 29 points 5 months ago (7 children)

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
[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] vivavideri@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

click my tongue extremely loudly

Learn Xhosa.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months 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

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

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

[–] thefool@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

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