• FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    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
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      6 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.

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        6 months ago

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

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      6 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

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      6 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
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      6 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