I have a few talents, all of them mostly useless unless in a very specific situation.
I can circular breathe - useful for playing a wind instrument or blowing nonstop bubbles in a glass of milk.
I can blow air out through my tear ducts - but I can't breathe in through them.
I have very flexible hands - useful for the afore-mentioned wind instruments, less so for typing.
I can roll my tongue and whistle through it. When roll-tongue-whistling is called upon to save the world, I'll be there in a dash. Until then, it's only good for my own amusement, and sporadically at that.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 17:46, 8 replies)

Out of interest, did you teach yourself to circular breathe
or were you born able to do it? I was taught to do it and it's a bugger and a half.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 17:51, closed)

I taught myself.
Partially for a particular flute piece (I'm buggered if I can remember what it is now), partially because my brother can do it and I'm a competitive bugger.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 18:15, closed)

Haha, sounds about right.
EDIT: I bet it was a piece written or arranged by a string player. They don't seem to understand that people need to breathe!
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 18:19, closed)

I'm
told it's handy with breathalysers too, but that's probably bollocks, and not one to put the test.
(dchurch bah, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 18:17, closed)

Yes, probably bollocks I'm afraid.
The air is still coming from the lungs, it's just that a constant flow is maintained by:
nearing the end of the outgoing air from the lungs
closing the back of the mouth from the throat with the tongue
simultaneously pushing the air trapped in the mouth out whilst at the same time taking air into the lungs through the nose. It doesn't fill the lungs up fully and I can't keep it going for longer than 30 seconds when playing the flute, but I have yet to come across a piece that requires more than 30 secs of circular breathing. I can do it for ages with a straw and some milk, though.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 18:29, closed)

it'd be easier to fit a sheeps stomach to the flute wouldn't it?

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 18 Nov 2010, 19:19, closed)

About the tear ducts thing
Does it work better with one eye than the other? I can't blow out through them but can suck air in... through the left more than the right.
( Dave McF wrote some words on, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 19:24, closed)

Both equal
as far as I can tell.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 21:32, closed)