Things it shouldn't be possible to be bad at

TerrorFirmer

Inspired by the thread about the odds of rolling same numbers on given number of dice.

Has there ever been something you were bad at, but, it was something that couldn't in theory be a skill? Like the above mentioned dice - rolling dice, really.

For example - When I was younger I used to play Warhammer 40K, the desktop armies game, largely based on both tactics and rolling dice. One of our friends was just - somehow - a crap roller. He used to string together the worst dice rolls possible, not just in 40K but every game possible that utilised dice. He'd attack somebody with overwhelming odds, and by the end of the round a few minutes later he'd be knocked out of the game due to laughable and eventually predictable strings of terrible dice rolls.

We were playing Axis and Allies one day, and, literally, so bad was his consecutive dice rolls that his entire Japanese fleet and air force was destroyed attacking a single infantry piece. Another day we were playing Risk and he lost a massive army of about 20 men attacking some obscure country defended by two soldiers.

The best bit was when he ranted about it one day demanding to know how we all rolled so well. One of my friends joked about talking to the dice to encourage them, tried it, and got double six. He then tried it himself and, speaking in gentle whispers to his beloved dice, proceeded to roll snake eyes.

How does one develop such a handicap? How it is possible? So I'm just curious as to what other strange, generally non-skilled things that people just seem to have bad 'luck' at...

Archeron

Every single time I ride a bicycle, I crash into stationary objects such as cars and lamp posts. I blame bad balance due to the fact that my ears are at different heights on my head.

humanji

I can't play monopoly. The last 8 times I've played, the games have lasted for 2-3 hours and I never got to buy one single property. :mad: Stupid game.

miamee

humanji wrote:

I can't play monopoly. The last 8 times I've played, the games have lasted for 2-3 hours and I never got to buy one single property. :mad: Stupid game.

Not even one?? That's bad...but I reckon it must require some kind of skill or game plan...or you're missing the Monopoly gene

Exit

humanji wrote:

I can't play monopoly. The last 8 times I've played, the games have lasted for 2-3 hours and I never got to buy one single property. :mad: Stupid game.

Ok, that's ****ing terrible! Have you read the rules?

Sleepy

Knowing when you're wearing too much fake-tan. I mean come on, wear too much of it and you look orange, not tanned! How come so many women are so fvcking bad at it?

Binomate

Well it's impossible to be absolutly completely random.

InFront

Irish!
Not so much a language of words as a language of bizzare idioms:D Tried to learn it and failed absolutely miserably. Shameful.

Lust4Life

I love this thread!

Hmmmmm. for me, I would say..... being good! Ha!

InFront

Sleepy wrote:

Knowing when you're wearing too much fake-tan.

I think we have come to the point where, if you're not orange, you're clearly pov now (loike)!

racso1975

Talking to reltives of people who have just died or people who have a terminal illness i always crack the most stupid joke in the world

Anti

racso1975 wrote:

Talking to reltives of people who have just died or people who have a terminal illness i always crack the most stupid joke in the world

Oh tell me about it. Last funeral i was at i said " ah sure. shes better of up there, she wasnt really liked anyway "

As soon as it came out i felt like the ground was going to open up and swallow me :rolleyes:

Ruu_Old

humanji wrote:

I can't play monopoly. The last 8 times I've played, the games have lasted for 2-3 hours and I never got to buy one single property. :mad: Stupid game.

I'll sell you Mayfair for 200 quid.

Opening them cartons of milk that have no lid or pull tab (pull top sides apart), it all goes terribly wrong. *holds head in hands*:(

connundrum

humanji wrote:

I can't play monopoly. The last 8 times I've played, the games have lasted for 2-3 hours and I never got to buy one single property. :mad: Stupid game.

Sounds to me like someones a-cheatin!

For me its - Small talk. I just find it nearly impossible, and would rather read The Sun (shudder) than have to make small talk with someone.

JPA

connundrum wrote:

Sounds to me like someones a-cheatin!

For me its - Small talk. I just find it nearly impossible, and would rather read The Sun (shudder) than have to make small talk with someone.

I too find it impossible to make small talk if it's with someone I'm not friends with. Conversations often descend into silence. I don't care but the other person probably does.

grimloch

humanji wrote:

I can't play monopoly. The last 8 times I've played, the games have lasted for 2-3 hours and I never got to buy one single property. :mad: Stupid game.

Me too. I'm cursed and nine times out of ten, I'll go halfway around the board only to land on that poxy "piss off over to jail" square and have several turns of good work undone.

Pighead

Pigheads rubbish at eating. Every time without fail I'm last to finish my meal. Sometimes I don't even fully chew in an effort not to be last but it never ever works. I honestly don't know what I'm doing wrong and it can get very annoying, especially when desserts all gone by the time I finally finish.

rogue-entity

Loving this thread already..

I always have the worst look at some things, if I go to play a game of chess, or cards, or any strategy games I always lose. I play monopoly, and I sometimes always land in jail, other times I just keep landing on everyone elses feckin streets after they buy them :rolleyes: I play card games and I sometimes just keep getting the worst cards. What I have is good beginners luck. If I start playing a new game, or doing something new that I havent done before, I will probably be really good for the first bit, then everything just goes crap after that.

I cant make small talk for the life of me, and I just hate those awkward silences.. so when I speak, I pause for a bit to give someone a chance to respond, but after a few minutes, no one says anything.. so I start speaking again.. and then they say I speak too much :rolleyes:

poobum

one of my mates....lucky wanker...in any mcq hes ever done...he wouldt have a clue-say it was a pop test and he had been missing for the classes when it was covered etc...he somehow is just the best guesser ever! he dosent even make educated guesses from what i can figure out! he just goes with random...always gets like a b or something! asshole...(im very jealous)

de5p0i1er

Everyone is bad at something, the key is to avoid that thing and focus on your positive attributes.

seamus

Walking down the street. At least half of the population are physically incapable of simultaneously walking down the street and sharing it effectively with other humans beings at the same time. We all know who I'm talking about. People who stop suddenly to look in a shop window or turn around, or people who suddenly decide they're going to turn, causing about ten people to have to stop or alter their course.

connundrum

de5p0i1er wrote:

Everyone is bad at something, the key is to avoid that thing and focus on your positive attributes.

LOL, so instead of making small talk with people, I'll amaze people by balancing random objects on my chin Brilliant!