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Things You Can't Do That Seemingly Everybody Else Can.

  • 25-08-2011 1:41am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,984 ✭✭✭Degag


    Inspired from the I can't change a plug thread.

    I can't change a plug, i wouldn't even know what wires to cut.
    I'm pretty useless at all things DIY
    I can't whistle
    I can't click my fingers
    I can change a tyre but wouldn't be too confident doing it

    So AH, what can't you do?


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Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Dennis the Stone


    Better myself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭✭later12


    Burp. I don't think I have ever deliberately burped in my life.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    - I cant whistle too.
    - Although I can tie my shoe laces people say I have a funny way of doing so. Dare I be honest, people have often said "you dont know how to tie your own shoe laces, do you?" :pac: Dont care. My way works fine :pac:

    Its kinda funny cause at the same time I can do things other people cant. Esecially when it comes to DIY.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    Talk quietly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,300 ✭✭✭HazDanz


    Talk quietly.

    I'll second that, I am desperate at whispering.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Im another person who can't whistle. I had an embarrassing experience because of it at a dog obedience class. The instructor kept telling me to whistle to get the dog's attention, so after a few pathetic attempts I had to shamefully admit in front of everyone that I wasn't able to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭DjFlin


    I cant understand why Jack Black keeps getting work. I just cant.


    I also cant study. Not at all. I can sit down and do practice tests or something, but if you give me notes and tell me to read them, I just cant. At best I'll read all the words, but take nothing in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75 ✭✭Shotgun_TEXAS


    Change a tyre you say?? ' valve tool, sledge hammer, lump of angle iron and two tyre levers' spare wheel is a different matter ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    Pull a buurd :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    Degag wrote: »
    I can't change a plug, i wouldn't even know what wires to cut.

    The blue one! NO NO THE GREEN ONE!!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    Sinfonia wrote: »
    The blue one! NO NO THE GREEN ONE!!!

    If the red is blocking the pink, pot the brown.

    That's not even relevant, don't know why I said that :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    not much, yes Im that awesomme :cool:
    oh sit on a beach for hours on end doing nothing 'relaxing' holidays are not for me!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    Change a tyre you say?? ' valve tool, sledge hammer, lump of angle iron and two tyre levers' spare wheel is a different matter ;)
    Y'know, changing a tire is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman:
    First, you crank 'er up, then you take off the rubber and screw your nuts off!
    (I honestly just came up with that right now, I'm so impressed with myself! :P )
    Samich wrote: »
    Pull a buurd :pac:

    Y'know, pulling a buurd is a lot like making love to a beautif....... nvm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭DjFlin


    Samich wrote: »
    If the red is blocking the pink, pot the brown.

    That's not even relevant, don't know why I said that :P

    I see what you did there. :eek: :pac:

    Saila wrote: »
    not much, yes Im that awesomme :cool:
    oh sit on a beach for hours on end doing nothing 'relaxing' holidays are not for me!

    Here's one for ya. Spell Awesome :P I kid


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    Samich wrote: »
    If the red is blocking the pink, pot the brown.

    That's not even relevant, don't know why I said that :P

    Ew :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 695 ✭✭✭yawha


    My ma.

    :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    Sinfonia wrote: »
    Ew :P

    We're talking about snooker, what sort of a sick mind do you have?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    We're talking about snooker, what sort of a sick mind do you have?

    Well, I was going to make a "playing snooker is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman" joke, but then the images of shit and blood kinda put me off. Sleep tight everyone! :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    yawha wrote: »
    My ma.

    :(

    thank you, you can join the 'I know how to use a meme propperly' club
    Im a member too, welcome :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Adyx


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    - I cant whistle too.
    - Although I can tie my shoe laces people say I have a funny way of doing so. Dare I be honest, people have often said "you dont know how to tie your own shoe laces, do you?" :pac: Dont care. My way works fine :pac:

    Its kinda funny cause at the same time I can do things other people cant. Esecially when it comes to DIY.

    I also can't whistle and I also have my own weird unique lace-tying technique. I can't do that live long and prosper hand sign either.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    Saila wrote: »
    thank you, you can join the 'I know how to use a meme propperly' club
    Im a member too, welcome :)

    Cool Story Bro. >.>


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Dunny


    Lick my elbow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭moonflower


    Can't whistle or click my fingers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26 Mapck


    I can't quote correctly or as H.G. Wells said
    "Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    Can't open bottles with a lighter, can do it with the edge of a table and occasionally get it with the lighter but not anywhere near consistently.

    That thing where you flick underneath your mouth and it makes a noise like a tap dripping.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Dancor


    Can't swim. Everyone I know is able to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    Those stupid Magic Eye 3D pictures. Whilst everyone oohs and ahhs at the dolphins or whatever, I'm stuck crosseyed looking at a badly painted picture.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭irelandspurs


    Last longer than 2 minutes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,279 ✭✭✭Lady Chuckles


    Make sense and roll my tongue ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 276 ✭✭dirtypanties


    I can't drink until I pass out&I can't go on the lash the day after going on the lash-I am a pathetic excuse for an Irish person.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭babyfratelli_x


    Plazaman wrote: »
    Those stupid Magic Eye 3D pictures. Whilst everyone oohs and ahhs at the dolphins or whatever, I'm stuck crosseyed looking at a badly painted picture.

    Same as this. Also cant see 3D films either... Can you?? Always have to pay the 3D price and sit with the stupid glasses on anyway coz there isnt always a 2 D one one on or my friends are all goin to tge 3 D one. Even though they always insist im not missin much.....

    Am i??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Like the Harry Potter books and films.


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Rayna Kind Earache


    I can't whistle. I mean, I can whistle enough to make some awful high pitched noise that sounds like a pressure cooker, but that's it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    bluewolf wrote: »
    I can't whistle. I mean, I can whistle enough to make some awful high pitched noise that sounds like a pressure cooker, but that's it.

    I can whistle sucking in but not blowing out. Also can not make any noticeable changes of pitch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,199 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    I can't get Post of the Day! :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,352 ✭✭✭daveyboy_1ie


    Whistle, very embaressing.

    Also, can never for the life of me 'see' parents features in their new born babies. I think they all look the same and end up lying and saying things like 'yeah he defo has his fathers nose alright'. Truth be told, I think he looks like a baby, and thats all I see :p


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    I can't wink! I can close both my eyes at once, or have them both open, but definitely can't just close one eye!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 419 ✭✭Gary4279


    I can't stop a sneeze. Everyone seems to be able to do this but when I try it feels like my head is about to explode and I get a hand full of snots :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭EverEvolving


    I can't roll my R's

    I'm pretty crap at accents. All my accents tend to sound like a South African hippy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭demakinz


    Post a witty response in AH's.














    See failed again.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I cant go for the cure the day after a night on the town, no matter how many people say that the cure is the only thing for a severe hangover, i cant bring myself to let a drop of drink pass my lips....pathetic arent i!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    Have never been able to roll my R's, makes me incredibly jealous of those who can, ie: everyone!


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Rayna Kind Earache


    qz wrote: »
    Have never been able to roll my R's, makes me incredibly jealous of those who can, ie: everyone!

    my singing teacher is trying to get me to do it for some reason, it helps with something or other, but im useless :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    i can't light a fire, or top one up. no matter what i do, I end up putting a fire out if i try to top it up. and have never managed to actually light one. i'm cursed!

    another odd one - i can only raise my left eyebrow independently. I mean I can do both, or i can do my left, but can't do my right by itself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭Craven99


    Can't pee at a urinal if there is someone besides me at the next urinal


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭LeeHoffmann


    - roll my tongue (that rolling r sound)
    - extricate myself from debates
    - make myself sick


  • Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've been able to change a plug since 1st year Home Ec. in secondary school, and I know the whole new wire colour/old wire colour thing from my Dad, but I've NEVER had to change a plug. It's never ever come up, ever. So I've no idea why it's seen as an important life skill. Anyway, if something electronic broke I'd never think to try changing the plug/fuse or anything like that. The plug would have to be falling off for me to ever think to change it, and I'd probably never bother.

    I can't spit properly. (It's more polite to swallow anyway)
    I can't rollerblade.
    I can't drive, but even more infuriating for my friends is, I don't want to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    I can't float in a swimming pool - i can swim fine, i can float in the sea, but in a pool i just sink unless i move my arms and legs to stay afloat.
    My excuse is i must be big boned!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,844 ✭✭✭py2006


    I can't:

    change a plug
    score with a boards chick
    manage my money


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭Jess16


    Watch X Factor


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