What are you useless at?

harry Bailey esq · 29-06-2013 12:34PM

im a crap driver,as soon as i get behind the wheel i turn into a nervous wreck,I've had somewhere in the region of 60 lessons over the years but my confidence never improved from them. i use public transport or taxis now to get from A to B

fergiesfolly · 29-06-2013 12:37PM

DIY. Which wouldn't be so bad, except I come from a family that are always at something. Buy the tools, try to make or fix something, but all I get is broken tools and injured.
Oh, and navigation. I'd get lost in a Cul de Sac.
Pathetic really

LizT · 29-06-2013 12:40PM

Being organised and on time. I'm nearly always late for everything.

krudler · 29-06-2013 12:48PM

fergiesfolly wrote: »

DIY. Which wouldn't be so bad, except I come from a family that are always at something. Buy the tools, try to make or fix something, but all I get is broken tools and injured.
Oh, and navigation. I'd get lost in a Cul de Sac.
Pathetic really

I have really good sense of direction and I put it down to playing video games for years, my ex would drive into a carpark and forget the way out, no sense of direction at all. When I drive someplace new or unfamiliar I usually watch for landmarks or buildings that I know once they're on the other side on the way back I'm on the right track. all those years of remembering levels and maps on games pays off :pac:

Meangadh · 29-06-2013 12:48PM

I'm crap at organising and for being on time.

And I'm fairly incapable of confronting someone if they've upset or hurt me. The odd time I've mustered up the courage, I've ended up crying instead of staying angry. So I usually just say nothing and put up with it

starlit · 29-06-2013 12:49PM

Cooking but improving. Maths/accounting not my strong fort or irish/foreign languages and some science subjects with exception of some science subject was good at geography and biology while not great at a few other things.

Wasnt great at driving but have improved!

Most useless at blowing cant blow a whistle very well or blow balloons. Can take one go or few goes to blow a candle! :O

krudler · 29-06-2013 12:49PM

LizT wrote: »

Being organised and on time. I'm nearly always late for everything.

My mother and you would get on, this is a woman who seems to think everywhere takes 5 minutes to get to, and time stands still while you drive somewhere. if we ever want her to be on time we usually tell her whatever is starting is a half hour earlier than it actually is :pac:

stoneill · 29-06-2013 12:49PM

Nothing - I am fantastic at everything.

LizT · 29-06-2013 12:53PM

krudler wrote: »

My mother and you would get on, this is a woman who seems to think everywhere takes 5 minutes to get to, and time stands still while you drive somewhere. if we ever want her to be on time we usually tell her whatever is starting is a half hour earlier than it actually is :pac:

I always have the best of intentions but I'm so easily sidetracked. If it's something important like an appointment, weirdly I'm always 5-10 minutes early. But if it's going to a friend's house or meeting someone for coffee I will nearly always be late :pac:

starlit · 29-06-2013 12:56PM

LizT wrote: »

I always have the best of intentions but I'm so easily sidetracked. If it's something important like an appointment, weirdly I'm always 5-10 minutes early. But if it's going to a friend's house or meeting someone for coffee I will nearly always be late :pac:

I think we could be twins!

o1s1n · 29-06-2013 12:59PM

Dealing with people early in the morning.

I've just torn myself out of a lovely comfortable bed to go to work, it's freezing, dark out and feel like I haven't had enough sleep - why are you trying to make conversation with me???

krudler · 29-06-2013 12:59PM

LizT wrote: »

I always have the best of intentions but I'm so easily sidetracked. If it's something important like an appointment, weirdly I'm always 5-10 minutes early. But if it's going to a friend's house or meeting someone for coffee I will nearly always be late :pac:

That wouldnt bother me much, if friends are just calling over to my house and say "9ish" and arrive at 9.30 I wouldnt be arsed, but going to things like the cinema and anything with a specific start time or leaving me standing somewhere waiting would annoy me.

LizT · 29-06-2013 01:01PM

krudler wrote: »

That wouldnt bother me much, if friends are just calling over to my house and say "9ish" and arrive at 9.30 I wouldnt be arsed, but going to things like the cinema and anything with a specific start time or leaving me standing somewhere waiting would annoy me.

Sure the first ten minutes are ads anyway :pac:

starlit · 29-06-2013 01:02PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Dealing with people early in the morning.

I've just torn myself out of a lovely comfortable bed to go to work, it's freezing, dark out and feel like I haven't had enough sleep - why are you trying to make conversation with me???

I find myself fighting with alarm clock a lot but it usually wins if it annoys me that i have to get up otherwise snooze button me stuck to bed. Hate leaving it when cozey.

kingcobra · 29-06-2013 01:02PM

I'm another one with the remembering names problem. It's really annoying when everyone else is talking about the most recent match and although I might have something decent to contribute I can never remember their names. I can only refer to them as 'yer man.'

And then I can remember the date's of birth almost perfectly; I could pretty much look at someone and guess their date of birth correctly.

starlit · 29-06-2013 01:03PM

Im usually good with names and faces but its matching up the two i forget. Im v good to remember birthdays. Iv a memory of an elephant other times like a fish!

krudler · 29-06-2013 01:03PM

LizT wrote: »

Sure the first ten minutes are ads anyway :pac:

coming in during the ads is fine, coming in during the movie? I dont get it, I saw World War Z recently and a couple arrived a good 15 minutes into it (missing the best part) People who arrive late then spend ages standing in the aisle whinging theres no good seats or asking people to scoot over to let them in, grrr :P

o1s1n · 29-06-2013 01:04PM

doovdela wrote: »

I find myself fighting with alarm clock a lot but it usually wins if it annoys me that i have to get up otherwise snooze button me stuck to bed. Hate leaving it when cozey.

Does it just feel like it's just at it's coziest when the alarm goes off? :mad:

Always puts me in a foul humour for about an hour after I get up. Luckily for my work colleagues, my commute takes over an hour

Chattastrophe! · 29-06-2013 01:05PM

Small talk

Lyra Fangs · 29-06-2013 01:08PM

I'm useless at drawing, I mean it's actually insulting to people who are good at drawing like I've defiled their art.

Related to that my writing is terrible to the point that my secondary school teacher suggested I use a laptop for my exams.

I'm also useless at writing stuff down when people have called something out. Whether it's a phone number or a sentence I either forget the start or the middle or the end while I'm desperately trying to write it down as fast as I can. Caused me a lot of problems in uni with note taking. Funnily enough I have an excellent memory and can learn huge chunks of texts in no time, I guess my short term memory sucks.

starlit · 29-06-2013 01:10PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Does it just feel like it's just at it's coziest when the alarm goes off? :mad:

Always puts me in a foul humour for about an hour after I get up. Luckily for my work colleagues, my commute takes over an hour

Yes it often does. Especially on cold morns or morns when you have to get up early seems to often happen or having a nice dream you want to finish!

I am grumpy and a zombie first thing even after a good night sleep or usual hrs i need but if had bad night or not much sleep and tired take time to wake up fully. It takes me until breakfast and shower to be alert.

If you said something 5 mins ago i forget but remember hours days or weeks later. Rubbish short term memory but good long term memory.

alwaysadub · 29-06-2013 01:10PM

Straight lines.
I can neither draw nor cut a straight line. Even if there is a line there to follow, it still ends up crooked.

corktina · 29-06-2013 01:16PM

tyPing
speling
humur

stefan idiot jones · 29-06-2013 01:20PM

Siliconing.

I have done miles of this over the past twenty five years and I still make a bollocks of it often.

pragmatic1 · 29-06-2013 01:20PM

Keeping in touch with people other than family.

Ghost Buster · 29-06-2013 01:21PM

Cathal Cloch wrote: »

Me? Maths. When I look at algebra I see alien hieroglyphics.

Writing neatly. My handwriting looks like a the result of the ink-dipped feet of a demented chicken let loose on canvass.

Concentrating on one thing. I'm watching TV as I'm writing this. Sometimes I'm playing poker, watching TV and browsing boards all at once and not doing any of them especially well.

What are you useless at?

Are you me?????
I have copy books from 1st class, primary school, and my hand writing is still the same and my brain freezes at the mere thought of mental arithmetic. I have to drop my drawers to count to 21:eek:

gugleguy · 29-06-2013 01:22PM

Going with the cringy humour that is so integral with all things irish these days. Like the cheesy grin on the paddywagon bus leprauchaun.

Wanderer2010 · 29-06-2013 01:24PM

Im useless at small talk. I really envy the people who seem to be able to just slot in with chatting to a huge variety of people of all ages with ease, whereas with me if its a stranger I just dont speak at all, not even to see if there is any common ground, Im usually too worried about how I come accross and dont want to even instigate a chat so it ends up me giving off an unfriendly vibe when thats really not the intention...

miss flutter ups · 29-06-2013 01:35PM

Anything that requires will power/commitment.

bnt · 29-06-2013 02:46PM

The thread title ends on a preposition. "At what are you useless?" would be better.
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Sorry, I'm useless at avoiding the temptation of Grammar Nazism.

What are you useless at?

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