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What everyday things are you not able to do?

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    #32
    retro:electro
    Registered Users Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    I can never manage to make a cup of tea in the exact time it takes for my toast to pop. I’m always either left waiting, or it pops too early.
    I challenge myself every morning but never manage to exact it.
    One of these days I’ll get there.


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    #33
    Los Lobos
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭Los Lobos


    Maths. But sure that's why calculators were invented, so I don't have to


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    #34
    coastwatch
    Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭coastwatch


    Roll my Rrrrrrrrs


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    #35
    blackbox
    Registered Users Posts: 4,102 ✭✭✭blackbox


    Can't sing in tune.


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    #36
    Archeron
    Registered Users Posts: 6,171 ✭✭✭Archeron


    I can't drive in a multi story car park with the radio on. I always listen to music in the car but as soon as I approach the ticket machine in a multi story, I have to switch off or I forget what to do. Surface car parks are fine though for some reason.


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    #37
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I can't reverse with sunglasses on. Just not happening.
    I can't find my way around anywhere, even places I've lived for years.


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    #38
    weemcd
    Registered Users Posts: 6,412 ✭✭✭weemcd


    Have disposable income or savings.


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    #39
    TG1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭TG1


    Cut bread or cake without it falling to pieces....


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    #40
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,356 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Can never finish tasks.I've a short span of attenti........


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    #41
    gifted
    Registered Users Posts: 4,842 ✭✭✭gifted


    Can't sleep in the same position in bed...moving all the time..

    Can't say no to food...


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    #42
    Oldtree
    Registered Users Posts: 8,104 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Can't read my own writing after a short time
    or sung in tune :D


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    #43
    CPTM
    Registered Users Posts: 1,296 ✭✭✭CPTM


    There's a sense of 'quick logic' missing from my brain that others seem to have. Like when it comes to knowing what effect switching from GMT to BST has on the amount of daylight we have in the mornings, I need to work through the whole story from beginning to end in my head. Whereas other people seem to 'just know'.

    I think the same gap presents itself when it comes to splitting a bill and someone randomly points out that "X owes Y money, so factor that in when you divide it up".


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    #44
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,081 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Can't make friends every time I show a little trust or let someone into my life boom right in the proverbials, people are kunts but I am too easy sometimes and always seem to attract the worst rats who just take take take and don't ever give anything back be it time or help. :(


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    #45
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    Drive. As in, I have never even sat behind the wheel of a car.

    And yeah, actually, I can't rollerskate or rollerblade either. I just fall on my arse.

    Or snap my fingers. Bleedin' useful, so I am.

    USELESS, I MEANT USELESS!


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    #46
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    Lads, any of ye who can’t whistle - you’re not missing out. I can whistle and, MAN, is it annoying! :pac: :P I freely acknowledge that.


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    #47
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,003 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    I can never get up on time :-/


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    #48
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,232 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    tringle wrote: »
    I can't speak French and I really want to.
    Pourquoi?


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    #49
    Malayalam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Malayalam


    Can't stand up on a surf board, but I enjoy making the effort.

    Can't sing, really really really wish I could.


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    #50
    LadyMacBeth_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭LadyMacBeth_


    Candie wrote: »
    Can't tell my left from my other left without thinking about it for a nanosec.

    Yes! I sometimes have to look at my hands first and I'm left handed so I look at my left first and work from there. If I have to answer someone quickly about whether to go left or right I often panic and get it wrong!
    anna080 wrote: »
    I can never manage to make a cup of tea in the exact time it takes for my toast to pop. I’m always either left waiting, or it pops too early.
    I challenge myself every morning but never manage to exact it.
    One of these days I’ll get there.

    I'm glad that I'm the only person who does this, and then I'm frantically trying to butter the toast before it goes cold, the stress of it all.
    TG1 wrote: »
    Cut bread or cake without it falling to pieces....

    Which is why I usually try to buy sliced bread and cheese, or get the missus to cut it for me, because when I do it it's uneven or all over the place.

    Your replies are comforting me people!


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    #51
    beefburrito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 695 ✭✭✭beefburrito


    Malayalam wrote: »
    Can't stand up on a surf board, but I enjoy making the effort.

    Can't sing, really really really wish I could.

    Same as that's why I bodyboard :)


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    #52
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,452 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    There are probably loads of everyday thing I can't do but usually, I don't need to or want to. I just turned 45, and can't drive or swim, but I don't care.

    What I would like to do it play a musical instrument (or instruments) decently. I own about 10 or 15 that I should really put some effort into, but when they don't work straight away, I give up. They include a keyboard (the easiest), harmonica, concertina, recorder, bongos, a rababa (something I bought in Egypt), a psaltery, a theremin, and I've a lovely flute. :pac: (It's really hard to use!)


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    #53
    Thespoofer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭Thespoofer


    Can't lick my elbows.


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    #54
    beefburrito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 695 ✭✭✭beefburrito


    I can't run very far had a back injury year's back,had keyhole surgery,but everything else is fine...

    Well able to lift,walk hills, mountain's,use power tools.

    It's the bouncing on the road that causes my back to flare up....i don't mind really.

    Because in ten year's time I'll still have my knee's,many will be costing health insurance companies a huge bill...

    We're not built for running long distances,our climates wrong....too damp and inclament


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    #55
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users Posts: 13,383 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Measure pasta by eye. I have to weigh it or I end up with enough to feed an army.

    Cycle a bike with no hands.

    Finger whistle.

    Say "tax disc" properly without really thinking about it.

    Spell orally. I have to write it down, even though spelling is my "thing".


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    #56
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I can do everything people have listed as not being able to do but I cant tell the truth.


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    #57
    irishlady29
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭irishlady29


    I cant cook rice to save my life. Always make a mess of it


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    #58
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,003 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    I can't control myself when I'm around strawberry jellies and could easily eat 3 bags in row :o:3


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    #59
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I got my first bike when I was eight or nine years old. There was nowhere to practice cycling except for a car park near my house. For weeks I would go there every evening for about an hour and try to cycle but I'd stop anytime someone drove up because I felt embarrassed. Eventually I gave up. My father said to me one day "I'm selling your bike". I think it was his way of trying to get me to say "don't sell it, I'll start using it again". For some reason it never dawned on him to drive me somewhere where I could cycle or even just offer some kind of encouragement. So instead he really did sell it.

    I'm 42 and still can't cycle a bike.


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    #60
    chakotha
    Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭chakotha


    I may have posted before in another thread but

    I can't wear in-ear head phones as the right one always falls out.

    I can't do that figure 4 knee cross seating position.


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    #61
    9or10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 664 ✭✭✭9or10


    chakotha wrote: »

    I can't do that figure 4 knee cross seating position.

    Me neither - sorta forgotten about it - but after a little while my left knee "snaps" - hurts a bit but really makes me feel sick.

    At primary school they'd make us sit like that in assembly.


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