Dumb skills/talents most people have but you don't

speling.

 

I can't spread my toes apart, at all. Also I can't really spread my fingers apart much either. My wife can do both, can make a 180 degree line with her pinky and thumb.

<--- pinky thumb --- >

I can only get around 95 degrees at the most.

 

Masturbation.

I just don't think I "like" myself in that way.

 

Good topic -

This still bothers me that I cannot see those 3D pictures that are hidden in the dots. I have spent hours trying to see them, but to no avail.

Once, I sat in front of one of the things for a whole 12 pack of beer thinking that surely it would come to me.

Nothing at all. I think that it's all one big joke on me.

 

Burping. Seriously, most women can burp better than me. I just can't do it.

What kind of a man am I?

 

Rolling my "R's"

 

Me neither.

I also can't: recognize faces easily if I've only seen someone once or twice, hold a newspaper upright and read it, park a large vehicle between two cars (without a whole lot of maneuvering), use chopsticks, balance on one leg at the end of aerobics class, or play all the dumb social games people play.

 

I can't sit through a reality TV show without wanting to kill someone.



Oh, and I cant win at thumb war. Ever.

 

I can't do this either. I think it might have to do with my vision/stigmatism. Who knows though.

 

I'm horrible with cars. Just terrible and womanly. Can't drive 'em worth crap, can't fix 'em, can't keep 'em clean. Cars are the bane of my existence.

I also can't do the "magic eye" posters, and I resent it deeply.

But worst of all... I can't chug beer. I just can't do it, I don't know why, it's a skill I just don't possess. People always tell me, "Just open your throat!" Yeah, I grasp the mechanics of it, I just can't do it!

 

Oh god...I just bursted out laughing when i read that. The simple ones are always the funniest!

 

Seeing the color green. I'm red-green color blind and it blows. I don't understand why they chose those colors for traffic lights.

 

I can't snap my fingers. I can barely whistle. I think I should find some web sites to help me out.

This probably doesn't count really, but in my networking class that I had last year, I couldn't make an ethernet cable. (cutting the outer covering and then arranging the wires in right order, depending on type, and then put them and an RJ together). Everyone could make one except me...or at least they could make one that can work anyways. There was this one guys who could make one every 5 minutes or so, and that really ticked me off since I couldn't even make one in like three or four straight 45 minute classes. That was just about the only thing I couldn't do either. I understood how networks worked and the different types, I knew about all the binary and hexadecimal stuff, and I was pretty good at configuring the Cisco routers, but that one thing was something I could never do.

I also can't shuffle cards, but then again, I never really tried. As for burping, I use to be pretty good when I was drinking RC Cola every 5 minutes, but now, I'm not as good anymore. There all pretty mediocre on my burp scale.

 

I can't see the 3-D either. I've faked seeing it twice and got away with it. People make you just stare at them too. It is so frustrating.

 

Whistling; can't do that either. I do an approximation of it but it's through my tongue instead.

Chugging is largely a biological skill. We had a relay race in college that involved chugging (usually ended up being water instead of beer, for those under 21) and even practiced our skills every week. I was able to do it immediately, but some people can't. One girl who couldn't, but really wanted to, kept practicing very hard and eventually got her "chug times" to be halfway decent, but I don't think she did it the normal way. You could see these weird little ripples going down her throat. She must have learned how to use some new muscle.

Burping - try some Diet Coke.

 

RC, I hear ya, I can't snap my fingers, whistle to good, shuffle cards, I dance like Carlton from Fresh Prince but not on beat, can't dive head first into a pool and much much more.

 

I can't roll my tongue.

 

I can't scoop that last bit of rice, or peas, or whatever food that might lay in a pile on my plate, onto a fork. I always have to get a knife as a backdrop or use my finger and push it all up against it.

 

Darn, this would be the perfect time to post pics, but links will have to do instead:




Hehe...enjoy!

Oh yeah, that comment about diving reminded me that I can't really go underwater without hold my nose. I remember taking swimming lessons and they tried to teach us how to go under water without doing that, but all ended up doing for me was making me choke from having water go up my nose. From then on, I always had to hold my nose when I went underwater. I guess I can't be an action star unless they do some CGI or something. Imagine seeing me jump out from a burning building and into a body of water, only to see my underwater holding my nose with one hand and using the other to swim.