# "I can't..(fill in the blank) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 16, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123 "2021-04-16T02:39:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/182 "2021-07-08T17:39:36Z")
I can’t hoola-hoop, and I’ve tried plenty of times. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/183 "2021-07-14T19:58:40Z")
I can’t do what you do, or even understand your explanation! 😃 > [@DemonTree](#): > > I can’t hoola-hoop, and I’ve tried plenty of times. Me either. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/184 "2021-07-15T02:51:47Z")
I can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/185 "2021-07-15T03:09:12Z")
I can’t give you anything but love, baby. ---
**Author:** ![Mirtha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@Mirtha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirtha)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/186 "2021-07-15T12:57:40Z")
Speak Spanish. Only speaking foods in Spanish doesn’t count. I was raised bilingual. In my defense, at my school, spoken only was English. ---
**Author:** ![darazusa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@darazusa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darazusa)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/187 "2021-07-16T07:35:50Z")
you need to reach for your inner errol flynn. ---
**Author:** ![PozhanPop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pozhanpop/32/8022_2.png) [@PozhanPop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PozhanPop)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/188 "2021-07-26T19:06:10Z")
Wink with my left eye. Causes all sorts of problems the range. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/189 "2021-07-26T20:30:08Z")
I can close my left without closing the right, but can’t do the opposite unless I pull the lid down with my finger. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2021, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/190 "2021-07-31T05:17:48Z")
> [@Horseflesh](#): > > Can’t roll my R’s if my arse depended on it. How does this issue come up in English? It’s not like we’re continually being challenged to say “Rrrobert gave Rrrichard a rrrap in the rrribs for rrroasting the rrrabbit so rrrare”. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2021, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/191 "2021-07-31T05:19:52Z")
I can button my right cuff button with my left hand. I cannot button my left cuff button with my right (dominant) hand. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2021, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/192 "2021-08-01T07:18:22Z")
just roll up your sleeves and be done with it ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/193 "2021-08-02T19:30:04Z")
I hardly wear long sleeve shirts anymore, so it’s a moot point. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/194 "2021-08-02T20:17:19Z")
I can’t smile for a picture without looking like an axe murderer. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/195 "2021-08-02T20:54:54Z")
That’s me. Great metaphor too, but yeah, I can’t voluntarily smile worth a damn. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/196 "2021-08-02T21:10:00Z")
I can’t run and never have been able to do so efficiently. Even in high school, weighing 120 pounds and fairly fit, my best time for the mile in gym class was 8:30. After high school, I never got close to that again, even in the military. So if I ever have to run for my life, I’m a dead man. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/197 "2021-08-03T01:42:43Z")
That’s one thing I always could do. Despite horrible form, I could run a sub 5 minute mile in my younger (and lighter) days. Even at 180 something and 56 years old I think I could break 8 minutes. I still can’t tell if a woman is sweet on me, though, except for Ms. P. She’s stayed with me for a quarter century, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/198 "2021-08-03T02:07:00Z")
Which begs the question - are you in fact an axe murderer? I think we have to assume the answer is “yes” until proven otherwise. We can only go by the evidence to hand. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/199 "2021-08-03T02:45:17Z")
I am under no legal nor moral obligation to confirm or deny my axe murderer status. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/200 "2021-08-03T03:55:27Z")
Well said. You passed the test. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123/201 "2021-08-03T05:08:43Z")
I can’t take a decent selfie. No matter how I do it, it just looks horrible. (That’s assuming I really don’t look horrible.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-fill-in-the-blank/940123.md?page=11)