OK,so we all know nobody is perfect.But are there people who are not good at anything? Not one single thing? If yes,I sure would like to meet them one day…
Havent got any replies yet…I dont want a scientific explanation,just what you guys think.Is it possible that such a person exists? Lets debate!Lol.Well if you have any thoughts or opinions on this,any at all,feel free to post.
anna
there are some people.
Really? You think that there are people who are not good at one single thing? They cant tie up their laces…cant make tea…cant switch on the tv…cant brush their teeth etc?
Interesting…
people in a persistant vegetative state for one.
then you’ve got severely handycapped people and people with very low IQs.
Of course,there are people with low IQ’s.But thats not what Im talking about.I meant,is there really a person who is not good at anything? Who is useless at everything? Think about it.I dont mean to make fun of people,of course not,I was just interested,whether there really is such a person.It doesnt seem very likely to me,but,of course,I may be wrong.But think about it. Is there REALLY somebody who cannot do one single thing?
depends what you mean. if you include things like breathing then not really - they dont last long.
No, even the mentally challenged or physically incapable can prove to be an inspiration to some.
What do you mean by being useless? I’m not good at tying my shoelaces. In fact, I may be the lousiest shoelace-tier I know; I’m always stopping to retie my laces. But I still manage to tie them again successfully, at least for a couple of hours. I certainly wouldn’t say I can’t do it, though. Does that mean I’m useless at this activity?
Well if you cant tie your shoe lace,then yes you are useless at this activity.But before you get offended-everyone is useless at something.I am useless at many,many things.What I meant was,is there a person who cannot do a single thing properly? For example,yes they breath (otherwise,as somebody said,they wouldnt last very long:)) but they have difficulty with it.Do you understand what I mean?
dude, we will never know. My opinion is that NOBODY is useless in this world, for I have yet to meet someone who is totally useless. Everybody serves a purpose whether large or small(me) …
I think I know what you’re getting at here. Just someone who can’t seem to do anything right.
I grew up with a kid like that. There was nothing “wrong” with him, he just screwed up everything he touched.
If he used your bike for even just 5 minutes it would come back with a mechanical defect that a team of engineering graduates couldn’t replicate in a year.
A fishing reel at his hand could be transformed into a paperweight in a blink.
His name was Deitz. If you ruined something, it became “Deitzed”. No one loaned anything to anyone without the warning, “… and don’t Deitz it!”
He rarely seemed to Deitz himself (with the exception of that pocketful-of-lit-firecrackers episode). It was usually done to an object, and usually someone else’s, though when I have occasion to wonder how he’s fared, I always imagine that he’s done himself in in spectacular fashion.
I wonder too if it was based in a bid for attention.
It’s a logical impossibility. Should there should ever be a person incapable of doing anything well, then obviously they are at least flawlessly good at doing things badly.
Well, there are those who post inane questions to message boards and complain when nobody responds within 20 minutes. I guess you could call those type of people rather useless.
JET
2nd lieutenents and newly graduated EE’s
Um… my ex-husband?
Really, one of the conversations I had with him during the decision to divorce involved me telling him “I honestly think I can do everything better than you can. I think you screw up everything. I know that’s an irrational statement, and it can’t be true, but that’s how I feel right now. I have to supervise everything, or do it myself if I want it done right.” (sheesh, I’m such a bitch, eh? Please keep in mind, this is a divorce we’re talking about.)
We had just purchased a house, and he decided to take over the landscaping to prove to me he was good at something. He’d worked landscaping jobs during high school/college, so he thought he could do a decent job. This was a new house, just piles of dirt, no grass or anything. He wasn’t going to do it himself, but hire people and do the general overseeing of the project.
We ended up with a yard where :
1 - there are no sprinklers in the vegetable or flower gardens, ie, the places that have to be watered every single day during the summer or everything dies
2 - we had some hammock hangers built into our deck. One was so low that when you sat in the hammock, your butt hit the deck. The other wasn’t big enough to support standard size hammocks. We made do with that one, but the one where your butt hit the deck had to go. Instead of going back to the builder and telling him he screwed up and the hammock hanger was unusable (and thus getting it removed/fixed & the money credited to our account), Mr. Ex-Athena PAID the deck builders to remove the piece-of-sh@@ thing. Cost us something like $300 to build it, and $180 to remove it.
3 - We were supposed to have a brick patio. Every piece of brick he brought home for us to look at looked like something out of a discount builder’s warehouse - ie, weird colors, funky textures, nothing that really looked like you could build a patio out of it. He insisted that’s all you could get. We ended up with a redwood deck. Several of our neighbors have beautiful brick patios. I’m not sure why it was impossible for us to have one, but apparantly it was.
I could go on and on, but I’m sure I’ve bored you already. Remember, this was the project that was supposed to prove to me how good he was at doing stuff. There are many other stories I could tell about him getting fired from jobs, screwing up other projects, or coming up with insane ideas (“No, we are NOT going to dig out the crawlspace under our 50 year old house so that it’s 4’ deep instead of 3’ deep. Why? Well, for one, the house could collapse if we start screwing with the foundation. Two, it would take us 30 years. Three, why would we want to do that, anyways?”)
I’m solidly convinced that he was useless at everything. In his favor, he’s just about the nicest guy in the world - he’ll give you his shirt off his back. Also very supportive, compassionate, and empathetic. But useless when it came to actually doing anything.
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I think it depends on what you mean.I think everyone is good at something.I mean I’ve met a person who wasn’t good at anything,but IMHO that had more to do with laziness than anything else. Myself, I could use help w/my grammer as evidenced by some of my posts. If only I could get off my lazy behind and take a course. but I am somewhat good at other things.
While I don’t think the OP is a general question, and I’m also trying to resist the urge to respond to this tangentially-related rant, I’ve got to say that this is exactly what my wife will sound like when she finally gets sick of me and divroces me.
I guess I’m useless too.
oh, goddamn thats funny! in my neighborhood, this was Rathman!
…and the OP sucks! what the hell is your point?