# Is there something you enjoy doing but you're really bad at it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 3, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419 "2003-09-03T22:35:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/1 "2003-09-03T22:35:47Z")
I like playing soccer even though I’m terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_Cheer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fish_cheer/32/17179_2.png) [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/2 "2003-09-03T22:47:27Z")
When I’m drunk, I sing. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/3 "2003-09-03T22:53:08Z")
When noone can hear, I sing. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/4 "2003-09-03T22:56:42Z")
I sing all the time. Sometimes I’ll spend an entire evening singing. I’ve participated in choirs, studied voice, and auditioned for musicals. I suck. My only hope is that if I’m good enough in this life, I’ll be reincarnated with the voice of either Betty Buckley or Patti LuPone. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/5 "2003-09-03T22:58:59Z")
I’m learning to play the electric bass. Hark, I doth suck mightily! I am not very musically inclined. Thank Og for headphones! I only torture my own ears. Love it though, lotsa fun! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/6 "2003-09-03T23:08:23Z")
Pretty much everything except darts, skiing and pool. Just kidding. I don’t enjoy pool. * * * How is Rap like Porn? Both are better with the sound turned off. ---
**Author:** ![X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbe5ce/32.png) [@X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X_Slayer_ALE)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/7 "2003-09-03T23:14:50Z")
I post here …while singing 😃 Someone get me another beer!! ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/8 "2003-09-03T23:18:58Z")
I love to sing. But I have a lousy voice. On a really really good day it’s been described as having the quality of a brass gong … dropped down a flight of stairs. My singing is so bad that when I told my nieghbors I was taking up bagpipes they said that was OK with them as long as I promised to quit singing. But I like to sing. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Crescent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Crescent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crescent)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/9 "2003-09-03T23:23:24Z")
I love to play video games even though I’m pathetic at them. ---
**Author:** ![Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caesar_s_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/10 "2003-09-03T23:47:00Z")
I’m taking Ceramics class, and I’m okay with slab boxes and pinch pots, but I can’t make coil pots (we’ve only made those three types so far). I really, really suck at it. And yet, I keep trying to incorporate coils into what I’m doing. It always turns out lopsided. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/11 "2003-09-03T23:48:20Z")
Love to draw, but somehow my artistic skills haven’t progressed beyond about a third-grade, post-it-on-the-fridge level. No idea why. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/12 "2003-09-04T01:48:46Z")
Another non-singer here. And carpentry. I love to work with wood. Some one should save the poor stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Magickly\_Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/13 "2003-09-04T01:51:37Z")
Drinking. Oh, and posting. I like to post, but boy am I bad at it! ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/14 "2003-09-04T01:52:33Z")
I’m pretty decent at every sport I try - except bowling (I’m really pathetic when I bowl) and football/soccer (absolutely no foot-eye coordination). Love playing both, though. ---
**Author:** ![fizzestothetop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@fizzestothetop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzestothetop)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/15 "2003-09-04T02:21:12Z")
Painting. I love to paint but I have no artistic ability whatsoever. So I tend to stick with water colors and if anybody asks I tell them my nieces did it. I love to sing. I’m always singing when there is music playing. I’ll even sing along to songs I don’t like. I’m gotten a few compliments but I think was just people trying to be nice. I’m really bad at singing. **pun** has no problems telling me that. I like to cook sometimes but most of the things I make aren’t any count. Baking though, that I can do. Making new friends. I like making friends but I’m not very good at it. I’m shy so it kinda makes me not good at making friends. Dancing. When I hear a song I really like I love to dance but I am afflicted with White Girl Rhythm. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/16 "2003-09-04T02:31:26Z")
I’d just like to point out that right now the thread that comes before this one is “_Thoughts on sex before marriage_.” ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_On_My_Sleeve)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/17 "2003-09-04T03:07:06Z")
Love to play piano, I’m terrible, terrible, terrible. I’m also pretty terrible with puzzles (you know, the kind in puzzle books) but I subject myself to them time & time again. I also love to play trivial pursuit and I lose every single time!! ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/18 "2003-09-04T03:16:01Z")
I love to play the piano, but I am truly bad at it. My timing isn’t good, it’s not even ok or passable. I still love to try. ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/19 "2003-09-04T03:46:03Z")
Another singer here. My voice has been described as having a “monotone” quality. At least I’ve got rhythm. ---
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419/20 "2003-09-04T03:55:21Z")
Fencing! Both modern Classical (foil, epee, sabre, pre-electric rules) and rapier. Stink on Ice at both, I do. Love them, nonetheless. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-something-you-enjoy-doing-but-youre-really-bad-at-it/199419.md?page=2)