I can usually pull apart and fix most sort of basic technology (I can install new computer drives, or do a basic oil change and tune-up on a petrol engine), I can tell you how steam, diesel, petrol (and two stroke) engines work, I can explain how a jumbo jet gets into the sky and what the various bits do…
BUT
…that’s all stuff that other (and much smarter) people have designed and built. As far as actually having to make something myself goes, I can’t even put up a set of kitchen shelves. Not on yer life. I’d have to “call the man in” to do that.
I can’t snap the fingers on my right hand either. I’ve tried for years and they almost snap, but not quite. I can’t iron. I can’t peel potatoes with a knife. I have to use a peeler. I can’t make my hair look like the stylist does. I can’t apply mascara right the first time.
[QUOTE=brad_dFloat on my back. I’m quite comfortable in the water, and can swim just fine. I don’t know if I have buoyancy issues regarding the back float, or what, but my legs just sink, and I wind up flailing.[/QUOTE]
I can’t do this either. I love swimming and love being and the water. I envy people who can just float around on their backs for hours in the water. It looks so relaxing.
I can’t snap with the fingers on my left hand.
I can’t whistle using my fingers. When I try I just wind up with very spitty fingers.
I can’t make cornbread like my Granny. She makes it look so simple; she uses a paucity of ingredients, measures nothing and hers comes out perfect every, single time. Don’t get me wrong, mine isn’t bad. It just isn’t as good as hers.
I can’t read subtitles and follow the movie at the same time. I haven’t given up and doubt I ever will, it’s just very difficult for me. If I’m reading the subtitles, I’m missing what’s happening and vice versa. However, if given the option of watching a foreign flick subtitled or dubbed, I’ll pick subtitled every time. Dubbed is just way too distracting to me.
I didn’t realize until just now that it bothers me that I can’t whistle with my fingers. A little googling revealed a few techniques. All they did was make me gag. :mad:
I can handle radioactive decay just fine. I am considered one of the World’s Experts on a certain photometric formula which is also an exponential function of optical depth. No problems with that. Gaussians? Gaussians are my bitch.
But I have never been able to figure out compound interest. Why is any math involving money 100 times harder than when it involves something simple, like, say, quantum chromodynamics?
Can’t whistle either…actually didn’t know there were so many of us!
I have noticed though that occassionally when I do try to whistle a tune 9 times out of 10 someone who CAN will start to whistle the same tune, but obviously better. Are they trying to show off or just start something?
As for the poster who said they couldn’t moondance…that should be considered as something just shouldn’t be done regardless!
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I’ve literally sat in a guys field of view (not in his direct line of sight, but he should have seen me sitting down) for five minutes before he noticed me.
Don’t beat yourself up - men have considerably poorer peripheral vision (but much deeper tunnel vision) than women. It’s all to do with the old hunters v gatherers arrangement - Allan and Barbara Pease set it out nicely in their book “why men don’t listen…” When it comes to noticing women, men usually only focus on what’s right in front of them, which, happily most of the time, is boobies.
Thanks for trying to make me feel better, but I’ve had the same problem with girls. Actually, it was a girl who first mentioned that I seem to appear out of mid-air.
Oh, boobies, so that’s why no one notices me. Think it’s time for implants
