# What, if anything, do you suck at?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anything-do-you-suck-at/41186>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 14, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anything-do-you-suck-at/41186 "2000-11-14T19:28:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anything-do-you-suck-at/41186/41 "2000-11-16T00:09:44Z")

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I can’t do the Hula Hoop.

Terrible at having patience at anything.

Awful at buying shoes–I can never decide!

Horrible at asking people to pay back money I have loaned them, especially family members.

Getting worse at remembering people’s names. I used to be really good at that.

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**Author:** ![Thirsty4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Thirsty4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thirsty4)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anything-do-you-suck-at/41186/42 "2000-11-16T00:12:23Z")

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posting

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**Author:** ![Jekeira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@Jekeira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jekeira)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anything-do-you-suck-at/41186/43 "2000-11-16T01:57:26Z")

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Another math-idiot here.

I went to one of those cool hippie colleges with no core curriculum, so I didn’t take a single math class after high school’s Algebra Two. I did take Chemistry in college, and those equations very nearly slayed me. I got a C (or at least my hippie college’s written equivalent of a C), after working harder at that class than I had ever worked at anything in my life. And both my parents are scientists.

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**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anything-do-you-suck-at/41186/44 "2000-11-16T02:14:47Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Gazoo \*  
> \*\*Without a doubt – foosball. \*\*

The key here is to practice masochistically. After you get your ass whipped innumerable times, you will get better. It took me forever to not suck at foosball.

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> \*Originally posted by racinchikki \*  
> **I can’t whistle with a blade of grass**

This is nothing to be ashamed about unless you are from upstate Alabama.

My personal demon? **Golf** , which I’m kind of surprised no one’s mentioned yet. I have been playing golf for 7 years, but I still suck. My best round is a 97 or something like that. Even when I was playing / practicing five times a week in HS, I continued to suck.

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