Inspired by the useless skills thread, what seemingly easy tasks can EVERYONE do…but you, that is. Me? I cannot roll my tongue in any way, shape, or form. I’ve heard that it’s genetic, so no matter how hard I try, I’ll never be able to do it.
I have never learned to whistle loudly, like the way you would, to alert someone. I can do the standard lips-pursed soft whistle useful for keeping a tune, but beyond that, nothing. I tried and tried. Maybe someone could give me lessons.
I cannot roll my R’s.
I can never see the image in a Magice Eye picture.
My guydar is broken. If I’m standing around talking to a couple of guys and a pretty woman walks by, their heads will immediately swivel to follow her while I just stand there blithely talking away. I am also unable to pick up any ‘signals’ directed at me. My wife has to tell me that I’ve been hit on.
Can’t do the Vulcan peace sign \V/ They threw me out of the last Trekkie Convention.
I can’t tie cherry stems in knots with my tongue. I can’t do that fingers-in-the-mouth whistle thing.
Yeah, me either. I always wanted to do that at concerts.
I can’t snap my fingers, and can barely whistle, only if I breathe in instead of out. I had amblyopia as a kid, so I’ll never see Magic Eye pictures without eye muscle surgery (and that ain’t gonna happen thankyouverymuch.)
I can’t do a cartwheel.
I am unable to snap my fingers, or do the whole whistle while my fingers are in my mouth thing.
Hey, if everybody is gonna claim that whistling thing too, maybe we should have a large class. We need a teacher though.
Oh, I thought of another one, and now I am hanging my head in shame. Please don’t laugh too hard. Remember those stupid little paddle games with the wooden paddle and elastic attached to a rubber ball? I could never work those things. I could get one or two successful swats at it before I completely lost control of where the ball was going, and fouled up.
I can’t juggle. I try and try, but apparently I have terrible hand/eye coordination. I can’t spit. When I try it just dribbles down my chin. I know that sounds nasty, but it’s true. I also can’t flip a coin and catch it. Again…hand/eye coordination. So so many things I can’t do lol.
I can’t whistle.
I can’t snap my fingers. Well, I can, sort of, but only the right hand and I have to use the ring finger instead of the middle one. On the other hand (finger?) I can do the bending-just-the first-joint thing with all my fingers.
I can’t wiggle my ears, but I can wiggle my nose, bunny style.
Life is a trade off.
Horseflesh I also suffer from the exact same afflictions, except my guydar occassionly gives into fits of blips and imaginary readings. How odd.
I suck mightily at those.
But on the up-side for me, I can roll my tongue, see the image in the magic eye picture, do the vulcan sign, tie a cherry stem with my tongue, wiggle my ears, and my guydar works.
Hmm, tongue rolling, vulcan signs, stem-tying, ear wiggling, guy(girl?)dar, gaydar and basic whistling all intact.
I cannot, however, ever see the Magic Eye pictures, nor can I do the two-finger in the mouth whistle thing.
Nor can I stand on one foot for more than about 2 seconds.
Ooh, you people reminded me of more:
Also cannot whistle loudly (just a soft whistle to a song…altough I do have about a two and a half octave range with my lips, it’s just not loud). Nor can I whistle w/ the finger in mouth method.
Magic eyes? Well, kick me out of Hogwart’s, never gotten one to work ever, and I have perfect 20/20 vision.
Oh, so good to hear. I’m usually a very coordinated person but have never been able to get the ball back to the paddle more than twice, and it’s mostly by accident. I always felt like such a doofus trying.
Also, I’ve never been able to keep a hula hoop up.
-wm