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What are some common skills you lack?

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Shin_Kojima said:
Your inablility to whistle is actually saving you from being a douchebag, so be thankful.

Me, I can't get angry. At anything, or anyone. This makes me seem like a nice, balanced guy but sometimes frustration just eats me up inside and I can't help but feel it would be better for me if I sometimes just tell someone they're an asshole or punch them in the mouth.
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I fall into the same boat.
 
ReiGun said:
Another weird one: I can't take naps. I have to be dead tired to actually fall asleep. I can't just lie down and go to sleep just cause I want to.
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Same here. I can probably go 3 days without feeling tired.
 
Lucius86 said:
My medium and long term memory is brilliant - but short term, its atrocious. I always forget what people say minutes after speaking to them.
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Short term memory is only good for about 20 seconds so it's not your fault.
 
Whistle
Snap my fingers
Bend down and touch my toes without bending my knees
I'm pretty shit in any social situation. I have trouble talking to anyone who isn't my parents or my sister.
 
I can't remember shit. Like I'll go downstairs to get an apple out of the fridge and then forget why I went downstairs and wander around for a couple minutes then just come back upstairs and sit down and think "OH FUCK, MY APPLE". Also when anyone asks me to do anything I will probably forget.

Oh yeah I can't throw a frisbee to save my life.
 
For the people who can't snap, it isn't the sliding between thumb and finger that makes the noise, it's the finger smacking the base of the thumb.

That might help.

Me, I don't have a driver's license at 19, and also I find it impossible to go to sleep at the same time every night.
 
NZer said:
I can whistle only a single note. Can't work out how people whistle tunes. Changing the aperture seems only to change my whistling to blowing.
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use yr tongue

Formless said:
I'm pretty bad at all sports that involve catching or throwing things.
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and this. punching things, running into things, that i'm good at. but ball manipulation is not my specialty. I can throw accurately, but i catch like a homeless stumbling drunk.
 
Mr. B Natural said:
It's not a "skill" but I can't just "turn off my brain" like some people can while watching junk like transformers or whatever. I actually think the "turn off the brain" phrase actually means something along the lines of "I have an appetite for bad taste in me, but I don't want to admit it." Maybe it means "I like to get high and watch bad movies" and that I can understand.

It makes it really hard to enjoy even "smart" movies like Inception that are completely nonsense but if you just take the exposition as truth, it'll be a good semi-cranial ride. A couple of times I had to hold back laughter while watching it, which I was proud of myself for holding back cause I laughed by myself during serious scenes in Matrix 2, Blair Witch Project and Star Wars Episode 1. I wanted to go see Matrix 3 and Star Wars Episode 2 with my friends, but they wouldn't let me.
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The phrase you're looking for is "suspend my disbelief," and you apparently can't do it. That's sad.
 
I can't draw, artistically or technically.
Anything I draw looks like it was done by an toddler with his first box of crayons. I probably would rage quit a coloring book because I can't even draw in a straight line. When I try to draw people they always end up looking like characters from the Hills Have Eyes. If you were to hold a gun to my head and tell me I have an hour to draw a pretty picture it would inevitably end in my death. I wish I could, though.
 
Vigilant Walrus said:
I can't masturbate very well
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Well this explains a lot. I'd imagine I would be going insane with dolphin sex fantasies and god knows what else if I was your age and couldn't get off.
 
Seanspeed said:
Thats something you can work on. If you dont have much to say, get them to talk by asking questions about them or talk about some recent event/sports/the weather/whatever. Usually, they'll say something that you can relate to in some way to keep the conversation going. When a particular line of conversation ends, and the akward silence develops, you've gotta think of something else to say.

It may seem like a burden, and I personally hate small talk, but its necessary and if you keep doing it, you'll realize that you can make friends easier and people will generally find you a more likeable, less akward person.

I find it hard myself sometimes because my interests aren't the most popular things out there(at least not where I live), so all the things I'm passionate about I cant really talk to most people about. It definitely helps if you get into something popular. I know that might sound fake, but for one, you might find you actually enjoy it, and two, its a really useful socializing tool.

It also helps to remember that the person you're talking to is often feeling the same way you are, so there doesn't have to be any akwardness about it, which can help you relax a bit about any expectations you might feel are being put on you.
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This is probably the main reason as to why I tend to clam up around strangers. I find people to be somewhat annoying to talk to fairly often and I prefer to listen than to be the one doing the talking. It's not like I can't make up small talk per se, because I have a reputation for being really wild and quirky around friends and friends of my friends. It's just a bit of a burden for me so I end up looking like I'm anti-social or something. Wise words of advice here though so I'll keep it in mind. Oh, and I also suck at directions. Like you can literally print out word for word directions for me from google and I'll still end up getting lost. It's ridiculous.
 
Half the reason I can't hold a conversation with a stranger is because small talk seems like such an utterly retarded thing to me (yes I know this is what leadfs to meaningful relationships & therefore non-small talk) that I can't stand the idea of asking people mundane questions or talking about the weather.

But like I said, for whatever reason I have a lot less trouble if its an attractive girl I'm talking to. Huh.
 
HappyBivouac said:
Half the reason I can't hold a conversation with a stranger is because small talk seems like such an utterly retarded thing to me (yes I know this is what leadfs to meaningful relationships & therefore non-small talk) that I can't stand the idea of asking people mundane questions or talking about the weather.

But like I said, for whatever reason I have a lot less trouble if its an attractive girl I'm talking to. Huh.
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I agree totally, I make an effort with attractive women though. I hate the concept of small talk, I'm jittery terrible at it. I like to talk about meaningful things but you have to do this small talk song and dance until the person is comfortable enough with you to open up a bit.

I've gotten better at it but I'm still not all that great.
 
Swimming, which is not to say i can't swim, i did learn but i never reallt got the hang of it. With me it's really more like drowning with style.

Also i have terrible enunciation, generally my speech is fairly indecipherable.
 
I can't hold a tune. I am always off beat. Which makes my whistling and clapping skills just about useless. Other than that, math. F calc.
 
I'm also terrible at giving directions. That part of my brain seems to be either missing or busted, I work at a hotel so I get asked a lot but I never manage to give them any coherent, helpful directions.
 
Swim
Social Skills
Writing skills
I only know how to talk to chicks if I am trying real hard in and obvious way to get into their panties.
 
RedShift said:
I used to not be able to whistle or snap my fingers. Now I can do both, took a fair bit of practice.
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I still can't snap my fingers. I can wiggle my ears though.
 
I can't blow a bubble with gum and my hand-eye coordination could be better. I can't hit a baseball with a bat for the life of me. I'm fine with catching and throwing things though.

Also, while I feel like my batting could improve, I also feel that I will never, ever be able to consistently put a basketball into a hoop.
 
Tact

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How many of these pathetic fucking threads are we going to have a month?
 
i completely suck at placenames, directions and addresses.

even the hometown i grew up in, i barely know any streetnames lol.

it's very embarrassing sometimes... people talk about places and i'm like huh where's that, and they say it's almost right next to where i live.......... :E

i seriously don't understand how others can memorize cities and stuff so well. i get lost wherever i go.
 
I have this amazing ability to make a great second impression but literally make no first impression whatsoever. Most of my friends had met me first in a group setting at some point and don't remember me being there.
 
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