NationStates Jolt Archive


What aren't you good at?

Lunatic Goofballs
19-12-2005, 21:47
Everybody has their talents. Everybody has their failings.

It's time to sincerely and honestly admit your failings. We will try to keep ridicule to a minimum.

I'll start. Here's 5 things I'm not good at:

1) I'm not good at handling money. I couldn't save a dime without the help of my wife.

2) I'm not a particularly eloquent writer. I tend to slip into simple sentences with poor grammatical structure.

3) My neurosurgery skills are not up to snuff.

4) Counting. :D
Legless Pirates
19-12-2005, 21:51
1) Initiative
2) Too much booze
3) Licking my elbow
4) Growing a moustache
5) Playing drums
Eichen
19-12-2005, 21:51
Complex equations. I suck at it because I hate it... worse than doing dishes.

Working as a "team". I'd rather do it myself, even if that means increasing my workload.

Dealing with weepy women. I'll do whatever it takes to shut them up.

Shopping for Christmas shit. I just want to buy the first thing I see, wrap it in a paper bag and write a name on it. I don't, but I want to.
Sinuhue
19-12-2005, 21:52
1) I suck at math. Really, really suck. As in, I have difficulty subtracting without using my fingers, and I often embarrass myself when I draw a blank counting change.

2) I can not picture things in my head in the sense of seeing how something should go together, and then doing it. I'm not sure what that's called...my husband, father, brothers, mother-in-law and niece all have this ability.

3) I have no sense of direction in the city. Drop me in the wilderness, and I'm fine. Put me in walls and I suddenly have no idea where north is.

4) I'm not good at dealing with conflict in a sane way. I'm really, really trying, but I tend to let things simmer, and explode, because I hate getting emotional. Make sense to you? Yeah. It's stupid. I avoid the mild discomfort of discussing something that is distressing me, in favour of absolutely losing my mind and breaking down all of a sudden.

Christ...stereotypical woman or what?
Sinuhue
19-12-2005, 21:53
Dealing with weepy women. I'll do whatever it takes to shut them up.

Sex works best for that.
*reminds self to get weepy upon meeting Eichen*
Cabra West
19-12-2005, 21:53
1) I'm terrible at maths (anything involving calculation)

2) I can't draw landscapes for the life of me

3) I'm no good at music whatsoever. Can't play an instrument, can't sing....

4) I'm no good at gardening, but I can handle pot plants

5)... I'll tell you later.
[NS:::]Elgesh
19-12-2005, 21:56
I don't handle being made fun of at all well, wildly overreact.
Can't say no to people very easily unless I'm overflowing with bile and hatred at the time.
Can't stand people thinking I'm wrong; try too hard to convince them I'm right, or go away angry.
Legless Pirates
19-12-2005, 21:57
5)... I'll tell you later.
*waits patiently*
Sinuhue
19-12-2005, 21:58
*waits patiently*
*joins in waiting*
I'm sure we could help you with whatever it is...
Cabra West
19-12-2005, 21:59
*joins in waiting*
I'm sure we could help you with whatever it is...

*lol

I guess I just need a liitle training at that ;)
Ritlina
19-12-2005, 21:59
1. curing my sore throat

2. curing my sore throat

3. curing my sore throat

4. curing my sore throat

5. curing my sore throat

seriously people, i need help!
Eichen
19-12-2005, 21:59
Sex works best for that.
*reminds self to get weepy upon meeting Eichen*
Dammit! You womenfolk keep changing the rules, and I can't keep up.
I thought that would make me an asshole for "taking advantage" of the opportune situation.(?)

:confused:
Legless Pirates
19-12-2005, 22:00
*lol

I guess I just need a liitle training at that ;)
Is it....... a sandwich? :confused:
Iztatepopotla
19-12-2005, 22:01
I suck at staying awake between 2 and 3 PM. I invariably fall asleep at my desk for a couple of minutes no matter what I do.
Pure Metal
19-12-2005, 22:02
1. money also (useless at managing it)

2. dancing

3. maths (hell i don't know my times-tables)

4. playing or understanding music (theory)

5. drawing and painting (which is why i use computers for my art/graphics and like photography so much)
Sinuhue
19-12-2005, 22:02
Dammit! You womenfolk keep changing the rules, and I can't keep up.
I thought that would make me an asshole for "taking advantage" of the opportune situation.(?)

:confused:
1) Women aren't a homogenous group. You will never understand 'woman'. You may understand some women though.

2) When a woman ASKS you to 'take advantage' of her, she actually just means that you've been given permission to go buck wild. Being given permission does not mean really 'taking advantage'.

3) If I know that your way of dealing with crying women is to sleep with them, then by deliberately crying with the intent to get you to bang me, is sort of 'taking advantage' of you.
Brady Bunch Perm
19-12-2005, 22:02
I'm not good at caring about others, or having a "heart".
Czardas
19-12-2005, 22:03
1) Following orders — I tend to do the opposite of what I'm told.

2) Caring. I'm physically incapable of caring about anyone, or anything.

3) Literary analysis.

4) Explaining myself.

5) Speaking in public.
Cabra West
19-12-2005, 22:03
Is it....... a sandwich? :confused:

*roflmao

Oh, the double-entendre...
I V Stalin
19-12-2005, 22:04
1) I can't draw for shit.
2) I'm not particularly good at sports.
3) I'm extraordinarily lazy - if I've started an essay more than 3 days before it's due in, it's probably because I have at least one more essay to do.
4) Getting up in the morning :p
5) erm...I'm struggling here...oooh, here's one - thinking of things I'm not very good at.
Eichen
19-12-2005, 22:04
1) Women aren't a homogenous group. You will never understand 'woman'. You may understand some women though.

2) When a woman ASKS you to 'take advantage' of her, she actually just means that you've been given permission to go buck wild. Being given permission does not mean really 'taking advantage'.

3) If I know that your way of dealing with crying women is to sleep with them, then by deliberately crying with the intent to get you to bang me, is sort of 'taking advantage' of you.
Me likey your answers. Please call me next time you're feeling down. :D
Sarkhaan
19-12-2005, 22:08
1. Math. math is the product of satan. I can barely add and subtract...let alone figure out what the hell a derivitive is.
2. relationships. More starting them. I don't always realize when someone likes me, and am horrible at taking that first step.
3. driving at or below the speed limit. If i'm going less than 10 miles over, I'm going to slow
4. baseball. I've gotten better at football (american). Hockey, I'm great at. Snowboarding, skiing, check.Baseball? I completely suck. And honestly, I hate the sport. Alot.
5. not doing things to hurt my knees. I have patellal tendonitis, which means I should let them rest and not do things with high impact. Yet I continue to run, and do all the stuff above. Which explains why there is a knee brace and ice pack on it right now.

3) I have no sense of direction in the city. Drop me in the wilderness, and I'm fine. Put me in walls and I suddenly have no idea where north is.

It's the Cree in you.;)
Sinuhue
19-12-2005, 22:13
Me likey your answers. Please call me next time you're feeling down. :D
Will do! (http://vidahost.com/smilies/cwm/3dlil/la.gif)
Sinuhue
19-12-2005, 22:14
It's the Cree in you.;)So people have said:) Seriously...I don't really understand it. I can't seem to focus on landmarks in a city, even though there are plenty of them around. But hey, that's what maps are for...and the digital compass mounted on my dash...and the cellphone for when I get lost anyway...
Sarkhaan
19-12-2005, 22:18
So people have said:) Seriously...I don't really understand it. I can't seem to focus on landmarks in a city, even though there are plenty of them around. But hey, that's what maps are for...and the digital compass mounted on my dash...and the cellphone for when I get lost anyway...
haha...That is why Boston is great. There are two landmarks. The Pru (http://www.celebrateboston.com/images/attractions/prudentialskywalk.jpg) (Prudential building, tallest building in the city), and the Citgo sign (http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_SM/0018-0310-1814-0127_SM.jpg)(on my campus book store). Helps alot when you have 15,000 drunk college students trying to get home. Pru is the general North Star.
Jester III
19-12-2005, 22:28
Any artistic endeavor
Mindreading (as in: You should have known! - No, you should have said, im not good at <-)
Babysitting
Georgian grammar
Shutting up
The Tribes Of Longton
19-12-2005, 22:30
1. I can't talk to women I'm attracted to without a minimum of 4 units in my system

2. I can't organise myself for shit

3. All sports except sailing and climbing are beyond my abilities

4. I'm not good at accepting any criticism

5. I'm no good at staying awake in warm, dark lecture theatres
Fass
19-12-2005, 22:31
Spirometry.

That is one sort of blow job I suck at. Ooh, that's punny.... *ducks and covers*
The Tribes Of Longton
19-12-2005, 22:37
Spirometry.

That is one sort of blow job I suck at. Ooh, that's punny.... *ducks and covers*
Does it involve a spirometer?
http://www.gen.umn.edu/courses/1135/lab/spirometerlab/spirometer2.jpg

*gets coat*
Sarkhaan
19-12-2005, 22:38
5. I'm no good at staying awake in warm, dark lecture theatres
those halls were designed for sleep.

Spirometry.

That is one sort of blow job I suck at. Ooh, that's punny.... *ducks and covers*

*sigh* *throws pillow at fass' head*
SoWiBi
19-12-2005, 22:50
Spirometry.

That is one sort of blow job I suck at. Ooh, that's punny.... *ducks and covers*

doing sub-standard jokes is something you suck at, too.

as for me:

- anything music-related (failed music in school since 8th grade)
- anything artsy (failed arts too, only since 7th grade)
-breathing. seriously, i am told i start to breathe funnily when not paying attention.
-remebering things i ahve to do.
-going to bed anywhere close to an appropriate time.
Legless Pirates
19-12-2005, 22:52
-remebering things i ahve to do.
like....oh.... breathing?
Fass
19-12-2005, 22:54
Does it involve a spirometer?
http://www.gen.umn.edu/courses/1135/lab/spirometerlab/spirometer2.jpg
*gets coat*

As a matter of fact, it does. But they look something like this nowadays:

http://www.medi-scot.co.uk/images/spirometer-microlab-pack.jpg

YMMV.
Fass
19-12-2005, 22:55
doing sub-standard jokes is something you suck at, too.

Touché.

as for me:

- anything music-related (failed music in school since 8th grade)
- anything artsy (failed arts too, only since 7th grade)
-breathing. seriously, i am told i start to breathe funnily when not paying attention.
-remebering things i ahve to do.
-going to bed anywhere close to an appropriate time.

That's not so bad.
Cluichstan
19-12-2005, 23:02
Apparently, I'm not very good at holding the interest of women.
Soheran
19-12-2005, 23:05
Humility. From that one, most of the others can be inferred.
The Tribes Of Longton
19-12-2005, 23:07
As a matter of fact, it does. But they look something like this nowadays:

http://www.medi-scot.co.uk/images/spirometer-microlab-pack.jpg
Arf. My university's spirometers look exactly like the one I posted, only with a desktop computer hooked up to them :p
YMMV.
And If I knew what that meant, I'd attempt to issue some witty reply...

EDIT: Also, I'm rather intrigued as to how spirometry works now...:confused:
SoWiBi
19-12-2005, 23:09
like....oh.... breathing?

yes. a tough one, that. i suppose it just gets so boring, doing it all the time as i tend to, that i just drop it eventually.
Dehny
19-12-2005, 23:10
Visual Basic


http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=460065
Santa Barbara
19-12-2005, 23:10
1) I have a bad memory

2) ... I can't remember what I was going to write here

3) ... or here
SoWiBi
19-12-2005, 23:14
And If I knew what that meant, I'd attempt to issue some witty reply...

god-fucking-damnit. everyone knows google, everyone knows wiki, everyone should know www.acronymfinder.com

it's not that hard, folks.
Sarkhaan
19-12-2005, 23:17
yes. a tough one, that. i suppose it just gets so boring, doing it all the time as i tend to, that i just drop it eventually.
you just need to make it interesting. Keep saying to yourself "in. out. in. out. deeper. deeper. in. out. faster. deeper."
The Tribes Of Longton
19-12-2005, 23:20
god-fucking-damnit. everyone knows google, everyone knows wiki, everyone should know www.acronymfinder.com

it's not that hard, folks.
Why might my mileage vary though??
EDIT: Arf. ARSE=Anal Research Society of England.
I V Stalin
19-12-2005, 23:25
Does it involve a spirometer?
http://www.gen.umn.edu/courses/1135/lab/spirometerlab/spirometer2.jpg

*gets coat*
Hmmm...the first thing that drew my attention on that picture was the phrase 'Reset knob'. Oh dear...
I V Stalin
19-12-2005, 23:26
Why might my mileage vary though??
EDIT: Arf. ARSE=Anal Research Society of England.
And WANK is Worms Against Nuclear Killers. Oh the fun that could be had on that site.
The Tribes Of Longton
19-12-2005, 23:27
Hmmm...the first thing that drew my attention on that picture was the phrase 'Reset knob'. Oh dear...
Not the 'floating bell' or 'flexible arm' then?
SoWiBi
19-12-2005, 23:29
Why might my mileage vary though??
EDIT: Arf. ARSE=Anal Research Society of England.

[i am breathing very consciously, very slowly, right now. it helps with rising tempers and such]

oh, and AF is fun indeed. my old name was an acronym, as are basically all shortish, common words. especially try four-letter words like LOVE and so on
The Tribes Of Longton
19-12-2005, 23:33
[i am breathing very consciously, very slowly, right now. it helps with rising tempers and such]
*raises eyebrow*

oh, and AF is fun indeed. my old name was an acronym, as are basically all shortish, common words. especially try four-letter words like LOVE and so on
I want to see the Cardiff TWAT. I may also join the FECK.
Fass
19-12-2005, 23:53
Arf. My university's spirometers look exactly like the one I posted, only with a desktop computer hooked up to them :p

Like a curiosity of sorts?

And If I knew what that meant, I'd attempt to issue some witty reply...

Your Mileage May Vary.

EDIT: Also, I'm rather intrigued as to how spirometry works now...:confused:

This is very short. (http://web.indstate.edu/thcme/PSP/eLabs/respiration.htm)
SoWiBi
20-12-2005, 00:05
I want to see the Cardiff TWAT. I may also join the FECK.

you mean you want to be inside the cardiff TWAT, right?

me, i'd rather start a TWAT in General, but they are banned, so TWAT.

p.s. SHIT, it's my day off!
Heretichia
20-12-2005, 00:08
1. Remembering numbers - I'm fairly good in math, but I can't remember my damn doorcode...

2. Music - I love it and I would love to play some instrument, sadly I got not talent at all.

3. Economics - I pay my bills, but I'm horrible when it comes to handeling my loans and suck, thank god for a good personal banker.

4. I can never remember to water my poor plants... nowdays I just keep cactus and other low-maintainence plants.

5... uh... I'm pretty good at the rest:)
Sel Appa
20-12-2005, 00:12
I suck at "sports" or as I call them Athletic Strategy Games. Basketball is the worst for me. Then baseball and football. Tennis types are the only thing I can play at least a good bit. I can play soccer too, but don't really ever do.
Brady Bunch Perm
20-12-2005, 00:13
Spirometry.

That is one sort of blow job I suck at. Ooh, that's punny.... *ducks and covers*


Did you ever have gay skull sex?
Dempublicents1
20-12-2005, 00:19
1) Sports - of any kind. I'm just not physically very graceful or agile or, well, stable on my own feet. Even just in normal walking, my ankles have this weird habit of just sliding to the side and falling out from under me.

2) Spatial awareness. I can't visualize things very well without my hands. I can't do the "You're facing north, you turn left, you turn right, you turn left, you make a 180 degree turn, what direction are you facing?" thing without drawing it out or actually turning my fingers to figure it out.

3) Drawing. I suck at drawing. I find it difficult to draw a straight line - with a ruler!

4) Handwriting. I have awful handwriting, always have. I blame it on the fact that I broke my wrist during 3rd grade - the last year they grade you on handwriting, but I think I would've ended up with bad handwriting one way or another.

5) Cleaning. Can't stand doing it, and only do a good job when I get frustrated by the mess and just have to clean everything. This doesn't happen very often.

6) I have no sense of direction. None. Even if the sun is out, it takes me 5 minutes to figure out which direction is which. And if it's around noon, there's no way I'm figuring it out.

There's more, but I have to go eat gumbo now.
Posi
20-12-2005, 00:19
1) I horribly over/underestimate my abilities.
2) Analyzing literature.
3) Fashion.
4) Waking up in the morning and falling asleep at a reasonable time.
5) Reading. I am quite quick at reading, I just add/change/omit words.
German Nightmare
20-12-2005, 00:20
There's oh so many things that I'm not good at I wouldn't even know where to start. But I was told that I shouldn't focus on the things I can't do but on those in which I marvel. If only I knew which those were...

I'm doomed. DOOMED! :(

And that Spirometer - I hate those... Should be doing better on them once I got a decent girlfriend and stopped smoking.
DHomme
20-12-2005, 00:22
running
dancing
singing
holding my temper
The Tribes Of Longton
20-12-2005, 00:31
Your Mileage May Vary.
Still no idea what it means....*is thick*
This is very short. (http://web.indstate.edu/thcme/PSP/eLabs/respiration.htm)
Fucking Arf! I thought you were actually talking about some special form of blowjob, possibly involving your Inspiratory capacity! :eek: :p
SoWiBi
20-12-2005, 00:35
4. I can never remember to water my poor plants... nowdays I just keep cactus and other low-maintainence plants.

don't overestimate yourself.

i have managed to let cacti die. not on purpose. i just forgot to ater them..for a prolonged period of time.
Terrorist Cakes
20-12-2005, 00:38
Drawing/Painting, playing sports, counting beats while singing, socialising with strangers, dating, heavy-lifting, keeping in touch with people.
EDIT: And Dancing. I cannot dance at all.
Sarkhaan
20-12-2005, 00:45
Still no idea what it means....*is thick*

Fucking Arf! I thought you were actually talking about some special form of blowjob, possibly involving your Inspiratory capacity! :eek: :p
Fass likes 'em thick.;)

and I also don't think he'll admit to being subpar in anything sexual except for those acts involving women.
Pure Metal
20-12-2005, 01:32
1. I can't talk to women I'm attracted to without a minimum of 4 units in my system

2. I can't organise myself for shit

3. All sports except sailing and kayaking are beyond my abilities

4. I'm not good at accepting any criticism

5. I'm no good at staying awake in warm, dark lecture theatres
wow dude, are you me!? :eek:
(minor edit in bold)
The Tribes Of Longton
20-12-2005, 01:36
wow dude, are you me!? :eek:
(minor edit in bold)
Lets see:

1) Likes weed? Check Even though you've gone all straightedge at the mo - come back to the dark side, huw, join usss.....
2) Likes metal? Check Unless you've gone all emo to match the straightedgeness...¬_¬

3) Shite at most sports? Check (I can kayak!)

4) (Been converted to) drinking snakebites? Check again with the straightedge, but whatever.

Yes. I am you. Except northern. Um.
Pure Metal
20-12-2005, 01:38
Lets see:

1) Likes weed? Check Even though you've gone all straightedge at the mo - come back to the dark side, huw, join usss.....
2) Likes metal? Check Unless you've gone all emo to match the straightedgeness...¬_¬

3) Shite at most sports? Check (I can kayak!)

4) (Been converted to) drinking snakebites? Check again with the straightedge, but whatever.
all good!


Yes. I am you. Except northern. Um.

and therefore inferior. ;) :D
The Tribes Of Longton
20-12-2005, 01:57
and therefore inferior. ;) :D
You realise your Southernness makes you more prone to catching Conservatism, don't you? :p
Purple Flying Hippos
20-12-2005, 02:01
I have an interesting talent/fault. I can make people horribly annoyed at will. I make peple do this.:headbang: :upyours:
The Tribes Of Longton
20-12-2005, 02:04
I have an interesting talent/fault. I can make people horribly annoyed at will. I make peple do this.:headbang: :upyours:
Well I can help with that, at least on NS.

You see those two smilies you just used? Don't. EVER. This applies to any shooting smily too, as well as any situation with an overuse of smilies (unless it's fluffles). Keep your spelling and grammar fairly accurate and don't overtly insult people/completely disregard or disrespect their viewpoint. Oh, and don't treat the internet too seriously :p
Pure Metal
20-12-2005, 02:09
You realise your Southernness makes you more prone to catching Conservatism, don't you? :p
i got my shots at commie camp last summer, so i'm ok :)
its all the other (potentially conservative) people round here who need to be... culled ;)
Grainne Ni Malley
20-12-2005, 02:34
1) I'm not good at lying about having orgasms.

2) I'm really horrible at rolling.

3) I am not very good at cleaning.

4) Walking is a challenge.

5) Playing nice with others is a chore.
N Y C
20-12-2005, 02:42
uuum....having failings?;)

QUICK 4:
I'm not good at Arabic, my 3rd language. I'm variable with being funny. Sometimes I'm a laughriot, sometimes I'm pathetic. Sports...horrible basically, but I try my best!:)
Cannot think of a name
20-12-2005, 02:45
I too am bad with money. Fortunately I never have very much. No, wait, unfortunately...

I am not athletic. I played soccer for years and only managed mediocraty. Karate, also years, didn't even manage mediocraty. I think I'm now more suseptable to an ass whopin'. (Fortunately I've never been in a fight). Swim team-my only value was that I could swim a long time and a close friend was a good swimmer so he taught me butterfly. Kids who could do butterfly where rare. I was good for a point, because if you entered a swimmer, that was a point....

I am not a good drinker. GIANT dork when I drink.

I can't cook to save my life.

I am not a tidy person.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
20-12-2005, 03:03
Things that I, nearly perfect and all-round otherworldly guy that I am, aren't perfect at:

1) Simple math. I can do calculus easy and breeze right through upper math, the stuff at lower levels trips me up, though, because it is impossible to pay attention and not fall asleep.
2) I'm not so good at face-to-face dealings with other people. This may seem hard to believe, but IRL I come across as 1/2 the funny and twice the asshole. Not to mention the fact that when you are face-to-face with someone and they drive you to violence you can actually try to stab them.
3) Keeping Calm. My sanity exists on the razors edge most times, and under stress it can fray at the edges, especially when I start mixing my metaphors. The worst recent example being a mental break-down during one of my finals last week. I couldn't stop laughing and don't even remember what I wrote for the last half of the damned thing.
Lunatic Goofballs
20-12-2005, 03:06
The worst recent example being a mental break-down during one of my finals last week. I couldn't stop laughing and don't even remember what I wrote for the last half of the damned thing.

Last time something like that happened to me, I got an A+ and a visit to the school psychologist. :)
New Stalinberg
20-12-2005, 03:14
Hmmmm...

Restraining myself from eating small children.
Megaloria
20-12-2005, 03:19
I cannot sing in any useful sense of the word.
Not good at waking up, nor at falling asleep.
I outright suck at basketball.
Finally, I am virtually incapable of leaving a woman unsatisfied.
Whereyouthinkyougoing
20-12-2005, 03:23
1) Self-discipline. Don't have it. No time-management skills, hate cleaning my apartment, Grand Mistress of All-Around Procrastination. That's the one that's messing up my life the most.

2) Debating. I used to be good, but then I just... lost .. all ability to make and defend an argument. These days, I'll get all emotional and polemic. Gah. Does keep me out of most of the threads here, though, so maybe that's a good thing for everybody involved.

3) Interacting with kids. I don't exactly hate them, I'm just not very good with them. I think they know.

4) Saying no. I have serious doormat issues.

5) My tolerance for stupidity is very, very low. If I don't have to deal with the respective person for too long or too often, it's okay. But in an acquaintance or, even worse, a co-worker? Not good. Not good at all

6) I post for shit in English. Always sound like a terribly stuck-up bitch.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
20-12-2005, 03:49
Last time something like that happened to me, I got an A+ and a visit to the school psychologist. :)
I don't think I'll get either of those. I doubt it was bad enough to try and get pity credit, and I don't think I'm any more fluent in German when I'm crazy than when I'm sane.
And I hate people trying to get inside my head. I spent the first 10 years of school (K-9) with those fuckers trying to figure me out (I remember at least 3 times my Kindergarten teacher tried to convince everyone around me I was crazy. Damn woman, so I drew pictures of Satan and threatened to give another kid a Colombian Necktie, I was 5, step off) and I only just a few years ago managed to get to the point that I could dissapear in the group and not draw extra attention.
Smunkeeville
20-12-2005, 05:08
1) Linear equations
2) Baking (I cook fine, but cakes and cookies and such.......not so good :()
3) First impressions
4) tact (I tend to say what I think without thinking about what I say)
5) explaining things
6) understanding driving directions (I have to have a map)
7) knowing when a list of things I can't do well, is long enough
8) adding commas where they aren't needed
9) run-on sentences
10) knowing which information to keep to myself when first meeting someone.
Potaria
20-12-2005, 09:18
Well, I'm pretty good at everything I've tried.

...There is talking to my dad, but that's more him not letting me say the things I want to say (much less how I want to say them).
Cannot think of a name
20-12-2005, 09:28
Oh yeah, forgot one-

Thinking of names.
Straughn
20-12-2005, 11:00
Everybody has their talents. Everybody has their failings.

It's time to sincerely and honestly admit your failings. We will try to keep ridicule to a minimum.

I'll start. Here's 5 things I'm not good at:

1) I'm not good at handling money. I couldn't save a dime without the help of my wife.

2) I'm not a particularly eloquent writer. I tend to slip into simple sentences with poor grammatical structure.

3) My neurosurgery skills are not up to snuff.

4) Counting. :D

I'm not good at:

1. Getting to the point in a fashion that suits the attention span of my audience.
2. Grasping and holding objects successfully.
3. Remembering names and acronyms.
4. Feeling sorry for people who continue to do stupid things while expecting a different result for the exact same circumstances.
5. Employable skills, for the most part.

EDIT: I think 5 can be translated as well through the idea that i'm very discriminating as to whom i take orders from.
Pure Metal
20-12-2005, 11:16
Oh yeah, forgot one-

Thinking of names.
same here... i just have a virtual inability to remember people's names once i've met them :headbang:
this is why i call people "dude" or "mush" a lot... gets embarrasing sometimes
Ravenclaws
20-12-2005, 11:28
Getting a girlfriend. But my time will come. I have to make it.
Grainne Ni Malley
20-12-2005, 11:32
same here... i just have a virtual inability to remember people's names once i've met them :headbang:
this is why i call people "dude" or "mush" a lot... gets embarrasing sometimes

I have that problem, too. It's really bad when I see somone I recognize and I try to call out to them, but all I can say is, "Hey, You!"
Hullepupp
20-12-2005, 11:36
I can not paint.
I am a bad swimmer
Posi
20-12-2005, 11:42
I have that problem, too. It's really bad when I see somone I recognize and I try to call out to them, but all I can say is, "Hey, You!"
I have figured out a solution for this problem. Instead of "Hey, You;" "Hey, Dude;" "Hey, Mush" use "Hey." [/smartass]
Straughn
21-12-2005, 10:53
I'm not good at caring about others, or having a "heart".
The important thing is, are you good with a grapefruit?
*drip, drip*
Preebs
21-12-2005, 11:06
1) Starting things. I tend to procrastinate and waste time... like on NS...
2) Finishing things. The problem with starting things doesn't apply to creative things. I have no problem beginning a whole lot of them, and never finishing them...
3) Things that involve fine hand-eye co-ordination. I have a tremor. That rules out surgery as a specialty. *phew*
4) Singing.
5) Thinking of things to fill up lists. ;)
Harlesburg
21-12-2005, 11:13
1)I am unable to spend money
2)Getting things done straight away
3)Maths
4)Talking to Girls
5)General Banter
Glitziness
21-12-2005, 12:30
1. Performing. Whether it's to one person or a crowd, I hate any thing where people are all paying attention to me and judging my performance. I don't mind it as much with intellectual things - I'm okay with public debates.
2. Self-control. My characteristics always go to extremes and I have a hard time balancing them out.
3. Sport. I'm awful at sport- I have very little co-ordination when it comes to big things i.e. I'm fine with hand/eye co-ordination when it comes to sewing or drawing but I cannot for the life of me keep up a rally in badminton or tennis
4. Following intuition. When I try and logic my way out of things, I can always see both sides too clearly and just end up twisting the logic. My intuition about decisions is nearly always right yet I doubt it.
5. Getting stuff done. I am an awful procrastinator and if I can get away with just not doing anything at all, I will.
6. Social situations. I'm fine with people I know and I can be fine with new people, but when I don't have anything to talk about I don't see any reason to talk and that causes problems. I'm also someone who doesn't mind silence that much, but it makes others uncomfortable. I'm happy just "being" with people.

I could probably go on for a while. I'm quite aware of my flaws, and actually, right now, quite accepting of them.
The Blaatschapen
21-12-2005, 13:01
1) Taking initiative
2) Being Lazy
3) I'm too lazy write mor... :D
Bryce Crusader States
21-12-2005, 13:36
Well,

1. I Procrastinate to the Extreme. I am a student and wait till their are literally hours left to write and hand in an essay.

2. My Empathy levels are subpar at best. I have little tolerance for people who live in a society as great as ours and stil manage to be poor. More empathetic to those who can't help their situation such as in most other places in the world.

3. According to most people on this forum, I have the mental illness called being a Conservative Christian and proud of it.

4. I hate Communism with a passion equal to that of 1000 suns going Supernova at once. Anyways, to go along with that here is a true story. I was at University having lunch with a friend. When a guy from our History class came up to our table and decided to join us I didn't know him my friend did. In the course of the conversation he told me that he was a Communist. At this Junction my friend said "Uh-Oh" and I being an all around Commie Hater just started laying into this guy. To be fair he did put up a good fight but, by the end of the "conversation" he was crying. Yes, I am not joking he was crying. Somehow my family heard this story and I will never live it down. I get things like so made any communists cry today and other such remarks on a regular basis.

5. I have kind of a harsh personality if I don't like you as you may have seen in my last statement.

6. Also to go along with the above. I have Rage issues. I am a Volcano waiting to explode.

7. I also have this problem of Mumbling when I talk sometimes. It causes me to have to repeat myself often.

Well, I have bared my soul for all to see.
Pure Metal
21-12-2005, 13:45
I have little tolerance for people who live in a society as great as ours and stil manage to be poor.
oh FFS :rolleyes:

and i'm a commie. good luck making me cry.
Bryce Crusader States
21-12-2005, 14:11
oh FFS :rolleyes:

and i'm a commie. good luck making me cry.

I think he was probably an emotional person but I have no way of knowing for sure, I never saw him again.
Straughn
22-12-2005, 05:56
I'm rather intrigued as to how spirometry works now...:confused:
Why, it's the measure of infamous Vice Presidents in administrations where the President were FULLY impeached.
Also, they end up going on the road on a quasi-lecture circuit that comes available in 8-track. And, is very funny, btw.
Straughn
22-12-2005, 06:01
Did you ever have gay skull sex?
As in you taking a skull in your anal orifice? Skull of what?
Antikythera
22-12-2005, 06:11
1 math
2 spelling
3 writing papers