I have absolutely no sense of direction.
...thank you, modern times, for maps and similar stuff.
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Same. In fact, if there is a wrong directional choice to make, I will make that choice 100% of the time.
Another user in "you're better off picking a random direction than asking me!" club!
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It's not modern times for me. I had to concentrate to discern my left from right since well before the internet. Took a lot of practice to get close to instinctual.
I have a compass, usually on a handmade wrist band, in all my outdoor bags, plus a Casio with a compass. Before I got the watch, I usually had redundant physical compasses. Of course there's a compass on my phone as well. :)
Went on a new trail yesterday I hadn't tried because I thought it went a couple of blocks and came out in another neighborhood. After walking a mile I checked Google Maps and I was traveling straight into hundreds of acres of nothing. Didn't even realize I was headed east and the lowering sun was right behind me!
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I can't snap my fingers. At all.
I learned to snap in a dream.
But I still can't whistle.
Pretty straightforward. You just🫰
For the longest time, I thought people used their forefinger to snap. Changed the game when I discovered using the middle finger and thumb. Also still can't whistle.
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Spelling is not my fortaa, fortae, fourta…. I ain’t good at it.
Forte you get a pass for. It's borrowed directly from French word "forté" which is pronounced the same but has the accent on the e which signals that it's pronounced as an "a". So as an English speller it's not correct at all.
This is from my high school French so this might all be false.
I can't remember anything
Anything at all?
Swimming properly. Sure, I can stay afloat and move effortlessly in the direction I want, but it's nowhere near the swimming strokes they tried to teach me in PE when I was a kid. I never managed those.
Same! I cannot coordinate my limb movements like we are all expected to for some reason.
I can, but I must be doing it wrong, because it doesn't enable me to stay afloat
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I feel like I am the antithesis of this question.
When I was a kid, I had a difficult time learning how to whistle, and so I decided I would learn all of the "stupid human tricks" that I could, and now as an adult, I don't know of any common skill that I do not have at least an advanced beginner or intermediate level.
Maybe you can help me by identifying what you believe is a common skill and then I'll see if I know it or not and respond.
I don't know how to do those loud whistles without using fingers. Teach me, oh master!
It takes some practice and fiddling around to get it, but this guy does a really good job of explaining it
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I only have a vague idea of how to make coffee.
Do you drink coffee?
Is coffee a common beverage where you live? I have only a vague idea of how to make curry, despite it being eaten, I believe, multiple times a day by hundreds of millions of other humans. It’s not a common home-prepared dish where I live though.
It's easy.
You just put the hot water in the brown dirt thing and it creates a brown tea thing.
Ooooh, you mean like... "Good Coffee". Dude I dunno.
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Starting new things that I don’t already have a very clear understanding of the process for
Driving.
I read "diving" and got pissed that I also don't know how to properly do a dive.
I can't whistle with pursed lips.
This means I can whistle pretty well like some kind of ventriloquist, but if I try to do it "properly" I'm either way off key or I just make a sad windy noise.
Making decisions and whistling
I'm really horrible at cooking, so I prepare myself the simplest of meals. Examples include: putting sugar in the microwave in order to make caramel and creating a little fire hazard, microwaving noodle soup with a raw egg in it hoping it would both boil the water and cook the egg (it just exploded and it took some minutes to clean up properly), making what I thought was pancake batter mostly with eggs and then eating something that resembled omelettes covered in maple syrup more than pancakes, burning most of the rice and undercooking/overcooking most of the meat I eat (and up until recently I would just put the heat on max because "why would you waste time?"), etc etc. Thankfully, my palate is underdeveloped so I can live with my "cooking", but my wife evidently hates it and tries to keep me as far away from the kitchen as possible unless I'm there to clean, lol.
My ex was a terrible cook. Like one day I was walking home and smelled smoke, hoping against hope it was not coming from my house, only to find he had burned my good pot because he was boiling water and boiled it all away and burned the pan.
He practiced, and got so good at cooking he was hired as a chef .
I firmly believe anyone who likes food and wants to learn to cook can learn to cook.
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I have these stretchy old people shoestrings so I never have to tie my shoes again.
It's not that I can't tie my shoes. I can't keep them tied.
Tie the bow the opposite direction to the thumb knot. For some reason it holds better than tying both in the same direction.
The reason is that by tying it the same direction, you have created a complicated granny knot. By tying it the opposite direction, you have created a complicated square knot, which holds better than a granny knot, complicated or not.
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Math, can't do math to save my life
Maths is hard, I'll never forget the joy of realising I never had to do another maths exam.
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