Things you have never learned how to do.

[Cavalol]

Me also. I even had guitar lessons but eventually had to admit to being tone deaf.
I messed around with a mouth organ aged 14 and learned to play "under the Sein with me" but that was it.

Mine was down to a bad teacher at school. It's a sign of how some people should never have been in that profession (teaching) by writing people off at a young age. It's a bit sad that 47 years after being told I was rubbish at the subject (and would never master any musical instrument) I still can't play one, because that 'advice' has stuck with me.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I've used a unicycle for the shorter commute, with no problems.

I played with a unicycle for all of a minute and concluded that it was utterly impossible.

I figured if I kept trying it would just stay impossible

 

[MichaelW2]

Same here. I had that problem in many sports. At high school, we were all supposed to score t least one basket at the end of the basketball lesson, then go and get changed. Score a basket? I'm 168cm / 5'3" now, and that's on a good day. You may as well have told me to hit the moon. However, I quickly realised that with ca 45 boys all aiming at the basket at the same time, the teacher wasn't going to be able to tell if I'd scored, so I lobbed a ball in the general direction a couple of times, then grabbed the nearest descending ball, and got out of there.
To my lasting pride, I never scored once in the entire term.
Of course then winter came and Rugby, which again, isn't much fun if you're well below average height. I was told it'd be fine because they needed small players in the scrum, giving sports lessons an extra nightmarish dimension until they announced that you couldn't be in the scrum without spiked shoes, and do you know, I somehow forgot mine every week after that, for the entire winter. I also worked out that if you could only be tackled if you have the ball, then, the best way to avoid landing in the mud was to be well away from said ball...
I sure learned some useful life lessons through school sports, just not what I was supposed to be learning...

Sport is very good to people who are good at sport but those sports advocates have no concept that sports can be bad for you. If you always get picked first, then you never understand how it feels to always be picked last. Failure of imagination is apparent in every sports autobiography .
Fortunatly , sports is not synonymous with excercise.

 

[wakemalcolm]

The hands free dual nasal snot rocket. I maintain it's what stood between me and a successful career as a lower order cat 4 racer.

 

[classic33]

The hands free dual nasal snot rocket. I maintain it's what stood between me and a successful career as a lower order cat 4 racer.

Won't be trying to follow that one.

 

[Gwylan]

Won't be trying to follow that one.

Tend to have a bias to the right. So pass on the left, if you dare.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Sport is very good to people who are good at sport but those sports advocates have no concept that sports can be bad for you. If you always get picked first, then you never understand how it feels to always be picked last. Failure of imagination is apparent in every sports autobiography .
Fortunatly , sports is not synonymous with excercise.

When I was at school e played Rugby - there was little choice

I was always picked last but generally was kinda OK at it as far as the remainder of kids went
i.e. those not playing for school teams

anyway - for some reason the PE department recommended me to go and be part of the school teams when I was about 15

I was still always picked last - in fact even more last

but then after while I started to get picked first
in fact it got to a point where I was ALWAYS one of the first 2 picked - I played prop and if me and the Brian Hopson bot played on the same side then we would win every scrum and push the other team back loads
so if I was chosen first the other team would have to choose him next

I have no clue what changed - but I reckon that once I started getting chosen first my confidence grew so much that I started playing better as well


I always respected the teacher who picked the teams themselves rather than choosing 2 captains and letting them choose their teams


cricket in summer was always a pain in the whatsit - especially if we were playing last - it meant having a VERY long lunch time and getting home late

that school was VERY different to the ones I was a teacher at!!!
but the difference

 

[Ratchet Cat]

I can’t do the Rubik cube either, unless I prise it apart with a screwdriver 😊
I can’t knit, do mental arithmetic or use rollerblades.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Rubix Cubes?
Why, I just take the coloured stickers off and re - attach them on the relevant sides!

 

[pinkbikini]

Juggle with 5 tennis balls. I can do 3 alright, but never managed to make the step up. Not for want of trying.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I can’t do the Rubik cube either, unless I prise it apart with a screwdriver 😊
I can’t knit, do mental arithmetic or use rollerblades.

Rubix Cubes?
Why, I just take the coloured stickers off and re - attach them on the relevant sides!

Rubik cube is easy to do, you only need to learn 3 or 4 sequences and then it is just a matter of knowing when to use them.

 

[Profpointy]

Juggle with 5 tennis balls. I can do 3 alright, but never managed to make the step up. Not for want of trying.

5 is very hard and I can't do it, not for more than a second or two anyway. I can just about do 4 in roundy-round pattern (albeit not for very long) and two independent one handed pair juggling.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Now you mention it: Juggling.

 

[JtB]

I’ve only ever used electric shavers so I’ve never learnt how to use a razor with a blade.

My problem now though is that the last time I had to buy an electric shaver I couldn’t find a mains operated shaver and so I was forced into buying a mains rechargeable one instead. As I suspected it was absolutely rubbish compared to the old mains operated shavers.

I’d be very interested therefore if anyone is able to recommend some good mains operated (not rechargeable) shavers which are still available.

 

[Profpointy]

Now you mention it: Juggling.

I taught myself to juggle and it took about a week. Annoyingly, now I know I how to do it I can reliably teach others in about 10 minutes with only one failure