Things you have never learned how to do.

[Electric_Andy]

I've never learned to whistle properly. I can do the normal whistle but I mean, where you stick two fingers in your mouth. My Grandad could do this at 8000 decibels

 

[Dogtrousers]

Lie convincingly

(The above isn't true)

 

[Punkawallah]

Keep my love making to under 3 hours.

Could not get that funny pump to work, then? . . .

 

[Punkawallah]

So I take it that you learned the indispensable skill of making a float out of your pyjama trousers?

This lesson was introduced when the number of pyjama-wearing children involved in swimming accidents reached epidemic proportions.

Of course, the logistics of navigating the rest of the school day with wet shirt and trousers had not occurred to you, then?

 

[Punkawallah]

I can swim well

not fast but I can just keep going
as you say - until I get bored

I much prefer to be underwater - it is nice and peaceful there!

I am rubbish at crawl - well actually I can do it perfectly well
I just am rubbish at breathing while doing - which kinda limits how far I can go

butterfly seems like a made up stroke so make the swimming competitions last longer

Butterfly came about because some wag tried to cheat at Breastroke with an over-water recovery.

 

[Punkawallah]

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

I did much better at rugby once I’d grasped that the only one you could knock over was the one with the ball.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I did much better at rugby once I’d grasped that the only one you could knock over was the one with the ball.

That is the general concept

given that we were generally supervised by normal teachers - rather than a specific PE teacher who might have some idea of the proper rules and concept - things could vary when we did it at school

especially in the scrum and suchlike

 

[BigSid]

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 .
Fortunately , sports is not synonymous with exercise.

I had that feeling being picked last at football and stuck in goal. However I got good at it and when I started work I started getting picked first for our Tuesday lunchtime game. Also at school I could run sub-11 second 100 yards but I couldn't run 200. So on sports day the games teacher put me in the 800. I think they might have had time to organise and run the 100 yds while I was struggling on the back straight on lap 2. Thanks a lot Mr Hodgson. At least he didn't put me in the cross country race.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I remember one time when a guy was dumped in our rugby group at school
we were basically teh school 3rd and 4th teams
anyway - he knew he was a runner so we put him on the wing at the start

but it turned out that he was as fast as the wind
but couldn;t catch for toffee

if he got the ball and got hold of it in clear space
he was untouchable
but we had to have another player literally run up to him and PLACE the ball in his hands - which made it damn difficult when playing other schools

 

[Profpointy]

From what I heard once, it pretty much is.

I understood the butterfly stroke was invented as an improvement over breast stroke for competition, though obviously harder work over crawl or breaststroke for merely swimming along. They thus had to create a new category else breast stroke would have disappeared competitively despite being a sensible way of swimming with moderate effort

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Be a normal human being.

I am learning more and more that I am not. 😏

 

[lazybloke]

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.

The method i know has 10 sequences, but i found that i can always solve it with combinations of just 6.

 

[Punkawallah]

I understood the butterfly stroke was invented as an improvement over breast stroke for competition, though obviously harder work over crawl or breaststroke for merely swimming along. They thus had to create a new category else breast stroke would have disappeared competitively despite being a sensible way of swimming with moderate effort

It was an improvement on breastroke - but the governing body wanted to keep breastroke, and so altered the rules to make an over-water recovery illegal in breastroke competition, and instead created a new event for those who wanted to swim that way. Similar to the introduction of a ‘freestyle’ event after people started recovering over the water in sidestroke..

 

[presta]

Flying, sailing, rock climbing, skiing, welding, knitting, tumble-turns in the pool, tying shoelaces the way everyone else does, etc, etc, etc.