What do you mean, you can't....

[Arch]

An ex-school mate of my sister's had a baby and told my sister she was called [phonetically] 'Dull-see'. My sister said it was lovely but why had she chosen such an old-fashioned name. The girl replied it's not old, you know 'Dullsee and Gabbanna'.

I've heard (it may be a myth of course) of a little boy asked his name on the first day of school who said "Goo-ey". Asked again, he repeated it. Eventually his mother said "You know, Goo-ey, it's quite a posh name", and wrote it down.

G-U-Y.

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

FREAK! Look at the freak, ladies and gentlemen!

FREAKKKK!!!!

Do you work in my office?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I've heard (it may be a myth of course) of a little boy asked his name on the first day of school who said "Goo-ey". Asked again, he repeated it. Eventually his mother said "You know, Goo-ey, it's quite a posh name", and wrote it down.

G-U-Y.

Bit like the American pronunciation of bouy - which is boo-ey, always makes me smile!

It was on Baywatch......apparently

 

[swee'pea99]

I am staggeringly unobservant. I just don't see anything that isn't directly important/relevant to my current needs, even when it's things like wife's new hairdo, which you would have thought by now some basic survival instinct would have taught me to register.

 

[Jane Smart]

Is that not called 'jumping up and down'?

Not with a pogo stick between your thighs it isn't

 

[summerdays]

[quote name='swee'pea99']I am staggeringly unobservant. I just don't see anything that isn't directly important/relevant to my current needs, even when it's things like wife's new hairdo, which you would have thought by now some basic survival instinct would have taught me to register.[/QUOTE]

Mr Summerdays normally misses that one... but actually registered the last haircut for some reason - we had even taken bets on it that he wouldn't notice.

 

[Sun Superlight]

I can balance on my head and elbows for 10 minutes on the carpet, but can't ride any of my bikes (without hands) for for more a couple of seconds.
Any explanations?

 

[TheDoctor]

Remind me Doc, what's the capital of France?

F?

 

[Hover Fly]

I find this quite interesting. I thought amusia was supposed to be in about 1% of the population. How would you ever know you've met one ?

I'm tone deaf, not completely, just enough to make embarrassing mistakes, like the time I got dragged to a piano recital by a girlfriend. Part way through a slow, and I suppose emotional part, I had a fit of giggles, something in the rudimentary musical part of my brain had picked out the tune of "Three Blind Mice".

 

[Over The Hill]

It's not quass-ant!

It's Bay-conanddeggs!


I once went in a shop just as a customer asked "Do you have any Bertaytoes"
Just as I thought "How sloppy" the girl at the counter shouted out to the back room (Like on Little Britain) "Dad, do we have any Bertaytoes".


I can do just about any maths problem in my head but I do not know my times tables. They just cant stick in my head. But then I think one is linked to the other as it made me good at mental problems by having to work them out quickly each time.

 

[derall]

Can't sing. Had a bit of music training as a child, and could hold a fair tune. Once my voice broke I lost all singing ability. ave tried to re-learn once or twice, but teachers have given up on me. Can play bagpipes fairly well, but will leave it to others to debate whether that is music.

Good on numbers, not so good on verbal skills.

I'm good at baking, fairly good at other forms of cooking.

Totally incompetent when it comes to car engines. Can't help out with break-downs at all (fortunately I don't drive)

 

[PaulB]

I can do that Russian dance thingy...you know the one where you sit back on one leg and chuck the other one out and then swap whilst still seated? People stare at me like I'm a freak when I do that and to be fair, A) I am and I shouldn't have done it at my mother's funeral.

 

[sticky sherbert]

I can run at a decent pace for a couple of hours, I can cycle all day and then some, when it comes to swimming the best I can manage is to keep myself on the surface for about 5 mins then exaustion gets the better of me and I sink.

 

[Joe24]

I'm terrible with people's names, but I have an absurdly good memory for postcodes

I am bad with names sometimes aswell, but with directions/road names/numbers, i am pretty good. I can work out a route, knowing which roads to go down, and ride there without looking at a map because ive remembered the road names.
Also pretty good with map reading, can work out a route for ages, but sit me down and reading a book, i cant do.
My GF, is rubbish at directions. The thing i dont get, is she wont work on road names, what she sees the road as, like if theres a petrol station there.
So she will say to me, meet me by the petrol station on the way to yours.
Or, the turn we need is 2 after the one to Matlock. But she forgot which one the Matlock one was.
I will have a go at most things, i can cook, basic stuff but if i have a recipe i can use that to cook from and cook well. My brothers arent so good, never know when stuff is done. I can also clean. Maybe even wash my own clothes if i needed to.
My parents are going on holiday for 2 weeks next year, and im staying at home, errrrr, any volunteers to do my washing? If im still with my GF then i suppose i can always use her
I cant speak another language! Cant get my head around it, forget words, use the wrong one, so i just give up. I can, however, give some good abuse in English when im over in Europe, and the people still know what im talking about!

 

[swee'pea99]

I can do that Russian dance thingy...you know the one where you sit back on one leg and chuck the other one out and then swap whilst still seated? People stare at me like I'm a freak when I do that and to be fair, A) I am and I shouldn't have done it at my mother's funeral.

Well at least you didn't play the bagpipes.