3 Things you can Do Reasonably Well with Relative Ease/3 Things you Absolutely Suck At and Couldn't Get Right if Your Very Life Depended on it

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Based on this thread ( 3 things about which you know an awful lot / 3 gaps in your general knowledge ), I thought I'd broaden the scope a bit. What makes this different from the earlier thread is action as opposed to expertise.

1. Photography
2. Illustration
3. Remember

1. Juggle
2. Skateboard
3. Drive stick.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Well:
1. hit a baseball
2. roger rabbit/running man
3. shoot a hockey puck

Not So Well:

1. swimming (i have to hold my nose)
2. writing
3. studying

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

This is actually sorta weird because I really don't know what I would put down in the former category!

As for the latter:

1. Drive anything
2. Swim
3. Ride a bike (the ground and I kept meeting each other with great force)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

well:
1) copy editing
2) singing
3) living in a major metropolitan center

suck:
1) suffering idiots
2) remembering/giving directions
3) being organized, like really really organized and not just throwing shit in a box whenever someone comes to visit

― don't blame me, i voted for ram jam (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

GOOD AT:

1. matching up things people say in conversation to melodies of 80s pop hits in a way that is often entertaining
2. deep frying yummy things
3. guessing what's going to happen in a predictable movie/tv show

GRRR AT:

1. basic addition and subtraction
2. networking
3. convincing Lukas to eat green vegetables

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Write
Cook
Play Soulblade/SoulCalibur/SoulCalibur 2

Drive
Anything related to music
Also directions (I can get lost in a house)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Sleep
2. Play drums
3. Dr. Mario. Also air hockey.

1. Throw a baseball, or most other sorts of balls
2. Sing
3. Whistle

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i've always been amazed at people who can't throw...i don't get it.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm left-handed. I learned to do all sporty stuff right-handed. Therefore, I can't.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, air hockey, air hockey and skeeball, those are my #4. And those cranes you get the toys from. Actually, forget about cooking, let me put skeeball down.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Im a lefty too and learned how to do all sporty things righty as well. weird.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah:
1) win at badminton
2) remember statistics, dates, capital cities and the like
3) cut my own hair

Oh nooo:
1) combinations and permutations, maths AO level, 1989
2) accents and impressions
3) arm wrestling

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm a lefty too! i can't bowl for shit.

― don't blame me, i voted for ram jam (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF? I have no problem doing these things....could I be ambidextrous?

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it sucks. I have to think so hard about what my right hand is doing motion-wise to accomplish anything (bowling, drumming, etc.), whereas my left could just do it. Its power is being wasted.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Could be!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember going to a party in 1992, and as it turned out, I was the first male to show up. Suddenly, the girls in attendance decided it would be a grand idea to "quiz me" about how the male mind works (yeah, as if I'm in any way indicative of the average male). In any event, what started out as stupid fun quickly became something akin to the Spanish Inquisition (somehow it became exclusively my fault that guys were cheating, disreputable low-lifes, etc.) In a vain attempt to turn the tables, I asked the main taskmaster what her three vital stipulations were for a man to warrant her interest/attention. "Well, he's gotta have a nice smile" (yawn), "he's gotta have a decent job" (boring, but somewhat understandable),...."and he's really gotta know how to throw a football".

This prompted the proverbial spit-take from me, almost soaking her in cheap Budweiser in the process.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

although i couldn't hit a ball lefty or throw lefty for the life of me.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"and he's really gotta know how to throw a football"

what's THAT code for? ;-)

― don't blame me, i voted for ram jam (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuckin' A:
Put things together
Piss off rednecks in parking lots
Take my fucking seat on an airplane

Fuck that shit:
Play musical instruments
Enjoy vodka or coffee
Filo dough

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I consider myself proficient at:

- Writing (though I usually don't put much thought into my posts)
- Hackey sack (though my friends are all too embarrassed to be seen doing this with me)
- Speaking/translating Dutch

I'm most definitely deficient at:
- Remembering film titles and actors' names
- Hand-eye coordination games like darts and pool
- Painting neatly

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I still played hackey sack like I used to. Sometimes I forget exactly how much fun it can be.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

hippy

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

When I worked at a translation agency in the Netherlands, we would spend about 45 minutes every day playing hackey sack (during our morning, lunch and afternoon breaks). There was no hippy stigma there. When I got back to the states, I found out that it's definitely not popular-making among the clean set.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

good:
directions
swimming
making logical decisions

bad:
skateboarding
drawing
talking on the motherfucking telephone

― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Good:
Cooking (when I am so inclined).
Simple home renovations (replacing drywall / replastering / repainting / etc.).
Accents / impressions / silly voices.

Bad:
Sports of any kind.
Card games of any kind.
Any kind of food service counter work (worked in three different cafes during my colllege days - I always quit before I could get canned).

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretty Good:
1.cooking banana oatmeal
2. drawing old ladies
3. checkers

Very Bad:
1. being nice to people i don't like
2. keeping a beat of any kind, even just by clapping
3. wordsearches (but they're boring anyway, esp. compared to xwords)

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Can Do:

1. type
2. eat pizza
3. dance

Can Don't:

1. get organizized
2. save money
3. throw a frisbee

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Good:

Cooking
Singing
Mom-ing

Bad:

Anything mathematic
Hanging upside down
Not swearing

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Hell yeah:
1. Play the guitar
2. Solder
3. Play Crazy Taxi

Hell no:
1. Play the drums
2. Budget time so things I want to do get done
3. Plan far ahead for things (e.g. "Well I'll be damned. My driver's licence expired three months ago. Huh.")

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay!
1. Remembering numbers, birthdays, phone numbers, people's names, etc.
2. Doing impressions of people's voices
3. That video game where you shoot deer.

Nay!
1. Driving fast (I drive very slowly)
2. Being clean (Even after I clean my house it becomes messy within a few hours)
3. Paying attention.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay at:
Breaking into random songs
Translating stuff in classes
Putting on eyeliner

Terrible at:
Linear Algebra. (And I have a midterm this weekend so my life DOES sort of depend on it.)
Exercising and eating fruit & vegetables consistently
Pulling all-nighters, I fall asleep around 4

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

do well

1) make friends, influence people
2) write
3) parent

inept at
1) basketball
2) engineering
3) tolerating shitty parents

― don weiner, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Can do with ease:
1. Music (bass, guitar, singing)
2. Driving a stick
3. Cooking

Things I can't do:
1.Resurrect a dead Mac
2. Draw
3. Run a marathon

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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