Things you have never learned to do

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it doesn't have to be superhuman like climbing Everest but simple things that others can do and you can't. My regret is never learning to properly whistle loud using my fingers! Believe me I've tried, but I just can't do it. Over to you the PH massive.

[Tyre Smoke]

Welding. Over the years I think it would have been a useful skill.

[motco]

Playing the piano

[Truckosaurus]

I am totally skill-less at bubble gum, I can create tiny bubbles but any attempt at a big one ends up with me spitting it across the room.

Perhaps I should search for a youtube video for tips.

Also. Doing a wheelie on a push bike.

[Sheets Tabuer]

DIY, I have an accountant friend who bought a wreck of a house with land going cheap and worked on it at weekends, brick work, plumbing and electricals before getting it signed off.

I asked him where he learnt to do all that, he said he didn't but it's not rocket science is it you just do it. Bugger me I'd probably plumb the taps up to the heating system and wire the sockets to the door handles.

[pincher]

Wallpapering, drifting & hula-hooping.

[Spare tyre]

Sheets Tabuer said:

DIY, I have an accountant friend who bought a wreck of a house with land going cheap and worked on it at weekends, brick work, plumbing and electricals before getting it signed off.

I asked him where he learnt to do all that, he said he didn't but it's not rocket science is it you just do it. Bugger me I'd probably plumb the taps up to the heating system and wire the sockets to the door handles.

I’m similar, just got on with it

On my first house I got so fed up with tradesmen van breaking down when you ring them after they are already 3 hours late, them doing whats easiest for them, not what you agreed etc. I just got on with it

Only thing I don’t do is plastering and gas

[austinsmirk]

Skateboarding. Which as a child of the 70’s is shocking!

[alorotom]

Sheets Tabuer said:

DIY, I have an accountant friend who bought a wreck of a house with land going cheap and worked on it at weekends, brick work, plumbing and electricals before getting it signed off.

I asked him where he learnt to do all that, he said he didn't but it's not rocket science is it you just do it. Bugger me I'd probably plumb the taps up to the heating system and wire the sockets to the door handles.

Genuinely, I have massive general dislike for people who approach properties and go the DIY route - especially when its a terrace or semi ... months of noise and inconvenience of neighbours, weekends, late nights of banging and clattering and for a product that 9/10 looks like a "Bodge'it and Leggitt" production. Invariably it never ends either and there is constant rolling programme of further works once moved in, necessitating more noise and inconvenience for neighbours. All to save a few quid.

When we had our rental portfolio loads of mates who had rentals as well always used to say about me using trades to redo them in-between rental periods and when kitchens needed replacing etc.... and even when we had our house built many said do a lot of the internal finish yourself ... No, just no. Your time is valuable and not worth the cost (personal and financial).

You arent missing out. Do it properly, use a good tradesperson.

[alorotom]

motco said:

Playing the piano

Id echo this. I would love a baby grand but not being able to play it makes it just an expensive cumbersome ornament / piece of furniture.

Ive tried to learn a few times but the sausage fingers won't cooperate.

[Sheets Tabuer]

motco said:

Playing the piano

Guitar for me, I had an electric guitar that I'd strum of an evening no amp just the guitar. Came home one day and went to get it out and the Mrs of the time said she'd given it away because I had about as much chance of being a guitarist as she had of shagging Brad Pitt.

She cut me deep.

[colin79666]

Soldering. I keep seeing kits in Lidl/Aldi and thinking I must some day get round to learning it. Got some old game cartridges that will need new batteries now and could do more with my Raspberry Pi if I had the skill.

[SCEtoAUX]

motco said:

Playing the piano

Give it a go. Yamaha P45 (£300) and a few books to learn from. Great fun .

[bristolbaron]

There’s plenty I can’t do or accept I’m not going to be amazing at, but swimming’s the main one I’d put on the list.
I can just about breaststroke the length of a pool and float on my back as long as I want, but front crawl is a mystery to me.

[glenrobbo]

Understanding women.

I have tried.
Believe me, I have tried so very hard, but I have come to the conclusion that I will never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever be able to fathom out WTF is going on inside their heads.

Juggling.

Playing the guitar.

Laplace Transforms in mathematics. Just couldn't understand the how, what or why. I was just baffled and I failed completely to get the point. Has anyone else on here used Laplace Transforms in a career in engineering?

Edited by glenrobbo on Sunday 21st February 09:08

[Monkeylegend]

Spinning a pen or pencil across my fingers / knuckles without dropping it.

Trivial but would be so satisfying.

[Digger]

Whistle annoyingly loudly with a few variations of fingers &/or thumbs!

[2 GKC]

alorotom said:

Genuinely, I have massive general dislike for people who approach properties and go the DIY route - especially when its a terrace or semi ... months of noise and inconvenience of neighbours, weekends, late nights of banging and clattering and for a product that 9/10 looks like a "Bodge'it and Leggitt" production. Invariably it never ends either and there is constant rolling programme of further works once moved in, necessitating more noise and inconvenience for neighbours. All to save a few quid.

When we had our rental portfolio loads of mates who had rentals as well always used to say about me using trades to redo them in-between rental periods and when kitchens needed replacing etc.... and even when we had our house built many said do a lot of the internal finish yourself ... No, just no. Your time is valuable and not worth the cost (personal and financial).

You arent missing out. Do it properly, use a good tradesperson.

What a strange post.

[Uggers]

alorotom said:

You arent missing out. Do it properly, use a good tradesperson.

A good tradesperson costs a lot of money. For those who are time rich and cash poor DIY is the only alternative. I must have spent 1000s of hours on our place I think it would have cost more than the house was worth in labour alone. And not sure it would have been to the standard I wanted.

As a fairly practical person who can turn my hand to nearly most stuff I wish I'd learnt to play an instrument, probably guitar. But for some reason my hands turn to stumps when a guitar is in front of me.

[Shnozz]

anonymous said:

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I did a 12 week course in motor mechanics at a local college. Was good fun, dirt cheap and you could work on your own car if you wanted to so many of the attendees got a free service which would have cost them more than the course. Worth looking at.