Things you inexplicably can't do
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It's my son's first birthday tomorrow so we've been prepping the house with a few decorations etc. For the first time in a very long time I tried to get some balloons blown up and remembered how terrible I am at tying them. My other half can seemingly do it with her eyes closed and behind her back but I just cannot tie the knot in the end properly. After a lot of struggling I just about managed to do one but it took about 5 minutes by which time my partner had managed to crack out about 10. Bit embarrassing really but I cannot fathom how people are able to do it so easily. She just laughed at me 
I also cannot (and have never been able to) do forward rolls. At 37 I don't think I ever will
I also cannot (and have never been able to) do forward rolls. At 37 I don't think I ever will
If you've not seen it this is Bob Mortimer doing backward and forward rolls on the programme Gone Fishing With Mortimer and Whitehouse.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=580819484323180
You might pick up some tips.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=580819484323180
You might pick up some tips.
Johnspex said:
bad company said:
Never could touch my toes.
Nor me. Even when I was a kid and still flexible it was impossible. Now I can t even see my toes.Even then I couldn’t touch my toes.
Digger said:
I'd really love to be able to whistle like a b
d with the 4 fingers in the mouth technique . . . I have no idea!
Same here. I can make a barely audible noise, which I claim counts as whistling, by pursing my lips but I'm utterly perplexed by those who can whistle like a train. d with the 4 fingers in the mouth technique . . . I have no idea!I have a mental scotoma when it comes to things upside down or mirror image.
Imagine a blank two piece jigsaw, just two bloody pieces, and one is turned upside down and rotated, but you don’t know that to start with. It’ll take me a good two to three minutes to work our what needs to be done to make the things fit together.
I remember once fitting an overhead lighting canopy/pelmet in a kitchen with a cut-out for the cooker hood to go through to an external vent. Almost three meters long and the hole was centre offset. Turned it upside down to do the cut-out having measured, checked and double checked the sizes only to discover upon lifting it up above the wall cabinets that the extractor cut-out and hob positioned below were 600mm apart. FFS!!
As a kid during IQ type tests these were common problems; I just guessed.
Imagine a blank two piece jigsaw, just two bloody pieces, and one is turned upside down and rotated, but you don’t know that to start with. It’ll take me a good two to three minutes to work our what needs to be done to make the things fit together.
I remember once fitting an overhead lighting canopy/pelmet in a kitchen with a cut-out for the cooker hood to go through to an external vent. Almost three meters long and the hole was centre offset. Turned it upside down to do the cut-out having measured, checked and double checked the sizes only to discover upon lifting it up above the wall cabinets that the extractor cut-out and hob positioned below were 600mm apart. FFS!!
As a kid during IQ type tests these were common problems; I just guessed.
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