Real life things you suck at

[MelissaBaby]

Basketball

I made the basketball team in high school, but only showed up for a couple of practices and they kicked me off.

So that tells you something I am good at and something I am bad at.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Sex

(Well, someone had to say it)

I've been lurking here the whole time just waiting for someone to say 'writing'.

 

[TheRedChamber]

I've been lurking here the whole time just waiting for someone to say 'writing'.

No, I'm pretty great at writing. I've never had a heroine not cum during a sex scene I've written.

 

[Comshaw]

Getting the bloody cats to do what they're told.

Take some lessons from these guys:

Comshaw

 

[Comshaw]

I'm really, really good at a few things and average at a bunch of others and not so good at some others. The one thing I am terrible at: singing. I love music, but when I try to accompany a song on the radio people cover their ears and scream. No sense of pitch, and even my hog call doesn't work to call hogs. I finally had to admit it and refrain from any singing except in the shower with no one else in the house, or alone in the car. Even then I see people's heads jerk around to stare at me as I drive past. Yeah, that bad.


Comshaw

 

[MillieDynamite]

I can't sew, quilt, or crochet. My cooking is edible but not the best (other than a few special Mexican dishes), not good at baking. I don't do photography well, at all, everyone ends up with half a head. I ride a horse, but not that well. Especially considering my dad can train horses, and taught me to ride. If I tried to ride Jo's motorcycle I'd probably kill myself or break the bike and then Jo would kill me. There are hundreds of things I lousy at, tennis, basketball (4'10" go figure I can't dunk), baseball. But I have a few things I'm very good at.

 

[elizaloo]

Being confident

Same....


I fake it really, really, REALLY well...but inside I'm the least confident person ever. I don't second guess, I 400x guess.

 

[StillStunned]

I suck at whatever the wife tells me to suck at.

 

[Bazzle]

Writing...my handwriting is atrocious

 

[easyoff]

Being in large crowds of people

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I suck at whatever the wife tells me to suck at.

I'm amazed it took this long for someone to interpret the thread title this way! Was about to remedy that, but thanks to you I can remain with my reputation unsullied.

 

[onehitwanda]

hmm.

Painting straight lines.
Foot-in-mouth-disease.
finishing things I've started
ice skating
balancing of any sort
climbing trees
falling out of trees
rock-climbing
going to the doctor
and, of course, falling for the wrong women.

 

[HordHolm]

hmm.

Painting straight lines.
Foot-in-mouth-disease.
finishing things I've started
ice skating
balancing of any sort
climbing trees
falling out of trees
rock-climbing
going to the doctor
and, of course, falling for the wrong women.

Ok... I'll bite... how can you suck at falling out of trees? Gravity does all the work...

 

[onehitwanda]

Ok... I'll bite... how can you suck at falling out of trees? Gravity does all the work...

because I cling to the branches like a lemur with tetanus.

 

[MelissaBaby]

70 posts and no one said “cock” yet?

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

70 posts and no one said “cock” yet?

Was going to but got conflicted. I've been told I'm actually pretty good at it so while I do suck, I don't really suck at sucking, so...

 

[StillStunned]

70 posts and no one said “cock” yet?

I suck at whatever the wife tells me to suck at.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

70 posts and no one said “cock” yet?

@StillStunned and I made the same point upthread, only without using the word cock because we're like well classy, not crude, honest...

 

[MelissaBaby]

@StillStunned and I made the same point upthread, only without using the word cock because we're like well classy, not crude, honest...

Well, I’m still a trailer park girl at heart.

 

[luvclassics]

Two things really,

1) Being able to step outside of my reserved self and meet people and start a conversation.
2) Being able to write something in a literary sense. I Just suck at writing something that flows and understanding the art of paragraphs.

Hoping being here can somewhat help with both of these.

 

[JaySecrets]

Two things really,

1) Being able to step outside of my reserved self and meet people and start a conversation.
2) Being able to write something in a literary sense. I Just suck at writing something that flows and understanding the art of paragraphs.

Hoping being here can somewhat help with both of these.

I am fully convinced that everybody has a poet inside of them. Everybody has a story to tell. Most of us were making up poetry and stories as kids and Noah told us we were doing it wrong and so we were really good at it. It was growing up and being told that there are rules and this and that that made us forget how to do it.

So the biggest issue really is getting the overthinking out of the way and just writing. My suggestion, and I know it works because this is how my best pieces of writing get done, would be to find prompts that speak to you. The kind of lines or songs or pieces of music or pictures that just hit you at a heart level. Take one of those then sit down using that as a start point, and give yourself only 10 minutes to write. Whatever comes out comes out. Don't overthink it. Just let your heart write what it wants to write. Don't worry about line breaks or paragraph breaks or whatever else you're concerned with. Just let the words come out on the page. You will be amazed at what comes out of you.

If you do try this, I would love to see what you wrote.

 

[onehitwanda]

sorry for the non-geeks, but I've just spent two hours staring at this wondering why my config changes haven't been taking place and something is still saying it's only going to expire in thousands of hours time...

def hours(milliseconds)
return "No Expiry" if milliseconds.nil? || milliseconds.to_i < 0
milliseconds.to_i / (1000 * 24 * 24) # hours
end

So clearly I'm really, really bad at geeking too.

 

[onehitwanda]

Let’s see, what do I suck at of late?

Walking and standing both seem to on their ways to becoming unreferee’d competitions with my evil nemesis, Doctor Gravity. Sitting ain’t much better, TBH.

I suck at sleeping soundly and staying awake, both of ‘em. Sometimes both at once.

I’m starting to suck at chewing and swallowing, although good sherry and single malt seem to offer no insurmountable problems.

I suck at listening to the whinging, entitled, self-centred pratings of those who, for some strange reason, fail to comprehend the depth, wisdom and awesome charm that is moi.

I suck at living up to my Munchausenesque memories of youthful romance and easy success at high strivings. Yes, that really sucks.

I suck at not hearing others whisper to each other how good I’m looking, for my age.

It sucks when a young French mademoiselle on a crowded THV looks at me, smiles sympathetically and offers me her seat. ‘Crushing’ is when I am forced to accept.

oh honey.

 

[ctarrantella]

Golf! Actually I'm really good at golf, but I suck at hitting one particular shot.
The low Tiger stinger. Especially out of the trees. LOL

 

[StillStunned]

A heavy emphasis on "being bad at sports" in this thread. Is that an American thing, or is it another of those "all the women here are men" things?