What's a common skill which you don't possess?

Setting the washing machine, the front panels look like a fucking aeroplane dashboard.
Can’t be doing with it, leave it to the staff

The need, want, or desire to be a parent?

I pretty much have all the common skills mastered, but I have always wanted to juggle and play the harmonica. (not at the same time…I am realistic) No matter how many times I try…no luck with either.

I honestly can’t think of one. Tact maybe. I can’t sing either.

Gardening. I dislike the outdoors so I’m not motivated to learn. Plus, there’s dirt !!

@Cruiser Have you ever tried using bean bags instead of balls? I learned with this book (and bean bags): https://www.amazon.com/Klutz-Juggling-Complete-Craft-Kit/dp/1591744482.

Roman numerals; I have picked up a rough idea but never learned them formally.

Dancing. It was forbidden in my upbringing, and I just never learned.

I always longed for a singing voice, but there’s just not enough there to work with. That’s more of an ability, though, than a skill. Instead I go to the opera and admire the vocal magnificence of others.

Changing a tire. My sister tells a story sometimes where she got a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, put the donut on it, and then went to wal-mart for a real tire and a pedicure.

We are very different people. I can’t walk in high heels either.

Oh! And using a smart phone. I still have a flip phone. :)

Driving. I can, but it’s safer for everyone if I don’t.

@longgone I have tried everything even scarves. But that book looks hopeful.

^ Much better than scarves. Try it :]

@janbb – did you see Ian’s video? He will teach you all about Roman numerals.

Tying my shoelaces the right handed way. Driving a car. SpongeBob has a better chance at getting a drivers license than me. Knowing the difference between there and their.

Numbers. Cannot add up the most simplest of sums. I must be numeral dyslexic.

Forgiveness. I can hold a grudge like a boss.

Peeling a hard-boiled British egg. Every method has been tried. Nothing works.

I can’t BBQ, at all. My meats are always scorched on the outside and raw on the inside. I’ll just stick to the easy stuff like baking a chicken breast or making a meatloaf. haha

Common skill? Not sure what a common skill is. I can burn soup.

@Pied_Pfeffer I didn’t believe this would work for hard boiled egss until I tried it.

Thanks @Cruiser! That’s a new trick. I’ll give it a try the next time I’m in the UK.

Skateboarding. I’ve literally only ever been on a skateboard once, and I was like 7 years old, I fell smack on my butt, and then the kid who was letting me try the skateboard had to go home. So that was it.

Raising my left eyebrow on its own. I can move my ears independent of each other but I can’t lift my left eyebrow higher than my right one.

Everyday makeup. I can do stage makeup, but that’s a whole different beast for a whole different purpose. I’ve never really worn makeup off the stage, so I’m not too worried, I’m just aware that it’s something I can’t do.

Operating tin openers efficiently. I end up mangling the lid and creating shards of dangerously sharp metal.

@cookieman you hate the outdoors? Do you live in a harsh climate? Dirt is my playground.

I cannot get a 9 volt battery in the smoke alarm. Apparently it’s a skill that escapes me.

And here I was, smugly thinking I was remarkably able, when you came along, @chyna, and pointed out my weakness. Not just 9 volts, but most batteries seem to never go in or come out as they should when I try. My friends have run out of bad, off-color jokes to make about my deficiency. My family is often required to come to my assistance.
It’s pathetic.

Math. I’m not bad at it as I’m learning, but nothing sticks.

Count me in on the imbecile battery club too. haha

Light a campfire. I grew up camping and backpacking my entire childhood, yet I am convinced that wood is nonflammable. Invariably, I end up with a ton of smoke and a feeling of inadequacy.

I have no idea on how to “pick a good one” when it comes to anything in the melon family.

opening and closing a so-call ziplock storage bag, except the expensive ones with the plastic push tag.

Opening fruit bags at the grocery store.

I can’t do math in my head. I’m hopeless; I need to grab a pencil and piece of paper, just to make sense of things.

@ARE_you_kidding_me: I said I “dislike” it. I like being outside in most weather (except heat/humidity). At a park or by the water.

Specifically, I don’t like being in the woods, or bugs, or sand, or (especially) dirt.

Oh man, I just don’t feel at ease unless I’m out in the woods. My new wooded back yard is bliss.

Scoring with chicks in my younger days. I quit worrying about it when I turned 45.

Knowing how to use “cutting edge” technology. I’m just fine with my pendulum metronome and my adding machine. I still go to libraries to read books, too.

@ARE_you_kidding_me: See, now I just don’t feel at ease unless I’m in a major city.

Different strokes.

Sewing, cooking, makeup, talking in a feminine voice, talking in the least frank way possible, talking to babies…

Sometimes I wonder if I’m a female at all…

Fixing electricals devices, cooking (unless with recipes and helping hands), social outgoingness skills (I’m an introvert), computer-related skills, spiritial divination skill, and some other things.

@Unofficial_Member, now, I’d have to question whether spiritual divination is really a common skill.

@Mimishu1995 There are lots of ways to be a woman. You don’t have to fit a cookie-cutter mold; I don’t.

@Jeruba Haha. Forgive me, I lost my way. I forgot that the question asked about “common skill” not just “skill”. Spiritual divination is probably not a common skill but it is safe and fair to assume that some of us are gifted (knowingly or unknowingly) with supranatural power that allow us some unusual skills, such as spiritual divination.

Here’s an uncommon skill I do possess. haha
How many of you can do this? lol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQr-RglKzk

Gahh, @Coloma, I can’t even watch it.

@Jeruba haha, well, one must keep their male steeds clean and comfy.:-p

I got as far as “smegma” and had to turn it off.

Why did she take her gloves off?

@Coloma I’d never heard of such a thing. Is this a required procedure for all adult horses? It seems to me, that any woman with a talent for this will never be lonely!

@stanleybmanly If she wants to keep company with horse’s dongs!

@stanleybmanly Only studs and geldings. Their foreskin collects dirt and grit and rocks and needs to be cleaned. Male horses may be gelded but they are not circumsized like humans. haha
Part of horse care for males.

It’s a clinical thing only and some horses do not like their dongs being handled, then you call the vet and they a tranquilizer. Unlike human men that do not need tranquilizers to enjoy having their dongs fondled. lol

I failed typing in high school because is seemed so useless
and I would sneak out of class and meet my boyfriend.
Needless to say I never learned to type very fast and i
regret that.

Giving birth and using a smart phone.

I guess giving birth is a skill and not just an ability, but I’m not sure: I’ve never been involved with a woman when she was pregnant or gave birth, so I’m way out of the loop on that one.

Get a ruler in your hands. Measure things until you start to understand how a ruler works. Measure some stuff and figure out where the center is. Say you measure a book and it’s 7/8” thick. You look at your ruler and see that every eighth is divided into two sixteenths, so obviously half of 7/8” is going to be 7/16”. If you write that out you have ½×7/8 = 7/16. And you notice that ½ is divided into 2/4 and then into 4/8 and so on, so you can convert anything to anything by multiplying all the numbers on top and then all the numbers on bottom.

Other rulers are divided into 10 and 100 parts. But an inch is still an inch, so anything on one ruler can be translated to the other ruler. A half inch on one ruler is 5/10 or 50/100 on the other. An eighth inch is just 12.5 marks when you have 100 marks per inch. A metric ruler divides an inch into 25.4 parts, so a half inch would be 12.7 of those parts. Pretty simple, isn’t it? Practice this a bit and people will think you went to wizard school.

I figured this out in a single afternoon when I was in 5th grade. But I can’t chat. If you want to chat, go right ahead. If you wait for me to say something, it might take a while.