Things you always get wrong..

Where To

when a woman turns up her nose, her face turns sour and she turns away in disgust I always think she fancies me.

peewee_44

Where To wrote: »

when a woman turns up her nose, her face turns sour and she turns away in disgust I always think she fancies me.

she prob does but too embarrassed to say !!

LH Pathe

IvySlayer wrote: »

Always takes me 3 attempts to to put something correctly in a USB port.

Still can't tie my shoelaces.

I repeat, put down the SD card and step away from the computer. We'll tie your shoelaces back at the station

Helix

Jade182 wrote: »

Apparently a lot of people who read very regularly have the same issue with these words because they are more used to seeing them phonetically spelled than they are used to actually saying them aloud

jesus christ

what way do you people read?!?!

ruthloss

I dare not say 'organism'

Sam Kade

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Backing a trailer, I'm terrible at it.

It's easy turn around face the trailer and push it backwards Reversing a vehicle with a trailer attached would be more tricky but with plenty practice it becomes easy

GaryIrv93

Those Leaving Cert ''Solve for x and y'' questions.

Example; Solve for x and y:
x - y = 1
x2 + y2 = 25

Honestly, there's countless correct examples of these in my old copies and I still could never remember how to do them and still can't. They're among the easiest of OL Q's and I still could never do them right on my own.

Chun Li

I get mixed up between the meaning of 2 words (I know they sound nothing alike).

Kleptomaniac
and
Necrophilia

Now neither one pops into conversation all that regularly but it takes me a good 30 seconds to process.

mikemac1

former and the latter

Everytime I hear someone say this (usually a politician) I have to stop and think about which is which

EdanHewittt

Gaining 1000 internets with a one-line sentence reply to a thread

Mr_Spaceman

FairytaleGirl wrote: »

What do you always get wrong, or can't do to save your life?

I can't cook white rice properly. Always ends up sticky, which would be fine except I very rarely want it to be sticky. Brown rice all the way.

Top white rice cooking tip.

Boil as normal for ten minutes then turn off the heat.

Ensure the lid fully covers the rice and leave for five minutes.

The steam subsequently cooks the rice to perfect consistency.

tok9

Lyrics/Quotes - Always get a small part wrong, even worse if it's in front of one of my mates who will instantly correct me

GiveEmHellKid

The words shoulder and soldier. I often say things like "I have a pain in my soldier" or "the army have many shoulders" I've never been able to get either correct.

Miss Lockhart

I can never remember whether it's fuel/feul. I also struggle with how many "n"s are in un/necessary.

Tonyandthewhale

Love.

anniehoo

Culleeo wrote: »

Trying to pronounce the word susceptible

Cannot pronounce "subliminal" for the life of me..."sublibibiimal" is what comes out everytime! Tried to say it at a meeting about our marketing in work and was morto the babbling that came out.

Cant make white rice either. Boil in the bag ftw.

The King of Moo

I find it incredibly hard to pronounce the word "specific," despite knowing how to spell and pronounce it, and using it almost every day in work. It just doesn't want to come out of my mouth, and flops around between my lips.
It never seems to inspire much confidence in my English-language students.

I'm also incapable of getting the joke in the case of usernames which are plays on words.

For example: My Name is URL. For a long time I pronounced "URL" as "U.R.L," pronouncing each letter separately.
I only got the joke when someone pointed out, as though it were common knowledge, that it was supposed to be pronounced "My Name is Earl" (hasn't that reference dated?).
Yet I still read it to this day as "My Name is U.R.L."

Eden3

My little boy came running in from school one time bursting to tell me some obviously very exciting news ... "Mam, Mam .. guess what? We had a "prostitute" teacher today ....!:eek::D

Wacker The Attacker

Real Life wrote: »

i can never find the right hole

Theres never a wrong hole

I can't whistle

I can make a pressure cooker sound, but that's it

Wacker The Attacker

bluewolf wrote: »

I can't whistle

I can make a pressure cooker sound, but that's it

Are you sure youre trying to whistle with your mouth?

Wacker The Attacker

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Are you sure youre trying to whistle with your mouth?

yes??
and it sounds like a high pitched whistle

lucylu

who and how I have to stop and think about which is which
same applies with left and right..

FutureGuy

Directions. I'm absolutely useless. I think I was born without that part of the brain, or I was dropped as a baby and had it damaged. I'm 35 and if you ask me to go left or right, I struggle to think where to go. I'm even thinking about it as I'm typing. Which hand do I write with. Ok that's right.

It can relate to the big things. Ask me to tell you what direction something is in and I'll struggle.

It can relate to the small things. I'll walk into a shop, look around walk out and walk out the door in the direction I walked from, even though I meant to go to the next shop. I got it from my mum, she's the very same.

My gf has incredible directional sense so we are well suited. She breaks down laughing everytime I just randomly start walking in the wrong direction.

dark crystal

FutureGuy wrote: »

Directions. I'm absolutely useless. I think I was born without that part of the brain, or I was dropped as a baby and had it damaged.

It can relate to the big things. Ask me to tell you what direction something is in and I'll struggle.

It can relate to the small things. I'll walk into a shop, look around walk out and walk out the door in the direction I walked from, even though I meant to go to the next shop. I got it from my mum, she's the very same.

My gf has incredible directional sense so we are well suited. She breaks down laughing everytime I just randomly start walking in the wrong direction.

Similarly, I always have trouble telling left from right.

I have never gotten a USB into the port the first time.
Its like 50/50 and I always get it wrong.

Pj!

Was always good at spelling when younger. Never a problem. Higher end of the scale. But I've found recently that my brain is letting me down and it's bugging me.

I can't spell 'length' correctly (I had to try three times(!) there, thanks autocorrect). I really can't. If I'm not concentrating enough I spell it lenght.
With other words that I mightn't be sure of, after I have wrote/typed them my brain will stop me and ask 'Oh hold on, was that correct? Didn't seem right'. But not with lenght. It really thinks lenght is correct.

Funglegunk

I'm terrible at flirting via electronic media, truly awful. So I don't do it.

rocketchick

The King of Moo wrote: »

I find it incredibly hard to pronounce the word "specific," despite knowing how to spell and pronounce it, and using it almost every day in work. It just doesn't want to come out of my mouth, and flops around between my lips.
It never seems to inspire much confidence in my English-language students.

I'm also incapable of getting the joke in the case of usernames which are plays on words.

For example: My Name is URL. For a long time I pronounced "URL" as "U.R.L," pronouncing each letter separately.
I only got the joke when someone pointed out, as though it were common knowledge, that it was supposed to be pronounced "My Name is Earl" (hasn't that reference dated?).
Yet I still read it to this day as "My Name is U.R.L."

I never copped the My Name is U.R.L !! i always spell it out in my head
I must be missing a brain part..

Kolido

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Theres never a wrong hole

Can we assume you're bi-sexual?

kneemos

Kolido wrote: »

Can we assume you're bi-sexual?

Trysexual

al28283

nig1 wrote: »

my wifes eggs are always hard boiled, suppose nobodys perfect.

you could always adopt

Duggys Housemate

Until last week i didnt know how to pronounce Hyperbole.

holystungun9

peewee_44 wrote: »

I just cannot function before coffee stupid I know

A grammar nazi would say you get sentence formation wrong.

yeppydeppy

b's and d's if I'm writing and I'm 39y.o.

Omackeral

yeppydeppy wrote: »

b's and d's if I'm writing and I'm 39y.o.

Well you talk like an urban kid, yo.

juan.kerr

Left and Right

Duggys Housemate

Also segue. i would hear in my mind


Its hyperbole to segue:


as:

its hyper-bowl to seeg

in reality it's

its hi-per-boleh to segway

crazy cabbage

Is it weird that i Dont know what OP stands for. I know it refers to the person who started tread. Thought that it might have ment opening paragraph but people dont seem to use it in that context.

What does it actully stand for?

Duggys Housemate

crazy cabbage wrote: »

Is it weird that i Dont know what OP stands for. I know it refers to the person who started tread. Thought that it might have ment opening paragraph but people dont seem to use it in that context.

What does it actully stand for?

Original Poster, or post depending on context.

token101

Shopping. I always have to go and make another trip. Usually when I come back and the dog is giving me the sad eyes or I go to make coffee and there's no milk.

lil'bug

I find it hard to read the time off of a clock, I usually have to look at it for a minute to work out the time

Ilyana

I hopeless with directions too, and telling left from right.

Also, I can never throw things into the bin, from any distance

orchidsrpretty

Always get my left and right mixed up. It has caused some huge arguements when I am the co driver:(.
its not that I dont know which is which, but the opposite word comes out from what im thinking.

Idjit

nimrod86 wrote: »

I have this too, but what sentance has all three? Please share!!!

Also can't type properly on my phone cause slightest bit of oil or sweat on my fingers and every button on the screen presses at once! Damn touch screen! /First world problems

It was a paragraph, not a sentence. Its years ago now so all I remember was in our Geography textbook and it was about some political issue where rebels somewhere were causing destruction of local wildlife...really not important but all three words unfortunately cropped up in my paragraph.

Sam Vimes

markflynn101 wrote: »

I have never gotten a USB into the port the first time.
Its like 50/50 and I always get it wrong.

[nerd]
USB connections have a seam on one side and that side goes on the bottom. Or if it's a desktop PC with the ports on their side, the ports will be closer to one side of the case than the other and then the seam points towards the nearest edge
[/nerd]