Simple things you can't do/don't understand

deex

What are some simple/embarrassing things that you can't do or can't understand... even though you probably should?

For me, I don't have a notion how to use a fireplace. I was in a huge house fire when I was a child and as a result I grew up avoiding the idea of fire altogether. I don't know how to light a fire, and if one was already lit I wouldn't know how to tend to it, and if it was put out I wouldn't know how to clean the fireplace out. It would be less embarrassing if I was still truly traumatised by the childhood fire, but tbh, I'm not. I've dealt with it and I don't have terrifying flashbacks in the middle of the night or anything, the fact that I haven't learned is honestly just laziness, awkwardness and embarrassing! Maybe one for the new years resolutions - I mean, looking up how to do it must take what, 30 minutes maximum?!

I also don't understand WTF Bitcoins are but I pretend I do when people talk about them.

For Forks Sake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg-RIOATCbU

tomwaterford

Eating food with the fork/knife in the left hand

I always have to put down at least one to either do the cutting with my right hand (holding with fork in left)....but no way in jaysus could I use the fork in my left hand to eat...,always have to put knife down again to eat
(Is actually worse than it sounds...esp if somewhere fancy/Xmas parties etc)


I refuse to believe I'm alone in this struggle

Charles Babbage

Women. Never understood them or figured out how to work them.

RayM

You know all that stuff about wrens on St. Stephen's Day? I haven't got a clue what that's all about.

tracey turnblad

tomwaterford wrote: »

Eating food with the fork/knife in the left hand

I always have to put down at least one to either do the cutting with my right hand (holding with fork in left)....but no way in jaysus could I use the fork in my left hand to eat...,always have to put knife down again to eat
(Is actually worse than it sounds...esp if somewhere fancy/Xmas parties etc)


I refuse to believe I'm alone in this struggle

I'm the same...

Ally Dick

I'm good at painting stuff, but I find sanding so hard. I reckon I have a form of OCD where I am never happy with it, even when the sanded area is as smooth as a baby's bum. Sanding always leaves me unhappy regardless

tomwaterford

RayM wrote: »

You know all that stuff about wrens on St. Stephen's Day? I haven't got a clue what that's all about.

It's like a really poor version of Halloween...like back in the day when kids used have to sing when trick or treating not just turn up demanding sweets or they'd egg your house

well spoken man

Pull out....three kids later still can't get the hang of it....

The_Valeyard

Dance Music

endacl

Tracker mortgage.

Doctor Jimbob

Attracting the opposite sex.

KCC

tomwaterford wrote: »

Eating food with the fork/knife in the left hand

I always have to put down at least one to either do the cutting with my right hand (holding with fork in left)....but no way in jaysus could I use the fork in my left hand to eat...,always have to put knife down again to eat
(Is actually worse than it sounds...esp if somewhere fancy/Xmas parties etc)


I refuse to believe I'm alone in this struggle

You're not alone! I'd love to know what causes it. I also agree it can be embarrassing when people notice!

AnonoBoy

The whole 'selfie' thing.

Just don't get why people can't go anywhere without snapping, uploading and checking in.

PsychoSue

Winking with my left eye!!!
I just look like I'm starting to have a seizure but I'm working on it (when no one is looking)

northgirl

eating with chopsticks

questionmark?

Why people like Mrs Brown's Boys? Can't understand it at all.

Sam Kade

Charles Babbage wrote: »

Women. Never understood them or figured out how to work them.

It's their minds that is the mystery

Sam Kade

questionmark? wrote: »

Why people like Mrs Brown's Boys? Can't understand it at all.

If Mick Dundee were around he'd grab Mrs Brown by the balls to prove she isn't real

Lardy

I have no idea how to multi quote posts...

topper75

tomwaterford wrote: »

Eating food with the fork/knife in the left hand

I always have to put down at least one to either do the cutting with my right hand (holding with fork in left)....but no way in jaysus could I use the fork in my left hand to eat...,always have to put knife down again to eat
(Is actually worse than it sounds...esp if somewhere fancy/Xmas parties etc)


I refuse to believe I'm alone in this struggle

Americans will sort of meet you half way.

Their table manners involve cutting everything up first and then putting down the knife to just use your fork in your dominant hand.

Better than the British way IMO.

tomwaterford

Lardy wrote: »

I have no idea how to multi quote posts...

Go to desktop mode not touch??

Medusa22

I have trouble telling my left from my right
I am awful at directions
I can't rollerblade

Lardy

I have no idea how to do it full stop. Desktop mode or not.

IvySlayer

Shoe laces

Schwiiing

As a sufferer of Dyspraxia I can't do any simple things easily.

tomwaterford

Lardy wrote: »

I have no idea how to do it full stop. Desktop mode or not.

Use the +'' button on the full site and then post reply??



Though really you have to wonder what twists your life has taken...to find yourself taking advise off me :pac:

(Should work nonetheless)

topper75

Horse racing and the associated betting.

Lovely creatures and all and thrilling to see them thunder by at full tilt with the colourful flash of jockeys' silks.

But once is enough.

The idea of standing out in winter's worst for a whole day watching race after race, whilst giving over hard-earned real actual money to entities with rooms full of super-smart actuaries who can access powerful computer models and reams of past data and thinking your idea of how it is going to pan out is more accurate....

... I just don't get it. Very popular in this country though. A shop on virtually every street in all our towns.

PLL

My four year old can work out left and right quicker than I can. I'm terrible, I don't know why, my brain just freezes for 2 seconds. I'm actually quite intelligent, topping my class in college but look like a dumb ditz when someone asks me for directions.

The sheer amount of people I have in hindsight realised I've given wrong directions to is embarrassing.

Ciderswigger

I can't fry an egg...

Wanderer2010

Don't know how to change a tyre. And I'm a man. Cue lots of abuse and very weird looks whenever I bring it up (I tend not to anymore).I was shown how twice by a kind neighbour but I just couldn't keep the sequence of events in my short term memory. I know you have to jack the car up, then....remove the flat somehow, then put on the right one and tighten the screws or something...but I just don't bother now and I have gotten AA out 4 times in the last few years for a flat. They don't seem surprised at it though so maybe its more common that you think.

No throwing tomatoes please!

masti123

Know where a letter is in the alphabet without singing the alphabet song

Doctor Jimbob

Ciderswigger wrote: »

I can't fry an egg...

This is the first to genuinely baffle me.

Ally Dick

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

This is the first to genuinely baffle me.

Don't be so hard on them. I only fried an egg for the first time the other day. Wasn't sure what to do once I got it on the pan. How much oil to use ? Do I flip it ? I cooked it for my wife. I wouldn't normally eat an egg

AnonoBoy

Ciderswigger wrote: »

I can't fry an egg...

You're not waiting until the pan is hot enough before you add the egg.

Honestly - that's the only way you can get it wrong.

pgj2015

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Don't know how to change a tyre. And I'm a man. Cue lots of abuse and very weird looks whenever I bring it up (I tend not to anymore).I was shown how twice by a kind neighbour but I just couldn't keep the sequence of events in my short term memory. I know you have to jack the car up, then....remove the flat somehow, then put on the right one and tighten the screws or something...but I just don't bother now and I have gotten AA out 4 times in the last few years for a flat. They don't seem surprised at it though so maybe its more common that you think.

No throwing tomatoes please!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT_pPlJTiyE

starry_eyed

Can't understand when my girlfriend goes quiet and I'm wondering why.

MRnotlob606

I don't know how to sex rabits. Can somebody please help me ?

pgj2015

deex wrote: »

What are some simple/embarrassing things that you can't do or can't understand... even though you probably should?

For me, I don't have a notion how to use a fireplace. I was in a huge house fire when I was a child and as a result I grew up avoiding the idea of fire altogether. I don't know how to light a fire, and if one was already lit I wouldn't know how to tend to it, and if it was put out I wouldn't know how to clean the fireplace out. It would be less embarrassing if I was still truly traumatised by the childhood fire, but tbh, I'm not. I've dealt with it and I don't have terrifying flashbacks in the middle of the night or anything, the fact that I haven't learned is honestly just laziness, awkwardness and embarrassing! Maybe one for the new years resolutions - I mean, looking up how to do it must take what, 30 minutes maximum?!

I also don't understand WTF Bitcoins are but I pretend I do when people talk about them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs_pLbJ-JGE

refusetolose

people who can't use a knife and fork simultaneously

The_Valeyard

Sleeping. Just happens at night. Cant make myself fall asleep. Just having thoughts annndddd gone. Takes ages.

dee_mc

Long division.
And multiquote.
Genuinely baffled!

Ciderswigger

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

This is the first to genuinely baffle me.

A not able to fry an egg post baffles you but the shoe laces post doesn't? :P:D

I usually just make a balls of it. Like above, I'm probably just rushing and not letting the oil get hot enough.

callaway92

People who feel the need to lie continuously. Baffling and worrying.

tomwaterford

callaway92 wrote: »

People who feel the need to lie continuously. Baffling and worrying.

Low self esteem??

JupiterKid

I can't whistle.

Colser

I cant reverse my car in a straight line unless I go really slowly and even then its a struggle,if someones watching Im even worse.:o

paleoperson

I don't understand the function or proper use of fog lights.

Lisha

iCloud for storing my photos .

I just don't understand it at all

pgj2015

paleoperson wrote: »

I don't understand the function or proper use of fog lights.

you use them when its foggy:)

PizzamanIRL

Colser wrote: »

I cant reverse my car in a straight line unless I go really slowly and even then its a struggle,if someones watching Im even worse.:o

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