Things you inexplicably can't do

[Quhet]

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

[Randy Winkman]

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.

[Warhavernet]

Can't spell rythym

[StevieBee]

Simple mental arithmetic.

Complex stuff; no problem - love a bit of standard deviation. Just don't ask me to do the scoreboard at Darts.

[bad company]

Never could touch my toes.

[Getragdogleg]

I can't tie balloons, when I read the title I immediately thought of it, open the topic and neither can OP.

Im rubbish at word searches too. And spot the difference games.

[cherryowen]

Until I opened this thread, I'd never thought about it but - yes - tying a knot in a balloon is something I just can't do!

[Dave.]

Wheelies on a push bike, never have been able to, even made a thread on here about it many many years ago and it didn't help.

I just don't get it

[Digger]

Let's solve some problems . . .

I'd really love to be able to whistle like a bd with the 4 fingers in the mouth technique . . . I have no idea!

[Johnspex]

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.

[AB]

I've never been able to lick my elbow. Apparently it's easy.

[toasty]

Stick to speed limits. I tried once, didn’t like it.

[jules_s]

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.

I could

Then

Ankylosing spondylitis

Meh

[bad company]

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.

When I was young and flexible I could for example sit in a full lotus, I once did so through an episode of Top of the Pops.

Even then I couldn’t touch my toes.

[POIDH]

I can't stick to a plan...

[QuickQuack]

Digger said:

I'd really love to be able to whistle like a bd 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.

[Wheel Turned Out]

Understand music theory. Some people just have a real knack for it, but for some reason no matter how hard I try it or how many different resources I go through, it just doesn't want to stick for me. Very irritating.

[tumble dryer]

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.

[Landlubber]

POIDH said:

I can't stick to a plan...

I can't stick to a diet.

[Super Sonic]

I can't tie shoelaces the 'normal' way, where you make a loop then twist the other bit round it then do some twiddly bit I can't get my head round. I just make two loops and tie them together.