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I can’t snap my fingers. At all.
I learned to snap in a dream.
But I still can’t whistle.
For the longest time, I thought people used their forefinger to snap. Changed the game when I discovered using the middle finger and thumb. Also still can’t whistle.
I’ve tried every finger. It’s impossible
I taught a friend how to snap when he was like 23, and that was, uh, the issue was he was trying to make the snap from rubbing his finger and thumb together, but the snap actually comes from the pressure that builds up and smacks into your palm as the tension releases.
The other thing I have seen people have issues with is if they lotion their hands frequently, because then you can’t really build up enough tension to get a good pop.
? Nothing touches my palm when I snap. Now I wanna see you do it!
My middle finger doesn’t touch my palm when I snap, it hits the ball of my thumb.
Pretty straightforward. You just🫰
Adulting
We are all of us just large children trying to do our best.
I have opinions about this if you would like to hear them.
You don’t need my permission, mate. Discussion is always welcome. It’s insults and hatred I can do without.
Okay, I think that there was a time when adults knew what it meant to be an adult and they had an easily identifiable pattern for what their life was supposed to be like.
The options that they had growing up were so limited that it would have taken a radical amount of effort to step outside of the pattern.
Specifically, someone like a serf or a peasant in the 1400s pretty much had the option of growing up to be a serf or a peasant.
They would reach the age of majority and then take up the profession that had been handed to them since birth.
If they really reached, they might have tried to switch from growing up as a farmer to being a priest or a carpenter or a blacksmith or a stone mason. But even so, the options were so limited that it constrained your future potential.
That constraint is a good thing in many ways. It helps you find purpose and meaning and balance in your life because you know there is no opportunity for you to become a king if you weren’t born into it.
So, following that thread, I believe that the people that grew up in those constraints were generally happier because they knew that they had achieved the maximum of their potential just by sticking on the path that was available to them.
In contrast, there’s so many options available to every single person born in the Western world that, now, we don’t really have a clearly defined way of identifying with what it means to be an adult.
Which leads to this feeling of just being a child in a big body.
And, I’m not saying we should go back. I’m just saying that the issue is not with us feeling lost and marooned in a comparatively infinite expanse of life options.
It’s just more that age itself is no longer a defining characteristic of what qualifies you to be an adult.
Spelling is not my fortaa, fortae, fourta…. I ain’t good at it.
Forte you get a pass for. It’s borrowed directly from French word “forté” which is pronounced the same but has the accent on the e which signals that it’s pronounced as an “a”. So as an English speller it’s not correct at all.
This is from my high school French so this might all be false.
I can’t remember anything
Anything at all?
Swimming properly. Sure, I can stay afloat and move effortlessly in the direction I want, but it’s nowhere near the swimming strokes they tried to teach me in PE when I was a kid. I never managed those.
Same! I cannot coordinate my limb movements like we are all expected to for some reason.
I can, but I must be doing it wrong, because it doesn’t enable me to stay afloat
I’ve been told that it requires you to relax in the water and trust the water to support you.
Most people that have difficulty floating from what I have seen are either very, very dense, like low body fat individuals with high muscle, or they stay tense in the water, and so they can’t actually relax and allow the water to float them.
I think, from what I understand, that that does not qualify as swimming, in that case. I am not a swimologist however, so take my words with a grain of salt.
I feel like I am the antithesis of this question.
When I was a kid, I had a difficult time learning how to whistle, and so I decided I would learn all of the “stupid human tricks” that I could, and now as an adult, I don’t know of any common skill that I do not have at least an advanced beginner or intermediate level.
Maybe you can help me by identifying what you believe is a common skill and then I’ll see if I know it or not and respond.
I don’t know how to do those loud whistles without using fingers. Teach me, oh master!
It takes some practice and fiddling around to get it, but this guy does a really good job of explaining it
Ooo thank you! I can whistle really loudly with my fingers, but I’ve never got this down.
My front teeth have a significant space between them, seems like that might make it harder for me. I used to be able to do a low whistle with that space before I used braces lol
I only have a vague idea of how to make coffee.
Is coffee a common beverage where you live? I have only a vague idea of how to make curry, despite it being eaten, I believe, multiple times a day by hundreds of millions of other humans. It’s not a common home-prepared dish where I live though.
Do you drink coffee?
It’s easy.
You just put the hot water in the brown dirt thing and it creates a brown tea thing.
Ooooh, you mean like… “Good Coffee”. Dude I dunno.
Same. I’ve seen/helped other people make coffee, but I have neither the equipment or the desire to practice the skill myself.
I can make tea, though.
Driving.
I read “diving” and got pissed that I also don’t know how to properly do a dive.
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Starting new things that I don’t already have a very clear understanding of the process for
I can’t whistle with pursed lips.
This means I can whistle pretty well like some kind of ventriloquist, but if I try to do it “properly” I’m either way off key or I just make a sad windy noise.
I have these stretchy old people shoestrings so I never have to tie my shoes again.
It’s not that I can’t tie my shoes. I can’t keep them tied.
Tie the bow the opposite direction to the thumb knot. For some reason it holds better than tying both in the same direction.
This is a good opportunity to plug Ian’s Shoelace Site. I used to have some winter boots that had slippery laces and they would come undone all the time. But Ian has a Secure Knot which only takes a bit of extra time to learn, but is so secure AND comes undone easily by simply pulling on both loose ends at the same time. Pulling on only one loose end doesn’t unravel the knot. I feel like it should be mandatory for runners to learn this knot.
I’m really horrible at cooking, so I prepare myself the simplest of meals. Examples include: putting sugar in the microwave in order to make caramel and creating a little fire hazard, microwaving noodle soup with a raw egg in it hoping it would both boil the water and cook the egg (it just exploded and it took some minutes to clean up properly), making what I thought was pancake batter mostly with eggs and then eating something that resembled omelettes covered in maple syrup more than pancakes, burning most of the rice and undercooking/overcooking most of the meat I eat (and up until recently I would just put the heat on max because “why would you waste time?”), etc etc. Thankfully, my palate is underdeveloped so I can live with my “cooking”, but my wife evidently hates it and tries to keep me as far away from the kitchen as possible unless I’m there to clean, lol.
My ex was a terrible cook. Like one day I was walking home and smelled smoke, hoping against hope it was not coming from my house, only to find he had burned my good pot because he was boiling water and boiled it all away and burned the pan.
He practiced, and got so good at cooking he was hired as a chef .
I firmly believe anyone who likes food and wants to learn to cook can learn to cook.
Damn, that’s a 180 if I’ve ever seen one! I lived by myself for about a decade and, honestly, I never wanted to learn to cook cause it always felt like such a chore… but I also don’t mind eating plain rice and a can of tuna every day so there ya go. 🤷😅
Making decisions and whistling
Math, can’t do math to save my life
Maths is hard, I’ll never forget the joy of realising I never had to do another maths exam.
