What have you never been able to get the hang of?

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For me it’s blinds. Any kind. I flip them round the wrong way, send them sailing across the window when I’m trying to let light in, I break the beads, I get the strings knotted.

I’ve also tried to learn to knit 4 times and haven’t ever got beyond a few knotted rows with huge holes in.

I can't snap my fingers. Have always wanted to, Mary Poppins style. But I'm like Michael before he hits the snap.

Swimming - I've spent far too much money trying. I've now accepted that I'm only useful on land.

Hair styling. I don't know what to do with hair.

Heels.

Driving, I'm struggling with learning, finally got to take my test then it was cancelled due to covid. Failed the first and waiting to book another as no availability at my local test centre.

Cycling. Much to my shame I've never ever been comfortable cycling a bike. I was given bikes as a child and my poor parents spent hours trying to teach me so it's not due to lack of trying or because I've never owned a bicycle

Same!

I can ride a bike just fine, but I am petrified of riding on the road and have never really done it, so I’ve had no practice. I went on a work team building thing a few years ago and one of the activities was a bike ride around the city. I made a right tit of myself because I just couldn’t do it. I was so, so scared of having an accident.

Yes to most of these. I’ve never got the hang of relationships, big or small

Parking. I cannot do it!
French plaits- the bain of my life!
Contouring
Basically anything makeup based

Maths. I freeze.

Flat pack! I'm a reasonably practical type but they're frequently missing bits the instructions are shite and the materials cheap and flimsy.

I can't afford high end furniture so generally stick to 2nd hand or occasionally will splash out and pay someone to do it for me.

Knitting - I can knit a square, can cast on/off and do purl or knit (It does take a LOT of practice) but don't know how to increase or decrease or follow a pattern, plus how the hell does the "tension" thing work? If I'm knitting a square it's all even and only varies depending on size of needles and thickness of the yarn?! - if anyone can recommend a good easy to follow guide, possibly YouTube video with accompanying written instructions? I'd be tempted to learn this winter

Never tried crochet is it easier?

Learning an instrument or anything musical has always been a no go for me. sorry as this will be annoying but I'm the opposite here, I can get a tune out of almost anything! Musical instruments, household objects, stationery, body parts... totally useless skill though 

Not just maths but anything where maths is key, so working out how far away somewhere is on a map, calculating how much wallpaper or paint I need or understanding bookies odds or more complicated financial stuff beyond basic budgeting (which I am actually good at) I'm ok with arithmetic but as soon as it's anything beyond the basic 4 functions...nah!

Not a "gender thing" either I'm well aware girls and women can be and are excellent at maths and all related "stuff" cos my mum and sister among others are excellent, my brain just won't do it. I had to resit GCSE and even then I barely scraped a c even with intense lessons and a LOT of help from a friend who is now a Maths teacher and she hates when I ask her maths stuff even now, cos she knows she'll have to break it down to like 10 year old level!

@ImEatingVeryHealthilyOhYes dresses! Makes life much easier I discovered this trick far later than would have been helpful.

Also decide on a colour "palette" that suits you and styles and don't waiver WHATEVER is happening fashion wise. Fashion is fleeting, style is timeless (I think that's a quote but forget who)

I'm a short, fat, extremely white redhead (well fair bit of grey these days!)

I've had to accept willowy, boho styles and certain colours/shades simply don't suit me.

Ugh changing the bed! Even worse now I'm disabled! I have to pick a "good day" load up on painkillers and plan a day of rest the day after! As a result it doesn't get done nearly as often as I'd like! (And no I'm not admitting it here!)

I can do very basic "mum
Make up" (dds quote) but I cannot do liquid eyeliner and it be the same on both eyes - one will be thick and winged the other thin and basic - nor do I have the first CLUE what dds on about when she tries to explain modern make up, contouring etc to me - May as well be speaking in Russian!

@MrsMoastyToasty I can play insofar as I know the piece names and how they move but I am rubbish at thinking ahead and anticipating the other players moves and know nothing about the "posh" chess players you know when they give it "ahh yes that's the stravinsky gambit"

I'd love to know how to play poker too, my understanding is the hands effectively don't have a best or worst hand but it's more like Rock Paper Scissors where each hand can beat certain other hands but not all hands? Certainly wouldn't know how to discard or pick up cards if that's even how it works!

Height in metres and centimetres, weight in kilos omg yes! Even though I'm supposedly of the first Uk metrically taught generation I can estimate an inch or an ounce or a pound, really struggle with metric measurements

First Aid positions erm I think you need to explain?

Sudoko really? I do these to help me sleep. What is it you struggle with?

I can bake ok tasting cakes but utterly rubbish at the decorating stuff, even basic buttercream whirls elude me

Another here who struggles with clock change bollocks - just keep us on one time!

and making tablet there's definitely a knack to this! Mine is very hit and miss, my mum and my grans were perfect every time.

Driving and budgeting

Nothing major, then

Rice - I struggle with that too, I'm now lazy and buy micro rice, despite not having a microwave - it can be reheated on the hob 👍

Admin, and whistling through my fingers.

Electricity.

I love physics. It was my favourite subject at school and I find the ways in which we can use laws and equations to describe how the universe works fascinating. Except for one thing. Electricity.

I don’t understand it, and I never did. Somehow, I managed to figure out how to get marks by answering exam questions about it, but I never really did get it, not properly in the way I got the laws of motion, thermodynamics or energy conservation. I now have my own theory about electricity: nobody understands it, not properly. We just know how to make use of it.

Joined up handwriting
Whistling using fingers
French plaits
Automatically knowing my left from my right
Having a sense of direction and how to get somewhere (satnav isn’t best invention ever for me)

pronouns Adjectives and all that. think o have a mental.block

Holland, Netherlands, Denmark.
I'm an intelligent woman (apparently) who knows enough about countries and Europe etc, but these three throw me.
Doesn't matter how many times I look at a map, globe or have it explained to me, it will not stay in my head.
Are two the same? Which two? They speak Dutch, Danish, where? I'm almost 40 so have accepted that this is not for me to retain.

Also, Billy Ocean and Billy Joel. Love the music of both men but don't ask me who sang what.

Chopsticks

Riding a bike or knitting.

DCIHoops gosh, you are almost me! I can do joined up writing if I take great care but the rest... yes. I also walk into things a lot more often than I think is normal. I can't learn to drive, I would be madly unsafe.

Catching

Being able to tighten or loosen stuff without muttering "righty tighty, lefty loosey" under my breath

Knitting, crochet. I do a poor job of tying laces. I once bought an origami kit and had to throw it away, couldn't make the simplest one.

For anyone stuck with knitting, have a look into Continental Style knitting (holding yarn in left hand a “picking” stitches. It is so much easier than the “finger twiddle” English Style.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=SPGIj-X_xw4

My I can’t is: walk elegantly in high heels. I look like a newborn foal.

Sports. All of them. I’d so love to be able to be even remotely passable at a sport. But I am not. Reverse parking. Stacking the dishwasher correctly. Knowing where different countries are. Writing neatly on a whiteboard.

Definitely knitting and crochet, so many failed purchases and attempts.

Small talk, I'm just so awkward.

Keeping my mouth shut.

@Mrsjayy

Driving I took hundreds of £s of lessons and kept falling on a lighter note I cant clean glass so mirrors windows shower screens it's just a smeary disaster

Try Ecover glass cleaner.

Clingfilm.

Spelling reciept .....:or receipt as it should be. No matter how many times I write it I never know which is correct. I only know it’s wrong if I see the red line underneath text. I just can’t remember which is which.

Knitting and crocheting. I'm a girl from the colonies! We're all taught the basics, knitting,sewing,cooking, pickling, preserving, basic mechanics and woodwork. The rest I can do but knitting defeats me.

Drawing and painting. Most of the women in my family have made a living through artwork type activities at some point but that gene completely passed me by. I can barely draw a line without a ruler.

On the other hand I can do long division. Its the one thing that people always stop me and ask me about if I do it in meetings or classes. When doing my MSc I shared a class on data security with maths students. There were some in class exercises involved a bit of arithmetic. The youngsters with their freshly minted maths degrees would watch in awe as I did everything by hand, quicker than they could on their calculators and usually more accurately. My party trick was doing long division.