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What cant I do? What can you not do?

142 replies

jellyjelly · 11/04/2006 23:02

I cant read a map or know or understand how to drive in europe. What cant you do?

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ruty · 12/04/2006 17:32

can't walk in high heels either. actually loads of things here i can't do come to think of it...

MrsSchadenfreude · 12/04/2006 17:35

I can't sew, or follow simple instructions or map read. I can't clean windows or iron anything which isn't straight (that's what I have told DH anyway).

moondog · 12/04/2006 17:51

Can't make cakes
Can't understand mobile phones (how do you choose one??)
Can't text
Can't sit still (born fidgeter)
Can't garden
Can't cope

desperateSCOUSEstrife · 12/04/2006 17:55

cant have no sex life
cant fly a plane

blueteddy · 12/04/2006 18:13

I can't drive
I can't knit or sew
I can't give directions
I can't walk through Trafalgar Square because I am terrified of the pigeons!
I can't give up alcohol

carlk · 12/04/2006 18:13

Can't do DD's hair at all she said "ne'mind daddy" last time I tried.
Can't keep my mouth shut.
Can't stop eating biscuits until the packet is empty

Mytwopenceworth · 12/04/2006 18:17

cant keep a secret. especially a juicy, scandalous, adulturous one!

JonesTheSteam · 12/04/2006 18:23

Can't stop biting my nails. Sad
Can't bear the thought of tidying up the lounge for the 156890th time this week!!!
Can't stop buying clothes (not for me for DD / DS).
Can't stop worrying about what DH is going to say when he sees how much I've spent of clothes for DD and DS!!!

PutAPeachyInYourSimnelCake · 12/04/2006 18:50

Can't draw
Can't speak foreign languages
Can't type well (!)
Can't make phone calls without being nervous
Can't stay awake all night, ever
Can't do the splits
Can't ride a horse
Can't eat really hot chilli
Can't care less Grin

PutAPeachyInYourSimnelCake · 12/04/2006 18:57

links are easy those who can't do them

type \link{
then in another window bring up the page you want to link to, click on the address and copy it (under edite, or hold control and c down together)

where you typed , in the next space paste (either under edit or control v) then type \ HERE}. You can replace HERE with whatever you want.

Apart from the 'here' bit there should be no spaces.

Just typing the address rarely works, it does need ime to be copied.

HTH. But probably not.

FrayedKnot · 12/04/2006 18:58

I can't mow the lawn. I've really no idea how to.

Sigh. Sorry DH, you'll have to do it.

spacedonkey · 12/04/2006 19:02

I can't do maths
I can't stop smoking
I can't play computer games
I can't understand the rules of rugby

madamechocolat · 12/04/2006 19:08

I can't balance on one leg....as other people managed to twist themselves in a variety of unfeasible balancing poses, yoga teacher suggested that perhaps yoga wasn't my thing....

Bobalina · 12/04/2006 19:22

I can't drive on the motorway - absolutely petrifies me. So p**sed off with myself for being such a gutless wonder but I can't do it.

kid · 12/04/2006 20:29

i can't drive on the motorway either, I have been driving for 12 years but still can't do it.

I managed once when I was following my dad, my I hated it and haven't been able to do it since and that was over 2 years ago.

TaiTai · 12/04/2006 20:31

I can't...

-whistle
-tidy up the piles of clothes in my bedroom - I want to perfectly organise my wardrobe/chest of drawers but am paralysed by thinking about what would be best where and what to throw away
-work out where to best position the parasol on dd's pram to keep the sun out of her eyes

TaiTai · 12/04/2006 20:34

oh, and I can't leave a short and succint message on an answerphone, EVER. Always end up rambling and often getting cut off by the beep.

mumtoone · 12/04/2006 21:07

Remember anything.

I've got a bad case of mummy brain!!!

kickassangel · 12/04/2006 21:14

i can't help...
wasting hours of my time on mn
or calling myself 'princess' on the boden catalogue request form
or eating any chocolate within sight
or tidying/cleaning any house i'm in...

cat64 · 12/04/2006 21:36

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Amiable · 12/04/2006 21:41

I can't remember left and right either, but I do have a great excuse - it's Enid Blyton's fault!

In one of her stories there's a little boy who is crying cos he keeps getting his left and right mixed up, and an elf gives him the following advice: your right hand is the one you write with, and the left is the one left over. Great advice, unless like me you write with your left hand!!

More bizarrely, I can't eat sweets in the wrong order - I have to sort them out into "sets" - one of each colour in a set, then I eat any extra ones, then I have to eat the sets in the right order - yellow, orange, green, red then black. Yes, I know, what a freak! :o

Clary · 13/04/2006 00:27

OK now you lot (clary adopts her usual hectoring tone) who can't do maths, you really should learn.
No honestly, I'm always shocked by the number of people in my job who blithley say "Oh I can't do maths". They wouldn't say "I can't spell" would they? (I'm a journalist). Go to an evening class! Get your head round it.
The left and right thing is weird, tho I have been known to point left and say right - but I do know, really.

What can I not do....
Play a musical instrument (apart from DS1's recorder)
Do cartwheels (never could)
Eat just one biscuit
Speak German well enough (apparently)
I don't like this tho. It's a bit negatory. where's that "what can I do?" thread??

Clary · 13/04/2006 00:28

Hah quite funny that I said people wouldn't say "I can't spell" then I misspelled blithely.
I can spell, I just can't type. Very well. Very fast.

Flum · 13/04/2006 00:34

I can't play the cello but I can do silk ribbon embroidery.

Flum · 13/04/2006 00:35

I can't play the cello but I can do silk ribbon embroidery.