Lucifer

I'm curious what everyone sucks at? I'm sure that everyone must suck at something, and probably 2 or 3 things. Personally, I can't make an omelet to save my life, which really pisses me off, cause I'm pretty freaking fantastic in the kitchen, if I do say so myself (and those tfp'ers on my facebook can vouch for that, just go look at my photo albums of the week-long cake!), but all my omelets come out as scrambled eggs.

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I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- Job 30:29

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Xazy

learning languages I am horrid at it.

pai mei

Life

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One day there will be so many houses, that people will be bored and will go live in tents. "Why are you living in tents ? Are there not enough houses ?" "Yes there are, but we play this Economy game"

Grasshopper Green

I suck at playing video games. However, I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing.

Oh, and basketball.

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"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings; steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king"

Formerly Medusa

dlish

singing

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An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere

I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay?
- Filthy

Mister Coaster

Slow-Pitch Softball: Yeah, found that out after joining a softball league with my neighbors. Played last year, spring, summer and fall leagues, never again. I can best help the team by staying the hell off of it.

Maintaining a healthy weight: I can gain weight, I can lose weight. But for the life of me, I cannot find a good weight and stay there.

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If you have any poo... fling it NOW!

Xerxys

American football. I love to watch it but playing it will bring mounds of untold shame to my doorstep. But worst of all I suck at ...

Society and picking up chickas!!!

Redjake

controlling my appetite, golf, fighting videogames

Baraka_Guru

Many things requiring hand-eye coordination in a sporting capacity (this is due only to not actually practicing, because otherwise my coordination is quite good).

Math in my head.

Remembering details for short-term and long-term memory recall.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

shesus

I suck at accents.
I suck at acting.
I suck at running and therefore most sports.
I'm finding that I suck coming up with things that I suck at.

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Whatever did happen to your soul?
I heard you sold it

Choose Heaven for the weather and Hell for the company

spectre

Tolerating narcissism.

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"Fuck these chains
No goddamn slave
I will be different" ~ Machine Head

Craven Morehead

modesty, if it weren't for that I'd be perfect

Martian

I can't swim.

I've tried. People have tried to teach me, and I've progressed to the point where I'm in no immediate danger of drowning in calm water, but aside from that I'm pretty horrible. My ex-girlfriend used to say I'm just too dense. I'm not sure if she was joking.

I'm also horrible with names. I can remember all the fiddly little details of a technical system, but remembering the name of a person I met five minutes ago? Fuggedaboudit.

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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said

- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

mixedmedia

I am terrible at singing, but I don't let that stop me.
Keeping up with personal email.
Controlling my laughter - you know those times when you feel like laughing when you're not supposed to? Yeah, I suck at those times.

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

Willravel

I suck at spelling something fierce, and I'm bad at detail work when it comes to grammar. I can't tell you how many times in school I'd miss something totally obvious and simple. The devil really is in the details.

I suck at following orders. I've had a string of really bad bosses that conditioned me to second-guess everything my superiors do and say. Which is a really, really bad thing, especially considering my current boss is perfectly capable.

I suck at Excel because I've never been able to use it for more than 14 seconds without getting mind-numbingly bored. It's worse than church. I don't know how Bill Gates does it.

Hey Lucifer, check this out:

Edit: Part 2!

Strange Famous

being positive, not hating my own self

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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."

The Gospel of Thomas

KellyC

I'm a horrible listener. When people talk for more than 30 seconds at a time, I tend to blank out. Not so good when I'm in class and the professor is lecturing.
And discipline. It'd be good at a lot of things if I can stick to it long enough.
Oh, and time management.

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Him: Ok, I have to ask, what do you believe?
Me: Shit happens.

Manic_Skafe

I can't swim, suck at math and certain spatial abilities - I couldn't lay carpet or calculate how many tiles I'll need to cover a room if my life depended upon it.

Thanks to the internet, I make up for whatever abilities I lack in Google searches.

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"Porn is a zoo of exotic animals that becomes boring upon ownership." -Nersesian

World's King

Oh Jesus...


Keeping my house clean. Doing dishes. Throwing out the left over coffee from the pot in the morning. Keeping in touch with my family. Basketball.

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heavy is the head that wears the crown

aberkok

Comprehending sentences that have double negatives.

Regional geography (I have no sense of where Brampton, Markham and Oakville are).

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Warden Gentiles: "It? Perfectly innocent. But I can see how, if our roles were reversed, I might have you beaten with a pillowcase full of batteries."

Eweser

I suck at doing math in my head and housework.

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"Whoever wrote this episode should die!"

Lucifer

Neither does anyone else, don't let it bother you

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I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- Job 30:29

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healer

I suck at sight reading, mainly because I'm lazy and would rather play by ear.
I suck at doing dishes, although I'm pretty good at all other housework.
I suck at playing football (soccer) and hockey (the grass kind).

I'm sure there's plenty more, I'll add 'em as I suck at them.

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Punk.of.Ages

Driving. It's something I've never been able to get down. It would be a danger for me to be on the road, so I just don't do it.

Relationships. I have really bad commitment issues.

Swimming. I just don't float.

Basketball. I have awful aim.

Running. I smoke too much.

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"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion..." - Henry Steel Commager

"Punk rock music is great music played by really bad, drunk musicians." -Fat Mike

silas

I suck at blank canvases. Once I get going, I'm good...but if I'm trying to start a new project from the beginning, I seem to hesitate before slapping down the first bit of color, so to speak.

fresnelly

Swimming, Recalling names, chatting with extraordinarily attractive women, sales and negotiating or haggling...

I also have no self control when it comes to free hors d'oeuvres and appetizers.

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Building an artificial intelligence that appreciates Mozart is easy. Building an A.I. that appreciates a theme restaurant is the real challenge - Kit Roebuck - Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life

SabrinaFair

I suck at writing by hand--my handwriting sucks, and I put pen to paper so rarely that I have trouble actually writing down what I mean to take down.
I suck at numbers--I mix them up something fierce.
I suck at cutting in a straight line.
I suck at avoiding temptation.
I suck at quitting smoking.

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"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy."
-Desiderata

laconic1

I suck at dealing with stressful situations.
I suck at motivating myself to take the actions needed to become a better person. (exercising, developing career skills, etc.)
I suck at communicating with people, even with taking the Dale Carnegie course I still suck at making eye contact, remembering names etc.

Amaras

I suck at anything requiring very fine motors skills, like laying a trace on a ciruit board or tweaking
parts.
I also suck at being patient, but I'm getting better with practice.

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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
-Noam Chomsky
Love is a verb, not a noun.
-My Mom
The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
-Louis Aragon, "La Porte-plume," Traite du style, 1928

uncle phil

(couldn't pass it up...)

oh, and golf...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

ngdawg

I suck at having patience. It's an ongoing trial-I tend to interrupt people when they talk to me, I can't wait for things, stuff like that.
Swimming.
Taking care of my health.
Housework and organization.

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Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.

snowy

Sometimes I feel like I suck at so many things it's hard to just pick one.

I suck at not being critical.
I suck at keeping up with the dishes and other housework.
I suck at not being hypocritical.

However, I do acknowledge these flaws pretty readily, and I'm working on them!

I also suck at recognizing my achievements and what I'm good at. Recently my mother told me she was proud of me for all that I've accomplished. I have a hard time seeing my own accomplishments; I tend to only see my mistakes.

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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Magpie_1

I'm not vary good at cooking. I managed to burn minuet rice last week.

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"Art is what you can get away with."
- Andy Warhol

cdwonderful

texting doesnt seem like much but in this day and age its a real bitch
my girlfriend texts like a bat out of hell and have five down before i can do one response.......
one handed no less..

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Never try to teach a pig to whistle
it wastes your time,
and annoys the pig.....

little_tippler

I suck at cleaning my house too...get the feeling this will be a recurring theme in this thread!

I suck at concentrating on one task at a time, and often get dispersed.

I suck at gardening.

I suck at waking up early.

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918

inBOIL

Conversation.

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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.

drag0nmanes

I suck at creative endeavors. My drawing skills have been stagnant for the last 14 years or so and any on the spot creative thinking is a no go for me.

Grancey

Painting! Can't paint a wall without ending up with paint splattered all over the floor and me. And the paint is always uneven on the surface after I roll it on. Red tells me that my layers are too thin, but I can't roll it on any heavier or there would be more paint all over everything else. Give me some trim work to do, and I'm great. But a big, spacious flat surface? No way.

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Quiet, mild-mannered souls might just turn out to be roaring lions of two-fisted cool.

snowy

After this afternoon, I've decided I suck at trimming yews.

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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

shesus

I also am not good at painting large surfaces. I'm not messy with it, but for some reason I always get air bubbles under the paint. I remember one time I was painting a wall in the kitchen. I saw an air bubble and thought that it I peeled it, it would go away. The paint peeled, but not all of it. The result was an unevenly painted wall with cracks and creases. If the color weren't an ugly yellow, it might have been forgivable. I had an obsession with having a yellow kitchen with white trim, I don't know why, but I no longer have that desire. Unlike you though, I'm not good at trim either, my hand is too shaky.

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Whatever did happen to your soul?
I heard you sold it

Choose Heaven for the weather and Hell for the company