I am unable to do the magic eye things, my eyes just don’t focus on that way. Good thing I never am required to
I I don’t know what Roblox is. I do know what discord is, but I seem to be unable to use it correctly? Also, although I have downloaded some stuff from GitHub a few times, I can never remember how to do it the next time, and the layout and UI make zero sense to me, every time.
I’m with you on github for sure. I assume people who use it regularly think it has a decent layout but to me it seems so random and disjointed that I can’t imagine how that’s possible.
GitHub and all the other sites like it are a bit odd from a UI perspective cuz they’re catering to both regular users (including the “where exe” crowd) and devs, who need to access the million options git gives and all the extras it doesn’t (automated build and testing systems, for example). Going to a project and downloading prebuilt binaries is kinda a tertiary purpose for them, so the UI is more focused on the project’s source code + build instructions and the tooling to work with those instead.
Yeah that’s what I meant by “people who use it more probably think it has a better layout”. I’ve tried to use it in the fashion it was designed on a couple of occasions but the version control / repository categorization functions didn’t make sense to me. I assume it would if I did those things more but I also think it’s laid out differently than I would like even for those purposes.
i use github regularly and do not think it has a decent layout
I thought I was the only one! Every time I experience the exact same thing.
I can’t roll my r’s. I speak pretty decent Spanish (took 5 semesters in high school), but have never been able to figure out how to roll the r’s, despite years of trying on and off to figure it out.
It’s never a problem. On the rare occasions that I actually need to speak Spanish, nobody cares that I can’t roll my r’s.
I have this same problem and my wife is actually from Mexico City and I travel to Mexico pretty often.
It’s really fun though, I refer to our chihuahuas as “los perritos” but it sounds like “little farts” due to my pronunciation. Her family loves having me read things in Spanish poorly as if I don’t know the language (which is hard!).
You might have a physical limitation, I’ve met native people who can’t roll their Rs, it’s still fairly simple to understand as long as you’re pronouncing them as Rs, or something close/distinct enough, e.g. English R (How an English speaker pronounces the R in for example Row)
I have the same problem, except one day I figured it out! I was rolling rrrs all day! But the next day I woke up and could only sort of do it. And now I can’t do it at all again, despite trying to learn.
Funny thing, I learned to roll my Rs by pretending to purr like a cat.
My problem is I learned french first so all my fancy rrrs are throaty out of habit :/
Is it a tongue issue ? a girl I knew in school couldn’t do the english “th” because the leash below her tongue was too short
Could be! I’ve often wondered if the problem is something I can’t really overcome with practice. I’ve watched many tutorial videos over the years, but my tongue just ends up doing nothing when I try to practice.
Choreography. I can’t follow other people’s motions to save my life.
I never learned to ride a bike and every attempt has been met with injuries as soon as I build a modicum of confidence. But I can rollerblade like nobody’s business, so I got that going for me.
I had a dream I was rollerblading last night… the last time I put on roller blades was in 2006!
How do you slow down / stop with rollerblades? I had the reverse experience: any kind of hill, I’m fine on a bike but I always crash on rollerblades. I would love to learn though.
I’ve never really thought about it. I’m not a fancy skater – my skates do have brakes, so my technique isn’t such that I have to plan for never using them.
If I have the width I’ll slalom down hills to bleed speed - even doing little loops up the hill at the turn of each switchback to bleed off speed. If there’s not enough room to slow down, I might bomb though if it’s safe to do so (because that’s why roller blading is so fun, anyway). I might skate on one foot and drag a wheel behind or make my toes point toward each other slightly, just out of parallel - the greater the angle, the more drag the out of alignment wheels produce. I often tend to drag a wheel or use the brake, then spin to stop, before resuming.
There are other techniques for stopping or slowing down, but those are my go to’s.
If there was a sidewalks width path going down a hill with grass on the sides, could you go down it? Or would you have to go another way?
I crashed pretty hard doing that but I didn’t know how to slow down.
I’ll have to get some rollerblades and try those techniques on a road.
In that instance. I’d probably drag a wheel, or use the alignment of my feet to slow myself down, paired with an occasional spin stop.
That sounds super cool
I guess I also want to add that when I go out, I’m always in a helmet, knee and elbow pads, and wrist guards.
You never quite know what’s going to happen out there —
A few years ago on a wide trail, someone in front of me panicked right as I was about to pass them and they moved directly into my path. I had to bail off the trail to try to “run off” my momentum, but they stepped more into the way and caught my skate with theirs just before I could get a foot down. I wound up in a semi-uncontrolled fall that saw my wrist guards taking the brunt of a tree I was going to dodge if I’d had my feet.
Last year on a freshly paved road, my wife let out blood curdling scream from behind me as we were bombing down a hill. I swung into a power slide to stop but instead of sliding, my wheels just kept traction and I suddenly found myself heading for a curb at about 20 mph with only a few feet to maneuver. It was bad, too. Curb, couple feet of grass, then broken and uneven sidewalk, followed by mangled and rusty metal fence. Clipped the curb and went down hard on my pads and helmet – cracked my helmet on the sidewalk. Walked away fine. (Buy good helmets and always replace your helmet after a crash.) My wife was fine. She hit a small rock and panicked. Didn’t even fall.
Most common way is to put one foot behind and angle it perpendicular to the way you going, this cause friction between the wheels and the surface causing you to slow down. Experienced rollerbladers can do this with both feet at the same time.
I can roller blade (in-line wheels), but roller skate? Impossible. Last time I tried was a disaster, I just can’t get the hang of them.
I know – same! I fall constantly on traditional skates.
My wife is the opposite. She can’t figure out in-line skates, but traditional skates just work for her.
My right foot is almost one size wider than my left foot. Finding a good pair of shoes is hard.
And I can’t remember what kind of clothes people are wearing. Colours, sometimes, but it’s like my visual cortex dedicates zero processing power for clothes.
I have the opposite problem. Only remember clothes and hair, never faces. It affects my life a lot, though.
I can kind of remember faces but I can’t visualize them in my head, despite being able to imagine most other things.
My right foot is a size larger than my left but my left is a size wider than my right and it has a higher instep. Buying shoes is Not Fun.
Can’t whistle loudly. I can barely do it quietly. I certainly can’t do that badass thing where you put fingers from both hands into your mouth and blow.
I once told someone, “I can’t do it, but I’ve seen people demonstrate it. You have to push your tongue back so it curls up, and…”
Then I demonstrated what I was shown, and it worked!
And then I was never able to do it again.
This video from Smarter Every Day did it for me! https://youtu.be/aoXJfuPaFF8 (06:35)
I hate when people “show you how to do it”, they’re always showing you the back of their hand, like that’s supposed to help.
Turns out I only have one kidney. Went in for a scan of my bladder (which was fine), and the nurse doing the scan just casually mentioned it. I had no idea. I was 43 at the time.
Have you ever woken up in a motel bathtub full of ice?
Now that you mention it…
I always felt uncomfortable in country-themed nightclubs.
I only found out a few months ago that nightclubs aren’t a creation of Hollywood. They are definitely not for me. Country-themed sounds even worse.
Same with me, but especially when the country is 1930s Germany.
I’m largely redneck and I feel profoundly uncomfortable.
Due to an old eye injury, I do not have a functional drain tube for my left eye (that channel that drains from the corner of your eye and into your nose).
Normally it’s not something anyone notices, but in cold headwind and anything else that causes my eyes to water, it looks like I’m crying my heart out but only with one eye.
A near-complete lack of rhythm and profound tone deafness. I can’t keep a beat to save my life, and my singing sounds like the wails of the damned. But like damned chimps or something.
Anyway, all music is sorcery as far as I’m concerned.
Yes! And because of all that, I am profoundly ignorant as to how music works.
I can’t make upside down hand eye goggles. Image for context below.
How is this a personal weakness?
Wrong answers only, please.
Once you have the forbidden knowledge it constantly calls to be used.
How else do you protect your eyes while staring at the sun?
Thanks, now I know I have this weakness too
Dude…I know I used to be able to do this but it’s been decades.
I can’t do it anymore. It feels so awkward and strange and hurts my tendons just trying it…Whuuuut?
I feel like I might break my hand even trying to do this :P
I learned this from The Aquabats!
I can curl my upper lip on the left side, but the right side can’t do it. I can’t raise one eyebrow either.
I can only curl the left side too!
What the fuck, same here
I think we are on to something
Thick latinas, oh wait, you said not relevant…
I can’t whistle with my fingers. Like thr thumb and index finger ring or just both pinkies. Totally understand the principle of it with splitting the air (I’ve even made flutes and ocarinas from clay), but just can’t do it with my fingers.
But I can whistle equally as loud inhaling as I can exhaling. 🤷♂️
I can’t swim. Then again I just never go near deep water and am not a swimming pool enthusiast.
