Are You Good At Anything?

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With my hours it's likely to be the middle of the night when I do anything.

But I think like that during the day, too. I said I excelled at sophistry.

― Josh, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yes.

Cookie, I'm not sure about your hug skills. Remember when you knocked over that plate of chips doing it? Maybe you still need more practice.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't think I do remember the chips, no. Oh dear, I was probably drunk. I'm quite good at getting drunk. Although possibly not as good as you, Pinefox.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I do things well. Except the ones I don't or have never tried, so yay me.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I can draw well. Apparently I am funny quite often. I think that is all.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two months pass...

i am the master when it comes to parallel parking. seriously.

― ernest, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I can be more melodramatically bitter than ANY OF YOU! I guess I can be a good friend, but what use has that ever done?

(SEE!!!!! NO-ONE CAN BEAT ME!!!!!)

― Sarah, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i am pretty good at music i guess, i reckon i play keyboard pretty well. i am good at singing. i have a great big voice. i am also good at talking too loud about things that i probably should shut up about. i know a lot about feminist theory and i have a very good essay-writing style. and i am a NAST-EE dancer.

― di, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am improving at singing. I have good vowel sounds but I am much much too quiet. (It sounds louder from inside!) My writing is tolerable and my Latin is horrible by my standards but great by everyone else's here. Come to think of it I don't think I'm really good at anything, so I must have been made to be an aristocrat or something.

― Maria, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It seems I've had two and a half months to think of something I'm good at and I still can't. Ouch.

I would love to write something in ultra-neat Latin (preferably in snazzy dactylic hexameter, or at least with some Ciceronian clausulae), just 'cos Maria's post sounded like a gauntlet being thrown down to me, but, eh, it's been too long (and I was never *that* good - or indeed any good at all - anyway).

Someone is now going to tell me that Cicero never used clausulae, but I never really got what they were anyway, I just got told that they were a good stylistic thing. I then promptly ignored this advice, 'cos using 4 different ways of saying "and" (and trying not to use enclitic -que at the end of the sentence because it's not good style, even though I always ended up putting it there anyway) and going crazy with the compound verbs are much easier ways to pick up style points...

I so miss my Kennedy's Primer. (Oh, it looks like I'm quite good at writing really long, rambly, boring, pretentious, geeky, completely off-topic posts. Yeah, I admit I can be good at inadvertantly doing things which suck, but I think that's stretching the word "good" a little.)

― Rebecca, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

Is anyone else good at anything?

Or has anyone stopped being good at anything, or started being good at anything new?

― the pinefox, Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am good at getting things down off the top shelf.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have a big long rant about how everything I'm good at (cooking, writing, painting -- except I'm not good at that exactly, and sometimes I'll toss sex in) is the same thing. I won't inflict it here. Besides, I'm good at Trivial Pursuit, too, and that's totally different.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

you tell me.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, a couple of things.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can draw.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can make short posts.

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Me too.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

show off

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can also do this

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

*awed*

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Two words: multiple orgasms

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

yours or someone else's?

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

they're kinda tied together, ain't they?

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

not always, sug

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

(though they ought to be)

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

I mean, my being able to allows for her to be able to. see?

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

hi. my name is aimee, and I'm a little slow.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

well, like I said, I can wait ;)

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

!!!

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

I actually have a reference (as in resume) in the LA area. Still working on my board certification though.

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dare I ask?

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Que? (Hi. My name is Andy. I'm a little slow)

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can only doubt this was what PF hoped for.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well like you said, you can wait.

Actually I think I eschew references and would rather form my own opinions.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

probably true, but we get so little in life that we hope for.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

On the flipside, it's everything RJG could hope for.

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

really? I didn't think that was at all where he was going

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, don't mind me. I'm insane. *smacks skull w/shoe*

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

oops, you underestimate my hoping. and what I find amusing.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Why do I feel like this is suddenly my fault?

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Touche
(cross-post)

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

You've got mail.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can put my leg behind my shoulder and kind of rest my inner knee on my shoulder. I can't really describe it. I can also stop soccer balls with my thighs apparently.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry, luna! finally checked it. I've been edifying myself.

(ally, you're just asking for it, ain'tchya?)

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

I stopped a soccer ball with my nose once, but I don't categorize that as "something I'm good at it" (though really it was quite effective) so much as "things that sucked".

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm covered in bruises.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'd suggest ice, but I worry that oops might sprain something.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

never stopped you before

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

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Oh yeah. What am I good at?
Good god ya'll. What am I good for? Absolutely nothin'!

Um... I'm good at posting on iLX, quantitatively speaking anyway.
I think I'm a decent rockstar, I keep up with my journal pretty well, and I'm good at being appreciative.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'd like to think I'm getting better at Web design... although unless I get even better still and pursue it as a career, I'm sure this is a really useless asset.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Come on, are you really shocked?

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Martin, how do you hold the paddle?

Phil, I've not played much in years, except for a bit against a girlfriend who is England's #1 in her wheelchair class, and hoping to make the next Paralympics. I used to favour the more typically European grip. For a while, I played in the more Chinese style to try to give opponents a chance, but I got as good at that. I wasn't world class at this by a long way (unlike, say, Minesweeper) - I'd probably have got my blue at Cambridge had I stayed much more than a term, as I was very probably the best in the first year, but I also once played a guy who was then the UK #3, and he murdered me. I don't think I'd have ever got nearly that good, had I kept it up.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm quite good at socially ostracizing myself and complaining. Also quite good at droning on one guitar chord for a couple hours.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have a sixth sense for knowing when another driver is going to pull in front of me without bothering to signal first. And I have an (I hope) unparalleled ability to piss off anyone I meet.
:^(

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

(Stuff I'm not good at but do anyway, since I spent the afternoon and evening getting the pages to work again: webcomics. a comedy and a drama. From last year. The idea was to see how much of a comic strip you could do without drawing anything, since I can't draw worth a damn.)

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 26 April 2003 01:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ugh, I just realized that the thing that I'm best at in life is probably Nethack. I'm ashamed, but still proud. SAD.

― Dan I., Saturday, 26 April 2003 01:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can play piano. I can draw okay. I can write okay. I'm good at Q-bert. I can read really quickly, which isn't always good. And I'm good at crossword puzzles.

― kirsten (kirsten), Saturday, 26 April 2003 02:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I used to favour the more typically European grip. For a while, I played in the more Chinese style to try to give opponents a chance, but I got as good at that.

Martin, I have NOOO idea how that works... The Chinese grip, that is. It's insane - when I try it, often I'll strike the ball at a funny angle and it'll go flying off to the side.

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 26 April 2003 04:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, it takes some getting used to, and it does give you less reach, but you can put on a lot of spin, and it's good for the really sharp defensive reaction shot too.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 26 April 2003 10:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

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