I can't swim. Then again I just never go near deep water and am not a swimming pool enthusiast.
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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 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.
I can't make upside down hand eye goggles. Image for context below.
I learned this from The Aquabats!
Thanks, now I know I have this weakness too
My big toes lack toenails.
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.
My right sinus cavity is smaller than my left sinus cavity
Wanna do an exchange? For me it's the other way round. Do you also have the full package with smaller nostril and ear canal?
I had that fixed less than a year ago. It has been great!
Tone deaf. Fortunately I don't do music.
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. 🤷♂️
Hey OP, I used to have that same weakness, but this tutorial actually allowed me to see the magic eyes things https://www.magiceye.com/faq-items/help-how-do-i-see-in-3d/ the two dots made it easier for me to know when I was focusing correctly.
As for my weakness, I can't whistle loudly, I've tried all the methods people use, but wasn't able to learn any of them.
I have 3
I cannot juggle. I don't generally lack in hand-eye coordination (not that I'm overly-gifted with it either, but I'd generally say that I'm at least average,) and I understand the theory of it well enough, I've even been able to teach people to juggle successfully, it's just that I, myself, cannot juggle.
I'm also a reasonably handy, technically-minded person, again not an absolute wizard, but if I crack a gadget open, with a couple Google searches and how-to guides, I can usually understand more or less how things work and how to fix them if they're broken.
But something about sewing machines breaks my mind. There's something going on right around the bobbin that just doesn't make sense to my brain and doesn't seem like it should work, but it apparently does, because I've successfully used a sewing machine and can confirm first-hand that they work.
Lastly, I don't like needles. It's not a horrible phobia that sends me running for the hills, but something about needles sleeves me out like nothing else. I can suck it up and get my necessary vaccines and such, but I do kind of have to give myself a little internal pep-talk first. It's not a fear of pain, I have pretty solid pain tolerance and needles really don't hurt that much at all, it's specifically needles that weird me out. If there was an option to get my vaccines where a doctor would shank me with a scalpel and rub the vaccine into the wound, I'd absolutely go for it.
Needles make me faint. They don't hurt too much, but... If I see one going in, the next thing I generally see is people crowded around trying to revive me. Hell, I just started to see stars! I'm lying down, for eff sake! It's not blood either, I've been first on the scene a few times now and given first aid to some pretty messed up injuries. I had a headache injection once, and the doctor mixed the drug with a giant needle as a stir stick, and he didn't even get the real needle out before I was face down on the floor.
Luckily I don't have it quite that bad I am just very uncomfortable with it.
Sprained my knee really badly once and the doctor used a giant syringe to drain some fluid after the swelling hadn't gone down much after a couple weeks. Really didn't like that, wasn't even close to passing out, but can't think I've ever been more uncomfortable.
Similarly I've also been on-scene with some pretty nasty injuries, and I work in 911 dispatch, I'm generally not bothered by too much.
The magic eye thing is my superpower. Takes me less than a second. If it helps, many of them are so terribly done it still takes me a second to figure out what they were trying to draw.
(It wasn't a sailboat.)
It's a schooner.
Wait until your bank website/app login requires a captcha with the magic eye thing! Bwahahaha.
My fingers are very stiff. If you grab your index finger and gently push it backwards, I've never met anyone who can do that less than me without hurting.
ITT: People who think that never having learned to do some niche skill is a weakness.