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This thread is about things you don't know how to do but probably should.

Iron. I have never ironed anything. I've never watched someone iron. I have no idea how to do it.

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change a flat...:(
drive a stick...:(
i don't know much about cars...

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Tie xxxx type of knot. Never was a boyscout, been sailing a couple times but forget how to tie it that way.

-Al

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"As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know." - Donald Rumsfeld

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I can't iron either. I also don't know anything about cars other than how to drive them and put gas in them. I can't cook anything more elaborate than grilled cheese, either.

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How we haven't managed to kill ourselves off as a race yet.

Ray

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How we haven't managed to kill ourselves off as a race yet.

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Give it another 15-20 years.

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How some of the people that post here are smart enough to turn on a computer.

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Don't know how to change a diaper and I have two kids (veiled brag post)

Don't know how the !@#$ to get rid of my slice (you try golfing with backwards clubs and having to stand on the wrong side of the ball sometime!)

Don't know how to get my wife to shut up (this one I really am going to work on........soon)

I'm sure I'll thin of some more

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Don't know how to change a diaper and I have two kids (veiled brag post)

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I hope you are wealthy enough to have a full-time nanny and that is the reason why.

-Al

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My wife wasn't nearly that lucky....lol

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Hams - gotcha - so your brag is you made your wife change all the diapers for your kids?

Nice,
-Al

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"As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know." - Donald Rumsfeld

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First thing I thought of.

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How to do electrical repairs

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I don't know how to change my oil on my car... it pisses me off everytime I pay $40 to get it done

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I don't know how to change my oil on my car... it pisses me off everytime I pay $40 to get it done

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$40? I pay between $15 and $20 depending on the coupon I have. You're way overpaying.

FWIW, I'm pretty handy around cars, but I don't think it's ever worth doing the oil change yourself. Oil + filters are probably around $10, plus you have to dispose of the oil. Most mechanics I know don't even bother changing their own oil.

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I'm pretty good at hand-eye coordination sports, but I don't know how to dive.

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I have never ironed anything either. But ironing is pretty useless - just throw it in the drier with a damp towel, and in 5 minutes the wrinkles are gone. I learned that in OOT.

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I have never ironed anything either. But ironing is pretty useless - just throw it in the drier with a damp towel, and in 5 minutes the wrinkles are gone. I learned that in OOT.

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i've tried this but i never know how much to dampen the towel. you just run it under the sink a bit?

i recently got some shirts that can't be put in the dryer, and got an ironing board and iron for christmas, so i'll have to experiment soon.

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I also can not tie neck ties.

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Don't know how to change a diaper and I have two kids (veiled brag post)

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Don't know how to get my wife to shut up

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Think harder.

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This thread is about things you don't know how to do but probably should.


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Swim?

I've fished for trout in the Merced River in the summertime, in water up to my waist. I've surf fished along the CA coast, occasionally having waves hit me above waist high. Not dead yet.

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I have never ironed anything either. But ironing is pretty useless - just throw it in the drier with a damp towel, and in 5 minutes the wrinkles are gone. I learned that in OOT.

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i've tried this but i never know how much to dampen the towel. you just run it under the sink a bit?

i recently got some shirts that can't be put in the dryer, and got an ironing board and iron for christmas, so i'll have to experiment soon.

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Just think of how wet a towel is when you take it out of the washer. That wet.

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ok while we're on this topic, how do people not know how to swim? seriously....

i don't remember ever "learning" how to swim.. besides just getting in the water and kicking and flailing arms. do people just sink to the bottom or something? it's pretty intuitive. or are people just scared and panic?

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Hams - gotcha - so your brag is you made your wife change all the diapers for your kids?

Nice,
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This combined with his username is priceless.

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CPR

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Hams - gotcha - so your brag is you made your wife change all the diapers for your kids?

Nice,
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is this really as unreasonable as you're insinuating it is? i have a few friends with kids and i doubt they have ever changed a diaper.

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Hams - gotcha - so your brag is you made your wife change all the diapers for your kids?

Nice,
-Al

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is this really as unreasonable as you're insinuating it is? i have a few friends with kids and i doubt they have ever changed a diaper.

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sounds pretty unreasonable to me

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i'm just saying if i work 40+ hrs a week i probably won't be changing any diapers barring a situation where she goes on vacation or something

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Hams - gotcha - so your brag is you made your wife change all the diapers for your kids?

Nice,
-Al

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is this really as unreasonable as you're insinuating it is? i have a few friends with kids and i doubt they have ever changed a diaper.

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never having changed a diaper = never having been left alone with your child for any significant amount of time.

that's the problem i see with it.

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Hams - gotcha - so your brag is you made your wife change all the diapers for your kids?

Nice,
-Al

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is this really as unreasonable as you're insinuating it is? i have a few friends with kids and i doubt they have ever changed a diaper.

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never having changed a diaper = never having been left alone with your child for any significant amount of time.

that's the problem i see with it.

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yeah i didn't think of it that way i guess. i should not have children.

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I don't know how reciting the alphabet backwards helps prove you are not drunk. I can't do it sober. My guess is that people must practice it "like IPPISSISSIM" a few times just to make sure they can do it?

Is that so, or is this a given gift I don't have??

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Don't know how to change a diaper and I have two kids (veiled brag post)

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Don't know how to get my wife to shut up (this one I really am going to work on........soon)

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It's probably safe to add "correlation" to the list of things you don't know.

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i'm just saying if i work 40+ hrs a week i probably won't be changing any diapers barring a situation where she goes on vacation or something

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lol who works in this day and age?

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i'm just saying if i work 40+ hrs a week i probably won't be changing any diapers barring a situation where she goes on vacation or something

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lol who works in this day and age?

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haha, not me brother

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I don't know how reciting the alphabet backwards helps prove you are not drunk. I can't do it sober. My guess is that people must practice it "like IPPISSISSIM" a few times just to make sure they can do it?

Is that so, or is this a given gift I don't have??

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Everyone says this, and I don't get it. It's the [censored] alphabet. You don't know the last letter? Next to last? It's not like you have to sing it in tune going 200 words per minute. Where do you get to a point when you can't figure out the letter before the one you just said?

zee-why-ex-doubleyou-vee-you-tee...It's not that hard.

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Hams - gotcha - so your brag is you made your wife change all the diapers for your kids?

Nice,
-Al

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is this really as unreasonable as you're insinuating it is? i have a few friends with kids and i doubt they have ever changed a diaper.

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never having changed a diaper = never having been left alone with your child for any significant amount of time.

that's the problem i see with it.

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That's definitely part of it.

But I just see it as kind of lame (especially as a brag) - I mean it's not hard to change a diaper - what if you get home after a long day of work, but for some reason your wife is super exhausted from doing her thing?

I mean, pitching in occasionally is kind of a nice thing to do I think, and being able to perform basic child rearing tasks, like cleaning your kid, should be something any parent can do.

-Al

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I don't know how reciting the alphabet backwards helps prove you are not drunk. I can't do it sober. My guess is that people must practice it "like IPPISSISSIM" a few times just to make sure they can do it?

Is that so, or is this a given gift I don't have??

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Everyone says this, and I don't get it. It's the [censored] alphabet. You don't know the last letter? Next to last? It's not like you have to sing it in tune going 200 words per minute. Where do you get to a point when you can't figure out the letter before the one you just said?

zee-why-ex-doubleyou-vee-you-tee...It's not that hard.

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I'll admit I must have some mental block, but to me it's just not the same as counting numbers backwards.

I can take a cryptoquote in the newspaper, flip it upside down, and solve it without a pen or pencil, but I can't recite the alphabet backwards. That said, if I spent 5 or 10 minutes practicing it, I'd have it, but why would I do that?

That's why I was asking why it's a sobriety thing?

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The mother occasionally teaches me to iron. But I forget immediately after.

I should know how to wire a plug. But I don't.

I've never used a card of any sort to buy anything in a shop, i always pay with cash. I should probably change that if i move to the states, as i've heard you're a credit card society.

Whenever i put money into an arcade video games machine, i always lose it on the first level. I should learn how to survive for longer.

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I dont know what QFT means on these messageboards, I know its gotta do with a quote, but, I can't figure out the acronym, on that same note, i see SIIHP or something like that on these boards, and I dont know what that means either (stick it in her pu$$?)....

I dont know how I got the * title, but I think it means I suck as a poster.