[Closed] If you could just do one thing well, what would it be?

Your mum.

(Sorry!)

Draw. I can visualise in my head what it should look line but can't translate it on to paper.

Stay healthy.

Is this one extra thing, or will I lose all the things I can do well already and only have one?

If it's the latter, breathing would be up there.

The former... um sing? Or like you, guitar (or piano).

Sing like Neil Fallon.

dannybgoode - Member
Draw. I can visualise in my head what it should look line but can't translate it on to paper.

In the spirit of the OP; sing.

I love to sing, but I have the voice of the comedy entrants on BGT. I'm astonishingly bad, people throw things. I've got a pretty good ear for music, I can spot a duff note or accurately critique a sound engineer at a concert, but sadly I can't sing through my ears.

In fact TBH, I'd settle for being able to sing passably, never mind really well.

Socialise.

Socialise

Yeah ok, good shout. Hiya.

Ski effortlessly, fabulously and without fear like in a Teton Gravity Project film.

OP yours is a good one foo

Your mum.

(Sorry!

understand what folk mean and be comfortable in social situations

RD, please accept my apologies. Was merely meant in (Admittedly bad taste) jest. Sorry is all I can say.

(Happy for someone to report me for it to be deleted.)

Yeah ok, good shout. Hiya.

Bog off.

No worries CFH

Lol...like I don't do everything well 😉

Invest on the stock exchange...

In the spirit of RDs post.. probably be a Conductor of an Orchestra. All the glamour and flailing hands, wild hair and offers from Rich Old Ladies of cosseted marriage and financial freedom.
And new shoes, Obvz.

Thanks, RD. Again, sorry. I truly meant no more offense than making a bad joke.

The list of things I'm unable to do is frightening extensive. I'm fair-to-middling at procrastination. Narrowing it down to just one?

Speak other languages with greater ease.

Particularly:

French
German
Ukrainian

Bikebouy couldn't be further from reality if you tried, conducting is a terrible job having to constantly harrangue musicians who despite you either silently or behind your back or publicly, and even the really well known ones aren't that well employed ... I've tried it once, never again. Conductors tend to be sh1tbags to a man usually because no one decent or sane would do it.

Ok here's mine, play cricket. A bit of bowling, bat after a fashion and be of use in the field. I can't do any of those.

Like jamba really. I could ski really quite well with an instructor but left to my own devices not so much. Still my creaky old knees have called an end to it anyway. So, like rocketdog, it's music. The oboe in my case.

Ride a horse

Surf like I can in my imagination. If I could make a decent living from it then even better. If I could avoid turning into a "dude" caracture and/or a corporate sponsorship slave at the same time I'd die a happy man.

Alternatively, be the best father in history and help develop the absolute best attitude to life, learning and respect for others in my kids

Choices, choices......

Cooking. 😀

Tpye

Like some others up there, sing.

I can kind of hold a tune, but I have no range so lose it really easily. I'd love to be able sing really well, well enough to be on stage. I used to play drums in a band and loved playing in front of people.

The only things I'm really passionate about are the things I can't do quite as well as I'd like to.
So for me, as much as I'd like to gybe a windsurfer in choppy water or go as fast down some singletrack as some of my pals, I kind of put up with my inadequacy because that's what keeps me wanting to get better. And at age 64 that's not bad.
PS I (we) do shagging OK though.

Kinda obvious one on a MTB forum, but:
Ride my bike well instead of working hard at it to be at best mediocre.

I would love to be able to write nicely as I possess spider handwriting. Because I don't write much at work it's embarrassingly bad for a bloke in his late 50s.

Be a better person.

Failing that, Bruce Banner.

Manual for miles and miles 😉

Fly.

Play the drums like Stewart Copeland.

I was just saying to MrsSB yesterday that I really wish I could sing but, judging by my other thread earlier, having a vague understanding of maths would be pretty damn good too.

Oh, and make money with ease.

Make money?

Failing that, I reckon it's speak a foreign language. Tried many times, failed each time.

Fight, was the first thing that sprang to mind. 🙂

PS I (we) do shagging OK though

At 64?

Eeewwwww......

😉

Slightly more specifically than mackem and tj, charm women.

I'm not sure about any more specific skills - I'm a bit of a jack of all trades, so have done lots of things to levels at which I'm perfectly happy with my ability (though I suppose gybing a windsurfer as mentioned up there is something I never nailed before I got bored with that, I doubt having the ability would change my life to any significant extent). Can't really sing decently, but given I'm currently playing trumpet in a band that doesn't seem to be a big impediment to having musical fun. I suppose there are all sorts of things it would be nice to be able to do to a professional level, but I'm struggling to pick one. So it probably comes back to charming women.

I would love do well at being the prime minister. Wealth for all, great NHS and schools. Brexit would be a huge success and give massive growth to our economy through worldwide trade. Nobody in society would be picked upon and workers would have more holidays to spend with their families.
The banks would be happily making more money and applaud my astounding financial ability in taking Great Britain up to the third biggest economy after the USA and China.

But then again I always was a dreamer 🙂

At 64?

Eeewwwww......

just wait another 5 years!

Watch telly

remember stuff...