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And how did it turn out when you tried your hand at it again?
Would appear i've forgotten how to do a forward roll.
Our youngest was playing about and did a forward roll that was going to break her neck.
No problem says i, look at this kids.
From what i re-call, i did a headstand that sort of just flopped onto the floor and promptly winded myself.
I'll not be doing another in any hurry. I feel old and forgetful.
🤣
Maths. High School level maths and physics. Almost all of it has just gone. piff paff poof!
I have, regretfully, forgotten how to complete a Rubik's Cube - I used to be able to solve it in around 45 seconds.
No matter how many times I google "which way to undo a peddle" I still have google it again the next time I want to remove one.
“which way to undo a peddle”
Errrr
relax
Work. Although I'm not sure I ever knew that.
which way to undo a peddle
If you paid via credit card the usual starting point is to contact the card provider.
which way to undo a peddle
Peddle - try to sell (something, especially small goods) by going from place to place.
Pedal - each of a pair of foot-operated levers used for powering a bicycle or other vehicle propelled by the legs.
Satisfy anyone for anything.
Live my life in an ambivoulent manner.
When I was in my 20 things just happened, yet here I am. Now approaching 50 everything seems to need a plan or at least forethought, and the whole process of getting to tomorrow, next week or next month is wearing me out.
Forward rolls are bloody dangerous.
Cartwheels and round offs both look better and are less "Becky" with regard to injuries.
Headstands and handstands also impress.
I have, regretfully, forgotten how to complete a Rubik’s Cube – I used to be able to solve it in around 45 seconds.
Likewise, though I was never that fast. 3-4 minutes maybe.
Write. My writing was always appalling, but these days using a keyboard all the time I struggle to write legibly at all.
Forward rolls are bloody dangerous.
How to do a forward roll to show of to your kids without farting!
I think a proper well executed fart only adds to it for most kids.
Or making yourself bleed doing it
Have a lie in.
Wake up at 06.30-07.00 everyday, even weekends and then can't bring myself to stay in bed...weird.
And on that note.
Going to bed late. 9pm and I'm getting twitchy.
Handwriting - my signature is now terrible, I bet my bank wouldn’t pass any of my cheques (even though I keep trying 🤣)
Write. My writing was always appalling, but these days using a keyboard all the time I struggle to write legibly at all.
This.
Write. My writing was always appalling, but these days using a keyboard all the time I struggle to write legibly at all.
Very mush this too. I seem only able to write in capitals and well, it looks pish.
I think a proper well executed fart only adds to it for most kids.
Or making yourself bleed doing it
Dude, if you are bleeding when you fart then you need medical help ASAP.
Likewise, though I was never that fast. 3-4 minutes maybe.
It would depend on how completing the sequence before the final one fell that would dictate how quickly I could do it - if it fell right, I could do the final sequence in about four moves but if it didn't fall, I would have to keep redoing the penultimate sequence until it was positioned correctly for the final bit.
There's a Chinese kid that can solve three concurrently whilst juggling them in about 5 minutes!
Write. My writing was always appalling, but these days using a keyboard all the time I struggle to write legibly at all.
Very mush this too.
You need to practice with your typing skills too.
Smell. Thank you COVID.
Writing. Like people above, my handwriting has always been terrible but now I type everything it's even worse.
Interact with people professionally face-to-face. My entire career has been face-to-face meetings and building relationships. 18 months of Teams calls means I feel like I've lost this art, you can't turn your camera off to pick your nose in real life! I'm fine in the pub, but meeting clients and stakeholders is hard work.
Related vaguely to the above, being in the right spot on a train/tube platform. I used to know exactly where to stand to be by the doors to the quietest carriage on the tube and train lines I used to use. Now I've lost the skills and find myself following the crowd. Need to sort this out.
How to dress. Again, I've spent 18 months in shorts and slippers, now I look in my diary and see a meeting and I'm completely confused as to what to wear. Suit? Shoes? A tie? What will they wear?
I've forgotten how to go to work.
12 months of furlough and 4 months of unemployment. I've totally forgot what it's like to turn up on site and be expected to repair everything that has been abused by people that have no mechanical sympathy what so ever.
Can't say I miss it TBH.
Likewise, though I was never that fast. 3-4 minutes maybe.
1min 13sec was my fastest time when i was about 12! Last time I tried to do one I could only completed the first two layers and had completely forgotten the sequences for the third layer.
I can still do a forward roll though and lie in bed at the weekends, and write.
What I can't seem to do anymore though is kick a football straight!
Configure a VPN, but IT is but one hat I have to wear here.
Ride a mountain bike.
How to program synths/ableton
I'm enjoying relearning though
Play the tenor horn. Started in infant school around the age of 5 and played continually to the end of university when I eventually ceased, it wasn't fun any more. Bought one while in lockdown last year in order to keep busy and see how bad it would be. To think about it I couldn't remember what a single musical note meant, I was sure I'd have to go back to writing the letters under the notes. Turns out I rememberd it all and although I can't read it quite as quickly as before nor do my fingers move as fast, it wasn't anywhere near as bad as I expected!
Skateboarding..out of the way kids...just let me show you how to...hurt your hip quite badly as it turned out!
Front crawl
God knows how many Saturday mornings my dad dragged himself out of bed to take us to swimming lessons
I have badges and certificates and everything, yet now I flail around hopelessly
Remove, strip and clean the carbs on my bike. As long as I keep the brain out of it and just let the hands get on with the job it's fine but as soon as I add rational thought, it all goes wrong
Ride a mountain bike.
This. I can hop on a bike and go for a pootle about but stick me at the top of hill and say ride down there and I'll either fall off in the first 10 metres or take so long that it'd be dark by the time I got the bottom.
Handwriting – my signature is now terrible, I bet my bank wouldn’t pass any of my cheques (even though I keep trying 🤣)
I was caught out in the hairdressers recently when informed “cash only”, after the cut, and I only had my (Apple Pay) phone with me. It occurred to me I could wander into my bank and get cash, because I can still remember my act and sort code. I had to sign a slip. They actually asked me to do it again.
Do exercise without needing a recovery days. Be free of responsibility.
play orange juice on the guitar. I'm hopeless at reading music so it took ages to learn so I'm reluctant to start again.
Strip down, clean, regrease, reassemble and refit (successfully) a Sturmey Archer 3 speed hub using nothing but a 6 inch nail (as a drift), a hammer and a pair of pliers.
So many things, but here are a couple.
Find the thing I went into the other room for.
Recall the names of my children first time.
Compose my thoughts.
Also
Do exercise without needing a recovery days. Be free of responsibility.
I resemble this remark.
Oh, and chin ups.
Work in a shared space. I like working at home now, I've used an office 3 times and none of them have gone well.
Drink sufficient amounts of water in a day, I always seem to be low on water these days.
Talk about anything other than my bloody dog, even I'm bored of me!
Work a full day with accessing stw.
Not be an angry ****er😂
Do up the zip on my trousers.
Spent so long working from home in shorts or joggers that the fact that regular trousers need fastening sometimes escapes me.......
Writing. Like people above, my handwriting has always been terrible but now I type everything it’s even worse.
Looking back through, that's an interesting one. Eldest couldn't read a handwritten card he'd received the other day, and was joking it was because the sender was a doctor, but when I opened it, it was pretty legible. Maybe teenagers can't decipher handwriting as they never see/use it any more