Things you aren't good at

[W_B_Yeats]

[quote=“Fran”]It’s ok.

So were Boyzone[/quote]

At the risk of asking a very stupid question…

Does MGG actually exist? I remember in his/her previous incarnation on Clarehurlers he/she tried to organise some get together post a Munster final and was then never heard from again…
He/she never made it onto AFR as far as I know but I turn up here and here he/she is.

Has anybody ever seen this person in the flesh? I’ve a terrible feeling its Tipptops*…

WBY

[Mairegangaire]

[quote=“W.B. Yeats”]At the risk of asking a very stupid question…

Does MGG actually exist? I remember in his/her previous incarnation on Clarehurlers he/she tried to organise some get together post a Munster final and was then never heard from again…
He/she never made it onto AFR as far as I know but I turn up here and here he/she is.

Has anybody ever seen this person in the flesh? I’ve a terrible feeling its Tipptops*…

WBY[/quote]

Many might remember this day as the one 20 smokes hit the tenner; but Tiptit will remember it as you making his day.

MGG was purged from AFR within its first yr. (during Spamgate on the GAA Board) Look into his archives, MGG won AFR’s first prediction comp; in fact the Guide to GAA Men was originally penned on AFR.

I took a year off work which limited access (only dial up at home) but Nobody disappeared, in fact quiet a few appeared.

[tipptops]

@Mairegangaire

but Tiptit will remember it as you making his day.

Harsh, but Fair.

I’m in the top bracket now, no question.

[Hibernian]

This pre or post (who can remember) Munster final meet has achieved mythical status now. If as many people who claim to know about it turned up on the day, it must have been a huge session. Some things are best left with an aura of mystery attached.

[quote=“Mairegangaire”]Many might remember this day as the one 20 smokes hit the tenner; but Tiptit will remember it as you making his day.

MGG was purged from AFR within its first yr. (during Spamgate on the GAA Board) Look into his archives, MGG won AFR’s first prediction comp; in fact the Guide to GAA Men was originally penned on AFR.

I took a year off work which limited access (only dial up at home) but Nobody disappeared, in fact quiet a few appeared.[/quote]

[W_B_Yeats]

@Hibernian

This pre or post (who can remember) Munster final meet has achieved mythical status now. If as many people who claim to know about it turned up on the day, it must have been a huge session. Some things are best left with an aura of mystery attached.

I distinctly remember the whole hoopla, Hayes Hotel, an empty room and a supposedly devastated MGG.
I was innocent in those days so in retrospect it could have been a massive WUM.
I’ll not believe there is an MGG though without proof

WBY

[Rocko]

I’m woeful at eating Loop the Loop ice-pops. Always seem to break off the top third very quickly when I’m trying to nibble away at the chocolate but end up fundamentally damaging the architecture of the pop. Puts me off them as an experience which is unfortunate because I find them tasty.

[Sidney]

Singing and playing the guitar simultaneously.

[Brimmer_Bradley]

Chocolatemouse.
Taking life altering bets from a Tipp wum, after he wound the fuck our of me.

[balbec]

Rocko is woeful at website design.

[Rocko]

Being in shops that aren’t supermarkets.

I popped into a nearby shop there for a very straightforward transaction.

I stepped on a mannequin, apologised to said mannequin, stumbled over my own feet at the till, dropped my debit card and made a holy show of myself all in the space of a minute. I’m just not cut out for social interactions.

[anon61956325]

Being prepared for Christmas - have most of my shopping to do.

[Juhniallio]

@Rocko

Being in shops that aren’t supermarkets.

I popped into a nearby shop there for a very straightforward transaction.

I stepped on a mannequin, apologised to said mannequin, stumbled over my own feet at the till, dropped my debit card and made a holy show of myself all in the space of a minute. I’m just not cut out for social interactions.

Being in a sex shop has that effect on many people.

[Julio_Geordio]

@Rocko

Anyone else useless at this opening stuff lark.

I’m not too bad with a corkscrew and a bottle of wine and I can open beer bottles with a lighter or a spoon or whatever but when it comes to the more mundane I really struggle.

I tear my payslip every month. Same payslip in my last couple of employments so using the same gummed foldover design with side perforations for the guts of 8 years but every month without fail I mess up the perforation and then get careless on the general opening and prise apart the wrong two pieces of paper so I open it backwards half the time with the data sealed on the inside. Hard to explain but if you know the payslip you’ll get the drift.

Then other things like bananas. Lovely simple design the banana but I always squash the top end of it being over-aggressive. Roughly half the time I’ll bend over the banana towards me (to almost close the circle) in order to loosen it up and then some banana goo will seep out a weak point in the back of the neck of the banana. Then you’ve a mess on your hands. Worse is when I’m getting a banana or two off a bunch in a shop. I pull off two bananas and realise I’ve opened a half dozen in the process and I’m off up the counter with two bananas for me and the lids of another six that are now ruined on the shelf.

Helped myself to a yoghurt from Tesco the other day and the same thing happened - pulled one off a multipack and opened all four. Ended up buying the four of them. Brought them home and put the lids back on three of them but when I went to eat one of those I fecking destroyed the other three - splitting one of them down the side when I was wrestling them apart.

Taking lids off pens are a real difficulty for me too. Had immense trouble in a meeting last week and had to get a (female) client to get the lid off for me. I’m no weightlifter but I’m not a weed - there’s something very wrong with my technique in these matters.

Other than that I’m pretty alright at opening stuff I guess.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Rocko

Being in shops that aren’t supermarkets.

I popped into a nearby shop there for a very straightforward transaction.

I stepped on a mannequin, apologised to said mannequin, stumbled over my own feet at the till, dropped my debit card and made a holy show of myself all in the space of a minute. I’m just not cut out for social interactions.

You have dyspraxia

[Rocko]

If you ever meet @RaymondCrotty you’ll meet the purest case of dysplasia imaginable. I’m just a little awkward but I try to be endearing as I fumble and stumble through life.

[gilgamboa]

@Julio_Geordio

Anyone else useless at this opening stuff lark.
I’m not too bad with a corkscrew and a bottle of wine and I can open beer bottles with a lighter or a spoon or whatever but when it comes to the more mundane I really struggle.
I tear my payslip every month. Same payslip in my last couple of employments so using the same gummed foldover design with side perforations for the guts of 8 years but every month without fail I mess up the perforation and then get careless on the general opening and prise apart the wrong two pieces of paper so I open it backwards half the time with the data sealed on the inside. Hard to explain but if you know the payslip you’ll get the drift.
Then other things like bananas. Lovely simple design the banana but I always squash the top end of it being over-aggressive. Roughly half the time I’ll bend over the banana towards me (to almost close the circle) in order to loosen it up and then some banana goo will seep out a weak point in the back of the neck of the banana. Then you’ve a mess on your hands. Worse is when I’m getting a banana or two off a bunch in a shop. I pull off two bananas and realise I’ve opened a half dozen in the process and I’m off up the counter with two bananas for me and the lids of another six that are now ruined on the shelf.
Helped myself to a yoghurt from Tesco the other day and the same thing happened - pulled one off a multipack and opened all four. Ended up buying the four of them. Brought them home and put the lids back on three of them but when I went to eat one of those I fecking destroyed the other three - splitting one of them down the side when I was wrestling them apart.
Taking lids off pens are a real difficulty for me too. Had immense trouble in a meeting last week and had to get a (female) client to get the lid off for me. I’m no weightlifter but I’m not a weed - there’s something very wrong with my technique in these matters.
Other than that I’m pretty alright at opening stuff I guess.

[iron_mike]

Shit happens. I can speak three languages fluently but ask me to wire a plug and I break into a cold sweat

[Fagan_ODowd]

Why would you wire a plug in 2016? Every electrical item has to come with a three pin plug, by law.

[iron_mike]

Ah you know what I mean. Fuck sake Fagan, I’m on this forum two years and I’ve only just learned how to throw up a photo. It’ll take me another two before I can throw up a link

[balbec]

Or a decent post