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Things I wish I could do
Posted by katyg on 29 November 2011 - 5:45pm.
I wish I could speak another language. I wish I could run. I'd love to be able to write a book, or paint a picture. Or wash a merino wool jumper without having to pass it on to my 8 year old. My life would be immeasurably improved if I could be trusted to look after a house-plant, or maintain a mould-free fruit bowl. Oh, and I'd love to be able to read Russian.
But most of all, today, I wish I could play classical guitar like this. People of the Massive, what do you wish you could do?
Carlos Bonell - Strawberry Fields Forever
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Three wishes.
1) I wish I could grow hair on the top of me bonce.
2) iwISh I cuD SpELL& TIpE BeTTEra.
3) but most of all.......
Re. Wish No1:
You could once - maybe you've just forgotten how? (like many of the other males on this board, including me, though I wouldn't want mine back - it was horrible.)
But Pencilsqueezer
Does Orville love you? He does? Ahhhhh
If you had your hair back you could use it as a brush in a mad Yves Klein body art stylee. Or is that how it fell out? Turps is a bugger for that..
Cor' blimey
there are few things in life I enjoy as much as a good duck.
Beaten to it
I *was* going to say, "I wish I could fly way up in the sky, but I can't", but I won't now, obviously.
I wish I could
play football like Lionel Messi. I wish I could talk to women like Leonard Cohen talks to women. I wish I could be in 2 places at once. I wish I could revisit my teens with the confidence of my older years. I wish I could always be the most important person in my daughters life.Growing a Bonsai without killing it would be nice.Also completing a DIY task successfully and without the use of a string of profanities.I wish I could pick and choose when I go to work and when I pay my mortgage. I wish I could create food like the top chefs create food. I wish I could get rid of war,famine, racism and religious bigotry. I wish I could have met my wife 15 years before I did. Most of all though I wish could stop any of my family suffering any pain or trauma ever.
I play football...
I play football... like Leonard Cohen.
I wish...
Skee-Lo!
Better than Cee-Lo. I referenced this excellent track in the Xmas thread but it was widely ignored. Too subtle, or just not funny?
That is superb
and has reminded me of this
I wish I could sing.
I wish I had the innate self-confidence that all my male friends seem to have (that's not a criticism of them BTW, it's just an observation.)
I wish I had a bit more self-discipline.
I wish I looked cooler when I dance.
I wish I hadn't spent so much of my life worrying about what other people thought of me.
The last one, definitely.
And I wish I was as confident as I can seem.
I also wish I was a little bit taller, wish I was a baller.
Hannah
A terrifying thought I know, but you are me.
My thoughts to a tee.
Key word is "seem"...
...they don't actually have it, they're just good at pretending they have it. If we don't pretend to, we know we'll look unattractive.
The perfect woman is one who recognizes that it's just an act and works to build the real thing...
I wish I could
play the piano.
And be at least 15 years younger.
One of those I could so something about.
Take tomorrow off work
Oops
Just realised this could look like some sort of wry comment on today's industrial action. It wasn't - I'd just had a bad day at work!
Front crawl
Motorcycle maintenance and playing the melodeon.
Though the chlorine will play havoc with my brake pads, not to mention the action on the melodeon.
I wish I could
Keep to a schedule
Make a living out of playing music
Pronounce the letter S
great stuff...
On the subject of solo guitarists covering the HJHM, I see your Bonell and raise you a Juber:
Not really a can do but
Yesterday I would have wished to have had my health back. Today, I have! After two years of treatment for TB, I was discharged today and now I can say "When I'm 64" and "It Won't be Long"
Good for you!
Great news Toffee! Glad to see you're back in good health.
Thanks Curtis
That's kind of you
Delighted for you..
Toffee, like everyone round here.
Keep on truckin', man.
I wish the world could have
I wish the world could have a Nelson Mandela every generation.
Agreed.
But what I really wish is that the world didn't need a Nelson Mandela every generation.
I think that Daw...
...Aung San Suu Kyi counts as the next generation down from Mandela. She could yet be President of her country. Unless Hillary C infected her with some sort of yukkiness virus last week...
Everything really
I wish I had a skill. Guitar playing, Plumbing, Maturity. Anything would do.
I don't do anything particularly badly, but I don't do anything particularly well either.
I bumble along. And I rather wish I didn't.
I am a bumbler too
Dont think there is much wrong with it once you accept it.
I'm not very good at accepting things
either.
Surf
Looks marvellous and I love the music. Sadly I'm 49 with an innate inability to balance.
i recommend 'controlled falling'
to infinity and beyond!
I wish
I wasn't scared of heights. Then I might enjoy the view from up there.
This:
I'd love to be able to do that.
I entertained* my children and all their peers with a lap of the school field last camp-night on a six year old's bike WITH NO HANDS! Now that's a skill.
*humiliated and appalled
.
Go katy! Anything that involves humiliating and appalling your offspring is to be applauded (within reason, obv).
I should qualify my post above: I can and do actually skateboard, having recently taken it up again after a long break (a couple of months ago my entry here might have said 'wish I could skate again' but I realised there was nothing stopping me).
I can 'ollie' (jump) very well, but the trick that has always eluded me is the ollie kickflip - where you ollie and flip the board 360 degrees along its vertical axis beneath your feet. Apparently it's easy when you know how but I've never been able to get it right. I WILL do it one day, I swear!
Ambulance please
Thats right, skateboarding accident.
I wish I could...
Speak another language, fluently.
Draw.
Kick, throw, or catch a ball without blacking out in panic.
Dance
Also paint like my friend in Texas.
Ah yes
but can your friend dance and paint anywhere other than Texas?
She used to paint in Florida
Not sure I ever saw her dance.
There's
a Warren Zevon lyric in there somewhere.
I wish I could be my cat for a day
Then I would know if she REALLY likes me
She doesn't.
Unless you have a can opener in your hand. Or the heating's off and you're the warmest thing in the house.
Yours faithfully
A fellow cat housekeeper.
The truth
hurts
If your name is
Mousey, I'd start worrying when the cat likes you a bit too much.
I know
She's not your cat
You're her staff
I wish...
...
Some music things too.
I'm not a bad musician, really, but I'd love to be a decent drummer. I'm terrible. Think I'm going to get lessons from Mrs B for my birthday. I'd also like to play piano better than I do. I'm competent, no more. But most of all I want to be better at the guitar than I am. Being alright is nice, but being really ace would be nicer.
I once wrote a song that contained the line "too clever to fall / too stupid to fly" which is absolutely the truest thing about me. It's a good place to be really, but I do envy the disproportionately talented.
Mrs B's
a drummer? Nice, wish mine was.
Oh! No, she's not. Not musical at all.
I meant I want her to pay for some lessons for me as a present!
Sorry Bob
I should have used a being facetious smiley face thing. Listen, if Mrs B is prepared to buy you drumming lessons you must have a good'un. Mine just calls me stupid if I even suggest trying to play something, the best I get is "as long as I don't have to listen to it"
Transcend competence
That's what I'd like to do. I'm quite good at being quite good at things. Very bad at being very good.
I'm like a child who's set free
at the funfair; every ride invites me, and it's unfair saying that I only get my one share...
And I'd like to sing like this -
There is a lesson here..
Some people do have talents. But there are very few people who are REALLY good at anything who didn't start doing them when they were young. Almost certainly with a great deal of parental encouragement.
Chivvy the kids. Chuck them at everything. Find the thing they like doing. Encourage them some more. They'll thank you later. Probably.
Unless it's swimming. Who wants to be dragged out of their bed every day at 5am to get chucked into a load of cold water for an hour? Bleugh. In the highly unlikely event that my son develops such a desire, his mother's taking him.
True...
It's a difficult one, though. I knew from when she about six months old that my daughter had the potential to be musical. She shook an Early Learning Centre tambourine in time before she could walk. As she grew she was always singing, dancing, messing about with keyboards and guitars.
I ignored all the opportunities I had to learn an instrument 'properly' and I was very keen that she should do so. My wife, on the other hand, is a trained musician and shudders at the thought of all the practice and exams she had to go through.
I'm happy to say, that with parental encouragement, but no real pressure that my daughter took up the violin a few months ago, and diligently practises every day. She's 8 now, and if she keeps it up I think she'll be a 'proper' musician. Maybe not a professional - she's more interested in being a zoologist - but she'll have a life-enhancing skill. That pleases me no end.
From experience
they need the talent and the desire, one without the other is useless
I wish I didn't keep losin' me birds...
Then learn to swim young man, learn to swim
Meet Mike. 'E swims like a fish.
'Ello!
I've asked about lessons
At my local swimming baths. In a posh BBC voice. They told me "Hadaway and shite ya big ginger ponce"
Howaaaay ya booga man...
...yon bastids canna tak t'ya Massivista lake tha', whyayeman...*
(*apologies if a bit of Middleborough slipped in there by mistake)
in the early 1970s, the government knew best
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1964to1979/filmpage_swim.htm
I wish...
I wish that every time I felt good about myself/ my life/ things in general, wasnt followed by a terrible feeling of despair & self hate.
& Everton win a trophy soon.
I wish you didn't feel like that...
Not least because Everton will never win anything! Seriously though as a fellow self doubter keep smiling.
I wished for a trophy as a Pompey fan
Be careful what you wish for...
I wish:
I had a better spin pass off my left hand
I could be a better boyfriend than best friend
I could play guitar passably well
I had better self discipline
But, I'm the age I am, and I am who I am. Wouldn't change it.
I wish money wasn't an issue
I don't want to be rich. I wouldn't know how to handle a lot of money anyway.
But I wish I was better at managing the money I do have. I wish I was better at saving money and knew something about investing money. I wish I was debt free. And I wish I wasn't spending a lot of nights worrying about how I'm going to afford to send my 17-year-old son to the college he hopes to attend.
Heart-on-sleeve time
I wish I could overcome agoraphobia. I'm not housebound, but I am limited. I have trips to London and Germany awaiting me in 2012 should my counselling be successful. So that's my wish.
All the very best Spartacus
It is great that you have those trips lined up to aim for! Send us a postcard once you get there.
Thank you
I shall have my photograph taken with men in Beefeater outfits and Lederhosen respectively.
Oh
I have to warn you, hardly anyone is wearing lederhosen in London any more.
(Good luck with the counselling.)
More good news
There is almost certainly a 'specialist' website with a line in Beefeaters wearing lederhosen.
I wish
I could flaming well concentrate on any one thing for longer than a few minutes. These days my mind is like a spinning top.
Funny you should say that
I'm currently reading The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. He reckons the internet is to blame for our fractured concentration spans.
It doesn't help
but it is not to blame for mine. I've never had a good concentration span and I predate t'internet.
I wish I could avoid leaving things till the last minute. My GLW thinks it is male thing.
Oh, and wish I was better with money.
I also suffer from a short attenti....
Oooooh look! A butterfly!
I wish I could start talking about the state of the world
Without going off on one!
I wish I could go in the footsteps of Alexander The Great - not his career just where he travelled. Too much of it is too dangerous and I have such pity for the people who live in such dire places at the mercy of such crooks - the pinstriped ones as well as the armed ones (oops there I go again)
I also wish I had more time for my drawing - I love it and I am better than competent but I am always too short of time
Swim and
sing, not necessarily at the same time. Oh and be more selfish, I would love to be able to do something without thinking of the impact it may have on others.
Dave I presume you mean
'agonise over the impact' etc - what you say is a real plus in a person much as it might madden you :-)
Agonise is the word
sorry you had to take time to put me straight. *Must consider others before posting* :o)
I wish I was
More patient, able to control my temper without going off on one, that I was fitter, less analysing of myself, I wish I knew how to powerslide a car (not mine obviously) and I would like to be able to fight like Jason Bourne, not that I would you understand sometimes it would be nice to know I could. I promise I will work on the patience and temper tantrums first!
Play a simple tune on an instrument
It could be three blind mice on a recorder and I'd be happy.
I love music, but I have zero musical ability. I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours but I think that God's got a sick sense of humour...
I wish...
I wish I could be more decisive about what to contribute to this thread. That's nearly a week now.