Question #208

[weofodthignen]

Poll #24241 Skills

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Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

Which of these can you do?

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knit
5 (62.5%)

make a stuffed toy from a sewing pattern
7 (87.5%)

crochet
2 (25.0%)

embroider
6 (75.0%)

build a brick wall
3 (37.5%)

find your way across country with map and compass
8 (100.0%)

join two pieces of rope securely
8 (100.0%)

ski
2 (25.0%)

ice skate
4 (50.0%)

ride a bicycle
5 (62.5%)

ride a horse
4 (50.0%)

Morse code
0 (0.0%)

semaphore
0 (0.0%)

program a computer
5 (62.5%)

put a broken arm in a sling
6 (75.0%)

start a fire without matches or a lighter
5 (62.5%)

make a lean-to in the woods
6 (75.0%)

recognize most of the birds in your area
4 (50.0%)

recognize most of the birds in your area by their calls
2 (25.0%)

pitch a tent without the instructions
8 (100.0%)

identify more than three constellations (or "asterisms")
4 (50.0%)

find your way by the stars
2 (25.0%)

row across a body of water
6 (75.0%)

paddle a canoe
6 (75.0%)

safely fell a tree
4 (50.0%)

put up a shelf
6 (75.0%)

solve a Rubik's cube
1 (12.5%)

do a decent serve at tennis
2 (25.0%)

throw/bowl a ball with spin
2 (25.0%)

three ballroom dance steps
1 (12.5%)

sail a yacht single-handed
1 (12.5%)

solve a differential equation with paper and pencil
3 (37.5%)

tell a good joke
6 (75.0%)

bottle feed a baby (human or one or more other mammals)
5 (62.5%)

put a cloth diaper/nappy on a baby using a safety pin
3 (37.5%)

eat spaghetti in a fancy restaurant
7 (87.5%)

eat soup in a fancy restaurant
8 (100.0%)

peel an apple and get a single spiral of peel
3 (37.5%)

sharpen a knife
4 (50.0%)

prune a rose bush
5 (62.5%)

Comments

[trelana]

Answers based on my abilities pre-MS, anyway.

[siliconshaman]

Some of those not necessarily well but I can do them.

[arlie]

I skipped two that I could have done at one time. (Semaphore and differential equations.) More if you count things I could have done/can still do but only extremely badly, or am not sure whether I could do. (E.g. I probably could start a fire with a magnifying glass, but if I tried I might find there are tricks I don't know.)

[weofodthignen]

Yes, some of these I can do, but not well; for example I never did master rowing in a straight line.

[dubhain]

I don't say that I can do all of them well, anymore. I've mobility and chronic pain issues. But...yeah.

Also, I'm a horrible knitter, as I can't stand the feel of the yarn going through my fingers. It's a texture thing. But I can and have, technically, knitted. *g.*

I don't say I can do morse code, as I don't know anything beyond SOS. Although I suppose that's the same as my knitting answer. *G.*

[weofodthignen]

LOL nah, you can knit. See above—I would eventually get across the pond, but in a very drunken sort of line.

[ravan]

I omitted the things I used to be able to do but now can't due to disability.