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Tannin 
Can't remember
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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What activity are you good at that you reckon ought to become an Olympic sport?
What household or garden task are you really good at? Are you brilliant at folding sheets? Truly in the elite class when it comes to painting window frames? A superb pot scrubber? Just a natural-born genius when it comes to getting the doona back inside the cover? One of the great trailer-backers? In a class of your own so far as pruning roses is concerned?
How about an Olympic event just for your skill?
Me, I reckon they should have an event where you have to shovel sand or gravel off a pile and throw each shovelful on exactly the spot you are aiming for; various angles and distances, extra points for cross-wind and downhill shots. Dunno if I'd win a medal, but I reckon I'd be a fancied contender in the final.
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David 
to wish impossible things
Joined: 27 Jul 2003
Location: the edge of the deep green sea
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Washing dishes. I'm not fast, by any means, but by Golly am I thorough.
Of course, I would prefer that word didn't get around about this, for obvious reasons.
(Oh, and I'm also an extremely fast walker! I can power-walk my way out of the most crowded train station. But that is an Olympic sport, so maybe I should start training...  )
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swoop42 
Whatcha gonna do when he comes for you?
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I'm the worlds best when it comes to getting rid of hiccups.
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David
to wish impossible things
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What's your secret?
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Skids 
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
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Digging holes, 32 years as a plumber I can make a banjo sing!
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luvdids 
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Putting together IKEA furniture.
Had to be a natural at something 
And can carry 4 slabs of beer at once, bit difficult to see but if I'm just going straight I manage. I don't know if that's many? Maybe for a woman it's not a bad effort?? |
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5150
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| swoop42 wrote: | | I'm the worlds best when it comes to getting rid of hiccups. |
I wish to challenge you for this title.
My technique borders on 100% success rate.
David can be the test subject. A box of salada's scoffed quickly should bring them on. |
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think positive
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Joined: 30 Jun 2005
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| luvdids wrote: | Putting together IKEA furniture.
Had to be a natural at something
And can carry 4 slabs of beer at once, bit difficult to see but if I'm just going straight I manage. I don't know if that's many? Maybe for a woman it's not a bad effort?? |
I've never tried the slabs but I'll give you a run for your money on the ikea! E Ryan time I see them struggle on the block I think" shit they're dumb!"
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
Location: Joined 3/6/02 . Member #175
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And can carry 4 slabs of beer at once, bit difficult to see but if I'm just going straight I manage. I don't know if that's many? Maybe for a woman it's not a bad effort?? |
4  if they're cans that's around 40kg .... how far do you carry 'em? that's a mighty effort, man or woman!
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David
to wish impossible things
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| 5150 wrote: | | swoop42 wrote: | | I'm the worlds best when it comes to getting rid of hiccups. |
I wish to challenge you for this title.
My technique borders on 100% success rate.
David can be the test subject. A box of salada's scoffed quickly should bring them on. |
So long as no goats are involved, I'm willing. 
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3.14159 
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I used to be good at drop the lobster.
Dtl is a game played with a shot glass, a bottle of Gajliano and a lighter.
The aim is the drink the shot with-out bending your arm after it has been set alight.
I don't remember why I started playing this game but it was in a Geraldton pub and I was very good at it.
That night a local cray skipper challenged me to a game and as I never refused a drink I took him on.
I managed 8 or 9 before I finally slipped up, 2 clear of my opponent, the local champion.
Later that night a bloke gave me a job on his lobster boat.
Any-how,
Sadly my sporting prowess was short-lived.
On the first morning out the crew gave my gear, basically a raincoat with a pair of red gloves and a knife.
I had a shocking hang-over on the long ride out to the ocean feeling very green in the gills.
Half way through the first set, I was heaving on the rolling deck just as the boat healed and pitched.
Some-how I managed to stumble over the transom in a rain-coat and steel-cap boots with my face bright red from the previous nights burns.
it seemed a long time before my crew realized I was no-longer on board, stopped winching in the pots and turned the bloody thing around.
I spent about 20 mins floating around in the warm sea, contemplating life the universe and just just about everthing in between (including what was in Gerladton for and why did have to pick that pub etc etc...
They hove into view and hauled me aboard.
They told me my face was so red (from the burns) and my red mitts like claws they thought they'd caught the biggest rock-lobster that had ever existed and anyway, they all ways finish the set before they pick up hitch-hikers (to this day I'm not sure if they were serious).
Anyway I was young and they were impressed with my drinking and eye hand co-ordination and forgave me my slip.
They asked if I wanted to go out again tomorrow?
I thanked them but declined.
I'd decided that floating around like a cork on the ocean wasn't the life for me, "no sea legs.. what's a young bloke to do?" i told them
It was the last time I was in Gerlaldton,
It was the last time I tried to a land a lobster.
It's also where my Olympic dream sank,
30k's of the West Australian coast.
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Tannin
Can't remember
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^ one of the great yarns
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005
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| luvdids wrote: | Putting together IKEA furniture.
Had to be a natural at something
And can carry 4 slabs of beer at once, bit difficult to see but if I'm just going straight I manage. I don't know if that's many? Maybe for a woman it's not a bad effort?? |
4 slabs of cans is a big effort, 4 slabs of stubbies would be massive.
I'm very good at a lot of different and diverse things, but I honestly can't think of any i'd claim to be Olympic class in.
Re the beer, I can take a slab of cans off the top of the pile in the cool room one handed and carry it out the same way, and I can pick up a box of 6 bottles of wine one handed (no handles)
I'd give Tannin some competition at his shoveling, flat pack furniture is no problem, flaming galiano's I've done before (but never with the need to keep a straight arm, how does that work?) but you can shove washing dishes where the sun doesn't shine.
Maybe there could be something like the equivalent of the modern pentathlon.
1. Assemble a new flatpack entertainment unit
2. Connect the new flatscreen TV up to the surround sound system and the WIFI and tune everything in.
3. Replace the Kitchen sink with a new one, including replacing the taps (handles and spigots) and surrounding benchtop and tiles
4. Cook a slap up feed for 6 people (leave the dishes for David to wash in the new sink). One of the courses has to be a Chili based dish that could strip paint.
5. While doing these first 4 things, you are working your way through a slab of cans and a bottle of Absinthe. Once one of these is finished and the other is at least half finished, you've finished the final event.
Anyone fancy a go?
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Can we share? I'll do 1 2 and the 2nd half of 5
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luvdids
Joined: 22 Mar 2008
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| stui magpie wrote: | | luvdids wrote: | Putting together IKEA furniture.
Had to be a natural at something
And can carry 4 slabs of beer at once, bit difficult to see but if I'm just going straight I manage. I don't know if that's many? Maybe for a woman it's not a bad effort?? |
4 slabs of cans is a big effort, 4 slabs of stubbies would be massive.
I'm very good at a lot of different and diverse things, but I honestly can't think of any i'd claim to be Olympic class in.
Re the beer, I can take a slab of cans off the top of the pile in the cool room one handed and carry it out the same way, and I can pick up a box of 6 bottles of wine one handed (no handles)
I'd give Tannin some competition at his shoveling, flat pack furniture is no problem, flaming galiano's I've done before (but never with the need to keep a straight arm, how does that work?) but you can shove washing dishes where the sun doesn't shine.
Maybe there could be something like the equivalent of the modern pentathlon.
1. Assemble a new flatpack entertainment unit
2. Connect the new flatscreen TV up to the surround sound system and the WIFI and tune everything in.
3. Replace the Kitchen sink with a new one, including replacing the taps (handles and spigots) and surrounding benchtop and tiles
4. Cook a slap up feed for 6 people (leave the dishes for David to wash in the new sink). One of the courses has to be a Chili based dish that could strip paint.
5. While doing these first 4 things, you are working your way through a slab of cans and a bottle of Absinthe. Once one of these is finished and the other is at least half finished, you've finished the final event.
Anyone fancy a go? |
Yeah but you've got massive hands, that stuff should be easy for you.
As for the pentathlon - I'll do 1, pass on the rest.
Hooking stuff up (for me) is a nightmare. I drew a diagram of the back of my tv last time I moved and made notes of which plugs went in which holes. If it was left up to me to connect it all I'd just have a big black centrepiece on my tv cabinet. Foxtel man will get the job this time.... 'would you be able to hook up my DVD player while you're there, please??'  |
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