UNI again
Never understood why Ian at Uni claimed these two things:
1) That he had never learnt to ride a bike, or
2) That he couldn't read the time on a clock/watch.

I mean, there's lies that boast, like I shagged Tina Turner, and then there are pointless lies that just make you think, 'bollocks'.

Oh, he was a scouser...
(reknaw, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 11:06, 7 replies)

I've never learnt to ride a bike
I'm 20
( Cap'n Tallbeard, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 12:43, closed)

I'm crap at reading proper watches...
Takes me bloody ages compared to others, as I work out which hand I'm looking for...

S'what happens growing up with digital clocks all over.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 14:43, closed)

He might not be lying about the clocks
It might just be true.
Some people just have a 'blind spot' when it comes to things like that.
I saw someone on a documentary once who just didn't get numbers. He wasn't daft, they just didn't make sense to him.
There is a kid I teach who draws every thing upside-down and doesn't know he's doing it!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 1 Dec 2007, 15:41, closed)

Never learnt to ride a bike either
just never tried.
( StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 15:50, closed)

Mrs Livebin
So true about the clocks. At school, I was always really good at french, but i frequently got crap marks when we had to do the telling the time part of the Tricolour books (remember those? Je m'appelle Jean Claude, et j'habite a La Rochelle...)

The reason I got crap marks wasnt because I didnt know the french but because I couldnt tell the sodding time... I was about 13. I eventually had to 'fess up to my teacher who thought it was fucking hilarious and made me have remedial telling the time lessons at lunch break.

*the shame*
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:24, closed)

I can't ride a bike,
and it takes mew almost a minute sometimes to work out what time my watch says it is.

I'm 24 and training to be a lawyer. I fail.
(MrTrent cannot think of a clever sig., Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:33, closed)

I had never ridden a pushbike in my life until last year.
Having said that, I now have a motorcycle license.

Just goes to show, it's never too late.
(Half of Stephen Fry's right buttock pissed on your dog on, Wed 5 Dec 2007, 14:20, closed)