Things I've started to learn and lost interest in...
In no particular order:

HTML
C+
Visual Basic
Harmonica
Piano
Fencing
Judo
French
Italian
EDIT: and the ukulele too...

It amazes me to this day that I've managed to learn to play the guitar
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 16:55, 10 replies)

You HAVE to take up the piano.
It's not quite as RAWK as the guitar I'll grant you, but then with a guitar you don't have an orchestra at your fingertips...
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Tue 29 Jun 2010, 21:17, closed)

you do
orchestra ladies LOVE guitarists (this was supposed to be a 'fingering' type joke, but i'm struggling)
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 21:27, closed)

Years of studying music alongside such ladies...
sadly proves that they do not.

Perhaps, being a pianist as well, I was considered some sort of shadowy interloper?
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Tue 29 Jun 2010, 22:51, closed)

could be
your aftershave.

I'm pretty hopeless on a guitar, but I have one or two little ditties that I have precticed the living days lights out of, and can sort of give the impression I'm much better than I am.

In my wilder days, before marriage and kids, this led to the occasional success.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 10:45, closed)

Every time I hear Tim Minchin it makes me wish I could play the piano...
I've not been listening to him much lately though, since I've only ever heard or seen him with Nina... and in fact heard of him through her too.

Fuck, everywhere I look there's another painful thing...

*can almost hear Nina shouting "Eeeeemmmooooooo!" and pointing at me*
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 9:59, closed)

Perhaps find a different awesome pianist type comedian for a while to start with...
I can only think of Bill Bailey or, slightly less relevant, Les Dawson at the moment...

Umm...
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Wed 30 Jun 2010, 20:44, closed)

you need to add ukulele to that list :)

( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 21:26, closed)

See, I didn't even finish the list properly!

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 9:56, closed)

I see that you didn't even get as far...
...as learning the second "+" in "C++".

_{(Yes, I know I'm making fun of a typo. I am a bad man.)}
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 10:13, closed)

Ha, indeed. I'll leave it like that, don't want you to feel foolish ;)

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 11:27, closed)

I tried
BASIC
C++
Delphi
Visual Basic
HTML
HTML again

The only one I was any where past poor (as opposed to piss poor) was BBC BASIC. The others I didn't even get past 'Hel...'
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 22:20, closed)

Forget C++ anyway
C#/.NET is where it's at.

/anorak
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 1 Jul 2010, 10:12, closed)