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What is the one thing you can’t do, no matter how hard you try?

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Tom Jackson answered

Believe it or not---homosexuality.

As a straight male in thought and action I simply have no place to put the concept.

And while it is tempting to approach understanding it by simply replacing an opposite sex object with one of the same sex and keeping all of the emotional and intellectual internal workings the same, I think that would be a great disservice to all homosexuals.

Should I be subject to an unexpected epiphany, I would welcome it; but I will not seek it actively.

Live and let live.

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Tom Jackson commented
@Didge

Same for me, Didge. It has some additional meaning attached to it, and I do like the word.

Specialized vocabularies facilitate communication among the initiated; not so much if you are not a specialist. I occasionally use a world that is probably not in comment usage to look it up to understand what I have said.

That's probably not always appropriate, but I'm still human.
Call me Z
Call me Z commented
Fret not, Tom, etymology is a dying art, one worth saving.
Tom  Jackson
Tom Jackson commented
Ah, an intervention---just in time, I was getting depressed and becoming hopeless---lol
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Call me Z answered

Dunk a basketball. Jk (I really can't)

Excuse or tolerate for very long those people with the capability to improve their lot, but lack the intiative, and complain about it.

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PJ Stein answered

I cannot whistle.

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Yin And Yang answered

The obvious for me is cooking but secretly deep down, it feels I can not succeed at life in the eyes of the world no matter how hard I try! I am a certified, bonified, PHD in failure with straight F's to be exact!

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Yin And Yang
Yin And Yang commented
Now that is one of the sweetest things. Thank you so much my friend. It means a lot to me to know I have made you smile. ☺
I will get better. I always do. I am just feeling the weight of the world squashing me right now.
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
I learned a long time ago that "in the eyes of the world" doesn't cut it. Yin, you come across as well balanced, intelligent, thoughtful, entertaining, and well able to cope. It doesn't help[ to look at what others appear to have achieved and measure ourselves against them. In those terms my own life is a total failure and, believe me, I don't feel like a failure at all.
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Aw, shucks. You're welcome, Yin. You'd BETTER get better, ya hear......else I'll have to leave my important duties, to find you and come have a chat with you!
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Didge Doo answered

I have a weird disability that doesn't allow me to make comparisons. My five senses seem to be just a little off. For example, if I want to know whether to things are the same size i have to measure them or lay one on top of the other.

And, like Gator Blu, I can't whistle, goldurn it.

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Levi F. answered

I can't understand transgenderism. As homosexual as I am, I'm still all man and have no desire to be a woman. I don't get what it's like to feel you are not the gender you were born as.

But I'm not hostile to it. I don't hate things I can't understand.

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ly fen chen answered

There are not only one thing that I can't do it, I have met several things that I need help, if no I can't do it, they are as : Programming on net, downloading somethings special, etc.

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Nealious James answered

Hello! It will have to be to not tell things how
they are! If I am arguing about an issue that I condone, I will definitely not
be able to beat around the bush. I have tried to be less direct and soft, but
it just doesn’t work. That’s it!

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