Your Personal Kryptonite

[El Presidente]

Your personal kryptonite? 

 

According to Hamlet, I am possibly the only guy of Spanish blood without a lick of rhythm. 

Let's just say that wedding dancing lessons are proving......well.....challenging. I have found my personal kryptonite 

 

........you can't be good at everything 

[HarveyBoulevard]

Donuts...

[Ford2112]

Big boobs. Gets me in trouble.

[cgoodrich]

Can’t carry a tune to save my life!

[Bri Fi]

Summer dresses. Almost gotten into several accidents as a result of that damn material. 

[Michael303]

Carbs in any form.  

[riderpride]

Reece Peanut Butter cups.

That, and the bloodlust I feel when my daughter (10yrs) is kicking the crap out of her opponents in karate/kickboxong. Especially a boy so pathetic that he feels the need to cheat 

[Ken Gargett]

2 hours ago, El Presidente said:

Your personal kryptonite? 

 

According to Hamlet, I am possibly the only guy of Spanish blood without a lick of rhythm. 

Let's just say that wedding dancing lessons are proving......well.....challenging. I have found my personal kryptonite 

 

........you can't be good at everything 

everything? you want a list?

mind you, this does remind me of travelling Africa a squillion years ago. we were in some tiny town in the middle of nowhere. the local club was an old straw hut with more gaps than walls. they had a light machine - basically two different coloured bits of cellophane that they'd swap every now and again. and a small cassette player for the music. lots of good beer though - primus. 

but what i'll never forget was the utter and complete lack of rhythm among the entire crowd. all my stereotypes flew out the door. i had expected to be overwhelmed. instead, lord spare us. when i am the best dancer in a club, you know the place is in serious trouble. i can still remember thinking that the ploace reminded me of what one would expect if one had tried to instill some coordination into half dead zombies and simply got bored and left them half way through. the entire place was a maleria-ridden trainwreck.  

[westg]

Spearmint milk ...or anything with mint  in it . How anyone can drink this is beyond me....I find it so sickening 

[Fuzz]

I'm a middle aged Asian guy. Automatically there is no form of dancing that I can do. At best I can do this....

 

But my real Kryptonite? Redheaded ladies.

 

[Nocoins]

1 hour ago, chasy said:

3rd cocktail of the night...

James Thurber was right on. One martini is all right. Two’s too many. Three are never enough.

My kryptonite Is basketball. I can play most any other sport passably to pretty well, and I feel like an antelope in a pool on a basketball court. 

[NSXCIGAR]

Can play pretty much any sport except tennis. When I try to hit a tennis ball it's like I'm trying to throw a ball left handed. Not pretty. 

Can't draw, can't sculpt, can't paint. Not artistic in any way. 

Can't do carpentry or woodwork. Always been good with mechanics and tools but I can't cut a board to save my life. What's funny is that my father is the exact opposite. Good with carpentry but can't do mechanics. 

[Bill Hayes]

1. Coffee Martinis

2. Karaoke - always pick the wrong song, freeze and can't sing anyway.

3. Computers

4. Basketball - why can't I use my hip and shoulder to edge my opponent off the ball? And why is the ball so bloody heavy FFS?

5. Hip Hop Dancing - would just love to do it. Was with mates in Vegas and we'd had a few and asked the cab driver to take us somewhere cool that's still open. Was playing up the retro 70's ganster style with a fur collared green check patterned lumbar jacket, wide collar rayon shirt and burnt orange plaid flared pants. Anyhoo, he takes us to Dre's. A full on hip hop dance club. 3 suburban cricket players from Australia and a room full of people with baseball caps, trainers, baggy pants and serious moves. Ha ha! One of my fav nights there actually. It was like a TV show with dance offs. We stood out so I thought let's just own this. So, we strutted in like connected dealers or something and took up residence in a booth up the front. I thought, this is actually working when 3 sexy, cool African American babes came and sat at the booth with us. Then she asked me to dance. "Just having a drink, maybe later". And whoosh, they were gone. Ha ha! I don't know what would of been worse. Embarrassing myself with a flakey suburban shuffle or missing out on embarrassing myself. Still kick myself for not giving it a crack.

Love/Hate - Negronis

[Cigar Surgeon]

Chocolate. Very attractive brunettes.

Not necessarily in that order.

[Puros Y Vino]

13 hours ago, Ford2112 said:

Big boobs. Gets me in trouble.

Have you considered a reduction?  😁🤣

As for me, I'll add the following.

A Krispy Kreme opened up close to my house.  I cannot walk by it without buying one of their Oreo Cookies N Creme donuts and mashing it into my face in under 30 seconds.  😔

[gormag38]

Much like others in this thread......dancing. God I suck.

I had a date once tell me 'a girl knows how good a guy is in bed by how he dances'......I made sure we didn't go dancing that night. 

[Frozen North]

Ju-Jubes. They’re a soft candy. With absolutely no nutritional value.

[MrBirdman]

Potato chips and, my god, Cheez-Its. My only solution was keto where eating them will literally make me feel like crap for a day. 

So great is my passion for Cheez-Its that when I graduated high school my aunt bought me a flat of 16 one pound boxes. Suffice it to say I showed up to University with the “freshman-15” already in tow. 

[El Hoze]

I have certainly had a few attractive women short circuit my brain over the years. 

Assembling things. My best buddy builds custom homes, I can barely assemble a Weber grill without breaking something. After college I went to Ikea and bought a bunch of furniture, I broke every item during assembly and returned it all. Luckily my wife is handy and has alot more patience than I do. 

[BrightonCorgi]

My wife and I took dancing lessons.  Just need a waltz to be played, lol. 

[westg]

14 hours ago, Bill Hayes said:

1. Coffee Martinis

2. Karaoke - always pick the wrong song, freeze and can't sing anyway.

3. Computers

4. Basketball - why can't I use my hip and shoulder to edge my opponent off the ball? And why is the ball so bloody heavy FFS?

5. Hip Hop Dancing - would just love to do it. Was with mates in Vegas and we'd had a few and asked the cab driver to take us somewhere cool that's still open. Was playing up the retro 70's ganster style with a fur collared green check patterned lumbar jacket, wide collar rayon shirt and burnt orange plaid flared pants. Anyhoo, he takes us to Dre's. A full on hip hop dance club. 3 suburban cricket players from Australia and a room full of people with baseball caps, trainers, baggy pants and serious moves. Ha ha! One of my fav nights there actually. It was like a TV show with dance offs. We stood out so I thought let's just own this. So, we strutted in like connected dealers or something and took up residence in a booth up the front. I thought, this is actually working when 3 sexy, cool African American babes came and sat at the booth with us. Then she asked me to dance. "Just having a drink, maybe later". And whoosh, they were gone. Ha ha! I don't know what would of been worse. Embarrassing myself with a flakey suburban shuffle or missing out on embarrassing myself. Still kick myself for not giving it a crack.

Love/Hate - Negronis

Totally agree with the coffee / espresso martini thing .

[westg]

21 hours ago, Fuzz said:

I'm a middle aged Asian guy. Automatically there is no form of dancing that I can do. At best I can do this....

 

But my real Kryptonite? Redheaded ladies.

 

Ohhhhj    What is wrong with ranga women ? 

[Chibearsv]

Any musical instrument. I love listening to music but could never play a lick. I couldn’t manage a tambourine.  Dancing?  I suck but I’ve learned that no one else cares. 😁

[Fuzz]

1 hour ago, westg said:

Ohhhhj    What is wrong with ranga women ? 

Nothing wrong with them. Just like Kryptonite fells the mighty Superman, redheaded ladies do the same to me.

[jakebarnes]

Selling myself in interviews. Just pretty bad at the interview process. Put a beer or cigar in my hand and an informal environment and let me talk and I'm getting the job 99/100.

Super weird since I usually speak to regulators, legislators, boards, et al on a regular basis without flinching.