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[outsider]

It's funny how "Basic" is regional.

LOL, if you want to get really regional, I've never been hunting (so I don't know how to 'field dress' anything), and I haven't been fishing in more than two decades (and I've never gutted a fish--don't care to, either!)

I have shot a handgun and rifle, though, but even that was more than a decade ago.

[Keb]

It's funny how "Basic" is regional.
Changing Oil or Spark Plugs is not considered basic knowledge round here.
Ice skating (I'm assuming the Canadian is talking about ice) is borderline, but I'm sure it's not "basic" down south.

Oh, and I don't know how to play chess either.

Skating is basic when your dad was a hockey player

And chess isn't basic.

[outsider]

And chess isn't basic.

Really? I thought it was a basic board game that most everybody knew, along with checkers?
Now backgammon, htf does that game go?

[John Q.]

Really? I thought it was a basic board game that most everybody knew, along with checkers?
Now backgammon, htf does that game go?

Backgammon is actually pretty simple, and it's a great game

[Keb]

Really? I thought it was a basic board game that most everybody knew, along with checkers?
Now backgammon, htf does that game go?

I don't think it's a basic thing, no. You don't HAVE to know how to play board games, do you? And you'd be surprised at how many people don't know how to play chess, and how many don't know how to play it properly.

[KingPagla]

Skating is basic when your dad was a hockey player

Right, that's what I meant.
Up in Canada, skating is a very basic skill. If you don't skate, you fail.
Here, in NYC it's one of those things that most kids learn, but you don't get made fun of if you can't.

[outsider]

You don't HAVE to know how to play board games, do you?

If you want to survive the hellalong wait at Cracker Barrell, yes, you do!

(for the record, I find Cracker Barrell = ick )

[Spidey-Man]

A lot of people don't know how to play chess. It's not quite as simple as checkers.

[C20Percent]

Add me to the list of people that can't drive a stick. I tried to get my step-father to teach me once, and the conversation went like this:

Me: "John, will you teach me how to drive a stick-shift?"
Stepfather: "Not in my car."

I'm also terrible at carving turkey at Thanksgiving. I've got no knack for it at all.

[nietoperz]

Really? I thought it was a basic board game that most everybody knew, along with checkers?
Now backgammon, htf does that game go?

Backgammon is the game of Kings! I just love it and could play it all day.

I never learned to play Poker though - never will either, I suspect.

[False Prophet]

I can't drive stick and I've never been hunting.

I also suck at HTML.

I've never built a webpage.

[Dragavon]

Know how to play chess, but don't know how to play it well (Know which piece can move where, but would get demolished in a real game)
Don't know how to play poker.
Could theoretically change the oil in my car as well as the sparkplugs (but that would require me to look stuff up first)
Don't know how to drive stick, probably will never learn.
Can handle chopsticks but not well.
Never really learned how to cook. (The first thing my mom showed me was how to clean a chicken. That made me not want to learn anything else)

The list goes on and on...

[nietoperz]

It's amazing to me how many Americans learn to drive in automatic cars. In Europe one tends to learn on a stickshift just because it's more useful. If you can drive stick you can drive automatic but the reverse isn't true.

Plus, it's more fun to drive a stick!

[Dragavon]

It's amazing to me how many Americans learn to drive in automatic cars. In Europe one tends to learn on a stickshift just because it's more useful. If you can drive stick you can drive automatic but the reverse isn't true.

Plus, it's more fun to drive a stick!

I don't think we have that many sticks here.

[toolverine]

It's amazing to me how many Americans learn to drive in automatic cars. In Europe one tends to learn on a stickshift just because it's more useful. If you can drive stick you can drive automatic but the reverse isn't true.

Plus, it's more fun to drive a stick!

Driving hilly terrain with traffic in a manual vehicle in the city is really difficult. I don't know if you guys have hills like that there, but it's a pain.