It can be something practical, like another language or knowing a sefer inside and out, or something simple, like making chocolate mousse, or something completely far-fetched, like open-heart surgery.

If you could, what would you learn?

how to play the piano

You surprised me!

How to be irresistible to women.

Okay, THAT made me laugh.

How to sail.

photography.

The major halachic works.
Another four semesters of math.
Computers. Manything about them.

Unfortunately I'm too lazy.

Oh, I decided this time to answer my own question.

If I could, I'd learn:

- to play piano and guitar, and maybe sax or harpsicord
- to sing opera
- complete fluency in hebrew, yiddish, russian, italian, japanese, farsi, arabic, latin and norwegian
- advanced accounting
- how to snowboard without falling on my ######
- how to tie my shoes "the right way" (and save myself the constant delays as people point tu "your shoes are untied!")
- AJAX
- C++
- how to fly a cessna and a commercial airliner
- studio lighting
- how to make an amazing napoleon and bakery-quality rugelach from scratch
- which people say they're my friends, and which ones really are
- the next month's lottery ticket numbers
- how to invest wisely (even without the lottery winnings)
- conversant familiarity with local and israeli politics (and then be able to have an opinion on them)
- how to read people
- the lyrics to every song I like

Well that's easy. The people who are there for you on a rainy day are your real friends.

Hmm, not quite that easy. A lot of people will "there, there", then hang up the phone or go home and not give you another thought. I don't think I know anyone who truly cares on an on-going basis about what I go through - are they really not friends, or are they just friends who aren't that close or emotionally invested?

Well when I say be there for you I mean truly be there. Not just say "there there". I only have true friend. We've been friends since we were three and nothing has changed ever since. I have lots of friends I'm not nearly as close with though.

As far as I'm concerned, a real friend is someone you can really be yourself around. And even if circumstances make it difficult to see each other for a few months (or years) you can pick up right where you left off. Fake friendships are circumstancial. But then my definitions are kind of narrow.

I had a friend I was very close to that was similar to the above, but once our lifestyles diverged significantly, it became nearly impossible to maintain the friendship. I think degrees of friendship are very nuanced and there are a million shades of gray between the black and the white.

-As many languages as I Possibly can, Starting with Arabic, Urdu, Polish, Spanish, Dutch, French etc...
-How to be a good dad
-Graphology
-Modern Cryptography
-Studio Photography

- How to draw professional level manga/comics.
- How to bake professional quality cakes and cookies.
- Haute couture
- More languages: improve my French and German, and learn Mandarin, Korean, Thai, Lithuanian, Russian, Irish Gaelic, Basque
- How to play violin, electric guitar and clarinet.
- Japanese calligraphy (shoudo)
- Western calligraphy
- How to park a car.

How to play piano and guitar.
How to drive.
How to, with confidence, wash and style my own sheitels.

You can start by Browsing tutorials here, or get inspired here.

Handywork. If I could rewire the house, put up drywall, and learn how to replace the roof, that would be awsome.
Any learning languages would be my 2nd choice. I've tried and failed to learn anything but English.

Chinese (11 out of 14 of my co-workers speak Mandarin as their first language) and how to drive a stick.

how to sew and another language.

How to speak Hebrew.

- learn how to gut and clean a fish
- learn how to drive a stick shift
- learn how to make pottery
- learn how to make a J-turn

- how people work, and how to inspire and help them
- what the right choices are

To fly a plane and a helicopter.
To roll my tongue.
To walk with my feet pointed straight.
To be able to understand and talk to animals.
How not to miss the toilet.
Why uncivilized people hang the TP upside down.

This drives my son crazy. All my other kids are tongue-rollers except for him.


Can you wiggle your ears?

你好

I never bothered to check...

The ability to roll your tounge is genetic, not a learned behavior.

I'm hereby rejecting any invitation to my home that I may have issued...

It is well within the parameters of this thread...

Yup. It counts.

As your current home is like 1000 miles from anywhere I'll EVER be, I am not overly distraught.....

To draw stuff other than cartoons
Slavic languages
Piano (I started once)
Guitar
Carpentry

Not for long

and I meant "rescinding" in the original post; I'm just too lazy to go edit...

Rescinding your rejection or rejecting your rescinding?

Pottery
How to quilt
Fix things like my sink
how to clean things with little work
how to tile

Potter's skill. I would like to work with china-clay.