Can you roll your tongue?

I was just haunted by memories of me being the only person in my biology class who couldn't roll their tongue


So how many people here can do it?

 

If you mean make a u-shape, no.

I can roll a cigarette on a moving motorcycle though, so I don't feel like I'm missing out.

 

Yes, and it makes me superior to you in every way.

 

Can you roll a cigarette while riding a motorcycle though, Mr. Superior?

 

I have never tried.

Probably not on the first try. I did roll a cigg while riding a bycicle once.

Yet I am genetically superior to all of you!

I claim divine right!

 

Fine, I concede

 

The bicycle is okay for monkeys and beginners.

Be a real man.

 

Ok, you beat me.

You can be the king now.

I will go and roll my tongue in woe.

 

by that you mean WALK hundreds of miles, tens of them EVERY day?

that might be ok, but screw all the gender based perspective crap, nothing is as gratifying as seeing and riding both, little narrow gauge railways propelled by stored energy and recharged from a clean grid.

=^^=
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I've only ever ridden a narrow-gauuge railway once, from Kalka to Shimla in Himachal Pradesh in Northern India. The British built it to ferry the aristocracy up and down from the hill-stations.
It was beautifully scenic and fun, despite my sick girlfriend.

What I was actually referring to was that BSR should try rolling a cigarette while riding a motorcycle, not a bike.

 

ah yes, i see what you mean. i do envy that you've actually ridden that thing. if i were ever to get over that way that is one of the main things i'd do so for. that and the other one to the east of nepal in the northern end of west bangal province. the darjeeling himalian.

all i've got is a ton of pictures taken by other people, and maps, both glomed off the internet. but there was once one from the town i grew up in to a larger town 25 miles away and away from the standard gauge main line. it was already gone when i lived there, but the right of way was still intact and i used to walk it. did indeed walk it all the 25 mile way from the one town to the other.

i was very glad i knew someone in the other town i could bum a ride back wtih though.

my one physical handicap in life is that, the way my tongue is, it's physicaly impossible to roll it at all.

i have had a couple of powered two wheelers at different times in my life. never that big enough ones to take on the freeway, but ones light enough to manuver through the back country which is what i did with them and had them for.

human powered two wheelers i've also had. there's even one out in the shed now. that needs new tubes and tyres that i've been meaning to get arround to replacing for last ten years and somehow never quite seem to get arround to.

=^^=
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I unfortunately haven't yet visited the darjeeling area but I will, one day.

As for the railway, I didn't know that there were that many of these narrow-gauge railways about. That one in India is the only one I've ever ridden and it was amazing.
It moved so slowly, you could really take in all the beautiful sights and smells. Sometimes, on really steep ascents, you would see workers in the surrounding forest walking past the train.
The whole railway system in India is amazing. I think that they have more miles of line than any other country in the world and they are also the country's largest employer.

Trains are definitely my favourite mode of public transport.

 

that must have been a pretty amazing class. if it weren't for you they probably would have set some sort of record. i think statistically there should only be a couple that can in an average-sized class...

 

i didn't know it was something that some people couldn't do.

still, i've never managed to tie a cherry stem with my tongue. my mother being a record holder in that particular event sorta took away the sexiness for me.

 

No, I cant.

 

The more I hear the more I like.

 

I can tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue. When I was like ten I thought it would impress boys so I spent AGES teaching myself how.

Then I found out that if I just had sex with them, that worked at least as well.

 

I want a HF knot-tying contest.

 

I can roll my tongue with my Rs and I can also roll the uvula in my throat to make R sounds too.

 

So speaking French is useful in the real world.