What are some skills you wished you had learned as a kid? - /pol/ (#510840115) [Archived: 251 hours ago]

Anonymous ID: SV5Yar+xUnited States
7/20/2025, 12:51:18 AM No.510840115
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Political or otherwise
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Anonymous ID: 5AIcrYtjUnited States
7/20/2025, 12:53:20 AM No.510840247
no future
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>>510840115 (OP)
Unironically people skills
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Anonymous ID: 4OFWnqHkMorocco
7/20/2025, 12:53:24 AM No.510840252
>>510840115 (OP)
Socialize
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Anonymous ID: SV5Yar+xUnited States
7/20/2025, 12:54:20 AM No.510840311
>>510840247
>>510840252
Social skills usually happen when youโ€™re exposed to a lot of people, both good and bad
Anonymous ID: HPWl/K9BCanada
7/20/2025, 12:54:34 AM No.510840333
>>510840247
>>510840252
These
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Anonymous ID: BgvTuuRBUnited States
7/20/2025, 12:54:48 AM No.510840349
>>510840333
This
Anonymous ID: wKc9lhNTUnited States
7/20/2025, 12:56:24 AM No.510840458
>>510840115 (OP)
I wish I could Identify plants and trees better.
Anonymous ID: EYg28MZVUnited States
7/20/2025, 12:57:55 AM No.510840551
>>510840115 (OP)
how to do laundry
Anonymous ID: aWy0RT9KUnited States
7/20/2025, 12:59:00 AM No.510840636
>>510840115 (OP)
picking up a trade.
going to boy scouts
farming , animal husbandry.

i had a brother and sister to socialize.
i learned that if you want to "escape society" you gotta start pretty young.
i don't think communes want a 40 year old who worked in mental health their entire life.
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Anonymous ID: BHhBDplGUnited States
7/20/2025, 12:59:48 AM No.510840691
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>>510840115 (OP)
awoooing
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7/20/2025, 1:04:30 AM No.510841045
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>>510840115 (OP)

Welding. Seems damn useful.
Anonymous ID: zvV0kcHu
7/20/2025, 1:19:49 AM No.510842040
Wrestling or crypto trading
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Anonymous ID: r+NUe16w
7/20/2025, 1:22:47 AM No.510842472
>>510840115 (OP)
making my own nuclear reactor in the dad's tool shed. Just in case there was a solar flair that took down the grid my own reactor could provide energy for the neighborhood.
Anonymous ID: GRDhHRSNJapan
7/20/2025, 1:26:44 AM No.510842822
>>510842040
You can learn crypto trading in a week.
Anonymous ID: 8/873JOZIreland
7/20/2025, 1:31:10 AM No.510843184
I wish we had studied The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in school instead of some of the trash literature that they forced us to read
Anonymous ID: YIo7GYjtUnited Kingdom
7/20/2025, 1:32:56 AM No.510843314
>>510840115 (OP)
Mechanical engineering
Anonymous ID: Dpmo4HSqUnited States
7/20/2025, 1:34:24 AM No.510843403
>>510840115 (OP)
Honestly I just wish I had never found this loser den full of dead end retards. Regret every minute I've wasted on here but I'm too far gone to fix my life now. Wish my folks has been more restrictive with my internet usage.
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Anonymous ID: Qva6cia5United States
7/20/2025, 1:35:26 AM No.510843474
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>>510840115 (OP)
The vast majority of computer/machine and internet skills. My dads boomer philosophy of safety was "if you don't connect you can't infect". Didn't learn shit for years because of control freak bullshit.
Anonymous ID: VJnTO1vkUnited States
7/20/2025, 1:36:04 AM No.510843524
>>510840115 (OP)
Self confidence.
Anonymous ID: pPW5IeogMexico
7/20/2025, 1:37:13 AM No.510843606
Daily discipline to do and finish long-term tasks
Anonymous ID: JwinQKB3United States
7/20/2025, 1:46:05 AM No.510844235
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Not having a dad to teach me to work on things and repair things and cars.

But i also have regrets, mostly not banging girls that looking back i could have.

But another regret i have is just sad. In middle school i made fun of this fat kid infront of the girl he liked. She sided with me and i humiliated him routinely calling him fat etc. He ended up getting in trouble making a hit list which i was on. He dissappeared for a while spiraling into depressing and aggression. He came back in HS and ppl made fun of him , by then i realized i ruined this kids life. He goes berserk and attacks everyone around him at lunch. Gets expelled.

A couple years later when i was in college i went to McDonalds, and saw him as a Cashier. He was in the process of becoming a Tranny it appeared. He saw me and i could feel the rage in his eyes, i didnt even bother to order i just left.

To this day i regret being a bully to him considering his life is destroyed and he is probably dead now.
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Anonymous ID: BgvTuuRBUnited States
7/20/2025, 1:58:45 AM No.510845062
>>510844235
fs, dude, that's awful. I feel sorry for both of you.
Anonymous ID: U7jmKNGOUnited States
7/20/2025, 2:01:16 AM No.510845212
>>510840636
If they don't want older people, they'll kick out people when they become old.
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Anonymous ID: aWy0RT9KUnited States
7/20/2025, 2:13:54 AM No.510846050
>>510845212
i suppose you have a point
Anonymous ID: fs/GyzHrUnited States
7/20/2025, 2:19:35 AM No.510846421
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Salat.
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Anonymous ID: 5MAQelLpUnited States
7/20/2025, 2:21:05 AM No.510846514
>>510840115 (OP)
How to talk to girls... :(
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Anonymous ID: 02ZFv4NFUnited States
7/20/2025, 2:23:41 AM No.510846671
>>510840115 (OP)
How to make decisions. Still can't even decades later. But I have adapted and realized that there is nothing to do in life anyway so making decisions would be a negative trait after all.
Anonymous ID: L151YL8xUnited States
7/20/2025, 2:29:09 AM No.510846977
>>510840115 (OP)
Ironically, my stepfather taught me to shoot like a bandit but never brought me hunting because he'd had bad luck in the field.
So, here I am later in life teaching myself how to hunt big game.
Anonymous ID: L151YL8xUnited States
7/20/2025, 2:31:14 AM No.510847116
>>510844235
You were only a small part of what happened to that guy. No one person, except a parent, can have that much influence.
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Anonymous ID: 8QrZPuV1United States
7/20/2025, 2:32:24 AM No.510847202
>>510840115 (OP)
Who teaches their son to sit like a little bitch? Well I guess if you are shooting .22
Anonymous ID: WbQxPUViUnited States
7/20/2025, 2:37:38 AM No.510847568
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>>510846514
that ones easy
you just tell them to make you bacon and pancakes
Anonymous ID: CUWwc2P9Chile
7/20/2025, 2:42:22 AM No.510847839
>>510840115 (OP)
>Play some instruments
>Mechanics and robotics
>survival skills (boy scouts or some military training)
All this should be essential in every man, and now i think that is too late for me to learn some of this skills.
Anonymous ID: /XJtMpsCUnited States
7/20/2025, 3:02:12 AM No.510848959
>>510840115 (OP)
>playing piano
my only regret is i didn't learn it
there was a keyboard at home that i'd always bang on
however my parents were too retarded to figure it out
however they tried to force me to learn gay instruments like trumpet and viola which i gave up at first opportunity
Anonymous ID: cxUCIWEKUnited States
7/20/2025, 3:08:41 AM No.510849324
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>>510840115 (OP)
Everything but especially spelling.
Somehow being autistic means I can't learn, at lest to the schools and my parents. I failed every spelling test and told I will need speech to text. This was 2000's speech to text so it didn't work at all. Not only was I ostracized but I could not communicate well online. My parents would gaslight me by saying things like "your brain is not wired that way." I took this to mean that I was unable to learn anything for a long time.
I'm trying to learn skills now but being in my mid 30's it feels like it's to late to achieve anything but a hobby.
>>510847116
>No one person, except a parent, can have that much influence.
I can say foam experience that a parent can do way more harm then a bully. The other kids where making fun of me for a reason. It was the adults telling me that I can't do anything about it.
Anonymous ID: o/j6hjY3United States
7/20/2025, 3:10:11 AM No.510849409
Shut the fuck up faggot! I wish you were molested and burned alive as a kid. Queer.
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Anonymous ID: 63J2UY9ZUnited States
7/20/2025, 3:21:31 AM No.510850052
how to drive manual. My dad stopped teaching me Hebrew after just 1 year of study so that would've been nice.
Anonymous ID: RNeD1n+fUnited Kingdom
7/20/2025, 3:26:02 AM No.510850316
Chud Thor chariot
Chud Thor chariot
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>>510844235
>i didnt even bother to order i just left.
>McDonald's not making a profit
>Shuts down
>Fat kid loses job
>Can't afford tranny treatment
>grows beard back
>41%'s himself
Hope you're happy anon.
Anonymous ID: 63J2UY9ZUnited States
7/20/2025, 3:26:44 AM No.510850356
>>510844235
Did the same thing to a bunch of people because my life was shitty but theirs are now fucked. Both are Indian, and both are utter failures. I'm talking they got Doctorate degrees and never did anything besides an internship and eventually went back home. Jesus, the money they've wasted.
Anonymous ID: RNeD1n+fUnited Kingdom
7/20/2025, 3:27:17 AM No.510850400
Palestinian brainless child
Palestinian brainless child
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>>510846421
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Anonymous ID: pQXAYpvbUnited States
7/20/2025, 3:28:42 AM No.510850482
Welding and playing piano both seem pretty nice to know.
Anonymous ID: zqZvtJoyAustralia
7/20/2025, 3:29:42 AM No.510850539
>>510846421
That carpet have booba
Anonymous ID: 63J2UY9ZUnited States
7/20/2025, 3:30:15 AM No.510850566
based pepe spot
based pepe spot
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>>510850400
is he ok?
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Anonymous ID: X4jsW0kiUnited States
7/20/2025, 3:30:50 AM No.510850600
>>510840115 (OP)
Well I'm glad my notraining dad didn't teach me the wrong way to shoot for one.

The highest thing of value is social skills and not many were taught them. Gen Z stare is a prime example of that area degrading to the lowest extent. I hug my cousin i haven't seen in years, he doesn't even unfold his arms or change his blank facial expression. I have to talk to a girl for 4 months before she agrees to a date, she says shes all into me, then proceeds to not change her facial expression the entire date, doesn't hug back, and goes on her phone for a prolonged period of time again with no facial expression change. At least we don't have it as bad as them being raised by machines. They are robots.
Anonymous ID: yuVl7/UW
7/20/2025, 3:31:14 AM No.510850627
My moms rich musician friend when i was a kid told her i had perfect pitch
I begged for a violin since the age 3 or 4
Parents made me do sportsball instead
Im seething to this day
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Anonymous ID: L+dM0urJGermany
7/20/2025, 3:32:20 AM No.510850686
>>510840115 (OP)
Gamepad operation. I'm early Gen X.
Anonymous ID: yuVl7/UW
7/20/2025, 3:32:40 AM No.510850704
>>510850627
And then to add insult to injuy they bought my much younger, uninterested sister a violin years later
Anonymous ID: RNeD1n+fUnited Kingdom
7/20/2025, 3:33:00 AM No.510850724
Palestinian dead compilation 2
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>>510850566
He has a terminal case of Amalekism unfortunately.
Anonymous ID: a9OwEGUUUnited States
7/20/2025, 3:33:54 AM No.510850767
>>510840115 (OP)
Hygeine
Anonymous ID: o2KNkaYxUnited States
7/20/2025, 3:35:43 AM No.510850877
>>510850627
That's too bad. There are certain things you lose as a musician if you don't start really young.
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Anonymous ID: wH6ygLxXUnited States
7/20/2025, 3:38:26 AM No.510851026
Joining the Boy Scouts, kid diddling aside. That said does being an Eagle Scout mean jack shit anymore?
Anonymous ID: +GL3p70QEstonia
7/20/2025, 3:41:16 AM No.510851209
>>510840115 (OP)
Bootlicking
Anonymous ID: HvmGCkOIUnited States
7/20/2025, 3:41:45 AM No.510851244
>>510844235
It's not on the same level as yours but this reminds me of when a retarded guy was in one of my HS classes since they had no where else to put him. Some guy tricked the him into eating an old pop tart that had been sitting on the floor for days in the back of class. Everyone used to pick on the retarded guy and the other guy pretended to be nice to him just so he could give it to him as a prank. I remember watching him do it and thinking he was the biggest piece of shit ever. After highschool I ended up becoming close friends with the asshole guy and he told me he regrets it and thinks about it often.
Anonymous ID: EC0brFigAustralia
7/20/2025, 3:44:33 AM No.510851436
>>510840115 (OP)
How to start, run and manage a small business. Because being self-employed is the only way to real success.
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Anonymous ID: s3eH87H5Canada
7/20/2025, 3:46:01 AM No.510851517
>>510840115 (OP)
be intimidating, most people today either have no logical thoughts, or simply disregard social rules and norms. Most, if not all of those people only understand at a base level so violence works, but since we can'T use it freely now, intimidating works sometime,s as many will simply turn over and call the cops
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Anonymous ID: yuVl7/UW
7/20/2025, 3:49:04 AM No.510851706
>>510850877
Yeah i know
Its beyond upsetting
Im probably just coping with my shortcomings, but i feel like this one thing would have changed the trajectory of my entire life in a positive way
Anonymous ID: +eK0aCJTAustria
7/20/2025, 3:52:18 AM No.510851896
read_it_like_a_weeb
read_it_like_a_weeb
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>>510840115 (OP)
how to be a normie
how to have caring parents
how to not live in poverty and how to not grow up as the worst thing a non violent life can offer
Anonymous ID: Qo34Grt6
7/20/2025, 3:54:08 AM No.510851995
stock market
Anonymous ID: gU/ti7VuUnited States
7/20/2025, 3:57:12 AM No.510852164
>>510840115 (OP)
How to flirt, have confidence and be happy
Anonymous ID: ZxIPAxdqUnited States
7/20/2025, 3:57:38 AM No.510852188
>>510840115 (OP)
Electrical engineering and how to read schematics.
Anonymous ID: ccp6RsEGUnited Kingdom
7/20/2025, 4:00:54 AM No.510852360
>>510840115 (OP)
Wish was taught that jews colonozied europa and genocided europeans with crusades of teutonic order, so we can reject kike bs and go back to our real gods
Anonymous ID: dD/jFE8ORomania
7/20/2025, 4:06:31 AM No.510852666
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>>510840115 (OP)
How to invest into stocks and stand up against my parent's will, they were beating and grounding my ass to learn some shitty ass poem written by a dead depressed faggot dead for 100 years or some useless shit like pytagorean theorem and were doing shitty ass comparisons with me the class smartasses, now I have Porsche Cayman and I'm worth 7 figures meanwhile the smartasses keeps wasting time in universities and other shit kek
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Anonymous ID: rk6zZcfT
7/20/2025, 4:38:17 AM No.510854353
>>510840115 (OP)
I wish id played less vidya and I wish I knew to just be fake and talk shit.

also I wish I knew how to manage money back then
Anonymous ID: PTVDA+dJUnited States
7/20/2025, 4:41:22 AM No.510854526
>>510843403
>Wish my folks has been more restrictive with my internet usage.
Sounds like they just ignored you during your formidable years. They would not have needed to restrict anything if they helped you learn to be happy. A lot of millennials seem to have this issue, we were ignored as children.
Anonymous ID: cNnRCsqsUnited States
7/20/2025, 4:43:21 AM No.510854634
>>510840115 (OP)
metal working. It would be cool to be able to build stuff, like this guy who hand-made a steam engine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZWD6Z5uchI
Anonymous ID: 8kgiZ4C6Canada
7/20/2025, 4:54:03 AM No.510855212
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>>510840115 (OP)
investing, mining bitcoin, welding, volleyball, dating, hunting, playing the trumpet, learning French
Anonymous ID: SV5Yar+xUnited States
7/20/2025, 4:57:24 AM No.510855401
>>510849409
You wonโ€™t have kids
Anonymous ID: nPxdHwhc
7/20/2025, 5:23:29 AM No.510856859
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>>510851436
You would have just sweated your whole life only to go broke during COVID
Anonymous ID: VLjAhj52United States
7/20/2025, 5:25:02 AM No.510856930
>>510852666
Based Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS owner
Anonymous ID: L33mfQOMUnited States
7/20/2025, 5:28:16 AM No.510857102
Fitness and style.
Anonymous ID: nPxdHwhc
7/20/2025, 5:32:38 AM No.510857332
Netherlands farmers spraying debris on road_thumb.jpg
>>510851517
You just have to get creative. Let air out of tires, smash glass, pour ink on clothes & documents. One of my favorites is pouring water on people & possessions

There are 1001 ways to use, or simply threaten violence without spooking people into calling the cops
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Anonymous ID: VE9BaOyXCanada
7/20/2025, 5:34:09 AM No.510857398
>>510840247
This. Literally the most fkn important skill in the world. I wished my parents would have detected my poor social skills and forced me to interact more.
/\nonymous ID: gtzxSZ/JCanada
7/20/2025, 5:34:19 AM No.510857410
>>510840247
This, but at least I figured out they were all retards.
Anonymous ID: s3eH87H5Canada
7/20/2025, 5:47:27 AM No.510858185
>>510857332
I lack the confidence, nerves to see it throught, another thing I would have liked to have learned.
Anonymous ID: 70JlhX+MIreland
7/20/2025, 6:18:30 AM No.510860032
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>>510840115 (OP)
Coding, Chemistry, Metalwork
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Anonymous ID: iW9fbpJbUnited States
7/20/2025, 6:20:35 AM No.510860132
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>>510840115 (OP)
Whatever I would have learned had I not grown up in the city.
Anonymous ID: eg9e3Q6HUnited States
7/20/2025, 6:22:04 AM No.510860200
>>510844235
Hate to break it to you faggot, bullying him didnโ€™t lead to that outcome. Get over yourself you stupid bastard. Poor saps like you never had a chance. You should rope just like him, bitch boy.
Anonymous ID: TmruYS5xUnited States
7/20/2025, 6:22:43 AM No.510860229
>>510840115 (OP)
underwater basket weaving. oh wait, i did that shit and never used it. never had to gut a deer and pack it out.
Anonymous ID: 4QxmjHpFUnited States
7/20/2025, 6:28:35 AM No.510860499
Discipline. Through that I could have focused and done anything and even learned a bunch of the shit my dad tried to teach me when I was a kid.

>>510860032
I am a chemist what would you like to learn.
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Anonymous ID: wQ/fwW7oUnited States
7/20/2025, 6:30:47 AM No.510860601
Being a really good cook
Was spoiled and never had to do it
Anonymous ID: UgeshzenUnited States
7/20/2025, 6:31:13 AM No.510860621
How to post better
Anonymous ID: wQ/fwW7oUnited States
7/20/2025, 6:33:03 AM No.510860697
>>510860499
Teach me how to grow ergotamine fungus then make LSD so all I need is the glassware, tools and darkroom
Reagents are hard to get and itโ€™s what gets you caught
>for personal use only I hate dealing with wooks
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Anonymous ID: 4QxmjHpFUnited States
7/20/2025, 6:38:29 AM No.510860948
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>>510860697
Best I can do is materials chemistry. Why does everyone always want to use chemistry to make drugs. There's so much more you can do with it.
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Anonymous ID: wQ/fwW7oUnited States
7/20/2025, 6:55:37 AM No.510861653
>>510860948
Well I donโ€™t want to make explosives so what else is left but psychedelic drugs
LSD is fairly complicated from what I remember there was some chemistry video on YouTube about it, many steps
I think they stopped before a few final steps

Leave the truly interesting shit to the professionals
Honestly I have done so much LSD at this point itโ€™s annoying and lasts too long I like shrooms
What I donโ€™t like is how they can upset your stomach so if you know a process to extract the psylocibin and not the upset tummy stuff that would be nice
Tea works well but I still like to chew the plant material like a gorilla