Some countries are just not that good at certain things.
Germany - can crank out a first-class sausage but humour is in short supply.
New Zealand - we just do not do the drop goal. Nor situation comedies, but that is a whole other story.
Our inability to land, or even look like landing, a drop goal cost us last year, and it is going to cost us more in the future.
Sure, Dan Carter knocked one over in the second half of Saturday's game but that was more incidental than a pre-planned work of precision.
Carter got a bad pass from Andy Ellis - not the first and not the last of the night - turned around and, with little on outside him, eyed the posts and knocked over a very wobbly looking drop goal.
He also had three other attempts during the game, but only one went close.
At the last minute of play, the scenario cried out for a smooth couple of plays to set up for a drop goal attempt. But with all the execution of Custer's last stand, the All Blacks fumbled their way across field, with slow drives, supposedly to help Carter.
The telegraph had been well and truly posted by our boys and arrived at Camp Springbok reading "we are going to try to kick a drop goal".
The men in green duly dispatched half their team to successfully charge down Carter's kick.
Carter, though, did himself no favours by standing a long way back, more than 40m, and then Ellis' pass was high. So even a player with the ability of Carter had little or no hope of knocking one over the bar.
Captain Rodney So'oialo later said the side was trying to get more into the centre of the field to make it easier for Carter, who kicked just his second drop goal in test rugby with Saturday night's effort.
But whatever the reason, New Zealand rugby sides, from the All Blacks down to primary school grades, just do not do the drop goal. The adage has always been to score tries, rather than knock over the "droppie".
It is like an admission of "we're going to eventually score a try so we are not going to give in and go for a drop goal".
But as international rugby scorelines get closer and defences get better and better, maybe we can no longer be rugby snobs. Maybe we should embrace the drop goal.
Or at least practise them.
Would a top football side not practise penalties before a major final?
The All Blacks say they do train to set up for drop goals, and they are not that easy to do on the playing field.
The nightmare loss to France last year showed up the inability of the All Blacks to drop a goal, though the French being 5m offside for the last 20 minutes made it tough.
The calls have come out over the years, mainly from the southern hemisphere, to have the value of the drop goal reduced to one point - following rugby league's lead.
But that is about as likely as a $2 block of cheese.
Those in the north love the drop goal. The ELVs are not going to go that far. We cannot slip that one down the blindside while the cucumber sandwiches are being eaten at the IRB dinner table.
Sure, a rushing defence makes a drop goal harder than it used to be when Doug Bruce knocked over two to beat Ireland 30 years ago.
The line-out in the last minute on Saturday night was on the wrong side of the field for left-footed Carter, but that was just something to overcome.
Remember, Bruce was a left-footer too.
