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As an adult I have never.

278 replies

Stopnames · 27/05/2024 20:20

Never Been abroad, never worn heigh heels, never worn makeup. Never Smoked , never drank wine , never been to a wedding.

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lissie123 · 27/05/2024 21:24

Never watched or wanted to watch Sex in the city. Got a tattoo. Done hard drugs.

Thewalrusandthecarpenter · 27/05/2024 21:25

Never owned a toilet brush or a dishwasher.

bearfood · 27/05/2024 21:27

Never eaten an egg. Never had diarrhoea. Never drunk a glass of wine.

HÆLTHEPAIN · 27/05/2024 21:27

MarkandElizabethForever · 27/05/2024 20:31

Never taken hard drugs. I've always been way too petrified that I'd die immediately. I'll never forget the image of a young girl in the paper who'd died of a drug overdose, I think it was early 2000s maybe. She had the same name as me too so it freaked me out so much.

Leah Betts? Though that was mid 90’s. She was the one who made me petrified and never touch them. I can always picture her face.

ManilowBarry · 27/05/2024 21:28

Never had a one night stand.

Never cheated on anyone or had an affair.

Never broken a bone.

Never been broke or poor.

Never been in a hot tub.

Never run a marathon.

Never had a tattoo or piercing other than ear lobes.

Never been drunk.

Never eaten oysters.

Never done a bungee jump or sky dive.

Never been bullied.

Never been arrested.

Never been pot holing

Never been overweight.

Never had short hair except for when I was a baby/infant!

Never worn false eyelashes

Never fallen out with my sisters or brother as adults.

Never been scuba diving.

Never been in a physical fight.

ForTheLoveOff · 27/05/2024 21:30

This is a good thread! I have never:
Had any points on my licence
Had any fillings/ dental work
Broken any bones
Been sky diving/ bungee jumping (but I have done paragliding)
Got a tatto
Never watched an episode of Friends 😂
Never travelled abroad solo

However I have done many, many other questionable things in my life 😅

PrincessHoneysuckle · 27/05/2024 21:30

Never been to London
Never been a bridesmaid
Never been on a roller coaster that goes upside down

Newuser75 · 27/05/2024 21:31

Never smoked, never taken drugs, never been sick from drinking. Never watched a horror film, never worn high heels. Never watched Star Wars.

ACynicalDad · 27/05/2024 21:33

Never worked at for profit organisation, never drone drugs, never voted Labour.

EarringsandLipstick · 27/05/2024 21:35

I can always picture her face.

Me too 💔

It's hard to imagine but up until then, E was seen as pretty benign. I didn't do it, but I didn't do cannabis or tobacco either. I'd just come back from a summer away & everyone was nonchalantly taking E, we honestly didn't think there was any risk. I'm in Ireland - the Sunday Times did a big provoke piece, with her photo shortly before she died, at her parents' request. It was horrific.

EarringsandLipstick · 27/05/2024 21:36

OP, curious that you you've never been to a wedding, in your 40s? That's definitely unusual - do you have a small network / family, or you just didn't want to?

hurlyburlygirly · 27/05/2024 21:43

I've never watched coronation street
Eaten in McDonald's
Been to Brighton
Had a tattoo
Had a pint of beer or lager

The Brighton bit is the one I'd change out of that lot

RuthW · 27/05/2024 21:49

LittleMonks11 · 27/05/2024 20:50

Can we unpack why you've never been abroad?

No everyone wants to go abroad.

I last went in 1989 when I was 21. My 27 year old dd has never been.

NeedWineNow · 27/05/2024 21:52

Never seen Pretty Woman, An Officer and a Gentleman or The Bodyguard

Never got a tattoo or taken hard drugs

BurbageBrook · 27/05/2024 21:53

Never gone on a roller coaster that goes upside down. And never will!

Zoflorabore · 27/05/2024 21:53

HÆLTHEPAIN · 27/05/2024 21:27

Leah Betts? Though that was mid 90’s. She was the one who made me petrified and never touch them. I can always picture her face.

I’m pretty sure Leah Betts was 1996 because she was the same age as me and I was 18 in 1996.

Stopnames · 27/05/2024 21:54

EarringsandLipstick · 27/05/2024 21:36

OP, curious that you you've never been to a wedding, in your 40s? That's definitely unusual - do you have a small network / family, or you just didn't want to?

My 2 sisters got married abroad. I had no passport and was not bothered either. My other siblings have never got married

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HÆLTHEPAIN · 27/05/2024 21:55

Zoflorabore · 27/05/2024 21:53

I’m pretty sure Leah Betts was 1996 because she was the same age as me and I was 18 in 1996.

The end of ‘95. I thought mid 90’s.

Zoflorabore · 27/05/2024 21:57

Ok just googled and she died just after her 18th birthday in November 1995, I was about to turn 18 in the January. I’ve also never forgotten her face and have never touched ecstasy. I’ve also told my dc about what happened to her but luckily both are hugely anti drugs.

determinedtomakethiswork · 27/05/2024 21:57

@MarkandElizabethForever are you sure you're not thinking of Leah Betts?

anunlikelyseahorse · 27/05/2024 21:58

Never done a bungee jump.
Never been to any country ending in 'Stan' although I'd love to go to Kazakhstan

MarkandElizabethForever · 27/05/2024 21:59

determinedtomakethiswork · 27/05/2024 21:57

@MarkandElizabethForever are you sure you're not thinking of Leah Betts?

No, Rachel Whitear. It was in 2000.

Evolutionarygoals · 27/05/2024 22:04

I'm 41 and I've never bought a toaster. We've still got the one DH had in his student house. It only occurred to me the other day because we're thinking about redoing the kitchen (something else I've never done!) and I don't feel qualified because I haven't even started with the basics

JohnofWessex · 27/05/2024 22:07

Inastatus · 27/05/2024 21:21

ive done most of the things on here and I am 60 but I have never and will not ever go in a hot air balloon.

Flown in a Hot Air Balloon several times in my younger days.

Many years ago I worked with an ex Fleet Air Arm Observer who would happily fly in a fully loaded piston engined torpedo bomber off the old Ark Royal but thought ballooning dangerous.

Been on the engine controls of a steam turbine driven cross channel ferry
Driven one of the worlds fastest trains

Milked a Goat

Printed my own black and white photo's

Never been Morris Dancing or driven a tractor

Ginmonkeyagain · 27/05/2024 22:18

I've never bought a car.

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