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What have you never done?

251 replies

AngryBird6122 · 13/07/2025 23:14

I have never tried ikea meatballs.

OP posts:
ConnieHeart · 16/07/2025 16:14

Heard Katie Price say anything remotely intelligent

TheNinny · 16/07/2025 16:16

never smoked a cigarette, not even to try

MrsSethGecko · 16/07/2025 16:16

Been married
Been engaged
Owned a house
Owned a car

ConnieHeart · 16/07/2025 16:17

DropZone5PleaseBen · 15/07/2025 16:13

....so you have done an online food shop then

ive never seen eastenders. Apart from the one time at Christmas

So you have seen Eastenders then (sorry couldn't resist 😉)

iseethembloom · 16/07/2025 16:19

Missed a flight

Attempted a handbrake turn

Given a eulogy

Watched ‘Love Actually’

19lottie82 · 16/07/2025 16:20

bum sex.

xSideshowAuntSallyXx · 16/07/2025 16:22

Never used Algerbra or Pythagorus Theorum.

TigerRag · 16/07/2025 16:22

Driven a car

ConnieHeart · 16/07/2025 17:45

xSideshowAuntSallyXx · 16/07/2025 16:22

Never used Algerbra or Pythagorus Theorum.

I expect you have used algebra without realising

BusWankers · 16/07/2025 18:11

xSideshowAuntSallyXx · 16/07/2025 16:22

Never used Algerbra or Pythagorus Theorum.

What, didn't you take maths exams or tests with them in (eg Maths GCSE)

BusWankers · 16/07/2025 18:14

ConnieHeart · 16/07/2025 17:45

I expect you have used algebra without realising

Quite!

If you can work out things like "what's 20% of £2.80" or needed to know how many 70cm tiles to buy to cover a 4 x 3.5m floor... adjusted ingredients in recipes... Shared bills/worked out how much everyone owes for dinner....

You're doing algebra

Catterbat · 16/07/2025 18:25

Had a one night stand
Had it up the council gritter
Operated a dishwasher
Driven a car
Been married
Been a bridesmaid / been to a hen do
Worn a thong
Been to a spa / nail salon / massage
Had any money

SingleAHF · 16/07/2025 18:27

Watched Big Brother.
Owned a car.
Had a child.
Been married.

Thepeopleversuswork · 16/07/2025 18:31

Voted Tory (though I have shagged a couple)
Taken crack
Been to a rugby match
Seen Home Alone
Been on any fairground rides more aggressive than the tea cups
Been to bingo

I have no particular urge to put any of these on my bucket list. I'm old enough to know what I like and there's a reason I've avoided all of these.

ThinWomansBrain · 16/07/2025 18:31

LevelUpDown · 13/07/2025 23:15

Watched Star Wars

When the first star wars was released I worked in a cinema in school holidays. I saw it three times a day every day for six weeks.
Never seen the very start (showing people to seats in the days when usherettes actually showed people to their seats) or a patch in the middle (getting ice cream tray ready and cashing up after ice cream sales).

Never read a Harry Potter book or seen a Harry Potter film.
Or HP play.

Hibernatingtilspring · 16/07/2025 18:38

Watched a Hugh Grant film
Drank a cup of tea
Had my nails/eyebrows done
Been pregnant, engaged or married

Simonjt · 16/07/2025 21:31

Eaten meat or cheese.
Done anything remotely intimate with a woman, which I imagine is a relief to 50% of the population.
Watched lost or the walking dead.
Lived alone.

cannychanter · 16/07/2025 21:42

Watched anything, or read any article, relating to the Kardashians.
Read or watched Harry Potter.
Watched Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, or Game of Thrones.
Broken a bone.
Been to Cornwall.

ruethewhirl · 16/07/2025 23:06

Watched Love Island (and never will, despite quite liking some reality TV);
Been stung by a bee or wasp (which at 57 I think is pretty good going, although it does mean I'm disproportionately afraid of being stung);
Taken drugs unless you count a single puff on a joint in my twenties (also not bad considering I grew up in a town with a drug problem and used to party a lot);
Smoked even 1 puff of a 'normal' cigarette;
Been to Nandos;
Had surgery (unless you count ingrowing toenails grimace) or been an inpatient in hospital;
Read any of Lord of the Rings/Game of Thrones, or seen any of the TV/film tie-ins;
Changed a nappy or even wiped a bottom other than my own (no kids, didn't have any younger siblings/relatives growing up);
Eaten Marmite or Bovril, the smell of both is enough to put me off.

BusWankers · 17/07/2025 06:00

cannychanter · 16/07/2025 21:42

Watched anything, or read any article, relating to the Kardashians.
Read or watched Harry Potter.
Watched Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, or Game of Thrones.
Broken a bone.
Been to Cornwall.

So how do you know who the Kardashians are if you've never read or watched a single thing about them?

BusWankers · 17/07/2025 06:03

Catterbat · 16/07/2025 18:25

Had a one night stand
Had it up the council gritter
Operated a dishwasher
Driven a car
Been married
Been a bridesmaid / been to a hen do
Worn a thong
Been to a spa / nail salon / massage
Had any money

You've never had any money?

Never?? How do you buy things?

cannychanter · 17/07/2025 12:04

BusWankers · 17/07/2025 06:00

So how do you know who the Kardashians are if you've never read or watched a single thing about them?

Edited

Is it so impossible to believe that a person might know about them from hearing about them, yet not deliberately watched a programme or read an article about them?

iseethembloom · 17/07/2025 13:33

used a chainsaw

been to Alton Towers

ridden or sat a horse

made lasagne

vomited blood

been to A+E in a country outside England
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(one of the above is not true, I have done one of these. Anyone care to guess which?)

HunterNoir · 17/07/2025 14:24

i've never had an orgasm 😕

Brendahollowayreconsider · 17/07/2025 14:57

Heavy metal headbanging or wore a biker leather jacket..yuk