Here’s the rules:
1: Post something you have never done that you think many people do. 2: Read the other posts, if you have done that thing, upvote it. If you have not done that thing, downvote it. 3: If you believe the person is lying, call them out on it in a reply. 4: If you are called out, give the full story. 4a: If you see a thread containing the full story, boost the person you think is right and truthful.
Person who has the most upvotes when the thread dies wins.
Never learned to ride a bicycle.
Upvoted! I learned how pretty young, but I have a few friends who never did and they have told me that the main thing holding them back as adults is the fear of falling down. Is it the same for you?
Yes. I have a healthy, but irrational fear of falling. Heights do not bother me (flying in a plane is no big deal in terms of the height). But if I am even a foot above the ground under my own power (say, on a ladder), I get extremely unsteady and nervous.
So bicycles were out pretty much from the beginning.
My family, when I was young, would try to convince me by asking, “how can you drive a car if you can’t ride a bike?” Yeah my response shut them up pretty quickly: “a car has 4 tires and is stable.” I was seven years old.
Not who you asked, but the main thing holding me back is that I don’t know how to kick off and don’t know how to balance. I’m surprised how many people just kinda know how to do it
Never have I ever read a single book or watched a single movie of the Harry Potter series.
Me neither. Other millennials look at me like I have two heads.
Yeah. My partner later said it was almost a deal breaker when I first told her.
Hey that’s me too. I’m surprised to see that many upvotes …
More upvotes should mean that most people in fact have seen the movies or read the books
Ah yes true, there is a full convo in this thread about understanding what upvotes mean in this situation, I’m still confused 🤔
Never done any recreational drugs.
Is that including cigarettes and alcohol or are you only talking about the ones that are federally illegal?
Never smoked a cigarette, but I do try a drink now and then. I find the phrase “drugs & alcohol” relevant here in that they’re different categories.
they really are not.
Yeah they are. One is less hassle, comes with no stigma and therefore no stress. “Why yes I have had a drink, officer, but just the one.”
Also if you’re a lightweight like me, you reach your limit at 2 pints. With cannabis? Who the hell knows, the quantities and potencies are still being standardized, and if you want to mix a lighter load you have to mix in more tobacco which is another stimulant.
No thanks, I’ll have my brown lake water with 3% alcohol mixed in please.
no stigma has nothing to do with anything. people do die from its usage (or the consequences of its usage). It is more toxic than a lot of other “harder” drugs. It can ruin lives and break up families just as well. we’re talking about what it is, not how it is perceived. I am also not implying you should smoke weed instead. Everyone has their drug of choice. To each their own. But make no mistake, it’s a drug nonetheless.
That’s why people smoke it. You can feel how high you are with each puff and can control it easily.
Weed may be strong, but it isn’t fentanyl. One toke over the line is not the danger zone—even less so than one alcohol shot over the line.
It’s not for me. I don’t know why, but it makes me loopy. With beer, your liver builds a tolerance to it over time and your mind learns to not say certain things when under the influence. With weed, that tolerance is 100% mental as far as I can fathom, and I’m just too weak-willed under its influence apparently.
The tolerance isn’t totally mental, it just takes longer to build and recede than alcohol does.
To each their own though, not trying to pressure anybody.
Never been so blasé about your life that you opened your friend’s parent’s medicine cabinet and recklessly took whatever prescriptions you found in there in a desperate attempt to get high and escape reality?
Good for you!
Is it OK to feel sorry for you? The thought of doing this has never even crossed my mind. People would describe me as a very optimistic and happy person though. I guess I just don’t need any drugs for escape, although I do enjoy jumping into a video game and beating up some bad guys. Dynasty Warriors is great therapy.
I feel sorry for who I was.
But I escaped all that, and I have a lot of family and love and caring all around me now. Drug free for decades.
Never have I ever seen Titanic.
I have seen it in a sneak preview, I think I wouldn’t have watched it otherwise.
The only time I’ve tried I had some edibles and feverishly slept through most of it.
Never have I ever watched/read anything relating to Lord of the Rings.
Oh yeah well how did you spell it?
I was going to post this never have I ever. I plan on watching it eventually one day. It was one of those movies that got mega popular before I learned about it. I think seeing it everywhere and seeing all the memes makes me care less about seeing it. I
I just don’t have any motivation to watch it now. There is so much streaming content to watch. I’ll get to LotR when I get there.
I haven’t yet, but planning to
I’ll start:
I have never been inside of a treehouse
Sad but not unlikely. Lots of people never lived near nature or had a garden. Let alone a large tree.
I have been inside lots of trees, but I can’t think of anyone I know who has actually bothered to build or buy a treehouse
Being in a treehouse is common?
Looks like 101 people have been in one so far.
My brain always hurts when playing never have I ever, something about the wording just inherently confuses me every time. The upvote/downvote addition makes it worse hahaNever have I ever been to a wedding! Looks like my own one will be the first I attend :o
Never have I ever said lol.
As a Dutch guy this one is auto fail as lol means ‘fun’ so we use it a lot unironically
I think it that case it must be within english context
In that case: lol
What about right now?
I have said the word roflmao with my mouth hole.
Never have I ever attended a middle or high school
Homeschooled or just not educated?
Homeschooled 1st-12th grade except for 4 months of first grade.
Funnily enough I have a masters degree and work in a public school
Same here, it would be impossible since middle schools don’t exist where I’m from
Yeah I wasn’t sure how to word it because I know that different places have different naming mechanisms. But from 6-18 years old I was homeschooled. There was a co-op or two where I technically did classes with others, and I did a year of Cyber school before it was cool but most of my education came from me self-teaching from textbooks and “curriculum”.
I’ll be flabbergasted if thats true. Need story plz
Homeschooled 1st-12th grade with the exception of 4 months of public school in first grade.
Hey same! Nothing lower than that either 🙃
I was homeschooled from first grade with the exception of 4 months in public school for first grade
I have never dated a woman.
Only interesting if you’re romantically attracted to women, though.
*Never have I ever dated another person of my preferred biological sex or orientation
Same 😞🚬
I was looking for this comment. Lol. :)
Never have I attended a high school prom, dance, or graduation
Dang it. I had it to the very end.
No prom no dances but I did graduate and attend my graduation.
I was the only one that graduated that year because I went to a small school and I worked ahead and so technically I was valedictorian and also technically every party I go to is a reunion party for my graduating class.
I’m sure these are just things from the US. The only reason I know what a prom is is because of TV. Before that I only ever heard ‘prom’ as an abbreviation for promenade
Prom: no. Graduation: no (graduated early, didn’t walk in the summer even tho I could)…but lotsa regular dances.
Never have I ever drank coffee
I’m throwing the bullshit flag on this one. Never curious? Never saw a frappuccino and tried it? Never just experimentally had a sip out of curiosity? I’m not buying that.
Growing up I watched my mom drink cup after cup and then let her anxiety run rampant. Told myself I wasnt gonna touch it. I don’t even find the smell appealing.
My greatest joy in life is learning new things. I have never, ever had coffee. I’ve never been interested. Just simply never cared for it.
Maybe one day I will, but it hasn’t happened yet
Surprised by number of upvotes. Would’ve thought more people drink coffee than read Harry Potter
I’ve tried to drink coffee a couple times. I never was successful at it. My body just hates something in coffee and it just comes right back up before even hitting my stomach. So, I guess it’s gone down my esophagus, but never further than that.
Never have i ever learned the alphabet(i am referring to the order, not the letters)
How did you manage this one?
In the first grades when teachers asked my class to order words based on the first letter, i either managed to figure out which letters came sooner in the order based on previous answers, guessed randomly or got lucky and didnt get chosen(its also been a while since then and i dont remember, i only remember that once that i was hoping i wouldnt be picked while looking at the previous exercises and planning out what random guesses i would say for the order i wasnt sure about)
After that, the only other time i needed to know the order of the alphabet was for an IQ test which was required to be diagnosed with Aspenger Syndrome, where i just randomly guessed
I also managed to not learn left/right for years, which caused more problems, but i managed to learn it thanks to the english political compass(every time i need to know which direction is left/right, i have to think of an image of the political compass to figure out which direction is right, translate that in my native language, check if the direction i needed was right and if not, i know its the opposite direction. I also dont know how to directly translate between left in both languages, but knowing that its the opposite right. I know right because of its second meaning that is present in both languages
You managed to get through childhood without learning the alphabet song?
I have never heard of the alphabet song until i found a parody of it years after i was supposed to learn the alphabet and never listened to the entirety any version
That’s fascinating how you learned all the letters but never put them into an ordinal system. Definitely presents an alternate thinking mechanism than I think most people use. Must have been very tough on you in school as most schools don’t handle people who think differently very well.
The left/right thing is probably much more common. I think it’s interesting how you use the political compass as your visual reference. I for a long time couldn’t remember which political party was left or right, but found I was very good at just ‘knowing’ left and right, as well as the cardinal directions n/s/e/w. My friend who was horrible at telling left from right would hold up both hands and extend his index and thumb. Whichever hand formed an “L” was his left hand and he used that all the time.
People normally learn the order of the alphabet and the alphabet together, not separately?
I’d say most people would learn the alphabet and the order together. The order (and song) is a helpful mnemonic to learn the letters faster.
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Nice try, feds!
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Pun not intended, but welcome.
Never have I ever as much as tried anything you can smoke (cigarettes, joints, shisha…).
I honestly don’t understand why people smoke this stuff. cigarretes & vapes smell horrible, there’s not even that many things to compare it to but its like car exhaust but worse. & I just can’t get why people smoke things like marijuana. Exactly what’s the point? Doesn’t it basically turn you into a zombie temprorarily or something like that?
They mess with your feelings and/or perceptions, to pretty much cover all the bases. Generally, people try them because of peer pressure or curiosity about a potentially interesting experience, and keep using them because they enjoy the experience. Or because of more peer pressure and addiction, in some cases.
Tbh I think I can understand why people do it. For some using various substances are a quick and simple way to relax/numb unwanted emotions/etc… Some start because of peer pressure. For others it’s just learned behaviour (you’re more likely to become a smoker if your parents are).
Personally, I’ve never as much as tried cigarettes because it just never appealed to me and I had mostly non-smoking friends and family. But I definitely have other bad habits I shouldn’t have gotten into and have trouble getting rid of, so I get the feeling.