• marighost
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      211 months ago

      Heyo, me too! I tried as a kid and busted my knee when I fell off, and gave it up.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        I’ve been afraid of falling since I was very very young, so that’s what led me to never want to ride :)

  • @[email protected]
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    911 months ago

    I’ve never eaten lobster. I’m not the slightest bit tempted to eat your bug meat that’s only palatable when slathered in butter.

    • @[email protected]
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      411 months ago

      Honestly it’s relatively flavourless. Have Crayfish in NZ instead. Smaller animal, far more flavour.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni
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    311 months ago

    Do you mean other people wouldn’t believe we’ve never done it or that they wouldn’t believe us if we said we did due to being so associated with never having done it?

      • Call me Lenny/Leni
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        211 months ago

        People often don’t believe I never went to vocal therapy or anything. Some people are skeptical of my NZ accent since I’m not anywhere where it’s common and ask if it’s artificial. If anything, it actually used to sound more Maori-ish, but certain neurological symptoms when I was little caused it to Kiwify. People think I’m just attention-seeking by having an accent I never asked for.

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    The first wedding I ever attended was my own…and I was 35. I somehow had friends & family who didn’t get or were already married my entire life.

    Still never been to a birth or a funeral.

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    2811 months ago

    Never smoked a cigarette. Not even took a single drag. I’m not even sure I ever touched one.

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      I’ve done just about every drug out there. Had a pretty significant meth problem in my late teens and early 20’s. Never smoked a cigarette.

      Just always seemed too gross to be worth it.

  • @[email protected]
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    511 months ago
    • graduated high school and college without ever taking a dedicated biology or chemistry class.
    • never broken a bone.
    • never stung by a (live) bee (have stepped on a dead one, though).
    • can’t say “never” any more, but I was into my 40s before ever having my blood drawn.
    • have smelled, but have never even seen marijuana, let alone smoked any.
    • TwinTusks
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      but I was into my 40s before ever having my blood drawn.

      What? You never went to hospital?

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        111 months ago

        Nope.

        First blood draw was just shy of 43yo, and that was for a new life insurance policy, so it was a contract nurse in my own living room.

        I have become more familiar with the hospital recently, however.

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      411 months ago

      How could you tell the bee was dead when you stepped on it and not killed by you stepping on it?

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      I’ve never been stung by a bee either! I’ve had a wasp get me a few times but bees and I have a unspoken truce, I guess. We have carpender bees all around our house and my wife hates them but I enjoy watching them have those valiant mid-air dog fights. Those little bastards can scrap. They never bother or dive bomb me but sometimes they get curious and kinda hover around me, presumably doing a bee’s version of a vibe check. I dont run or swat at them and they just peace out after maybe 15-20 seconds and then ignore me next time Im outside in “their” territory. … My wife on the other hand, swats, screams and runs from them and they’ll straight up go after her. She clearly does not pass the vibe check. It’s wild.

    • Skua
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      I’ve broken several. Cannot recommend it, in fact it is quite unpleasant.

        • classic
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          611 months ago

          Don’t believe random people on the internet! Get a hammer or a tall ledge and find out yourself

        • Skua
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          Nose, because the other three I’ve broken all made me unable to use an arm for a while and it is fucking infuriating to try to put socks on with only one hand every morning

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      The only bone I’ve ever broken was my sternum. I couldn’t do sports for several weeks but had no cast or anything to show off. I could only sit there and let my body do the healing.

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    My coworkers are always surprised when they first learn that I didn’t even finish high school. I work with people who are mostly highly educated. Most with masters degrees, a few with bachelor’s and doctorates. While they were studying, I was geeking out over some project that I did just for fun. Turns out that the skills I ended up with were exactly what my career for the past 15 years needs.

    • k_rol
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      Nice! I kind of know how you feel. I’ve studied to be a machinist, now I’m an enterprise architect.