I never watched one minute of the OJ Simpson trial. Never read any articles about it, changed the channel when it came on the news, didn’t discuss it with anyone and actually went so far as to leave a room when some people thought it would be funny to talk about nothing but OJ (knowing that I wished to avoid it).
Ditto on Disneyland/World and Idol.
I also recommend you watch Watership Down, the film.
It is one of the few movies which actually beautifully complement the book.
Nice music as well.
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I’ve never had an illegal drug.
I’ve never seen “Titanic” or “Gone With the Wind” or any number of classics.
I’ve lived in LA all my life and have never surfed.
I’ve lived in LA all my life and have never been shot at (yes, someone I once met in Hawaii was actually incredulous of this)
I’ve never been to a Turkish prison.
Do you like gladiator movies?
This is the only one that has surprised me so far.
I haven’t written a check in probably 4 years. That surprises some people.
I’ve also never danced with the devil or snorted coke off a whore.
Until quite recently I’d never seen any of the Godfather movies.
And until I started grad school I’d never heard of Oasis.
Sounds like you would have made a great juror.
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I live in A Winter Wonderland for 6 months out of the year and don’t skate, ski, snowshoe, cross-country ski, go sledding, or make snowmen.
Shovelling the driveway and trying to keep the car from skidding off the road and landing upside down in a ditch are exercise enough, thank you.
I don’t plan to do anything about it as each year I grow more resistant to setting foot outside.
I’ve never attacked ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion or watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate…
Okay. I’ve never made biscuits, milked a cow, gigged frogs, played a fiddle, shot an animal, killed a snake, tasted buttermilk, or held legal residence outside of Tennessee.
I am willing to do everything except kill an animal. I would kill a snake if I knew if was poisonous and I was going to be occupying the same space it was. I threw coathangers at a coiled and ready to strike copperhead one time. I would move to midcoast Maine at the drop of a hat. And I would be willing to try buttermilk if it had cornbread soaking it up. It’s just the way the glass looks after there has been buttermilk in it. I can’t make biscuits without an oven. Haven’t had one for ten or twelve years.
This is more common depending on location and age of the questioner, but some people are extremely surprised that I’ve never been drunk or used any drugs other than alcohol, tobacco and whatever-the-doctor-ordered. For some it has even been a revelation, as apparently I broke their notion that anybody who doesn’t get drunk as soon as the party starts can’t ever have fun or wit. One even thanked me for it! Many get angry, often I’m called a square or a liar.
My brother once was extremely surprised that I’d only watched Willow once. Yes, it’s one of my favorite movies. But as I asked him, when and where would I have been able to re-watch it? When he was watching it with his dorm-mates, mine insisted on picking the 90210 reruns!
Oh, and of course one of the downsides of moving often and across borders is the people who are surprised when you ask them how to do a common task. Yes, we do need to activate utilities and pay bills and go to the doctor and find rental apartments “back home” too. But amazingly enough, many of those common tasks are done differently in different countries.
The rest I get, but READ THAT BOOK!
Hug!
This story is on my SO.
He has lived/worked in Singapore, India, China, Bahrain…on and on. He is a much more adventurous eater than I (but I’m learning!).
Two nights ago, we’re talking about dinner. (I’d made soup that was in the fridge, but I wasn’t in the soup mood.)
Me: I’ve been thinking about how I want fried clams.
Him: <thinking> Fried? clams? I don’t think I’ve ever had those!
Me: 
Me: all the weird shit you have eaten and like, and you’ve never had fried clams? <he’s eaten fried cicadas for fucks sake!> How do you eat clams?
Him: You know, with some soy type sauce… you dip the clams in them…Or clam chowder…
Me:<there is not a horror face good enough> It’s fried clams tonight, then!
I’m in Tx, so it’s just a chain fried food place, but dayum!!
I did explain, as parents found out the hard way, that if you’re in Boston, you need to ask for clam strips not clams. (A bartender laughed her ass off at their eating ‘clam bellies’.)
I’ve never seen Lost or Survivor or Mad Men or any of the CSI shows. Never watched any of the Godfather or Goodfellas movies. Or The Sound of Music, Gone with the Wind or LOTR movies. Never read Gone with the Wind, either, or any Ayn Rand or any Hitchhiker’s Guide to anything.
Yes. That and my age. Or was my age. Originally I was going to change it every year on my birthday. I got around to it once, from EnderW23 to 24…and then stopped. So I guess the last change was 9 years ago yesterday.
raises hand can someone please translate to International English?
ETA: happy just-had-a-birthday, Enderw33
I’m not sure what the Texan (wink) means- but I’m from New England so I’ll give it a shot.
For me, we ate clam bellies steamed - but the bellies always had to be washed and then soaked in clarified butter - because the bellies and necks of the clams might still have y’know, belly contents, inside.
Clam strips are pre-cleaned and then battered and fried - so it’s a much more mainstream version.
However, I will confess that a bucket of steamed clam bellies sounds awesome to me right now.
Ehm… what are “clam bellies” and “clam strips”?
I just eat clams. The only parts of the clam I know are the shells, the foot, and the flesh.
I have never read a James Bond book or seen a James Bond movie.
I have never drunk a cup of coffee or tea.
I have never read a Dr. Seuss book or seen Sesame Street.
Ahh. Happy Birthday then. And excellent name. The series is some of the best SF I’ve ever read.