There are certain events/instances in life which are so everyday and normal that everyone is supposed to have experienced them. If you haven't, then you're a bit weird. So post up the things you have yet to find out about, a kind of Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Aren't We list (is that Echobelly?).

Here are mine, some of which I can control, some I can't:

- I have never had a nosebleed

- I have never seen Four Weddings and a Funeral

- I have never seen Notting Hill (the film)

- I have never seen an episode of the following Casualty, The Bill or HeartBeat

- I have not read a Harry Potter book

- I have never tasted tomato juice (the drink)

and until a couple of years ago I'd never been to a wedding, but that doesn't count now.

Close but no cigar... it's The Cranberries.

Have you guys ever played this as a drinking game? My ex girlfriend introduced me to it. Its quite a good one really... you sit in a circle and one at a time someone offers up an "I have never"... if you have, you drink, if you haven't you're safe or something like that. Basically, everyone learns some interesting things about each other without the pressures of one-to-one conversations and of course you get wrecked.

Okay, here's a handful of mine...

I have never:

Been on (or jumped off) a diving board at a pool.

Sat through an entire episode of Doctor Who.

Swallowed a piece of chewing gum.

Made my own pastry (but I'm a Yorkshire Pudding demon!)

Had a pet I didn't kill.

Borrowed a lighter without trying to steal it.

Watched that one on Sky about the plastic surgeons... Nip/Tuck is it? Yeah, never seen a full one of those.

Regretted the move from boxers to boxer-briefs.

That'll do for now.

A couple more:

I have never been inter-railing around Europe.

I have never fallen into a canal or river in this country or any other.

I think that Raymond B has it right lets see if we can inspire the odd story...

How about this one

I have never seen fence and though "I reckon that I could get my head through there"

OR

seen one of those things that you chain your bike onto, you know the things that are about 2 foot tall and look like a bit of metal scaffolding bent into a D shape but cemented to the ground and the D on it's back and though, whilst wearing a METALICA Tshirt and probably yelling the lyrics to enter sandman leapt onto it and attempt to do summersults on it.. Only to brain myself on the pavement...

Any takers?   

Extremely dopey. I was trying to think of something that I had done and I just ... don't think I can top that!

*thinks*

Nah...that is quite good, that one. Especially the bit about the Metallica t-shirt. The closest I have ever come to that, I guess, is when I tried to smoke a tampon.

I once tried to smoke a bush-tucker type joint when sixteen. Y'know foraging the land for natural highs, like Ken Kesey meets Ray Mears.

It constituted a paper Wrigley's chewing gum sheath (the skin) and a bunch of lawn grass.

It was a very definite in body experience.

I sense this is turning into an embarassing stories thread, if so I'll hangfire until the direction turns to that of romance. I have a good one from my yoot.

If this is turning into an embarrassing stories thread I think I am going to read it with my eyes squinted up so that I cannot properly see whatever my fingers have typed...

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