Cultural touchstones you have never experienced

dances with wolves

the english patient

lawrence of arabia

milo forgot paying taxes, voting, acting like a decent fellow, living with near-sightedness, etc.

i have never been offered drugs by steve coogan

having "the talk" from my parents

skiing

disney's "the rescuers"

living in a dorm room with that one poster of the two girls kissing

I've never seen Goodfellas, or taken any drugs. Is 39 too late to start? Is taking drugs actually a cultural touchstone?

yes

Se7en. Top Gun. It's a Wonderful Life. Say Anything. Any of the Alien series. Weird Science.

Also, never saw more than a stray episode of Transformers or G.I. Joe as a kid, which left me befuddled during many a late-night dorm-room conversation.

I've never been to a Sunday church service (or Wednesday).

I have zero childhood stories about broken bones.

I have never seen The Goonies or any Indiana Jones film.

I have never eaten peanut butter outside of a Reeses' Cup or an M&M.

I have never fantasised about a big white wedding, or any wedding at all really.

I have never stolen a hotel bathrobe.

Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock.

I never ever had a hypercolour t shirt.

And I never ever played the "never ever" drinking game.

I have never read nor watched a Harry Potter story. Nor been to church in an 'official' capacity, nor had sex in a car as a teenager (or adult, for that matter.)

Never seen any of the Godfathers movies, taken any recreational drugs, or, in fact, ever even been drunk.

I have never read nor watched a Harry Potter story.

sames.

summer camp

that john candy saturday morning cartoon set at summer camp

i have never experienced pokemans firsthand

vegas

have skied but have never water skied

I've done neither ]:

summer camp was not what i had been lead to believe

bad-boy biker boyfriend

i would hope something as boring as harry potter would not constitute a cultural touchstone but i'm too old to judge. i've also seen all the movies.

rave

No Harry Potter, no Lord of the Rings. Only saw the first of the "new" Star Wars. Never did heroin.

> i would hope something as boring as harry potter would not constitute a cultural touchstone but i'm too old to judge. i've also seen all the movies.

I run in nerdulous circles.

Nice segue, PP.

seance.

OMG ANNA YOU HAVE NEVER EATEN PEANUT BUTTER?!?!?!

that's a britishes thing, though, right?

that's the only possible excuse

No cocaine, no heroin, no Farrelly Bros. movies; no snow-skiing; no truffles, no caviar as such (I've had fish eggs in their usual sushi presentations, but no "caviar"). No raves, no Vegas, no summer camp. No Aerosmith except in passing.

Oh, and the Carpenter poll reminds me, I haven't seen The Thing.

no drugs

Never read a Harry Potter book (not an accident)
Never saw "Rocky Horror..."
Never watched "Saved By The Bell"
Never watched "The Soprannos"
Couldn't give a fuck about any of the above.

i think there are some people in this thread who simply may not be old enough to experience certain touchstones

Drugs
Parental Divorce
Anything Church-related except for a few weddings

E.T.

Divorce
Adolescent dating
Adolescent drinking/rebellion
Many many shows and movies I never saw until adulthood, if ever
Moon boots
Braces/retainer
Still have never broken a bone!

Oh shit, me too. No broken bones ever.

I never kissed a girl. I got close once. About a millimeter.

Transformers cartoons
Prom

I wonder if anyone will admit to porno on this thread.

i didn't break a bone until i was 27
it sucked but am glad to be a part of that particular kind of pain club

have never bought $300+ shoes
have not had a baby (which i hear is a totally popular hott thing to be doing these days)

have never bought $300+ shoes

ha! me neither.

I wish I'd have hit both the braces and the wisdom teeth removal landmarks. Not that I didn't NEED them, they just never happened. My wisdom teeth growing in are really increasing the need for the braces.

THREESOME

i've never seen the kind of porn they sell in actual porn shops.

i've never been on a roller coaster, unless disneyland's thunder mountain railroad counts.

school dances, proms etc.
fun in high school
divorce

never been stung by a bee or broken a bone.

SNL - never seen an entire episode, old or new.

Never seen a full episode of Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond or Will and Grace, either.

Never had a Friendster account.

I've never been to a buck's party.

But then again I have no married friends at all.

I've never seen any of the Rambo movies, nor a full episode of the Sopranos. I've never listened to a whole album by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones nor Radiohead. I've never been to a church wedding, though I did attend my first ever (civil) wedding a month ago. I've never worn a tie.

I never skipped school and have never been to a U2 concert.

"Fast Times at Ridgemont Hight", prom, a bachelor party with strippers involved, or a bad experience with Tequila that makes me never want to drink it again.

Never been a bridesmaid
Never broken a bone
Never had stitches

Is there anyone who has never seen any of the Star Wars movies? I have one friend who hasn't, I think that must be the ultimate cultural touchstone for people in their twenties to forties.

Never done E, coke nor heroin. I'm particularly sad about the E thing. :-(

Never broke any bones as a kid.

Never been a latchkey kid.

Never drank cider in the park as a 13 year old.

never encountered a stereotypical irish cop who told me to "move along now lad, nothing to see here!"

never done proper drugs.

never farted at a funeral.

Any "Star Wars" movies (all the way thru I mean). "Reservoir Dogs". "Pulp Fiction". "West Wing".

my girlfriend hasn't seen any of the Star Wars movies - i tried to get her to watch Ep 4 but she got bored after 10 minutes. i tell her it means she won't 'get' a minor percentage of jokes in other TV shows she loves e.g. Spaced but it doesn't intrigue.

no broken bones
no one night stands
no ecstasy
or harder drugs
in fact it's just another ordinary day

When I listened to the commentary on the "Spaced" DVDs, I realised that I didn't get half the jokes and references either - but it didn't seem to matter

Handjobs to "More Than This" by Roxy Music

never seen or read lord of the rings or harry potter.

Never read 'em, seen some o' them tho'

omg xxpost i did that as a thread connection in the same minute as you blueski

WE HAS PSYCHIC CONNECTION

-never been to a funeral full stop
-never seen a COMPLETE Godfather movie
-nor 'reservoir dogs'
-nor the lastest spiderman, terminator OR superman movies
-never seen Seinfeld
-never participated in a flashmob

oh the cultural touchstone that is 'spiderman 3'

Never had a homosexual experience
Never tried hard drugs
Never seen 2001, Apocalypse Now, Gone with the Wind, Titanic and countless other canonical films (despite having studied film at university and worked in film ever since)
Never joined Myspace
Never snogged anyone I met through ILE

Never been a hospital in-patient (that's not cultural I guess)

Film: Star Wars (any of them), any Bergman apart from Seventh Seal. Loads of other world/art house cinema but mainly because I haven't had the opportunity.

TV: Sopranos, 24, Lost, Big Brother.

Lit: Any novel published in the last 10 years or so.

Computer games: Anything after Donkey Kong or whatever it was called.

xxxpost: you'd be surprised

-never read 'The Catcher In The Rye'
-oh and i've never seen Gone With The Wind (or The Wizard Of Oz) either.

The peanut butter thing: I think I'm probably unusual in that even for a Britisher. When I was in primary school there were a couple of disgusting classmates of mine who favoured peanut butter sandwiches and would chew with their mouths open. Seeing jars of peanut butter still reminds me of the sight and the smell and makes the back of my throat constrict; hence why it is fine when chocolate covered (although I still have to be in the right mood for it) but I can't stand even to look at it in it's 'raw' state.

Never snogged anyone I met through ILE

And what about Sinister Mark?

done all this stuff

Sorry Anna, I didn't quite catch that. Anyway...

Hahaha, Mark.

* I've never made or eaten Smores
* I've never held a glow stick whilst raving in a club (at least, not to my memory)
* I've never watched The Magic Roundabout or Moomins

i've never seen 'gone with the wind', 'titanic', 'intolerance', etc but ech, doesn't really matter.

Dudes, breaking a bone is not a 'cultural touchstone'.

I have never seen a Bond film in its entirety.
I have never been to Ibiza, clubbing or otherwise. Or indeed been proper clubbing in any other country.
Never been to an illegal rave in a field (plenty of warehouses mind and one in a forest so maybe doesn't count).
Never driven a vehicle.
Never experienced a UK street party, carnival or anything else.

Never been a best man
Never eaten oysters
Didn't have an 18th birthday party or a 21st :(
Never skied
Never crashed a car
Never been to a 'rave'
Didn't have a gap year (were they invented back then?)
Never failed an exam

EAT OYSTERS

this is important

Never been to an opera
Never been to a ballet
Never been to a church wedding

I didn't eat peanut butter until my 20s because i thought it looked gross til then. but it was widely available throughout that time.

Oh yeah, computer games, I haven't played any of them (except some online Flash games) since the early nineties. The only computer I've ever owned was a Commodore 64, and I also had the black-and-white Gameboy, but after that games have been a foreign country to me.

When I was in primary school there were a couple of disgusting classmates of mine who favoured peanut butter sandwiches and would chew with their mouths open.

this is totally the reason i was put off too

I pity the wretched existence of anyone who hasn't seen "Apocalypse Now".

It's a good movie, but I think Brando's incoherent mumblings in the end almost ruin it. I think the book was right in showing practically nothing of Kurtz himself, only his influence on others.

i was glad coppola kept the helicopter attack in, though.

Never seen "Apocalypse Now" (only bits of it)

I pity the wretched existence of anyone who hasn't seen "Apocalypse Now".Repo Man.

Never seen "Repo Man"

nver been botted

What's that, some sex practice?

same sex practice

I would say summer camp, but I did manage to partake in one when I was 17, solely because I wanted to experience it. Same goes for Scouts (?): I went once and thought it was crap (read: screaming evil kids running around slapping eachother? not my idea of fun, rather sleep late and watch three hours of BBC so I could post about it later on in life on ILX.)

Not actually sure if I have ever tried peanut butter. It looks ghastly.

You don't get "summer camp" in Britain... or do you?

never lived in a house
never had a driver's license
never had divorced parents

The divorced parents was extremely rare in my school. Actually I can remember whose parents were divorced (as it was a little frowned upon). Now it's probably the other way around...

Oh god, I remember one: taking the school bus and then, at age 16, getting a motorcycle.

Also, taking lunch to school.

I didn't see Breakfast Club tim my late 20s, never seen Animal House, 2001.

and I've never been to me.

Didn't own any star wars or transformers toys (actually had one of each, squid head and some rubbish bug insect thing, but they were both crap enough to not really count).

Dudes, breaking a bone is not a 'cultural touchstone'.

Thank you, Matt!

never lived in a house

That's mad! I think that's the maddest one on here!

it's also by no means a 'cultural touchstone' ffs. we're talking music, film, tv, arts, literature here, not living accommodation

Yeah, does Get Bent live in a tent or a boat?

(x-post)

um a FLAT? it's not insane at all.

maybe you could argue that 'living in a house' is part of 'western culture', but i don't think that's what the original poster was driving at.

I think she means she's lived in apartments her entire life, which isn't too surprising, since she grew up in NYC.

Yeah, but a flat is still in a house, isn't it?

waht

Oh that's a disappointment, I thought it meant living in a boat, or up a tree or sumthin'

does Get Bent live in a tent

this must win some sort of prize

Get Bent has always been "in the house"

never lived in a house

That's mad! I think that's the maddest one on here!

I have also never lived in a house.

xxpost: it has rhyme for a start, aside from being one of the most wtf speculations in the history of tuomas

If "a house" only means "a single-family house", then it's more of an upper-class touchstone, isn't it? I've never lived in such a house either.

in this mad, mad, mad country, the middle class purchase homes.

it's also by no means a 'cultural touchstone' ffs. we're talking music, film, tv, arts, literature here, not living accommodation

Jesus christ, just because it doesn't fit the narrow parameters of the thread you didn't start doesn't mean I can't find it interesting.

I'm not suggesting it makes anyone a circus freak or anything, but where I come from the idea of living only in apartments your whole life is very strange and different. And obviously get bent is aware of the strangeness of it, or it wouldn't be on the list.

Yeah, but a flat is still in a house, isn't it?

-- Tuomas, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 2:15 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

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If "a house" only means "a single-family house", then it's more of an upper-class touchstone, isn't it? I've never lived in such a house either.

-- Tuomas, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 2:20 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

what?

In any city most people are bound to live in flats, right? I know about the American suburbs, but do the majority of people actually live in those?

I grew up in a barn.

Jesus christ, just because it doesn't fit the narrow parameters of the thread you didn't start doesn't mean I can't find it interesting.

Point conceded (and I did retract what I said in part a little earlier), but I think Milo was explicitly referring to 'culture' as the media-and-arts-based product of a civilisation, rather than the accepted codes of living. I don't dispute that it's interesting, but once we expand the parameters the thread's in danger of getting too general. Stuff like "I have never crossed the Atlantic" could become valid answers (and appropriate ones for this misunderstanding), but they'd dilute the more immediately 'cultural' answers.

Eh, what do I know, it's a free www...

p.s. that tuomas 'upper-class touchstone' comment is the single most batshit thing he has ever said anywhere

What are you on about Tuomas, I lived in one on a council estate - as did all my neighbours!

*a valid answer/an appropriate one/it would

I was reared by horses and sheep.

I guess it's different in the US and UK, but in Finland working-class people can't afford to buy houses.

tuomas first you said "OMG HOW CAN U NOT LIVE IN HOUSE???????"

then you said living in a house was an upper-class thing no-one did outside the american suburbs.

WTF?

people have been moving out of cities for ages, in north america and europe, anyway. a popular thing to do if you're going to have a family and want more bedrooms for cheaper and a garden for the kids (see monica & chandler in friends unless you've never seen an episode of friends)

In any city most people are bound to live in flats, right? I know about the American suburbs, but do the majority of people actually live in those?

In Ireland, even in cities, the overwhelming majority of people live in houses, especially if they have families. It is the way it has always been. Yes, people rent apartments or flats for a period of time, but they eventually move to houses. This is beginning to change, but historically it has always been the case.

I guess it's different in the US and UK, but in Finland working-class people can't afford to buy houses.

Council housing, housing estates, schemes etc

Don't people rent in Finland?

I have never been interested in football (of either persuasion).

I don't know about ireland

Yeah, that's my real answer: sports. Any sort of sports. Never watched or participated in any sport of any kind unless forced to as some sort of school function.

I was reared by horses and sheep.

Now I understand your penis envy.

Ahh, Ilx.

I also boggled at Anna's no peanut butter thing. That's almost like Elvis Telecom never having a carbonated beverage.

And to anyone who questions Harry Potter as a cultural touchstone, you've obviously been living under a rock for the past decade or are over 40 and childless.

Mine:

-No braces
-No underaged drinking
-Never seen Titanic
-Never taken a family vacation
and to add to the controversy - Never lived in a non-rented home until I was old enough to own one myself.

Breaking a bone is too a touchstone! See, there's having a cast, and people signing it, getting/having to use the accoutrements of medical invervention and leaving class early b/c crutches make you slow! Everyone wanting to know what happened, and asking if it hurt, and if the bones stuck out, and all that stuff that kids want to know. This is what I imagine it's like. After the initial pain & suffering, of course.

Yes I have also never broken a bone. Or been stung by a bee/wasp. Kind of wish I had been though as the fear of the unknown is probably worse than the actual experience.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to have broken a bone. That's 'cause I was a spoiled brat with no real misery in my life.

I really wanted a retainer in jr high, see? But I never needed one.

OR: I wanted all the good things that Laurel listed.

xpost I did have a retainer-it was horrible and stupid

Never lived in a house/flat that wasn't rented

XPOST

OTM, being eventually stung by a wasp was somewhat disappointing in the end.

Never went on a school trip
Never went to a school disco/dance

I didn't see any of the Indiana Jones movies til a couple years ago. I've never read Heart of Darkness, Moby Dick in full, or any Norman Mailer (this last one is pretty embarrassing in my field).

done all this stuff

I really wanted a retainer in jr high, see? But I never needed one.

I desperately needed/need braces but we didn't really go to dentists when I was a kid. My dentist now is trying to make me get braces but my mouth is so jacked up, 1. they'd have to remove a few teeth, 2. I couldn't use invisalign and would have to have the old school metal kind 3. he said he would like to BREAK MY JAW and move it forward to correct my bite. Uh, no. I'm nearing my mid-30s. I've made it this far in life with non-perfect teeth. I'll just keep trucking.

Who needs perfection?

I've always found love and jobs so I don't think my Brit-style smile is holding me back. (j/k Britishers)

I think too perfect teeth look a little odd anyway. I'm very fond of the slight gap between my front two. People have said it's cute. (X-post to Sam - yes, they've said it's cute in BRITAIN.)

Can't really be trusted then.

Gaps are cute and acceptable. See David Letterman and Madonna.

Mine aren't horribly crooked and jagged. Just crowded and a bit overlapping. Americans are a bit too concerned with physical perfection.

Never went to a school disco/dance

There's several other touchstones wrapped up in that one - getting drunk, kissing/snogging, fighting....

...at least there was for me!

Breaking a bone is too a touchstone! See, there's having a cast, and people signing it, getting/having to use the accoutrements of medical invervention and leaving class early b/c crutches make you slow

Ah, but that's only if you break a bone where you need a cast. I've only broken non-cast ones - ribs, nose, finger, neck, toes. When I did crack a bone in my foot, I just got given a bandage...

You broke your neck?

Ooh, never got in a real fight. Once got into a shouting/a bit of shoving match on the playground with my best friend but it quickly ended with the both of us storming off and me taking T0dd Pr0tinsky to the Mets game for my birthday instead.

xpost yeah, wait waht?

never gotten a tattoo
never read LotR
never larped

Americans are a bit too concerned with physical perfection

Unfortunately spreading outwards across the globe

never larped

????

Okay, larping is NOT a cultural touchstone, unless we consider people even more nerdulous than myself to be the mainstream.

I am unpierced and untattooed as well, but don't really consider those rituals to have quite reached the level of cultural touchstone yet.

"yet"

You broke your neck?

Well cracked a vertebra, anyway, playing rugby. It went undiagnosed for 3 or so weeks due to a hospital cock-up, by which time it was practically healed. I posted about it once before - on the how did you meet your current partner thread IIRC...

larp = live action role playing

Basically, you dress up like your D&D character and run around the woods pretending to slaughter orcs and stuff.

xpost
I remember that. </jaymc.xls>

Oily, you are a nerd.

Breaking a bone is a touchstone, but I'm not sure it's a "cultural" touchstone. Depends on how we define "culture," although I'll admit that that conversation could drag on for days.

There's some pretty hilarious larp videos on the web. I expect a youtube search for "fireball" will bring up the one that gave me the most giggles.

> Oily, you are a nerd.

No foolin'. In my defense, I played board games this weekend, not RPGs. I haven't RPGed in so long I can't tell you how long, and I have never EVER larped.

I have never drunk a bottle of very expensive wine.

actually i've never played any RPGs. that's gotta be a cultural touchstone, at least by internet message board standards?

I have never seen a single film by Pedro Almodovar

i have never been on a cross-country roadtrip

i haven't played a computer game this century, i reckon, and never an rpg.

I have never seen a single film by Pedro Almodovar

I have, tho I have tried to avoid them

ah ha... that's another one for me. Every video game roughly post-Sega Genesis.

I have never been in a McDonalds.

wow. that's the first one that's actually impressed me. kudos.

I have never been in a McDonalds.

See my Almodovar answer above

Wow, congrats on that one. (haha, xpost)

I have never been in a Starbucks or any kind of "coffee shop"

Matt is lying. He was in the Mcdonalds by Charing Cross station with me once.

Pre us on ILX tho so different cultural era

I have never been in a McDonalds.

-- Matt DC, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 9:45 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

that just means he uses the drive thru

up until yesterday, i had never worn a halter top.

i still have never worn a tube top

Yes that was a lie, I was just wondering whether people would believe it, and how long it would take for someone to call bullshit.

xxpost It is everything you dreamed it would be?

I have never bought a pair of trainers (I have been given them as a gift however)

I am 100% in favor of halter tops.

i've always hated my bony shoulders and freckled back, but my hair is long now and covered most of that. it was liberating, yes.

I am 100% in favor of freckles.

...

I am 100% in favor of freckles.

I'll raise you another 100%

i'll cosign

i have never had tea.
i never had a cup of coffee (one mouthful, yes - promptly spat out).

I am tempted to call bullshit on that tea and coffee one.

Two more for me.

-Never been in a fistfight
-Never went to summer camp

Bell, I think, for your benefit, brooklyn noize AD&D campaign is needed. First edition rulebooks with the horrible amateurish covers. No miniatures, just funyuns and mtn dew.

(And no I've never larped or mmorpged or any of that horrible one-step-away-from-furry madness.)

i wish i'd spent much more time in friends cars, or my own car, before i graduated.

I'm now trying to think of the most mainstream, commonplace cultural thing I have never done and I think it's probably the fact that I have never watched an episode of Coronation Street.

(This is a Britishes only cultural touchstone admittedly)

sorry that's cultural touchstones you have not experienced enough zzz thread carry on (xp)

I have never drunk special brew or tennants super.

Plenty of time though.

I'm now trying to think of the most mainstream, commonplace cultural thing I have never done and I think it's probably the fact that I have never watched an episode of Coronation Street.

snap, me too.

jon lewis, there was talk of this the other night. i believe sanskrit volunteered to be dungeon master?

I don't think I've read any 'classic' literature except 1 Shakespeare play for school and a few books I got too bored to finish (e.g. Frankenstein, To Kill A Mockingbird, Catcher In The Rye). Lamentably doth my vocabularic prowess remain hampered.

Yeah many of people's listed things could still be ameliorated. Though in many instances it's really too late for it to have the culturally normative effect (ie, I could become a big stoner at age 37, but if I go to summer camp now, it's still gonna be like I never went to summer camp).

xpost Bell-- OMG count me the fuck in!!!

xp the mattdc: absolutely true. coffee smells like really bad body odor and tea smells like urine.

except 1 Shakespeare play for school

You only had to read one Shakespeare play? I mean, OK, I studied literature in college and thus had to take a whole course on Shakespeare, but even in high school we read both Romeo and Juliet (freshman year) and King Lear (senior year). And I guess I was in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. I am realizing now that part of why I find your claim unusual is that you are British.

You only had to read one Shakespeare play?

I think we only did "Othello"

In the UK they expect you to osmose the rest of it. It's in the air.

i think we just did one for gcse, one for a-level.

i have read maybe one "classic" 19th century novel, a jane austen for a-level, never any dickens, george eliot, russian dudes, balzac, zola, or whoever. nor any turgid campus-bred great american novel either.

breaking a bone (or other Major Injury) is definitely a cultural touchstone, one of those Wonder Years experiences you reflect back on when you're in the nursing home.

Actually, now I come to think of it, I've never seen a professional production of a Shakespeare play

I had to read six Shakespeares over the course of high school, along with one year that focused mainly on Dickens + great American authors of the 18th/19th centuries. I don't remember any of the latter and very little of the Shakespeare.

Never skydived.

never wakeboarded, skydived, or bunjee jumped

double penetration

they didn't want us to read Shakespeare at my Catholic school because of rumours he was a whoopsie

never been inside a shark cage

never accidentally shot myself with a nail gun

never backpacked across Europe

Never walked on the moon.

Or learnt the Michael Jackson Moonwalk™

Never intentionally stabbed another man.

crack

RIP touchstone

Never knifed a hobo. Never fucked washing a hat.

Never called for Lou1s J@gger to be banned.

never backpacked across Europe

Wow, this IS actually a fairly common touchstone for British students (one I've never done, mind), but American ones too?

P.S. can't we just play "Truth or Dare" instead?

These are starting to sound like a terrible Lou Reed song circa 1989. I can almost hear the fretless bass.

Fuck, that's another big one of mine--

NEVER BEEN OVERSEAS

Wow, this IS actually a fairly common touchstone for British students

Is it?

Never had "Sex With Your Pants" (what was Lou thinking?)

"Sex With Your Parents" not Pants

Never played a fretless bass.

Never joined a band to pick up chicks.

Never played Little League baseball.

xposts to Tom: never heard of 'inter-railing'?

"Sex With Your Parents" not Pants

The most fun you can have with your parents on

I never went to the Donkey Show in Nuevo Laredo's boystown.

Also, I have never gone to any strip club/porn theater, or hired a hooker. Basically, my connection to the sex industry as a consumer has been limited to magazines and video.

I have never bothered to familiarize myself with the Mac OS or how you can do anything with a one-button mouse

And I guess I was in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

-- jaymc, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 10:15 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

omg

i have never been a cheerleader and i have never been to a football game. both make me very sad.

i have never been on a talk show for cheating, a sex change or to find my baby's daddy.

What's "OMG" about that? Actually, I've been in two separate productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, although only as an extra the second time around.

And I guess I was in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

But then you woke up and weren't so sure whether you really were in it?

(xx-post)

a good line, tuomas, but you shouldn't quote AND xpost, that's overkill.

-I have never 8080'd anybody.

Oh yeah, I've never been in any public sports event, you know, where they have seats and all.

bukakke

bulgogi

Never been molested in church

lawrence of arabia
skiing
Harry Potter
"sleepaway" camp
Divorce
gap year/backpack europe
post-1st gen Nintendo video games
myspace/facebook
strip club
Apocalypse Now
Florida/the Caribbean

hebrew school/bar mitzvah

Oh yeah! Have never been on vacation to any tropical place, ie Hawaii, Caribb, Mexico, etc. I want to do that this winter.

lawrence of arabia

omg, that's the first one that I felt sorry for anyone about.

hawaii, either. that's likely to be the first to change, tho.

myspace/facebook

Check

-Never bought nor listened to a Smiths record.

american football game (I'm pretty sure, but could have repressed the memory)

i've broken 2 bones, both were ski accidents.

-Skiing

table-waiting

fishing

WAHT?!?!

Although someone did try to molest me in a church.

public school

Slocki said Lawrence of Arabia, too. I haven't seen it, either, but nor have I ever felt like I "should" in the way that I've felt like I "should" have seen It's a Wonderful Life.

strip club

This is a good one. I went to a bachelor party the other night in which we did not go to a strip club (just dinner and a bar afterward), but there was much discussion around the dinner table about particular strip clubs the other guys had been to. I had nothing to contribute. I'm not particularly prudish, but the idea of being confronted with sexual stimuli while hanging out with your buddies and being expected to somehow share the moment with them strikes me as incredibly awkward, not to mention sad.

steakhouse

Also: skiing, fishing, working any kind of retail job (never operated a cash register in my life).

is skiing really one? i would think it would depend where you grew up. in maine, it's really common, but if you're from a place with little snow or mountains?

i've never tried surfing.

never seen more than snippets of It's a Wonderful Life

confronted with sexual stimuli while hanging out with your buddies and being expected to somehow share the moment with them strikes me as incredibly awkward, not to mention sad.

I agree. I went to one in college with some pals and an old guy was yelling 'yeah, show us your ...' whatever, (it was an all nude place), and it was so creepy that I left. For the thread about touchstones you wish you had never experienced.

i would think it would depend where you grew up. in maine, it's really common, but if you're from a place with little snow or mountains?

so, the Southeast US?

RE skiing I would say yes because everyone seems to go with their class or family on at least one skiing trip in their lifetime. There are very few places without mountains and snow. Except the Southeast.

I've gone skiing, but I don't consider it one of those 'you haven't lived' things. I'm reasonably certain that a majority of my state's residents have never strapped on a pair.

Glasto

peanut butter

I missed slocki saying Lawrence. Oh well! I've already gotten over the feeling sorry.

I haven't been to a strip club either; jaymc otm on the reasoning why not.

Yeah, not much chance to snow ski down here, though I have been sledding and snow-innertubing.

I've never been binge drinking!

oh i just thought of a good one. i've never eaten a philly cheesesteak.

BELL I AM SHOCKED

SHOCKED

I've never stripped off for one of those mass public nudity in front of some cultural site or another, for that pervy photographer dude!

i know laurel!!! and my late onset lactose intolerance means that i never will, either.

you guys all need to go skiing

OTM, and break a bone while doing so.

There's no snow anymore!

never surfed, skiied, or seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

No Sound of Music, The Exorcist, Lawrence of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life, Caddyshack or Terminator - which is weird because I'm pretty sure I'd like them all a lot.

Never read Da Vinci Files, Harry Potter, or Jane Austen.

No broken bones.

Never been to an opera or to hear an orchestra, that bums me out a bit especially recently.

Haven't played a new video game since Tetris.

No tattoos.

No Walmart.

I have eaten Philly cheesesteaks (awesome), binge drunked (has its ups and downs), played a fretless bass (gross), played Little League (only dim memories remain, but good), lived through multiple divorces of parents (very extremely bad), read Dickens (pretty good but those orphans do get whiney), joined a band to pick up chicks (no luck), gone skiing (overrated, but I suck), surfed (fun!), done tons of drugs (mostly good except when very very bad), and been to strip clubs (mostly bad), and a bunch of other shit, so all is not lost.

I've never worked retail or any other kind of service industry or blue collar job.

I've never protested!

never done acid or mushrooms!

xpost You've played a fretless bass, but have you played a GUILD ASTBURY fretless bass? Until then, you haven't experienced gross. Silicone strings, my friend.

i've worked much retail. what other/non blue collar jobs could you get in highschool?

I've never shoplifted (from a place where I wasn't employed).

stereotypical spring break

I've never seen a Girls Gone Wild video.

thrown up from drinking

it's sort of like playing a fretless bass.

what other/non blue collar jobs could you get in highschool?

I worked as a file clerk for an insurance office one summer and for a hospital the next summer. Granted, my parents had connections to both jobs.

Never worked retail or food/beverage service.

I didn't realize how many cultural touchstones I *had* experienced till I read this.

-never saw Citizen Kane
-never went to sleep-away camp
-never had a high school boyfriend (or girlfriend for that matter)
-never been to one of the Florida or California type theme parks
-never been to Lollapalooza or any other alternative music festival (I'm not including SXSW in this category)
-never played a school sport
-never watched Twin Peaks, X-Files or 90210 when they were originally on the air; never watched American Idol
-never watched any of the Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, or Friday the 13th films.

what other/non blue collar jobs could you get in highschool?

never worked during highschool. Worked in the tax office and a couple of other temp office jobs in between school and uni (age 18/19).

I got to see the tax return for famous Oxford shoegaze heroes Ride.

sports team
American Idol
really learned to ride a bike (I have ridden a bike. I have also broken two bones.)

not working during school was not an option for me. actually my mom had me process mailorders in her shop and paid me under the table for it between ages 13-14 (when i couldn't legally work)

if i ever have kids, they are working shitty jobs through school. i'm not giving them weed money.

Child labour! We got pocket money for trivial tasks like weeding the lawn.

I have never dived off a high diving board. Or any kind of diving board.

I've never waited tables or worked retail. Never done drugs of any sort. Never tried to smoke. Never been to an opera (not too fussed about this though). Never ridden a roller coaster (terrified). Never been ocean fishing. Never been in a natural cave.

Have broken various bones (not recommended), gotten speeding tickets, been in car wrecks, caused car wrecks, ridden horses, ridden a mechanical bull, ridden a ferris wheel, been to Disneyland, been to strip clubs (male and female), water and snow skied (both badly), played golf, been lake and stream fishing, gone skinny dipping, driven a tank, driven a semi-truck, driven a bus, driven a race car, fired a gun.

I doubt many brits will have fired a gun. Well, any brits our age, obviously all the kids these days take a couple of handguns to school and have a Tec 9 under the bed.

Mark - seriously, you've never been to Glastonbury?

xp - I don't think it's that common even in the states. Hunting is on the decline, and very few people (particularly on ILX) have a 'back 40' to go plinking on.

I've never played in a band of any kind.

a 'back 40' to go plinking on

Seriously Anna. Even when I was 18 it didn't appeal. I went to Phoenix in 1993 and was hugely underwhelmed and since then I really don't fancy it.

I have fired a gun, fwiw.

ridden a roller coaster of any seriousness

Firing a gun was a huge deal for me. I was completely terrified of them and that's how I got over the ph34r. I also went sky-diving a few times, trying to get over a fear of heights. I realized pretty quick it wasn't the heights, it was the fear of falling. I still really don't like heights, but if I have to be up high for work now, I can handle it better than I used to.

I have a huge fear of heights because I always have a huge urge to fly for a few seconds.

Actually it's more a moderate fear of heights.

nepotism

I have a fear of landing.

I've never seen Dazed & Confused, Butch Cassidy, Citizen Kane, or Casablanca - to name just a few.

Alien

I waved a loaded gun around at my ex, and also histrionically held it to my own temple, but I never fired it, as is evidenced by my presence here.

...

oh I see. wrong thread, beth.

Don't correct me or I'll shoot.

I'M SORRY I'M SORRY... PLEASE PUT IT DOWN. Please...

IT'S TOO LATE FOR APOLOGIES!!!! BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM (turns gun on self) BLAM!!!!!!!

jesus. That's a little... um... dark.

Hey! You can't talk, you're supposed to be dead!
MOM!!!!! KENAN'S CHEATING!!!!

my bad.

http://www.kwxx.com/images/keoni_ground.jpg

you know, when we played guns as kids, we never turned the guns on ourselves.

These kids today, I tell ya.

sorry murder/suicide doesnt qualify. neither does heroin.

I've never waited in line outside a bar or club.

never gone on a date
never walked in on parents having sex
never done an "all-nighter" studying for a test
never done a Christopher Walken impression

What, you're just going to let the thread die on that? Worst ILX.

i've never been on a DISASTROUS date

WTF. Really? Lucky you.

It really baffles me when people say they haven't tried ANY drugs WHATSOEVER. I never did E, coke nor heroin, but it kinda amazes me that one has never tried a joint. It just seems so... I don't know. Not that it's wrong, it just seems like something you have to actively avoid (which I know is silly of me to think but...).

Uhm, I've never done any drugs, nor smoked a cigarette in my life. But yes, it's because it's something I actively avoided, and I've been /around/ plenty of it. I hate fun though, so that's an important part of it.

http://i28.tinypic.com/124elua.jpg

http://brontemedia.com/2008/03/05/john-bukkake-professor-of-facial-dermatology/

Stayed home and ate Doritos instead of going to high school prom and getting wasted.

^^^ ILM's tagline

have never played a vinyl record
have never driven through a drive-thru
have never heard a Rolling Stones album
have never drunk a slurpee

what?

otoh I've watched plenty of Gilmore Girls episodes

http://l.thumbs.canstockphoto.com/canstock8447351.jpg

I like to think that when you get to a certain age it no longer matters whether you've experienced certain touchstones because your peers have become less preoccupied with the shallow signifiers of adulthood that meant so much to them at ages 16-21. or maybe it's just that by the time you're in your late 20s everyone assumes you've long since experienced all the usual rites of passage, so they no longer bother to quiz you about what you have and haven't done. it's been a long time since anyone has harped on me for never having smoked a cigarette, at any rate, and it would be odd if someone my age were to hold that against me as if it were a sign of lingering childhood timidity or whatever.

when you get to a certain age it no longer matters

I've been there for a long time now. There are plenty of experiences I'd still like to have, but purely because I think they'd be interesting experiences and because I need to have something to look forward to, not because my peers or the larger society give a rip whether I've done them.

it's hard to do some of these things in the right way, even if you are the right age

http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/37u0xr/so_this_is_the_correct_way_to_buy_slurpee_ive/

I've never had a slurpee. I have had Icees and Slush Puppies though.

^^

^^

(I do not know if I’ve had #2 or #3, actually.)

Never went to a school dance, which somehow still haunts me into my 30s as my peers throw rock n roll proms and such.

facebook
online dating
skating (roller- or ice-)
‘my’ sports team(s)
cell-phone selfie
any kind of religious upbringing

any kind of religious upbringing

was your family non-religious (atheist/agnostic) or just not very active/vocal about their beliefs?

for a few years mourned missing out on american high school related experiences that i saw portrayed in films

dad atheist, mom def believer but not v active/vocal about beliefs
guess the idea (so we were told) is we cd/wd have to decide for ourselves
had philosophically intense angst-ridden childhood :)
sibling (partly in rebellion against dad) eventually decided to get baptized as teenager

I kind of felt like I was missing out by having strict-ish Catholic parents rathef than freewheeling secular intellectual parents like some of my friends, like the kinds of parents who smoke weed with their kids.

Now i am fine with it though. My life is my life. It's good enough

i've never done good things, i've never done bad things...
i never did anything out of the blue.

you don't need parents who smoke weed with you

that sounds horrible

I've never seen "Pulp Fiction" or "Titanic" or any "Toy Story" movie or any episode of "Breaking Bad" or "Game of Thrones" or "American Idol." Have never listened to a record by Radiohead or Beyonce all the way through (but have heard songs by each.)

Never played Little League (but my kid does, so I feel like I have the experience now.) Took one drag on a cigarette once but would not say I've ever smoked one. Have never been in a fight. Have never been to an NFL game. Have never been to a strip club or a dance club or a rave.

it kinda amazes me that one has never tried a joint. It just seems so... I don't know. Not that it's wrong, it just seems like something you have to actively avoid

I feel the opposite, actually. Most young Americans have never tried it, or at least that's what they tell pollsters:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/163835/tried-marijuana-little-changed-80s.aspx

I went to college in the early 90s and I don't think I saw a joint the whole time. I smoked very rarely and when I did, it was with friends at home on school breaks. You kind of had to know somebody who had some, and people smoked semi-privately and discreetly. Not sure how it is now.

my experience is you should never say "I have never experienced this negative touchstone" because I was talking about never having broken a bone or been arrested in my mid 20s and then guess what happened

took my first selfie yesterday

welcome

Oh no.

your complimentary selfie stick is in the post. welcome to selfie club.

mh hm
tom otm

Haven't seen Breaking Bad, The Wire, The West Wing.... uh what else is there in that multi-episode multi-season DVD boxset vein? Games of Thrones - of course not. Saw a few episodes of The Sopranos.

I'm pretty sure I've never been severely hungover. At least, it's never been as bad as its reputation.

Seen bits of the Sopranos, never a whole episode
Didn't go to my prom
Never seen either of the first two Godfather movies all the way through

body modification of any form

well I had a wisdom tooth removed

same for me, no tats, no piercings

tattoos were unusual growing up in Boston because tattoo parlors were illegal during that time, now living in Austin, I feel like I'm one of the few people without any ink

Saw ET for the first time last night. Boring.

Actually that's not true. For some reason my teacher showed it to the class with German dubbing back in second grade. That didn't help.

I'm pretty sure I've never been severely hungover. At least, it's never been as bad as its reputation.

u would know. the vomiting would be a tip-off.

not everyone vomits when hungover!

there's a venn diagram somewhere of people who vomit when too drunk, who vomit when hungover, and who just vomit for 24 hours after excessive consumption

I haven't experienced films or tv shows that have come out since the mid 1990s, which was getting increasingly problematic in the usa for my teaching b/c my pop culture references were very dated. I could still rely on American sports though.

now that I am emigrating "permanently" from the usa I will have a completely new set of cultural touchstones that I have never experienced, which will probably help me stay on focus in the classroom (or else I'll just tell tales of american life to shock and amaze my students)

There's a whole generation of kids/youth programming that I missed out on, beginning in maybe 1993 with Jurassic Park (which I've never seen, but have enjoyed the gifs) to when my daughter was born in 2007.

So I didn't see an episode of Sponge Bob Square Pants until 2009 or so. And let me tell you, no one was more surprised than I that Maria was still on Sesame Street and basically looked exactly the same.

As my daughter gets older, I'm sure we'll get around to seeing some of these superhero movies and that thing about the dwarves who talk to trees or whatever.

I have never had a slurpee either and everyone thinks that's really weird but they look so gross to me.

I went to college in the early 90s and I don't think I saw a joint the whole time. I smoked very rarely and when I did, it was with friends at home on school breaks. You kind of had to know somebody who had some, and people smoked semi-privately and discreetly. Not sure how it is now.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, July 13, 2015 10:32 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think it just depends on where you went to school because I was in college from 95-99 and it was everywhere. It was a walk into someone's room and immediately get handed a bong/bowl kind of place. God, I miss college. Not really but I do miss being stoned a lot.

I would try a slurpee for sure, I've just never had one because there are no 7-Elevens here

Saw ET for the first time last night. Boring.

― Frederik B, Monday, July 13, 2015 1:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i61.tinypic.com/261ewiv.jpg

What kind of soulless monster are you?

I guess Jaws is probably the most major movie I haven't seen.

have never played a vinyl record
have never driven through a drive-thru
have never heard a Rolling Stones album
have never drunk a slurpee

― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Sunday, July 12, 2015 7:29 PM (2 days ago)

i recommend doing all of these things, preferably all at the same time

I have never seen a full episode of "Friends" or "Seinfeld."

And I have never had a music lesson (though I own and play many musical instruments).

I've seen every episode of Seinfeld and probably every one of Friends and I took the violin for ten years.

have never driven through a drive-thru

I am confused by this. You mean like a drive-thru McDonald's or DD? Never? Not even once?

Elaborating: All these things need to be understood relative to one's peer group.

It would be normal if someone of my age/class/temperament had no experience of Kardashians or Snooki (for example). But if you never saw Sesame Street or the Brady Bunch, then I do not understand you.

Similarly, I would not rag on a 20something for not getting a "Breakfast Club" reference. Nor would I snark on my parents for not being hep to TwitFace and sextifying or whatever.

During the 90s I was vaguely aware that there was such a thing as popular culture, but I thought it didn't concern me. Until I was about 30 I didn't have a car, a television, or a credit card - but, alas, I have acquiesced on all those. Now that I have a house, wife, children, and a job I can't really wall myself off into an intellectual Fortress of Solitude the way I did when I was young and single.

never consumed printed pornography
never attended a music festival
never attended a straight wedding
never read past order of the phoenix or saw past half-blood prince
never got even semicompetent at super smash bros
and yeah never broken a bone despite playing hundreds of games ages 9-11 of a frankly sadistic version of full-contact soccer called "barrelball" i extracted from a fantasy novel and made all the kids on my street play with me, which was a major dereliction on the part of like six sets of parents; will probably break one soon by leaning too far back in my computer chair and flipping over

yea ive never read any harry potters or lotrs or seen any of the movies

Never watched (as in actually paid any attention to) any major league sporting event. Or pretty much any non-Olympics sporting event. I tried to actually follow roller derby the one time I went and I had no idea what the fuck was going on except for the skating around in circles thing.

I've seen every episode of Seinfeld and probably every one of Friends

this is so much weirder than having never been through a drive thru!

No it isn't! I watched all of Seinfeld on purpose because it's amazing and Friends is just always on so over the years I've pretty sure I've managed to catch most of it.

yea ive never read any harry potters or lotrs or seen any of the movies

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 2:11 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me neither except I did see the first lotr movie

that's not an except that's a no

I've never been in an internet argument

Never broken a bone either, or been stung by a bee.

seasons 2 and on of almost every unsyndicated tv show are a blind spot for me because i get distracted and stop watching them and when i come back some innate inability to grasp the mechanics of television makes me decide i have to Experience It From The Beginning, and i loop. sure have seen don draper pitch that slide projector a lot tho.

never went to any high school dances (prom, homecoming etc.) - do not regret this at all tbh, afaic my high school could burn to the ground
never smoked a cigarette
never had a slurpee
all kinds of TV shows I have never watched (primarily sitcoms, Friends included, and reality/competition shows)
never been hunting

i've never had a nose bleed or a cavity

ok that's kind of remarkable

my family have never watched a serbian film at christmas

I gotta say, every last school dance I went to was disappointing bullshit. Even after 4 years of bogus-ass homecomings, I still held out for prom. Little voice in head: "Well, you'll want to remember your Senior Prom..." No. No, I don't.

Tempting fate here: never broken a bone, never been shit on by a bird.

Console and PC video gaming: I missed out on these.

In the 80s I played the sort of arcade games that you put a quarter into (Pac-Man, Frogger, etc.). In recent years, I have done some of those smartphone/iPad timewasters like Angry Birds, Plants vs. Zombies, Candy Crush, etc.

But everything that came between - from Oregon Trail and the Sims, to the big mass-market console wars, to Myst and World of Whatever and Call of Auto Theft? Complete mystery to me.

yeah that stuff's all passed me by too. can't say I miss it, Call of Duty looks positively nightmarish for ex.

never had a threesome

:(

idk if that really counts as a "cultural touchstone", like is that a thing everybody is supposed to have tried at some point lol

uh yeah?

never had a sex tape leaked to the internet

Never had a slurpee, nor have I read (any of) the Bible.

have never driven through a drive-thru

I am confused by this. You mean like a drive-thru McDonald's or DD? Never? Not even once?

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 18:02 (1 hour ago)

I've been a passenger in a car as it drove through a drive-thru (mostly when I was a kid), but I've never been through one as a driver. I eat at DDs and Panera on occasion, but I always go inside if I want pick-up. I guess I've just never been in a situation where I felt I needed the convenience of the drive-thru (and it's not that much faster, is it? DDs always seems to have a line both inside and out)

the above applies only to drive-thru restaurants. I've driven through ATMs many times.

I've seen every episode of Seinfeld and probably every one of Friends and I took the violin for ten years

You might say you're like the Bizarro Puffin

your mom

have never ridden a bike or learned to swim

or seen Forrest Gump, The Exorcist, or The Wire

or owned a mobile device

Never watched:

Seinfelt, Matrix, West Wing, Mad Men, Family Guy, oh what else? Yeah.

.. The Wire.

Saw five minutes of The Exorcist recently, suburbia.. Went to bed, was tired.

morbs u should watch exorcist

or owned a mobile device

I've never seen a dimbleby get a tattoo til now

never finished a pint of Guinness
never smoked
never tried drugs
never had a one night stand

Im great fun besides tho I swear

never bought a ticket for a live sporting event. i get the feeling i'm not missing much.

what have you been doing with all the unfinished pints of Guinness

three

i left one on a table outside the bridge in ballsbridge last Saturday sher if I knew you were around it was for the taking hey

never read Moby Dick or travelled abroad by an aeroplane, but have been to Paris, Salzberg and Tralee by boat.

I have been interested in how these things take on weight as time goes by.

One says "I have never ____." Just for the sake of argument let's say it's "I have never seen 'Casablanca'" or "I have never been to a Dead show" or whatever. It becomes a point of perverse pride.

Then a very fetching someone invites you to a Dead show, or "Casablanca" is on cable when you're bored in a hotel room. You're conflicted not because you want/don't want to do the thing, but because it would eliminate one of the ways in which you are unique.

At this point I would probably tune away from "Seinfeld" even if it were the most attractive thing on the teevee. NOT because I'm too hifalutin to watch "Seinfeld," or have any particular grudge against it or its fans.

But because as soon as I watched "Seinfeld," I would cease being a person who has never watched "Seinfeld" (which is rare for persons of my age and class and temperament). I would start being a person who HAS watched "Seinfeld" - so in that one small way I would start being like almost everyone else of my age, class, and temperament. A small part of my identity would vanish, and I might be ever-so-slightly poorer in spirit as a result.

ur in luck Seinfeld is pure shite

Never driven a car

do you not like stout in general darragh or just the Guinness?

This thread is too US-centric.

Ye Mad Puffin, it's not whether you've watched Seinfeld or not that matters. If you experience watching Seinfeld or not-watching-Seinfeld the same way as others, then you would still lose part of your identity. But how 'rare' of a personality and world experience you have is highly contextual, dependent on what city and country you live in, making it difficult to gauge. Arguing that a small part of your identity would vanish because you performed a given act more people have performed in your surroundings is illogical and simplistic.

Here's a Cultural Touchstone I've never experienced:

(1) Sharing my personal information on the Internet.

the only thing i want to avoid to make myself "unique" wd be death tbh

stout, ale, lager, beer all out I'm afraid nv

ok i'm struggling with which ones are lies and which are previously unsuspected facts at this point

anyway isn't this thread some kind of drinking game at this point?

A slurpee drinking game?

This thread is too US-centric.

I've never bowed to the Queen.
I've never rode in a double-decker bus.
I've never turned into a werewolf and run through Piccadilly Circus.

i've never been a big bottomed bird all over the newsie wewsies

I've never eaten a sausage roll in a lift while looking for a lavatory

i was raised in New Jersey in the '70s and have never bought a Springsteen album or seen him live.

I've never locked myself out and had to crawl through the transom to get back in.

This seems to have happened a lot back in the day.

nor have i learned to drive

I have never played golf (although the miniature variety is good) and I never intend to

This thread is too US-centric.

I've never bowed to the Queen.
I've never rode in a double-decker bus.
I've never turned into a werewolf and run through Piccadilly Circus.

― pplains, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 9:20 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This poor little cunt needs reading comprehension skills.

"Cultural touchstones" are inevitably going to be touchstones of the posters' culture. So USians are going to talk about things that they perceive most USians would regard as touchstones. As would someone from Peru or Perugia or Peshawar or the Pennines.

If Britishes and others have things to share, they don't need anyone's permission to do so! Indeed I rather wish they would.

gor' blimey we've got a right rum customer 'ere

top lad

can't believe deems isn't a man for the pints

Never been in a fistfight
Never had a graduation or went to prom
Never went to college
Never went home with someone I met that night
Never been outside North America
Never smoked a cigarette

Never been to jury duty
Never taken acid

I've never bowed to the Queen.
I've never rode in a double-decker bus.
I've never turned into a werewolf and run through Piccadilly Circus.

― pplains, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 9:20 PM (1 hour ago)

this is like a lost morrissey single

Never been outside the US (despite growing up all the fuck over its eastern half)

UK: never been to Ibiza, Agia Napa etc; never been to Thailand, India etc either; never been to a music festival as such

I never her.

búm

I've never been to Canada

I've been to paradise but I've never been to me.

Never heard a whole Gasolin' record
Never seen an episode of Borgen
Never seen Klovn The Movie
Never partied at Tisvildeleje

Never washed a hat

never been to Spain (or Belfast but I guess this is common for people south of the border i dunno)
cant swim
never broke a bone (surprisingly)

never kicked a ball in the street

never read or seen Game of Thrones

I've never had a pet donkey.

turns out I am the anti deems

I have never driven a car
I have never read nor seen any of that Harry Potter business

that's about all I've got

ive never driven a car.
I didn't go to my university graduation, and high school graduations don't exist where im from.
never seen the film "the lion king".
never seen or read game of thrones

I haven't seen any non-Pixar animated Disney film since Beauty & The Beast.
Have never watched an entire James Bond film.
Haven't seen or read Game of Thrones. Or Walking Dead.
Haven't seen Titanic or Avatar or Gone With The Wind or The Sound of Music or Grease or any of the Fast and the Furious films.

Never watched an episode of Survivor or American Idol or Everybody Loves Raymond.

your mom

anyway isn't this thread some kind of drinking game at this point?

― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, July 14, 2015 5:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was thinking the other day that if this was actually never have I ever then I'd have been really fucking drunk about 5 posts in.

yay that;s 2 of us

E, let's get together and play this game <3

x-post - high five!

oh dear you know that's asking for trouble which obviously means that I think it's a fantastic idea :)

>:) one day one day