what is it that you have never done that everybody you know does all the time and laughs when you say you have never done it?
i have never listened to a podcast. is that something people do a lot?
I don't like podcasts. In my whole life, I only managed to listen to one or two of them.
What may sound silly for Americans is that I've never driven a pickup truck. I've also never watched a single episode of Friends, Brewster, the Walking Dead, Lost, Game of Thrones, Orange is the New Black, How I met Your Mother, Grey's Anatomy, Sherlock, Vikings, Prison Break, Suits, House of Cards (and many more).
I'm right there with you about all those TV shows Tom, though I do own a pickup.
Never listened to a podcast, that I know of.
Never-
Skydived
Snorkeled
Paid for a prostitute
etc.
Visited the sun.
I have never lied, would I lie to you, baby?
Quote from: Dark Lightning on May 28, 2023, 08:24:14 PMNever-
. . .
Paid for a prostitute
etc.
the prostitutes dont charge you?
are you that handsome?
What I have never done is never to have left the Left.
Quote from: billy rubin on May 29, 2023, 03:08:24 AMQuote from: Dark Lightning on May 28, 2023, 08:24:14 PMNever-
. . .
Paid for a prostitute
etc.
the prostitutes dont charge you?
are you that handsome?
No, he can run with his trousers around his ankles.
I don't like 'hot' food as in curries. I don't like food where ingredients use chemical warfare.
Quote from: billy rubin on May 29, 2023, 03:08:24 AMQuote from: Dark Lightning on May 28, 2023, 08:24:14 PMNever-
. . .
Paid for a prostitute
etc.
the prostitutes dont charge you?
are you that handsome?
Never used a pro.
Handsome would be in the eye of the beholder. Every time I get a picture taken, I have to pay for the broken camera.
i have never used a voting machine, the ones where they say you flick switches and pull levers. i have always had a paper card on which i either punched holes or blackened circles.
apparently voting machines are common in america, but i have never seen one.
Me too Billy. I have been a voter for many years. I have never seen a voting machine that required that I pull levers. I use a pen to blacken a little circle or ellipse in the carefully qualified ballot card that I have been given, after proving my identity and have been shown to be a qualified voter.
My supervisor of elections is a person with whom I have utmost confidence. She is an absolute straight shooter that will entertain no bullshit whatsoever.
Election conspiracy theorists suffer from some sort of shit for brains syndrome.
Never had kids. A lot of my former class mates and such like have teenagers by this point. Me..? Never owned a child car seat - never likely to, either. :smilenod:
I have never loved titties more.
lol
I've never felt myself virtuous for abstaining from popular entertainment.
You have so.
I have not!
How about reality TV in general, Married at First Sight in particular?
Oh come on, not watching that isn't virtuous, surely you'd have to be a lackwit to lap it up.
So you don't elevate yourself, you deprecate reality TV devotees.
Ye sure, that's fair isn't it?
Someone said Shakespeare would be a screenwriter if he was around now.
Was that someone perchance a screenwriter?
Probably.
QuoteSomeone said Shakespeare would be a screenwriter if he was around now.
Was that someone perchance a screenwriter?
Probably.
^^^yes.
i dont have much to say about motion pictures, as i seldome see any motion pictures.
i dont have anything to say about television programming, if thats whats its still called, because i havent had a television set in my life for over thirty years.
but people who use a certain type of media always seem to assume that its use is inevitable, like ^^^this with shakespeare.
my kids are high level users of various social media platforms. im not, and they dont expect me to run in those circles. but its deeper than that for me.
like it or not, im a quaker, and silence in my life is important. i cant help it. people who value silence often end up discovering the society of friends, and nobody is surprised when it happens.
i tend to turn things off. sound, images, motion, light, all of it. i turn it off and live in the void.
except for motorcycles. thats different. but maybe not so much? ive remarked before that on the starting line at the land speed races, when the starter waves you on and the runway is clear,
everything. goes. silent.
the world falls away, and i become more alive than at any other time, conscious or unconscious. nothing else is there except me, the motorcycle, and the vanishing point ahead of me. complete focus.
doesnt last long, but its addictive.
i go back to maine in july.
I've been undressed by kings
And I've seen some things that a woman ain't s'posed to see
I've been to paradise but I've never been to me
Quote from: billy rubin on May 31, 2023, 01:25:41 AMQuoteSomeone said Shakespeare would be a screenwriter if he was around now.
Was that someone perchance a screenwriter?
Probably.
^^^yes.
i dont have much to say about motion pictures, as i seldome see any motion pictures.
i dont have anything to say about television programming, if thats whats its still called, because i havent had a television set in my life for over thirty years.
but people who use a certain type of media always seem to assume that its use is inevitable, like ^^^this with shakespeare.
my kids are high level users of various social media platforms. im not, and they dont expect me to run in those circles. but its deeper than that for me.
like it or not, im a quaker, and silence in my life is important. i cant help it. people who value silence often end up discovering the society of friends, and nobody is surprised when it happens.
i tend to turn things off. sound, images, motion, light, all of it. i turn it off and live in the void.
except for motorcycles. thats different. but maybe not so much? ive remarked before that on the starting line at the land speed races, when the starter waves you on and the runway is clear,
everything. goes. silent.
the world falls away, and i become more alive than at any other time, conscious or unconscious. nothing else is there except me, the motorcycle, and the vanishing point ahead of me. complete focus.
doesnt last long, but its addictive.
i go back to maine in july.
People are different.
I like background stuff much of the time, it helps me maintain a broad range shallowness.
I heard about this:
QuoteAphantasia is a phenomenon in which people are unable to visualize imagery. While most people are able to conjure an image of a scene or face in their minds, people with aphantasia cannot.
Imagine that it is a warm summer day and you are sitting on the side of a swimming pool. The sun is shining down and there are children laughing and splashing in the water. What sort of images do you see in your mind as you think about this scene?
Do you think Shakespeare would enjoy Game of Thrones Green?
Maybe if you recast males to play the female parts.
ive never been undressed by a king. a queen , maybe
Never open-carried, which is legal in the Lone Star State, for reasons beyond me.
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on May 31, 2023, 10:11:10 PMNever open-carried, which is legal in the Lone Star State, for reasons beyond me.
"We come in peace. Shoot to kill."
i carried openly in arizona out in the desert and mountains.
customary there. everybody has a gun.
i dont carry a visible weapon in town. thats asking for trouble.
Quote from: billy rubin on May 31, 2023, 10:59:04 PMi carried openly in arizona out in the desert and mountains.
customary there. everybody has a gun.
i dont carry a visible weapon in town. thats asking for trouble.
You've been around then, billy.
its tbe wsy of the world
I have never used a gun since mucking up the shooting of a kangaroo. I just riddled it with bullets.
Gave is a Swiss passport?
I have never jumped out of a perfectly serviceable aeroplane, or off a high place with a rubber band tied around my legs, nor have I ever hurtled down the side of a mountain at 60 mph with a couple of planks strapped to my feet...
Quote from: Bluenose on June 03, 2023, 03:38:14 AMI have never jumped out of a perfectly serviceable aeroplane, or off a high place with a rubber band tied around my legs, nor have I ever hurtled down the side of a mountain at 60 mph with a couple of planks strapped to my feet...
Me either. That bungee jumping is every bit as bad for a body as skydiving. I had a vitreous separation in my right eye in '04. It's a kind of skin lining the inside of one's eyeball, like that thin "skin" just inside an eggshell. The ophthalmologist told me that the two aforementioned activities are common causes. In my case, it's brought on by a non-spherical eyeball. As for skiing, my preference for not being out in the cold on purpose precluded that activity.
Seems like good judgement to me Bluenose. Neither have I jumped from a perfectly good aeroplane nor thought that bungee jumping made any sense at all.
Different people get their rocks off in different ways. The high adventure ones have my blessing and sympathy.
Why I would risk my life trying to Summit Everest, is a question that escapes me entirely. I have done some dumb and seriously dangerous stuff so I have some patience with the ones who take risks that I would not choose to do. To each his own.
weird how people like doing that stuff
Some people like their adrenaline highs. There are easier ways, however. One of them emergency allergy pens, for example. Full of the damned stuff. :smilenod:
Small print: No, I was not being serious and yes, I strongly advise against using epipens for adrenaline kicks.
I have never done nothing.
I have never done myself any favours in life.
I have never done her or her.
Doing's done, now for dying.
Dying's boring. Time to do something, anything.
What's done is done.
I can't say that I have ever written a really good poem.