Here’s the rules:
1: Post something you have never done that you think many people do. 2: Read the other posts, if you have done that thing, upvote it. If you have not done that thing, downvote it. 3: If you believe the person is lying, call them out on it in a reply. 4: If you are called out, give the full story. 4a: If you see a thread containing the full story, boost the person you think is right and truthful.
Person who has the most upvotes when the thread dies wins.
Never learned to ride a bicycle.
Upvoted! I learned how pretty young, but I have a few friends who never did and they have told me that the main thing holding them back as adults is the fear of falling down. Is it the same for you?
Not who you asked, but the main thing holding me back is that I don’t know how to kick off and don’t know how to balance. I’m surprised how many people just kinda know how to do it
Yes. I have a healthy, but irrational fear of falling. Heights do not bother me (flying in a plane is no big deal in terms of the height). But if I am even a foot above the ground under my own power (say, on a ladder), I get extremely unsteady and nervous.
So bicycles were out pretty much from the beginning.
My family, when I was young, would try to convince me by asking, “how can you drive a car if you can’t ride a bike?” Yeah my response shut them up pretty quickly: “a car has 4 tires and is stable.” I was seven years old.
Never have I attended a high school prom, dance, or graduation
Dang it. I had it to the very end.
No prom no dances but I did graduate and attend my graduation.
I was the only one that graduated that year because I went to a small school and I worked ahead and so technically I was valedictorian and also technically every party I go to is a reunion party for my graduating class.
I’m sure these are just things from the US. The only reason I know what a prom is is because of TV. Before that I only ever heard ‘prom’ as an abbreviation for promenade
Are these a normal things in the US or just a movie thing? Because we didn’t have that
What country did you go to school in?
Prom: no. Graduation: no (graduated early, didn’t walk in the summer even tho I could)…but lotsa regular dances.
meta: I think you should invert the rules, so that if you have done it, you downvote. The winner with the most votes is then the rarest of them all
If you have done it you upvote. If you have not done it you downvote.
The point is to be the person with the most upvotes because you’ve not done a thing that most people have done.
That’s what OP is saying. The wording could be clearer.
Essentially, if you can relate to what the comment says, then downvote.
Can someone explain this to me?
if you have done that thing, upvote it. If you have not done that thing, downvote it.
So if someone says “never have I ever eaten food”, then I, a food eater, upvote it, right?
This is how I understood it.
You are correct
I think you and I share the same mind, but different eyes.
If someone says “I never shot a hippo”, then right now I will down vote (because I haven’t shot a hippo), so then if it gets upvoted…
OHhhhhh. It just clicked for me. Yep, you’re right. It makes sense
Either my reading comprehension has been turned to dust or you didnt read it2: Read the other posts, if you have done that thing, upvote it.
As in: Upvote, I have not done that thingEdit: Seems like I can’t read. I think it’s called double negation?
The problem is that the “thing” is either:
- never have I ever done this <thing> or
- <never have I ever done this thing>
Never have I ever read a single book or watched a single movie of the Harry Potter series.
Me neither. Other millennials look at me like I have two heads.
Yeah. My partner later said it was almost a deal breaker when I first told her.
Reminds me of this exchange between Leslie and Ann from Parks and Rec.
Hey that’s me too. I’m surprised to see that many upvotes …
More upvotes should mean that most people in fact have seen the movies or read the books
Ah yes true, there is a full convo in this thread about understanding what upvotes mean in this situation, I’m still confused 🤔
I have never had a serious injury requiring medical help (broken bones, concusssion, anything that should have you going to the ER, regardless of whether or not you actually did)
You jinxed it
I just broke my first bone! The x-rays were exciting, and the tech emailed me the pictures!
I had a slight fracture on my pinkie toe that probably would’ve healed on its own, does that count?
I end up going to the ER way more than I want to. It’s really annoying; if you walk into an urgent care or a regular doctor’s office (besides my regular care providers, they’re used to me now) and say you think you have a kidney infection or other kidney problems and you just need antibiotics, they just go “NOPE” and yeet you out the door to go to the ER. So far, I have been successful in preventing them from calling an ambulance for me.
Weirdly same though I’ve been through stuff that definitely should have broken some bones
Alternatively, I have had several injuries that should have gotten stitches, but have never been in the ER. Growing up poor in the US means you end up rawdogging your injuries.
Never have I ever lived alone. Only with my family, then on the street (less alone than you might imagine) then with friends, then with lots of friends, then a few friends, and then my own family.
I’ll start:
I have never been inside of a treehouse
Sad but not unlikely. Lots of people never lived near nature or had a garden. Let alone a large tree.
Being in a treehouse is common?
Looks like 101 people have been in one so far.
I have been inside lots of trees, but I can’t think of anyone I know who has actually bothered to build or buy a treehouse
Inside??
Never have I ever failed an exam.
Does a quiz count as an exam?
I have never eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Peanut butter is weirdly American, but as an American, I can’t believe other countries not only aren’t obsessed with PB, but often don’t even like it. Wtf world. You’re missing out.
Says who?
I’m not american and I’ve never met somebody who isn’t allergic to peanuts who doesn’t like peanut butter.Really? Wow, what part of the world are you in?
Every Central American I know actively thinks it’s gross. In Germany, peanut butter (when you can find it) has a huge American flag on the jar, and most Germans won’t eat it.
Straya.
To be fair I haven’t gone around asking people if they dislike peanut butter, it’s just sort of assumed that everyone likes it (and other spreads like nutella), and I’d be surprised to hear somebody saying they didn’t like it.
We have many local brands. I don’t think I’ve tried one from the USA yet, but we probably have a few imported ones at costco.It’s popular in Canada, too, but we are basically the US.
Same, jam/jelly & peanut butter have two wildly different tastes & textures. I have no idea what lunatic decided to put the two spreads together but PB&J sandwhiches sound about as appetising as cranberry haddock
The jelly isn’t gelatin. It’s like jam I guess, I don’t know what they call it in other countries. I feel like some folks think we eat peanut butter and gelatin, which is wrong.
I think the difference between jam and jelly is how much pectin is in it, or one has chunks of fruit and the other doesn’t? I don’t really know. I don’t like either of them.
Jam is made with pureed fruit, while jelly is made from fruit juice. Colloquially, though, people use the terms interchangeably constantly.
Never have I ever seen The Lion King, The Incredibles, any Toy Story movie past 2, or WALL-E.
My friends hate me for this one
Have some dignity and go watch The Incredibles right now.
At least Wall-E ;-;
Never have I ever been stung by a bee, wasp or hornet. I’m not scared of bees either, ill walk right up to them and check em out. I’ve grabbed bees and pulled them out of water, I’ve let them trot all over me and I don’t mind, neither do they.
Never have i ever learned the alphabet(i am referring to the order, not the letters)
How did you manage this one?
In the first grades when teachers asked my class to order words based on the first letter, i either managed to figure out which letters came sooner in the order based on previous answers, guessed randomly or got lucky and didnt get chosen(its also been a while since then and i dont remember, i only remember that once that i was hoping i wouldnt be picked while looking at the previous exercises and planning out what random guesses i would say for the order i wasnt sure about)
After that, the only other time i needed to know the order of the alphabet was for an IQ test which was required to be diagnosed with Aspenger Syndrome, where i just randomly guessed
I also managed to not learn left/right for years, which caused more problems, but i managed to learn it thanks to the english political compass(every time i need to know which direction is left/right, i have to think of an image of the political compass to figure out which direction is right, translate that in my native language, check if the direction i needed was right and if not, i know its the opposite direction. I also dont know how to directly translate between left in both languages, but knowing that its the opposite right. I know right because of its second meaning that is present in both languages
Left and right I have to think about, but North, South, East and West I can always find. I learned to read before learning the alphabet, but learned it with the song.
You managed to get through childhood without learning the alphabet song?
I have never heard of the alphabet song until i found a parody of it years after i was supposed to learn the alphabet and never listened to the entirety any version
That’s fascinating how you learned all the letters but never put them into an ordinal system. Definitely presents an alternate thinking mechanism than I think most people use. Must have been very tough on you in school as most schools don’t handle people who think differently very well.
The left/right thing is probably much more common. I think it’s interesting how you use the political compass as your visual reference. I for a long time couldn’t remember which political party was left or right, but found I was very good at just ‘knowing’ left and right, as well as the cardinal directions n/s/e/w. My friend who was horrible at telling left from right would hold up both hands and extend his index and thumb. Whichever hand formed an “L” was his left hand and he used that all the time.
People normally learn the order of the alphabet and the alphabet together, not separately?
I’d say most people would learn the alphabet and the order together. The order (and song) is a helpful mnemonic to learn the letters faster.
I always hated the advice to make an L with your hands to see which one was Left. No one ever specified whether you’re supposed to have your palms facing you or facing away, so it’s ambiguous.
When I was a kid, I would picture a dining place setting because I knew the fork was on the left.
Never have I done anal.
bro 😭
Giving or receiving?
both
Do strap-on’s count?
Do fists count?
First downvote of the entire thread for me.
Friendly reminder that lemmy votes are public
Nice try, feds!
spoiler
Pun not intended, but welcome.
Never have I checked the updoots of peoples
I feel so bad downvoting you but I haven’t either, I don’t know how. I thought it was just something the instance owner could do.
If you check the same thread through kbin or mbin the interface shows votes. There is probably other software that does it too.
Thanks for the tip
It’s not top level, you don’t have to
a karma count doesn’t exist on Kenny the same way it does on reddit right? whats there to be sad about?
😬
Never have I had more than one sex partner.
At a time or total?
Important question
Guessing both.
That’s a valid question
