What very ordinary things have you never done?

michael scuffil · Post by **michael scuffil** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:00 pm

Euterpe13 wrote:but I can put together a list of somewhat outlandish things that I HAVE done...

Ah yes, but that's a different thread...

But in this vein: did you know that David Attenborough can't drive?

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:19 pm

michael scuffil wrote:
Euterpe13 wrote:but I can put together a list of somewhat outlandish things that I HAVE done...
Ah yes, but that's a different thread...

But in this vein: did you know that David Attenborough can't drive?

Then he needs a better golf-coach !!!

Ajarn Philip · Post by **Ajarn Philip** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:46 pm

This has turned out to be a very interesting thread. A lot more difficult to respond to than 'Unusual things I've done' (which has surely got to be the sequel...)

I spent a while sifting through fading memories and failing miserably to come up with anything ordinary that I haven't done and trying to decide if that made me more boring or more interesting.

Couldn't come up with the answer to that either.

cj wrote:I've never been on a hen night.
I've never done an Excel spreadsheet.
I've never waxed my legs.
I've never had a perm.
I've never watched Brief Encounter.

I've done all of the above, except the perm (though I have dyed my hair and beard - it was supposed to be dark brown, but turned out bright purple. Had to shave off the beard and wash my hair three times a day for three weeks.)

But I've never had (or rather 'finished') a cup of tea.

michael scuffil · Post by **michael scuffil** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:06 pm

I never finished a plate of CH porridge. Is that ordinary?

(On my first morning, I ordered porridge, seeing I'd always had it at home. This was one of the culture shocks of my first few days. From then on I had (like most people) "milk and sugar only". About 6 years later I thought to myself: "It WAS my first breakfast here, and in any case things may have improved." So I tried the porridge again. Things hadn't improved.)

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 5:52 pm

Ajarn Philip wrote:

cj wrote:I've never been on a hen night.
I've never done an Excel spreadsheet.
I've never waxed my legs.
I've never had a perm.
I've never watched Brief Encounter.
I've done all of the above, except the perm

in a wig and white stilettos, no doubt?