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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 02:57pm on 2004-03-11

[livejournal.com profile] juuro posted this online variation of an interesting but potentially dangerous drinking game I remember from University. The online version looks safer.

As [livejournal.com profile] juuro said, "This ought to dispel any remaining good impressions anyone might have of me..." Then again, maybe not. I couldn't resist adding some asides in italics, so strip those out when you copy this to post your own answers.) The instructions:

To play "I never", put an (X) in front of the things that you have never done (so far) and a (_) on the things that you have done at least once. Add a "I never" of your own.

(_) I never have been drunk
(_) I never have smoked pot
(_) I never have kissed a member of the opposite sex
(_) I never have kissed a member of the same sex
(X) I never crashed a friend's car
(X) I never been to Japan
(_) I never rode in a taxi
(_) I never had anal sex
(_) I never have been in love
(_) I never had sex
(_) I never have had sex in public
(_) I never have been dumped
(X) I never shoplifted
(_) I never have been fired
(_) I never been in a fist fight (High school counts, right?)
(_) I never had a threesome
(X) I never snuck out of my parent's house
(_) I never been tied up (sexually)
(X) I never been caught masturbating (Close...)
(_) I never pissed on myself
(?) I never had sex with a member of the same sex (What counts?)
(_) I never had sex with a member of the opposite sex
(X) I never been arrested
(_) I never made out with a stranger
(_) I never stole something from my job
(X) I never celebrated New Year's in Times Square (or national equivalent)
(_) I never went on a blind date
(_) I never lied to a friend
(_) I never had a crush on a teacher
(X) I never celebrated Mardi-Gras in New Orleans
(X) I never been to Europe
(_) I never skipped school
(_) I never slept with a co-worker
(X) I never have been fisted and/or have never fisted anyone (*sigh*)
(X) I never have thrown up in a bar
(X) I never have visited a site held holy by a major religion
(X) I never "flashed" a stranger

"While using an expression like 'major religion' opens two or more cans of worms, I still chose to do so. This does not mean that I am belittling any small revivals or heathenish or neopaganistic practices. But fact is, the number of people that know of Mecca or Wailing Wall or St Peter's in Rome is significantly higher than the number of people who know of ... see, I don't know what to put here. The Uppsala mounds?"

If anyone is unfamiliar with the drinking version and can't guess how it works, or isn't sure why I refer to it as "dangerous", I'll explain in a comment. But I do remember it being fun.

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posted by [identity profile] hobbitblue.livejournal.com at 12:10pm on 2004-03-11
I like, will borrow. Not sure on the religious one either but seeing as I've been in Westminster Abbey *and* Stonehenge I think I'm covered :)
 
posted by [identity profile] marnanel.livejournal.com at 12:18pm on 2004-03-11
The Church of England will happily argue for hours whether Westminster Abbey could be called "a site held holy". :)
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posted by [identity profile] hobbitblue.livejournal.com at 12:42pm on 2004-03-11
Isn't it the traditional central thingy for Christianity in England though? All those people buried in it and stuff...
 
posted by [identity profile] marnanel.livejournal.com at 12:46pm on 2004-03-11
Yes-- that or Canterbury Cathedral. Westminster Abbey is more of a state-associated thing.

I meant that Reformed/Lutheran Christianity doesn't call things or places "holy" or "sacred" on principle, only people; Catholic Christianity does both. But the Church of England is made up of people from both traditions: this sort of thing causes friction. So a lot of CofE people would protest that the Abbey wasn't a holy site of the CofE.
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posted by [identity profile] hobbitblue.livejournal.com at 01:27pm on 2004-03-11
Ah, gotcha. Sorry, was brought up a Catholic so the difference had eluded me..

 
posted by [identity profile] keith-m043.livejournal.com at 01:17pm on 2004-03-11
I have two problems with taking this test
1) I'd have to not check shoplifting cuz I remember clearly stealing some cinnamon trident gum when I was five.
2) I've seen three versions of this thread rolling around on the periphery of my friends list and I want to coelesce (sp?) all of them into one before filling it out. I had the same problem with the movie meme and never filled one out.
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 02:16am on 2004-03-12
I had a couple of, "Oh jeez, I guess I gotta check that one on a technicality / ancient history" moments, but in the spirit of the drinking game this appears to be based on, I went ahead and checked them.

After I filled this out, I got a little more caught up on my friends page and saw some of the variations (expected, with the "add your own at the end" instruction), and started wishing some of my friends had answered slightly different question sets. (Nosy? Me? Well ... can we use the word "inquisitive" instead? It sounds nicer...)

Maybe the right way to play this would be to form a community for it. Someone would post an "I never" entry, and everyone would react to it in comments. Then someone else would post the next "I never" ... but it probably wouldn't work as well as the drinking game does.
 
posted by [identity profile] blumindy.livejournal.com at 08:48pm on 2004-03-11
As I (with my freakish memory) seem to recall, you could put an *almost* by that 'never flashed' comment.....parka Halloween costume??.......

Do your (current) skirts show that much leg?
Inquiring minds....... :-)
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 02:24am on 2004-03-12
Wow, I'd completely forgotten about that.

I'm wearing longer skirts these days, except for once in a while when I put on a cute print gauze mini. I feel a little self-conscious about my weight lately, and the proportions just seem wrong for really short skirts unless I get the silhouette just right ... and I can't fit a lot of my minis right now and have no clothing budget. But there was a time when I occasionally wore skirts short enough that a few people said they had trouble figuring out how I managed not to show anything inapropriate, and until I gained so much weight I wore a fairly varied range of hemlines. I do want to slim down and feel like I can wear all different lengths again.

I do remember that on my first trip to Arisia (in Boston) I wore a miniskirt and fishnets ... in January. That was a wee bit chilly when I went outside the hotel. But stylish.
 
posted by [identity profile] blumindy.livejournal.com at 07:39pm on 2004-03-14
Ohh, your wardrobe stuff sounds great! Fishnets....must get some....do they come as thigh-highs?
I went out in January (or was it February?) here in my mini and thigh-highs. As much as I love my slut-wear, that was the LAST time for that. I haven't been that cold in YEARS!! And the Nilla place I went to was a total waste of my outfit.

I had fibro-related and medication-related (not to mention 3 pregnancies) weight management issues. Not that I was ever slim but the no-wheat, no-sugar, no non-veggie/fruit carbs plan has really helped me. I lost about 55 pounds last year and I have no trouble keeping it off. I hope for a bit more loss soon. This time of year is always a plateau period for my body. I need better weather before I feel any energy for exercise.

Hmmm, time to call out a whipping boy and get some indoor exercise! :-)
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 02:27am on 2004-03-12
Oh! I should probably mention that I'm showing more leg when I dress male these days. The kilt I wear on stage with The Homespun Ceilidh Band (http://www.homespunceilidh.com) is a bit on the short side. (Amusingly, showing that much leg has gotten me at least one gig.)
 
posted by [identity profile] malada.livejournal.com at 06:42am on 2004-03-12
I can almost see/hear it now:

"Hoot-man! Lookee there! A man inna KILT! In America! Now that's REAL Celtic man! Bet he a musician too! Let's git our pipes 'n ask him."

;-)

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