Try anything once?

[2000AD]

One day i swear i will try my theorised ultimate wake up drink:
Coffee made with hot Red Bull instead of hot water.

[Bob the Gunslinger]

One day i swear i will try my theorised ultimate wake up drink:
Coffee made with hot Red Bull instead of hot water.

Holy crap! You can call it "Liquid Crack" and it would sell like, well, crack.

[Enforcer Talen]

I was talking to a friend of mine earlier, and he's basically a big sissy and won't ever try anything new. I mean anything. Food, entertainment, places to hang out, people to hang with, etc. As a person who likes to continually challenge myself, this aggrevates me sometimes. I can understand if he knows he doesn't like to do a certain activity, but if he's never tried it or anything like it, how can he possibly know? And what fun can it be to just stay in his safe little bubble for the rest of his life?

Anyway, my question to all of you is (although you're also welcome to answer any of the rhetorical ones above), what will you never, ever try because you're convinced you wouldn't like it, and what would you love to try but haven't had a chance to yet? Would you take a 2-week vacation without booking ahead? Ride a rollercoaster that intimidates you? Go whitewater rafting? Run for mayor? Go back to college? Eat ground-up cicadas? Ask someone out even though you're shy? Travel to the ends of the earth with strangers? Walk a tightrope? Rob a bank?

What's the most extreme new thing you'd try? Where do you draw the line?

couldnt be illegal.

other then that. . . almost anything.

[Wicked Pilot]

Dude, they don't have Supersize anymore.

Well that's too bad now isn't it.

[Rye]

One day i swear i will try my theorised ultimate wake up drink:
Coffee made with hot Red Bull instead of hot water.

The coffee lets that idea down. One time we made red bull sorbet, that was interesting...

Hmm, I'd try alot of things, I do random shit whenever i feel like it, and even more random shit if noone can see me. Like dancing naked in thunderstorms and shash.

[Zaia]

funny, I wouldn't mind it.

In fact, I think "speed dating" might go on my "try it before I die" list.

Really? Why does the speed-dating thing appeal to you?

For whatever reason, I'm very against the idea. Unless someone paid me a HELL of a lot of money, I wouldn't consider it. Bleck.

[General Zod]

"speed dating"? explanation for those of us not familiar with the term, please?

[Zaia]

It's a thing you go to where you spend two or three hours meeting scores of people. I think you usually get 3 minutes with each person before the timer goes off for you to move to the next person. The theory is that, at the end of the night, you've met somewhere around fifty new potentials and gotten to know them well enough to know if you want to see more of them or not.

[InnerBrat]

funny, I wouldn't mind it.

In fact, I think "speed dating" might go on my "try it before I die" list.

Really? Why does the speed-dating thing appeal to you?

For whatever reason, I'm very against the idea. Unless someone paid me a HELL of a lot of money, I wouldn't consider it. Bleck.

he true British response to that is "well, it's a laff, innit?"

Seriously, it just sounds liek a helluva lot of fun. And if you don't like nayone, you never have to see them again!

[Zaia]

The true British response to that is "well, it's a laff, innit?"

Hehehehe.

Seriously, it just sounds liek a helluva lot of fun. And if you don't like nayone, you never have to see them again!

I can see how that idea could be appealing to one who lives in the city. I, however, live in the boonies and know just about everyone who lives within a hundred miles of me in any direction. I would run into each and every one of those people when I went to buy groceries or went to the gas station! No thank you!

[Dahak]

I'll never eat dog meat.

However I have tried:
...
Driving 120 mph
...

What's so special about that?

Anyway, I'm fairly conservative in the things I do.
I'm quite open to new food things, if they fall within reasonable parameters.
As for places and stuff, I tend not to go to new places. I really don't like that too much...

[Zaia]

As for places and stuff, I tend not to go to new places. I really don't like that too much...

Why not? It's such an amazing thing...

[The Kernel]

Crazy things I've done:

Snow Kayaking
"Meatgrinder" and the "Burns Hole"
Aerobatic flying

Crazy Things I want to do:

BASE jumping
Windsurfing under the Golden Gate Bridge
Making my own single malt scotch
Peyote
Going to Africa and Antarctica (already scheduled!)
Geting to shoot a General Electric XM214
Anal sex
My sister's best friend

If I'm lucky, I might be able to kill two birds with one stone on the last two items on the list.

[TrailerParkJawa]

I've been the kind of person who does try "new" things simply because I
convince myself I won't like them. It comes from fear I believe.

Anyway, here are some things I'd like to try:

1. Visit Australia
2. Heliskiing
3. Some form of multipartner sex.
4. Visit the UK
5. Ride a bobsled.

Things I don't think I will ever do:

1. Rim jobs ( I know I wont do this one.)
2. Bungie jumping
3. Having sex with a street walker.
4. Tropy hunting.

[Andrew J.]

I was talking to a friend of mine earlier, and he's basically a big sissy and won't ever try anything new. I mean anything. Food, entertainment, places to hang out, people to hang with, etc. As a person who likes to continually challenge myself, this aggrevates me sometimes. I can understand if he knows he doesn't like to do a certain activity, but if he's never tried it or anything like it, how can he possibly know? And what fun can it be to just stay in his safe little bubble for the rest of his life?

It's not the quality of life inside the bubble, but the quantity.

[Zaia]

Bah, quantity's overrated.

[Phantasee]

Anal sex
My sister's best friend

If I'm lucky, I might be able to kill two birds with one stone on the last two items on the list.

Lucky bastard...Go get'em tiger!

[President Sharky]

Things I would really like to do:

-go to Hungary, my father's homeland
-go on a hunting trip in Africa or the Amazon
-climb Mt. Kilamonjaro or Mount Everest
-windsurf
-go on a sailing trip
-ride an Elephant in India
-try 2000AD's theoretical Red Bull Coffee

And things I would NOT do:

-Eat shit or drink piss
-Eat raw salmon, or any sort of meat
-try a dating service
-have sex with men

[Dahak]

As for places and stuff, I tend not to go to new places. I really don't like that too much...

Why not? It's such an amazing thing...

I'm a control freak.
I hate situations I can't control.
New locations are unknown quantities to me. I feel weird there, and get bitchy, until I leave...

[Andrew J.]

Bah, quantity's overrated.

Quantity is a quality all of its own.

Besides, not doing anything new usually gives me the opportunity to do my favorite thing in the world: being a killjoy.

[WacoKid]

Draw the line at anything harmful to others, or to myself for that matter, though that's a bit more flexible.
No drugs or really illegal stuff.
And I HATE eggplant and zucchini.

Other than that, well, I'm sixteen. I've got plenty of time to try stuff, so why not?

[Zaia]

I'm a control freak.
I hate situations I can't control.
New locations are unknown quantities to me. I feel weird there, and get bitchy, until I leave...

Is being a control freak something you like about yourself, or do you wish you didn't feel weird and bitchy when presented with a new situation?

Life's full of 'em, even if you try to avoid 'em, which is why I ask.

[The Morrigan]

Um ok, I'll bite:

Stuff I wouldn't mind trying:

• Getting a tattoo (seriously considering it)
• Cocaine
• Ecstasy
• Skydiving (probably need to push me out of the plane)
• White-water rafting
• Going to Goth night at The Alliance (not sure they even still have that)

Stuff I have tried:

• Pot (liked it & would do it again)
• Burning my arm with a lighted match, just to see how much it would hurt (it's ok folks, I'm back on my medication now)
• Dating a guy from OS who I met on the internet (in the long run, probably more painful than burning my arm with the match)

Stuff I would never try:

• Getting my tongue pierced [shudder]
• Heroin
• Lesbian sex
• A threesome

[Dahak]

I'm a control freak.
I hate situations I can't control.
New locations are unknown quantities to me. I feel weird there, and get bitchy, until I leave...

Is being a control freak something you like about yourself, or do you wish you didn't feel weird and bitchy when presented with a new situation?

Life's full of 'em, even if you try to avoid 'em, which is why I ask.

I'm weird, I admit it.
Some parts of me think it would be nice to be thrown into new situations, but other parts of me don't. So I'm stuck where I am...

[CRUCIBLE]

I know myself well enough to know what i like and what not.
So experimenting is not an option.
And i still cant understand why people are adrenaline junkies? Doing things without a reason, which could result in a broken neck...

Done

- HALO jumping. more than once
- Combat drop (Automatic Para jump at 150m). more than once
- Tank driving (without licence... )
- Hanging from a Helicopter during flight (ok, it was training and
i had a parachute).
who said being in the army, means no fun?
- Bar brawl. more than once (i never started them).
- eating TNT

Pending

- Trip to HK
- Looking for a new GF
- Buying a car...used (THAT is adrenaline! )

Never

- Joining the reign...sex with men
- Hurting animals without a serious reason.
- Bungee jumping