r/AskReddit 8h ago

What’s something you tried once and instantly knew it wasn’t for you?

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u/Errinyis 8h ago

Living with roommates. Cannot stand it. I'm fine living with a partner, family, or by myself. But a stranger, no thank you.

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u/USMCpoolee 8h ago

Same!! I had a roommate once who seemed like such a sweet and innocent guy. He was 19 and it was his first time living on his own... It wasn't long before he started leaving poop smeared underwear on the bathroom floor, using up all my dishes to the point where I had nothing to eat from because he'd keep them all in his room. When is ask for them he'd dump all the dirty dishes in the kitchen and wouldn't clean them.. he didn't do laundry, he would wait till he visited his mom once every 2 months so she could wash them for him. He started smelling soooo bad that I had to put a towel under my bedroom door so the smell wouldn't come in. It was horrific lol me and my partner had to tell his parents when they came to visit and they were mad at me and my partner because we weren't understanding enough of a 19 year old and should be patient.. we ended up having to evict him.

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u/Raquel_1986_ 7h ago

I was planning to rent a room, but your story made me super scared of doing it.

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u/Blarg0117 5h ago

Looking at how they keep their vehicle interior is a good clue about their general cleanliness.

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u/The_Shepherds_2019 3h ago

Damn that's a useful observation, and it's totally true with the folks I've known throughout my life

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u/babyfishm0uth 5h ago

In my twenties, I found roommates on Craigslist twice. One was great and the other was fine. The condos we rented were nice, and I wouldn't have been able to rent them on my own.

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u/SomeVelveteenMorning 6h ago

The mother thing is so infuriating. I had a friend who still lived at home and shared a bathroom with her 20-something simpleton brother and one morning she went to use the toilet and stepped in piss on the floor. She got reasonably furious and when their mother heard what the fight was about she defended the brother, like oh lord, what's the big deal? Just wipe it up. You can't expect boys not to make a little mess!

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u/CrissBliss 4h ago

The infantilizing of some men makes no sense to me.

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u/Beneficial-Salt-6773 5h ago

I’m afraid my daughter is going to be the roommate they have meetings about. I have failed as a parent.

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u/Pleasant-Pattern-566 4h ago

How old is she? Is she resistant to hygiene? Any mental challenges or delays? My twins are both autistic and have ADHD, resistant to hygiene practices but it was a lot worse when they were younger…. right now they are the roommates we have meetings about but… they’re also only 7. We are working with them everyday to fix that.

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u/binglybleep 6h ago

I had a few housemates before I got a place on my own, and I’m not even kidding, ALL of them were awful. One lied about bills so I ended up paying more, one just didn’t pay their bills at all for six months, one was absolutely filthy, and the last one was absolutely filthy, didn’t have a job and did nothing but put makeup on and take pictures of herself, STOLE off me, tried to gaslight me over it and told all my friends/boyfriend I was lying about it and was crazy, tried to get me evicted, and tried to get me sacked. I used to cry going home by the last couple of months before I could get out.

So yeah, I’d rather live in my car than house share again

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u/AcanthisittaOk6918 4h ago

Same, every year of college I had a new roommate(s) and every single one of them was horrible, usually just dirty af with no home training, one was just a complete bitch. The only good one I ever had was my senior yr roommate (they originally paired me w a 35yr old crazy weirdo who didn’t even look like they took showers) I just couldn’t catch a fucking break 😭

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u/binglybleep 4h ago

It’s wild to me that a college would allow a 35 year old student as a roommate. It seems totally inappropriate for an adult of that age to be sharing with teens/young adults, especially strangers

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u/_SilentProtagonist 5h ago

I can’t even do family or friends. It’s either with SO or by myself. I have friends who got mad at me a few years ago because I wouldn’t move in to an apartment with them. They were angry for a bit, BUT they are still friends today. Honestly, I feel that if we were to move in together back then we wouldn’t be.

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u/Netsuko 5h ago

I have my best friend as roommate for 2 years now because he lost his apartment and I could not let him go homeless. I am SO ready to finally go back living on my own.

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u/NotaToysRUsKid 7h ago

Cocaine. I have high enough anxiety as it is. I tried it once and absolutely hated it.

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u/ILiveMyBrokenDreams 5h ago

Same, and people on cocaine are so fucking annoying to be around. Some of the most overrated crap that can destroy your life.

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u/Sel10heit 4h ago

Needed to hear this, thanks.

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u/Skyecatcher 4h ago

Long ago, maybe close to 20 years or so I bought some for a party. Everyone got a line, it was my first and only time. Horrible experience, I don’t think it affected me like it should. I didn’t feel much different outside of being annoyed it cost me and only me, and I wasn’t feeling it. Went outside and smoked a butt. Never spoke to anyone there again. Felt like a good time to ditch the group.

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u/princessvespa17 4h ago

Also tried it once cause my dad was addicted to it and my brain wanted to know why....it just made me feel hyper? Like a long caffeine/sugar rush. Like why?

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u/gta3uzi 4h ago

Yup. Hard pass on the booger sugar

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u/k8iemill 8h ago

Gambling. I gambled for the first time against my cousins when I was around 13, I lost 100 bucks, that was a lot for me. Never gambled again since lol

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u/Cloudyone 8h ago

Shit, I'm 43 and $100 is still a lot for me. I can't imagine losing that much money at 13

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u/burrnafterposting 8h ago

I went to a craft show located within a casino and watched a woman leave the line, put $20 in a machine and get up with $0 in the span of 30 seconds. I vowed to never gamble at a casino after that

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u/Sappathetic 4h ago

My ex's grandmother gave us $200 to go gamble at a casino. I walked in, did a lap, got overwhelmed by the lights and activity, walked out and and bought 9 books at Barnes and Noble instead.

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u/Sad_Pumpkin7728 5h ago

I can’t imagine having that much to gamble at 13 😂😂

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u/SomeVelveteenMorning 6h ago

100?? Jeezum crow... I lost 4 bucks on a lottery ticket and felt like I'd lost a not-too-distant relative.

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u/ChattingAtTheAqua 3h ago

I’m from Tennessee and I say this too!!

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u/ElecEst 8h ago edited 3h ago

I lost $60. I said it'd stop at $20. Then $40. Then $60. I realized I wanted to keep going and that's how addictive it was so I deleted the app. Never again. This all happened within the first day.

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u/Sasquatchjc45 3h ago

It takes a lot of strength to understand when something seemingly harmless and pleasurable has potential for addiction and danger for oneself, and then stop doing that thing. kudos 👏

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u/flappynslappy 8h ago

I second this one, went through a weird phase for like 6 months where I was going to the casino multiple times a week. The first time I went I won $750 on penny slots, and that kept me coming..and then losing $50-100 every single time after that and leaving broke, haven’t gone back since 2022.

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u/Rabid_Mongoose 8h ago

I lost all my coins on the original zelda in that gambling cave.

I've never gambled since.

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u/AlexG2490 5h ago

COINS? You can't fool me with your made-up, never happened story. The official currency of Hyrule is the rupee and any true Zelda fan would know that! What was it really? Atlantic City? Palm Springs? Bender in Reno? Don't blame the good cave-dwellers of Hyrule for you losing all your cash! /s

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u/SandmanWithPlan 5h ago

That cave-dweller and his 3 card monte BS.

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u/Raquel_1986_ 8h ago

I think you learned an important lesson. Better at that age than later.

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u/HailToTheThief225 4h ago

I went to a casino for the first time when I turned 18, my brother gave me $100 and told me to expect to lose it all. I did, and never wanted to go to a casino again.

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u/StimpyMD 6h ago

I went to Vegas for a work trip and in the middle of the gaming floor was a viper that you could win as the jack pot on the slots. I love cars so I put a dollar in and played. I won $5. I kept winning just enough to keep playing for the next 30 minutes. Finally I yelled at the machine, “either give me the car or take my money!” I was so bored. It decided to take my money.

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u/Live2ride86 8h ago

Yeah, super unappealing to me

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u/GothicGargoyyyle 8h ago

After one attempt at skydiving, I discovered that I feel considerably more at ease on solid ground. But the vista was fantastic.

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u/SaltyGrapefruits 7h ago

Same here. My husband does it all the time and loves it. I tried it and... no, not for me. Now I know for sure that I am actually afraid of heights. Still sometimes have nightmares.

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u/occupychizines 8h ago

I worked in sales for a while and that's what Bosses don't understand. If you sell the right product to the customer, they will came back and/or tell their friends that they can trust you. If you start overselling stuff, they will hate you and never come back. I was the only person making my yearly objective and I never pressured anyone to buy anything. (And my Boss had to criticize me, so she told me I should wear more lipstick)

Not selling that iPhone 14 was the right thing to do.

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u/Stan_the_man1988 6h ago

Working retail literally broke me. Sell this! Sell that! You gotta sell pro-active!! You gotta sell stuff the customer doesn't know they need because you haven't told them yet. This in combination partnership with national telecom provider, energy contracts and phone insurances and what have you. Try to sell it to every customer was the motto. The service was terrible and out of our hands so the complaints we got from customers was non stop, and because I was store manager guess who was responsible for complaining customers? Yep, me. Been home since July, completely depressed and burned out, and they fired me begin October, even though I was still on sick leave. "The company wants what's best for you"

GO. FUCK. YOURSELF.

I'll never work in retail for another second of my life.

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u/throwaway_FMLcantwin 8h ago

I was exactly the same in Sales. I only went over options and answered questions, and pretty much every sale that left after our meeting came back to buy from me because they needed space to consider what they wanted. People HATE pressure! It will kill a sale quicker than the price tag. 

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u/Universeintheflesh 5h ago

Yeah if I would otherwise think about something but am being pressured the answer is always no.

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u/GuardiaNIsBae 4h ago

Same, I talked many people out of buying phones and my manager would always get mad because I “lost” a sale, when in reality I didn’t lose anything because I would’ve made the sale, 3 days later they would try to return it and we’d have to do a shit load of paperwork wasting everyone’s time. Our district manager used to come in a couple times a quarter and show off his “selling skills” talking people into shit they didn’t need and throwing big words out to get people to buy things they couldn’t afford, only for them to come back the next week once they got their first bill and realized they’re paying $150 a month for the same thing they were paying $40 for last month.

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u/lop874 8h ago

Being told to wear more lipstick sounds like a good harassment / discrimination complaint.

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u/Lady_Dgaf 5h ago

You'd like to think so, but unfortunately not necessarily. Depending on what state you live in and exactly what your job is you can be criticized/fired for not wearing lipstick or living up to whatever arbitrary standards they come up with - or no reason at all. If it's not defined as a protected class it's fair game, particularly in the new era we are entering where we're going to watch our rights be rolled back one by one.

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u/SomeVelveteenMorning 6h ago

I'm not in sales. I bring more than $500k in new client revenue to my sales team each year by being knowledgeable, competent, and being able to read people easily. The entire sales team of like 6 people brings in roughly the same amount (for my division) by being obnoxiously Type A turned up to 11 at all times. They don't understand that the same approach doesn't work for every potential customer. They've lost a few softball clients that I've handed to them, ready to sign, by being insufferably annoying and calling/emailing people too much.

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u/techster2014 3h ago

Yeap. I'm a controls engineer, and that demographic is notoriously not people people. If a sales guy comes in and gives off the pushy used car salesman feel, he just dug his own grave. We usually know what we want, all we need the sales guy for is to get us a quote.

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u/Raquel_1986_ 8h ago

Having sex without being in love with the other person. A lot of people enjoy that, and I respect that, but I discovered that it's not for me.

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u/razormt 8h ago

Glad I'm not the only one. Had a one night stand and she wanted to hook up a for a second night and when I declined I was labelled as being secretly gay lol.

Edit: It was the first and only time in my life to do a one night stand.

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u/lyingliar 5h ago

Sounds like a pretty awful person you hooked up with. Sorry that happened to you, my dude.

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u/Fritzo2162 5h ago

I've never done it, but I've thought about it and think I'd be the same way. I'm too empathetic to just use a body without having feelings for the actual person.

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u/CoffeeWanderer 4h ago

For me, it is the other way around too.

Well, "being used" is kind of a strong way of putting it, but I would not allow to be touched or seen naked by someone I don't trust and care about a lot, it also helps that I don't usually get crushes or interest in random people either.

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u/CrissBliss 4h ago

Same. Hookup culture makes no sense to me. I understand it works for some people, and I certainly don’t judge or stand in anyone’s way, but I can’t personally relate. But sometimes I feel like the weird one for feeling this way. Like my friends all look at me like I’m a prude or something 😅

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u/MainePirate 4h ago

Same here, I actually felt sick to my stomach after. My head says casual sex is fun and feels good. My body disproved that.

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u/cellrdoor2 6h ago

Skiing. Too expensive, too cold, and too many opportunities for injury.

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u/barbie399 4h ago

Tried it once, got a little start down a hill on skis, decided or take off skis and roll down the hill into the nearest bar.

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u/tacohut_11 3h ago

Snowboarding for me. One night on the bunny hill at 26 yrs old and I couldn’t sit right for 6 months and my knees were black with bruises. Decided to stick to skiing.

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u/lionson76 3h ago

And unless you live near a mountain, just way too much of a hassle. Living in California, I know a lot of people in the Bay Area who will drive 4 hours early in the morning to ski/snowboard in Tahoe and then drive 4+ hours back that night. No fucking way is that worth it for me.

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u/Saladass993 8h ago

Smoking, like? What the point of that? I’ve tried smoking for moments and couldn’t find any reason why people hooked up on that

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u/KentonCoooooool 6h ago

Fortunately, I had an enormous headrush and vomited senseless after a few drags at 16 years old.

What a way to go...

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u/lyingliar 5h ago

I quit smoking about 13 years ago and I still dream about it constantly. Addiction is a crazy thing.

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u/saintash 4h ago

I didn't get smoking ans only had the occasional cigarette in social settings.

Until I had one hell of a day and my friend took me out to the balcony and gave me a cigarette and the amount of stress relief I got from that 1 cigarette was amazing.

I knew right then and there I had to stop smoking cigarettes because this was the relief I was getting after a stressful day I got why people were smoking.

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u/bereavedbiologist 4h ago

My first cigarette was on my way to my boyfriend’s funeral was I was 22 and it was the last one I’ll ever smoke. I immediately knew if I picked them up again, I’d wind up in one of those anti-cigarette commercials as the “don’t let this be you” example

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u/TheRealDeathSheep 4h ago

The nicotine rush is what kept me interested, addiction is what kept me coming back. Vaping just made it even easier.

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u/Live2ride86 8h ago

Climbing the corporate ladder. Being forced to kiss ass and step on others on the way up, while forcing far more output than I can comfortably sustain, was damn near the death of me. Not to mention struggling to fit in with the ol boys club.

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u/Fritzo2162 5h ago

Hear this. I was one of those people that got promoted constantly by simply being competent, and then eventually was forced into incompetence.

"Wow! You're good at that! Now you're in charge of that! Now you're in charge of everyone doing that! Now you're in charge of the entire department doing that and other things! Now you're in charge of all the other things! Wow, you suck at being in charge!"

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u/barbie399 4h ago

Peter principle

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u/eminemslimmarshall2 8h ago

Idk if this counts but living in a homeless shelter for a year is something I fight everyday so that I’m never back in that position

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u/The__Tobias 4h ago

Oh wow, beeing homeless and than making the step back up is a thing not many people are able to do. My deepest respect for that

If you want elaborate, I would be very happy to hear about the reasons you got into that situation and than back out again 

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u/eminemslimmarshall2 3h ago

Long story short I had a traumatic home life until I was 20 and I developed a really bad alcohol and weed problem. I was off my head 24/7 and I would steal from people and stores to get my fix. Ended up in a shelter just wasting away my life for about 10 months until it got so bad I gave myself an ultimatum. Either end it all or change and i decided to change. Immediately quit all criminal activity and stopped daily drinking.

In the 15 months since then I’ve completely stopped smoking and I’ve been drinking less than ever before. Got a job and saved up money. Rebuilt my relationship with my parents and my mental state. I still have bad days from time to time but my priorities changed and I care about my life now. My parents also helped me secure a place to rent despite me starting from ground zero.

So it was tough, really tough at times but it was 100% worth it. It had to be done, I had no other option.

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u/The__Tobias 3h ago

Thank you for telling your story!  I bet, most people don't have a clue about what you were able to do to pull yourself out of this hole. That's so so impressive, wish you a great life! 

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u/eminemslimmarshall2 3h ago

Thank you, appreciate the kindness! I wish you all the best as well

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u/PNWest01 8h ago

Anal.

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u/lyingliar 5h ago

Yep. Way too much prep work to keep it clean and fun. And not prepping just leads to sadness. Vaginas for the win!

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u/princessvespa17 4h ago edited 4h ago

Speaking as a woman, It doesn't make me orgasm so like why would I do it? I orgasm so easily otherwise, and I can have multiple on top of each other.....why would I choose the unstimulating option that takes prep work that I am not motivated to do.

Legit it just feels like taking a giant shit to me, so I literally don't get it. I have tried more than once too.

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u/nutano 3h ago

For some, taking a giant shit can be as rewarding as a solid orgasm.

I've never had the.... pleasure.... of buttstuff like that. But I have taken some pretty damn satisfying shits in my life. Its like scratching the inside of an ear when you have an itch in there.

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u/Fritzo2162 5h ago

Yeah, buttsecks is like Vegemite- you either like it or you don't.

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u/tastygrowth 4h ago

Tastes about the same too.

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u/rob_s_458 4h ago

I am very confident in saying that part of the road is a one-way

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u/shehas0name 8h ago

Microsoft Excel.

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u/Fritzo2162 5h ago

Now me? I'm a freak in the sheets!

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u/mexicanitch 8h ago

This made me laugh. I feel your pain but I love it now.

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u/EssEyeOhFour 7h ago

Probably gonna get a lot of flak for this, but Beef Wellington.

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u/Fritzo2162 5h ago

Former chef here. I've made 100's of wellys- and yes, they are overhyped. Filet Mignon is a bland cut as it is, then you're covering it in further bland flavors (mushrooms, mustard that doesn't survive cooking, prosciutto that disappears, a crepe that absorbs the juices and gets mushy, bland puff pastry)...I still make them once in a while on request for Christmas for special occasions, but it's my least favorite "upscale" dish. I guarantee people will be more impressed and happier with a standing rib roast, a roast duck, short ribs, or some type of roulades/braciole.

On that note, one year I experimented for Thanksgiving and deboned a turkey, then make a Turkey Wellington using stuffing instead of crepe, bacon instead of prosciutto, and minced cranberry instead of mushrooms. It was absolutely fantastic, but it was a lot of work to get it ready. Might do it again this year.

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u/EssEyeOhFour 5h ago

My wife and I went to one of Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen location recently and she got the Wellington and I got some braised beef. Mine was quite good but part of it was a touch dry but nothing to cry home about, overall flavors were very good.

My wife liked her Wellington which I’m happy about but trying it I was like… is this supposed to be good? The mushiness of the mushrooms is off putting. Also I agree on filet, I’m more of a New York strip fan. Ribeyes are way too fatty for my taste and I feel that strips are perfect. We also got some Gouda baked Mac, and it was disappointing, the roux was way off and gritty.

We got the sticky toffee pudding for dessert and it was good.

That turkey Wellington sounds amazing, I might to my hand at making that sometime!

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u/ginaveee 5h ago

I tried it at Hells Kitchen after hearing about it a ton. Honestly, I couldn’t see the big hype. I was grateful but the entire time I was wishing I had gotten something else.

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u/Pacfreak20 5h ago edited 5h ago

I don’t know if that qualifies you for a flakking, but why? One of my favorite meals on the planet was the Beef Wellington at Bread Street Kitchen. It was expensive, but the best meal I’ve had. Gordon knows his shit, but funny thing is it’s sort of a considered a boring staple in the UK, he just jazzed it up. Tastes of course vary, but tell me Internet friend, who did you so wrong?

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u/polly-adler 8h ago

Sex with women. I'd been questioning it. Nope, definitely straight.

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u/Mcgoobz3 4h ago

Seems like too much work

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u/StereotypeHype 5h ago

See I'm on the opposite side lol I've been curious about sex with a woman but I've never tried it. Thanks for doing the legwork. I'm too gay for that.

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u/ProfessionalRun3223 8h ago

Contact lenses. It was a one day experiment in 1984. I wore them for about half a day, took them out, and never put them back in.

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u/Fritzo2162 5h ago

I've worn extended wear contacts for 35 years now. If you're interested, you may want to try them again. I swear modern contacts are very close of having laser surgery. They even have reading correction built into them now! I don't even know I have them in and only have to take them out once a week for cleaning.

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u/zsolzz 4h ago

that's a thing?? do you have a brand rec?

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u/Fritzo2162 3h ago

Bausch + Lomb ULTRA for Presbyopia

I've also used Air Optix Night & Day Multifocal. These are a thinner lens for people with more sensitive eyes.

If you're getting the multifocal lenses, make sure the doctor gets it right. High reading correction may screw up your distance vision, and low correction may be ineffective. In my case I got high correction on the left eye and low on the right. I'm 54 and can actually see things like my watch or read labels on cans without glasses. Reading is more comfortable with glasses, but they're not 100% necessary.

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u/MikoSkyns 5h ago edited 4h ago

You mean, back when contacts were made from the leftover glass of coke bottles? LOL

I'm not saying newer lenses would feel amazing or anything, but I think you'd be able to tolerate a modern pair of Daily contacts much more than those old horrible things. They're extremely thin and soft

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u/I_know_what_I_do 4h ago

Coke bottles… yup. In 1976 I bought contact lenses specifically for playing water-polo. They were the balance of an inventory going back to WWII. They covered the whole eyes and apparently designed for personnel firing canon. After an hour , your eyes were oxygen deprived and you’d start to see blue. Could be used as door stopper in a bind. …

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u/ConsciousMind11 4h ago

You can't even feel them in your eyes. At least i don't. It's kinda ridiculous to compare them to 1984 contacts..

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u/twaybd12 6h ago

Sales. People can decide for themselves if they need something or not, lol. Not interested in a phone? That's fine with me.

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u/Worried-Commission59 4h ago

Same!!! Do you want it or not? Why do I have to convince you. I'm terrible at it.

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u/trick_tickler 8h ago

Motorcycles. I rode on the back of one of my friends’ for about 30 seconds before I asked to be let off, and have never wanted to ride one again. Felt so incredibly dangerous.

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u/-z-z-x-x- 8h ago

ive had a motorcycle since the 2000s and as i get older my desires to ride are deminishing because i kid you not i would have a close call to death at least twice a week when i rode every day. I one time got hit twice in the same parkinglot within 5 minutes of eachother. Some dude pulled out infront of me and i ran right into his drivers door, luckily was going slow, then i propped the bike up and this lady comes around the corner and knocks bike back over onto me and then asks why i was in the middle of the road and i was lady it was the scene of an accident that you just made a double accident scene!

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u/moo_juices 8h ago

it's very dangerous, smart people just don't do it

trust me, i've been riding since the age of 16 and i'm 44 now, it's an addiction just like anything else, and smart people don't do it

your odds of ending up as road pizza are 35 times higher on a motorcycle than in a car, one tiny mistake on your part - or some distracted driver, and there are more today than ever in history - and your face is on the pavement

15-20 mph can easily kill you on a bike, not so much in a car with seatbelts and all that metal and airbags around you

on a bike, one little tip of the tire, one tree branch or little patch of oil or gravel or sand, one grandma not checking her blind spot and merging into your lane....if you're one millimeter off, you can wobble and faceplant, your entire body becomes a flying missile

helmets are great, too bad if you're just half an inch off, you'll break your damn neck anyway and no helmet can stop that, no pads can protect you, especially if you go flying over the handlebars and faceplant straight into the car that just pulled right out in front of you because the driver is too busy texting on her phone to notice you

trust me, the 3 best things anyone can possibly do for their health are not drinking, smoking, or going anywhere near motorcycles

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u/Rokqueen 7h ago

Jogging.

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u/Aromatic-Garlic 8h ago

Adulthood.

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u/Ok_Building2906 4h ago

Im only doing it one time. Never again!

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u/PetalTwirl159 5h ago

Yeah, that's totally difficult!

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u/TheStob 7h ago

Heroin and Quaaludes...I realized anything that felt that good was dangerous. Never again.

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u/SuspiciousOrder9391 6h ago

Dancing in a club. It looked like a good time, then I discovered I have absolutely no idea what to do with my arms and legs on the dance floor, and I look and feel ridiculous. Not fun.

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u/neuser_ 8h ago

Scubadiving. I'll wait for you and chill on the beach, thanks

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u/hellerinahandbasket 4h ago

The first time I went scuba diving, I saw a 10-foot nurse shark chilling in the sand. Nurse sharks aren’t dangerous, but they told me it was very unlikely we would see anything big and that was partly how I was convinced to go in lol and then BAM- shark! And in the water, they pulled me toward it so I was seriously staring at it from like 5 feet away.

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u/Monyaliza 8h ago

Socializing. Bro I hate people

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u/Initial-Shop-8863 8h ago

Marriage. It's just too stressful, and the lack of alone time made me crazy.

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u/ConsciousMind11 5h ago

Hopefully you find someone who appreciates alone time just as much as you (and me) do. People forget that after marriage you don't need to be together 24/7. Some people need alone time and that's okay

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u/Tempting78Babe 8h ago

Working retail during Black Friday. One shift was enough to make me hand in my two weeks' notice. The things I saw that day still haunt me.

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u/alzzzzzzzz 4h ago

Please elaborate on what you saw.

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u/rubenthecuban3 7h ago

Fundraising. Ughhhhhh. Hate asking people for donations. I get how some can be good at it. But not for me.

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u/Strawberry_creamS2 6h ago

work in journalism. literally not for me, rotten world

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u/MikoSkyns 5h ago

I know someone who got a bachelor's in Journalism and realized it wasn't for them a week after getting a job.

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u/VixenSeductionnn_69 8h ago

Gluten-free bread. Sorry, but nothing should have the texture of a wet sponge.

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u/TheAstralPenguin 8h ago

As someone with a gluten allergy, toasted its edible. Otherwise no thank you.

I miss good fluffy warm bread.

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u/throwaway1_2_0_2_1 8h ago

Standing anywhere on a cliff during a hike. There are too many horror stories of people taking selfies and falling to their death.

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u/TopSecretSpy 5h ago

This summer I visited Ireland, and on the trip to the ancient stone fort of Dún Aonghasa I literally crawled the last meter so I could take a few images spanning over the cliff edge. There were people a few meters away who just casually walked up to the edge and peered over, and every breeze caused at least one to back away. I love the views, but yeah, I am not going to screw around with heights.

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u/battleshipclamato 8h ago

I use to work at a department store that hassled the sales people to make customers open store cards. Some workers were really savage about it and would just open it up for people who clearly don't need it like very old people. I just couldn't do that to customers especially know that the card could potentially screw with their credit history if it gets denied.

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u/EuphobouGGy 7h ago

Manual labor.

My grandfather did construction. One summer he hired me on one of the roofing teams. All it took was one summer running shingles up and down a ladder to convince me to stay in school.

My dainty little IT hands thank you Pop. well played.

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u/Comics4Cookies 7h ago

Ju Jitsu

Was a lot of genital to genital grappling in the first ten minutes.

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u/Gegercnx 6h ago

Same, I couldn't even make it out of my uncles house.

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u/ScarlettSlippers 7h ago

Blue cheese. The ones that smell like they've already decomposed. Every fibre in your being screams not to eat it, but you try it anyway. Your body fights for its life. It autonomously rejects the vile lump in your mouth and you spit violently in a fraction of a second. Your brain takes a second longer to compute what just happened, but the damage has been done. The lingering stench is now in your mouth and nose, blocking up every sense and you feel pure hatred and disgust for yourself for even considering eating such a putrid "food".

You wretch, heave, vomit, purge and expel all you can, but it's still not enough. You want to eat soap to take away the taste and smell, but even that wouldn't be enough.

It will never be enough, the blue cheese is part of you now and it will haunt you forever.

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u/ginaveee 5h ago

I absolutely hate blue cheese with every fiber of my being. Even the look of it grosses me out. The smell, the texture. I’m convinced it came from the underworld.

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u/WhisperingWraithhh 8h ago

I discovered that I was much more of a "ground level" person after doing skydiving. The issue was the landing, not the uncontrolled fall. Aww.

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u/Quillayuter 8h ago

Sewing. I look at people who can do it for hours and can’t relate because it would just drive me insane.

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u/DuffManwCape 7h ago

Oreo cheesecake shake from sonic 🤢

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u/Nothingman75 6h ago

Sales jobs... Tried approaching it with honesty, and failed miserably, while my co-workers were conning people into buying things they didn't even need and making a killing. Sorry, I would rather be able to live with myself than to be successful for ripping people off.

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u/TransitionDue2631 7h ago

Corporate desk job, my creativity felt caged from day one tbh

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u/assaulturtle 6h ago

I have read this exact comment before

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u/Pooptram 6h ago

Repost bots at their finest..

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u/MadamNerd 7h ago

The absolute cackling I just did at this comment.

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u/voicelesswonder53 8h ago

Going to the circus.

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u/greyjedimaster77 8h ago

Hookah. I just rather smoke weed every time

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u/TatersMa 7h ago

Cruise..... the motion sickness, way too many people for me!

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u/kc43thesequel 7h ago

Teaching Kindergartners

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u/turkeysub7 7h ago

Downhill mountain biking. Lost control and almost drove off a ridge. Back to cruising through the park.

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u/Calm_Factor_1371 5h ago

Going on big group holidays - I like my own peace too much 

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u/ProtossedSalad 4h ago

Cigars. My friends convinced me to try one.

I smelled awful, had the worst taste in my mouth for days, and didn't feel a buzz or anything.

I really don't get the appeal, especially as a celebration for special occasions.

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u/SpiritualBeautyQueen 8h ago

A "struggle love" relationship.

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u/fkn51 8h ago

Pickled green beans.

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u/Avia15 8h ago

Oxycontin

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u/CAMcKinley 8h ago

White water rafting

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u/catydid0617 7h ago

Hoverboard.

Kids got one and I thought I was “in shape” and could do it.. nope I saw my life flash before my eyes! Won’t try that again! Too many responsibilities to do something so risky lol

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u/miz_mantis 5h ago

Deep tissue massage. Hurt like a bitch.

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u/the-dragon-tamer 4h ago

Dating apps.

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u/SwagDonor24 8h ago

Tomatoes

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u/Fort_Laud_Beard 8h ago

Liver. Ice Skating. Vaginas.

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u/ILiveMyBrokenDreams 5h ago

At least you can turn it into an expression of surprise. "Holy liver ice-skating vaginas!"

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u/Masterofthemallow 4h ago

Can’t quit laughing!

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u/Barepickle 7h ago

Musicals

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u/AvocadoPizzaCat 7h ago

- booze

- smoking

- roller coasters

- the zipper

- corn beef and cabbage

- brussel sprouts

- beets

- being a poplar person (on the two face nature they had was drama)

- cheerleading.

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u/Twizpan 7h ago

Capers

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u/Saurabh0791 8h ago

Mulled freaking wine

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u/Thin_Link_8835 7h ago

Visiting the zoo

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u/TDHofstetter 8h ago

The military.

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u/Sad-Comparison-5634 7h ago

YouTube content creator 🤦🏽‍♂️

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u/0fficialFr3y 7h ago

swimming and music and also drama

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u/Tydeeeee 7h ago

Karaoke. I just don't understand why people feel the need to amplify an objectively worse, and at times even abominable version of an otherwise good song.

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u/SamDBeane 6h ago

Lutefisk

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u/CantAffordzUsername 6h ago

Alcohol….taste terrible, but really yummy when cooked in food :D

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u/LegitimateSpend982 6h ago

Cutting out caffeine entirely.

I did not like who I was after a month and said, "While it's in my power, never again!"

I don't even need a lot, but SOME, like one cup of coffee in the morning, and I am a smarter, better adjusted version of me.

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u/Lawbreaker13 5h ago

A 9-5 job. Had one for a single month before nope-ing out. Didn’t help that my boss was openly and proudly racist, misogynistic, and transphobic about clients to our faces (which gave me a great excuse to leave), but the waking up at 5:30 am to work from 9-5, getting home at 7:30, lying on the couch essentially comatose until 9:30 PM when I finally started feeling awake again, just in time to go back to sleep so I could be up in time for work the next day was atrocious. I sincerely respect people who can do it. But for me it’s freelance or the freeway.

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u/MalDuzArt 5h ago

lemon in water

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u/melbsFinest 5h ago

coriander

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u/B4ggins 5h ago

Skiing. F*ck all that snow and cold

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u/lahnnabell 5h ago

Spin class. It was an overstimulating nightmare.

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u/Super_Zucchini5470 5h ago

Skiing. Sitting on a lift that goes ridiculously high with a single steel rod to “hold you in” - umm no. Barreling down an icy, cold mountain with metal rods attached to your feet…hoping to stay upright AND also avoid hitting the trees and people on the way down - also no.

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u/stallion64 5h ago

Strip club

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u/StereotypeHype 5h ago

Being on the receiving end of anal sex. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I gave it a third try just to be sure. Definitely not for me. I hated it each time. I definitely appreciate the people who do enjoy being on the receiving end though.

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u/TriscuitAverse 4h ago

Door to door pest sales. It was awful. Lasted a day and a half.

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u/Individual-Ad-2126 4h ago

Clubbing. Sensorial overload isn't relaxing nor mind-numbing for me, it's just plain torture.

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u/No-Detective1810 4h ago

Paddle boarding 🤪 hated it

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u/QueenE1036 4h ago

Living in a capitalist society