America. Never have, don't want to, no real reason it just has no appeal to me.

...because I find myself agreeing with your every example.

I can add video games/computer games to your list as the first add-on that springs to mind - never played them, no desire to start now. Wiiiii - Why? Nintendo - Nothanko. Xbox - PutItBackInTheBox.

Apologies if any of the above are 'Sooooooo 2009' or whatever - I'm sure they've been superceded by a load of other pointless gadgets by now.

...I'm 100% with you on that one too!

Just like I don't get on fairground rides that have transported from town to town and been unbolted, taken apart, then put back together again, over and over again, by young men who don't look like they ever went to an engineering lecture in their life.

A bungee rope is a piece of elastic hanging from a very long way up. Someone, somewhere has done a sum, involving tension, downward force, and many other factors I don't claim to understand.
But what if they've done it wrong?

No, thank you, very much.

It's always tickled me, though, that before people do a bungee jump is the only time in their life they over-estimate when asked how much they weigh.

paying to watching a bunch of people doing something a little better this week than another bunch of people from up the road did last week against some other lot from another county....
Perhaps more so when none of the team are local people and the venue is some distance from town.

Goodness knows it has been tangential to my life , off and on, since I was in single figures. I don't actively dislike it, and many people who I love and respect are in thrall to it, but my brain simply refuses to take it in.

eating beetroot, watching a rugby match, listening to a Bob Dylan or Richard Thompson album (no, perhaps I don't fit in here), driving a BMW, watching Top Gear, doing a Sudoku puzzle, going fishing, getting divorced.
On the other hand, sorry Colin and Dave, I love visiting the USA. Oh, and I'm quite enjoying the final series of Big Brother, Lenny.

I think I'm the only person on the online dating section of a broadsheet newspaper's website who doesn't have a picture of themselves on a snowboard or has the words 'been travelling' on my profile.

Yes, there are parts of the world I'd like to see, but from the five star hotel overlooking the harbour, not the local YMCA.

Visit Dubai. Utterly mystified at why anybody would, it sounded hellish, like a J.G.Ballard theme park.

To answer the reverse of the question (in best job interview style) something I do that most people can't get their head round: caving. Cold, dark, wet, small spaces, spiders. Almost everybody has a reason why its a daft idea, but its kind of addictive.

I have never, and nor shall I, consume any drug proscribed by law unless prescribed by my Doctor.

My understanding is that this makes me very much an outlier from my demographic (35 - 40, males, University educated)

Agree with that one. Never seen the appeal and never will.

Never taken pills or snorted powder or injected anything. I'm not an annoying "high-on-life person" - I just remember smoking weed as a teenager and feeling paranoid and afraid. It was awful. If that's what happens with the relatively light stuff...

I've tried several of the things on this thread - but usually only once (except the Emmedale thing obviously).

But a big no to tattoos, shellfish (severe reaction even to the smell), any TV cookery programme where it is declared that being a chef is one of the toughest jobs in the world (no it's not, it's heating plants and meat up, try saving lives or some manual labour then talk about having a "tough" job), skiing, sunbathing and the whole beach holiday mullarky, extreme sports (too fat & lazy) and religion.

Sorry Longtonian but I do like beetroot, RT and His Bobness though.

That's about it. Tattoos are not remotely for me: I'm scarred enough by the idiocies of my youth without actually having pictures of them indelibly carved into my skin.

Sport is mostly just fucking boring, as far as I can see. I'll make a slight exception for golf, tennis and darts, which I'll tolerate if they're on the telly, but only if there's nothing better to do. Like mowing the lawn. Or dental torture.

Paging Mr. G. Sprocket...

I'm surprised that nobody else has mentioned this but I've never smoked anything and I have no intention of ever doing so.
Other things on my list are fishing & bungee jumping (although I was tempted at one stage).

I have been to a couple of indoor stadium concerts but didn't really rate the experience. I don't much like enormodomes and prefer smaller, indoor concerts in a proper music hall where you can see the players and smell the sweat.

Agree with fishing. I will never attend a Chris de Burgh concert for fear of him inflicting on me The Worst Song Ever Written (Lady in Red).

called I've Never Seen Star Wars? So, on that basis, I've, er... never seen Star Wars.

Have never smoked. Never ever seen the appeal. Standing in a huddle with a lot of greasy haired lads at school passing round tab packets, spitting and coughing? Nope. And the expense of the things! Do fuck off.

Tattoos, no not for me either. Mind, some can look apposite and very striking but mostly these days they're herd mentality things, especially those modern warrior type swirls you see poking out of the t-shirt sleeve of an overweight, spectacle-wearing tesco home delivery van driver

But gave it up when I left school at 16.

Laser eye surgery. Being awake to see the procedure and smell the burning. No thanks. Might just be an earthquake or aeroplane crash at the same time and the beam would take my knackers off. I've seen that bloody Goldfinger...

Never tried it, don't even like the smell.

I think I've done all of the above except Soduku, Dubai and divorce. Oh, and tattoos. I'm not saying I might not get round to those as well though.

The two things I'm unlikely to find time for are morris dancing and anal intrusion of any kind, although I think the further you get into middle age the more likelihood there is of these things happening. Possibly at the same time.

Because nor do I, and I agree with Beezer about the herd mentality tedium of most of them.
I've never seen Grease either. Nor Gone With The Wind, The Sound Of Music or Casablanca.
Despite having gone to The Duckworth Lewis Method's album launch gig at The Oval, I can't imagine I'll ever go to watch a cricket match.

Went once, never again. It's like P Diddy designed Lakeside.

I don't see the attraction in thrill-seeking of any kind. The time I went skiing on a red run for the first time the resultant chaos (almost ploughing into groups of children etc.) made me feel like a Michael Crawford tribute act. I have long legs and a high centre of gravity, so ice skating is out too.

I will never use my passport for pleasure. It is something of a bold admission in this day and age to admit this, but I don't like travelling. I've been abroad a few times and my mind wasn't broadened. Talking to people who are evangelical about travel sends me to sleep.

As Mark Hodgkinson said in his absolutely excellent Word piece, the journey is within.

Hospital Dramas. Why would I want to watch people pretending to be ill? It's either unrealistic and patronising or realistic and unpleasant.

BMW's. Just don't want to aspire to something I'm told to aspire too.

Charity dangerous things - parachute or bungy jumping (or long walks in Nepal). I don't like the concept that a charity funds someone's fun because they will get a return on it. I prefer charity to be selfless acts.

Tatoos and piercings. I'm just too old and hairy.

Port and brandy. They make my head explode with throbbing pain.

Cars and driving. I have to hand it to Jeremy Clarkson. He has popularised something that I find to be utterly tedious, unpleasant and stressful. Traffic lights, speed cameras, parking spaces, traffic wardens, road rage ... multi-storey car parks ... tax and insurance, MOT ... drink driving, 'been involved in an accident' ... not to mention what cars do for global warming. Not me, ta.

It was a brave man who first ate one; and rather stupid and perverse I would add.

Cars for me.
Done a more complete job of destroying this country than the Vikings, the Celts, the Romans and the Third Reich combined, and it's only taken about fifty years.
Check out any old picture or postcard of a street circa 1950 and compare it to its modern counterpart.

Travel is an interesting one.
Have you ever been impressed and/or interested by anyone who has done an excessive amount of traveling because I haven't!

Aside from getting a tattoo - and even those don't need to be permanent - why not give everything (legal) a try at least once or, better, twice? I understand vertigo sufferers wisely avoiding balloons and mountains, but it seems incredibly blinkered to decide to avoid something for no great reason, aside from not liking the look of people who do do these things.

Oysters - raw, cooked, in pies - are delicious. Cigars are one of the great pleasures of adult life. Ballooning is amazingly relaxing. BMWs are, however, only cars and Dubai is too damned hot in general.

- Have laser eye surgery - I'm happy wearing spectacles thank you.
- Watch over-hyped American drama series on television
- Eat eggs - neatly packaged chicken periods
- Own a dog
- Go caving
- Camp at a music festival
- Go 'travelling' in any way that doesn't involve business class flights and 5-star hotels

"There's no harm in trying," they said. "Don't judge it before you've done it," they said. "Give it a go and then we'll talk - when you've got a big smile on your face," they said.

And every time I have given it a go, I wanted to give them a slap. "I told you so," I said.

The most unforgettable (and, God knows, I've tried) such experience was when, for bizarre professional reasons, I was badgered into experiencing the "amazingness" of an ultralight aircraft. The name is a misnomer for a start. You remember those planks of wood with pram wheels attached we used to make when we were kids? Bogies they were called round our way. Well, an "ultralight aircraft", which sounds like something a Bond villain would have built using stolen NATO technology, is, in reality, a bogie with wings. That flies. Very high.

After an Unfortunate Incident Playing in a Quarry™ as a child, I don't do heights. I explained this, to no avail. "Don't worry," they said. "It's amazing. Curious seagulls come up to you and fly alongside. And everything."

During the "flight" (i.e. motor-mower-powered bogie juddering at an improbable height above the ground) I don't know if any seagull did approach to object to the invasion of its airspace because I had my eyes welded shut for most of it. I don't do heights. I told them so. And I can't think of a single other experience that I've agreed to despite knowing I'd hate it when it turned out that I was wrong. Not one.

not for me...it might be very cool and all that, but far too dangerous! It's not so much the motorbiking part, more the seemingly growing number of stupidly dangerous car drivers that put me off.

Otherwise, I'm hard pushed to think of many things I wouldn't try - no point in cutting yourself off from the many as yet undiscovered pleasures life has to offer! OK, OK, I'll grant you I will never watch Eastenders or open a copy of Hello magazine but otherwise...

Anyway, most of the things I swore blind I would never do I actually did and they turned out to be some of my favourite things...grow a beard, drink real ale, go to America (well, New York was great), go back to Paris (what was I missing for so long?!) support a football team (yes football was once very uncool believe it or not), travel up to the big city on my own to meet a room full of strangers to talk about music...

Tried it once. Naah.

Go skiing.
Visit Australia.

1. Been to the US (21 times, I think)
2. Played computer games
3. Attended spectator sports
4. Listened to The Archers
5. Eaten beetroot
6. Watched a rugby game
7. Listened to Bob Dylan
8. And Richard Thompson
9. Watched Top Gear
10. Gone fishing
11. Online dating
12. Visited Dubai
13. Taken drugs other than those subscribed by my doctor
14. Smoked
15. Got tattoos
16. Eaten shellfish
17. Extreme sports (downhill mountain biking, Fly By Wire)
18. Skiing
19. Attended a stadium gig
20. And a festival
21. And camped
22. Watched Star Wars, ET, Gone With The Wind, The Sound Of Music, Casablanca and Grease
23. Drank coffee
24. Been pierced (ears only)
25. Been to a cricket match
26. Travelled. Lots. At every possible opportunity
27. Watched hospital dramas
28. Eaten oysters
29. Driven cars
30. Watched over-hyped American drama series on television
31. Eaten eggs
32. Gone caving
33. Ridden a motorbike
34. Visited Australia

They're horrible things, smelling as bad as they taste, and I have no wish to cook them. I have recently made them scrambled for my wife, but I felt (and acted) as though it was a MASSIVE favour.

Aside from that, I reckon I've done everything on Fraser's list above except... getting a tattoo (but I do have non-ear piercings), visited Dubai and watched Gone With The Wind. But, Fraser, I shall see your list and raise it by:
1 - eating fresh bat
2 - ziplining on a 1km line
3 - visiting Brunei
4 - climbing Kilimanjaro.

Things I wish I'd never done and certainly won't do again: watched a football match (2 in fact: 1 live, 1 on TV). Won't get that time back again..

I have no desire to attend an opera, or a classical music concert, or indeed anything involving an orchestra. (Well, at least until Bruce Springsteen tours his Delius tribute album.)

I've been dragged along to ballets in the past, and I was sooooo bored. If it hasn't got guitar, bass and drums (keyboards and brass section optional), I'm not interested.

Oh, and I have no interest in reading Lord Of The Rings.

...I'm always bemused at how strong some people's anti-LOTR interest is. Don't worry - I won't proselytise, Tim & Fraze, just observing!
:-)

There are 2 sleeping and farting behind me now. Have bred a litter of Irish Wolfhound pups in the past. Ahhh. Other pets owned in our household: sugar gliders, guinea pigs, tarantulas, snakes, fish, hermit crab (sounds like a menu down Fraser's way..!)

But never owned or wanted to own a cat. Ever.

Going on a cruise or an all-inclusive holiday. The thought of my meals or entertainment being chosen and scheduled for me in the name of convenience makes me cringe.

I have no desire whatsoever to own any animal at all. Except in the form of meat. I just don't really like animals all that much, except the seriously wild kind, and I rather think trying to domesticate a Kodiak bear would be futile on any number of levels.

I can't explain my utter ambivalence to domestic animals. They just annoy me a bit, and seem like a lot of work.

We'll probably get a rabbit or hamster or something for the kids in a couple of years, but not on my account. I think it's good for kids to have pets, if only from the point of view of taking responsibility, caring for something and dealing with the idea of mortality.

I'm a proper fucking barrel of laughs, I am.

I shall never play the Dane.

I've nothing against it, might even like it, but just never got round to it. Apart from school texts I can't think of anything pre C20 that I have read.

Would never, could never go in a helicopter.

Never been to Spain but have no idea why.

Don't have a Facebook account - just always seemed a bit dull to me.

Any part of the Star Trek franchise outside of the original series.

I have heard the following many times in conversation:

"Apparently, only 10% Americans have a passport"
"Apparently, only 20% of British citizens have a passport"

This implies that the vast majority of both nations' citizenship never travel. Whereas most people I know will have, at least, have been to Tenerife something. Or is this one of those things people say that isn't actually true?

I have never eaten cheese. And it's unlikely I ever will.

Cheese(will only eat if mild and cooked in Pizzas, moussaka, lasagne, with Cauliflower) etc.
Beetroot
Coleslaw
Potato Salad
Mayonnaise
Salad Cream
Yoghurt
Pickles (Piccallili, Branston etc.)
Mint Sauce
Salad Dressing
Tartare Sauce
Malt Vinegar (But I love Pickled Onions and Pickled Cucumbers)
Most Chutneys

All of these make me retch.

Can't stand the smell of Rum
Don't do most shellfish (apart from oysters, squid) - its probably a cultural thing.

Am I the only person in the UK that doesn't really like strawberries (but likes the jam)?

Galactus is a being of near unlimited power, clothed in the follies of 1980s fashion students. He roams the universe devouring worlds. The planet Earth has only avoided falling victim to his insatiable appetite thanks to the timely intervention of The Fantastic Four.

I have never fought Galactus and have no intention of doing so in the future. I lack the super powers to make such an engagement anything more than a pointless act of heroic idiocy. Even If I were to confront him, it is unlikely my challenge would register with a being older than space and time as we know it, any more than we humans would acknowledge the challenge of a single dust mite high on Lemon Pledge fumes.

If there was some kind of protest march aimed at promoting awareness of the dangers of Galactus visiting the earth, and the need to present a united front against this menace, I would attend, as long as it wasn’t too far away. I certainly wouldn’t travel outside the country for such an event.

Also, if some bands got together and made an album whose profits went towards funding scientific research that might help the human race defeat Galactus, then I would probably buy it if there were good bands on it and the material was fresh – no live in the studio tracks by Razorlight or anything like that. I suppose in this sense I would be indirectly fighting Galactus, however holding up a placard on Parliament Square, or buying a charity CD with a new Belle & Sebastian instrumental on it is very different from actually head-butting a cosmic being who is, to all intents and purposes, a god.

The only situation where I could imagine going to toe to toe with Galactus would be if he were about to harm a loved one. He would probably regard this as a futile final act. I would be demonstrating to the person I was protecting that I cared enough about them to sacrifice myself so that they could experience a few more seconds of life.

As a general rule though, I won’t be fighting Galactus.

Sorry.

I meant to contribute to this thread when it started but never quite managed it. Actually I was worried that I might come across as a negative person, being defined by all the things I do not do and never have done, e.g. non-smoker. But as most people have already written and read this thread, I know that I fairly safe; most people have turned their attention to newer things and never look back to previous pages on the blog.

So, here goes.

I've never eaten cheese, with you all the way on that one Slotbadger, horrible stuff. "Try it, you'll like it", I was told a few times as a child as a miniscule piece of stinking rotting milk was passed to me. I might have had to inhale but I certainly wasn't going to swallow it.

I've never had a pet - dog, cat, rabbit, skunk, or newt. The closest was having the two goldfish from Dad's class in school for a couple of holidays. They swam on the kitchen windowsill for a few weeks, ignored by all the family.

Another vote against rollercoasters and the like. Growing up travelsick, menas that there is no way I would ever go on anything which would make me ill. I managed that in just two miles in the back of Uncle Ken's Capri - not a good ending to Grandma's funeral.

I've never smoked - anything. Growing up feeling ill on buses because of the smell (went well with the whole travel sick thing), unable to go to the pictures because my sister would actually have to rush to the loos to throw up because of the smoke, did not encourage me to ever give it a go.

And no to any other illegal substances as well.

And while we're on drugs, at 50, I've still to try that legal drug called alcohol. I remember a school trip to London and one guy coming back in late, and being unable to work out how to get into bed, and thinking I never want to be like that. So no beer, wine, whiskey, going to the pub, drinking with 'the lads' (whoever they are). I've always thought that pubs are such boring places anyway. When we're on holiday and pubs are the only places around which serve food, we always take a book each to pass the time because there's nothing to do.

Speaking of 'the lads', I've never joined any group, club, society or whatever that only has men in it. I can't imagine anything worse. Since school, any group of friends has always included both sexes.

But I have been to America.

mmmm ... especially Camembert

and I´d do it all again, except for Snowboarding, cos it´s stupid

No , seriously, I have no intention of learning to drive ( im over 40 )or learning to play dominoes.
I will not get a tattoo or a piercing because Im all grown up now and have no desire to make more of a fool of myself than I already have, which brings me back to snowboarding...never, never again

but reading the comments on this thread makes me feel like I'm Indiana Jones!
I'm ready to give most things a go, with a few exceptions.
I am very particular about shoes. I absolutely refuse to wear shoes that aren't ( in my opinion ) "cool". I would never wear a pair of sandals even if you paid me a million to do it. Same thing with loafers. I don't care if they are the most comfortable things ever and feels like you're walking in whipped cream, I just won't do it. Most types of shoes are abominable...I have very strict shoe rules. I'm not that bothered about my clothes, but shoes have to look good!
I also have a few food phobias, but being a very polite person I can ignore almost all of them if I am a dinner guest. Things that I just couldn't put in my mouth at home or at a restaurant I will bravely eat just so I won't hurt my hosts feeling. I have even once eaten a whole bowl of soup that tasted exactly like sick, just to be polite.
I've never tried drugs, apart from perhaps some second hand smoke from potsmoking friends, not that I ever noticed any effects. I have fun without it and isn't curious, so I can easily give that a miss.
I drink alcohol, but not very often and I don't get drunk. Been there, done that, boring.

But I'll happily do most other things as long as I'm in the mood.
As long as people don't nag me and say that I HAVE TO do it; that turns me right off. That's the best way to get me to refuse, and the more they try to convince me, the more pigheaded I get.
In the words of Robyn; DON'T FUCKING TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

but I'd like to try.

I love all foods, animals, pubs, America, I smoke, drink, etc. I've done it all.

But never ask me to your barbecue. It's not the food, it's the fact that it takes up so much of a day.

...every other conversation in my office seems to involve someone having flashed their latest piece of pocket sized "kit"... surely you'd need to have your fingers surgically "sharpened" to ever be able to operate one of these things properly??

Furthermore I've never found the need to fill the gap between leaving home and reaching the office with even MORE time spent looking at a fricking screen!!

BAH HUMBUG!!! ...and that goes for Dubai too (I've never felt that Milton Keynes would look any better by the sea but others clearly disagree)

"OMG" out loud.

Use a ringtone instead of vibrate setting.

Do that "hand-flappings flapping in excitement" thing that media homosexuals and their female friends do.

Wear boots.

Hunch my shoulders and dip my head when it's raining.

Refold my hankie after use.

Browse in estate agent windows.

Have a wife who straightens her hair.

Use the phrase "wow factor".

Begin a conversation by discussing the awfulness of Simon Cowell (about as self-evident an opening gambit as calling Auschwitz "a bit grim").

Admire the late Princess of Wales.

Say "literally".

Have a phone that flips open.

Wear lip liner.

Look at my shoes when there's a strange smell of poo coming from somewhere.

Buy a CD from a supermarket.

Listen to a radio station that has "FM" as part of its title.

Glare at people in supermarket queues that aren't meeting my needs by going as fast as I want them to.

Criticise Indian Call Centre workers.

Start the recounting of an anecdote using the words "And I/he/she/they was/were like.."

I commute to London but the thought of actually living there horrifies me. If I could afford a decent place there I wouldn't mind it so much. Somewhere like, oh I dunno, the house in Outnumbered. But for someone on my salary, living in London would actually mean living in a flat above a kebab house in Harlesden.

Fig rolls
Phil Collins
Arsene Wenger
Tories
Semolina pudding
AC DC
Horror films
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Alan Smith
Alan Green
Woody Allen
Alan effing Davies

Never placed a bet or bought a raffle ticket.

been to me, me.

go dancing in a club

eat Sushi out of choice

go Paintballing

have pictures of myself taken at a Venture photographic studio

eat at McDonalds again

use the London Underground again

buy a coffee at Starbucks

go into a bank without a feeling of trepidation and faint nausea

Will never pass my lips. They are the fetid fruit of Satan.

Not got close enough to try one. Wikipedia describes the odour of this fruit thus:

The edible flesh emits a distinctive odour, strong and penetrating even when the husk is intact. Some people regard the durian as fragrant; others find the aroma overpowering and offensive. The smell evokes reactions from deep appreciation to intense disgust and has been described variously as almonds, rotten onions, turpentine and gym socks. The odour has led to the fruit's banishment from certain hotels and public transportation in southeast Asia.

I have just bought some durian flavoured wafer biscuits as an experiment. Wish me luck.

Jumping out of aeroplanes - I don't care if it is for charity.

Eat semolina/rice pudding - especially as an old girlfriend likened it to sperm

Get a Twitter account. Everyone raved to me about how brilliant Facebook is - it's not, it's facile.

Will never go to the Canary Islands.

Will never wear my Football teams colours - how tribal is that?

Havent we done this on another thread recently ??

Anyhow,

Eaten Marzipan

Bought a scratch card

Smoked Marijuana (Eaten Amsterdam shortbread once - loved it)

Taken Cocaine or Ecstasy

Bungee jumped (NO fucking way)

I do however have lots of Tattoos, & both nipples are pierced

(Dont listen to anyone who says it doesnt hurt - it does)

During my time in the Royal Navy, I spent some time in Singapore & a friend & I decided to try "The king of fruits" (Strong drink had been taken)

The forbidden signs on the subway should have warned us, but I was (am??) a try anything once sort of person, so King of fruit was duly purchased.

Vile, vile, vile. It has the smell & consistency of rotting flesh, the most hideous thing I have ever eaten (that wasnt human)

Things I've never done and have no intention of doing but which most of my friends have done (although none have done all)

1. Visit USA or Japan
2. F1 racing
3. motorbikes (except Speedway of course)
4. play golf
5. ski
6. take drugs
7. wear a replica football shirt
8. eat at KFC
9. Buy the Sun, Star or NoTW
10. Watch or buy pornography
11. Cheat at scrabble
12. Like the Rolling Stones
13. Take up Salsa or indeed any form of dancing
14. Run a marathon
15. Own a mobile phone
16. Buy/rent a narrowboat
17. Wear a waistcoat to a gig
18. go to church voluntarily
19. go on any kind of "diet"

I'm sure there are more. Question is ...how have I filled the last 52 years!

Get any piercings
Get any tattoos
Do cocaine, E or heroin
Watch the Lord of the Rings or Star Wars movies
Buy and listen to double and triple albums by the Clash