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Seven New Experiences In Seven Days

Started by Small Man Big Horse, August 31, 2021, 10:59:34 AM

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Small Man Big Horse

I'm reading James Acaster's fantastic "Classic Scrapes" book right now and one of them is about how he challenged himself to take on a new experience for seven days running, though as he lived in a small town at the time his options were limited he ended up failing. What he did do though was: Go to a karaoke bar (though they didn't let him sing), try Line Dancing, watch a wrestling match, go to a board games club, Ice Skating, and attend a Martial Arts lesson.

And it got me thinking what I might be able to do if I tried a similar challenge, but I struggled a little. Perhaps that's not necessarily a bad thing as I'm 47 and should of course have experienced many a different thing in life, and I could complete it easily if I just watched a different sporting event like a tennis match, basketball game, ice hockey, American Football, etc, etc. But that would be boring, I've watched them on television and had no interest and so it sort of counts anyway.

When it comes to Acaster's list I've done the karaoke and board games club thing, I could try Line Dancing (though with my shit knee it'd only be for a few minutes) but when I was at school I was forced to take part in a performance put on by an African dance troupe at the local theatre and practiced doing so for five days, so I reckon I've sort of done that. And I could go to a wrestling match, which I think I'd like, but ice skating and martial arts are out due to the knee.

Other than that, I would quite like to visit a casino and play blackjack or poker, do a bungee jump, and attend a life drawing lesson (even though I'm a shit painter), but now my imagination is starting to falter, and discounting ridiculously expensive things I'm not sure what I could do.

But what about you? If you had to experience seven new things in seven days, what would they be?

Fambo Number Mive

Parachute jump
Driving lesson
Learn to do a handstand
Attend a dogging session
Watch Citizen Kane
Helicopter ride
Go jetskiing

Shoulders?-Stomach!

- Get elected as MP for Howden & Haltemprice
- Command rats with a tin whistle (see above)
- Go racing a car around a race track
- Naturism, I suppose
- Finnish sauna and icy lake swim afterwards
- Get arrested and go to prison for a crime
- Belted up the arse by Dobson

buttgammon

Monday: pegging
Tuesday: rimming
Wednesday: glory hole
Thursday: drink milk from the breast of a Burmese maiden
Friday: orgy
Saturday: ensconced in latex and turned into a rubber fuckdoll
Sunday: take the Metropolitan Line all the way from Aldgate to Chesham

peanutbutter

Got these spread out over the next few weeks but could pack them all into 7 days

- climbing lessons
- dancing lessons
- dmt
- valium
- day out in Croydon
- psychiatrist
- learn 3d printing basics



It's not that hard to do new things, it's quite a bit harder to find new things that will feel like totally fresh experiences

Edit: oh, maaybe some pegging and/or rimming too, actually, now that I think of it.

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: buttgammon on August 31, 2021, 11:23:22 AM
Monday: pegging
Tuesday: rimming
Wednesday: glory hole
Thursday: drink milk from the breast of a Burmese maiden
Friday: orgy
Saturday: ensconced in latex and turned into a rubber fuckdoll
Sunday: take the Metropolitan Line all the way from Aldgate to Chesham

Craig David told to 'consider being a bit more abstract'

Buelligan

Planning on making my own tahini for the first ever time this week, I'll come back to you on the rest.

El Unicornio, mang

Apparently this kind of thing is a good way to make time not pass so quickly. Time seems to move faster as we get older because we have fewer new experiences and tend to end up in routines, with makes a year seems like just one quick blur of doing the same thing rather than a variety of unique events.

So I can't imagine being arsed to do this myself but heartily recommend it.

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: El Unicornio, mang on August 31, 2021, 02:45:28 PM
Apparently this kind of thing is a good way to make time not pass so quickly. Time seems to move faster as we get older because we have fewer new experiences and tend to end up in routines, with makes a year seems like just one quick blur of doing the same thing rather than a variety of unique events.

So I can't imagine being arsed to do this myself but heartily recommend it.

Surely one of the best parts of getting old is you've got most stuff out the way and can just have a bit of a rest.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Time flies when you're having fun, so can't agree with Unicorno above. Best way to make anything drag is hammer out the same routine every week.

Zetetic

There are different and broadly opposing effects between 1) the flow of time during the experience and 2) the sense of time passed in recalling experience or longer periods.

Boring experiences feel long when you're having them, but a week or two of boredom will seem extremely compressed in retrospect with nothing (naturally enough) marking the passage of time in your memory.

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on August 31, 2021, 11:04:13 AM
Parachute jump
Driving lesson
Learn to do a handstand
Attend a dogging session
Watch Citizen Kane
Helicopter ride
Go jetskiing

I've done two of those, but I refuse to admit which ones.

Quote from: buttgammon on August 31, 2021, 11:23:22 AM
Wednesday: glory hole

I genuinely considered that but they all seem to charge and I'm a tight fisted bastard. I suppose I could try my luck with a large towel in a Morrison's toilet but I doubt it'd be the same.

Quote from: Shoulders?-Stomach! on August 31, 2021, 11:12:39 AM
- Go racing a car around a race track

I went go karting as a teenager and it was a huge amount of fun, they were speedy little bastards too, but I've no urge to race a full size car for some unknown reason.

Quote from: peanutbutter on August 31, 2021, 11:24:05 AM
- day out in Croydon

Jesus fucking christ man, are you a lunatic or something?

Lord Mandrake

Monday. Gay pride march.
Tuesday. Steal from a pension fund.
Weds. Goon at a stripclub.
Thurs. Curse at happy couples.
Fri. Fry up, extra sausages.
Sat. Kill some bloke.
Sun. Lay in.

buttgammon

Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on August 31, 2021, 05:01:09 PM
I genuinely considered that but they all seem to charge and I'm a tight fisted bastard. I suppose I could try my luck with a large towel in a Morrison's toilet but I doubt it'd be the same.

Paid public toilets are bad enough but paid glory holes? That's just ridiculous.

Despite it obviously being a joke, I've actually done two things from my list and am hoping to do a third soon.

Shit Good Nose

I have actually done karaoke (more than once) and line dancing.  Wouldn't recommend - real deso stuff.


I think the only thing like that on my "bucket list" (not that I have one) is to have a helicopter ride.  We actually had one booked for our honeymoon in San Francisco 16 years ago, but the night before we were departing for SF someone tried to break into our house and ruined our front door and also damaged our cars in the process, so we had to cancel and reschedule the entire honeymoon.  Unfortunately on the second run we were hampered either by bad weather (the worst rain and hail they'd had in 100 years, and this was during the summer) or everything was booked up.  So we never did get that chopper ride.

Other than that, I've been jet skiing and water skiing (both good fun, admittedly), but have zero desires to go proper skiing, parachute jumping, bungee jumping or anything like that.  I'm not a thrill seeker in the least, mainly because I suffer dreadfully from motion sickness.  I don't do well on a channel crossing, let alone being flung around thousands of feet in the air and falling at hundreds of miles per hour (and then find out both parachutes have failed).

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: Shit Good Nose on August 31, 2021, 05:30:57 PM
I have actually done karaoke (more than once) and line dancing.  Wouldn't recommend - real deso stuff.

I've done karaoke countless times as I had a girlfriend in the mid-nineties who loved it and who lied to me and said I had a good singing voice, though three months in I took my camcorder along with me and discovered the horrifying truth. After that I stuck to Madness and Pulp and the kind of song you can kind of getaway with if you have a dodgy voice, have to say I find it quite fun when drunk though, at least if you're with a crowd who like to sing along and don't take it too seriously.

flotemysost

I think I've done at least one thing from all the lists posted on here so far, except for Fambo's. Got the highest hit rate with Lord Mandrake's (I think the most deso thing in this thread is the implication that there are people out there who've never had a lie-in or a fry-up). I quite enjoy doing that "feel the fear and do it anyway" type stuff, though not sure I can be arsed with seven days of it without a breather.

I used to find the Meetup app/website really good for trying out new stuff in a friendly, noncommittal context - many of the groups on there welcome newbies for taster classes or one-off sessions, without any pressure to sign up for a full term/show up to the next one - but I'd generally just use it to find stuff to do if I was at a loose end on an evening/weekend, rather than specifically challenging myself to try something new, though I did end up doing that a few times in the process (in my case, attending a debating society, volunteering at a homeless shelter, and singing in public, among others).


BJBMK2

That's nothing, this one guy I know once watched 501 movies in 501 days...

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: BJBMK2 on August 31, 2021, 06:58:18 PM
That's nothing, this one guy I know once watched 501 movies in 501 days...

I'm trying to watch a film a day this year and have made it so far, if anything's likely to screw the whole thing up it's spending time with family on Christmas Day, but if I make it that far I might just wake up early and sneak one in. Not sure I'd want to carry on for 501 days though, the whole thing's kept me sane during this weird old fucker of a year but already on a couple of days it's felt like a chore rather than a pleasure.

Shoulders?-Stomach!


flotemysost


who cares

I've never done ketamine or dressed as a lion so that's Monday sorted

Monday - wear socks with Monday on them.
Tuesday - wear socks with Tuesday on them.
Wednesday - wear socks with Wednesday on them.
Thursday - wear socks with Thursday on them.
Friday - wear socks with Friday on them.
Saturday - wear socks with Saturday on them.
Sunday - wear socks with Sunday on them and invite the members of your local Rotary Club round for an orgy.

I've included an extra activity for Sunday (wearing the socks) because everyone'll have already done the other one.

chveik

i'm waiting for the technology that will allow me to rim myself but elon's pissing about in space

machotrouts

1. Make friend
2. Drop acid with new friend
3. Bukkake
4. Suicide bombing
5.
6.
7.

Sherman Krank

Monday: Steal a car and go for a joyride

Tuesday: Get on the skag

Wednesday: Con a vulnerable pensioner out of their life savings

Thurday: Spend the day with a prominent crime family

Friday: Gun down a notorious gangland figure

Saturday: Get questioned in a police station

Sunday: Announce you're stepping down from your role as Secretary of State for Justice

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: flotemysost on August 31, 2021, 11:26:53 PM
Well at least you've ticked off that one.

And how, it didn't seem to matter what I said or did it still annoyed her! (Sorry, couldn't resist, and it's technically true as well).

Kankurette

I'm trying to think of new experiences and the only one I'm really up for right now is this. I want to see if I'll start tripping balls. I need to wait until shark week is over though, I don't want to end up floating in my own blood.

There's also the German sex club but COVID makes that a bit difficult.

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: Kankurette on September 03, 2021, 11:58:08 AM
I'm trying to think of new experiences and the only one I'm really up for right now is this. I want to see if I'll start tripping balls. I need to wait until shark week is over though, I don't want to end up floating in my own blood.

That's a great one and something I'd definitely like to try myself, the two I've found in London are closer to £60 mark but if I can find it a little cheaper I'll definitely give it a go.