It’s Dumb But I’ll Go First Anyway

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I see these stupid time wasters all the time on Twitter.

Obviously posted by people with way too much spare time on their hands but this morning just for shits and grins, I started adding them up.

I got a 3.

I’ve never been on a cruise but I have worked on Tug Boats.

I’ve never gotten a piercing but I have had lots of stitches over the years and have had foreign objects get jammed into my hands.

And I’ve never been sky diving,

I could never see the sense in jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.

Other than that, yeah, I’ve done ’em all.

Some several times.

You could say that I have not led a sheltered life.

45 thoughts on “It’s Dumb But I’ll Go First Anyway”

  4. No drugs, no tats, no piercings, and never jumped out of an airplane, though I have catted & arrested on carriers, ridden around in helos in the GOT, and got tossed out of a car that flipped over in a frozen corn stubble field.

    Otherwise, kinda like a diary.

  5. Oh, yeah . . . also rode the rapids down Pagsanjan Falls in a banka boat back around ’63 or so. Ex-hilarating !!

  6. Nothing perfectly good about airplanes. These days with “died suddenly,” and pilots mandated to take the shot, having a ‘chute may be the way to go.

    Anyway, 140 freefall parachute jumps. 70 or so military static line jumps.

    I’m at 3. Never broken a bone, never been arrested, never got anything pierced.

  7. No to:
    1.
    4.
    6. Even though I served three years in the Army.
    8.
    10.
    13.
    14. Like Phil, none that I paid for.
    15. My mother did, died of lung cancer when I was 13.
    17. Although I filmed my youngest when he did.

    2 & 7 were a twofer.
    21. Been knocked unconscious. See 2 & 7 above.

    • Same. Guess we lived a sheltered life, eh?

      Yes, I *did* jump out of a perfectly good Cessna…

    • Sandy, you’re being rather economical with your comment, are we to use our imaginations? Was that six different ones, or just repeating one of them six times?
      I got ten, having led a sheltered and innocent life, much to my disappointment.

  11. I scored a 12 if stitches don’t count. i swear, at 64 I’ve been lucky to have survived this long. it’s been a lot of fun.
    scars heal, but memories last a lifetime.

    • No Shit. I wasn’t going to jump off an 80 foot bridge, but I watched three others, were standing there for over an hour, and as we went by to leave, I said oh shit, this is how you do it, climbed over the rail and jumped. That was a rush, and quite refreshing on a hot summer day.

  14. I got a 10. A limo… in West Texas? Does a crewcab count? The only kariyokie i ever did was blowin’ a varmint call.

  15. By this list, I appear to be quite boring…..
    4 – Not even once.
    6 – Why, so I can be different – like everybody else?
    8 – Never been that drunk
    10 – If the Sheriff had gotten a radar reading on me, he would have. He wanted to.
    11 – I don’t think swinging from vines, as a kid, counts.
    12 – I try to avoid them as much as possible.
    13 – NEVER!
    14 – Been perforated many times, but never on purpose.
    16 – My wife has, and my girls have. I have not.
    17 – No, but I want to.
    18 – Nope. When I get ’em once, they always come back for more.

    Leigh
    Whitehall, NY

  16. -No karaoke, unless singing in the shower, car or top of a tree counts.
    -Piercings. Do stabbings or bullets or stitches count?
    -Can I substitute hang gliding for parachuting?
    -TV, not me, but my over turned chipper truck and crew in the middle of interstate 5 in Del Mar, California were. I made myself scarce.
    -The others? guilty as charged, Pretty sure I’m safe with the statute of limitations. Pretty sure.

  17. 5

    No ink, haven’t gotten acquainted with the hard plastic bench in the back of a cruiser, every boat I’ve been on has included a fishing rod, stayed in every plane I’ve been on, and managed to wear at least a pair of trunks every time I’ve been in the water.

  18. Wow! Only scored a two, never got a tattoo, been coerced and tried bullying me while in the Army, and have never sung karaoke, only weak and faggots sing along to a machine. Same with C&W line dancing, no real cowboy friggen line dances. he either two steps or waltzes, period.

    Gosh, most of you are pikers! Haven’t most of you taken it to the extreme? Unmotivated?

    • Doing a solo with an Orchestra as the background Accompanist is MY definition of Karaoke, Having 2500+ people watching you and PAYING for the privilege means you DON’T screw up!

      Darn near peed my pants and threw up, performance “anxiety”.
      Never again. I’m not cut out for it.

  20. This has got to be the best reply thread ever!
    I got 8,
    But I been rock and mountain climbing, SCUBA diving, jumping off an 80 foot swinging bridge on the Illinois River,Oregon, Whitewater drift boating,and other stupid stuff.
    Decades ago.

  24. 7 points, was a good boy and who the heck wants to jump out of a perfectly good airplane?

  25. Does meeting You count for #16?
    I say it does!
    Do day cruises count? I think it would drive me crazy being stuck on a boat for a week. Maybe enough to WANT to get a tat or pierced or even sing karaoke!

  26. I got 4. Never been arrested or got a tat or piercing and never been skydiving. I will say I should be able to substitute skydiving credit for doing a backward tail slide in a Cessna 185 so I’m back down to 3. Not a very sheltered life to be sure. Got some funny celebrity stories. One time I ran into Russell Brand in the American Airlines Admirals Club at LAX. There are 2 countries in the world with DMZ’s and I’ve been to both. Was once an international arms dealer in the Mid East. Also have a very funny story about being on TV. I’ve flown in private jets and hitchhiked. Life has gotten quiet here lately but I’m ok with it. My kids keep telling me to write a book.

    • You have to LEAVE the plane to skydive, Mikey. No substitutions.

      Oh, and I highly recommend brining along (wearing) a parachute.

      Do not attempt at 1000′ AGL.

  28. Got an 7. I’m pretty boring. Never got arrested, but real close once. I think zip lining and skydiving are just recipes for disaster. Never been on tv and couldn’t pay me to go on a cruise. No one night stand or skinny dipping either.

  31. Am a 7. Probably just 6.5 because no skydiving but I was a paratrooper in the Army. Those are static line jumps, not skydiving. And it’s funny that most folks say the plane is perfectly good, so why jump from it. What you utterly fail to remember is that the parachute is also perfectly good, so why not jump?

  33. Well, I’ve either lead a sheltered life or I do have some common sense.
    Nope to: 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10(been lucky on that one), 11, 12, 13, 14, 15(does weed count?), 16, 17. So that gives me a score of 13.

  34. 2 points. Never zip lined or been skydiving. I should make an expedition and remedy that

  36. I’m at 7. The zip line was a cable across the slough were the family hunt camp was. The karaoke and skinny dipping went along with the being drunk. And been charter fishing but no cruise. No tats, or piercings but plenty scars and stitches… And fasteners in a few bones if that counts for anything. No tickets or arrests yet but been damn close. No limo rides but did meet Toby Keith at the local thoroughbred horse sale… Worked for him actually. Vetting horses he bought a couple times over the years. I’d say that’s enough excitement but I’m aint dead yet!

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