Life experences you found over hyped

Cheeseman Muncher

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Weed: A bit naff. I get a much greater buzz off a few cups of coffee or a couple pints. =/

Porn: Gets to that point where once you've seen one, you've seen them all.

Battered mars bars: Taste about as bad as they sound.
 

Relish in Chaos

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Teenagehood/secondary school. Best years of your life, my arse. -_-

Masturbation and porn. Gets boring after a while (although some studies say that having a circumcised penis can make you lose some sensation, but there are other studies that say there?s no change?anyway, I have better things to be worrying about than that), and it can get really hard to find original stuff.

Turning 16. Admittedly, I only turned 16 last November, but it doesn?t feel as if anything much has changed.

New Years? celebration. There?s all that build-up, and people making their resolutions, only for the night to end anti-climactically, everyone doesn?t keep to their resolutions and it?s just another uber-meh year.
 

Sebenko

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krazykidd said:
i envy you so hard .

OT: getting a girlfriend . I mean my first was cool and all , but i was young and naive and horny . I didn't end well .And wasn't all that great in hindsight.
Going to uni was the best thing that ever happened to me, I tell ya.

20,000 students, there have to be a few people I get on with.

I have no idea how I got to this point though. ihavenoideawhatimdoingdog.jpg
 

Crazy Zaul

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Driving was actually good for the few months that I actually did it... yeh those 40 lessons (=£800!!+insurance, holy crap I never worked that out before but that's a lot) were a waste of money.

But drinking is way overrated. Binge drinking = needed a piss every 30 seconds. Yes, I can total see how that is fun, and when you add puking at the climax of the night then eating a takeaway that may give you badger AIDS, then feeling lethargic for the next 3 days unless you water purge before going to bed, I just can't resist spending like £60 a week on this brilliant activity.

Ironically the actual reason I stopped drinking was cos I got fed up of hauling the heavy boxes of it all the way down the street from Sainsbury's every week. (and also cos any soda tastes better and is cheaper)
 

axlryder

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Prom was very overrated both time I went. It was like any other school dance with a higher probability of sex afterwards. wooooo.

On a related note: sex. It's fine. It feels good. That's about it. Without a close relationship to go with it I find sex to be a fairly pointless exercise in thrusting.

Moderate drinking I actually found tends to make whatever activity you're engaging in a bit more fun, but I'd still say it's overhyped and there's little enjoyment to be had in getting shitfaced.
 

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SmegInThePants said:
getting a job. I was promised as a child that doing so would teach me the value of a dollar. But ya know what, after decades of working, it only taught me how much more value time has over $. I've learned how much *others* value a dollar, obsessively - almost equating to worship. But the more i work the less value a dollar has in my eye. Sorry ma, you were wrong! Or very right, but not in the way you thought you'd be. hehe
This. Oh so very much this. I think having a job is overhyped. Don't get me wrong, I've had jobs in the past that I've loved, got along great with the people I work with, had a blast, but money will never ever be as important as time. Why? Well, money can come and go, but time just goes. Now ay to get that back. And money ain't gonna help you when its all over and you cease to exist for the rest of eternity, is it?
 

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ElPatron said:
Really? Since I was 15-16 I noticed the trend of making it look uncomfortable and awkward. If you were caught by surprise, perhaps you should have watched more American Pie or those other comedies about highschool.
I was referring more specifically (if enigmatically) to the pain of almost having my 'banjo string' torn by an overenthusiastic girlfriend trying something out without fully being 'ready'.

That, I did not ever see in comedies when I was in secondary-school D=
 

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I'd definitely go with drinking....I dislike the taste and tend to like to be in control of myself, so drinking something I don't like until I lose my inhibitions is doubly unappealing.
 

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Drinking I still don't get what is so amazing about being drunk, it almost always ends up bad in some way.

Driving just had my first few lessons after that its just piss easy and not all that exciting as everyone claims it is.
 

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hulksmashley said:
College.

Let me tell you a secret. College is hard.

And engineering will suck out your soul through your nose if you're not careful.
What branch of engineering are you going into?
 

Shoggoth2588

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Sex. It's messy, it's easily forgettable, it can lead to many undesirable effects on the body...I also strongly dislike children so the paranoia that comes with anything sexual really isn't helpful. Foreplay can be fun but sex itself loses all of it's appeal a few seconds after the climax.

Notable mentions include High School, Prom, Driving, Drinking and, Gambling.

hulksmashley said:
College.

Let me tell you a secret. College is hard.

And engineering will suck out your soul through your nose if you're not careful.
I couldn't make it through my first semester at a CC. All of the same stresses of high school with the added stress of paying for the experience. There was also the stress of not knowing what to study that made the whole thing seem like a waste of time and money to me.
 

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Driving was one, so was turning 21 (I don't drink so all that happened is now I am dad's beer fetcher).
2 abnormal life experiences that were overhyped are rappelling and firing a machine gun. I did both of those during my stint in the army and both were kind of boring.
 

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JoesshittyOs said:
I don't know if this counts seeing how I skipped it, but I too will go with Senior Prom.

By that point, I was recently broken up with an girl that I eventually came to despise, I thought literally everyone at the school was either an idiot, a douche, or completely stuck up, and I was also tired of my friends.

I wasn't even really unpopular at my school. I just hated people.

Oh, and the whole having a girlfriend thing was kinda lame once I realized that you actually were suppose to work at the relationship, and super awesome romanticness wasn't really guaranteed.

Turning 18 was kinda dumb once I realized that I had no desire to take up smoking, rendering the date nearly useless.
Pretty much all of these are on my list. Especially that last one. My 18th birthday was basically "okay, you're 18 now, go buy a lotto ticket", then everything went right back to the way it was. Seemed incredibly silly.
 

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AngloDoom said:
I was referring more specifically (if enigmatically) to the pain of almost having my 'banjo string' torn by an overenthusiastic girlfriend trying something out without fully being 'ready'.

That, I did not ever see in comedies when I was in secondary-school D=
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Oh god. That's just... Wow. I flinched when I read this. You have my sympathies for that one. And no, they don't mention that at all in the comedies.

God damn am I glad to have avoided that.
 

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Drinking my friend and my ex's all found drinking to be awesome (btw I?m English and you need to be 18 to drink we where about 15-16) I just thought meh doesn?t taste that great ill stick to coke. then they are all like it?s not about the taste is about getting drunk so I go ok and get drunk. All that happened is that I could not remember what happened between said few hours and I woke up in bed next to some girl only up side was that she was pretty decent. I find it pointless now and if I?m going to get drunk for the hell of it ill at least drink something that tastes good which is why I now drink wine.
 

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Agayek said:
AngloDoom said:
I was referring more specifically (if enigmatically) to the pain of almost having my 'banjo string' torn by an overenthusiastic girlfriend trying something out without fully being 'ready'.

That, I did not ever see in comedies when I was in secondary-school D=
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Oh god. That's just... Wow. I flinched when I read this. You have my sympathies for that one. And no, they don't mention that at all in the comedies.

God damn am I glad to have avoided that.
...Yeah.

Problem is, another girl kind of did the same, except she just went for it without trying to, uh, 'ease it in' thinking it'd be exciting but kind of forgetting she wasn't fully ready.

There was blood. So much blood. All mine. No sex for a month.

Thankfully it didn't tear fully but...it's safe to safe it tore more than I'd have liked it to.
 

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People who say high school is the best part of their lives.

High school was fine, but by three months into college only about two of my top ten life experiences had happened in high school.

At 36, I'd be a LONG ways down the list before something in high school showed up.



Also, my wedding. My wife and I had been living together for over three years before we got married; it's been nine years since then. The wedding itself was a cool life experience because we took maybe a dozen people to Ireland and spent a week there, with the wedding in the middle. The wedding itself was a blip on the radar; the mass travel with friends and family was awesome. If we had not gotten married in the middle of it, it still would have been amazing. And my wife and I would still have the same kind of relationship.


Similarly, the birth of our kids was not particularly astounding except in that the births marked the beginning of all the amazing things the kids do. (or at least that they start getting interesting at about 6 months) About the least interesting thing my 4 year old daughter has done is be born. One of my favorites? She sleeps with a two foot long nerf sword so she can fight off any bad dreams that show up.
 

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SmegInThePants said:
getting a job. I was promised as a child that doing so would teach me the value of a dollar. But ya know what, after decades of working, it only taught me how much more value time has over $. I've learned how much *others* value a dollar, obsessively - almost equating to worship. But the more i work the less value a dollar has in my eye. Sorry ma, you were wrong! Or very right, but not in the way you thought you'd be. hehe
What are you on about, it taught you the value of the dollar. It just wasn't very much.

Personally? Sex.. Generic, vanilla, sex. Everyone is all "YOU'LL BECOME A MAN" and then, when I finally did.. It was meh. Tiring, hard work, and boring.

Captcha: Window dressing, now that, that sounds more exciting.