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Things People Are Glad They Tried Once But Would Never Do Again
In some cases, they might realize they've been missing out on something for years, and find their new favorite hobby, food, TV show, or travel destination.
Other times, they may realize that they were right, and some things just aren't for them.
Redditor wheregoodideasgotodi was curious to learn about all the things people could write off after giving it a go, leading them to ask:
"What are you glad you tried once, but will absolutely never do again?"
"Under The Sea"...
"Scuba diving.
"Not juicy, but the thing was I was in southeast Asia (Philippines, specifically) and I have a pacemaker."
"The opportunity came up and I wanted to try it, but had no way of contacting my cardiologist and getting a response in time to make sure that it was even an option for me."
"I tried to google it, but classic internet gave me a whole mixed bag of information."
"So, I decided to risk it and give it a go."
"It was magical! I saw corals and schools of fish."
"I even saw an octopus!"
"The guy took me pretty deep."
"Anyway, next time I had an appointment with my doctor I casually asked him if scuba diving was an option for me and he said technically yes, but my device can’t take very much pressure so they generally recommend snorkeling."
"He, knowing me well, asked me if I did it already and how far down I went."
"He was appalled when I told him."
"So, glad I took the risk because if I had gone through the proper channels I would’ve missed out on an amazing experience and now I know I will never get to do it again, so I am glad I did it."
" I was not expecting this comment to blow up like this."
"Thanks for the upvotes."- Opposite-Act-7413
Life On The Open Road...
"Travelling as a backpacker."
"Glad I experienced it, but f*ck that sh*t."
"I am not able to deal with having strangers in my space 24/7."
"Travel is fun when I have a private space to go back to at the end of a day but constantly sharing living and bedding space with people I don't know makes me anxious as f*ck."- guitareatsman
Not Everything Is Worth The Effort...
"Making filo."
"Glad I made it and it was good (made it into baklava), but would rather just buy premade dough."
"I usually buy puff pastry as well."
"Croissants are worth making from scratch."- MischaBurns
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It's Not How You Start, It's How You Finish
"Dropping out of college taught me a lot of things while I was away- primarily how I did not want to drop out of college."
"Finishing my degree in spring of 2027."- fruitytonic
So Much For Sailing The Seven Seas...
"Joining the Navy."- Dammage518
"My husband said NAVY—Never Again Volunteer Yourself."- linsonlog
Home Is Where The Heart Is
"Live in Korea."
"I 'tried it' as a student who was studying abroad."
"If I tried it again, it would be as an adult in the workforce and f*ck that."- labe225
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Especially After Seeing 127 Hours...
"Caving."
"Not the walking into a space type, but the crawling from one side to the other and having to return through the exact same narrow, crawling space."
"Descending and crawling into trauma should be illegal."- fromvanisle
Um...
"Welding with a pencil, I lit myself on fire, and for the work that goes into it, it's not worth it."- Dramatic_Rhubarb_387
"Oh How I Want To Be In That Number"... Or Not...
"Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It was a blast to do it once in my early 20s, but I have zero desire to do it again."
"It’s like a crowded sidewalk frat party, and this mix of smells made it one and done for me."- wdkrebs
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GERONIMO!
"Sky diving."- FlatwormFlat8443
"Certified skydiver here…it’s a lot of fun but IMHO a money pit that doesn’t reward you as many other hobbies can."
"You get tempted to do either more dangerous things or more elaborate ones (group jumps), and there’s just no particular payday like getting more fit or skilled to where it can matter or apply outside of that."
"And it takes loads of jumps to get there, so you’re tens of thousands of dollars in the hole, and you also have to live in the right areas or travel to do the coolest stuff."
"Really limiting."- OlasNah
So Much Better On TV...
"Watch the NYE countdown in the middle of Times Square."
"Thirteen hours of standing still in the cold, not able to leave our area."
"Listening to the performers practice bits and pieces of their sets for TV."
"Being surrounded by screaming & yelling people all around you for hours and hours."
"Not being able to walk because of standing still for so long."
"It was a great experience, but I don't want or need to do it again."
"Now, watching the NYE countdown on TV every year makes it more meaningful since I was there."- Calm_Palms_41
Some People Truly Have One True Love...
"Marrying."
"My one and only marriage ended with his passing in 2023."
"We were 39 happy years together."- nofaves
They're So Cute When They're Little
"Held a baby lion at a roadside place."
"I was younger and didn’t think beyond BEBE LION, but in retrospect, it was clearly not helpful to fund that sort of thing."
"Post-tiger-king clarity."- coloredchalk
Some People Prefer To Wait In The Lodge...
"Mountain Biking."
"Exhilaratingly fun, but I almost fell down a mountain and died. I'll never forget it, for good and bad reasons but I'll never do it again either."
"Now put snow on that mountain and give me a board and we're chillin!"- Twinblades713
One Of The Lucky Ones
"Homelessness."
"Taught me how to survive, be grateful, be focused, and be cautious with my life."
"Gave me my will to live back."
"I never want to do it again, ever."- Sufficient_Break_532
Be it eating broccoli or jumping out of a plane, you can never be sure whether or not you like or loathe something until you've tried it at least once.
Though let's be honest, who on earth would say no to the chance to hold a lion cub!
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Abby Lee Miller Just Posted A Bizarrely-Edited Selfie With Neil Patrick Harris—And His Reaction Is All Of Us
And yes, Neil saw it. And yes, Neil (and the internet) had questions.
It all started last Tuesday, when the 60-year-old reality TV coach attended the first Broadway revival of Yasmina Reza’s Art, starring Harris, Bobby Cannavale, and James Corden. After the show at the Music Box Theatre, Miller shared a carousel of photos praising the performance.
She captioned the post:
“If you truly want to LAUGH OUT LOUD!!! Then go see @artonbway With these incredible comedic actors @nph @j_corden and @bobby_cannavale On tv they are superstars, live on stage - their timing is impeccable, and in person afterward - such gracious kind gentlemen! Thank you for an incredible evening if NY Theater!”
And for those who don’t know, Art is a play about three longtime friends whose relationship implodes over the purchase of a plain white canvas. It asks big questions about perception, vanity, and how far people will go to defend their taste. Truly, nothing captures “perception is subjective” quite like Abby Lee Miller’s Facetuned post.
In her post from two days ago, you can view the photo reel:
And then came the Neil Patrick Harris one.
Dear Reader, this is… whatever happens when Facetune gets too much power:
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The image shows Miller beaming beside the How I Met Your Mother star, except Harris appears to have been run through a filter so intense it could blur a diamond. His face is smoothed to a level technology was never built to withstand. I mean, he truly looks like Neil Patrick Harris playing a Sims version of himself.
And even Harris couldn’t resist chiming in. Spotting his own mysteriously moisturized, blurred-to-oblivion face, he jumped into the comments to essentially ask what, exactly, had happened to him.
He took to the comments section with a “What in the Facetune hell is this” reaction:
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It’s the kind of question one only asks after a smoothing filter has aged you backward to your Doogie Howser days.
The following day, Miller replied with an explanation:
“Burkitt Lymophona, 10 rounds of invasive chemo & a big birthday — so I’m sticking with the filters! You sir - always look fabulous no matter what!!!”
It was an unexpectedly candid moment amid the chaos. Miller was diagnosed with Burkitt lymphoma in 2018 and underwent a grueling round of treatment, and has remained cancer-free since 2019. Given that history, it makes sense she might lean on a filter. Still, the internet collectively agreed that maybe the filter didn’t need to vaporize Neil Patrick Harris’s pores entirely.
And in case anyone forgot, this is very much Abby’s thing.
Here is another recent example of her love for facial blurring:
Miller has long embraced filters as part of her personal style, but even fans admitted this one ventured into new territory.
Miller remains one of reality TV’s most polarizing figures, known for her intense coaching style, public feuds, and a personality big enough to power three seasons of Dance Moms on sheer volume alone.
Her night out also arrives during a complicated chapter in her public life. Though best known for Dance Moms, she has spent years navigating controversy, including accusations of racist behavior by former student Nia Sioux.
Miller issued statements at the time, but the allegations remain tied to her legacy. Between that, her 2017 prison sentence for bankruptcy fraud, and her recent health battles, Miller’s relationship with the public is, much like her Instagram filters, blurred.
Within minutes, the photo was making the rounds because no one could quite figure out why Neil Patrick Harris suddenly looked like a Botoxed Victorian child.
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In a way, Abby’s post accidentally became the fourth act of Art, proving that nothing tests a friendship quite like a creatively altered face.
While Harris may be joking about his accidental Facetune makeover, he is preparing for a busy professional season. The actor has recently returned to Broadway for Art and is actively developing several stage and screen projects, including a new adaptation of The Magic Misfits. In short, Harris is busy, blessed, and hopefully now aware of Abby Lee Miller’s filter presets.
As for Art, critics and audiences have praised the chemistry between the show’s three stars. Harris, Cannavale, and Corden deliver with Reza’s rapid-fire humor, earning early reviews for “sharp timing” and “beautiful chaos.” But no matter how the revival fares this season, it is now permanently linked to something far more memorable: Abby Lee Miller’s Instagram feed.
In the end, Harris seemed to take the whole thing with good humor, fans were delighted by the surrealism of it all, and Abby… well, Abby kept the filter.
Photo Of Drunk Raccoon That Broke Into Liquor Store And Passed Out In Bathroom Goes Viral
Oh, and by the way? That perpetrator was a raccoon.
The Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter shared the news on Facebook after one of their team members, Officer Martin, responded to the break-in and secured the furry little culprit.
A spokesperson for the animal care facility wrote:
"Black Friday Break-In at Ashland ABC Store"
"Suspect Apprehended After Liquor-Fueled Rampage"
"On Saturday morning, Officer Martin responded to an unusual call at the Ashland ABC Store. Upon arrival, she discovered the 'suspect' had broken in, ransacked several shelves, and then… passed out in the bathroom."
"The suspect? A very intoxicated raccoon."
"Officer Martin safely secured our masked bandit and transported him back to the shelter to sober up before questioning."
"After a few hours of sleep and zero signs of injury (other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices), he was safely released back to the wild, hopefully having learned that breaking and entering is not the answer."
"A big shout-out to Officer Martin for handling this chaotic scene with professionalism and good humor. Just another day in the life at Hanover Animal Protection!"
Included with the post were two photographs: one of the damage the raccoon had caused in the back aisle of the Ashland ABC Store, and the other of the raccoon sleeping it off next to a toilet.
You can see the post here:
Fellow Facebook users were tickled by the idea of a "trashed panda."
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While the internet found the entire situation to be funny, they could not get over the overzealous raccoon.
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When the news made its way over to Twitter (X), users really saw themselves in the little raccoon.
You can see more about the masked bandit here:
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It seems that this little raccoon didn't bite off more than he could chew so much as he broke more bottles than he could drink.
Fortunately, he was okay after the incident and simply needed a little rest before he could get back on his feet and be released back into the wild.
Little does he know, the entire internet now has photographic evidence of his escapade through the liquor shelves. At least he'll remain humble no matter how many memes we make about him.
Mark Kelly Rips Pete Hegseth's Hypocrisy After Video Of Hegseth Saying U.S. Troops Can't Obey 'Unlawful Orders' Resurfaces
The superior orders defense posits that a person—civilian, military or police—should not be considered guilty of committing crimes if they were ordered to commit the action by a superior officer or higher ranking civilian official.
During a Tuesday interview on CNN's OutFront with Erin Burnett, Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly remarked on a 2016 video of MAGA Republican President Donald Trump's Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, defending the requirement of military members to refuse illegal orders from a President.
When Senator Kelly and other Democratic members of Congress stated the same fact about unlawful orders in a video addressing active military members, Hegseth called it a "seditious act."
The newly resurfaced Hegseth video led the Arizona Democrat—a retired NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy Captain, combat aviator, and Gulf War veteran—to ask on X and on CNN what had changed for former Fox News weekend host and Princeton ROTC graduate Hegseth.
On X, Senator Kelly shared the 2016 Hegseth video, captioned:
"Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high."
Other Democrats targeted by the White House and Hegseth for sharing the truth, also shared the Hegseth video on X.
On CNN, Senator Kelly expressed much the same sentiment.
What he and other members of Congress, whom the Trump administration dubbed the "Seditious Six" to distract from the truth, said in their video was correct, both in 2016 when Hegseth said it and in 2025 when they did.
Servicemembers have not only a right, but also a responsibility to reject any unlawful order from any member of their chain of command, up to and including the Commander in Chief.
In 2016 while President Barack Obama was still in office, Hegseth told a conservative forum:
"I do think there have to be consequences for abject war crimes. If you’re doing something that is just completely unlawful and ruthless, then there is a consequence for that.
"That’s why the military said it won’t follow unlawful orders from their Commander in Chief."
"There’s a standard, there’s an ethos, there’s a belief that we are above what so many things that our enemies or others would do."
Hegseth is currently facing allegations of war crimes himself over attacks on Venezuelan fishing boats in international waters, especially for ordering the killing of two survivors of an initial attack that destroyed their boat.
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The Trump administration has claimed, without providing any proof, that all the boats they attacked were piloted and crewed by violent gang members for the purpose of drug trafficking.
The U.S. military attacks have ensured no survivors remain to refute the White House's unsubstantiated claims. Such actions have raised war crimes allegations against Trump, Hegseth, and others by foreign governments, human rights organizations, and members of the United States Congress.
You can watch the CNN segment here:
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Burnett also shared a shorter clip of her interview with Senator Kelly on her Instagram account.
After watching the 2016 video of Hegseth, Senator Kelly told CNN's Burnett:
"It’s exactly what we said. But when we said it, Pete Hegseth … says what we said was false and reckless. And I think it begs the question, ‘What has changed?’"
"And it’s pretty obvious what has changed is we have an unqualified Secretary of Defense who only cares about sucking up to this President."
Senator Kelly later added, referring to Hegseth:
"This guy is not a leader. He is, by far, the least qualified Secretary of Defense we've ever had."
"He runs around the stage talking about lethality and warrior ethos and hunting and killing people. That is not the words of a responsible Secretary of Defense."
Others agreed with Kelly's summation of the situation with Hegseth.
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During the military tribunals held by the four primary Allies of World War II, Nazi war criminals, including Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, were not excused for their war time crimes despite claiming to have been "just following orders."
The Allies' 1945 London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, which represented the first time victors in war came to an agreement on the "principle of individual responsibility for the crime of attacking the international peace," determined the superior orders defense was no longer enough to escape punishment, but merely a possible reason to lessen it.
During the 1971 court martial of United States Army Lieutenant William Calley, the superior orders defense came to be called the “Nuremberg defense” when Calley's lawyers argued the Lieutenant was only following orders when he led his platoon during the March 1968 slaughter of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in what became known as the My Lai Massacre.
Calley was convicted of murdering at least 70 unarmed male and female Vietnamese civilians of various ages—one of the victims murdered by Calley was two years old—with some estimates of the total death toll at the My Lai 4 cluster of hamlets in Quang Ngai Province at more than 500 men, women, and children.
Gary Solis, Marine company commander in Vietnam turned judge advocate general serving as a military prosecutor, defense lawyer and judge, told Military Times:
“I believe that is the key result of Nuremberg—obedience to orders is no longer a defense to war crimes. That was not new Nuremberg law that was being created in the courtroom, but rather new enforcement."
"That’s the basis on which [the Nazis] were convicted. That was new enforcement—the unspoken awareness on the part of civilized nations [of the duty to hold war criminals to account]."
November 20 marked the 80th anniversary of the start of the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremberg’s Palace of Justice.
United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson—serving as chief prosecutor in the trial of Reichsmarschall Göring—said in his opening statement:
"The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility."
"The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated."
The outcome of the Nuremberg trials changed the United States Uniform Code of Military Justice for the better by not only allowing, but also demanding, that servicemembers uphold the U.S. Constitution and the laws of the nation they serve regardless of who orders them to do otherwise.
This fact is something Senator Kelly knows and something Hegseth, as Secretary of Defense, should know.