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and release it.
I read it from someone else's bucket list and thieved it. However, I can't decide if I should write a motivational and inspiring message to make someone smile, or just "you're a douche".
Suggestions please b3tans.
Tell me something you want to do before you die. Or tell me how much a helium balloon pollutes the earth when it lands.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:53, 318 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
I'm trapped on an island with nothing but helium, rubber, and some pens. Please come and rescue me, and notify all authorities. Co-ordinates are 78°54′N 18°01′E.
PS I'm cold, bring me a jacket.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:55, Reply)
write the lemonparty url on the balloon
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:59, Reply)
And my link works fine.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:48, Reply)
When I go away I often leave books in hotel rooms with a little note to whoever finds it and my email address. Have done this about ten times and had a grand total of one response. I have come to the conclusion the rest of the world are bastards.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:59, Reply)
My Dad is so mean to me, and it hurts when we play leapfrog. My mum said that I cannot leave the basement until the reward money goes up, but I don't know what that means. I wish we hadn't gone to Portugal."
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:00, Reply)
The freefall is exhilarating, and the parachute descent is serene and magical.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:03, Reply)
it's not like I was actually going to listen to a GIRL anyway
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:04, Reply)
it was the freefalling bit.
I really don't know why I hated it, I'm not frightened of anything and I love excitement and stuff, but I just hated it. Even before I did it, all morning I was just feeling numb. And pale, exceptionally pale.
I wrote a blog post about it, (in a blog I haven't touched since I started trying to make these sodding cranes) here: thebouquetlist.blogspot.com/
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:12, Reply)
It was just terrifying, a human's most basic instinct is to survive and in those few moments of plummeting to the earth I was going being forced fully against that instinct. It didn't fill me with adrenaline, it filled me with ice cold cement in my stomach.
Plus my tandem instructor's breath smelled.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:05, Reply)
I'd be much happier doing iot on my own, but I'd be more worried about what my trousers were filling with than my stomach
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:07, Reply)
for the first time. I'm going on mine as a solo for the first :)
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:08, Reply)
or Swindon. And in October. I booked to do it last year, but the weather wasn't good enough and I didn't bother to rearrange.
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(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:21, Reply)
I reckon if you're going to jump might as well do it properly
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:13, Reply)
The amount of times I lie across his doorstep begging him to jizz on my belly and he just won't.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:21, Reply)
but I'm a lazy cunt so it's unlikely I'll get round to any of them. Though I am 100% determined to do some proper parachuting
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:00, Reply)
and so far I've done two things on it. And they were things that I had already done before I made the official list.
One of them was to make a 1000 origami cranes and I've just made number 8 a minute ago.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:02, Reply)
I'm not a fan of any of that swimming with dolphins etc stuff. So my list will be comprised of grumpiness and slightly bizarre things
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:03, Reply)
Well, obviously. I can put it in full here or I could mention some choice ones?
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:06, Reply)
put on the ones you really want to do, and I'll try and think up a few
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:08, Reply)
Learn to swingdance - Applebite and I are going to do this when she comes back to Manchester. We haven't decided who is going to be the butch one yet.
Learn to sail
Rollerblade
Buy a one way plane ticket
Eat sushi in Japan
Go to a drive in movie theatre
See some extreme weather in person
Surf in Hawaii
See a geyser blow
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:19, Reply)
there aren't even that many left in the US I don't think. Aus apparently has one left.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:24, Reply)
I've got a full 100 but Wiggy has only made it to 23. One of them is 'build something from wood that's not shit' - bless.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:29, Reply)
he hasn't even made a spice rack.
I think the weather is the main reason we can't have nice things.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:39, Reply)
You must have spent fucking ages on that list haha.
I've so far got:
Visit Pompeii
Not get stabbed on a New York subway while in New York
Parachute jump
Finish novel
participate in a proper rowing event (and all attendent fitness implications etc)
eat at The Fat Duck (I'm always too broke)
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:41, Reply)
unless Wiggy builds you one
edit - what Amberl said, nice list.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:25, Reply)
I have never come across a style like it before. I am just over half way and will finish it tonight. I understand what they say about the poetry and prose things now.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:31, Reply)
I need to finish it first.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:51, Reply)
I've done rollerblading, and seen a geyser blow, but the rest of the list is lovely.
My list would include:
Go surfing
Visit Japan
Drive across America
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:33, Reply)
we clearly have to have a surf bash if it's going to fulfill one of your life ambitions.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:43, Reply)
here's 80 - 90
80. Tie a note to a balloon and let it go
81. Ice skate at Central Park at Christmas
82. Buy a lottery ticket
83. See a shooting star
84. Do the Trans-Siberian Express journey
85. Drink rum in the Caribbean
86. Get drunk on real absinthe
87. See a burlesque show
88. Learn to fight
89. See the Monaco Grand Prix
90. Go to a monster truck rally
91. Do the 365 photo challenge
I tried to put specific ones involving countries to save space like eating sushi in Japan, I've never eaten sushi so I put the two together.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:44, Reply)
I was supposed to go this summer, but didn't have the money
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:45, Reply)
I reckon it'd be fun, but you'd have to take a lot of booze along
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:55, Reply)
84 my mates have done, they were bored rigid.
87... I've kinda done, it was more a couple of burlesque performances at a tattoo convention.
88 is vague, but I've done a bit of martial arts so that's that one checked.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:46, Reply)
so it would be sensible to know how to defend myself.
I meant to buy a lottery ticket when I turned 16, but truth be told, I don't know how to do it. I know that sounds silly, but I hate not knowing what I'm doing, so I didn't want to hold up a queue of people by asking the cashier. I put it on the list because otherwise I'll just never get round to it. Not everything on my list is "travel to the other side of the world" kind of stuff, I wanted to put manageable things on there too.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:57, Reply)
It's well over its 100 replies limit so hopefully it won't get in people's way. They're just fighting about drugs down there anyway.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:02, Reply)
"please may I have a lucky dip for wednesday/euro millions/saturdays lottery draw please"
you'll be good as gold love.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:59, Reply)
that's the important bit, it's the 6 numbers one I want to do.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:25, Reply)
are doing a show at the Lowry in October, I believe.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:54, Reply)
Cheers!
I'll have this done by Christmas with you lot helping
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:25, Reply)
I was about 16 so 12 years ago. I was thinking it would be wanky but it wasn't. It is honestly the last time I can remember christmas feeling christmasy.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:58, Reply)
but I want to get proper qualifications so I can rent a yacht for a week in the med. I live near some quays so I'll be going there when I get back from Tenerife, it's only £80 for the first level.
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To get a certain job, and to hug an orangutan.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:08, Reply)
your chances of achieving goal two would be greatly increased.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:10, Reply)
I just want to spend 6/12 months in Japan. Have always been fascinated by the place and really want to try and immerse myself in it at least once.
And own a bear.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:09, Reply)
that kid had the best life ever!
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:12, Reply)
"What an unusually specific desire," I thought.
I'm now noticing that the word "unusual" has a lot of "u"s in it.
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but I missed and it hit the wall. He left and I had to clean it up.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:13, Reply)
he'd been sleeping with other women in my bed. I was screaming at him at the time and he was all "I'm leaving!" and I was all "You don't get to decide, I'm throwing you out!" and then I threw the glass.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:22, Reply)
Stop going with pricks,
Lots of Love
The not-prick part of mankind.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:23, Reply)
I'm with a non-prick now and he's all the more non-prickish by comparison. You have to wade through a lot of shit to find the gold. Or something.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:30, Reply)
when Wiggy told him later that he fancied me, the 'friend' advised him against it. Tosser.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:45, Reply)
I hate him. I'm phasing him out of my life. So far so good, it's been a month since I've seen his smug little iWanker face.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:58, Reply)
I donno, get a mate to hook you up !
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:13, Reply)
Get yourself down to some sort of recreation/education centre and do something there you're interested in, photography, cooking, whatever. You'll find like-minded people, and maybe someone cute with a massive schlong.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:31, Reply)
Unfortunately it didnt miss, hence the scars on my elbow (and ex-ness)
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:33, Reply)
I want to patch things up with a few people, and thank a few people for their help in anything.
I also want to swim in the Serpentine. I will do this soon.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:12, Reply)
You may retain your lip piercing.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:40, Reply)
Why am I the only one who's getting told off for their opinion on piercings, you fuckers?!
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:42, Reply)
Lab's labret is terrible, it's true. Mostly because it's on Lab's face. But unless you admit that mine is the finest piercing on the planet, it will be cause for BLOOD FEUD.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:27, Reply)
but I'm not really examined Kitty's, and I've not even met Lab.
Ladies and gentlemen, the jury is out.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:32, Reply)
But I don't have the money, probably never will.
Unless I just pack some snacks and a tent.
What are the chances I'll survive? Slim to none.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:13, Reply)
Or throw a hand grenade at a tethered dog, whilst pissed on strong cider.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:13, Reply)
It fucks up people's lives, the vast majority of people who do drugs reguarly are fuck ups at that point in their lives in some way or another.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:19, Reply)
I reckon about 95% of people I know have dabbled in drugs at some point or other, can't say I know any of them have gone into rehab, or have had their lives affected in any way whatsoever.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:25, Reply)
Ovbously the extreams like smack and crack are bad news, you can kiss you life good bye at that point, I presume we're on agreement on that one.
Let's take weed as an example, because that's a 'safe drug' and all that, are you telling me you don't know anyone who has fucked up big style in, say, uni or job, on the stuff? I belive in the majority of cases of young people with dementia and related mental illnesses, it's down to drugs.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:33, Reply)
Ask anyone who's been to a loony bin; weather working, as a patient, or as a medical proffesional.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:38, Reply)
Wiggy can smoke a few joints and still function normally, whereas a loser friend of ours has one joint and then doesn't move for the rest of the evening and he's the one losing his friends. It's not just drugs related though.
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I like to take shrooms at least once a year. The invaluable personal insights and general 'great fucking fun of it all' is something I have NO desire to withdraw from my curriculum.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:23, Reply)
But anyway, if you wanna risk a 'Bad Trip' scaring you for life, poisoning, and potential death....you go right ahead, I'm sure sitting around watching Jermy Kyle or in a field while your mate plays the guitar, or whatever, has lead you to amazing insights into the human mind that will change everything in a possative way for the rest of your life.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:29, Reply)
Who has had a bad trip that has had resulted in them being scarred for life? The worst I've had was that I talked to a ghost called Ed and even then I had a class time. Sure people can take it to excess which is daft, but then what's the difference between that and drinking alcohol to excess?
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:33, Reply)
"LSD is physiologically well tolerated and there is no evidence for long-lasting effects on the brain or other parts of the human organism."
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:35, Reply)
(as you might imagine) but I can name three people whose LSD use has either exacerbated a pre-existing condition (that no-one knew about) or has genuinely driven them mad, so that they have been zombies unable to function in ‘normal’ society since the late 80s.
The lightweights
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:39, Reply)
Of course, that was from wiki.
I only know a few people who've had encounters with LSD, and I can honestly say that mephedrone has done more damage to them
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:45, Reply)
and can honestly say I feel it’s been beneficial to me. I think it’s made me more thoughtful and less selfish, and just in terms of sheer entertainment makes shit like skydiving or whatever ‘extreme’ activity you can name laughably tame. No matter what you’ve done in your life, having a large hit of DMT will far and away be the most intense thing you’ve ever experienced: it’s akin to a religious vision. Fucking NUTS.
Cocaine however, is fucking evil, and to a certain extent HAS ruined my life.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:17, Reply)
Save you plenty of money i would imagine.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:27, Reply)
Fuck, i was was watching a program called Taboo last night, looked like a teacher training program, and they were talking about Ayahuasca and how the Mexicans who take it treat it as a Holy Sacrament as opposed to a drug and they had a WATER COOLER full of the brew. Then they showed a woman giving some to a babe-in-arms, seriously, no more than a year old and they are dosing it up with DMT. It made my tired eyes bug out my head.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:47, Reply)
the right person to comment. But I can't reckon LSD could be anything special. In fact I reckon it'd be terrifying. At least with parachute jumping you've actually done something
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:28, Reply)
DMT rather than LSD is too intense to be terrifying. It's like being shot into outer space. Don't forget that for a time LSD was viewed by some serious and sensible people to be a key to understanding the workings of the mind; it's not merely recreational fun like, say ecstacy...although it can be fucking hilarious....
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:37, Reply)
Loads of people have had bad trips and be scared for life, or because of the drugs, done something like beat up a family member or stranger.
If you had a kid, or a little sister just turning 16, would you be happy if she told you she was taking 'shrooms/MDMA/whatever ?
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:36, Reply)
But as someone with first hand knowledge and experience of it I'd know she's not going to die or do anything daft. I'd rather she took a couple pills than get utterly trolleyed on booze.
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news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7876425.stm
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If it's safe, why don't they downgrade it to 'c' ?
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:08, Reply)
But then again neither is alcohol, tobacco, horse riding, race car driving, car driving, or any kind of thing.
But Class C is still illegal.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:11, Reply)
If it's only a little bit 'potentially' bad for you, why not bung it in C?
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I'm 29, I've been drinking regularly since I was about 15 and yet last saturday I got absolutely shit faced in a town I didn't know and ate a packet of mini snack eggs. Would you trust a sixteen year old high on pills not to eat a packet of mini snack eggs if they were sitting in front of them? Tosser
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:46, Reply)
They wouldn't be able to eat (mini eggs or otherwise) if they were offered a million quid to do so.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:49, Reply)
Why would you take something that makes you unable to eat? Eating has got to be one of the best things along with shitting and having sex.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:52, Reply)
and apart from opium and pot, they all make eating an alien concept for the duration.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:56, Reply)
I suppose that doesn't make a lot of sense, it's like fucking, you wouldn't fuck someone in front of your kid eaither.... but you see the point there.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:02, Reply)
And I believe if you can live a happy life without drugs then you should. I certainly wouldn’t sing their praises to her – however if in later life I discover she’s taking them I shall be glad to be able to give her the real truth, rather than the frankly ludicrous and utterly untrue government/media hype.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:11, Reply)
I like to think, for the most part, the medical proffesionals have my best interests at heart.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:15, Reply)
Medical advice and the government/legal position are at complete odds with each other.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:18, Reply)
And I know that, for example, weed was banished in the 'states (and therefore, the 'western world'), because the product of weed, such as Hemp, was at odds with the cotton industry. And as someone who suffers with pain reguarly, I've had mates say things like "Try some weed", and I have done and didn't like it (personally), but I could see what others liked in it; it just wasn't for me. But whenever I speak to any of the verious medical pro's I speak too, they all ask "Do you do drugs? including weed", and all of them say something like "Phew, stay away, bad shit".
Out of all my mates who went uni, and did weed reguarly, which was without counting about 7, all of them were at least pushed back a year, and 1/2 of them dropped out. It's more than safe to say, this was down the weed. Sure, you get high-profile people who smoke it and do well, I'm sure there is a smackhead out there managing his own property portfolios or something like that, too. But I know more people, by a long shot, who have fucked up because of it; than done well on it.... that's personal experiance.
With my dealings with the mental health industry, weather personal to me, or my friends/family, they're all saying that with the uprise in popularity of weed, the figures going through the doors are increasing expodentially.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:30, Reply)
What WAS I thinking. I blame the jaegermeister. And the stupid cunt of a DJ. I also ate a number of mini flapjacks and caramel shortbread.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:59, Reply)
You walk in, and think it's a good idea to stab the shop keeper and rape his corpse and steal his mini eggs. This isn't normal for you, normally you're an upstanding citizen. Under normal circamstances, you would think "I know, I'm not going to rape and murder this shop keeper, I'm going to purchase these mini eggs with my fiscal rewards". So there you are, willy in the stab-hole you made in the shop keeper's chest, and you get arrested. How many prisoners end up with mini snack eggs? Exactly, I've never been to prison, but I doubt you get many.
.... or something like that, I started typing not knowing where I'd end up.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:55, Reply)
Your sage advice is very humbling, but just to put your deranged mind at rest, I have been risking my mental health for over 20 years on such reckless pursuits. I have never seen an episode of Jeremy Kyle and if a friend of mine offered to take a guitar along, it would end up on the fire, with him still playing it.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:37, Reply)
a sky lantern landed in my garden while I was out watching the meteor shower. I didn't think to check it for inspirational messages or insults.
I'd like to see the northern lights at least once, which shouldn't be that difficult to arrange (aiming for achievable goals here), I'll probably go up next year.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:23, Reply)
1. Pail
2. Bucket
3. er... container with a handle on it
3. Bucket again.
4.?
5. Profit
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:24, Reply)
to take my daughter on holiday without her mum there.
I'd also like to see Angkor Wat, the Central American ancient sites and do a dawn balloon ride over the Valley of the Kings - ideally I could combine these things with the above.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:33, Reply)
although you had to keep telling little cambodian kids to bugger off as you don't need a "tour guide" i.e. someone who talks at you for five minutes then demands money.
But, I saw someone's photos on facebook recently and they had just been and they had put up a little fence and a walkway in front of one of my favourite bits. A FUCKING FENCE AND A WALKWAY MONTY! What the fuck is that all about eh?
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:40, Reply)
And balloon ride is on my list too, lets go.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:53, Reply)
1. Learn to swing dance
2. Drive a ferrari
3. Go scuba diving
4. Learn to sail
5. Learn a foreign language
6. Learn to play a musical instrument
7. Go travelling
8. Go to the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
9. See Venice before it sinks
10. Sky dive
11. Go skinny dipping
12. Have sex outside
13. Learn to rollerblade
14. Buy a one way plane ticket
15. Send a message in a bottle
16. Plant a tree
17. Eat sushi in Japan
18. Go to an bar made completely of ice in Iceland
19. Write a novel
20. Stand under a waterfall
21. Go to Niagra Falls
22. Visit the Grand Canyon
23. Spend New Year in an exotic location
24. Drive across America
25. Sleep under the stars
26. Put something ridiculous in my will
27. Drive the Autobahn
28. Build my own house
29. Emigrate
30. Go in a hot air balloon
31. Give to a charity anonymously
32. Gamble in Vegas
33. Eat something really unusual
34. Snowboard a double black diamond
35. Run a marathon
36. Go to the races at Royal Ascot and try and blag into the VIP area
37. Bet on a dog race.
38. Run with the bulls in Pamploma
39. Sunbathe at a nudist beach
40. Go on a jet ski
41. Make a romantic candlelit dinner
42. Fly a plane
43. Try magic
44. Read the bible
45. Perform a handbrake turn successfully.
46. Dance in the rain
47. Learn to do a backflip
48. Take a photograph and have it made into a canvas
49. Own my own island
50. Go to Buckinham Palace
51. Buy something from Harrods
52. Own a pair of Christian Louboutin shoes
53. Meet a celebrity
54. Go and view a £1m house and pretend to be able to afford it.
55. Plan a really awesome funeral
56. Surf in Hawaii
57. Save a life
58. Get a degree
59. See the Northern Lights
60. Ride in a helicopter
61. Fire a real gun
62. See some extreme weather in person.
63. Visit every ancient wonder of the world
64. Swim in a bioluminscent lagoon
65. Go to a drive in movie theatre
66. Give blood
67. Write a nice letter to someone for no reason
68. Climb a tree
69. Learn the lyrics to Yakko’s Nations of the World song
70. Hitchhike
71. Watch a sunset and a sunrise
72. Attend Mardi Gras
73. Go to a monster truck rally
74. Go and see a play on Broadway
75. Go to a protest
76. Build a treehouse
77. Go swimming in a public fountain with my clothes on
78. Kiss in the rain
79. Write an inspirational note and hide it in a library book.
80. Tie a note to a balloon and let it go
81. Ice skate at Central Park at Christmas
82. Buy a lottery ticket
83. See a shooting star
84. Do the Trans-Siberian Express journey
85. Drink rum in the Caribbean
86. Get drunk on real absinthe
87. See a burlesque show
88. Learn to fight
89. See the Monaco Grand Prix
90. See a film at an outdoor cinema
91. Do the 365 photo challenge
92. Learn sign language
93. See a geyser blow
94. Drink from a coconut straight from the tree
95. Sleep in a hammock on the beach
96. Go to the Full Moon Party in Koh Pan Jang
97. Pay it forward
98. Fold 1,000 origami cranes and give them away
99. Fly first class.
100. Become a millionaire
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:04, Reply)
but never snowboarded. It looks way more fun.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:09, Reply)
It is a little slower but I find it to be more fun and more comfortable. I have done 14 weeks skiing and about 20 weeks snowboarding now. Plus you can spend a morning on a snowboard and become semi competent but it takes a few days with skis. If you have ever skate boarded, surfed you should pick it up almost instantly.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:11, Reply)
I've kneeled on Wiggy's and used my hands to wheel myself around the living room, that's the extent of my prowess. He tried to show me how to skateboard in the carpark. I fell off.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:13, Reply)
And number4 is snowboarding.
Edit: And I've done 22 of yours.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:12, Reply)
And 1/125th of the crane thing.
EDIT: Also, which ones?
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:20, Reply)
Learn another language = I can speak vaguely conversational French.
Gamble in Vegas = play the slots in the airport and win $20.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:23, Reply)
I want to learn a language fluently and use it. I can't decide which one though. Mebbe Spanish.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:31, Reply)
I have far too much apathy to learn a new language.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:34, Reply)
but otherwise, it's a good list. I've managed 18 of them :)
EDIT - and in case you didn't see my reply up there, the Ministry of Burlesque are doing a show at the Lowry in October, I believe.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:13, Reply)
I've seen the pyramids though :D
Is there not an ice bar in Iceland anymore?
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:14, Reply)
but there are several in Sweden, Norway and Finland. (I think)
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:56, Reply)
I really want to do that one so I was concerned for a minute. It's only because I saw it on XXX. How embarrassing, my life goals are influenced by Vin Diesel.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 16:01, Reply)
I have no idea where the list is, which is a good thing, I shake my head at my naieve 19 year old self.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:13, Reply)
but the clubs are still hopping
I suppose it'd be different if I actually had a career but I don't
so
no beach for me
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:18, Reply)
no longer has a pier Kitty - just a stone jetty - all my childhhod memories destroyed .......
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:31, Reply)
just a bit of the old Polo tower and that godawful Frontier bar. I understand the log flume has finally gone......I am hoping to get up and visist my Gran in the next couple of weeks so will let you know!
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 17:05, Reply)
that are out of your control? Like be there to watch Arsenal life the premier league?
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:09, Reply)
I'm up to 8 and it's already become a list of cool unlikely things to happen. EG #6 - befriend a wild animal
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:14, Reply)
I'm trawling yours now looking for inspiration. I'm stuck on 22.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:25, Reply)
My friend said that was cheating, but otherwise I would have put really lukewarm things on it because I didn't think of something at the time.
I encourage you all to make lists and then post them as a blog. I was considering making a website devoted to people's lists, but I don't really know how to go about it.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:33, Reply)
and I've forgotten the bloody name!!
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:38, Reply)
there was one where people suggest things for one guy to do, but that was it.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:45, Reply)
so I will gaz you later. Up to 33 now.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:46, Reply)
it's a bit confusing. I was thinking more of having people create an account and create their list in a blog format, writing posts about the ones they've completed, with pictures, etc., as well as having sections for help with completing goals, like if people listed the Transiberia Expressway one, have links to travel companies that can arrange it, that sort of thing.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:59, Reply)
with "learn how to create a website devoted to other people's lists"?
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:40, Reply)
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:46, Reply)
It's all coming together nicely.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:52, Reply)
I have a list of thirty things to do before I'm thirty.
Put on the balloon "I can see you"
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:34, Reply)
Almost all of them are fairly easily achievable.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:39, Reply)
"Fire a flaming sheep out of a catapult"
That might be hard.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:49, Reply)
I've missed out on this whole conversation and now I'm sad.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:35, Reply)
my opinion on the matter was covered by various people though so it's ok.
To sum up: it's never done me any harm (if you don't count falling on my face when on shrooms), I know a few people in whom it has brought on some mentalness, but on the whole the enjoyment and mind-expansion (especially of hallucinogens) has far outweighed the negative impacts for most people I know who have used them.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:49, Reply)
I've been busy working today anyway, so would have either missed it or been dangerously distracted anyway.
How was the lesson?
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:47, Reply)
It was good! I learned how to do a left turn. It's my second one, so it wasn't as terrifying as last week. I seem to have bit of a problem stopping though.
And steering.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:51, Reply)
once you stop being freaked out by how different it is to anything you've done before.
Driving is great.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:58, Reply)
and I fear as a dad I need to know now.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 16:13, Reply)
Look
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(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:56, Reply)
Fortunately as I'm getting older either my mates are stopping or I'm meeting more poeple who don't do them.
The whole conversation and "Let's get our drugs for the weekend" and all that bollocks is boring. Then they are dicks when they're on them.
I am a dick when I'm rotten drunk, so you could say the same about booze, but when I'm tipsy I'm ok, and I don't have to meet up with dirty criminals or indirectly line criminals pockets when I buy my booze.
"I want consciousness expansion, I go to my local tabernacle and' I SING!"
that's just how I feel.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:51, Reply)
I generally find that people on too many pills or speed or ketamine are dull and frankly digusting.
whereas stoners are much the same as drunk people but quieter (that's a plus). People on hallucinogens are hilarious.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:58, Reply)
Apart from you. You've made me curious, but I'm still hesitant.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:59, Reply)
I tried E once after meeting a work friend in a club took it and went back to mates who had no idea how to deal with the new spastic me. That has probably put you off now.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 16:02, Reply)
I'm not saying I want to, more saying that Vipros has tempted me more than anyone else has to try weed. Seeing as I have never been tempted even one bit before, I thought it worth mentioning.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 16:06, Reply)
I can't be fucked with pills or any of that business any more.
I've had some incredible times on mushrooms, truly mind altering, but my last one was shit, so have canned that too.
I just like what weed does to the way my brain works. It doesn't affect everyone the same way though.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 16:13, Reply)
I will happily do mushrooms, LSD, DMT, 2CI, 2CB, cocaine, cannabis and alcohol in the right circumstances but that's yer lot.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 16:22, Reply)
I forgot about that one. And PCP - I do want to try that.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 17:06, Reply)
doesn't mean it's not awesome.
Mescaline appeals because of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and because Monster Magnet sing about it :-D
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 21:51, Reply)
it was just annoying because I couldn't sleep.
I like MDMA, but you can't seem to get it anymore.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 16:55, Reply)
The smell alone makes me want to die.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 17:05, Reply)
I pretty much found my comfort zone with weed and haven't strayed. Although I would argue it's dangerous but in a different way it just makes you ok with being bored and that means you are ok doing nothing.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 16:06, Reply)
I'm good at it
my favourite "try this" experience was the first time I took a pill. My mate had one (also his first time) and I abstained. Some time later I asked him what it was like and he said "the only way I can explain it is, it's like this" *silence + wavy hand motions outwards from his head*
That made my mind up
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 16:12, Reply)
that you cannot really tell when I am on them most times.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 16:08, Reply)
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