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Watched Bruce Springsteen live in concert twice this year.

I could check out tomorrow and I'd be a happy man.

arseofacrow wrote:Think it's a load of old bollocks really.

Either very sad or very satisfied but a wet blanket

Swifty wrote:

arseofacrow wrote:Think it's a load of old bollocks really.

Either very sad or very satisfied but a wet blanket

I'm going for very sad

g88ner wrote:

Swifty wrote:

arseofacrow wrote:Think it's a load of old bollocks really.

Either very sad or very satisfied but a wet blanket

I'm going for very sad

I'm very sad if after being very satisfied there isnt a wet blanket. I think that's what swifty is getting at.

arseofacrow wrote:

g88ner wrote:

Swifty wrote:

arseofacrow wrote:Think it's a load of old bollocks really.

Either very sad or very satisfied but a wet blanket

I'm going for very sad

I'm very sad if after being very satisfied there isnt a wet blanket. I think that's what swifty is getting at.

I'm very sad if after being very satisfied there isn't a wet patch. I think that's what Mrs swifty is getting at.

Catch a 50lb + carp
Go nile perch fishing
Run a marathon
Smoke a j and drink red stripe with a rasta in Jamaica
See arsenal win something again

BournemouthRED wrote:Catch a 50lb + carp
Go nile perch fishing
Run a marathon
Smoke a j and drink red stripe with a rasta in Jamaica
See arsenal win something again

Suppose you always need one that's just not gonna happen!

Number 5 wrote:

arseofacrow wrote:

g88ner wrote:

Swifty wrote:

arseofacrow wrote:Think it's a load of old bollocks really.

Either very sad or very satisfied but a wet blanket

I'm going for very sad

I'm very sad if after being very satisfied there isnt a wet blanket. I think that's what swifty is getting at.

I'm very sad if after being very satisfied there isn't a wet patch. I think that's what Mrs swifty is getting at.

Well played indeed

StuartL wrote:So, I'm 45 next birthday and thinking that I should do my list of things that I want to do, places I want to see, things to accomplish while I still have most of my faculties remaining.

Has any forum member already done their list ?

What is on it that they have done ?

Any (HALF SENSIBLE, I do realise it is asking a lot) suggestions to add to my meagre list ?

Ride on an Elephant
Feed a Tiger
Have a helicopter ride
Visit the pyramids
Visit Maccu Pichu (peru)
Visit Chichen Itza (mexico)
Visit Stonehenge
See the Who live
Visit the cavern club , Liverpool to see where the Beatles performed.


I have already ticked off

Parachute jump
Swim with dolphins
Hot air balloon ride
See Arsenal win the league
See Arsenal win the FA Cup
Visit Colleseum / Rome

Surely if someone has achieved their "bucket list" they are now deceased. Sorry to disappoint you but the cavern club is no longer...the one on Matthews street is not the original club as the original one was filled in a few years back. You'll have to excavate the area to find it. There you go, something for your list...

Nos89 wrote:

StuartL wrote:So, I'm 45 next birthday and thinking that I should do my list of things that I want to do, places I want to see, things to accomplish while I still have most of my faculties remaining.

Has any forum member already done their list ?

What is on it that they have done ?

Any (HALF SENSIBLE, I do realise it is asking a lot) suggestions to add to my meagre list ?

Ride on an Elephant
Feed a Tiger
Have a helicopter ride
Visit the pyramids
Visit Maccu Pichu (peru)
Visit Chichen Itza (mexico)
Visit Stonehenge
See the Who live
Visit the cavern club , Liverpool to see where the Beatles performed.


I have already ticked off

Parachute jump
Swim with dolphins
Hot air balloon ride
See Arsenal win the league
See Arsenal win the FA Cup
Visit Colleseum / Rome

Surely if someone has achieved their "bucket list" they are now deceased. Sorry to disappoint you but the cavern club is no longer...the one on Matthews street is not the original club as the original one was filled in a few years back. You'll have to excavate the area to find it. There you go, something for your list...

I had thought that the Cavern was no more but got told recently that it was still a venue you could visit ??

I thought the concept of the bucket list is things you intend to do before you die - not that you have to pop your clogs the second you complete it.

When I was 17 I bought a bucket list book of things to do before you're 30. As I'm getting married off next year I pressed forward with it and here are the more interesting ones. It's all quite simple stuff to be honest -

Done:

- Buy a Merc
- Play at Highbury
- Do something charitable
- Attend a Film Premiere
- Go into a bookshop, pick up a random book and read it from cover to cover
- Visit the Pyramids in Cairo
- Go on a road trip round the UK
- Try meditation to see if it's all bollocks
- Eat a whole box of Krispy Kremes in 24 hours
- Get barred from a pub
- Master public speaking
- Get a tattoo
- Get 180 on a dartboard
- Do the monopoly bar crawl
- Smoke a cuban cigar
- Go to Oktoberfest
- Go to a music festival

To Do:

- See Christ the Redeemer in Rio
- Go to Barbados and see where my Mum is from
- Make a time capsule
- Swim with dolphins
- Sit in an Irish pub all day on St Pat's
- Conquer my fear of heights
- Go to a shooting range and take out loads of crazy crap with the biggest rifle they have

this was the original book I bought btw

http://www.101thingstodo.co.uk/

Good list - but big claim to have mastered public speaking!

Pyramids are a massive let down!

You get the impression from cleverly crafted tv shows that they are in the middle of the desert.
In fact, they're on the edge of a dirty shitty town. There is a pizza hut across the road from them and there are loads of aggressive arseholes around there 'giving' you things that they then insist on being paid for. Whilst it was good to actually see such an amazing example of ancient engineering it was totally spoiled by the local tossers. if you ever go there then do not take a photo of a camel. The owner will try to charge you for doing so and will get real nasty if you say no.

SPUDMASHER wrote:Pyramids are a massive let down!

You get the impression from cleverly crafted tv shows that they are in the middle of the desert.
In fact, they're on the edge of a dirty shitty town. There is a pizza hut across the road from them and there are loads of aggressive arseholes around there 'giving' you things that they then insist on being paid for. Whilst it was good to actually see such an amazing example of ancient engineering it was totally spoiled by the local tossers. if you ever go there then do not take a photo of a camel. The owner will try to charge you for doing so and will get real nasty if you say no.

That's what was so nice about Machu Picchu. It's so isolated up in the Andes, that there's no locals around and you can just spend your time wandering around the ruins and climbing the surrounding peaks without being bothered at all (but with a £40 entry fee, I suppose that should be expected! )

On the other hand, down in Cusco (ancient capital of the Inca's and the gateway to Machu Picchu) a girl I was with took a photo of the cutest little girl stood next to an Alpaca, and quick as a flash her mother was hounding us for money. Not so cute anymore.