The Fucket List: Things You Have No Intention of Doing Before You Die

[BurtWorm]

Hat tip : http://kateharding.net/2009/03/10/tuesday-fluff-eff-it/


Me:

Shaking the hand of anyone named Bush, Rove or Cheney

Standing at the South or North Pole

Swimming the English Channel

Eating blowfish sushi

Reading Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead




More?

[Bertha Venation]

1. I won't climb a mountain

[BurtWorm]

9. I won't climb Mt. Everest.

Not after reading Into Thin Air. :scared:

[Bertha Venation]

28. Tragic events. Good book.

Have you read Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven? It's about the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints. Excellent as well.

[BurtWorm]

33. No I haven't but it sounds like a good summer book.

It's on my list!

[leftyclimber]

63. Second vote for Under the Banner of Heaven.

Easily Krakauer's best. He's like a dog with a bone once he gets ahold of something. And he's been instrumental in helping the "authorities" bust the FLDS. He's on them mercilessly.

[leftyclimber]

62. Into Thin Air is a chronicle of dumbasses.

I don't want to climb Everest either. I'm not into the whole suffering thing.

[Jokerman]

2. Voting republican. n/t

[mikeytherat]

3. Unfortunately, I already did the Rand ones.

Fortunately, I read them in high school, and laughed at them at the ripe, old age of 16.

mikey_the_rat

[Flaxbee]

13. god, I read them, too. Well, couldn't get thru Atlas Shrugged,

but read The Fountainhead.

And didn't one of the characters have super-red hair? There was a guy in my high school, same year, with really really really orange red hair, and he was really very gifted in mathematics. But he read Ayn Rand and all of a sudden thought he was John Galt, or whomever it was in the book with red hair. Became a totally insufferable prick.

Am I remembering this about her character correctly? :shrug:

[northernlights]

41. it's skeeery

I would never have remembered those details. But I'm pretty sure you got them right! :scared:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear BurtWorm!

I like your list!

To it I would add:

No bungee jumping

No parachuting

No horseback riding

Any extreme sport, in other words!

Joining a conservative church

Becoming a Republican

etc...

:hi:

[BurtWorm]

5. My dear CaliforniaPeggy... No bungee jumping!

That's a most excellent addition. :applause:

I've horse back ridden. I might sky dive. Maybe. It's not on my bucket list, though, for sure.

And I really like your last two items. :thumbsup:

[RebelOne]

6. Well, I have already done the parachuting and horseback riding.

Skydiving was the one thing I really wanted to do in my lifetime.

[Flaxbee]

16. why no horses, CalPeggy?

Just wondering. I used to train thoroughbreds when they were retired from racing ... loved it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. I love horses, my dear Flaxbee...

But I am a really lousy rider.

The last time I rode a horse, I fell off...and it was traumatic. I wasn't hurt, but.......

I've never been comfortable riding; I have no idea why.

[limit18]

7. Remarrying my first wife...

[LibertyLover]

47. My husband agrees with you on that one!

n/t

[Shell Beau]

8. I have no desire to jump off of or out of anything high!

No skydiving or bungee jumping

[HopeHoops]

10. Trying to eat a cheese sandwich and do a bong hit while tandem skydiving with a narwhal

I can just rule that one out RIGHT now!

[BurtWorm]

12. But if you take away the cheese sandwich?

:bounce:

[HopeHoops]

15. Oh, yeah, that I might do.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. A short list:

Kill a person.

Voluntarily go into a combat zone.

Visit the Reagan or Bush (Senior or Junior) Presidential Libraries.

Do any type of illegal drugs--Haven't done any yet, have no overwhelming desire to do any in the future

Move out of Florida or to any type of cold climate

Vote Republican in a State or National election (although I'll admit Charlie Crist is making that a bit difficult as of late. He's actually been making quite a few correct decisions).

Get divorced

Become estranged from a family member or close friend

Give up being an Orioles fan

Ditto on the OP's Ayn Rand statements

[GoneOffShore]

14. Too easy -

Adopt a vegan diet.

Travel in Asia.

Go to Las Vegas.

Retire to Florida.

Read Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead

There are more, but those are the main ones.

[spinbaby]

19. What's wrong with traveling in Asia?

Are you willing to travel to other continents?

[GoneOffShore]

22. too far away - I'm bad with jet lag.

And I don't have time to take the train.

[CreekDog]

17. bungee jumping

sky diving

:eyes: :eyes:

[TZ]

31. Me too

On both of them

[jakefrep]

20. Breastfeed in an Olive Garden while smoking.

Travel to Iraq

[jberryhill]

53. Okay, but what if you bring the kids along? /nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Being photographed while being pen-fucked in public by Miley Cyrus' boyfriend

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8206639#8206654

[AlCzervik]

23. words to live by.

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. I figure if I can at least not do that, my day has been lived okay.

[Raven]

25. Ever taking shit from anybody again! :-)

[kimmerspixelated]

30. You go girl!

[azmouse]

26. Parachuting out of a perfectly good airplane

Using drugs
Going to a Yankees baseball game
Eating limburger cheese

[Gidney N Cloyd]

27. Play Bridge.

I think it was once a rite of couplehood. I've managed to duck it for 50 years now.

[ACTION BASTARD]

29. Read any non-zombie books by Steven King

- Vote republican under any circumstance.

- eat liver or it's evil step-child liverwurst

- trying gay sex.

- travel to the middle east.

- swim outside the shark cage. Seriously, fuck the ocean.

- own a Kalashnikov.

- learn to use linux, ubantu or whatever the devil flavor of the moment is. It's a windows world - deal with it. Oh and fuck you too apple.

- own a wii

- visit Oklahoma. One of the 7 known dingle berries of the US? Hah! Just no.

[trof]

32. It's a long one. Sky dive. Twitter. Facebook.

Square dance.
Actually, I did that in my early teens.
Then it was fun.
Now? Not so much.
Geezer square dancers are just toooo over-the-top extroverted and enthusiastic.

Break dance.
Rap.
Windsurf.
Go to a NASCAR race.
Attend a ballet.
Hang truck nutz on the trailer hitch.

Vote repug.

Quit smoking.
That MAY change, however.
Stay tuned.

Quit drinking Scotch.
They'll pry the bottle from my cold, dead...you know.

Scrapbooking, quilting, 'fantasy' any kind of sport.
Get a hair transplant.
Or combover, for that matter.
Get any kind of plastic surgery.
Or a tatt or piercing.

How long ya got?
I could be here for a while.
;-)

[BurtWorm]

34. I can relate to a lot of those!

Easpecially the body altering ones. I shouldn't say "never" but I don't foresee any piercings or tattoos in my future.

Or square dancing, for that matter.

[mentalsolstice]

46. NASCAR can be fun if you've got the right connections

My husband has been to several races at Talladega. The one I went to...we literally parked up against the track wall, and we were invited to sit in sky box seats. So we had free drinks, starting out with bloody marys in the morning, free buffet that changed throughout the day, and private potties within 10 feet. The people around us were non-rednecks. OTOH, I've been to Charlotte where we spent 3+ hours in the rain waiting for the track to dry, no bathrooms, food, or drink in sight, and the hike back to the car after the race was 2+ miles in knee-deep mud. Never again!

I'm just saying, if you get a really great opportunity, don't pass it by.

eta: I'm not NASCAR fan, I'm more into Indy racing, so if you have the opportunity to visit Barbers Motorsports Park outside of B'ham, really try to do so. We've had many wonderful days out there with a picnic blanket, wine and cheese, in a beautifully landscaped setting. And the motorcycle museum is one-of-a-kind, they have cycles going back to 1904.

[Mad_Dem_X]

35. Skydiving and voting Republican.

[Xipe Totec]

36. Apologize to Rush n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

37. I agree with the parts about

skydiving
bungee jumping (I'm a chicken in that respect)
voting Republican

but I'll add:

visit Branson, Missouri or any other place designed or rebuilt solely as a tourist trap
go all the way to a foreign country just to lie around on the beach or ski and not take in any of the local culture
play golf
earn an MBA
buy an SUV
live anywhere where I can't walk or take transit to all essential services
watch American Idol or Survivor
attend a church that has dumbed-down music, dumbed-down theology, and/or a show bizzy service
give a charitable contribution to or buy something from anyone who solicits me over the phone
think professional sports are important
go back to being someone else's employee

[Jamastiene]

38. I have no intention of ever giving up on her, no matter

how many other people do. I can't say who it is, but she deserves respect, even though she never gets any. That is all.

[Lost in CT]

39. Swerve for Lieberman... nt

[FriendlyReminder]

40. Eat cottage cheese

Climb a mountain

bungee jump

parachute out of a perfectly good airplane

[northernlights]

42. too many to count

skydive
rockclimb
touch a rethuglican
jump in the ocean on new years day (unless I'm in Mexico. then it's ok)

not necessarily in that order.

[Initech]

43. Going to Somalia

[Lavender Brown]

44. Mine

-Go camping
-drive an SUV or truck
-try rock climbing
-adopt a snake for a pet

[ikojo]

45. Voting Republican...just can't imagine ever doing that

Bungee jumping
Sky diving
Hiking down the Grand Canyon
Having children
Reading anything by Ayn Rand
Subscribing to Commentary Magazine

[ogneopasno]

48. Climbing anything. I hate it when people are celebrated for that.

[Lucian]

49. Smashing bullets with a hammer on my driveway.

[hippywife]

50. Have children. n/t

[AwakeAtLast]

51. Eat peas or lima beans

Argue with a Repuke

Go to Russia

Hmmmm.... that's all I got. I'm pretty open to just about anything, so trying to decide what I wasn't going to do was actually pretty tough!

[WinkyDink]

52. Leaving terra firma again.

[begin_within]

54. I will never do this

Climb El Capitan at Yosemite, or climb anything, for that matter.

[leftyclimber]

60. I'd like to

but I'll never do it the same way as dude in the picture. The Hubers are freakass freaks. Total Supermans of climbing ability.

I'll do it the "old-fashioned" way, where one places the protection, clips a ladder made of webbing into it, then places another piece of protection, moves said ladder, and so on.

I'm too old for that free climbing walls shit.

[begin_within]

67. I admire those guys

Dean Potter and stuff like this is impressive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heIiGX3__Qg

but I would never even consider doing it, or climbing anything, even the "old-fashioned way."

[leftyclimber]

68. Is that Dean? I was debating. He looks rather young in the shot, but I thought I recognized the tat.

I thought with that flowing mane it might be one of the Hubers.

Regardless, I don't do what any of those guys do and won't in the future, either. :)

[begin_within]

69. In the youtube video, not the photo I posted

Dean Potter also recently got in trouble for climbing Delicate Arch in Arches National Park - off-limits to climbing. Was fired as an ambassador for "Patagonia" for it. I don't know who that is in the photo I posted.

[leftyclimber]

55. Bungee jumping.

It's too undignified, flopping around like a fish at the end of a line.

Getting another doctorate.

Likewise.

[femmocrat]

56. Any "Xtreme" sports. Or anything that starts with "Xtreme"!

Visiting the bush library.
Visiting the other bush library.
REvisiting my opinion of all repukes. :puke:

[cloudbase]

57. Eating balute.

Ain't gonna happen.

[DemBones DemBones]

58. Another good one for the list. . .

[Lucian]

65. Never going to happen with me either.

:puke:

Nor will I ever eat durian fruit. The smell alone is bad enough. :puke:

[fizzgig]

59. skydive or bungee jump

eat cat
ice climb
scuba dive

[leftyclimber]

61. Now, don't knock ice climbing before you've tried it.

It's much more zenlike than it looks.

-lefty(ice)climber

[fizzgig]

70. i'm terrified of heights and falling

really, really terrified

[kwassa]

64. I will never watch an entire season of "American Idol"

I will go to my grave without it. I've seen part of one Idol, and that is too much.

I will never go to Disneyland again.

I will never go to a Nascar event.

I will never see my local NFL team play because .... they suck, and even if they were great, I don't care.

I will never buy Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

I will never go to a Britney Spears concert.

[SoxFan]

66. Fucket

Living in Florida
Reading anything by Ayn Rand
Buying a Steely Dan album
Going to Columbus, OH for a third time
Vacationing in Midland, TX
Watching Nancy Grace

[NoPasaran]

71. Promote dirigible races