The anti-bucket list

Another thing I imagined 20-25 years ago I might want do in the future but have basically scratched:
Attend an opera at the Bayreuth festival. I am just not enough into opera anymore for the hazzle to be worth it.

I have been to the three Berlin opera houses, to Dresden, Bonn and some smaller theatres. Not Vienna, but I'd go that if I was going there for holidays or so. I used to go far more frequently to small local theatres/operas in my region around 2000 when I had local friends/girlfriends who could be convinced to go....
Nowadays I am too poor but I have been since years too lazy to go to the opera, especially if it involved longer drives or (worse) taking a whole weekend trip. It's also because I don't have anyone to go with now.

CnC Bartok said:

Visit Las Vegas

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This wasn't on my list but I did it anyway because the weather got too bad to spend another day in the Zion national park...

I have been to two Bundesliga football games, many years ago and also to one or two NBA and US Baseball games each, not quite as long but fairly long ago (never to what Americans call football, though) and while it was enjoyable enough, it's not something I need.

If I weren't so loath to travel and didn't dislike crowds, I might have attended the European championships in Athletics (track and field) in Munich last summer as this is by far my favorite sports (the only one I really follow besides the largest football events and (summer) Olympics). But usually TV coverage is very good, one can follow the action often better than in the stadium (I've also been to athletics events in the stadium years ago) and while the live atmosphere in a stadium can really be a great experience I really dislike huge crowds. Really.

Ingélou said:

Body studs, especially those through the tongue, as my niece has. What a faff, just eating. It seems barbaric.
I don't like tattoos either. My Scottish grandfather had one - he lived in a seaport, and he was born before 1900, so it just seemed quaint & tacky to me. There's no way I can adjust to seeing a tattoo as sophisticated or chic.

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I dislike both. I find (some) tattoos marginally more appealing (rarely, because they are rarely tasteful) but they are of course permament. (And they seem to trigger addiction as people tend to get more and more of them.) Almost all piercings (except earrings and the most discreet kind of nose piercings) yield a moderate to strong disgust reflex with me but they are at least removable, sometimes without remaining disfigurement.

Looks good to me, and the uncooked version looks and description sounds not repulsive. I wonder who made that list.
As for the two German dishes; I am not sure, why they should be disliked, they are very harmless (i.e. no innards, organ meat, seafood or strange vegetables) I probably have not had Brotsuppe of any kind since I was a child and I don't evern remember how that was prepared. But variants are common throughout Europe, it seems pretty inoffensive

Aniseed cookies are great, unless one dislikes the aniseed taste. They are very light textured egg-based cookies and can use vanilla instead of aniseed.

I eat the German version of blood sausage (it tastes inoffensive, and people who know claim that it is the "cleanest" sausage, i.e. with few ingredients and no foul play) but I have never eaten "black pudding", so wouldn't know. The main thing that strikes about that plate that it would serve about three people or more... The idea of eating this all by myself doesn't give me only virtual heartburn but a sick stomach...

I absolutely love the German version of potato pancakes (it's one of my favorite foods). They are very simple. Potatoes and an onion are grated, an egg or two added and a bit of flour or oatmeal to make it a bit smoother and take up excess liquid and than baked/fried in a pan and served with applesauce.
(Pretty close to the Eastern Jewish "latkes", it's probably a common dish to most potato-eating cultures...)