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I'm not opposed to going to a night baseball game on beautiful summer evening. I once saw the NY Mets vs Pittsburgh Pirates way back in 1973. Willie Mays was still playing for the Mets back then.
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On the flip side, I recall attending a game between the Yankees and the Tigers that dragged along to the 16th inning. It was the first game of a double-header. We left before the second game.
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Double headers are more baseball than I need for one evening. I actually have a triple A baseball park one mile from my house and it's a nice stadium. But I've yet to make it over there for a game.
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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.
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.
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It would be good to go on one just to cause havoc. Like wandering off from the tours and turning up back at the boat a day later worse for wear. Maybe with a few local 'mates' in tow. My late mother went on a med and near middle-east cruise though and she thought it was excellent.
Things I have no desire to do:
Go to Santiago de Compostela. Who can go to these places now that they're a postmodern 'must'?
On the whole though I'd probably do a lot of things I can't do because of either finances or opportunity or whatever.
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No desire to go spelunking. In Indiana I was asked to join a group that was going to walk through one of those "easy" underground limestone tunnels. Only problem was at the narrow entrance you had to wriggle through, it was pitch black. Feeling as though I was staring into the dark abysm of time I freaked out. Had to sit and wait for the others till they returned.
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As a kid there was an attempt to brainwash me into loving the Toronto Blue Jays, but it never took. I could never manage to stay awake through an entire baseball game.
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I used to want to got to Machu Pichu - probably a result of too much Conan Doyle (Lost World) and Rider Haggard. Now I think it would be something to avoid after seeing what happened to John Peel. I don't think I could cope with the thin air and the climbing.
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Live a passionless life w/o good morals.
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I did the Inca trail about a decade ago. I couldn't do it now.
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I don't have an anti-nursing home feeling now that my Mum spent the last year of her life in a wonderful dementia-specialist care home. She was so much more content during that last year than she had been during the previous three or four years in her own home, even though I lived in the same street. It all depends on what's available.
I share your dislike of huge crowded expensive venues though - as soon as I'm in a crowd, I long to get away again and/or I feel depressed because the way I feel and behave seems to be so much out of the mainstream.
I think I'll add 'going to a fashion show' as one of my anti-bucket activities. I was born 'unfashionable', plus the extreme ideas you see in the newspapers - the latest a crinoline ball dress worn upside down - would just set me off giggling.
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Nigerian Guinness is better, but don't tell the Irish!
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On the whole, I would agree with you there. However, I have occasionally thought it might be useful to have my social security number tattooed in some inconspicuous place, like the bottom of my foot. That way, should I ever develop advanced Alzheimer's, I could be identified if I just wandered off somewhere. But nowadays, I suppose I would have to worry about identity theft, if I, for example, went swimming in a public place.
For me, I would prefer even more to avoid parachuting.
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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.
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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It's some time ago now, but a great friend of mine had a tongue piercing and he had to take it out when eating. I remember also that after the piercing the tongue swelled and as it calmed down the barbell stud was too long and rapped against his teeth, which probably wasn't good for the enamel. So he got a shorter one. Apparently all completely normal in the life of a tongue piercing. I just wondered why he had it at all. Since it seemed, as you say, such a 'faff'.
It's not always right to suggest possible motives, though I suspect he did it in search of both acceptance and to push his own boundaries. He had a parochial upbringing, but was at art school among 'bright young things' type people. I actually met him about 10 years ago in Italy of all places, long after he emigrated to New Zealand. I never asked him if he still had it!
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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.
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