The anti-bucket list
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I'm just checking... Is everyone making a clear distinction between commonly-mentioned 'before you die' things they just don't find important in general and things that have fallen to the rank of less important due to inability?
I'll openly say that I'd like to do some things, but there's either a financial or physical obstacle. I'm still just young enough to do something like a mountain climb (I've done a couple in the past), but the idea of sleeping in a tent in a freak blizzard now feels less like an exciting adventure and more like a nuisance. Also I don't think I could a proper trip to do it. I've refused a lot of 'corporate' work throughout my life, which means I've earned less money, but my conscience is clear. So in some cases it's a financial impediment, where I'd rather use what money I have to do things where I might not break my neck.
With things like a tattoo, I've never really had the urge for one, but some little tattoo might be okay and what does it matter because you pass on and your body fades away. Imagine the undertakers finding this tucked away on your person:
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I'll openly say that I'd like to do some things, but there's either a financial or physical obstacle. I'm still just young enough to do something like a mountain climb (I've done a couple in the past), but the idea of sleeping in a tent in a freak blizzard now feels less like an exciting adventure and more like a nuisance. Also I don't think I could a proper trip to do it. I've refused a lot of 'corporate' work throughout my life, which means I've earned less money, but my conscience is clear. So in some cases it's a financial impediment, where I'd rather use what money I have to do things where I might not break my neck.
With things like a tattoo, I've never really had the urge for one, but some little tattoo might be okay and what does it matter because you pass on and your body fades away. Imagine the undertakers finding this tucked away on your person:
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You can go to Machu Picchu without having to do any climbing. Also it's not that high to normally feel the thin air (2400 meters altitude). You only have to do hiking if you also want to visit the viewpoint on the mountain (but that's optional).
I usually don't like such hot-spots with so many tourists, but I'm glad I was there! I went there by my own without a guided group and found some quiet spots there.
I'm really into mountaineering and hiking - but what's on my anti-list: climbing Mount Everest. I wouldn't do it for free - for me this has nothing to do with a nature experience:
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Just to avoid misunderstandings: Everest is on my Anti-list!! 
But there are still many mountain climbs / hikes on my Todo-list (with Weisshorn in Switzerland being Top 1 at the moment).
Luckily I've done several typical "list-activities" like skydiving when I was younger, so I don't have to think about those. But there are still many destinations I want to travel to! Like Ecuador or Canada
Another thing on my Anti-list: Heli-skiing (I find it ecologically questionable).
But there are still many mountain climbs / hikes on my Todo-list (with Weisshorn in Switzerland being Top 1 at the moment).
Luckily I've done several typical "list-activities" like skydiving when I was younger, so I don't have to think about those. But there are still many destinations I want to travel to! Like Ecuador or Canada
Another thing on my Anti-list: Heli-skiing (I find it ecologically questionable).
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Anti-bucket list?
Tattoo - seriously, why?
Wagner at Bayreuth (or Beirut, come to that)
Meeting a member of the British Royal family. They don't deserve me.
Tattoo - seriously, why?
Wagner at Bayreuth (or Beirut, come to that)
Meeting a member of the British Royal family. They don't deserve me.
Any activity that involves losing altitude at a high speed, or even the possibility of that occurring.
Swimming with sharks. (Though I'd like to swim with dolphins.)
Any activity that involves swimming in murky waters over my head. Especially where there are alligators & water mocassins. Swamp wrestling ain't on my bucket list.
Taking a class in primal screaming.
Buying an expensive sports car, like a Maserati (or any other ridiculously overpriced 'status' car).
Going to Australia or New Zealand--though nothing against Aussies or Kiwis. Granted, the scenery in New Zealand did look awesome in the Lord of the Rings movies, & I'm sure I'd enjoy the Australian Open in tennis if I were to ever get there because I'm a big tennis fan. But I don't like to fly, & it's an extremely long flight from the east coast of the United States. What a nightmare. You'd have to put me into a coma. Drugs wouldn't be enough.
Doing anything that requires getting on a human built flying machine. Though I'd be very happy to fly on a UFO.
Chartering a yacht. (I've seen one too many episodes of "Below Deck". I'd rather rent a canoe & capsize.)
Going on a submarine, even at Disney World.
Going back to Disney World.
Eating a meal at any chain restaurant in America.
Going to a nudist beach.
Seeing another retrospective of works by any American abstract expressionist painter. The last one I took in was Willem Dekooning's at the Met, whose paintings I used to like in college (it was a passing phase...). I'd count the exhibit as the biggest waste of 3 minutes in my life; next to the Magritte show, which took a whole 4 1/2 minutes. I actually began to break out in a sweat & get dizzy looking at Dekooning's paintings. Though the Lucien Freud exhibit was probably even worse. What a pose. Here was a so-called painter that didn't know how to draw, paint, or model form with any skill whatsoever. From Lord Leighton & J.M. Waterhouse to Freud? I'd say that's a serious decline.
Returning to Cambridge, England: where I once had a severe bout with food poisoning in a pub after eating a shepherd's pie that was left over from Medieval times. l almost died. At one point my soul actually left my body & I looked down at myself sitting in a toilet stall. (It was my one & only out of body experience.) Then I heard a male voice say in an English accent, "No, no, he's not ready. Send him back"--after which I came to with my fists tightly clenched as if I'd been having convulsions.
Does this mean that God is English? Next time I think I'll go to Oxford.
Eating sheep balls, duck testicles, or 'lamb fries'.
Eating the eyeballs of anything that was once living.
Eating a cockroach.
Eating a bat.
Eating vermin.
Swimming with sharks. (Though I'd like to swim with dolphins.)
Any activity that involves swimming in murky waters over my head. Especially where there are alligators & water mocassins. Swamp wrestling ain't on my bucket list.
Taking a class in primal screaming.
Buying an expensive sports car, like a Maserati (or any other ridiculously overpriced 'status' car).
Going to Australia or New Zealand--though nothing against Aussies or Kiwis. Granted, the scenery in New Zealand did look awesome in the Lord of the Rings movies, & I'm sure I'd enjoy the Australian Open in tennis if I were to ever get there because I'm a big tennis fan. But I don't like to fly, & it's an extremely long flight from the east coast of the United States. What a nightmare. You'd have to put me into a coma. Drugs wouldn't be enough.
Doing anything that requires getting on a human built flying machine. Though I'd be very happy to fly on a UFO.
Chartering a yacht. (I've seen one too many episodes of "Below Deck". I'd rather rent a canoe & capsize.)
Going on a submarine, even at Disney World.
Going back to Disney World.
Eating a meal at any chain restaurant in America.
Going to a nudist beach.
Seeing another retrospective of works by any American abstract expressionist painter. The last one I took in was Willem Dekooning's at the Met, whose paintings I used to like in college (it was a passing phase...). I'd count the exhibit as the biggest waste of 3 minutes in my life; next to the Magritte show, which took a whole 4 1/2 minutes. I actually began to break out in a sweat & get dizzy looking at Dekooning's paintings. Though the Lucien Freud exhibit was probably even worse. What a pose. Here was a so-called painter that didn't know how to draw, paint, or model form with any skill whatsoever. From Lord Leighton & J.M. Waterhouse to Freud? I'd say that's a serious decline.
Returning to Cambridge, England: where I once had a severe bout with food poisoning in a pub after eating a shepherd's pie that was left over from Medieval times. l almost died. At one point my soul actually left my body & I looked down at myself sitting in a toilet stall. (It was my one & only out of body experience.) Then I heard a male voice say in an English accent, "No, no, he's not ready. Send him back"--after which I came to with my fists tightly clenched as if I'd been having convulsions.
Does this mean that God is English? Next time I think I'll go to Oxford.
Eating sheep balls, duck testicles, or 'lamb fries'.
Eating the eyeballs of anything that was once living.
Eating a cockroach.
Eating a bat.
Eating vermin.
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Summiting Everest. It is very important to some, but not fond of extreme heights, slippery footing at extreme heights (particularly when it involves navigating around dead climbers), and then there is the problem of low oxygen environments and brain hemorrhage. I'll pass.
While I shun Rocky Mountain Oysters, I could be interested in setting a new bench press record with the aid of a high-performance bench press shirt.
Basically, physical performance feats are off the list.
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The Inuit partners and their dogs will snuggle with you and keep you very warm. Sharing whale blubber snacks while relating ancestral tales about spirits and iceberg gods. What's not to like?I looked at one of those dreadful / dreary '100 things to do before you die' sites
Spend A Night In An Igloo Village
There are several problems with this:
1) I hate snow
2) I can't stand being cold
3) I have zero interest in spending a night in an igloo.
4) I have little interest in visiting cold countries
5) Why bother?
6) No
Hey! Everybody knows that igloos have come a long way these days!
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Is there anything you'd like to talk about Jos' my rates are low, I'll come to you to save you flying and my shepherd's pie is to die for (oops maybe not the best expression to use).
Hi Malx,
Ha! No need. I saw a you know what once, many years ago in NYC--at the urging of a friend, & after a couple of sessions he asked me why I was there? Apparently, he didn't think I needed therapy, said I was "rock solid". Perhaps if he'd read my 'anti-bucket' list above...?
In my own defense, I once dreamt of my death in a mid air collision between two jet airliners. It hasn't exactly made me enthusiastic about flying. Shades of the writer Ödön von Horváth in the Tuileries gardens (who had previously dreamt his death on "June 1"), I wonder... ? & we won't know until it happens... at least Horváth knew the month & day of his demise, but alas, not the year.
Ha! No need. I saw a you know what once, many years ago in NYC--at the urging of a friend, & after a couple of sessions he asked me why I was there? Apparently, he didn't think I needed therapy, said I was "rock solid". Perhaps if he'd read my 'anti-bucket' list above...?
In my own defense, I once dreamt of my death in a mid air collision between two jet airliners. It hasn't exactly made me enthusiastic about flying. Shades of the writer Ödön von Horváth in the Tuileries gardens (who had previously dreamt his death on "June 1"), I wonder... ? & we won't know until it happens... at least Horváth knew the month & day of his demise, but alas, not the year.
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You should not let this dream keep you grounded. If it really is your “fate” to perish from a mid air collision then it could just as well happen to you with both feet planted on the ground should you be struck by falling debris. Enjoy living your best life while you still have time remaining on the clock ⏰
Hogwash,
Ha! that's easy or you to say, you didn't have the dream! In my dream, I did see the name of the airline on a fragment of the plane as I was being hurled through the sky with my seatbelt still on, & it was either U.S. Air or Delta (I've forgotten which)... So for a brief moment I was comforted by the thought that I'd be safe if I just avoided that airline. But then my brother pointed out that I could have been on the other airline...
Yes, you're right. & I have flown since the dream. But I have to really, really want to go someplace, & it has to be somewhere that I can't get to by train, because I don't like to fly anyway. Hence, Australia & New Zealand made it onto my anti-bucket list.
Ha! that's easy or you to say, you didn't have the dream!
In my dream, I did see the name of the airline on a fragment of the plane as I was being hurled through the sky with my seatbelt still on, & it was either U.S. Air or Delta (I've forgotten which)... So for a brief moment I was comforted by the thought that I'd be safe if I just avoided that airline. But then my brother pointed out that I could have been on the other airline...Yes, you're right. & I have flown since the dream. But I have to really, really want to go someplace, & it has to be somewhere that I can't get to by train, because I don't like to fly anyway. Hence, Australia & New Zealand made it onto my anti-bucket list.
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During the concert!
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You would smuggle in a bunch of chocolate bars?
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