What 3 things have you done........

symo
symo Posts: 1,743
edited November 2009 in Commuting chat
...... that you wanted to do before you die?

Mine are

1) Enter a race
2) Visit Rio (Work did it for me)
3) Sign a £10million plus order for something (work again wish I had that kind of dough).
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    1. Easter Island Eclipse 11th July 2010
    2. Island hop in the Pacific
    3. Watch killer whales in the wild
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    1) Sail on a tall ship (I'm now a volunteer deckie with the Tall Ships Youth Trust - once the STA - amongst other positions and try and go once every 18 months or so)

    2) Learn to dance, properly (depends on your definition of proper, mind)

    3) Travel 1st or Business class (work, but nice to be well fed and looked after for 20+ hours)
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  • clanton
    clanton Posts: 1,289
    1. Cave diving
    2. Etape du Tour
    3. Taken a long cycle tour ( 3 months in South America)

    Thing is though the list is never ending!
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    Oops.

    I thought it was what do you WANT to do before you die....

    Agreed Clanton, list gets updated, would hate to think you get to situation where you have done them all.... ah well, done it all, time to die!
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,457
    edited November 2009
    Drive a car

    Get laid

    Play a gig in front of real people.

    Sorted and all by the time I was 18.

    Nothing left to live for now really. I have low ambition.
  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    Climbed a 4000m peak
    Found an new fossil species
    Visited the site of Peking Man
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    prawny wrote:
    Drive a car

    Get laid

    Play a gig in front of real people.

    Sorted and all by the time I was 18.

    Nothing left to live for now really. I have low ambition.

    You could trying getting laid again - the second time's even better!
    My Focus / My Bob Jackson
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  • Roastie
    Roastie Posts: 1,968
    Where are those rose tinted glasses...

    1) Own a Lancia Delta Integrale Evo: Best not to own your dream car - it was misery.
    2) Race (a car) in a top level: Raced two seasons in an SA National series, rubbing door handles with some pretty big names, getting mentions on TV coverage and in the press, but best of all having one amazing moment with the car on tip-toe at nearly 200km/h through a 5th gear left hand sweep with (one of) my heros passenger door about four inches from my drivers door. Memories :).
    3) Completing a full special stage rally: Although it was club level, and only over 2 days, it was stupendously fun. Plus we finished pretty far up the order - the car didn't skip a beat and we didn't crash into anything.
    David
    Engineered Bicycles
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,457
    biondino wrote:
    prawny wrote:
    Drive a car

    Get laid

    Play a gig in front of real people.

    Sorted and all by the time I was 18.

    Nothing left to live for now really. I have low ambition.

    You could trying getting laid again - the second time's even better!

    You know I'm married don't you? There's no chance of that happening :cry:
  • Roastie
    Roastie Posts: 1,968
    prawny wrote:
    Play a gig in front of real people.
    That was also one of mine. Sadly the record company scouts weren't paying attention so we didn't get our deal.
    David
    Engineered Bicycles
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    Roastie wrote:
    prawny wrote:
    Play a gig in front of real people.
    That was also one of mine. Sadly the record company scouts weren't paying attention so we didn't get our deal.

    Did that myself..... left band, they went on to get top 10 album and two appearances on Top of the Pops.... :shock:
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,457
    If anyone wants to form a band, let me know. I'm getting that itch to perform again 8)
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    1.Leave Plymouth (achieved at 18 )
    2. Stand for election (achieved at 25)
    3. Form a band (achieved at age 22)
  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    Roastie wrote:
    prawny wrote:
    Play a gig in front of real people.
    That was also one of mine. Sadly the record company scouts weren't paying attention so we didn't get our deal.

    Did that myself..... left band, they went on to get top 10 album and two appearances on Top of the Pops.... :shock:

    Which band was that then?
    Do not write below this line. Office use only.
  • Wooliferkins
    Wooliferkins Posts: 2,060
    Ridden Paris Roubaix
    4 man Bobsliegh at Lillehammer
    Been to Petra
    Neil
    Help I'm Being Oppressed
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    The top three so far are

    Watching my kids being born
    Enter a race
    Qualify as an architect ( alifelong ambition from school thwarted by a mispent youth :? )

    Things I want to do before I die

    Run a marathon
    Climb a proper mountain (not the little blips we have over here)
    The three ascents of Ventoux in one day
    Win a race
    Watch my kids have families of their own

    and many many more - lifes way too short :cry:
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

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  • Agent57
    Agent57 Posts: 2,300
    I've never made a list, mental or otherwise, of things I want to do before I die. Unless things like "buy an Xbox" or "buy a new bike" count.
    MTB commuter / 531c commuter / CR1 Team 2009 / RockHopper Pro Disc / 10 mile PB: 25:52 (Jun 2014)
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    Headhuunter wrote:
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    Roastie wrote:
    prawny wrote:
    Play a gig in front of real people.
    That was also one of mine. Sadly the record company scouts weren't paying attention so we didn't get our deal.

    Did that myself..... left band, they went on to get top 10 album and two appearances on Top of the Pops.... :shock:

    Which band was that then?

    The Supernaturals
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    Headhuunter wrote:
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    Roastie wrote:
    prawny wrote:
    Play a gig in front of real people.
    That was also one of mine. Sadly the record company scouts weren't paying attention so we didn't get our deal.

    Did that myself..... left band, they went on to get top 10 album and two appearances on Top of the Pops.... :shock:

    Which band was that then?

    The Supernaturals
    Aw! They were the ones that all the indie-sheep outwardly hated but secretly liked, because they were 'too pop' to be indie.

    I bought the single of.... The Sheffield Song was it? Or was that the B side? Something about "I love her more than I love you" - quite a funny song...

    EDIT:
    Oh the way that your tears run down the side of your nose
    It always gets to me but not as much as it does
    When it was her
    And I can't help comparing the two of you
    It's like a Formula 1 and a Subaru

    Oh yes, I'm so-orry..
    Because I love... her... more...
    Than I love you
    Yes, I love her more than I love yo-o-ou...
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    sarajoy wrote:
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    Headhuunter wrote:
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    Roastie wrote:
    prawny wrote:
    Play a gig in front of real people.
    That was also one of mine. Sadly the record company scouts weren't paying attention so we didn't get our deal.

    Did that myself..... left band, they went on to get top 10 album and two appearances on Top of the Pops.... :shock:

    Which band was that then?

    The Supernaturals
    Aw! They were the ones that all the indie-sheep outwardly hated but secretly liked, because they were 'too pop' to be indie.

    I bought the single of.... The Sheffield Song was it? Or was that the B side? Something about "I love her more than I love you" - quite a funny song...

    EDIT:
    Oh the way that your tears run down the side of your nose
    It always gets to me but not as much as it does
    When it was her
    And I can't help comparing the two of you
    It's like a Formula 1 and a Subaru

    Oh yes, I'm so-orry..
    Because I love... her... more...
    Than I love you
    Yes, I love her more than I love yo-o-ou...

    That's them... great stage presence, good lyrics, they are still good mates. I played the bass well before they were signed.
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    I would like only one thing....to have a career.

    Ok so I have a degree and all that jazz but I still don't have a career, I've simply had jobs since I graduated.
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    NGale wrote:
    I would like only one thing....to have a career.

    Ah yes. Indeed - or to be on the ladder of a career I might actually enjoy.
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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    NGale wrote:
    I would like only one thing....to have a career.

    Ok so I have a degree and all that jazz but I still don't have a career, I've simply had jobs since I graduated.

    My career only started when I was 40 - three years ago!
  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    sarajoy wrote:
    NGale wrote:
    I would like only one thing....to have a career.

    Ah yes. Indeed - or to be on the ladder of a career I might actually enjoy.

    Yep. I'm struggling with my maths at the moment, I need to get my Level 2 and my GCSE and that will give me some hope of being able to go into the field I would like to persue.

    However cronic dyscalculia is not a good thing when you are trying to work with numbers. :cry:
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • The Running Man
    The Running Man Posts: 574
    1. Play rugby for Wales

    2. Run my own business

    3. Run a marathon

    Could add loads of things to the "to do" list though .....
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    Specialized Rockhopper
  • moonio
    moonio Posts: 802
    Perform alongside one of the top Hip Hop acts in the UK
    Have my work mentioned in the national newpapers (I have managed this at least 4 times :) )
    Buy a house
  • el_presidente
    el_presidente Posts: 1,963
    Jay dubbleU wrote:
    Climbed a 4000m peak
    Found an new fossil species
    Visited the site of Peking Man

    Which peak?

    which species?

    Isn't Peking the site of Peking Man?? 8)
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    sarajoy wrote:
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    Headhuunter wrote:
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    Roastie wrote:
    prawny wrote:
    Play a gig in front of real people.
    That was also one of mine. Sadly the record company scouts weren't paying attention so we didn't get our deal.

    Did that myself..... left band, they went on to get top 10 album and two appearances on Top of the Pops.... :shock:

    Which band was that then?

    The Supernaturals
    Aw! They were the ones that all the indie-sheep outwardly hated but secretly liked, because they were 'too pop' to be indie.

    I bought the single of.... The Sheffield Song was it? Or was that the B side? Something about "I love her more than I love you" - quite a funny song...

    EDIT:
    Oh the way that your tears run down the side of your nose
    It always gets to me but not as much as it does
    When it was her
    And I can't help comparing the two of you
    It's like a Formula 1 and a Subaru

    Oh yes, I'm so-orry..
    Because I love... her... more...
    Than I love you
    Yes, I love her more than I love yo-o-ou...

    That's them... great stage presence, good lyrics, they are still good mates. I played the bass well before they were signed.

    Oh yes, I think I remember The Supernaturals....
    Do not write below this line. Office use only.
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    moonio wrote:
    Perform alongside one of the top Hip Hop acts in the UK
    Have my work mentioned in the national newpapers (I have managed this at least 4 times :) )
    Buy a house

    One of mine was never buy a house.

    Since then I've bought two :oops:
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Bungee Jumped
    Great White Shark Diving
    Become Independant of my parents/buy a house

    that'll do
    Purveyor of sonic doom

    Very Hairy Roadie - FCN 4
    Fixed Pista- FCN 5
    Beared Bromptonite - FCN 14

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