What do you want to do before you die?

Barry Aldwell

Garog's rather morbid thread made me think about what I'd like to do before I die. Basically, post things that are actually possible without rewriting the laws of physics or robbing fort knox

I would like to:
Join the RDF
Tour the battlefields of Europe (and possibly North Africa)
Be in at least one relationship
Visit Oahu and/or Iwo Jima (lovely beaches, plus various war memorials)
Discover the psychological basis of my obsession with violence

It wasn't me!

Be the world's most famous and best loved musician.

Leave behind a really cool legacy.

Spend time in jail. (Don't ask)

Try more or less everything life has to offer.

Finally figure out what life means to me and what I want to do with it.

Have at least one really great relationship.

Commit a massive, victimless crime. eg. Assassinate George Bush. (Nobody but animal rights people will hate me):D

Just get my band to be big and just be remembered for all the work I'm currently putting into it. ie. A lot more than I'm putting into studying for my (pointless) junior cert.

Raphael

I want to play the parts of The Engineer in a production of Miss Saigon, and Fagin in Oliver

I want to at least try and write a book

I want to own at least 2 varietys of medieval weapon, and know how to use them

I want to become a teacher of some kind, preferably at 3rd level, or ctyi

I want to be in a permanent, happy relationship with a woman i love (might already have that one actually)

Aliminator

what the hell is your (pl.) obbsession with death?
for fuk's sake. ur YOUNG. haven't even come close to learning the shags of LIFE.
granted, the world is going down the drain, but at least be positive for a while longer.:mad:

s0l

Live to be at least 150.

Commit massive tax frued.

Eat yellow snow.

Find someone.

(we're teenagers, it's in the job description that we have to be mopey )

Green Hand Guy

Find a cure for death.

Win an oscar.

Appear in a broadway show as some sort of villain.

Become the leader of a south seas republic that one day conquers america so I can display the heads of their presidents on spikes outside my mansion.

Find a magic lamp that actually grants wishes.

Save sombody's life.

Pilot a giant mech robot.

Learn to use a claymore.

Invent a time machine.

Become the richest and most powerful man in the world.

Find a clean public toilet.

Squeee

There are many things I wanna do:
Get over my fear of the stage, god damn it!
Hang-glide
Bungee-jump
sky-dive
travel around the world in 80 days in a hot-air balloon
At least get to fly a hot-air balloon
bounce from a trampoline into a swimming pool(It was in a video game I played when I was a tinier, it had all zombies and lumber-jacks, evil at malls and many potions, anywho I've wanted to do that for years)
Live in a tent in the mountains for a week - a month.
Bring out the cereal "Sugar Crappies" and have top sportsmen endorse t for its nutrition ("Every morning I wake up to my nutritious bowl of Sugar Crappies")
Faint (I've always wondered how confused you are when you wake up)
Know when I'm dying so that I can run about doing all these things
Skinny-dip
Create a giant hamster-wheel and use it to fight crime.....or wheel down Grafton street, ploughing people down as I go)
Stage a musical on Grafton Street, but make it look like thoe taking part are just bystanders who got carried away. Everyone shall come out from different directions and once it's over walk away as though nothing happened.
I can't really think of anything else right now.

Barry Aldwell

Originally posted by Green Hand Guy
Learn to use a claymore.

If by claymore you mean an anti personnel mine that fires ball bearings, there's not much to know. You just have to follow the "THIS END TOWARDS ENEMY" instruction on the front, set up the tripwire, and pull the pin.

Havelock

Barry: Its such an American Invention. Like the instructions for the M80 Grenade Launcher, in the US NAVY SEALS manual:

...make sure to maintain the fire/safety switch on your M80, as failure to do so may make you unpopulare with your surviving team mates.

Sorry for being off topic.

Anyway: I would like to....
do more good than bad.
leave a legacy
journey in Space
make a family and live somewhere nice
take E** P*** photos
make love at midnight in a graveyard
make a better dark chocolate
fight in a war (or photograph one)
grow old
be a teacher
travel the world (a photograph my perspective)
meet the good people (take their pictures)
teach me children well, and make the world a better place for them
die either happy and surrounded bymy loved ones or for a nobel cause.

rainbow kirby

I just want to be happy. anything else is a bonus. right now, i want sleep though!

Spenguin

Umm, well lets see.

I wanna go trick or treating every year till I'm 21 and once again a year before i die.
I wanna jump off a really tall cliff with a parachute. It'll be FUN!!
I wanna go to the carribean for a while, and jamaica.
Finish all the RPG games that I've started but haven't been able to finish!
Melt a spoon.
Make a really cool puppet that can be my life long companion.
Aoife, Be you talking about " zombies ate my neighbours™"? I wanna do the trampoline thing too!
Oo, i wanna build a robot... monkey... thing.
Learn Japanese.
Learn some sort of martial arts thing. YAY!
Umm, Yeah, dying sucks. HOORAY! I'll make another list later...

Green Hand Guy

If by claymore you mean an anti personnel mine that fires ball bearings

Barry, Barry, Barry..... Always presuming I give a damn during your lectures on guns and landmines and so know what the hell their names are. I meant claymore as in big muddaf*ckin' two handed battle sword. See how far you'll get with a gun without being arrested. Blades are the way of the future.

Liquorice

Get a degree in psychology and a post-grad in medicine(if they bring that in).
Study in Oxford.
Make a breakthrough of some sort in neuropsychology.
Visit Japan.
Visit Russia.
Visit Iceland.
Learn to play the cello, harp and bass guitar.
Get much better at the violin, piano and guitar.
Find someone.
I'd like to try jumping from a trampoline into a pool too.
Fulfill plenty of...fantasies.
Read the Oxford dictionary from cover to cover.
Get lots(and lots) of tattoos and piercings(including pocketing)(**** this 'you'll regret it when you're older' stuff. I'm only young once.).
Create a robot with all the traits of Gir and make him mine MINE I TELL YOU!
Get a pet dragon.
Make love to a centaur.
Go to Pompeii.
Visit the Uffizi gallery. Again.
Visit the Louvre. Again.
Visit Auschwitz.
Gain possesion of a crossbow.
Live in a house by the sea in Dalkey, with a sunken garden and a weeping willow in the back garden.

That's all I can think of for now.

Havelock

Make love to a centaur.

Ahggg! A beastialist!

*Points finger in disgust*

"Would have anything to do with the size of a horse's thingy?"

Eppie

eh this is an unfortunately titled thread.

Green Hand Guy

Make love to a centaur.

How would that work? Centaurs have four legs with hooves on the end so you'd probably be trampled. Plus I'm not sure if Centaurs have reproductive organs. They sort of just sprout from the earth at the will of the gods or something.

mr. scanger

I want to:

-Win the lotto
-Buy a freefall tower
-Bungee Jump
-Skydive
-Take up one sport and stick with it for more than a week
-Get a McDonalds meal that I am satisfied with
-Push my vice principal down a toilet
-Put cling film over the toilet seats in the four courts and my school's staff toilets
-Make lasting friends
-Don't die before 80

s0l

Extras that I thought of today in study:

Meet as many people who I do not know who have brought me happiness over the years (musicians, authors, film makers)

Make a really cool gun completely by myself, design and all. Not to shoot at people, I just like the idea of a personally forged tool.

View the sun rising over the earth from the moon.

And above all else, set foot on Halley's Comet.

Nyopallo

Top Priority:
Live forever. So far so good.

Secondary Priorities:
Eat the whole thing.
Master at least one martial art.
Marry a nice lady.
Impregnate said lady.
Fly an aircraft of some sort.
Conquer Ireland.

Things I've Done, But Wanted to Do Before I Die:
Be ruled by a cyborg.
Leave the country.

mentalimplosion

get quentin tarantino to help me make my film and wear a cocktail dress and hiking boots to both its premiere and the oscars.

forgive/apologise to various people (actually**** that 2nd part.)

see the frames live, again and again.

get that picture back from kate (grrr)

actually finish my art project. or even start it. whatever

play lady capulet in a broadway production of romeo and juliet

walk a marathon

write for the international herald tribune. just the once.

bleach my hair. that's something i REALLY want to do.

win the turner and turn it down

Squeee

The Louvre?! oooh, but the Musee D'Orsay is soooo much better. That's where the keep all the impressionist art and ****. Except it's all the way over in France, so I can't really be bothered. And Alison, as for that computer game I haven't a clue. I remember you were mostly safe til it got dark (I think) you were a child, so of the levels you were in hedgemazes with lumber-jacks with chainsaws after you and then sometimes you were in a mall and the dolls made odd sounds like Speedy Gonzalas (I no spell) and chased you about with tiny axes.
And as far as I'm concerned the trampoline thing must be done whilst wearing your clothes.

Mystic Fibrosis

Twas Zombies Ate My Neighbours.

'Twas a childhood defining game, if I remember correctly...

Zukustious

Originally posted by Mystic Fibrosis
Twas Zombies Ate My Neighbours.

'Twas a childhood defining game, if I remember correctly...

Yeah it was. Brilliant game. Scary Zombies everywhere! And freaky neighbours also about the place. There was no escape from the madness. And every seems to know that particualr game which I find odd.

Anywho, what do I wanna do before I die? Leave the planet... and then go to another planet... for Henry Winkler... who's on another planet.

twirly sponge

Originally posted by mentalimplosion
see the frames live, again and again.

get that picture back from kate (grrr)

Yeah, I'll give it back to you at midterm!
I want to see the frames live too but as long as I don't die before December 4th I'll get to do that one. Woohoo!
I also want to:
Learn to drive
Go on on a motorbike
Eat sushi and frogs legs and snails
Go to Australia and India and Egypt and South America and loads of other places.
Bungee jump
Sky dive
Absail
Swim with dolphins
Live in New York. For a little while at least.
Have a decent relationship with someone i really care about
Go to Witnness
Meet Glen Hansard.

I'll probably think of loads more to post later.

Spenguin

I remember in zombies ate my neighbours™ when it got dark (I was small(er) at the time) I got too afraid to play the game. i hated the level with the chainsaw maniacs and crazy axe wielding toddlers the most. In the hadgemaze I just ran and ran away from them but they kept chasing me and then I think I got someone to help me cos i was too afraid. Those were the days... i like robots! I want to umm, go see finding nemo before I die.

mentalimplosion

Originally posted by twirly sponge
Yeah, I'll give it back to you at midterm!
I want to see the frames live too but as long as I don't die before December 4th I'll get to do that one. Woohoo!

and if i live til the 19th of dcember, i'll do it again too!

smiles

be happy.

<< Fio >>

Awayindahils

Be happy is a nice idilic thing but i liked to:
manage to leave home without killing one of my family
write a good book
tell my neighbour that she is an old loony and that sitting all day in ur car all day is not normal or sane (and die then)
shock my parents
have a long term relationship
have group sex
emm i dont actually have that many ambitions dying tomorrow would not be a problem to ne great extent
stop saying sorry
learn to be prouud of and stick up for myself
i dunno lodsa sappy things
publish the list from 2 years ago- actually face those people (dnt ask if ur were there you knew)
deal with my stalker issues
notbe the last to know- come to think of it ill probably be the last to know im dead
emm see the world
make a decision in one minute and stick too it
spend a year infact living impulsively
be an ra for newbies
id like to learn the meaning to life but i think you know it when your born and forget it till you die and have to know again
other stuff
but were all dying so live from one day to the next- that is wat id like to do before i die
and i really dnt want to live forever i want to see wats next

5s's

Bring an end to the RDF

Kill all little a-holes who think they know everything there is to know about the Defence Forces

Cause an accident so that a certain Pte who thinks he is a Gnr ends up dead.

Mr.D.Leprachaun

Become iconic in a way that I will find embarassing when I'm forty-five.
To contradict the 2nd part of the above by never realising I'm older than 22.
Leave the province of Ulster forever.
Take an incredibly long free-fall.
Have a completely water-tight arguement against more than half the accepted arts in rant form.
Have some area of my life go satisfactorily but look disappointing so that I have a good time and get sympathy for it.
Learn to speak French as fluently as a Catalan guy I know speaks English.
Never have to work but still get paid unbelievably large sums of money.
Blow something up.
Remember the other thing I intended to put on this list but forgot.

Raphael

5s's wrote:

Bring an end to the RDF

Kill all little a-holes who think they know everything there is to know about the Defence Forces

Cause an accident so that a certain Pte who thinks he is a Gnr ends up dead.

Wow, you're certainly a fucking idiot

Undergod

Travel lots.

Be a hyperglot.

Get in a bar fight in really, dirty mean bar.

Get published.

Take up some more instruments.

Be rich enough to have a nice life and fund and take part in voluntary work.

At least once, have a part in the staging/execution of a massive (and massively subversive) public event.

Actually get proper training in Wing Chun, and also iado, taekwando, shotokan, gracie ju-jitsu, aikido and whatever else takes my fancy.

lemon_sherbert

I would like to:
Travel all over the world
Volunteer in the developing world
Read as many great works of literature (and the crap ones too, i guess) as possible
Live in other countries
Become fluent in at least 3 non english languages
Have a family, or adopt
And not to make the world worse, than it already can be

Feral Mutant

These are a little unrealistic but anyway:
Develop superpowers
Become a multibillionaire
Build a spaceship, fly it across the galaxy then get bored and come home
Live past the age of 100
Somehow stop myself from ageing
Cross a few names off my enemies list
Collect various medieval/modern weapons and blades
Find someone special
Finally get around to watching Ring 2

And after that's all done I want to come back to my homeland with all the knowledge and wisdom I have gained
And rule with an iron fist

Piste

Everyone I can




You did say who, right?

PurpleFistMixer

Oh god, threads being dragged up, oh god.

I want to do so many things it's difficult to count. But if I were to assume that I will die tomorrow- before I die; I want to finish writing a cover letter for some work experience, and get a drink. And also to figure out what the correct punctuation for the preceding sentence was. However the cover letter takes priority currently.

Mr.D.Leprachaun

Another one I just thought of: C9ome up with a retort so witty and hilarious that it becomes iconic.

Jade Chihuahua

.Be known as that eccentric billionaire with the really weird, pointless mansion filled with secret passageways and upside down basket ball courts.
.Leave clues to a secret treasure that after Im gone, my ancestors will waste much energy and time looking for only to find that the treasure is love or plutonium or something.
.Have pr-created my own, worlds most philosophical tombstone.
.Have lots of kids, a job and wife I love and to never be without Dr. Pepper.
.YAAAAAAAAARRRRRR

Matthewthebig

Yore Ma!

It wasn't me!

It wasn't me! wrote:

Be the world's most famous and best loved musician.

Leave behind a really cool legacy.

Spend time in jail. (Don't ask)

Try more or less everything life has to offer.

Finally figure out what life means to me and what I want to do with it.

Have at least one really great relationship.

Commit a massive, victimless crime. eg. Assassinate George Bush. (Nobody but animal rights people will hate me):D

Just get my band to be big and just be remembered for all the work I'm currently putting into it. ie. A lot more than I'm putting into studying for my (pointless) junior cert.

Hmmm... Interesting to contrast my old wishes with my current ones. The only major difference is I don't think I want to go to jail and I'm musically unemployed at the moment.

Jim_Are_Great

In the following order:

1) Eat my own face.
2) Eat somebody else's face
3) Quit a Status Quo tribute act (preferably without ever actually being in one)
4) A big egg
5) Go a whole day without breathing, blinking or digesting food
6) Eat my own face
7)swim in a pool of Source and Apple Pie cookies
8) Drop out of barber college
9) Calculate the internet to eight decimal places
9) Grasp an eel
9) Immediately. Get.
9) Make an trippy, psychadelic, hugely influential album with many very iconic and famous characters gathered on the cover, surrounding me and my band (dressed in coulourful clothes). The bass drum around which we are standing will read "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club". The album will be entitled "Joe".

Undergod

Oh, this is an old thread. Much is revealed.

.Be known as that eccentric billionaire with the really weird, pointless mansion filled with secret passageways and upside down basket ball courts.

I want the wierd mansion from Thief: The Dark Project.

halenger

5s's wrote:

Bring an end to the RDF

Kill all little a-holes who think they know everything there is to know about the Defence Forces

Cause an accident so that a certain Pte who thinks he is a Gnr ends up dead.

Not that you'll even care, for the moment, but banned. Permanently. Now to find out who you really are and ban you significantly, or, if I'm feeling really generous...permanently.

Creating an account to do something like this is sheer idiocy...and thinking we can't find out who you are is even more stupid.

Love

Ever notice that the things we accept as inevitable always happen?? Like death for example. So maybe if you believe you'll never die you never will. Hmmm...

Jack Lynch

Dogbert has a theory that all great thinkers found out that gravity is an illusion and simply floated off the planet, which explains why everyone else is so dumb (At this pint, Dilbert came in to announce that 'Wheel of Fortune' was on).

Things i want to do;

Play dr. Frank N.Furter onstage

Become the President and go to Croke Park on All-Ireland day in a Cork jersey

Win an Oscar and melt it down to see how much it's really worth

Dress up as Charlie Chaplin

Organise a Beatles reunion

Discover a new colour (which i shall called Blurple)

Piste

*Get 600 points in the leaving and then go to drama school in England instead

*'Shrooms

guX

I'd love to throw an axe at my CSPE teacher.

Mr.D.Leprachaun

Piste wrote:

*Get 600 points in the leaving and then go to drama school in England instead

*'Shrooms

I read your shrooms thread by the way. Much amusment.

Flashling

Hmm..Well, I don't plan on dying, so this is a little pointless, but AHEM;
1) Find my talent (What I've found so far: It's nothing sport related)
2) Eat my weight in pancakes (every year I try and fail...)
3)Skydive(Alone. Into a jungle. A dense jungle.)
4)Coin some phrase( As popular as yore ma)
5)Sing well in front of people by myself (Preferably in a musical, like cabaret...)
6) Become infamous (But not in a Hitler kind of way)(In a porn star kind of way)(Or a Hunter S Thompson kind of way)
7)keep all of my original teeth (this stems from scary childhood memories...AHHHHH!)

I'll leave it there, not to set TOO high goals for myself.....

Outcast

Go to New Zealand
Go Interrailing
Take a Road Trip to Leitrim on the Train
Generally travel a lot
Write for The Irish Times
Present my own Radio Show
Write a decent book
Be invited on to the Late Late
Sing in front of a large audience
Get married and have a family
Take part in a major theatre production
Win a major debating compeition
Get totally wasted/stoned
Bungee jumping/skydiving/white water rafting etc.
Do some really worthwhile charity work
See the people I love happy and successful.

Spraypaint

My list for this is surprisingly short:
1)Die happy
2)with no regrets
3)having brightened up the lives of those I care about.
As far as I'm concerned, that covers just about everything.
A tombstone saying: " And you said I wouldn't go through with it" would also be appreciated but that falls under the umbrella of posthomous.