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Who wants an Adventure

  • 25-06-2012 11:50PM
    #1
    A_Sober_Paddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭A_Sober_Paddy


    So who of ye want to break free from the mundanity of life, and have an adventure. For those of use who watch a lot of movies or read a lot of literature, do you want to just have one adventure in your life that could be compared to something you've read or seen on the big screen...

    Live go to a far away land, fall in love.
    Have one amazing day, were you do everything you've wanted to do a kin to Ferris Bueller.
    Or have a live experience like any one of John Hughes movies.

    This came to mind when I was watching "Jeff, Who Lives At Home", in combination with trying to figure out what I want in live.

    I'm currently single, broke and unemployed with a worthless college degree, don't particulary want to go back to college, or work in dunnes/tesco stacking shelves or work 60 hour weeks...I seem to know what I don't want, but for what I want...

    So who wants an adventure, or whom of you have had an adventure you'd like to share...

    I know this is AH's so I'm expecting some fairly epic adventures:D


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  • #2
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Mummy, a man on the internet wants to take me on an adventure!!


  • #3
    Leeg17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,127 ✭✭✭✭Leeg17


    This one time I went outside .. I swore to myself, never again!


  • #4
    Captain Darling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    Something about being buried balls deep in Bibi Baskin.


  • #5
    Mountainlad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭Mountainlad


    A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »
    So who of ye want to break free from the mundanity of life, and have an adventure. For those of use who watch a lot of movies or read a lot of literature, do you want to just have one adventure in your life that could be compared to something you've read or seen on the big screen...

    Live go to a far away land, fall in love.
    Have one amazing day, were you do everything you've wanted to do a kin to Ferris Bueller.
    Or have a live experience like any one of John Hughes movies.

    This came to mind when I was watching "Jeff, Who Lives At Home", in combination with trying to figure out what I want in live.

    I'm currently single, broke and unemployed with a worthless college degree, don't particulary want to go back to college, or work in dunnes/tesco stacking shelves or work 60 hour weeks...I seem to know what I don't want, but for what I want...

    So who wants an adventure, or whom of you have had an adventure you'd like to share...

    I know this is AH's so I'm expecting some fairly epic adventures:D

    Your not planning on heading to Australia, are you?


  • #6
    A_Sober_Paddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭A_Sober_Paddy


    Mountainlad wrote: »
    Your not planning on heading to Australia, are you?

    Been there and absolutely hated it over there


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I would love to have a really big adventure. In Borneo or somewhere equally as awesome.

    I tend to have lots of mini adventures though. If I take a wrong turn or something I say "ah sure it's an adventure". Or like when I was in Rome a few weeks ago, I wouldn't get a taxi from the airport because it's more of an adventure to get the train.

    I do love an adventure! No matter how small :)


  • #8
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I would love to have a really big adventure. In Borneo or somewhere equally as awesome.

    I tend to have lots of mini adventures though. If I take a wrong turn or something I say "ah sure it's an adventure". Or like when I was in Rome a few weeks ago, I wouldn't get a taxi from the airport because it's more of an adventure to get the train.

    I do love an adventure! No matter how small :)

    Ah well, when in Rome...


  • #9
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    The spelling mistakes nearly killed me in your OP. I couldn't decide the whole time reading it whether you were pulling the piss with them. I'm still not sure. I don't mean to be mean, lovely thread.

    I would go for something a bit out of time. Swashing and Buckling and fisticuffs. Exotic lands and strange yet endearing women, boats and hoes you get the drift.

    I would love to live something out of a Tim Powers novel. On Stranger Tides and The Anubis Gates are two of the best adventure stories I've ever read. In reality though I'm happy with just a little adventure here and there. You can make your own day to day.


  • #10
    Immaculate Pasta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    I'll be right with you OP after I buy my first house and car :cool:


  • #11
    A_Sober_Paddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭A_Sober_Paddy


    Shryke wrote: »
    The spelling mistakes nearly killed me in your OP. I couldn't decide the whole time reading it whether you were pulling the piss with them. I'm still not sure. I don't mean to be mean, lovely thread.

    I would go for something a bit out of time. Swashing and Buckling and fisticuffs. Exotic lands and strange yet endearing women, boats and hoes you get the drift.

    I would love to live something out of a Tim Powers novel. On Stranger Tides and The Anubis Gates are two of the best adventure stories I've ever read. In reality though I'm happy with just a little adventure here and there. You can make your own day to day.

    I'm dyslexic and for some reason my spell check isn't working on my browser


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  • #12
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »
    I'm dyslexic and for some reason my spell check isn't working on my browser

    Ah that's sound, understood you perfectly well.


  • #13
    nice_very
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭nice_very


    Im in, are you paying ? if u are Im in cos Im going off my head, love to go do a bear grylls type week in south america (minus the pee)


  • #14
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Enter a state of deep psychosis like I and everything becomes an adventure. It's really fun and it's very difficult not to indulge yourself in your fantasies. The other day I became a cloud and a secret agent. Plus the rare moments of clarity are exhilarating. I should probably be medicated....

    I'd like to go to Japan. It'd be mad I'd say.


  • #15
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    We're gonna need two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers. Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls.


  • #16
    trad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭trad


    A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »
    I'm dyslexic and for some reason my spell check isn't working on my browser

    try 7F


  • #17
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    I love adventures. If I won the lotto I'd just jump on a plane to any destination and let the adventure start there and see where it takes me.


  • #18
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    I watched a trailer for that and thought it looked sh!t, true story.

    Also thought this thread was going to be about Adventure Time, I am disappoint.


  • #19
    tmc86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭tmc86


    I'd love to go to Peru and do the Inca trail then travel down through Bolivia and the rest of South America in a battered but trusty red Defender jeep with my gf


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    tmc86 wrote: »
    I'd love to go to Peru and do the Inca trail then travel down through Bolivia and the rest of South America in a battered but trusty red Defender jeep with my gf

    Inca trail is on my bucket list too.

    It's a vury long list and I'm getting old.

    Must not have panic attack. Deep breaths.


  • #21
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    tmc86 wrote: »
    I'd love to go to Peru and do the Inca trail

    That's on my bucket list


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  • #22
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,067 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    I'm in. Where are we going?
    We could use this
    http://www.abulsme.com/trip/spottool.html .
    Someone else should pick though - I ended up in the ocean five times before getting solid ground... in Yemen...


  • #23
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It's a vury long list and I'm getting old.

    I have too many places to see before I die :(


  • #24
    Carter P Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Carter P Fly


    Do the Mongol rally. I did it a few years back and it was epic beyond words.


  • #25
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    get on a random bus and get a picture with the driver wherever you wind up, then ask the driver to be your friend. Maybe give him some flowers. make a beautiful scrapbook documenting this.


  • #26
    Sided
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭Sided


    Well....

    I moved to another country (ie: Ireland) in hopes to figure out my life and fall in love, travel Europe, see the world.. yadda yadda

    I'm doing the same thing I was doing at home. Working.

    The last adventure I had was a jaunt to Cork.

    Life is semi boring, have to say.


  • #27
    inforfun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,860 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    For football fans only and for me probably never going to happen because this will never be played in a matter of a few weeks but my adventure would be going to South America and visit these 3 matches:

    Flamengo - Fluminense
    Boca Juniors - River Plate
    Universidad de Chile - Colo Colo.

    Probably best to save the Argentinian one for last. Most likely the unsafest of the 3.


  • #28
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    http://www.amazon.co.uk/River-Doubt-Candice-Millard/dp/0767913736/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298763984&sr=8-1

    This is what Teddy Roosevelt did. Some adventure. Not all fun, by the sounds.

    "The River of Doubt was a thousand mile ribbon of water snaking through the densest jungle on earth. Challenged by waterfalls and rapids, heat and insects, deadly predators and watchful Indians..."

    "...it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron."


  • #29
    Willow Hissing Net
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Willow Hissing Net


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I would love to have a really big adventure. In Borneo or somewhere equally as awesome.

    I tend to have lots of mini adventures though. If I take a wrong turn or something I say "ah sure it's an adventure". Or like when I was in Rome a few weeks ago, I wouldn't get a taxi from the airport because it's more of an adventure to get the train.

    I do love an adventure! No matter how small :)

    that's funny you say that, my friend is going to borneo in a few weeks


  • #30
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,067 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    bluewolf wrote: »
    that's funny you say that, my friend is going to borneo in a few weeks

    It's not really "funny" at all though, is it? Or even odd...


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  • #31
    A_Sober_Paddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭A_Sober_Paddy


    inforfun wrote: »
    For football fans only and for me probably never going to happen because this will never be played in a matter of a few weeks but my adventure would be going to South America and visit these 3 matches:

    Flamengo - Fluminense
    Boca Juniors - River Plate
    Universidad de Chile - Colo Colo.

    Probably best to save the Argentinian one for last. Most likely the unsafest of the 3.

    The Argentina one is the one I really want to do, more so than the others


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