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What do you want to do before you die?

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  • 05-10-2003 7:37pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 1,738 ✭✭✭


    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


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  • Registered Users Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭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)


  • Registered Users Posts: 389 ✭✭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:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 444 ✭✭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 :D)


  • Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,738 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭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...


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  • Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭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?"


  • Registered Users Posts: 110 ✭✭Eppie


    eh this is an unfortunately titled thread.


  • Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33 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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 444 ✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36 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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Mystic Fibrosis


    Twas Zombies Ate My Neighbours.

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭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!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭smiles


    be happy.

    << Fio >>


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,024 ✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 620 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭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


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