Things to do before you die

[JaKandDaxter]

What are some things you'll like to do before you die.

Two things that come to mind for me are. Traveling around Europe, sightseeing and touring historic cities and landmarks that I've only seen via pictures and videos. Or heard about via word of mouth. Another personal thing I'll like to do, is race around an empty Nascar track in a stock car. And perhaps ride around in some other cars as well.

 

[Barbas]

I'd like to handle lots and lots of different firearms. I'd also like to visit Russia. I bet I can fit both of those into one trip.

 

[Albino Boo]

Amy Adams / end thread.


To be serious, I would love to go to New Zealand, which is a rather remote chance. I'm planning a trip to Canada for later this year, which is another place on my wish list.

 

[JaKandDaxter]

I'd like to handle lots and lots of different firearms. I'd also like to visit Russia. I bet I can fit both of those into one trip.

Russia is also one place I will like to visit someday, particulary Moscow and Volgograd. And I will in the coming year of so be a gun owner as a cop. And getting a rifle (AR-15) is one of my priorities for recreational shooting.

I know an older brother went to Las Vegas, and found a place where he and his now wife were able to handle multiple firearms. Not sure the specifics though.

Amy Adams / end thread.


To be serious, I would love to go to New Zealand, which is a rather remote chance. I'm planning a trip to Canada for later this year, which is another place on my wish list.

After seeing the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies. New Zealand would make for an awesomely trip. Amazing to know the landscape is all natural and not green screen.

 

[sageoftruth]

Either write a story and get it published, or learn to draw and make a comic from one of my existing ones.

 

[McElroy]

inb4 a trip to Japan with my weeaboo friends.

Anyways, getting to hold a quirky job interview. Y'know, to mess around with the applicants. Preferably many times. Preferably leaving them with such an impression they'll cheerfully complain about it in social media. Then I'll hire the one who shares the best story.

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

I'd like to handle firearms as well. Travel the world. Maybe meet a few people along the way.

Get a car that won't break down because I'm too cheap to get a decent one.

EDIT: Travel to Greece to dive on Titanic's sister ship Britannic, which is in only 400 feet of water and in good condition.

 

[Odbarc]

I have no interest in traveling like a lot of people seem to want to do and never get around to.
Write a book?

 

[Joccaren]

Honestly, I feel I'm kind of blessed here. Parents always wanted to travel, so I've been all through Europe, America, various bits and pieces of Asia, most of Oceania...

Honestly, the biggest thing I want before I die is perhaps the simplest; I simply want a happy life with the woman I love. I've had my adventures, and I'd love to take her on some, but honestly all I really want is to spend my time with her. If I've managed that and not fucked it up, then I'll die happy when I eventually do, no regrets.

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

I can honestly say I've scratched most things off my list and am not really wanting for much. Maybe it's maturity, or just getting older, or learning to be happy with what I have, but I'm pretty content at the moment. If anything, it's just repeating things that I've already done, as much as possible. Most of them involve vehicles of the rear wheel/manual shifting variety-
-Canyon cruising
-Track drifting
-Nurburgring laps!
Maybe just get a few more mountain passes under the belt. May retired dad lives in Switzerland, it seems every time I go to visit him we do a new one (or four).

 

[Ryallen]

Write a story that's good enough that ensures that my name doesn't die meaningless in history. Make something that shows that I existed. Because Lord knows that I sure as hell am not going to be able to do so by having a family or performing some sort of fantastical feat.

 

[Nickolai77]

I think I'd like to write and get a book published as well- even if it's just through Amazon or something, it would be nice for me to put a story out there to the world.

Travelling is an obvious one, I'm due to tick off 'Seeing Iron Maiden' and 'Visit Japan' all at once when I see them in Tokyo in April. I'd also like to visit Rome, but I've got plenty of time to do that in my life as I come from the UK and Italy is not far away. I'd also like to visit America, and If I right in thinking tourists are allowed to I'd visit a shooting range.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

See the Aurora Borealis. That and drive a Dodge Challenger Hellcat. Being in the Southern Hemisphere makes both rather difficult.

Actually, seeing the Aurora Australis is bloody hard given all the goddamn light pollution.

 

[Dalisclock]

-Get a book published. I've got one written, but I've been editing it for a while(when I bother to work on it, which isn't often) and then I'll try to get it published.

-Learn to speak another language with some degree of fluency. I'm trying to learn German right now, but it's not going very fast.

-Learn to play the piano.

-Visit Japan.

-Go into Space, even if only for a couple orbits. This one will depend a lot on the progress of space tourism before I die. If it drops down to something comparable to an airline ticket, I'm there.

 

[Auron225]

- See an Aurora Borealis (I see I'm not the only one to list that as of yet)

- Go travelling around Europe by trains (France, Germany, Italy, Austria - maybe visit some Scandinavian countries too)

- Lean to play piano

- Learn some kind of martial arts

- Get married & have kids

- Try using a gun on a shooting range (handheld and rifle if possible).

- Go into space. No chance I'll ever be an astronaut but if technology advances enough...

- Scuba-diving. Aside from space, this may be the least likely one since I'm asthmatic and that apparently makes it nigh impossible.

- Ride a motorbike across part of the US or Canada

- Career-wise; get involved with robotics and the development of mobile-prosthetic limbs. Or help with the development with at least one major videogame that I can get excited about. Either one really, but both would be awesome.

 

[Silverbeard]

Be able to speak properly.
I don't actually have that skill because of a speech impediment. Just for a day I'd like to experience what it feels like to just be able to talk without having to drool or spend five minutes planning an entire conversation, including what the other party is going to say and what my response will be.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I'd really like to properly leave the US, if only to visit some other nation. I've been to the Caribbean but I don't really consider that to be truly OUT of the US. I'd like to visit places Ireland, London, Oslo and of course Japan. I'd also really like to eat actual Kobe Beef which would only be possible if I make it to Kobe, Japan.

Right now, when it comes to things I could feasibly achieve before the end of the year, I'd like to complete an entire Let's Play of Pokemon Green. So far, I've made it to a point where I can almost, possibly, take on Brock so I've got a ways to go.

 

[stormtrooper9091]

Easy enough

1. Live long
2. Prosper

do you get it? Good

now for realsies:

-get Lasik surgery
-visit Busch stadium for a home stand
-see Radiohead live
-just once not feel like an outcast in a group of my peers

 

[Mikeybb]

I'm with Bill Bailey.
Number 67 for me.
Lunge wildly at the Pope.

Though only for a manly hug because the current one is cool.

Seriously though, I don't really think about these kind of things.
Maybe that's a lack of ambition on my part.
The generic answer is "As much as possible" but other than maybe write a book that doesn't make people regret having learned to read, I can't think of anything else.