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Anti - Bucket list?

62 replies

ToLongNow · 16/08/2020 23:36

THE ANTI- BUCKET LIST....

What is something you never want to do?

OP posts:
BigusBumus · 17/08/2020 00:30

@HolyPillow My dad was killed in the Falklands war at sea when I was 10. No body, he was just out there somewhere and never recovered. I didn't twig that's why I didn't like the sea until a few years ago!

MorrisZapp · 17/08/2020 00:34

Is this a fever dream? User names from pre historic times on this thread!

Go to Australia

Eat olives

Watch all the shite ppl recommend on Netflix etc

Torn on the paternoster lift issue.

DPotter · 17/08/2020 00:41

I quite liked using a paternoster - but not bucket or anti bucket list material in my view.

My anti bucket list would include
bungee jumping
parachute jump
climbing Kilimanjaro or Everest - in fact anything which required you to be 'roped up'
scuba diving
eating the Japanese poisonous fish dish

HunkyPunk · 17/08/2020 00:41

swimming with dolphins and seeing the sunrise over Angkor Wat? They’re so generic and bland.

Are they? Some people must lead really exciting lives

Some of mine I've successfully avoided so far -

Attend a barn dance
Be in the vicinity of a hog roast
Camp in any way, shape or form
Go on a bat walk
Ride a unicycle
Participate in a flash mob
Be the victim of a surprise party
Go on a murder mystery weekend

ResIpsaLoquiturInterAlia · 17/08/2020 00:46

Skydive over Antarctica

Bungee jumping or surf down into an active volcano

Deep sea/ocean diving especially with sharks
And

Sleep on the edge of a cliff

Stranded on a desert island even if French Polynesia

Spend time in a prison cell (but had visited South Africa Robben Island Mandela cell)

HolyPillow · 17/08/2020 00:54

I’m so sorry, @BigusBumus. Flowers

@HunkyPunk, probably some people genuinely desperately want to swim with dolphins, but I can’t imagine that an overwhelming majority of everyone who’s ever made a bucket list does, any more than everyone wants to learn fire eating or walk the Appalachian Trail — yet it shows up all the time. Presumably from people who think its the kind of thing you put on a bucket list.

Mistymonday · 17/08/2020 01:01

Eat meat.
Watch a musical.
Visit Dubai.
Wear Uggs.
Eat at McDonalds.

ToLongNow · 17/08/2020 01:06

@BigusBumusFlowers

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Mumblechum0 · 17/08/2020 01:08

Visit Dubai or Bhutan (for v different reasons).

Go on a cruise.

See a musical

ToLongNow · 17/08/2020 01:08

Partners would be....

Never to watch "Friends"
He hates it, but don't really see why....

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ToLongNow · 17/08/2020 01:10

Attend a male stripper show

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WinterAndRoughWeather · 17/08/2020 01:14

I’ve bungee jumped and can confirm it is awful. YANBU.

cheeseycharlie · 17/08/2020 01:26

Disneyland
Envious of those who got to go as kids but I'll not fret on my deathbed about missing it now.

therhubarbbrothers · 17/08/2020 01:29

Eat anything served in a shell
Anything involving jumping from a great height
Go to the USA
Go to butlins/haven/pontins

IdblowJonSnow · 17/08/2020 01:37

Run a marathon/do a triathlon, anything else that involves pain/discomfort.
Go on a boat anywhere (get horribly seasick).
I'm very lucky I've done most of the things I wanted to do, have become fairly risk averse these days.
Oh, build my own house, the stress. Shock

Onestepup · 17/08/2020 01:48

Eat octopus
Drink Malibu
Go diving, caving or bungee jumping
Get a cat
Attend a 'pot-luck supper'
Watch a drag show
Wear heels

Branches1 · 17/08/2020 01:50

Eat snails
Eat squid or octopus
Go camping

tectonicplates · 17/08/2020 02:14

A big clubbing holiday in Ibiza or Aiya Napa.

AyeCorona1 · 17/08/2020 02:27

@imissthesouth

Get a divorce😅
On the contrary - best thing I ever did!
Mintjulia · 17/08/2020 07:34

Have a tattoo or lip fillers
Bungee jump or parachute
Have therapy
Live in a city centre (already done that one)
Go on the stage
Be on a reality tv show
Space travel
Become a wedding planner

MiddleClassProblem · 17/08/2020 08:59

I don’t understand this etc “Go to India/Borneo/ Thailand etc” but ok...

Also intrigued by the fresh strawberries.

And @ResIpsaLoquiturInterAliadoes that mean you would skydive elsewhere?

Mine are:
Skydive
Bungee jump
Rock climbing
Go ape or anything with high ladders
Sail around the world
Go to space
Do Recreational drugs (other than alcohol or caffeine)
Shark cage
Photo ops with various chained up animals/ride elephant/sit in a crocodile etc
Be on tv
Climb a mountain
Run a marathon/iron man etc
Stay in a hostel
Go to the running of the bulls

I think that’s it. I’m not sure about that tomato festival either...

morning17 · 17/08/2020 09:11

live in south London

Immigrantsong · 17/08/2020 09:13

Extreme sports

CurtainWitcher · 17/08/2020 09:22

Any endurance activity at all
Tattoo
Anything that exploits animals - swimming at them, eating them etc
Sing/perform anything in front of any size audience
Be in control of a speeding vehicle

MardyBra · 18/08/2020 05:38

@MorrisZapp

Is this a fever dream? User names from pre historic times on this thread!

Go to Australia

Eat olives

Watch all the shite ppl recommend on Netflix etc

Torn on the paternoster lift issue.

What be this new-tangled quote facility then?