100 things you don't need to do before you die

[Dillytante]

Although I don't have a bucket list because I'd find it guilt inducing (more things to do that I just don't have time for) I am a bit of a sucker for feeling like I should do things. So was pleased to read this Graun article 100 things you don't need to do before you die so I could cross a few things off.

I'm already crossing climbing Everest off as I have just read Into Thin Air about the 1996 disaster where a load of climbers died. And the ones that didn't seem to have such a miserable time anyway. So defo not doing that.

Anyone else got any more I can cross off my list? Places I don't need to go? Books I don't need to read?

[GeekLove]

pram so what was so terrible about Indonesia? It seems like a big place with lots of different island and I have been meaning to gO some day. This is a genuine question.

[Wibblytummy]

I have zero interest in jumping off cliffs or out of planes. My family all think I'm mad to refuse to but seriously, the feeling of falling when you forget about the bottom step on the stairs is terrifying enough let alone from the ruddy clouds.

[mignonnetteZOMBIEKILLEROFHQ]

Agree with Stinking about the Fat Duck. Also don't bother with Noma either. There are so many better things to do in Copenhagen. Actually picking your toenails in Copenhagen is more enjoyable than Noma. You could even sell them to Rene Redzepi afterwards as some weird foraged animal spoor that he can then serve to hedge funders at six thousand a pop.

Don't bother with Gordon Ramsay restaurants too. Overblown temples to the Ramsay cock.

[DuckToWater]

Same here Geek. I have always found Java and Sumatra, which are mahoosive and all the little islands really fascinating to look at in atlases etc and all the wildlife and the fact there is just so much jungle boggles my brain. And komodo dragons, OMG. That is perhaps one for my list, I would like to see a big fuck off monitor lizard in the wild.

[DuckToWater]

I have only been to one Gordon Ramsay restaurant, Royal Hospital Road, and that was the best dining experience of my life by some distance, and I've eaten in some lovely places. Best of all, I wasn't paying! Worst of all, I was heavily pregnant so couldn't fully enjoy the wines or cram as much food in as normal.

[DuckToWater]

I would recommend paragliding. Not so much falling as soaring, like an eagle.

[VerySmallSqueak]

Don't bother trying to be cultured.

If you think classical music,opera,and literature are boring,do something fun instead.

[mignonnetteZOMBIEKILLEROFHQ]

I'll concede Hospital Rd, Duck. But not the others. . Glad you had a lovely time.

[stinkingbishop]

Ah you see I LOVED Noma, and even better was we ran into Redzepi in a bar afterwards and I completely

[TheNumberfaker]

Don't go to Cuba.

[TrucksAndDinosaurs]

I think whales should be generally left to their own devices and not watched by day trippers or cruise ship passengers.

Ditto dolphins; leave the poor buggers alone.

[helzapoppin2]

Never even think about making a bucket list.
Never go for the tasting menu in a posh restaurant. 15 tiny courses later you will still feel hungry.
Give Charles Saatchi a wide berth.

[BraveMerida]

Don't waste your life on youtube and Facebook ......

[FunnysInLaJardin]

that article was great Dilly. I am so glad that I don't have to do all those things afterall and loving the 11,000 odd hours waiting for my children to put their shoes on. That is my life that is

[helzapoppin2]

Never make your own mayonnaise

[FunnysInLaJardin]

Oh I'd also say never visit anywhere where the spiders are bigger than in the UK. Why would you? Europe is just fine. Plenty of nice places in Europe. £10k to be scared shitless? I don't think so

[BraveMerida]

You don't need to make your own biscuits.

[CarlaBrooni]

Never write/read a "100 things to do before you die" list.

It's one of those cringy, Facebook-era things that people seem to need to speak about now.

[JugglingFromHereToThere]

My Mum makes nice mayonnaise helza - can I still have hers ?

[theDudesmummy]

You don't need to make cakes, you can buy some wonderful ones.

[redrubyshoes]

Never buy fashion magazines, they are just 150 pages of adverts, four articles not worth reading and pictures of stupid, impractical and overpriced clothes..

Spend £4 on something nice to eat or a couple of books from a secondhand shop.

[ShadeofViolet]

One Day was piffle - really rubbish

Also, never go on a tour of the Nou Camp in Barcelona. Its boring and packed with shouty people.

[BalloonSlayer]

Things I would suggest you don't bother with:

• sleeping under the stars. It doesn't matter how hot it has been all day, it is fecking freezing at night. Have a nice shag on a blanket and then retire to nice warm bed instead.

• get a tattoo. If you have not got one by the time you are compiling your bucket list then you are too old.

• bungee jump. You may shit yourself. Just sayin'

• go to the opera. If you don't already love it enough to have already been by the time you are old enough to consider it for a bucket list, it will turn out to be an expensive way to make your ears bleed

• driving a fast car round a racetrack. Only thrilling if you can drive fast already. If you are like me, and will be doing driving lesson hands and mirror-signal-manoeuvre then save your cash

• parachute jump. See bungee jump

• waterskiing. One word: enema. See parachuting and bungee jump.

• climbing Ayers rock. Exhausting, scary, and at the end you find you are stood on a rock looking at a desert. The aboriginals don't like people climbing it. Refuse to do so, claim to be respecting the culture and drink beer instead.

[JugglingFromHereToThere]

If you ever go to Malta - don't BTW! - then don't also go on a day trip around Gozo on a crowded mini-bus

[ElephantsAndMiasmas]

Don't bother with Land's End. They charge you about a fiver to park and walk through a load of pretentious and crap Fudge Shoppes etc and when you get to the end - hey presto, it's the edge of a cliff just like thousands of others along the coast. Go to a different one, park for free and just enjoy the beautiful view.

I wouldn't fuss over the Eden Project either, unless you are a botanist or have a bubble wrap fetish.

Don't read Atonement, it has a washout ending and the bit I really can't get over is that a child is abused as part of the plot and because she lied about who abused her no-one cares that it happened. She's a baddy. WTF. Sod Ian McEwan and his frequent child-abuse motifs.