Your Bucket List

[The Archregimancy]

As one of the few people on NS with an incurable terminal (albeit slow-working) medical condition, I've already been working my way through my list for some 5 years now.

The main remaining items are:

1) Visit Mount Athos
2) Visit Bhutan
3) Attend a performance of Boris Godunov at the Mariinsky Theatre
4) Attend any performance of Sergei Taneyev's Oresteia - if someone, somewhere, can bring themselves to perform it.
5) Finish my research on Venezuela.
6) Get funding for and undertake an archaeology project on the 19th-century Welsh colony in Patagonia, leukaemia be damned.
7) Eat an Ortolan prepared in the classic manner (captured alive, force-fed, drowned in Armagnac, roasted whole and then eaten whole - bones and all)

[Arresyl]

1. Make the Pope lose "The Game."
2. Go on some sort of awesome adventure right out of a fantasy novel (complete with "happy ending" ), that was actually real.
3. Become rich. Very rich. In both money and spirit.
4. Nuke France without retaliation.
5. Beat an evil dicator to death with my bare hands.
6. Beat France to death with my bare hands.
7. Become part of an effort to colonize other worlds.
8. Unify the world under one banner. If the banner is mine, that's just a bonus. However, I must unify the world for someone that I want to fight under, or at least in the name of a great cause.
9. Write a great novel. Mut become extremely popular without using sparkly vampires in order to do so.
10. If the world should come to an end, thus causing my death, I want to be the one to end it.
11. Other


Note that I was joking about the French things.

DAMN YOU. I LOST THE GAME!!!

And I have come one step closer to winning it all...

But you lost it the moment you mentioned it. sorry.

True. I however, I play for points. Every time I make someone lose, I get just that much closer to my intended target. No matter how many times I have to lose to get there, I will defeat the pope, and crown myself king of the internet.

[Albrante]

I have a list floating around somewhere...
From memory:
-All the regular stuff, find wife, have family, be rich etc.
-Convince New Zealand to adopt nuclear power
-Be alive when the last few communist countries become non-communist.
-Win a Nobel Prize in Physics or Medicine, or if desperate Economics.
-Achieve the above by being a renowned Nuclear Physicist or Neurosurgeon.
-Step foot on all major geographical zones.
-Visit Portugal, London and Alaska
-Become a politician in my later years
-Further the cause of capitalism
-Destroy the New Zealand Green Party (Legally)
-Complete "Challenge List" that me and my mates made (A collection of stupid dares that beforehand comprised of a number of other steps on the list)
-Buy a sidearm
-See a Llama and spit on it if it spits on me
-Live out my twilight years as the New Zealand ambassador to Portugal.

[Dehn]

Wow, by my count that is 4 or 5 who want to run for public office. Also, I think they (we) are all conservatives. How odd. How odd indeed.

Not any more

1. Run for public office.
2. Earn a law degree.
3. Become a national office bearer of the Party for a few years.
4. Finish reading every Nietzsche wrote.
5. Get and win a referendum on Scottish Independence.
6. Become a member of a parliament to which Scotland sends members.

[North Avayu]

1. Go to university
2. Find someone I love and I want to be with for the rest of my life, maybe start a family

Most of the points on my list are rather vague, because I don't like to make strict long term plans. I try to take life as it comes.

Crap! I completely forgot this! Yeah, I wanna meet a woman that I can spend my life with...

...and bang on a regular basis too, but it's not just about sex.

You make it sound so much less romantic, man. Now I'll have to think about what lower motives I'm driven by ...

[KiloMikeAlpha]

Wow, by my count that is 4 or 5 who want to run for public office. Also, I think they (we) are all conservatives. How odd. How odd indeed.

Not any more

1. Run for public office.
2. Earn a law degree.
3. Become a national office bearer of the Party for a few years.
4. Finish reading every Nietzsche wrote.
5. Get and win a referendum on Scottish Independence.
6. Become a member of a parliament to which Scotland sends members.

Heh, Yeah but that's Scotland... where men are men, and sheep are nervous Wouldn't your constituency be like 5 men and 10000 sheep?

[Coffin-Breathe]

...just one thing on the list left - live my life to the end, and no whining and regrets then.

[Big Jim P]

The only thing left in my bucket is to go back home.

[KiloMikeAlpha]

...just one thing on the list left - live my life to the end, and no whining and regrets then.

Nice philosophy. Endure to the end.

[KiloMikeAlpha]

The only thing left in my bucket is to go back home.

Hmm... interesting way you put that. Where is home?

[Barzan]

1. Go to university
2. Find someone I love and I want to be with for the rest of my life, maybe start a family

Most of the points on my list are rather vague, because I don't like to make strict long term plans. I try to take life as it comes.

Crap! I completely forgot this! Yeah, I wanna meet a woman that I can spend my life with...

...and bang on a regular basis too, but it's not just about sex.

You make it sound so much less romantic, man. Now I'll have to think about what lower motives I'm driven by ...

Sorry for pissing on your dreams, dude. That wasn't my intention.

Anyhow, in my own defence, I did say that it wasn't just about sex. That's only about 50% of it. Well, maybe 60%. I want to have a woman who can be my best friend, spiritual partner, person to keep me from being lonely, and second income earner and household chore-sharer, too.

[Dehn]

Wow, by my count that is 4 or 5 who want to run for public office. Also, I think they (we) are all conservatives. How odd. How odd indeed.

Not any more

1. Run for public office.
2. Earn a law degree.
3. Become a national office bearer of the Party for a few years.
4. Finish reading every Nietzsche wrote.
5. Get and win a referendum on Scottish Independence.
6. Become a member of a parliament to which Scotland sends members.

Heh, Yeah but that's Scotland... where men are men, and sheep are nervous Wouldn't your constituency be like 5 men and 10000 sheep?

Roughly 60,000 or close to 100th of a population

Better nervous sheep than people who don't care about others

[North Avayu]

1. Go to university
2. Find someone I love and I want to be with for the rest of my life, maybe start a family

Most of the points on my list are rather vague, because I don't like to make strict long term plans. I try to take life as it comes.

Crap! I completely forgot this! Yeah, I wanna meet a woman that I can spend my life with...

...and bang on a regular basis too, but it's not just about sex.

You make it sound so much less romantic, man. Now I'll have to think about what lower motives I'm driven by ...

Sorry for pissing on your dreams, dude. That wasn't my intention.

Anyhow, in my own defence, I did say that it wasn't just about sex. That's only about 50% of it. Well, maybe 60%. I want to have a woman who can be my best friend, spiritual partner, person to keep me from being lonely, and second income earner and household chore-sharer, too.

And you have still hope?

[Mad hatters in jeans]

1.Don't make a list of things to do before i die.
2. enter paradox.

[Charlotte Ryberg]

Run a country and get rich is my actual ambition.

[Barzan]

Sorry for pissing on your dreams, dude. That wasn't my intention.

Anyhow, in my own defence, I did say that it wasn't just about sex. That's only about 50% of it. Well, maybe 60%. I want to have a woman who can be my best friend, spiritual partner, person to keep me from being lonely, and second income earner and household chore-sharer, too.

And you have still hope?

Well I figure if I can at least get my 50% then that'll be better than nothing, right?