[Closed] Things to do before I'm 40.....

Butt rape a wolf.

I like wolves.... that also sounds a little too risky 😯

Not sure about the wolf thing...they're notoriously demanding lovers.

What about White Collar Boxing - if you live in London see www.badboypromotions.co.uk.

12 weeks training ending in a competitive fight in front of an audience.

😯 I'm a girl and a pacifist so not sure about that one either....

If you've never jelly wrestled with an attractive consenting female then I'd recommend it............

You're a girl? OK, that's my suggestion out of the window then!

gusamc - Member

If you've never jelly wrestled with an attractive consenting female then I'd recommend it............

and you'd wanna watch right?

what flavour jelly I'm writing it down?

run a marathon?
get arrested?
learn to fly\surf\a foreign language
a night on each of the class a drugs
have a car crash

no I was an equally consenting and willing paricipant, and it was a lot more fun than watching the royal wedding (which shows you how old I am)

live in a foreign (non English speaking) country for >12mths

A threesome (if you've already done that, then a moresome) 🙂

Get your tits on the big screen at a festival 😆

@ 5lab

I'm doing the BUPA run on 15th May but yeah training for something proper's a good one I like that. New language I like.

Drugs and anything illegal not going on my list either want life affirming stuff

get some mates and a feral or at least big'ish dog.
stand in a circle with the dog in the middle
then play the briliant game called "touch the dog's arse"

Girls can compete in white collar boxing too!

JEngledow - Member

Get your tits on the big screen at a festival

Does a Bolton home match count I could try that hahahaha!!

McHamish - Member

Girls can compete in white collar boxing too!

😯 I'm not very competitive sportwise and a BIG HUGE wimp

Be famous for something, even if for only 15 mins.
Get your picture in a newspaper for doing something.

I like that one I could combine that with the flashing 😆 two birds one stone....

Try some things that you think you don't want to do / aren't into (i.e. the stuff up there ^^)

Maybe you've been saying no to all these things for all this time and that is why you think your life's been a bit dull.

Edit: have you watched "yes man"?

I've done some stuff other people wouldn't I've been in bands and done solo's (singing) at the Albert Halls (Bolton not London :D)

You are right though I need to say YES more!

Right so sod the list and just start saying yes to everything see what happens instead 💡

LEJOG.
Drive across the USA.
See the midnight sun.
Swim in the arctic ocean.
Juggle chainsaws.

run 40 of the peaks in the lakes or Scotland in 40hours nonstop!

Stop saying no. Life becomes a lot more fun (if a little expensive)

beej - Member

LEJOG.
Drive across the USA.
See the midnight sun.
Swim in the arctic ocean.
Juggle chainsaws.

I had to google LEJOG 😆

Tour Divide Race. See you there 2012 ok? You might get the race started before your 40th.

ourkidsam - Member

Stop saying no. Life becomes a lot more fun (if a little expensive)

Why have you tried this? 😀

molgrips - Member

Tour Divide Race. See you there 2012 ok? You might get the race started before your 40th.

EEK! That's a biggy!!

Oh as an aside if any of you fancy doing any of these rides you do for a worthy charity if you're not already I'd love to hear from you!!

Ride the steps of doom - binners will show you how 😀
Do a bivvy night
Do some cycle touring
Hold a women only bike tour of Ramsbottom with/without pub stops
Get totally smashed in the Lounge - near morrisons then go for a night ride (I used to do this a lot)
Buy a single speed

You can come and do the Keilder 100 with me if you like. That's one to tick off the list.

First time I saw the term LEJOG I thought it was some pseudo-French term, "Le Jog", meaning something like "The trip". Even after I knew it related to riding from Lands End to John O'Groats it took a while to realise it was an acronym.

I'm still trying to find out what a Jogle is.

Hora. He's near you?

jump out of a plane
bungee jump off something big
abseil down a large building
learn to climb a 7c+ route
come face to face with theraposa blondii

Cycle across a foreign land (non English speaking and remote)
Write a book about it
Volunteer at the Para Olympics (makes one re-asses ones abilities)
Learn an extreme sport (free diving, ice climbing)
Rescue a big huge old dog (see other thread)

Why? Why the urge to do something just because you reach certain milestone?

Why not try or do the opposite instead i.e. don't do anything at all but be happy.

Or start giving all your things away and start to de-clutter your life.

🙄

break into a goth nightclub and swap all the uv lights for tanning tubes

I'm still trying to find out what a Jogle is.

YOU EVER BEEN TO THE TRAFFORD CENTRE?

Get a real job 😉

Liking some of the suggestions up there such as like abroad for >12mn and bivvy nights (with or without jelly)

How about
Appearing somewhere in a film
Finding 5 stw'ers who live abroad and going riding for a weekend with each group (ok, finances may kill that one)

First time I saw the term LEJOG I thought it was some pseudo-French term, "Le Jog", meaning something like "The trip". Even after I knew it related to riding from Lands End to John O'Groats it took a while to realise it was an acronym

me too 😳

maccruiskeen - maybe I should have added a smiley...

leffeboy - Member

Get a real job

Good job I know what you do cheeky!! 😀

Lovin' these, sounds like you're all doing your own lists too in your heads now 😀

Thanks guys x

As it happens, when I was 40 I made a list of the things I had done so far (mainly to try and top it in the next 40 years...) Do any of these give you ideas??

Jumped out of a plane (twice)
Flown a plane (not the same one as above!)
Been whitewater kayaking (both above and underground)
Been caving
Climbed up to 6b grade (yes, I know that's not very good)
Climbed up the Mer de Glace
Ridden all sorts of Mountain Biking World Cup courses (slowly!)
Ridden from the west to the east coast of England in a day
Taught fencing to six year olds
Taught IT to six year olds
Worked at a music concert
Heard Queen in Concert
Met The Queen
Met several other queens
Been out with a Doctor, a Nurse, a Midwife and a Nursery Nurse (not all at once!)
Swam with Dolphins
Skied down an active volcano
Bought a house
Appeared, as a competitor, on Sky Sports
Been to Le Mans 24 Heures
Driven down the Mulsanne straight
Been to the inaugural year of a music festival
Span my car through 360 degrees 😮
Owned an Alfa Romeo
Driven a Challenger 2 tank (badly)
Been to an arms fair
Been ice climbing
Torn ankle ligaments, dislocated a shoulder and prolapsed a disc

Rachel

Oooooooooh Thanks Rachel some ace ones there, I've only done four of them (dependant on what sort of queens you meant 😀 )

I'd actually be more scared about owning an Alfa Romeo lovely aren't they but cost alot when they break down, well my ex's did anyway 😆

fantastic list Rachel 🙂

Girl I went to school with said that she wanted to have a nervous breakdown and to go to prison before she was 40, so she had experienced life or some such rubbish. Must look her up...

Unsupported multiday trekking in the wilds -

Bollocks, great list Rachel but I've only got 6 months to do it in.

Except the last item, could do without torn ligaments!

TJ do I have to eat grubs or can I take a packed lunch 😀

Do a [url= http://www.bobgrahamclub.co.uk/bobgrahamround.co.uk/ ]Bob Graham Round[/url]. My dad did one in 2008(?) and loved it, fellrunning helps but it's only an average speed of 3MPH, walk up, run down. 42 times 😯

bagpuss - you're right about the Alfa breaking down!! I had two; the second one last 3 days before breaking down and telling me there was water in the diesel tank. It was a petrol car.

Oh - and I meant drag queens...

Rachel

Take a packed lunch 🙂

Me and Mrs TJ do this every year - it really clears the mind. Heading off again in 3 weeks

I do love walking I'm much better at it than cycling!!

I'd like to do a proper trek for the charity I work for next year, Peru or Great Wall of China you need to raise a SHEDLOAD of money so needs thinking through properly if anyone fancies doing it to?

You really need to be able to run though, and stay on your feet for up to 24 hours. Record is 13 😯

😯

I'd love to do a big expedition - but nothing tooo obvious - maybe something like a long trek in Mongolia??

Rachel

Assault a politician and/or lunge wildly at a member of the royal family!

Rachel

I've been contacted by a company who we can organise it through my thinking was to try and get some local people interested too round here but you're right something a bit different than the norm may spark more interest

Some people are excited by the idea of self-reliance that is needed on an unusual trip and some (the majority?) are turned off by it. You'll need to know what type of people you can attract.

Either way, 2012 is likely to be a bit of a challenging year for me anyway - being stuck in the middle of nowhere could be a very bad thing. If you're plan falls in 2013, let me know!!

Rachel

I want to:

Learn trapeze, sail across either the Pacific or Atlantic. travel down from Alaska to the bottom of South America (forgot what the end country is 😳 ) Live in Paris. Live in Los Angles. To begin with.

In no particular order...
Tandem skydive
Drive something fast around the Nurburgring
Marathon de Sables
Become an egg donor
Become fluent in a foreign language
Buy a nice road bike
Scuba dive on the Great Barrier Reef
Road trip across America
Bag all 284 munroes in Scotland
Train to Tibet

Should keep you out of trouble for a while.

Sail the Atlantic.. yeah.. that reminds me of one of my schemes. One day, instead of flying to see Mrs Grips' folks I'd like to sail. You'd have to go from Cardiff across the Altantic, go up the Eastern Seabord, then down the St Lawrence seaway into the Great Lakes.. then there's a river/canal that goes into the lake by their town. You could then walk over to their house.. that would be so aweseome 🙂

bagpuss72 - Member

I do love walking I'm much better at it than cycling!!

I'd like to do a proper trek for the charity I work for next year, Peru or Great Wall of China you need to raise a SHEDLOAD of money so needs thinking through properly if anyone fancies doing it to?

Please forget this. People have real giving fatigue over these and why should we pay so you can have a holiday. Its all organised for you anyway and no adventure. want to do this do it yourself - and it can be done in Scotland.

Want to raise money for charity do something useful that does not cost thousands just to take part.

Want to do some trekking? Heres some pics of scottish treks I have done - I have also do it in Chile, Slovcenia, France and heading for italy this year

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25846484@N04/sets/72157624235532225/show/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25846484@N04/sets/72157624085074454/show/

Yeah I dunno about those charity things either.

"I want the holiday of a lifetime so give some money to charity so I can go"

❓

I'm 40 this June and after watching lots of friends go through that barrier and it turn into an ugly mess, these are some of the things I'm NOT going to do - and I suggets you might like to avoid some of them:

Buy a sports car
Shag someone I shouldn't
Run off with a friends wife
Start going to nightclubs again
Get into religion
Skinny jeans
Buy a bar
Make inappropriate gestures to women half my age to prove to myself I'm not really 40
Get my old record collection out f the loft and force my kids to listen to it

There's probably more I could list that Ive witnessed.

I'm probably going to buy a new bike instead.

Start going to nightclubs again

Skinny jeans

Make inappropriate gestures to women half my age to prove to myself I'm not really 40

Rachel

things ive done that i really reccomend

not as hard as you think but still shit your pants scary
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climbing the inca trail in cloud to have the sun come out when you get to macchu pichu
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everyone should go to TG at least once in their life, strict dress code for sure but the outfits, the stage shows, the decor, the atmos, without a doubt the best club in the world
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ok so since the wall went up its never had the same magic but still the craziest 4 day party youll ever go to
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Just do stuff because you want to, not 'cause you're approaching 40. Looking back, lots of the memorable stuff I did between 40 and 50 wasn't part of some mid-life crisis plan, more 'stuff that just happened' . . .

Midnight sun . . . just weird
Drove across USA . . . best holiday ever
Bought 70+ new bikes 😛 . . . and sold them all except one
[s]Sold my kids[/s] 😳 . . . saw my kids become independent(ish)
Found a job I love doing
Found loads more me time 😛

Getting older rocks! 8)

Be 32
Be 33
Be 34
Be 35
Be 36
Be 37
Be 38
Be 39

*buys torture garden tickets*

😯

😈

how about "get a grip of yer self" your only 40 life starts now like