26/10/2009

50 things to do before you’re 30

1. Have a really stupid accident which necessitates a hospital visit
2. Shoot something *
3. Take a weekend break more than 1000 miles from home
4. Boot Linux on your home PC
5. Get lost in a country where you don’t speak the language *
6. Spend more than your monthly income on a pocket sized gadget *
7. Post bail for a friend *
8. Break a really large plate glass window
9. Make a parachute jump on a hangover
10. Use a whole roll of gaffa tape in one day *
11. Make a pointless modification to your house
12. Neck a pint of peppermint oil
13. Pull a shemale/trannie by mistake (but realise in time…)
14. Buy a samurai sword
15. Delay paying a bill until the summons arrives *
16. Destroy a speed camera
17. Refill an inkjet cartridge *
18. Say something obscene on national television *
19. Do a J turn in order to beat somebody to a parking space
20. Break a sledgehammer
21. Make a bomb
22. Smash a CRT *
23. Require medical treatment as a consequence of kinky sex gone wrong (STDs don’t count.)
24. Tip a waiter with something other than money *
25. Light a fire with petrol
26. Kidnap someone
27. Park inside a motorway service station
28. Own a convertible
29. Live abroad *
30. Drive at more than 140kph *
31. Get something for free through a masterpiece of complaining *
32. Give yourself a mains electric shock
33. Completely dismantle an object larger than yourself *
34. Write off a car
35. Fall asleep and get really hilarious sunburn *
36. Get drunk on Absinthe *
37. Stay up all night listening to a friend have an emotional crisis *
38. Lick the terminals of a 9v battery
39. Take part in motorsport *
40. Stay at the office for more than 24 hours *
41. Set off a fire extinguisher *
42. Drive at least 600 miles in a day on two lane roads *
43. Hotwire a car
44. Watch all the Monty Python films In one sitting
45. Shag an ex-girlfriend/boyfriend by mistake
46. Dial 999 *
47. Commit a faux pas which means that a friend will never speak to you again *
48. Make a bet you couldn’t afford to lose *
49. Read a 500 page book in one sitting *
50. Escape a perfectly justified parking ticket *

(via Blinman)

* 2. Bow and arrows, water guns, hoops 5. Beijing, 2004; Paris, 1998 6. A camera on my junior salary 7. Only once ever, thank God 10. Many times, I love gaffa tape! 15. Mostly unintentionally forgotten about 17. Check 18. Does calling Ed Norton shit hot (when I meant Ed Burns) count? 22. Strangely liberating 24. Phone number on a coaster 29. Sydney, 2008 30. When I was young and stupid and had keys to daddy’s car 31. Blagging is an art form 33. Bookshelves, beds, uni exhibition stand; also good at assembling 35. Most recent: Bohol, 2007 36. Once is enough 37. A few times 39. If by taking part, means being a grid girl then yes: Formula One Sepang GP, 1999 40. Catcha, handful of times between 2005-2008 41. Curiousity set off a fire extinguisher 42. Need to look up distance from Wellington to Auckland, might not be 600 miles but it was the longest I’ve done in a day 46. I wonder how many calls these guys get from curious kids 47. If by faux pas, means being honest then yes, as recent as this month and no, I don’t really care to try explaining 48. I lost. It was marriage. I also got out of it 49. Too many times to count, yes I am a nerd 50. In KL, with impressive amount of grovelling and trading phone numbers