Bucket List

kicks @thekenya in the shin

@Lotsofgoats what have I done to deserve being kicked in the shin?

@thekenya @Lotsofgoats was helping to fulfill #4 on your list.

@cinoclav @thekenya

@Lotsofgoats may have also intended to help with #2

@thekenya I'm just a giver

@thekenya you don't need unlimited resources to skydive. just go and do it! i did about a dozen jumps back in college. (by myself - not tandem jumps)

@thekenya
I sympathize with you on #3. At 18 I'm about to finish college, yet still haven't received my license since it will raise my parents' insurance cost.

@carl669 I mean you do need to have the time and money in order to skydive

@rhrgrt
Build a horse? Like one of those Trojan horses? What city-state do you wanna conquer?
Wait a min, you meant "build a hearse", didnt you? Will your self-portrait be on the side doors? Wow, you really plan for the future!

@f00l If I was to build a horse, it'd be Trojan-style. I'd use it to conquer my neighbor and take all of his expansive lands and vehicles and structures.

If I was to build a hearse, I would make it a horse-drawn hearse drawn by a motorized Trojan-style horse with the horse from the previous part of this response. Then, the non-horse part of the hearse would be painted as a self portrait.

Of course, I typed "house" the first time, as in "Build a house" which is literally what I typed. I like your imagination, though.

@rhrgrt
Your hearse is the best hearse/horse/house ever.

And my imagination usually tries to turn a house into a horse into a hearse, so it's best to mashup when i able. You saved me this time.

@joelmw

Can you accomplish #2 with a globe or a clay model of Earth?

@FroodyFrog No. I mean, maybe, but probably not the way you're thinking.

1. I'll have one of these too.

@joelmw

Oh.

Shame Magrathea isn't real though, because I have several ideal looking worlds in mind, and Minecraft just isn't good enough.

@FroodyFrog Too bad we ended up on the planet seeded by the telephone sanitizers. All due respect to any telephone sanitizers out there.

@mfladd You're not so bad after all.

@joelmw

@mfladd
All is forgiven!

@f00l Wait. What did I do now that has to be forgiven? Oh never mind I can't even keep track of them any more :)

@mfladd
Anything that might ever need to be forgiven is forgiven. Sorta like Pres Ford's pardon of Pres Nixon.

As long as you sometimes post pix like those.

@f00l Ha! I kind of read it like that after. Believe it or not, I really have never done anything really bad except for self-destructive behaviors. Probably for all my evil gif's the yin/yang is just balancing itself now. The good bleeds out of me now and then.

@mfladd
Dont know where you are, but i am prob at a good distance from you. So your destructive energy bleeds are masked by the close-proximity evil blasts radiating from the TX Dept of Public Safety roadworks projects.
Thus am i shielded. Easy for me to forgive at this distance.

@mfladd At some point, my friend, you'll find yourself with two beautiful children who've grown into beautiful adults. And you'll be somewhere that's very still and quiet and the sun will hit your face and you'll feel it.

I've zero doubt about this.

@jaremelz

So @mfladd will be in a pyramid with an artificial sun? Sounds pleasant.

@jaremelz awww - thanks

@mfladd Yeah yeah yeah, you're still an asshole

@jaremelz I know.

@mfladd @jaremelz

I really enjoy these back and forths between the two of you.

@mfladd

@RedHot @asgriffin and I have talked about taking a trip to Climb Kilimanjaro as well. Perhaps we can pick up some kick ass beer, sail to Africa and then drop some acid when we get to the top.

@RedHot
Uhhh.

Number 3 is not good for you at all. If you are not between 20-25 years old it is practically catastrophically bad for you, even in a safe environment.

Forget the pretty acid trips on Mad Men. Any genuine LSD acts like a very very hallucinatory, very heavy dose of strong meth. Aside from the messed up brain thing, the "speed" effects are stressful enough that older people can get seriously ill from the amphetamine-type experience, which goes on for many hours and does not feel nice the next day. If you would not take enough speed to leave you flying thru an entire day w rapid heartbeat and high blood pressure, you dont want anywhere near LSD, not even mentioning other issues.

Btw i have no idea why some of this shows up bolded in a huge typeface. Not done deliberately, cant undo.

?????? Ok, fixed. Pound sign thing.

@MEHcus drop acid my ass. you wouldn't even realize it if you were smoking oregano.

@asgriffin

@MEHcus
Need some Cheery Garcia now.

@RedHot I guess, as per @f00l, move LSD down to no. 5 then.

@f00l Starting a line with between one and six hashes sets that line to the respective header level in Markdown (and atx, where this markup was borrowed from).

@brhfl
Ok thx, sometimes forget.

@f00l I am 28 and have extensive experience with amphetamines. These aren't things I'm going to do tomorrow, there are things I'll do before I die. Maybe I'll save this one for last just in case ;-)

@RedHot
If you are past age 30, do save hallucinogens for last.

If hallucinogens are for anyone (doubtful), they are for only the (legal age) young adult - just like having a great bod in spite of abuse, or being incredibly stupid every other minute, and still being alive and being forgiven by your family.

If thru fate or bad fortune we dont do certain bad things when young, we missed our chances. (This is not an encouragement to the still young to let loose on the extreme party life and other risks that most people shake their heads at. Life will be better in almost every way if people avoid doing stupid things. Besides, life is full of surprises. Not-so-lovely adventures and challenges - and some nice ones - are gonna show up.)

The 1960s-70s young people got to, as one younger relative puts it, 'have all the fun. You guys had so much fun you practically sucked the fun out of the universe and now our generation just gets the scraps."

True to a point: but younger folk have lotsa tech toys - and a lots of 60s-70s stuff is now part of the common culture and knowledge, and our culture is measurably better now in many ways. "Grass is greener" always, for almost everyone.

Btw, many other hallucinogens (all forms of ecstacy, new designer stuff, mescaline, peyote, etc) have very harsh physical or speed-like effects in addition to messing w brain. Proceed w extreme caution and a lot of reading.

@RedHot I have to agree with what everyone else has already said. Acid of all types is for the young. You don't exactly have the same reactions to walls dripping when you are older. As I am also a diver, I would focus on the GBR - that would be amazing.

WARNING: At my age I would dissuade anyone from doing hallucinogenics. This probably comes from the fact that I am now a father.

@RedHot - If you find that beer, you might be the most interesting man in the world.

@RedHot
Re drug use:

We have a completely different sense of how much activity goes into a unit of time now. We all multi-everything, 24/365. Everyone is used to being able to switch to whatever is compelling within 5 min, except when constrained by work or whatever.

Not so during the hallucinogen heyday. Free time was relatively slow, and there was relatively a lot of it compared to now.

Imagine going fishing all nite and day, no way to get off boat for, say, 24 hours, no gadgets at all. You are stuck for that amt of time. Would you be bored, even if you had shade and insect repellant and a physical book?

Drugs are a bit like that. Once they're in your bod, aside from any other considerations, there you are, stuck, until it wears off. That can be a while.

I wouldn't take drugs now, even if young, even if no risk, no side effects, no responsibilities, lots of free time, safe situation, etc, because after 10 min i'd be incredibly restless and want my brain back so i could go do something else.

And on drugs i would just get to wait. I remember back in the day getting so po'd at self that i'd locked myself into the "drug place" for however long.

That's a huge reason i didn't get much into them way back when time was slow and there was lots of it; and would be a much bigger reason now. Staring at the wall, even a sorta temporarily interesting wall, gets old real quick.

@RedHot IME synthesized acid is terribly overrated, and very often adulterated.

Peyote (mescaline) and psilocybin (mushrooms) are much better choices if you prepare your body correctly and you're in a safe place with knowledgeable and responsible guides. And IME, less likely to induce a bad trip when administered properly. I'll echo the advice to do your research and remember that more is sometimes less. If you're in poor health, stay away.

The spiritual inexplicitness and subtle beauty found by using a natural hallucinogen can't be matched by those made in a lab.

If you're lucky, you'll see God. Don't be surprised if you find yourself looking at your own face when you do.

@Pavlov
Agreed re natural vs synthetics.

My own take: that era was a v diff time and way of being. Most of us came out ok, but that's not the same as believing it was the best use of my time and energy. Looking back, it wasn't, not even close.
When i look around now, i see most people, esp the curious, nimble-minded ones, who seem to already be well past whatever insights people thought they might gain by doing acid or other hallucinogens and onto the exploring of other possibilities. I hope so.

@f00l One exception: listening to Jimi, Doors, etc. created mental landscapes that persisted. Music and some visual arts do seem to benefit from acid.

@RedHot
We can, but.....

@RedHot
So often my conduct is best described by my username.

Apologies re rants. Pls forgive if can.

@KDemo Says the guy that hasn't posted a list.

@MEHcus - I might be too close to the bottom of the bucket.

@MEHcus - Okay, my turn, I've always wanted to see the Aurora Borealis and become a research librarian. If money were truly unlimited, I'd love to help the homeless, hungry, and disenfranchised in a meaningful, lasting way.

@brhfl

Well played.

@brhfl
Go Melissa and Doug or go Pro.

@brhfl I've always wanted one of those mop buckets and a regular professional mop for my very own. I don't ever want to work as a custodian again, but I miss mopping. Most people don't even know how to use a mop. I do, dagnabbit.

@brhfl and now Amazon thinks I have a bucket fetish hahaha

@joelmw
Yeah, getting paid minimum on the nite shift w a mop in my hand sure larned me.

@joelmw I know how to dance with a mop, does that count?

@stardate820926

Is there something you'd like to share?

@brhfl If you dance well or even sufficiently amusingly, yes. Well, it counts for something, maybe not for mopping, but something.

@brhfl dammit! i clicked on a couple of those links and now the bucket ads are everywhere!

@carl669 Proud to have influenced who Amazon thinks you (and @stardate820926) are as consumers.

@brhfl Interesting that half the list are actually "pails"
Why are there bucket lists, but not pail lists ?
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@brhfl @carl669 @stardate820926 I think Amazon is seeing a spike in this category. ( yes, me too ) What will their fancy algorithms say ? Do they have the ability to tell via cookies that we have all come from meh ? Will it doom meh to woot's fate ? Or will they decide to have a big pail sale or bucket bonanza ? So many questions, so few answers.

@jaremelz Oooh, I have one.

@Pavlov
^this

@Pavlov My list isn't so much a bunch of things I'll regret not having done as it is a "I will make every effort to do these things" list. Especially since the cancer thing, I try to live my life so that I won't have any regrets. Not totally possible, but as much as I can manage it.

@AnnaB

@Pavlov I started a reverse bucket list: things I NEVER planned to do. Go to the office, look up, wonder why Delta Force and the carabinieri were surrounding a plane right over there on the flight line. Live in a villa 600 metres up Mt. Etna (for the views, of course). Line up to donate blood as soon as we got to work, because the Red Cross was totally out and the MNF barracks had just been bombed. Miss (by 24 hours) being on the site of a truck bomb - twice. The list goes on...

@carl669 helicopter would be so cool. I bought a travelzoo coupon to fly a small plane over the Chesapeake Bay (not even that expensive), and it was worth every dollar. I did most of the flying.

@AnnaB
I think....if i add the initial conditions of zero $ considerations, i would travel travel travel, so long as i still have a sense of home.

@stardate820926 Since I was a young child I had wanted to see the Pyramids. I had that dream of riding a camel far into the desert and exploring the endless field of sand.
When I grew up I discovered this and my illusion was absolutely shattered. I'd still like to see them but it just isn't the same dream any more.

@cinoclav Perspective, sometimes it's great but other times it's a dream killer!

@stardate820926 When I was a sophomore in high school, our Honors Geometry teacher asked us all, as a sort of icebreaker (there were probably five or ten questions, which we each answered on a 4x6 card) where we wanted to go on vacation, if we could go anywhere. I said Mars.

@jaremelz It makes me wonder, was it this populated when I was 6? Were they fucking with me the whole time? Sigh...

@stardate820926 Virtual travel on YouTube is a good start. I've toured many small Welsh villages that way. For the Pyramids, it seems everybody who has been there has recorded their visit. Then there's the Smithsonian material:

@rockblossom
Sure, ya gotta pretend you accept the "inevitable", for politeness.

@sohmageek
;)