Bucket List

[dwynnehugh]

To have a WD Black 1TB HDD with a 5 year warranty die AFTER the 5 years have ended. Hope springs eternal!

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[The Duke]

I’d like a mop bucket to last longer than a year. The plastic ones are useless, and the metal ones rust!

[doctoryorkie]

I’d like wireless devices to come without a big box of wires.

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[Jason]

I’d like a list of types of bucket.

[Dave Rice]

To travel more.

We’ve been doing Northern Europe in the last couple of years (as opposed to the Med / Canaries on family holidays) but there’s a lot of the British Isles I’ve not seen, or not seen since I was a kid. Having been to Glasgow and Edinburgh a lot through work there are as many cultural and language issues awaiting you and the money is different too.

Ironically with cheap air travel and the efficiency of European public transport, it’s actually quicker and cheaper to go the Continent!

Oktoberfest should be ticked off the list this year. Vienna is already booked for July.

[The Duke]

Few of the lads firm the village are going this year Dave, I’ve been invited along, but doubt Ill make it

[Dave Rice]

I won’t be drinking stupidly, it’d probably see me kick the bucket! But it’s got to be done.

There is more to it than the beer.

[Les.]

Dave, you just missed your chance for this year, but only last week (or week before) there was a CAMRA event over here (Isle of Man) where I understand there were in excess of 200 craft beers. If you stay sober, plenty of things to see here, with a whole range of different areas to visit and views to see.

Cheers, Les.

[Dave Rice]

TT week is on the list.

[Bob Williams]

See West Wales again: I haven’t been for several years, too wrapped up in European trips. Now air travel is ruined for me, I would like to see more of my own country. An old dream was to tour the entire coast of the UK in a motorhome, never got to do that and probably won’t now. I would also like to see Bruges/Brugge again, by road & Eurotunnel. That is a beautiful city: thanks to the City Council, every owner of the ancient buildings, has to ensure that they are kept in pristine condition. You see 14th Century buildings which have the appearance of being built last month!

But I would really love to have another River Cruise, preferably involving a finish at Budapest.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Ed P]

Careful which hotel you use in Munich! I used one which was obviously being used by CIA types on their way home from the Middle East. The damned hotel was very nice, but had bedbugs and I came up with a very bad allergic reaction — ugh. The local Artz (referred via a pharmacy, which is the best way to see a Doctor in Germany) demanded to know the name of the hotel (Kings Hotel near Hbf Munich) and said in a typical German manner – Vey should NOT haff them! Take this letter to the Hotel manager and demand a refund!

I afterwards read that bedbugs have reached almost epidemic proportions in some of the best hotels in the US. So if you see or hear a Yank change hotel!

[Anonymous]

Become pain free.

But then the latter reason of a bucket list might come first.

To add I have been told (and being tested for) I may have something wrong with my prostate?

 

[Spedley]

Live forever.

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[Bob Williams]

JB: hope there is nothing wrong with your prostate, good luck with the results John. Also hope they can get back to you swiftly with the results, nothing worse than waiting and wondering.

Spedley: that’s my plan, to escape the guy with the scythe. Or take each day as it comes. I was the youngest (by 15 years) of 3 brothers and they told me that our dad had the Secret Of Life, which he told them both as they each became 14 years old. Came my turn, dad took me aside on the morning of my 14th and told me “The Secret Of Life is….. (looked behind, to left and right, no one else there) …. keep waking up each morning!” He thought that was hysterically funny, I just wished I had a kid brother that I could torment with the expectation, as my bro’s tormented me!

Unfortunately, both dad and eldest brother failed to wake again in 1988. Second bro is still hanging in there at 87.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Les.]

I am with Spedley on this one.

A pal rang me today and confided that he had a health issue (did not elucidate) and that he thought he ought to move on some of his stuff. He has a little 80 year old motor ‘bike that he was riding 50 years ago, plus a 1927 AJS that was his dad’s, A New Imperial, two single cylinder BMWs, A cammy Velo, two Triumphs, and a Scott. Maybe others I can’t recall. I MAY be getting one of those, one I was ogling at a recent visit. It was “given” to him, or more correctly, on permanent loan. If the donor agrees, it may well come my way.

I said I had wondered about thinning out some of my stuff (electronics stuff as well as bikes etc.), but had decided not to as I (also, Spedley) intend to live forever.

OLD Les.

[Dave Rice]

That’s the question, when to move on stuff. My Uncle left it too late for the Jaguar XK120; it’d rusted too much. The Matchless 650 twin and Greeves (?) trial bike went to homes that would appreciate them. As an 18 yo I remember trying to kick start the Matchless (couldn’t) and then riding it in the Cornish lanes (with manual advance and retard) without stalling it or stuffing it into the side (just about did it).

[Spedley]

I reckon it won’t be long until the first person not to die is born … unless it has already happened.

I hope that if I live to 120 there should be ways of keeping me going until 150 and hopefully by then there should be ways of living forever.

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[Ed P]

Living is only a small bit of the equation Spedders. We also need easy ways of fixing the bits that no longer work very well, otherwise living would be long-term torture rather than fun.

“Jaques …

All the worlds a stage . . .

The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Shakespeare – As you like it: The seven ages of man

“

[The Duke]

I don’t fancy living forever. If I could get a new back I may reconsider.

But you’d really need to be born once its been all figured,  out so you’d reach peak condition and stay there. I really don’t fancy being kept in a 80 year olds body for the rest of eternity. My 40 year old one is already goosed, I don’t my 80 year old one.

[Richard]

I feel it is in danger of getting a bit maudlin; the bucket list should be things that you still want to enjoy or experience preferably without a thought for the future. Pain free or pain reduced would be nice, problems cleared would be better still and worries about the future for dependants being cleared would be best of all.

A few moments of happiness without worries about the health of family would be lovely, but too many years have been spent with accumulating concerns for that to be in prospect. So, to go peacefully is perhaps the best and to do so with a belief that it was not all in vain.

Sadly the fool who said it was better to have tried and failed than not to have tried was seriously wrong. It is far better not to have been stretched to a point outside of ones limits; so the mental elastic can spring back with its Young’s modulus still intact.

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