Off Topic What HAVE you done?

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Sooperhoop

Sooperhoop

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As Stroller's excellent thread has explored all the things we haven't done perhaps a more revealing thread will be what are ten things you have done that many people never get the chance to do? Trying to think of things I hadn't done made realise how many things I have done and the list grew longer as I tried to fill my 'not done' list.

Anyway here's my ten for a starter...

1. Piloted a plane (under instruction)
2. Paraglided attached to a speedboat
3. Had a helicopter flight over the Grand Canyon
4. Ridden a speedway bike (badly)
5. Ridden a motorbike at more than twice the speed limit
6. Been down 150 metres in a submarine viewing coral reef off Barbados
7. Been through the Panama Canal
8. Been at the top of the Post Office Tower in 1968
9. Seen Maradona play at Wembley England v Argies 1980
10. Played Jimmy White at snooker in 1976

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Sooperhoop said:
As Stroller's excellent thread has explored all the things we haven't done perhaps a more revealing thread will be what are ten things you have done that many people never get the chance to do? Trying to think of things I hadn't done made realise how many things I have done and the list grew longer as I tried to fill my 'not done' list.

Anyway here's my ten for a starter...

1. Piloted a plane (under instruction)
2. Paraglided attached to a speedboat
3. Had a helicopter flight over the Grand Canyon
4. Ridden a speedway bike (badly)
5. Ridden a motorbike at more than twice the speed limit
6. Been down 150 metres in a submarine viewing coral reef off Barbados
7. Been through the Panama Canal
8. Been at the top of the Post Office Tower in 1968
9. Seen Maradona play at Wembley England v Argies 1980
10. Played Jimmy White at snooker in 1976

Over to you...
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Coral reefs at 150m, don't think so.
 
Been shot at
Jumped from a heli
Been in the Danakil Depression (hot as f••k)
Absailed duneen cliffs
Been ADC to Irish Taoiseach (PM)
Drank 18 large bottles of bulmers (magners)
Saw my hero Alan McDonald play
Have an international (military) football cap
Played golf in only course in Eritrea
Dived off Oman coast
 
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Walked over the top of Sydney Harbour Bridge
Trekked to Everest base camp
Lived in the jungle in Central America
Parachuted multiple times (lost count - most was about 6 in one day)
Fed the lions at London Zoo
Bungee jumped in US and NZ
Stage dived whilst Nirvana were on stage
Invited (and went) for drinks at Downing Street with John Major
Went to Mardi Gras in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina
Jumped off the roof of a hotel into a swimming pool in La Ceiba, Honduras (yes, lots of drink was involved first!)

Plenty more on the list....
 
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Jeez - no pressure then.

Chaired a United Nations meeting
Snorkeled off the Great Barrier Reef
Played rugby with Nigel Melville and Rob Andrew (training session and I was in the youth team so the first team joined in a match)
Did the three peaks within the allotted 24 hours
Nearly got beaten up by one of the singers in the Men they couldn't hang
Was in the stadium for an England game that got abandoned
Had dinner with Nikolas Sarkozy (and 300 others)
Thrown up in the Clock End
 
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Interesting...but anything I can write seems positively dull after Steel Monkey's contribution.

Swum with sharks on the great barrier reef
Lived in Paris for nearly 8 years
Dislocated my shoulder, twice.
Discovered I only have one kidney.
Slept in a tree hut above the Amazon River.
Seen pink dolphins in the Amazon.
Had a major organ removed due to illness.
Watched the sun rise over the Indian ocean.
 
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Very interesting thread, and worryingly I have a few crossovers with DT :bandit: -

Had a beer with Gazza
Survived an earthquake in Cairo
Spent a few nights behind bars
Had cancer
Seen the Hoops grace Wembley 3 times
Was at the handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese
Surfed in Bali
Lived up North / married a Northener
Had (and still have) some great cars
Been bitten by a dog
Lived in some great international cities
Lived in some ****hole international cities
Can still knock up a mean Yorkshire pudding
Own a lurcher and a whippet
Somehow managed to help create 2 fantastic kids
 
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WBA2_QPR3 said:
Very interesting thread, and worryingly I have a few crossovers with DT :bandit: -

Had a beer with Gazza
Survived an earthquake in Cairo
Spent a few nights behind bars
Had cancer
Seen the Hoops grace Wembley 3 times
Was at the handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese
Surfed in Bali
Lived up North / married a Northener
Had (and still have) some great cars
Been bitten by a dog
Lived in some great international cities
Lived in some ****hole international cities
Can still knock up a mean Yorkshire pudding
Own a lurcher and a whippet
Somehow managed to help create 2 fantastic kids
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You own a whippet
Get yourself to the Barnsley board
 
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