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lt_amazil, on 28 May 2012 - 04:55 AM, said:

You're 16, you have many mistakes to still make before you kick the bucket

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Good news, I got my ham sandwich.

Yesterday I saw a toddler drop kick the fuck out of another toddler. I realized, then, I need to start adding things to my bucket list retroactively.

Before I die, I wanna be known for something extremely amazing or something unforgivably stupid.

Well I always had one thing on my bucket list and that's to fly to Washington D.C. and bowl on the lanes that Richard Nixon used during his presidency. I would also like to go see the national air and space museum their as well.

I want to see a fighter jet crash into the ground at near-mach speed, and not straight down but at a 10 or 15 degree angle so the wreckage is spread across a very long strip of land.
I don't know why, it's just something I really want to see one day.

You could see up close if you get your own jet.

DLancer, on 29 May 2012 - 06:25 AM, said:

The U.S. Air Force guards theirs too well for me to get one from there and I don't believe anybody will let me buy one from them until I have a license and a job that pays better then minimum wage.

You're not legally allowed to do that unless you yell "ALLAHU AKBAR" and aim for the crowd.

I would like to learn parkour and to also direct a film of some kind.

Keno, on 20 July 2012 - 12:08 AM, said:

Film yourself doing parkour so you accomplish both and become Internet-famous when you inevitably sterilize yourself with the edge of a brick wall.

Probably gonna be sappy as hell, but...

-I would like to be happily married.
-Make a successful horror game that is not like Dead Space or Rise of Nightmares one bit.
-Learn to play the guitar and piano.
-Not have to worry about how shitty the economy is.

Statistically, marriage is the worst investment anyone can make since they fall apart easily and she can usually just take half your shit when they do.

You basically need 10,000 hours of practice on both to become good at it. So, if that's what you want, you'd better start sooner rather than later.

Historically, the economy has been through worse and is still overall on an upward trend, so that's nothing to worry about anyway. There are always methods to fall back on financially if you don't trust playing the stock market.

I don't have anything to say about video games. If you've got or can get yourself the skillset required to put yourself in that position, go with God.

Jerk said:

Just live with your significant other for a while and see if you can stand them!

A common-law relationship could also be an answer, depending on whether your jurisdiction allows it. If so, check the specific laws your jurisdiction has governing separation. Often each person takes only what is in his/her name.

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Statistically, this is a bad idea - it shows indecisiveness, and so that indecisiveness effectively ends up, more often than not, as the decision to say 'no'.

In fact, marriage is more certain than statistics tell us, because statistics are skewed by the fact that somebody who is prone to divorce and remarrying will often be a repeat offender. Furthermore, as an institution, it is safer than all similar relationships (at least ostensibly, although it is not entirely certain since we only have incomplete numbers for similar institutions). It is certain, however, that somebody who has their mind set on marriage is far more likely to remain in it than what records show.

This post has been edited by ILB: 23 July 2012 - 11:19 PM

Oh ILB, you and your statistics.

I will give you something interesting to chew on though: the civil solidarity pact (pacs) in France. It's a civil union contract between two individuals, registered by the court. Signed into law in 1999, the pacs has become increasingly popular in France as an alternative to marriage (205,558 pacs in 2010 compared to 251,654 marriages). What's more, for all unions entered into between 1999 and 2009, there were 200 divorces for every 1,000 marriages, but only 155 dissolutions for every 1,000 pacs registered. And roughly one-third of the pacs that were dissolved were due to the couple choosing to marry! Maybe the French have got this one right? And the irony is that the pacs was originally intended for homosexual couples, yet in 2010, 95.5% of all pacs were between heterosexual couples.

Oh, but now I'm straying far from the intention of this thread. So, back on topic: for over a decade I've wanted to go to Chicago, and next week I will be doing just that. Another item soon to be crossed off my bucket list!

So that puts me at the top of your list now obviously.

Oh you Purin~

Though granted, I've never been to Ohio, other than an unintended pit stop in Cleveland which doesn't count. Maybe one of these days! Although next year I am sort of leaning towards Colorado, or Utah, or maybe San Francisco. I'd like to go to Italy at some point too. Norway as well. Always new places to go to, and new things to discover.

How about an actual bucket list goal? Visit all 50 states of the United States. 25 accomplished so far, two more coming up next week (since I'm going to St. Louis as well).

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I know of this; we have the exact same system in Norway and, I believe, the rest of Scandinavia. The numbers for dissolutions were unknown to me, however.

I question the validity of the assumption that they "got this one right", though; the dissolutions still remain dissolutions even when the couples decide to marry - and when they do marry, they become part of the (potential) divorce statistics, suggesting that the institution of union is not at all the problem here. ^_^

Oh, but I definitely concede that those are happy and pleasant numbers.

before i die i would like to travel around europe,realizing my dream as an international movie director,get married,and surviving the zombie apocalypse if there ever was one!(i hope they do that will be awesome also scary)

Finding out what I want to do before I die.