Oh and 6 for me, if you count the school outdoor swimming pools as ice cold (I do!) and if you count the avoiding drowning as swimming. But there’s only one other I’d want to do, and that’s not enough to even do some two armed ones as a means to get there…
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Yeah, I’d agree with you on that generally. A few are just none to specific and they probably asked people that hadn’t done much.
Only have to go outside on a nighttime and look upwards and there’s a good chance of seeing a shooting star.
I can think of a lot better things to do.
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But yeah. Pretty generic list! 
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Anyone released an album lately?
Not lately
Had one released on my birthday with the date on the cover but that’s as close as it gets
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James Blunt released one about me. He called it “1973”. Actually it may have been a single, can’t remember.
I’ll count the list in a moment but one jumps out as NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN: #17, swimming in a cage with sharks. I’d rather thread a knitting needle through each eyelid. Also #13, going into space - an environment entirely incompatible with human life. Just no.
Oh and whats that at the end? #40, hold a venomous snake? Get real, people.
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Ok
- Live in another country: work in progress.
- See a shooting star: yep
- Rent a wildly expensive car for an afternoon: doing this as we speak. A Nissan Sunny, for 16 afternoons.
- Cycle through Europe. Define through. Do we mean “in”?
- Walk on the red carpet. Aunty Doris’s; paisley.
- Climb a mountain: does Scafell Pike count
- Try surfing: tried, couldn’t.
- Go skinny-dipping: once, off Costa Almera, forgot swimwear on a remote beach, couldn’t relax as was worried about fish and crabs
- Run a 10k. Err yes
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Gave myself half a point for an EP.
Release meaning recorded and distributed, not distributed widely or paid for by customers 
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My album sold at least 20 copies.
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Thanks Mum
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At least those were legit distros.
You didn’t throw a million records down a mine shaft and claim to be top of the pops a la the whole of the 1980s.
- Visit Australia - kind of
- Fly in First or Business Class - many times
- Swim with dolphins - yes, in the wild, both surfing and swimming
- Drive along Route 66 in America - twice, once in an Escort!
- Go travelling - where do I start!
- Live in another country - 4 actually not including Eng.
- Reunite with a lost best friend - BF from school. Same last name as me!
- See a shooting star - Yes, on a surf camping trip in souther NSW
- Do a skydive - Warnervale, NSW with some mates. Epic day!
- Meet a Royal - Princess Anne, school visit. She asked if I liked it.
- Cycle through Europe - cycled in Europe lots, not through it
- Explore an abandoned building - loads when we were kids.
- Sleep in the jungle - Salt mine trip out of Bogota, we had to sleep in the northern jungle on the way.
- Climb a mountain - I’m not sure, does Mt Kosciuszko count?
- Try surfing - once or twice
- Go skinny-dipping - several times on remote surf trips.
- Go on stage at a music festival - played at a festival in Glastonbury (not that one!)
- Ride a motorbike - erm
- Run a 10k - lots
- Join a band - been in three bands
- Hold a venomous snake - in Taree, NSW on a snake experience tour.
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You only need to sell ~6k albums now to get a number 1 album.
It’s why Adele, Lewis Capaldi, and all of the other generic artists still flog CDs for a tenner at the tills in Sainsbury’s 
Ever wonder why Slipknot have the UK #1 album?
That’s 12” LP pressings to hardcore fans (hardcore meant both ways there)
It sold a total of 14,068 copies, 12,083 of which came from pure sales. 340 more than George Michael’s rerelease
Hence many artists releasing their music albums as NFTs, or on cassette tape.
You can buy your own way to Number 1 for ~£80k
(Pressing, distro, plus buying your own albums via bots - although easier with NFTs)
Single chart is ~110k physical copies, so a lot harder.
Although there are weeks when it can be as low as 40k 
(Gotta remember streams nowadays)
This got to number one off ~18k sales 
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Are they all nonces?
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Oh lord that’s funny.
My own sarcastic response wasn’t a spot on that.
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I only jumped the first time.
Was trying to think what would be on my list. I was going to start with @joex s no1 of get laid but it needs to be realistic.
- Learn to fly
Thats all I can come up with. Stupid thing is there really isnt anything stopping me, asside possibly the max takeoff weight of a Cessna 152. 6k would get me single engine VFR qualified. That quite shelfish but my wife spent 7k on a masters degree and earns a fraction what I do.
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Vastly underated post
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