[The big chair]

Original post edited to add ideas stolen from Drooper, NotThePars and Mrs M.

[gordon the gopher]

Thats 16 people with their lists in- excellent stuff.

Anymore for anymore??

1. GTG
2. Sooky
3. Widge
4. The big chair
5. Mighty Meadow
6. Drooper
7. Dazzle
8. Andy C
9. Ross
10. Davebinos
11. Tennents Lager#1
12. Mid-table
13. NotThePars
14. Nessies Long Lost Ghost
15. Mrs M
16. Tryfield

This post has been edited by gordon the gopher: 01 January 2012 - 15:21

[Tryfield]

Tryfield, on 27 December 2011 - 20:30, said:

1- Have a week with no beer.
2- Have a week without visiting the casino.
3- Do more than 5 hours exercise one week.
4- Read more books, got a pile I need to go through.
5- Visit a non EU country on a family holiday.
6- Go on a holiday abroad without using planes.( EuroStar looks good)
7- Get back to an old hobby like fishing or fly-tying.
8- Visit the dentist twice in a year.
9- Go to a union meeting and pretend I give a fcuk.
10- Answer the house phone, I usually let it ring and ring.
11- Stay away from P&B when sozzled.
12- Compile a photo-a-day video for 2012.
13- Spend a day at a museum. (The Railway one at York is free and only an hour away)
14- Get the garden tidied up.
15- Recycle more rubbish like beer cans and bottle.
16- Go to a match in Scotland that doesn't involve Ayr United.
17- Improve my score on Word Drop in Facebook, it's rather pathetic.
18- Chip in to buskers' hats.
19- Take the boy to a rugby match at Millbrae.
20- Get on a flight that goes north. Every time I've flown it's been south wards.

Edited and cut down. 50 is maybe too much for someone my age.

[gordon the gopher]

Does anyone use any blog sites etc - I have never done it before.

I think I am going to do a blog and update it each time I complete something from my list and attach a photo etc if I can.

[Sooky]

gordon the gopher, on 01 January 2012 - 15:36, said:

Does anyone use any blog sites etc - I have never done it before.

I think I am going to do a blog and update it each time I complete something from my list and attach a photo etc if I can.

I think "blogger" is quite a popular site.

This sounds like a decent idea and something that I may steal from you.

[gordon the gopher]

Sooky, on 01 January 2012 - 15:40, said:

I think "blogger" is quite a popular site.

This sounds like a decent idea and something that I may steal from you.

Feel free to steal the idea, let me know if you come across a decent one thats easy to use

[Tryfield]

gordon the gopher, on 01 January 2012 - 15:36, said:

Does anyone use any blog sites etc - I have never done it before.

I think I am going to do a blog and update it each time I complete something from my list and attach a photo etc if I can.

I'll hopefully be catching most moments in my 365 photo-a-day topic.

Pictures speak louder than words.

This post has been edited by Tryfield: 01 January 2012 - 15:55

[Mrs M]

gordon the gopher, on 01 January 2012 - 15:36, said:

Does anyone use any blog sites etc - I have never done it before.

I think I am going to do a blog and update it each time I complete something from my list and attach a photo etc if I can.

I've opened a Tumblr account and it seems fairly easy to use.

[Sooky]

http://niftyfifty2012.blogspot. com/

That's my blog, done an opening post and edited the layout a bit, feel free to save it to your favourites.

 Blog.jpg (78.37K)
Number of downloads: 47


See, I'm already huge in Germany.

This post has been edited by Sooky: 01 January 2012 - 16:56

[Widge]

Now Sooky, surely getting your braces taking off is a bit of a cop out, since I assume they will be coming off.

This post has been edited by Widge: 01 January 2012 - 18:45

[Jack Burton]

1. Get Married (27th July 2012)
2. Write my speech for the wedding
3. Help the missus organise the invite list, seating planning etc. for the wedding
4. Save for the wedding
5. Survive the stag do in Amsterdam
6. Run a 5K in under 30 mins (PB is 32.10)
7. Run a 5K in under 28 mins
8. Run a 10K race
9. Run at least 20 Parkruns throught the year
10. Volunteer at 3 Parkruns throughout the year
11. Update my running playlist on the Ipod (been listening to the same songs for 6 months)
12. Regularly take part in the fitness boot camp at work
13. Regularly play fives
14. Attend at least 90% of all Clyde home games
15. Watch a league game at 3 grounds I havent been to (roughly been to half the grounds so far)
16. Raise funds for Crohns & Colitis UK (probably through a sponsored run. I've got Crohn's Disease)
17. Read a book a month
18. Finally learn to play a couple of songs on the guitar
19. Watch a couple of new US shows (might give Breaking Bad a watch)
20. Go to the cinema to see Promotheus (sort of the Alien prequel)
21. Watch the new series of Red Dwarf
22. Buy Aliens: Colonial Marines for the Xbox 360 (only been waiting 8 years for them to finish making it)
23. Dont waste as much money buying Xbox games (yeah I know contradicts the above, wonder if I can put them on the wedding gift list )
24. Buy a decent telly for watching the football, playing the Xbox
25. Watch more football on ESPN (am paying a tenner a month for it after all)
26. 100% complete 5 Xbox games getting every achievement
27. Watch all 8 seasons of Red Dwarf and the Back to Earth special
28. Watch at least 20 movies from the top 250 at IMDB http://www.imdb.com/chart/top that I havent seen or havent watched in years
29. Delete some of the shite of my Ipod.
30. Buy at least 5 new albums to replace the above shite
31. Go to a gig (never went to a single one in 2011)
32. Clear out the loft
33. Re-felt the garden shed (ripped off thanks to Hurrican Bawbag)
34. Fix all the garden fences (again thanks to Bawbag)
35. Keep taking my own lunch to work (am saving about £20 a week)
36. Stop working till 5.30pm (I only get paid to 5 and would have to work to 6 to get paid overtime)
37. Visit 2 countries / cities I havent been to before (Amsterdam for the stag do and one other for the Honeymoon)
38. Dirty weekend away (Honeymoon )
39. Get the car fixed (the exhaust is blowing out and sounds like a rally car)
40. Dont get caught speeding this year
41. Organise a team for the P & B 5 a side tournament again
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50. Bookmark this thread and update it once I complete somthing from the list

I'll have to think of a few more to finish the list.

This post has been edited by Jack Burton: 01 January 2012 - 19:30

[Sooky]

Widge, on 01 January 2012 - 18:40, said:

Now Sooky, surely getting your braces taking off is a bit of a cop out, since I assume they will be coming off.

I was struggling to think of 50!

[the aggressive beggar]

1. Don't Smoke
2. Find a perfect maranara sauce recipe
3. Join a golf club
4. Get a birdie.
5. Exercise twice a week
6. Get a ticket for the Stone Roses Friday gig.
7. Start a band
8. Play a gig
9. Write and record a song
10. Delete my Facebook account
11. Payback money i owe my dad
12. Buy a sanding machine
13. Buy a van
14. Go to a tapas bar
15. Watch the French Connection
16. Watch Once Upon A Time in America
17. Plaster the Kitchen
18. Tile the Bathroom
19. Save up a grand
20. Go to a Dunipace Juniors game
21. read Catch 22
22. Take the bairns camping
23. Play a live game of poker
24. Visit the Transport Museum
25. Visit the Science centre
26. Go to the sub club
27. Get petty revenge on a lying c**t
28. Run 5k
29. Take the wife out for dinner once a month
30. Read to the bairns more
31. swear less
32. stop spitting
33. go to a comedy club.
34. get stoned
35. give money to charity
36. drink less juice
37. go to a beach
38. Put on a stone in weight
39. Go to a boxing match
40. Eat healthier
41. Go ten pin bowling
42. Sort the garden
43. Push a smackheid into a river
44. Avoid getting run over.
45. Don't be involved in any car crashes
46. Write a short story
47. Make fresh pasta
48. go swimming
49. Howl at the moon
50. stop procrastinating

[Widge]

Sooky, on 01 January 2012 - 19:14, said:

I was struggling to think of 50!

fair enough, it is rathe rdifficult.

Oh here's my blog http://widgey-niftyf...2.blogspot.com/ , so if GTG you want to update my list from there that would be great.

[gordon the gopher]

Also set up my blog as well - I'll tidy it up later. Nifty50

I will edit peoples blog links to the first post as well

[ThatBoyRonaldo]

the aggressive beggar, on 01 January 2012 - 19:22, said:

43. Push a smackheid into a river

It's the little things in life that count i suppose

[die hard doonhamer]

I'll work on a list over the next few days, I'll start it here and gradually edit more in.

1. Apply for college.
2. Join a golf club.
3. Save for my wedding(2013).
4. Enjoy my son growing.
5. Start a blog.
6. Visit at least one new Scottish football ground.
7. Start Geocaching.
8. Be more social.
9. Don't fritter money away.
10. Move out of my parents home.
11. Complete a 50 mile cycle.
12. Complete this list!
13. Tweet more.
14. Buy something on ebay.
15. Sell something on ebay.
16. Stick something on Gumtree.
17. Finish 10 seasons on FIFA12.
18. Read at least 10 books.
19. Update my iPod (not done for about 2 years).
20. Lose at least a stone in weight (and keep it off).
21. Complete a round of golf in less than 110 shots.
22. Complete a round of golf in less than 100 shots.
23. Win a bet involving at least 3 matches.
24. Try Urban Exploration.
25. Play at Palmerston.
26. Score at Palmerston.
27. Complete 90 minutes of football.
28. Watch 25 films.
29. Work out an exit route from my job.
30. Bet on a market I know nothing about.
31. Go a week without Facebook.
32. Go 24 hours without my phone.
33. Get a passport.
34. Replace my counterpart drivers license.
35. Send a message in a bottle, or attach one to a chinese lantern.
36. Complete a PS3 game.
37. Fix my bike.
38. Start an arguement with a celebrity on twitter.
39. Apply to be on a tv show.
40. Go to a Scottish junior football match.
41. Deface a wikipedia article.
42. Get to 6,000 posts.
43. Climb a tree.
44. Bake something.
45. Go to a casino.
46. Give blood.
47. Participate in Movember.
48. Get a tattoo.
49. Jump in my car with no set destination.
50. Apply for a job well out of my range.

This post has been edited by die hard doonhamer: 04 January 2012 - 19:23

[nessies long lost ghost]

gordon the gopher, on 01 January 2012 - 15:36, said:

Does anyone use any blog sites etc - I have never done it before.

I think I am going to do a blog and update it each time I complete something from my list and attach a photo etc if I can.

Does Ad Lib not have a blog?

[gordon the gopher]

Any chance a mod could Pin this thread if allowed?

[die hard doonhamer]

http://dhdsniftyfifty.blogspot. com/

Here's my blog, I'll put my first entry on to it when I have a full list.

[Mrs M]

My next 25 includes some more that I've stolen and some I can't believe I've not done yet:

26. Wear my Irregular Choice shoes out.
27. Take a photo every day and...
28. ...make a photo album
29. Watch The Usual Suspects
30. Visit my auntie
31. Audition for XFactor
32. Go on an open top bus tour
33. Visit Edinburgh Dungeon
34. Visit a Scottish Island
35. Send a message in a bottle (it's just a brilliant idea! I may decide to attach a message to a helium filled ballon instead though)
36. Go on a train journey to anywhere
37. Have a DVD all-nighter
38. Watch Schindler's List
39. Complete a game on Xbox or Wii
40. Watch a sunset
41. Have a go at Urban Exploration
42. Read a newspaper a week
43. Spend a weekend somewhere north of Glasgow
44. Use each item in the spice rack at least once
45. Grow some basil
46. Watch all the DVDs I got in 2011 that I haven't watched yet
47. Write a music/book review
48. Go to a live music gig
49. Complete the IMDB top 20 (I've got 7/20 so far, excluding ones that I've started watching before and haven't finished, because they don't count)
50. Write a short story

[gordon the gopher]

Hope you are gonna be setting up a wee blog as well Mrs M

[Sooky]

Sooky, on 31 December 2011 - 12:45, said:

33. Take a picture of myself everyday for a year and then make it into some sort of time-lapse video

I realise that I'm cheating after only the first day but I'll need to change this one as my dad's camera(which I was going to use) has gone AWOL and my phone has the worst quality of camera.

So, my new number 33 shall be to eat an apple everyday for a week. Thanks Widge.

[Drooper]

Here's my blog:

http://drooperpnb.blogspot.com

[gordon the gopher]

Good stuff Drooper

Thats everyones blog links updated on post 1