What feat do you aspire to that you could never possibly achieve?

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― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 2 March 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Leading the most successful band ever. But I have a soul, allegedly, so that rules that out.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 March 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The enslavement of humanity to my will

― Ferg (Ferg), Sunday, 2 March 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Running a mile in a minute.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 2 March 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The Book.

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 2 March 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Heading multi-million pound corporation

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Sunday, 2 March 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Have someone fall in love with me. :-(

― kate, Sunday, 2 March 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Giving up smoking

― Nathan Webb (Nathan Webb), Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

singing whole songs in tune.

― isadora (isadora), Sunday, 2 March 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

getting through a day at work without looking at this

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Sunday, 2 March 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Becoming a well-known and respected cult leader, who uides the world to peace, harmony, and that whole Age of Aquarius thing.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

be satisfied

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 2 March 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Getting married.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 2 March 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

you mean like a clone of yourself? so you could use each other as an alibi while you get up to mischief?

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 2 March 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

like is a verb in that sentence.

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 2 March 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

ewww, that brings new meaning to the phrase go fuck yourself

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 3 March 2003 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Have someone fall in love with me. :-(

M3 +00.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 3 March 2003 06:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Understanding j.lu's comment.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 3 March 2003 06:56 (twenty-two years ago)

(I also despair of ever being loved.)

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 3 March 2003 06:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh! Oh! I see it now. I was reading it as a formula. Der-hay.

I worry more about being loved back.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 3 March 2003 07:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm trying to think why I'm being such a Bridget Jones about this... I mean, surely there are other things I'd like to achieve? Thing is, that I stupidly beleive that mostly like to achieve (being in a band that I can make a living off, getting novels published, etc.) I actually *could* achieve if I bloody worked harder at them. And then there are the things that I know I could NOT achieve (being Prime Minister, making a miiiiiiillion dollars) that I just don't have any interest in achieving.

So are we left to assume that ILE are a fairly actualised, but incredibly lonely bunch? Or is that implicit in the very definition?

― kate, Monday, 3 March 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

fly without the aid of 'technology'

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 March 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, but: You could, in theory, "work harder" at being a more loveable person (or finding someone who'll love you), just like you could work harder at being a famous rockstar. So why not?

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 3 March 2003 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

me?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 March 2003 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. Well, quite possibly, you know?

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 3 March 2003 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Why bother? Being a "loveable person" is either something you are, or you aren't. It's not something you can learn. If I could have LEARNED people skills don't you think I'd have done it a long time ago?

― kate, Monday, 3 March 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, her.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 March 2003 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Catwalk modelling.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha, OK, there is one. Artist's or photographer's model. I would never want to be a fashion model, cause I have no respect for fashion as an artform. But an artist's model/muse, yeah, I'd love to be that. I'm sick of always being on the other end of the muse pipe, I'd like to hold someone else's muse for a change.

― kate, Monday, 3 March 2003 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I just want to be H!O!T! enough to happily parade up and down catwalks in my pants.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, so do I. But if I really cared about it that much, I'd hire a personal trainer and a stylist etc. etc. I like food and drink more than I like being skinny, and I've got better things to spend my time/money on than looking good. Sigh.

I'd probably get more boys if I were a supermodel, but fuck it, it's just not worth it. "If only I'd been born beautiful instead of smart"

― kate, Monday, 3 March 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

surely the point is: they're not your pants?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 March 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

All of a sudden I wish I'd worn heels today...

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

With my (aspirational) combination of looks and talent I would be designing the pants myself.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

0.75% aspiration, 0.25% inspiration, 99% perspiration.

doesn't matter--I think they'd just throw the pants away after every show.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 March 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

ARE YOU SAYING I'M FAT???

(They send the pants to Japan to be sold in vending machines in subway stations)

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

am I saying you have genius? or, haha, the fat thing.

I've heard of these vending machines before, so I am not thinking about the idea of now. but I am thinking 'I wonder how much they vend at.' not that an answer would be of any practical use to me.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 March 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

assasinating every politician in the world without getting caught

― duane, Monday, 3 March 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

This morning I was fantasising about being a RACING DRIVER! Pass yr driving test first, Tom!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 3 March 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

You don't need a license to be a racing driver, you know.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Thankyou Lara for giving me new hope!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 3 March 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i have the sad 'Premiership/international footballer' fantasy myself...but then why not? (£50,000 a week, supermodels etc.) - and i would refuse to ever do interviews on account of the horrendous cliched and dumbed-down questions and answers that always ensue

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 March 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Real supermodels don't go out with footballers.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes but they're not as dirty as the fake ones.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 3 March 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Stevem are you "Clarke"??

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 3 March 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

He is Matt Le Tissier.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

kickflip shuvvit.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 3 March 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

You need a Superlicence to drive Formula one cars, Tom. It's like an ordinary licence, but it can carry 300,000 tons of crude oil.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 3 March 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Real supermodels don't go out with footballers.

what about Lind Evangelista (Fabien Barthez) and Adriana Skleverinova or whatever her name was, married Christian Karembeu (was at Middlesbro for a while)...i guess REAL supermodels dont go out with British footballers ;)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe I should have said aspirational footballers.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

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Tachyon Campbell. How beautiful.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Who will give me the appallingly obvious Glasgow musical response to this?

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

being a robot.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

That wasn't so obvious.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

It's ok. Be proud of your unobviousness.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Disobviousness?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

All of the above. Apart from Rosemary's.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

You want to parade about in my pants?

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

is that so wrong?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

being the happiest guy in the world.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Reading the 300 pages of antitrust reseach I downloaded before tomorrow.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i should like to grant you all your wishes

for a moment only

and then i should like to listen while you say how foolish you have been. in the future, certainly, you will only listen to me. you will do as i say. for i am wise. and powerful. and good looking.

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

is that so wrong?

Well, you wouldn't be the first.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Scrubbing tubgirl pic from my brain.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

it's still getting to space. (though i now own a bit of moon real-estate, i still won't get there)

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Scrubbing tubgirl pic from my brain.

???

Is it girl-in-a-tub? Or more alarmingly just plain, simple tub-girl?

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

to 'get' music.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

don't click the nacho cheese thread lara, especially if you work open-plan.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Oooooh.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

Yesterday I read about a couple celebrating 66 years of marriage. Factoring in a bit of time for wedding planning (and finding a groom), I would have to live to 100 to reach such a milestone.

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

Getting married.

-- Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, March 2, 2003 11:16 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

― strgn, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

I could "possibly" achieve it, but Billionaire seems a little ambitious at this stage. If I make it I'll buy you all a car. (to share)

― Kerm, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 03:48 (eighteen years ago)

Flying without technology.

HLA I worked for a couple who have been married 72 years! I didn't get it until I asked what they did for their honeymoon. They went to New York and saw Cab Calloway.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 04:58 (eighteen years ago)

I've always wanted to be able to fly without technology too. I often have brilliant flying dreams (night-time/sleeping ones I mean) where I concentrate about floating up into the air and then I can soar all over the place. Sometimes it is lucid dreaming and I think "Well, if all I have to do is concentrate, why can't I fly in real life?".

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 05:53 (eighteen years ago)

I want to be Nathan Petrelli!

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 05:55 (eighteen years ago)

I'm surprised, really surprised that we got this far without mention of auto-fellating.

― Mikey Bidness, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 07:33 (eighteen years ago)

licking my own elbow. :(

― andi, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 08:16 (eighteen years ago)

Giving birth without painkillers. I love you Tom!

x x x Katie

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

That's not something I aspire, I *want* the drugs.

Hmm, I guess being an intelligent and ambitious person. I wish I was smrat, but it's not sth I really can aspire nor could achieve.

― stevienixed, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously though: I would like a better memory for names, facts and figures. It sucks to have no confidence in what you remember :(

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

I want to achieve some unattainable combination of excitement, stimulation, stability, and peace in my life. Unattainable because I'm the kind of person for whom excitement and peace are mutually exclusive!

― Maria, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Throw a no hitter.

kv's thing would be good too i guess.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

Irony: I did actually have to do some modelling albeit for an edgey style magazine, not an artist or anything.

Still haven't had anyone fall in love with me. OK, there was that one guy who said that he did, but then a year and a half later he said he'd been lying all along. Oh well.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Visit Antarctia. (I know it's possible but highly unlikely)

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

Become a successful actress. Overcome fear of flying. Front a band.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

I think I would've made a great governor for the state of Arkansas. My portrait would've looked great hanging behind my successor.

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Understandably, it wouldn't have looked as cool as this dude's:

http://img9.imagepile.net/img9/276RileyBobC_GovPort_f.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

<I>Become a successful actress.</I>

That's another good one!

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

Hiking the entire lengths of the Pacific Crest Trail and the Continental Divide Trail. It matters not to me if I succeeded by doing them in sections or as continuous hikes. I do expect I will manage to do more along this line than i have already accomplished, but hiking the entire trails before I die seems out of my grasp.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

good hair

― wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

Test cricket

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

There's an Arthur episode wherein Binky thinks he's about to die. He writes out a list of goals for the days he has left. The Brain reads them and says, "Taking a bite out of the sun? Drinking the entire ocean? These are physically impossible!" Roffles x1k.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

dunk

― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

nine years pass...

Have starburst rebranded back to opal fruits

― Betsy DeVos Ayes (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 February 2017 23:16 (eight years ago)

which are opal fruits to starburst - cilantro/coriander ?

― calzino, Thursday, 9 February 2017 23:29 (eight years ago)

Make the definitive movie about Oasis.

Write the Danish Aenid. It's about our former prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen biking from Djursland to Copenhagen.

Oh, yeah, and I think I'm giving up on my project of reviewing all 1697 nominees for the Palm d'Or. Had figured out if I did one a week I'd be done by the time I was 80, but it's so much work.

― Frederik B, Thursday, 9 February 2017 23:36 (eight years ago)

I read 1697 as a year and was V confused for a sec

― Betsy DeVos Ayes (darraghmac), Friday, 10 February 2017 00:10 (eight years ago)

obtain peace and quiet

― a but (brimstead), Friday, 10 February 2017 00:37 (eight years ago)

^ Good one.

Make music a full time career instead of working 40 hours a week (50 with transit) and dedicating half a day to music on the weekends. For now it feels good to just be creative I guess.

― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Friday, 10 February 2017 00:42 (eight years ago)

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