- Do these things for charity
- Learn to Samba
- Read War and Peace
- Draw a Dragon
- Hunt for hidden treasure.
- Buy a ‘Tesla Purple Energy Shield’
- Go to see a show.
- Fly a helicopter.
- Go walking on mountain Snowdon
- Cycle the A58 from start to finish
- Invade Poland (its were all the good dictators start)
- Learn to drive a car
- Start your own religion based on the teachings of the prophet Zaphod Beeblebrox.
- Eat something you’ve never tried before.
- Visit a local tourist attraction – you know, the one you’ve lived round the corner from for years but never quite gotten round to going to because, well, it’s just there and you could go anytime.
- Count to 300 You know it’ll come in useful.
- Learn to play violin. Teach somebody how to play violin
- Gain a warm happy feeling from helping out somebody else.
- Try having a day of not being a know it all.
- Get hypnotised into ignorance for a day to see if it really is bliss
- Titillate an ocelot
- Poke badgers with spoons
- Pretend to be a lady, and break some poor geeks heart.
- See how many pickles you can eat before you vomit
- Try and invent a better mousetrap
- Discover weather a tree falling in the woods with no one to hear it makes a sound or not
- Do scientific research into the whole chicken/egg thing
- Pick a few evening classes at random from the list your local council will probably have. Go along and try a few things. (You can often get away without paying for the first few weeks).
- Find you’re nearest volunteer bureau and give them a few weekends of your time. This is particularly good with organisations that have capital projects, such as BTCV, ‘cos then you can annoy people for years by saying things like “You see that bit of fence there, I installed that”
- Go to a bookshop. Judge a book by its cover. Read it and see if you were right.
- Drink more but drink less
- Have steak pies warmed and ready to eat for your friends when they’ve got home from a heavy nights drinking.
- Find one thing that I regret or think was a major mistake in my life and change it
- Make Bread
- Learn to say I love you in 4 different language
- Stay in all day and watch movies with only Mel Gibson
- Dress up like a SUPERhero and go to the SUPERmarket.
- Write a heartfelt letter
- Write 10 anonymous Valentine’s Cards
- Dress in drag for Halloween
- Buy somebody something nice and have it sent to him or her via e-bay. Make sure that somebody doesn’t know who sent it.
- Learn how to say “two beers please” in as many languages as humanly possible. Even that African clicking one. Once you’re done with the spoken languages, don’t forget the various sign languages.
- Have a go at falconry (I really enjoyed it when I had a go at Al’s hen do, and want to do it again – there’s a falconry place in Knutsford).
- Go to the park with friends on a sunny day and play with a Frisbees
- Make a shadow puppet.
- Dye someone else’s pet an unusual colour
- Get a tattoo
- Get a TATU
- Paint a picture. You know, with paint.
- Ring somebody you don’t speak to very often and time the call, try and get them to speak to you for over an hour. If you fail, ring somebody else and do the same
- Go outside on your lunch hour and feed the pigeons.
- Visit your local information centre. Find something free to do in the local area and go do it.
- Phone someone you wouldn’t normally call. Tell them how lovely they are.
- Obtain your family tree.
- Go to a non-league football match.
- Go to Rusholme and buy some of those sweets that they have in the windows of restaurants.
- Write something in the dirt of a stranger’s car.
- Set up a standing order to a charity of your choice.
- Heckle a medium during a reading
- Pretend to be a spiritualist and see how long you can spin people on
- Collect as many souls as you can
- Go squirrel fishing
- Invent a word and get it into common usage
- Design and build a small, time-saving device or contraption
- See how many packets of popping candy you can eat at once
- Bake a cake
- Give a flower to a complete stranger
- Learn how to tie proper knots
- Archery
- Abseiling
- Go to the Opera
- Try Sailing – proper not speedboat, pedlows etc..
- Obtain a legally binding title (ie. Lord, Reverend, Doctor)
- Obtain, by any means necessary, more letters after your name than are actually in your name.
- Watch an entire TV series (not a miniseries) in one sitting, stopping only for food and sleep. (Well, maybe not sleep).
- Get a back massage.
- Give a back massage.
- Adopt a worm.
- Learn to scuba dive. One of the best things in the world.
- Bake a fresh loaf of bread from scratch not using a bread machine.
- Make ice cream. Fresh ice cream is fantastic.
- Enter the Cooper’s Hill Cheese Roll. Get treated for the subsequent broken ankle.
- Buy something that has a myriad of uses.
- Tell someone what you really think about them.
- On one pub night, drink at least one of every beer produced by Ringwood Brewery
- Protest against something
- Give up booze for a month
- Detonate an explosive
- Learn to cartwheel
- Create a sculpture
- Make money on the stock market
- Be a nude model
- Disprove a pseudo science
- Cause a media scare
- Get chased by the Paparazzi
- Have a microchip surgically implanted in myself
- Build a Wigwam
- Eat 50 eggs in half an hour
- Write a love poem and give it to my paramour
- Go Tobogganing
- Learn to Morris Dance
- Survive a Zombie attack
- Discover the secret to life itself
- Sell my body
- Forge a sword
- Start my own religion
- Come from the north with my fathers sword
- Find the Larpers at the Liberty bounds
- Help an old lady across the road
- Kiss a policeman
- Get arrested
- Go on a hen do (as a woman)
- Steal an canal boat
- Horse ride naked
- Brew Mead
- Write a Novel
- Mud wrestle
- What about learning to flair whilst riding a unicycle?
- Light a fart
- Think your own wee
- Pretend to be a reporter
- Shoot the Sheriff (but don’t shoot the deputy)
- Do the full Monty on stage
- Stick a ferret down my trousers
- Kiss a frog
- Write a poem and have it published
- Spend a day dressed as a woman
- Get a deserving friend laid
- Knit a rainbow jumper
- Paint an self portrait in oils
- Buy a house
- Marry a woman
- Have babies
- Retire
- Grow a bonsai tree bigger than it should be
- Be a ninja for a day
- Be the office monkey for a week
- Kiss 20 different women in a hour
- Be ogled by somebody
- Sell my soul to the devil and get a receipt
- Learn the Indian rope trick
- Cause an international incident
- Re-enact one scene from the old testament
- Get someone arrested
- Build a nuclear bunker
- Change your name by Deed poll
- Use a azerty keyboard for a week
- Be physically ejected from somewhere
- Get locked in a night cub after locking up
- Get locked in a police cell over night
- Blow up enough balloons to lift me up
- Perform a one man show in Tafalgar square
- Get in to at least one royal party or occasion (any royal of any vintage, anywhere, doesn’t have to be English)
- Get some footage of yourself on your local evening news (as a member of the public, or impersonating a Yeti by filming yourself and sending it in…whatever you can think of)
- Break a world record (any world record, some of them are so silly there must be at least one in the book that’s doable)
- Try to find somewhere to hide in your local shopping mall with a camera, hide there until night time and film yourself exploring a deserted shopping mall at night.
- Try to get a question asked in parliament by writing to your MP (keep a copy of the letter as proof, you may have to write more than one!) then you can stick that & footage of your question being asked on PMs Question Time on youre website, thus proving the validity of our democratic system (or not)!
- Get your photo taken with as many crap celebrities as you can, put them in an album and try to convince another celebrity you are famous (best done if you can get someone to secretly film you doing it).
- Clean an Elephant in Dublin Zoo (or any Zoo where they allow you to do such things, I know they do at Dublin Zoo it was on the radio innit)
- Visit Every London Underground station in 1 day
- Invent something – something useless but very specific – and get it patented. Then sell your useless invention to people over the internet for cash going to the charity of your choice.
- Run a 2+ hour RPG session every night for a month
- Join Simon Clough for a nice cycle ride one weekend. That should ruin your life for the following week
- Shave a stripe down the middle of your head from ear to ear.
- Wear a man-bustle or crinoline for a whole day and claim the metal poles count as armour?
- Turn up on a friends door out of the blue with a picnic.
- Get a ferret to play dead
- Learn to tight rope walk a minimum of 4ft height
- Create a soap bubble that can fit 5 people (you know washing up liquid, a hula hoop, paddling pool, willing victims)
- Dye your hair a vibrant purple or blue or green – or all three
- Drive a Tank
- Build yourself a raft and use it to complete a circumnavigation
- Put all of these achieved goals on your CV. Submit for a job, of your choice.
- Set up a YouTube channel to accompany this group.
- Study other compares and become a compare for the rebel rebels
- Pretend that your name is Keith! it’s up to you how long you keep it up for though!
- Conduct an experiment to find out how much vitamin C it takes to overdose
- It is reported that there are 700 ferry crossings between the isle of Wight and mainland Britain each day. See how many you can manage in 24 hours.
- Solve a world problem with Gaffa Tape
- Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Via the steps, not the lift
- Do a paper round.
- Spend an hour on the ‘special’ bus pretending to be ‘special’
- Go to a live performance of “The Rocky Horror Show” wearing your normal clothes. During the interval, complain to the theatre staff about the behaviour of the other audience members.
- Ride an Elephant
- Drink a yard of Ale without Stopping
- Eat a bag of Onions as if they were Apples.
- Undertake research to discover whether the following statement is true “Time flies by when you’re the driver of a train, and you ride on the foot plate there and back again.”
- Write into Jackanory ask if Marcus can present a story
- Win a blue peter badge
- Use a Tazer on Sam Harber
- Attend a public trial and protest the innocence of some who is clearly guilty until thrown out.
- Spend a week wearing moon boots to work
- Sign at least four important cheques as “Idi Amin, Emperor of Africa”
- Shear a sheep
- Dress more femininely.
- Eat human flesh. (Someone else’s)
- Question a Spaniards parentage during coitus
- Milk a goat
- Obtain cheese from a goat
- Steal Candy from a Baby
- Turn a Nun away from God
- Learn to ride a husky sled in full Tomb Raider Stylee
- Manage a Boy band
- Acquire a gun licences and join a gun club
- Increase appreciation of Womack and Womack
- Eat only pink foods and liquids for a week
- Leave a room in the manner of Batman
- Do 6 hours of voluntary work
- Walk into a toy store dressed as Santa. Begin to take toys off the shelves and hand them to small children.
- Invent a new sin.
- Re-enact one scene from the old testament
- Start a new cult
- Start an old Cult
- Participate in the Holm Firth Duck Race
- Wrestle an alligator – NOT A CROCODILE
- Film attempts to perform the above and create a Channel Four programme called “Ways for myki to ruin his life” complete with a line of merchandise and appearances on Richard and Judy
- Dress up in drag and create a youtube dance for the rather wonderful track: girls just wanna have fun”, it can be done in the style of your choosing but must encompass at least 1 minute of footage as well as be viewable by anyone that chooses to watch it.
- Return to an ex-workplace and act as if you’d never left. When challenged pretend you have amnesia and can’t remember leaving.
- Give up Facebook for Lent
- Write a 100 page screen/stage play in a month.
- Cycle from home to the Highest Pub in Britain and try whatever the Landlord recommends.
- Visit all the places you used to live and catch up with at least one old friend at each.
- Have a pint in every real ale pub from the Crown, in Horwich to the Doffcocker along Chorley Old Road. (Steve promises to help with this one!)
- Make a home made kite and fly it on Moss Bank Park
- Have your photo taken kissing a baby
- Finish the Endless Set-list on Rockband on Hard.
- Orange wednesday…dress up as the wicked witch and go to see a film of your choosing with “vicki”
- Join the 2010 Manchester Naked Bike Ride
- Take a break from “Ruin Mikey’s Life” for three days.
- Either make at least one person smile every day (though I’m sure you do anyway)
- Pick one big adventurous type thing you’ve always wanted to do and strive to do it before the year is through.
- Throw a party that Catherine Lee can actually attend.
- Run a Victoriana event, even if only for friends, towards the latter part of the year.
- Drink a pint of the Black Stuff
- Go to London pretending to be from the country “Mikeynoria” complete with patriotic paraphonalia such as “I Mikeynoria” T-shirt and dictionary, and speak in a made up language.
- Do the Manchester Run
- Get punched by a lesbian
- Knit a bonnet for a baby/small person
- Hug everybody you talk to for a day
- Apply to be a look-a-like of somebody you do not resemble
- Start an argument with yourself in a national newspaper.
- Keep time on a lemon powered clock.
- Colour a rose blue.
- Capture the moment with a pinhole camera.
- Before the end of 2010, produce a calendar for 2011, enlisting whatever help is necessary from others. This calendar will feature tasteful nude photographs, which must all be new and never before seen and must feature yourself and any friends you can enlist. Each photograph must be relevant to the month. The calendar must be on free sale to any who wish to buy it, and after costs are deducted proceeds can go to the charity of your choice.
- Support a band into international stardom and have them gratefully take you on tour with them?
- Form your own political party
- Be inappropriate at a formal dinner
- Wear a suit for a week
- Stand in the street looking up for 5 minuets and see how many people stop to see what you
- Looking at walk into a stationary shop and stop moving until a friend pulls you out
- Before the start of 2012, produce a calendar for 2012. You may get whatever help you need from other’s, the calendar will be tastefully nude and themed around larp/fantasy/scifi/Steampunk and other geekery. The calendar must be on free sale to any who wish to buy it, and after costs are deducted proceeds can go to the charity of your choice.
- Before the start of 2013, produce a calendar for 2013. You may get whatever help you need from other’s, the calendar will be tastefully nude and themed around larp/fantasy/scifi/Steampunk and other geekery. The calendar must be on free sale to any who wish to buy it, and after costs are deducted proceeds can go to the charity of your choice.
- Go out and play “Mungo and the Cripple”. This entails you, the Cripple, sitting in a wheelchair and being eloquent and quick-witted while you able-bodied (but afflicted by a cerebral-palsy-like disease – people who might be helped by the charity ‘Scope’) assistant, Mungo, pushes you into shops to do your shopping. Expect not to be spoken to until they realise that Mungo can’t talk and then to treat you as if you are stupid. Film the reactions of the general public surreptitiously and compile the “best bits” for youtube. This is something that could be used to raise awareness of the issues faced by people who have to use wheelchairs, whether for six weeks or all their lives.
- Write The Adventures of Captain Sarcastic and Pedantic Man, then publish it (online counts), enlisting the creative talents of others where necessary.
- Find out what you actually think! Record what you say during the night for seven days!! AND Upload EVERY recording made!
- Sculpt a dragon. The end result should be submitted to Rohan Platts for judging – approval will be indicated by retention of the object.
- Get Fliss to recommend one great book per month and review them, book club style, with her and anyone else who wants to read along.
- Start an Andy Bennett Fan Club
- Write a Petrarchian Sonnet and perform it to an audience that contains at least one stranger
- Attend a protest with a completely inappropriate placard.
- Encounter a honey badger.
- Obtain a certificate proving you are sane.
- Scale a public building without permission.
- Be karma for a week.
- Use a hallucinogenic substance.
- Rally the public to your cause (any cause)
- Go to a harvest festival as the grim reaper.
- Overturn a miscarriage of justice.
- Try busking.
- Give a flower to a random stranger
- Complete the 100 snapshot challenge
- Make a father/son coming-of-age montage with Martin Ward.
- Eat a mutton fry
- Cycle the Trans Pennine Trail from Manchester to Liverpool
- Watch England play cricket live
- Learn to surf
- Take tea at the Ritz
- Make a sucessful fudge
- Make a meringue using only a fork to whisk the egg white.
- Brew a bottle of your own ale, with amusing name and label
- Wear a kilt with comedy underwear for a month
- Get tonsured
- Run naked around a national monument/English Heritage site
- Do a drive by shooting on some friends using Nerf Guns
- do a piece of good urban art, graffiti in a prominant public place.
- Plant Tomato plants on all the roundabouts in Manchester
- Run a 10k – Katherine Shaw will do it too.
- With the assistance of friends, create a new “episode” of Doctor Who
- Create a Micronation, including it’s own flag
- Write all this up, as a book, sell the rights to Hollywood, make a fortune and buy a mansion
- Using legitimate IC means, acquire a potion on invisibility from three different LARP systems
- Give a serious lecture on a serious subject, whilst in “panto-dame” drag.
- Get a group together to walk the West Highland Way – it’s a hundred miles but there are youth hostels all the way or you can camp.
- Star in a play, written by a friend with others friends cast in it.
- Ring someone to tell them that they’re lovely
- Give up caffeine for a month
- Film a 50 minute episode of an A&E medical drama series. Any medical terms and treatments used must be accurate and verified by an independent medical expert (will be supplied). Bonus points will be given for coming up with an amusing title for your series, use of complex medical terms and combining with task 289.
- Create a short, low budget film entitled “Cakes on a train”.
- Try Molly Dancing!
- Learn to walk on your hands. Its almost a spare time challenge…
- Live a normal day (mon-fri) dressed and made up as blanka from street fighter
- Make Kaela a Harley Quinn Mallet and pop gun
- To create and upload somewhere on the internet a radio drama show with a plotline (eg Archers, The Goon Show, that sort of thing) using all the sound-effects in the 500 Ultimate Sound Effects album. Extra points if you have more than three people as part of the cast. You can use a sound effect more than once if you wish, but all of them must be used at some point in the show.
- Open an art gallery for one night/day only (you may do this wherever you wish home/pub/field) You must commission a number of different artist (friends not professional artists) to create for you two works each :- One inspired or based on you and the ruination of your life One inspired or based on a charity of your choosing These works must then be displayed in your gallery and ultimately auctioned off (up to you if you do an auction/silent bid auction on the night or eBay later) with proceeds from sale of items going to above mentioned charity
- Do the Slattery’s Chocolate Challenge. Suceed.
- Compose yourself a theme tune on the kazoo.
- Go on a rubbish dating show and get a free holiday somewhere nice with someone vapid, or someone cool if you can find one.
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So, how does one set a new challenge?
Do the Slattery’s Chocolate Challenge. Succeed…
Exactly like that Sarah. All I require is that it’s written down somewhere I can find it. I’ll add it to the list.