10 Stupid Things to Do Before You Die

By Andy Scott /

1. Ignore that little niggling feeling!

Countless great things could come about just from your ignoring your €˜6th Sense€™ as some may put it. There€™s often a misconception that any time you get a little niggling feeling in your stomach that something just isn€™t right, it€™s some primordial sense of destiny. Akin to attaching your wiggly blue tail to a massive tree and €˜being one€™ with your earthly mother. Often it€™s just cowardice and you€™ve reached an age where it manifests itself in €˜gut feeling€™ rather than €˜wet trousers€™. It€™s beyond preposterous to imagine that Felix Baumgartner had no feeling €“ niggly or otherwise €“ in this stomach before standing on a platform in space (stratosphere shmatosphere, it was space!) and plummeting into the blue bayou! He took a calculated risk and told his primordial weathervane to do one! Besides the fact that feats of human endeavour would decline sharply if that niggly feeling was taken more seriously, sometimes it€™s just funnier to ignore it. There€™s an excellent reason why most anecdotes taken from the British isles begin with something along the lines of, €œI was AB-SO-LUTE-LY bladdered, right...€ getting drunk just makes it that much simpler to ignore! Ultimately one fact must be faced, there€™s no funnier explanation of your demented actions than: €œit seemed like a good idea at the time!€