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You can go 15 years back in time and give yourself one bit of advice. What is it?

  • 29-01-2015 6:56pm
    #1
    Dep!
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 259 ✭✭


    I think mine is fairly easy for me.

    "Buy Apple shares!"


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  • #2
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    "Dont put the pussy on a pedestal"


  • #3
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Create facebook and Twitter


  • #4
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    I'd say "chill out kid, in 15 years time you're going to invent a time machine and it'll be gravy from them on"


  • #5
    DamagedTrax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,277 ✭✭✭DamagedTrax


    PULL OUT!!!!!

    (not really, i love my little mistake!)


  • #6
    bjork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,554 ✭✭✭bjork


    wear sunscreen


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  • #7
    Macker2001
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭Macker2001


    Encourage my mam to get a colonoscopy


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Only 15?

    Too late. Dammit.


  • #9
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Do your Irish homework or you'll get detention.


  • #10
    Dep!
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 259 ✭✭Dep!


    smash wrote: »
    Create facebook and Twitter


    Not as straightforward as it would seem.

    You could tell him or her to "create" anything. Facebook. Twitter. Even Google. But then how would they go about it? All of these three companies were a result of knowledge and determination, finances already in place etc. Too many variables. The main one your past self wont have is the knowledge of how to do it because your current one doesnt.

    Nah, I say tell yourself to simply invest in all three at their earliest stages and sit back and reap the rewards ;)


  • #11
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    Joe now that you've gone back 15 years in time

    Sell your Eircom Shares now................... N O W


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  • #12
    Magnate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 877 ✭✭✭Magnate


    DamagedTrax wrote: »
    PULL OUT!!!!!

    (not really, i love my little mistake!)

    Before "The One" comes knocking? :rolleyes:


  • #13
    Dep!
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 259 ✭✭Dep!


    Magnate wrote: »
    Before "The One" comes knocking? :rolleyes:


    :confused:


  • #14
    DamagedTrax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,277 ✭✭✭DamagedTrax


    Magnate wrote: »
    Before "The One" comes knocking? :rolleyes:

    eh?


  • #15
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Dep! wrote: »
    The main one your past self wont have is the knowledge of how to do it because your current one doesnt.

    And that's where you're completely wrong! :)

    In 1999 myself 2 friends created a mini social network that accepted photos through an mms gateway. We decided not to peruse it because hardly anyone had phones with cameras and those who did wouldn't have paid the 25c per mms. Especially when the quality was utterly crap. After that we fell out of touch so couldn't relaunch it.


  • #16
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    Don't let her get away.......















    I got 7 years over that fiasco


  • #17
    Magnate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 877 ✭✭✭Magnate


    DamagedTrax wrote: »
    eh?

    To warn you also,


  • #18
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Don't eat the yellow snow


  • #19
    DamagedTrax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,277 ✭✭✭DamagedTrax


    Magnate wrote: »
    To warn you also,

    ahh! :D

    i thought you were the catholic institute for a minute there


  • #20
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    UK garage, enjoy it while it lasts!


  • #21
    Banjoxed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Banjoxed


    Just because that boss has a mad sense of humour doesn't mean you'll always be laughing. Get back to where you really wanted to be instead and dig yourself in.


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  • #22
    Dep!
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 259 ✭✭Dep!


    smash wrote: »
    And that's where you're completely wrong! :)

    In 1999 myself 2 friends created a mini social network that accepted photos through an mms gateway. We decided not to peruse it because hardly anyone had phones with cameras and those who did wouldn't have paid the 25c per mms. Especially when the quality was utterly crap. After that we fell out of touch so couldn't relaunch it.

    So your company could have been Facebook?

    Really? :)

    Then how come Bebo and Myspace arent worth the $200 billion Facebook is?

    No the only way Id see making money out of Facebook in a time travel scenario is to go to Harvard around June 2003, a few months before Zuckerberg invents it and have half a million to invest in it with him. You've earned this cash from your Apple shares for the sake of this scenario. You also have a very good lawyer present during the whole process as Zuckerberg screwed over his early partners.

    Then you find a ten year old Justin Bieber and with your new found wealth pay him a million dollars to sign a legally binding contract to never enter the music business.


  • #23
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,695 ✭✭✭Lisha


    Carbs are not your friend. :(


  • #24
    Canyon86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭Canyon86


    Study more in school

    Save more in jobs etc


  • #25
    Frigga_92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,809 ✭✭✭Frigga_92


    15 years ago is too late :(


  • #26
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    Don't come to work drunk. :P


  • #27
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I'd obviously give him that sports almanac that I stole off that pipsqueak McFly.


  • #28
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,191 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    I'd give me a sports almanac and go all paradox Biff on the next 15 years. Also I'd kill Obama before he could get elected.

    Beaten by 2 seconds what are the odds ;)


  • #29
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Bollix to all the company mallarky. I'd bring a fistful of winning euro million lottery numbers.


  • #30
    The Strawman Argument
    Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭The Strawman Argument


    "You're only nine years old, you could probably get away pretty lightly with murdering a few of them, go on, do it! You'll regret it if you don't :) "

    Eh... I'm only joking, of course


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  • #31
    Dep!
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 259 ✭✭Dep!


    RobbingBandit wrote: »

    Also I'd kill Obama before he could get elected.


    :eek:


    Ladies and Gentlemen. We are in the first After Hours thread to get flagged by the CIA.


  • #32
    Dep!
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 259 ✭✭Dep!


    Zulu wrote: »
    Bollix to all the company mallarky. I'd bring a fistful of winning euro million lottery numbers.

    I think this may be the best one for financial gain in hindsight.


  • #33
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Dep! wrote: »
    So your company could have been Facebook?

    Really? :)

    Then how come Bebo and Myspace arent worth the $200 billion Facebook is?
    no I'm saying I had the means to do it. The other sites you mentioned sold for a lot, then went to shít because they allowed users to modify the platform.

    Anyone could have done it but he was in the right place at the right time. I'm saying if I could go back, I'd have done it how he did.


  • #34
    zcorpian88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭zcorpian88


    Argue with the parents more about the secondary school I was made go to, put your foot down, the place isn't good enough.

    I argued my case before, during and even after my time in the kip, all the good it done me!


  • #35
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    Relax. Stop worrying so much about the future.
    And don't have that fling. You know the one I'm talking about. Just don't go there.


  • #36
    Dep!
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 259 ✭✭Dep!


    smash wrote: »
    no I'm saying I had the means to do it. The other sites you mentioned sold for a lot, then went to shít because they allowed users to modify the platform.

    Anyone could have done it but he was in the right place at the right time. I'm saying if I could go back, I'd have done it how he did.


    And then how do you get people like Sean Parker and the founder of Paypal interested?

    And how could "anyone have done it" with a company now worth more than some country's GDP?

    I dont think you've thought this through. No time machine for you Im afraid.


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  • #37
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Buy Apple shares, all of them.


  • #38
    Brian2208
    Registered Users Posts: 539 ✭✭✭Brian2208


    I wish I could just go back 15 minutes and not watch that video on Facebook I just watched

    Scarred for life


  • #39
    johnny osbourne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭johnny osbourne


    wear proper personal protection equipment


  • #40
    Shrap
    Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    Dep! wrote: »
    I think mine is fairly easy for me.

    "Buy Apple shares!"

    15 years ago? No regrets.

    6 years ago? Buy Bitcoins when you're told to, you dozy effing cow :mad: Ah well. Probably wouldn't have sold them at the right time either :o


  • #41
    jamesbere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Kill jedward


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  • #42
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Dep! wrote: »
    And then how do you get people like Sean Parker and the founder of Paypal interested?

    And how could "anyone have done it" with a company now worth more than some country's GDP?

    I dont think you've thought this through. No time machine for you Im afraid.

    Sean Parker got involved after it was created. The funding all came after it was launched! So just feck off, your just irritating now. The thread is what you'd do if you could go back 15 years. If you don't like what someone would do then keep your opinions to yourself.


  • #43
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Health checks. Get a yearly 'NCT' done on your body.


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    15 years ago I had already made all the mistakes I was going to make in life. So I would have just told myself to keep doing what am doing and not to forget to take the meds.


  • #45
    ChunkyLover54
    Registered Users Posts: 564 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover54


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I'd obviously give him that sports almanac that I stole off that pipsqueak McFly.

    1999 Champions League Final. 90th Minute:

    "Listen butthead. I bet you a million bucks Man Utd will score 2 goals in the next 2 minutes"


  • #46
    Seanf999
    Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭Seanf999


    Nothing.. Not because I'm so great but because I don't think 2 year old me would have listened


  • #47
    Dep!
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 259 ✭✭Dep!


    smash wrote: »
    Sean Parker got involved after it was created. The funding all came after it was launched! So just feck off, your just irritating now. The thread is what you'd do if you could go back 15 years. If you don't like what someone would do then keep your opinions to yourself.


    Ahahaha. Seriously? :)

    You're going to invent Facebook all without the circumstances that Zuckerberg had? Harvard. His circle of programming friends. The likes of Eduardo Saverinand and others who helped build it with Zuckerberg?

    You are living in a feckin' fantasy land if you think you could do Facebook with your own knowledge. And this is a fantasy thread to begin with!

    This is you tbh http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/spoiled-girl.jpg


  • #48
    murrayp4
    Registered Users Posts: 969 ✭✭✭murrayp4


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    I'd give me a sports almanac and go all paradox Biff on the next 15 years. Also I'd kill Obama before he could get elected.

    Beaten by 2 seconds what are the odds ;)

    Enjoy your time on the Watch List.


  • #49
    upandcumming
    Registered Users Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭upandcumming


    Work harder in school and college. I am paying for it now.


  • #50
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    all of the things you are most frightened of will come true


  • #51
    reprise
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭reprise


    Win the lottery live for five glorious years. Tenth anniversary of my death. Time flies. :(


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