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Moments in time you will never forget

  • 29-08-2013 11:43am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭


    As the title says. Something that will stay with you till the day you die.

    My dad telling me he was still my dad but that he wouldn't be around anymore and that he was moving to South America to be with a woman he had met.

    First time ever downloading porn.
    The wait that felt like an eternity for it to slowly download line by line down the screen and constantly freaked my mum would walk in.

    The time my mum found porno mags I had hidden in the sleeve of Michael Jacksons Bad vinyl.

    Waking up in a hotel room, at a wedding, to my then girlfriend riding a bloke in a bed across from me.
    That hurt.

    Learning to drive.

    Many more but they are the most memorable, what have you got?

    Jasus, reading that back it makes me out to be a right depressed cnut.
    I'm not, I'm always smiling on the inside and outside.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    the last time someone threw a ball and it hit me in the...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 293 ✭✭GorillaRising


    Waking up in a hotel room at a wedding to my then girlfriend riding a bloke in a bed across from me.

    WTF? This deserves its own thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    My first time on the internet - waiting for hours for a small patch to download for Diablo over Dial-up... playing it after, then seeing the phone bill at the end of the month. /woo

    ( Yes, I'm an avid [online] gamer - sue me... )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭johnny_knoxvile


    my musical idol randomly asking me on Facebook to meet him for pint because he was in Dublin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭keithsfleet


    WTF? This deserves its own thread.

    Sorry wasn't a wedding to my then girlfriend.
    It was a wedding we were at.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    A

    Waking up in a hotel room at a wedding to my then girlfriend riding a bloke in a bed across from me.
    That hurt.

    Jaysus....

    Mine would be

    First time seeing a film in the cinema, Batman, summer of 1989.

    Getting my first games console.

    Out of a sh1t job I hated and telling my manager to go fcuk himself.

    Being diagnosed with arthritis at 28, bleh.

    Going to my first Wrestlemania.

    solo trip to the states, seeing the Grand Canyon, breathtaking isn't the word.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭Katgurl


    Ireland winning the grand slam 2009. I'm not even a rugby fanatic, I just remember feeling my heart was going to burst through my chest.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9 Jack Weasel.


    As the title says. Something that will stay with you till the day you die.

    My dad telling me he was still my dad but that he wouldn't be around anymore and that he was moving to South America to be with a woman he had met.
    Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

    "Yeah i'm still your dad but i'm ****ing off to Colombia to **** some brass and sire loads of other kids"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 293 ✭✭GorillaRising


    WTF? This deserves its own thread.
    Sorry wasn't a wedding to my then girlfriend.
    It was a wedding we were at.

    I know...but still!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9 Jack Weasel.


    Katgurl wrote: »
    Ireland winning the grand slam 2009. I'm not even a rugby fanatic, I just remember feeling my heart was going to burst through my chest.
    ******.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,347 ✭✭✭✭Grayditch


    Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

    "Yeah i'm still your dad but i'm ****ing off to Colombia to **** some brass and sire loads of other kids"

    :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 293 ✭✭GorillaRising


    Katgurl wrote: »
    Ireland winning the grand slam 2009. I'm not even a rugby fanatic, I just remember feeling my heart was going to burst through my chest.

    Good thing you didn't witness Italia '90. :p


  • Site Banned Posts: 257 ✭✭Driveby Dogboy


    Give me one moment in time
    When I'm more than I thought I could be
    When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away
    And the answers are all up to me
    Give me one moment in time
    When I'm racing with destiny
    Then in that one moment of time
    I will be
    I will be
    I will be free
    I will be
    I will be free


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Sunglasses Ron


    The afternoon of 9/11, and the days after it.

    It might seem far fetched right now, but it was such a historically game changing event it was not beyond the realms of possibility that Ireland could find itself in a World War. Conscription almost did not seem far fetched, after what had happened anything was possible.


    I can't think of anything more severely impact from a personal standpoint. Which is probably a good thing seeing as those mentioned in the OP are pretty miserable!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭MonstaMash


    Holding my new born son for the first time


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    My parents' deaths will never leave me. Giving birth to my 2 boys.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭tempnam


    Surprised nobody has mentioned their kids being born yet...

    Oh well, time for me to mention it so - my daughter being born! I'll never forget that!

    OP - tell us more about your missus riding some other fella while you were right there beside them! She sounds like a right cnut! Didn't even have the decency to sneak off to another room.... I hope you knocked the shyte out of both of them...

    Edit - MonstaMash & KKkitty got in there before me on the baby thing!


  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,957 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    Katgurl wrote: »
    Ireland winning the grand slam 2009. I'm not even a rugby fanatic, I just remember feeling my heart was going to burst through my chest.

    That was one of mine too! I actually cried! :o

    Others were:

    When I was six, waking up on the ground after falling out of a tree and getting knocked out. You know that expression 'wake up with a crowd around you'? That was what happened, I just opened my eyes and the first thing that registered with me, before the pain and blood spraying out of my head, was all these scared faces looking down at me.

    My mum telling me that my grandpa had died.

    The first time I kissed my boyfriend (now husband).

    When my son was born and they put him on my stomach and I suddenly realised he was mine.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Getting married in a Shinto temple with Mount Fuji bathed in sunlight as a backdrop.

    Seeing the Milky Way as crystal clear as best you can without a telescope, on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

    Swimming in an ice cold mountain river in Yakushima, Japan.

    The first time I kissed a girl.

    The emotional reunion with my cousin again after over 25 years.

    When a well known singer asked me for my number.

    Walking to Hyde Park against the war, with 2 million others, 10 years ago.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Shitting myself in High Infants because it was a better option than using the disgusting toilets in the school.

    Being shot at by an unhinged neighbour when I was seven.

    My first day at the big school.

    The careers guidance teacher saying I'd never amount to anything (visionary man.:pac:)

    Being sick over a RUC woman the night Ireland lost to Holland in a Euro 96 playoff

    Passing my driving test and my first ride on the same day.

    Being told by a college tutor I was a waste of space and would never amount to anything.

    Walking out on my first job (after my boss told me I was useless and would never amount to anything.:pac:)

    The last words I said to my mother before she died.:(

    Loads more but I can't think of them now.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    As the title says. Something that will stay with you till the day you die.

    My dad telling me he was still my dad but that he wouldn't be around anymore and that he was moving to South America to be with a woman he had met.

    First time ever downloading porn.
    The wait that felt like an eternity for it to slowly download line by line down the screen and constantly freaked my mum would walk in.

    The time my mum found porno mags I had hidden in the sleeve of Michael Jacksons Bad vinyl.

    Waking up in a hotel room, at a wedding, to my then girlfriend riding a bloke in a bed across from me.
    That hurt.

    Learning to drive.

    Many more but they are the most memorable, what have you got?

    Jasus, reading that back it makes me out to be a right depressed cnut.
    I'm not, I'm always smiling on the inside and outside.
    Jeez, there's a mini-series in that lot.
    (BTW have you ever called Liveline)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    The afternoon of 9/11, and the days after it.

    It might seem far fetched right now, but it was such a historically game changing event it was not beyond the realms of possibility that Ireland could find itself in a World War. Conscription almost did not seem far fetched, after what had happened anything was possible.


    I can't think of anything more severely impact from a personal standpoint. Which is probably a good thing seeing as those mentioned in the OP are pretty miserable!

    That was pretty memorable, I was on a lads holiday at the time, wandered out hungover to find some breakfast and saw crowds of people around a tv in a bar. Thought it was a match or something but saw the footage of the second tower collapsing, was absolutely surreal watching this world changing event live on tv.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    watching meath score a fantastic goal and win the 2010 Leinster final


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    watching meath score a fantastic goal and win the 2010 Leinster final
    ....better known as 'Sluddengate'?:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭lisao80


    krudler wrote: »
    That was pretty memorable, I was on a lads holiday at the time, wandered out hungover to find some breakfast and saw crowds of people around a tv in a bar. Thought it was a match or something but saw the footage of the second tower collapsing, was absolutely surreal watching this world changing event live on tv.

    That nearly mirrors mine , i was on a girls holiday in gran canaria and went down stairs to the bar to get us breakfast and everyone was watching it on the tv, it resulted in no one else getting breakfast cause I stayed in the bar watching it for ages


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭ectoraige


    When I was diagnosed with Alzeimers, I'll never forget where did I put my keys, I think I saw the day he brought the sheep in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    lisao80 wrote: »
    That nearly mirrors mine , i was on a girls holiday in gran canaria and went down stairs to the bar to get us breakfast and everyone was watching it on the tv, it resulted in no one else getting breakfast cause I stayed in the bar watching it for ages

    ha that's where I was


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭tempnam


    The afternoon of 9/11, and the days after it.

    It might seem far fetched right now, but it was such a historically game changing event it was not beyond the realms of possibility that Ireland could find itself in a World War. Conscription almost did not seem far fetched, after what had happened anything was possible.


    I can't think of anything more severely impact from a personal standpoint. Which is probably a good thing seeing as those mentioned in the OP are pretty miserable!
    krudler wrote: »
    That was pretty memorable, I was on a lads holiday at the time, wandered out hungover to find some breakfast and saw crowds of people around a tv in a bar. Thought it was a match or something but saw the footage of the second tower collapsing, was absolutely surreal watching this world changing event live on tv.

    I was waiting for this to be mentioned!

    http://youtu.be/0YOh-rpvjYg?t=30s


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    lisao80 wrote: »
    That nearly mirrors mine , i was on a girls holiday in gran canaria and went down stairs to the bar to get us breakfast and everyone was watching it on the tv, it resulted in no one else getting breakfast cause I stayed in the bar watching it for ages
    Must have been a late breakfast......?:confused:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Age 4 - burning my finger on a match when I joined my older brother and his "cool" friends on the streetcorner. Unbearable pain.

    Age 11 - remembering I had been abused as a younger child. The memory just hit me out of the blue.

    Age 14 - Realising during 2nd year maths class that my (female!) teacher was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen! :D

    Age 16 - The day the beer I had hidden in my bedroom at home disappeared. I knew one of my parents had taken it and said nothing, rather than laying into me about underage drinking. They actually let me squirm for a week before confronting me - never hid drink in the room again.

    Age 17 - Being outed to my entire class by the cúnt who bullied me relentlessly in school

    Age 21- Getting drunk in a bouncy castle at my birthday and scoring a super hot girl I worked with at the time :)

    Age 22 - Graduation

    Age 25 - Sleeping with a guy for the first time

    Age 26 - returning to college to do something I love :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    1. Aguerooooooooooooooooo

    2 Birth of my daughter

    3 Birth of my son


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    old hippy wrote: »
    The first time I kissed a girl.

    The emotional reunion with my cousin again after over 25 years.

    Did yous kiss again :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 293 ✭✭GorillaRising


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Age 14 - Realising during 2nd year maths class that my (female!) teacher was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen! :D

    OK.
    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Age 17 - Being outed to my entire class by the cúnt who bullied me relentlessly in school

    Confused.
    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Age 21- Getting drunk in a bouncy castle at my birthday and scoring a super hot girl I worked with at the time :)

    More confused.
    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Age 25 - Sleeping with a guy for the first time

    It's all so clear to me now! :D


  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,957 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    lisao80 wrote: »
    That nearly mirrors mine , i was on a girls holiday in gran canaria and went down stairs to the bar to get us breakfast and everyone was watching it on the tv, it resulted in no one else getting breakfast cause I stayed in the bar watching it for ages

    I remember my mum picking me up from a half day at school and telling us that there had been a terrible accident in America and a plane had crashed into the empire state building! Got home and turned on the TV, discovered that it was the twin towers and just then the second plane hit and suddenly we all realised that it hadn't been an accident!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭Faiche Ro


    Sorry wasn't a wedding to my then girlfriend.
    It was a wedding we were at.

    Ok i have to say.....details please??
    Who was yer man? was there other people in the room? did you stopo them??
    You cant leave us hanging like this........


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭keithsfleet



    Waking up in a hotel room, at a wedding, to my then girlfriend riding a bloke in a bed across from me.
    That hurt.

    As a few of you have asked, I will post the full story later when I get home from work.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 293 ✭✭GorillaRising


    Faiche Ro wrote: »
    Ok i have to say.....details please??
    Who was yer man? was there other people in the room? did you stopo them??
    You cant leave us hanging like this........

    Also, what position?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    My dad trying to teach me how to say seddon atkinson at a truck dealership when i was 4 or 5 is my first memory

    Being with my dad when 9/11 happened driving home in his truck after delivering a load in limerick listening on the radio

    Seeing dozens if not 100s of cargo ships off all types parked up in Singapore very impressive sight

    Seeing my daughter be born holding her for the first time and seeing her mums reaction when i gave her to her each of those 3 different experiences so close together will never leave me.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9 Jack Weasel.


    1. Aguerooooooooooooooooo
    What part of Manchester are you from?:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,262 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    What part of Manchester are you from?:confused:

    So because he may not be from Manchester hes not allowed to have that moment in his life no?

    What about all the people stating 9/11? Do they have to have some connection with the event or be an American so that they may not forget that moment?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9 Jack Weasel.


    GavRedKing wrote: »
    So because he may not be from Manchester hes not allowed to have that moment in his life no?

    What about all the people stating 9/11? Do they have to have some connection with the event or be an American so that they may not forget that moment?
    What are you, his ****ing boyfriend?

    Comparing Man City winning the league to the September 11th attacks.

    Idiot.

    MOD EDIT

    Poster banned.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 293 ✭✭GorillaRising


    What part of Manchester are you from?:confused:


    Where does it say you have to be from Manchester to support a team from the city?

    I guess all the rugby fans I see in South African jersey's around Dublin must be from Johannesburg.

    I for one would hate to feel limited for some stupid reason on what or who I could enjoy supporting/following with keen interest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 655 ✭✭✭minotour


    Great thread, hopefully it runs to tomorrow afternoon............

    The obligatory kid moments.....

    1 Missus announces pregnancy
    2 Turns out to be twins
    3 Pregnancy goes horribly wrong...
    4 saying goodbye to the them several times......
    5 (Few years of strife later) The twins starting school this very morning :D


    Non-kid related moments that have stuck with me
    1982 - My first BMX

    1990 - Getting to level 186 on bombjack

    1995 - Starting Uni after being told by all (much like our backwards friend) that I’d never amount to anything

    1996 – Old man passing on unexpectedly

    1997 – Walking away from Uni

    1997 – Yer man looking for his arm in Saving Private Ryan (I tied his shoes for him)

    1998 – France winning world cup and Bastille day while I lived in Marseille

    Most of the 000’s are a blurrrrrr and I’m pretty sure I blew out my kidneys but I wouldn’t change a moment of it

    2002 – escorting the Miss Universe contestants out of Abuja, Nigeria when the sh1t kicked off

    2004 – Punching a baboon on the cape of good hope

    2007 - The wedding

    2008 – signing that foookin mortgage contract

    And then along came the nippers and the circle of life is complete.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,336 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    My first memory: running riot around the Royal Hotel in Bray as a a two-year-old.

    9/11. I remember I had training that night and it was all we talked about but at 13 years of age we hadn't a clue what it really meant.

    My first kiss.

    My first ride.

    The first time I had a nervous breakdown, burst into tears on the bus home from college.

    A prolonged period of depression where I was thinking about death constantly and ways that I could kill myself and make it look like an accident. It's really scary looking back now.

    The first time I went to Brazil.

    Today, when I woke up to my flat flooded.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9 Jack Weasel.


    Where does it say you have to be from Manchester to support a team from the city?

    I guess all the rugby fans I see in South African jersey's around Dublin must be from Johannesburg.

    I for one would hate to feel limited for some stupid reason on what or who I could enjoy supporting/following with keen interest.
    They wear them because they like the look of it, not because they support South Africa you daft prick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    What are you, his ****ing boyfriend?

    Comparing Man City winning the league to the September 11th attacks.

    Idiot.
    They wear them because they like the look of it, not because they support South Africa you daft prick.


    Mod

    Banned.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Italia '90....it will never be like that again, ever! And I was only 11 :D

    Death of my Garandad, one of the greatest men I will ever meet!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    What are you, his ****ing boyfriend?

    Comparing Man City winning the league to the September 11th attacks.

    Idiot.
    They wear them because they like the look of it, not because they support South Africa you daft prick.
    Mod

    Banned.

    Pop goes the weasel! :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,195 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    That time in 87764-070 when the First Vl'Hurg Fleet got their collective ass handed to them by myself and a small but ferocious band of dedicated Gug-G'Vunntt Helltroopers. We rotated out of hyperspace just beside the Crab Nebula with cannon already blazing, nearly pissing our Combat Pantaloons with exitement, they hadn't a hope. A few of them found out what it was to spend a thousand years being slowly digested from the inside in the Skaven Pits that day, I may tell you!

    Umm, sorry - wrong Galaxy. :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    minotour wrote: »
    Non-kid related moments that have stuck with me
    1982 - My first BMX

    1990 - Getting to level 186 on bombjack

    1995 - Starting Uni after being told by all (much like our backwards friend) that I’d never amount to anything

    1996 – Old man passing on unexpectedly

    1997 – Walking away from Uni

    1997 – Yer man looking for his arm in Saving Private Ryan (I tied his shoes for him)

    1998 – France winning world cup and Bastille day while I lived in Marseille

    Most of the 000’s are a blurrrrrr and I’m pretty sure I blew out my kidneys but I wouldn’t change a moment of it

    2002 – escorting the Miss Universe contestants out of Abuja, Nigeria when the sh1t kicked off

    2004 – Punching a baboon on the cape of good hope
    2007 - The wedding

    2008 – signing that foookin mortgage contract

    And then along came the nippers and the circle of life is complete.

    At first I wanted to hear more about the guy who's girlfriend was riding some other fella while he slept off a hangover, I no longer care for that.

    Tell me MORE!


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