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Things you learned the Hard Way.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Low electric currents are intoxicating, as told to me through 9V batteries and touching a horse-fence with a blade of grass. Probably not good for you though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭Wook


    powerplugs really do electrocute you...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    When thirsty, don't grab the nearest jug of apple juice and drink straight from it.

    It was cooking oil... :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    That cow tipping is just an urban legend and is sore as **** when they chase + hit you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Glowing


    Mirror wrote: »
    When thirsty, don't grab the nearest jug of apple juice and drink straight from it.

    It was cooking oil... :(

    Ugh .. that one made me gag just thinking about it ....:eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,744 ✭✭✭funk-you


    Never weld after 'a couple' of drinks.

    Never leave students alone near your DVD's at a party.

    Never agree to anything in a meeting. ALWAYS get back to them.

    Girls are f/cking nuts, especially actresses just before a show! ( I love you honey, really)

    Never lend anyone a high end guitar for a gig.

    People who break your stuff will rarely pay for it and most likely put it down and say nothing.

    You can have just as much fun no matter how much you get paid, it's not always worth the bullsh't.

    Never let your mates see your twiddly bits, it only leads to jealousy:pac:

    -Funk


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    Mirror wrote: »
    When thirsty, don't grab the nearest jug of apple juice and drink straight from it.

    It was cooking oil... :(

    that's rotten. I feel sick just thinking about it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,703 ✭✭✭token56


    Always look both ways. Went to race my cousin across a road, he stopped, I carried on not noticing a car coming (in my defence there was a lorry parked just beside me and I couldn't see down the road but my cousin saw and didn't tell me), bang knocked down by my godmother strangly enough. Was found unconcious after rolling about 100 yards down the road. Brought in put on the couch they all had a great chat, when I woke up they gave me a bar and told me to go back outside and play. Typical


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 11,249 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    Dont rewire new sockets pissed and with the trip switch still on.

    Dont cycle downhill on a steep slope with no brakes drunk.

    Never hand feed baby Tarantulas--still have the bite marks.

    Dont pick up Tarantulas without knowing if theyre calm or not--likewise still have the bite marks,only this one had half inch long fangs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,821 ✭✭✭RxQueen


    token56 wrote: »
    Always look both ways. Went to race my cousin across a road, he stopped, I carried on not noticing a car coming (in my defence there was a lorry parked just beside me and I couldn't see down the road but my cousin saw and didn't tell me), bang knocked down by my godmother strangly enough. Was found unconcious after rolling about 100 yards down the road. Brought in put on the couch they all had a great chat, when I woke up they gave me a bar and told me to go back outside and play. Typical

    what kinda bar?:p


    I learnt to always tie my shoe laces, and not to spit out what you thought was dirt after a fall, onto gravel, oh how i miss my real teeth!

    also learnt to always close a pen knife away form your tumb! my poor tumb , never the same again :p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Cormic


    Wook wrote: »
    powerplugs really do electrocute you...

    Seconded...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,703 ✭✭✭token56


    emo!! wrote: »
    what kinda bar?:p
    :p


    It was some sort of carmel snack bar, they might have given me a glass of cidona too, so actually pretty sweet deal.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,840 ✭✭✭Trev M


    Friends come and go, really good enemies are for life


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭beans


    Incest is best


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    emo!! wrote: »
    what kinda bar?:p


    I learnt to always tie my shoe laces, and not to spit out what you thought was dirt after a fall, onto gravel, oh how i miss my real teeth!

    also learnt to always close a pen knife away form your tumb! my poor tumb , never the same again :p
    I learned how to spell learned and thumb.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭all the stars


    Not to trust your boss with the taxes!! :eek: (he was sorry after i bet :D )

    Not to actually try helping your boss to create a sucessful business or take too much interest in making their business a sucess (even when you have many, many more years experience) :( - she is currently learning to take more interest the hard way as customers are leaving in their droves,...

    To apreciate all the good things in life coz it ends very quickly and suddenly lots of the time..:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭Naos


    That just because to skid left I turn to my left and pull my left brake whilst on my bike, does not mean if I want to skid to my right I turn right and pull my right brake.

    Over the handlebars/crossbar I went.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Women maybe nice on the outside but they're sheer evil on the inside.

    Poo is not a good lubricant.

    Never fiddle with anything you know nothing about...........so many things I've blown up. :(

    Don't be too helpful. When I worked in a radio station that was just starting I helped about with training and recordings. They asked me for ideas for shows & jingles so I either gave them ideas or recorded them............only to be kicked out when the radio station got it's license and brought in some new management to make the station hip and cool. :mad:

    Meh, live and learn.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,440 ✭✭✭GirlInterrupted


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    Women maybe nice on the outside but they're sheer evil on the inside.

    Poo is not a good lubricant.

    Never fiddle with anything you know nothing about...........so many things I've blown up. :(

    Don't be too helpful. When I worked in a radio station that was just starting I helped about with training and recordings. They asked me for ideas for shows & jingles so I either gave them ideas or recorded them............only to be kicked out when the radio station got it's license and brought in some new management to make the station hip and cool. :mad:

    Meh, live and learn.

    B-gger that! I've learned to incorporate an element of truth into the big lies, makes them more believeable.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 389 ✭✭Jamey


    I learned that it's not good to drink out of a can that you may think is yours at a house party when you've already had a good few. It may not be your can at all, but a can that several revellers have been using as an ashtray! yuck!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,496 ✭✭✭✭Nalz


    women, gambling, hi sours, marmite, women, gambling, women, gambling, women, gambling and gambling


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Dinter


    Mirror wrote: »
    I learned how to spell learned and thumb.

    I learnt that sometimes learnt can be spelt learnt depending on where you're from.

    I later learned that learned is more common in American English.

    Finally I learned that both learned and learnt would be acceptable to learned people! ;)


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Balancing your head on a ruler using your front teeth is not a good idea. Learned that when I was 4. :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    Cars very quickly turn into a speeding tin can when you lose grip


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    ClioV6 wrote: »
    Cars very quickly turn into a speeding tin can when you lose grip
    Especially if you drive a Clio! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,670 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    -Never tell the same lie 3 days in a row. Was mitching school when i was a kid and told my parents that the pipe were burst on the first day, second day i told them they were still burst and third day i told them they were putting the finishing touches to them

    -Never pet a dog with a scar

    -Never spook a cat by popping your head out from behind the couch yelling boo, got slashed across the face i did


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Riddle101 wrote: »
    -Never tell the same lie 3 days in a row. Was mitching school when i was a kid and told my parents that the pipe were burst on the first day, second day i told them they were still burst and third day i told them they were putting the finishing touches to them

    -Never pet a dog with a scar

    -Never spook a cat by popping your head out from behind the couch yelling boo, got slashed across the face i did
    Fucking hate cats.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Bees don't like it when you kick their house and they will follow you to the ends of the earth when their pissed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Bees don't like it when you kick their house and they will follow you to the ends of the earth when their pissed.
    An call all there mates on there deadly mobiles wha'?!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,821 ✭✭✭RxQueen


    Mirror wrote: »
    I learned how to spell learned and thumb.

    Guess what? I didnt :p


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