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Revenge -- yes or no?

  • 03-03-2011 04:03AM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 327 ✭✭St._Andalou


    I don't mean some kind of long-winded philosophical discussion.

    Do you ever do revenge and pay someone back in kind if they hurt you badly? (By "in kind" I mean something proportionate to what they did to you.)

    Is it worth the effort?

    Revenge -- yay or nay? 77 votes

    Yes, pay them back in kind
    0% 0 votes
    No, just move on
    100% 77 votes


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Sometimes yes other times I couldn't be arsed


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 240 ✭✭HoneyRyder


    Nope, for me rising above it and retaining my dignity is the best revenge.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 327 ✭✭St._Andalou


    I think you're right, HoneyRyder. I'm going to take that advice.

    It's best not to act in passion and do something you'll regret.


  • Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I prefer to move on.. Not for any moral reasons, it's just easier. I write people off sooner than getting revenge.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭Spunge


    HoneyRyder wrote: »
    Nope, for me rising above it and retaining my dignity is the best revenge.

    Beta as fúck


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 558 ✭✭✭Metallitroll


    imagine Jude Law, hellbent on revenge but too sissy to act upon it.

    now imagine that festering in jude law.....

    just an example.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,674 ✭✭✭Dangerous Man


    I like the idea of revenge but am aware that more often than not - it doesn't end at 'revenge.' If it did, I'd partake a little more often.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    I let it build for a while and then I

    http://tunski.com/SCSAUnleashHellFrontLogo.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭s3129


    Ah brings back memories of a bad break up

    I swore revenge

    Couldn't think of anything good enough

    So now I tell myself I was the bigger person for letting it go!!


  • Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,408 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    If the oppurtunity for revenge presents itself, I'd gladly take it.
    But I wouldn't go looking for it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭Aoifey!


    Personally, I don't really bother with revenge, but some of my friends see things differently.


    My friend was getting good friends with some guy. His girlfriend didn't like this and made them stop talking. So my friend decided to get revenge. Over about 2 months she worked on seceretly getting friends with the guy, got him to her house She convinced him to play strip blackjack. She took photos of them together in just his boxers. She put these on the internet for the girlfriend to see. Conviently, the guy had a bruise on his side which the girlfriend decided was a hickey. They broke up the next week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭indough


    thats not revenge thats just your mate being a bitch


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭Aoifey!


    indough wrote: »
    thats not revenge thats just your mate being a bitch
    I know, but she considered it revenge.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭Tech3


    Revenge on Modern Warfare is sweet! I collect some amount of XP that way! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Have done on occasion, but never with violence.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭HooterSnout


    Revenge is a dish best served twice so they don't do it again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Kimono-Girl


    years ago i would have gone for revenge, but i was young and very stupid!


    nowadays i just let it go, it doesn't make me the better person, but it does help me move on with my life in a positive way.


  • Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Ezekiel Bewildered Ground


    Nah, doing something horrible makes you no better a person than them


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭PARKHEAD67


    I don't mean some kind of long-winded philosophical discussion.

    Do you ever do revenge and pay someone back in kind if they hurt you badly? (By "in kind" I mean something proportionate to what they did to you.)

    Is it worth the effort?
    Yes.Revenge is "Oh so very, very sweet"-Eric Cartman.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭Pyr0


    Are we talking on a "Oh she broke my heart" basis or "They cruxified my entire family, burned my dog alive and left me for dead" kinda way?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Pyr0 wrote: »
    Are we talking on a "Oh she broke my heart" basis or "They cruxified my entire family, burned my dog alive and left me for dead" kinda way?

    or... "you were actually dead when they left and the gods saw that you'd been done wrong and gave you the choice of unrelentless redemption"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Aoifey! wrote: »
    Personally, I don't really bother with revenge, but some of my friends see things differently.


    My friend was getting good friends with some guy. His girlfriend didn't like this and made them stop talking. So my friend decided to get revenge. Over about 2 months she worked on seceretly getting friends with the guy, got him to her house She convinced him to play strip blackjack. She took photos of them together in just his boxers. She put these on the internet for the girlfriend to see. Conviently, the guy had a bruise on his side which the girlfriend decided was a hickey. They broke up the next week.

    If this is how your "friend" treats her other "friends" i suggest you get yourself a new friend. She sounds like a total cúnt!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler




    Can't believe I got to use this already!! Watch the first 20 seconds! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭BengaLover


    Pop a poo in the post and send it to em.
    Satisfaction garuanteed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    There is absolutely no point in "proportionate" response. If you want revenge, it has to be so far above and beyond what they're capable of that they'll fear you. That makes it proactive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    There is absolutely no point in "proportionate" response. If you want revenge, it has to be so far above and beyond what they're capable of that they'll fear you. That makes it proactive.

    I actually completely agree with this, there is no use getting into a tit for tat revenge game where ye both forget who started it. Deal swift justice on those fools.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    this whole rise above it m dignity thing is for schmucks... take a dump in his letterbox.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    neil_hosey wrote: »
    this whole rise above it m dignity thing is for schmucks... take a dump in his letterbox.
    That be awkward. Could ya not just plaster the porch instead


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    seanybiker wrote: »
    That be awkward. Could ya not just plaster the porch instead

    yeah work up a good scutter for a few hours drinkin orange juice and water, then do a drive by scut all over his porch and windows..


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