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What makes someone a failure at life?

  • 10-03-2013 09:34PM
    #1
    Tom_Cruise
    Closed Accounts Posts: 734 ✭✭✭


    What would you consider a failure?


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  • #2
    jimmyRotator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭jimmyRotator


    wake'n'bake


  • #3
    Killer Wench
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    Tom_Cruise wrote: »
    What would you consider a failure?

    Someone who lacks desire, drive, and/or ambition to do anything. They are essentially just waiting to die.


  • #4
    DaveDaRave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭DaveDaRave


    someone who makes less than me


  • #5
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    Not reaching heights


  • #6
    Gorilla Rising
    Closed Accounts Posts: 381 ✭✭Gorilla Rising


    Someone who doesn't learn from their mistakes.


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  • #7
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    inb4 "Choosing Scientology" is posted as the FUNNIEST REPLY EVAR.


  • #8
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Someone that puts money before friends and family.


  • #9
    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    Someone who is happy to sit on the dole for years and years and never bother to try working for a living


  • #10
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    Not having established a platform (shoe).

    Being overly reliant on any little lift you can get


  • #11
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    A small funeral

    Do you live in a rural area OP?
    Everyone including your parents will comment on the size of any funeral that happens in the parish


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  • #12
    Mr. Wong
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 221 ✭✭Mr. Wong


    Someone who can't spell "ever".


  • #13
    fergal.b
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 6,394 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Becoming a politician.





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  • #14
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    Shortcomings.


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tom_Cruise wrote: »
    What would you consider a failure?

    You first.


  • #16
    daz801
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,159 ✭✭✭daz801


    Having over 1,000 boards posts........oh wait :(


  • #17
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,120 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    Someone on the dole who has no desire to work again


  • #18
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    daz801 wrote: »
    Having over 1,000 boards posts........oh wait :(
    Oh dear god no!

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #19
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    Not being able to see the wood for the, little shrubs are obscuring your view


  • #20
    Wabbit Ears
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    The father of my godchild, a thirty something guy who has never provided for his family by working and bringing home a regular pay check, instead he plays games and gets the dole.

    This guy is failure and there are loads out there like him


  • #21
    Tisserand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Tisserand


    Hercule Poirot wrote: »
    Someone who is happy to sit on the dole for years and years and never bother to try working for a living

    How about somebody who works for 30 years and after all that, ends up on the dole - is that a failure?


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  • #22
    stateofflux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭stateofflux


    not being happy.


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tisserand wrote: »
    How about somebody who works for 30 years and after all that, ends up on the dole - is that a failure?


    No, that's a success who's just been failed by the economy. It's a world away from a career welfare recipient.


  • #24
    Alactric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 192 ✭✭Alactric


    Killer Wench wrote: »
    Someone who lacks desire, drive, and/or ambition to do anything. They are essentially just waiting to die.

    so...clinical depression? :confused:


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Killer Wench wrote: »
    Someone who lacks desire, drive, and/or ambition to do anything. They are essentially just waiting to die.

    How so exactly? What kind of things should they desire to do?


  • #26
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    Mr. Wong wrote: »
    Someone who can't spell "ever".

    I'm going to assume that's aimed at me, it was satire.
    I apologise for taking your really funny reply :)


  • #27
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Anyone with over 2,000 posts on boards


  • #28
    Killer Wench
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    Alactric wrote: »
    so...clinical depression? :confused:

    I have family members who suffer from clinical depression but most of them realize that something is wrong and they seek medical treatment. That to me is a desire to do something to improve their life. Not the same thing.


  • #29
    Killer Wench
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    Deleted User wrote: »
    How so exactly? What kind of things should they desire to do?

    They should desire something.


  • #30
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Right lads, sounds like im ****ed so...
    /back to bed


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  • #31
    stateofflux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭stateofflux


    im invisible wrote: »
    Right lads, sounds like im ****ed so...
    /back to bed

    you desire sleep...so yer off the hook :pac:


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