I should have done it years ago...

Stained Class · 09-12-2013 12:30AM

Ms. Captain M wrote: »

Bought my e-cigarette

+ 1 Bigtime.

Bought my first kit 1-10-12 & been off the smokes ever since.

I would recommend e-cigs to anybody who wants to pack in the fags.

donegal__road · 09-12-2013 01:52AM

the gym is great OP.. especially swimming, which I had given up since I was a young fella. Now I can swim 50 lengths+ no problem, and feel great after it... plus you can have a chin-wag in the sauna after. Sorry I didn't do it years ago...

having said that, there is a guy who goes to the gym who is 72 years old and he cycles 200 miles a week, and more during the summer.. he only took it up in his 50's. He also swims for half an hour every evening.

The Diabolical Monocle · 09-12-2013 01:55AM

donegal__road wrote: »

the gym is great OP.. especially swimming, which I had given up since I was a young fella. Now I can swim 50 lengths+ no problem, and feel great after it... plus you can have a chin-wag in the sauna after. Sorry I didn't do it years ago...

having said that, there is a guy who goes to the gym who is 72 years old and he cycles 200 miles a week, and more during the summer.. he only took it up in his 50's. He also swims for half an hour every evening.

Maybe he's a young guy who just wrinkles too much, and spent too much time drying out in the sauna.

Diemos · 09-12-2013 04:47AM

I wish I had started driving sooner and found sports outside of GAA and athletics.

Still better late than never.

Fr_Dougal · 09-12-2013 08:26PM

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Drive. Big big mistake. Still can't

It's not too late. Learner cars have dual controls now, so it would be like driving a bumper car, nothing can go wrong!

Sleepy · 09-12-2013 08:26PM

I wish I'd learned to live within my means before having a kid forced it on me.

As a result we've been broke for the past few years clearing off old debts. While we wouldn't be rich without having the loan payments, we'd certainly be a lot closer to a lot of our goals. At our current rate or repayments, it'll be 2 more years, and I'll be 35 before we're debt free.

rainbow kirby · 09-12-2013 08:33PM

29 and I still can't drive. I regret not learning back home, London drivers are a bit scary!

MRnotlob606 · 09-12-2013 08:33PM

im 18 and only drank a month after my 18th, 3 weeks dry, i really dont want that stuff near me no more

Faith+1 · 09-12-2013 08:37PM

FearDark wrote: »

Going to Leitrim for a long weekend isn't considered "travelling"

Cavan is :eek:

Potential-Monke · 09-12-2013 08:53PM

Can i reply if it's something i want to do but haven't yet and will probably say "I should have done it years ago" when i finally get my lazy arse into gear and do it?

preston johnny · 10-12-2013 01:38PM

Regrets, I've had a few
But then again, too few to mention

yeppydeppy · 10-12-2013 03:14PM

Driving, running and ASMR.

lufties · 10-12-2013 03:16PM

Started learning languages, drank less...

lufties · 10-12-2013 03:20PM

timthumbni wrote: »

I would like to stop drinking also. It has encroached into my life more and more and although it's an Irish thing to say we are great drinkers I really don't think we are at all. If anything I think the Irish are bad drinkers. As in we get air locked and act like a dick.

If the Irish didn't drink so much, there'd be a revolution at what's going on in the country with bailouts and making the rich, richer.

The powers that be like us apathetic and dumbed down..

RoboRat · 10-12-2013 03:25PM

Not leaving my last job sooner. I wish I had told them to f off when they screwed me over 4 years ago.

MonstaMash · 10-12-2013 03:28PM

Regret not going back to education after the army...young family, need to earn...c'est la vie

emmabrighton · 10-12-2013 03:54PM

... had kids.

There really is nothing in the world quite like it.

I wasted my 20's going to the pub and going travelling and starting "new ventures" when all that time I really was just waiting to start a family. Now, i can't understand why I felt I had to be in my 30s to have kids. Wish I started straight after college.

lufties · 10-12-2013 04:12PM

emmabrighton wrote: »

... had kids.

There really is nothing in the world quite like it.

I wasted my 20's going to the pub and going travelling and starting "new ventures" when all that time I really was just waiting to start a family. Now, i can't understand why I felt I had to be in my 30s to have kids. Wish I started straight after college.

If you find 'the one', then defo, I've travelled loads for the last 5 years and I'm much better off for it, I think if i stayed and settled in Ireland, I would've self-destructed. Saying that though, would love kids but has to be with the right person.

Vincent Vega · 15-12-2013 04:27AM

I should have watched Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos'

28 now & I think if I had managed to see this 10 years ago it could have completely changed the course of my life for the better.

pappyodaniel · 15-12-2013 06:49AM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

A year and a half ago I changed careers, best move I ever made; should have done it years ago.

Ara sure the old priesthood isn't for everyone.

Skill Magill · 15-12-2013 06:57AM

Moved the controls from the shed to the kitchen.

suicide_circus · 15-12-2013 07:56AM

Red Kev wrote: »

Told a girl recently that I always fancied her.......turns out the feeling was mutual, and the rest as they say is history

We've known each other for 20 years, but lost touch for over 10 years and only recently got back in touch. I've been on Cloud 9 ever since. Only regret we both have is that we didn't tell each other this 20 years ago !

eh...this is just the plot to When Harry Met Sally...

Optimalprimerib · 15-12-2013 08:50AM

To be honest, nearly every step I take in my life, it takes me so long to jump the barrier and do it.Moving out of home, continuing my education, chsnging my job (which I have yet to do), even something simple like changing my phone.

Merkin · 15-12-2013 09:13AM

Red Kev wrote: »

Told a girl recently that I always fancied her.......turns out the feeling was mutual, and the rest as they say is history

We've known each other for 20 years, but lost touch for over 10 years and only recently got back in touch. I've been on Cloud 9 ever since. Only regret we both have is that we didn't tell each other this 20 years ago !

Same story as mine Kevin! My OH and I got on very well in Uni but he always said he could never pin me down (I was a bit wild

) Always had a soft spot for him and we just completely lost touch! Roll on thirteen years, got back in touch, he deemed me the 'one that got away' and that he'd never forgotten me. I'd never forgotten him either and thought of him a lot through the intervening years. We got married last year and have a baby on the way and I feel blessed every day that we hooked up again. Don't let her get away a second time!!

camel jockey · 15-12-2013 11:06AM

Well done OP, now head off to the Gym like a good fellow.

Daveysil15 · 15-12-2013 04:32PM

camel jockey wrote: »

Well done OP, now head off to the Gym like a good fellow.

I just got back. I'm bolloxed.

siblers · 15-12-2013 05:30PM

Last night I regretted not bringing a girl I pulled back to my house, facing the cold light of sobriety, I regretted nothing

@Merkin and RedKev. Love how that worked out for ye, it's probably one of the most common regrets in having that somebody who got away.

my teapot is orange · 15-12-2013 05:31PM

Like a good few people have said here, the regret is not making a career change earlier.

Currently taking the first tentative steps towards retraining and really enjoying it so far.

I regret not being more pragmatic with my initial career choice. I spent too many years working towards a career where there just aren't many opportunities. I know it's the other way around for a lot of people who are pragmatic and wake up one day and think I need to do something I love instead, but that's just me. If the last few years have thought me anything, it's that there's value in security.

timthumbni · 15-12-2013 07:28PM

Daveysil15 wrote: »

Can't say I've heard that one before. :pac:

That's a bit if a Northern Irish saying. If you are described as being air locked up here then it's not your best of nights. Lol.

Sometimes you eat the bar, other times the bar eats you. Thanks to the big Lebowski.

mad muffin · 15-12-2013 07:35PM

Leave Ireland. Unfortunately I'm trapped here.

Of course when I say trapped I only mean morally. I could leave the keys I. The front door and never look back, alas my wife has family here she would like to see again.

I should have done it years ago...

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