What's the biggest mistake of your life so far?

takamichinoku · 09-08-2014 12:36AM #1

So what was it?! What should you have done instead?

This one's pretty minor but it makes up for it in its stupidity and the other ones that pop into my mind hadn't great alternatives. I suspected I had food poisoning but, after a day of feeling too sick to eat anything, decided I must eat something; so I ate the remaining chicken sandwiches that I had made the day before and went to bed. This was followed by the four days of spectacular hell, weakest I've ever felt.
18 months on, I still feel like my stomach hasn't fully recovered.

In retrospect, I would have to say that I probably should not have eaten those sandwiches, on either occasion.

osarusan · 09-08-2014 12:40AM

Reading the 'extreme cruelty ot puc fair' thread.

I think half of my brain self-destructed.

petrolcan · 09-08-2014 12:45AM

Not buying a piece of land for notalot and it subsequently being sold for sh*tloads more a handful of years later.

Lenin Skynard · 09-08-2014 12:48AM

Not buying a celtic tiger when they were cheap and selling it when they got really expensive. It's how you get ahead in our lovely country!

The Moldy Gowl · 09-08-2014 12:49AM

Buying this place when it was fields

RayM · 09-08-2014 12:51AM

I bought a Sony MiniDisc player in 2004...

Dapics · 09-08-2014 12:51AM

Trying to help a Nigerian Prince return to his homeland.

The Backwards Man · 09-08-2014 12:52AM

Turning into a workaholic in my twenties.

Intensive Care Bear · 09-08-2014 12:53AM

Losing my virginity to my brothers girlfriend and catching a dose of genital warts off her was probably my low point.

RobbingBandit · 09-08-2014 12:54AM

I went for an interview 7 years ago for a job 10 days after I had been diagnosed with quite a few disabilities, just before the interview I was handed a form asking to disclose any existing disabilities, I phoned up my parents and was told don't put anything down on the form just go and do the interview, I ****ed up big time there.

kryogen · 09-08-2014 12:55AM

Easy, not applying myself properly in school and getting myself properly educated when I was young and had no bills, rent or kids to pay for!

Nomis21 · 09-08-2014 12:59AM

Not buying more jars of bolognese sauce in Londis today that had been marked down to 99c. When I went back there a few hours later, they were all sold out.

Lenin Skynard · 09-08-2014 01:01AM

RobbingBandit wrote: »

I went for an interview 7 years ago for a job 10 days after I had been diagnosed with quite a few disabilities, just before the interview I was handed a form asking to disclose any existing disabilities, I phoned up my parents and was told don't put anything down on the form just go and do the interview, I ****ed up big time there.

Well you wouldn't have got the job if you had told them you had some recently diagnosed disabilities. You might as well have given it a splash (presuming you got the job). Your parents were right.

Nib · 09-08-2014 01:03AM

Taking up smoking.

A huge regret of mine. What a stupid, pointless waste of time and money.

AzureRaven · 09-08-2014 01:08AM

Not going to uni after graduating. Waiting years to go back and then not finishing.

MS.ing · 09-08-2014 01:20AM

sprogs

we'llallhavetea · 09-08-2014 01:38AM

Smoking

If I can't get to sleep at night I lay there fretting about the state of my lungs

Hoping to rid the cnuts from September on *fingers crossed* seriously dread entering my 30's as a smoker

09-08-2014 01:40AM

Doing the wrong course in uni, and then not dropping out of it. If I had just taken a year out after my Leaving Cert I might have actually figured out what I wanted to do, instead of jumping into a course at 17 because I was "expected" to and being fairly miserable in it.

RandomIrishGuy · 09-08-2014 01:42AM

Cheating on my wife.. One night of drunken foolery cost me my life.

Birneybau · 09-08-2014 01:43AM

The 10 pints on an empty stomach earlier.

That and not marrying the girl I should have.

RandomIrishGuy · 09-08-2014 01:45AM

Cheating on my wife.. One night of drunken foolery cost me my life.

Lenin Skynard · 09-08-2014 01:46AM

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

Smoking
If I can't get to sleep at night I lay there fretting about the state of my lungs
Hoping to rid the cnuts from September on *fingers crossed* seriously dread entering my 30's as a smoker

I promised myself I'd stop smoking before 30, tried e-cigarettes at 29 and haven't smoked since. Three years now. I know you're still taking in nicotine but it's a lot better in terms of health and saving money. My doctor says I now have the lungs of someone who never smoked (I smoked from 15-29). Have a look at the vaping forum.

Birneybau · 09-08-2014 01:49AM

RandomIrishGuy wrote: »

Cheating on my wife.. One night of drunken foolery cost me my life.

Should have learned after the first time.

Sir Arthur Daley · 09-08-2014 01:52AM

Mistakes, I've had a few but then again, too few to mention.

AnonoBoy · 09-08-2014 01:54AM

AzureRaven wrote: »

Not going to uni after graduating. Waiting years to go back and then not finishing.

That sounds like a series of mistakes.

You should really be posting about that in the "What are the biggest MISTAKES of your life so far?" thread.

My biggest mistake was turning into a pedantic arsehole.

AnonoBoy · 09-08-2014 01:55AM

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Mistakes, I've had a few but then again, too few to mention.

Sounds like you're stalling to me.

Quit stalling and make with the mistake divulging you staller!

takamichinoku · 09-08-2014 01:57AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Doing the wrong course in uni, and then not dropping out of it. If I had just taken a year out after my Leaving Cert I might have actually figured out what I wanted to do, instead of jumping into a course at 17 because I was "expected" to and being fairly miserable in it.

Oh wait, this is mine too! Much worse than a bad sandwich

Not dropping out was the mistake, cannot justify it at all in retrospect, was borderline suicidal and had no intention of career in that area. At least with choosing it initially I had quite a few incentives, but keeping with it was just stubborness.

Sir Arthur Daley · 09-08-2014 01:59AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Sounds like you're stalling to me.

Quit stalling and make with the mistake divulging you staller!

I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Diabhal Beag · 09-08-2014 02:03AM

Not starting my own religion based off of caramel Freddo bars and immediately exterminating any worshippers of other chocolates.

AnonoBoy · 09-08-2014 02:03AM

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Your excuses, much like the summer wind, come blowing in from across the sea.

takamichinoku · 09-08-2014 02:04AM

....a caramel Freddo is surely just a Taz bar?

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