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

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  • #32
    lab man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭lab man


    not learning german language when i worked there yrs ago twould be handy with the last few yrs with the recession


  • #33
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    takamichinoku wrote: »
    ....a caramel Freddo is surely just a Taz bar?

    BLASPHEMY


  • #34
    Dowl88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 167 ✭✭Dowl88


    Not travelling


  • #35
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Your excuses, much like the summer wind, come blowing in from across the sea.

    Your gone all w b yeats all of a sudden :pac:


  • #36
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    Not starting my own religion based off of caramel Freddo bars and immediately exterminating any worshippers of other chocolates.

    Truly a harsh burden in hindsight, You could have defused the whole Israel-Gaza situation years ago.

    "Democracy and peace, SORRY I mean caramel for everyone!!"


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  • #37
    nocoverart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭nocoverart


    Burning myself out partying in my late teens/early Twenties. Went a bit dry and boring for many a year after. Now I want the after party in my Thirties. What you say b1tches, some Mauro Picotto tunes and a few pink mitsus?


  • #38
    JillyQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭JillyQ


    Being honest with someone earlier this week. Have a feeling its going to cost me.


  • #39
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Your gone all w b yeats all of a sudden :pac:

    If he was a notorious Irish bedroom legend (and self-deluding drunk) then yes, yes I have gone all w b yachts so I have.


  • #40
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    If he was a notorious Irish bedroom legend (and self-deluding drunk) then yes, yes I have gone all w b yachts so I have.

    His lad gave him trouble for sure, he couldnt resist Olivia.


  • #41
    montyrebel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭montyrebel


    takamichinoku wrote: »
    ....a caramel Freddo is surely just a Taz bar?


    but not as nice as taz bars were


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  • #42
    Lou.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Lou.m


    Joining and not leaving boards.ie! I waste waaaay too much time here!


  • #43
    cletus van damme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭cletus van damme


    Getting married was mine


  • #44
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    lab man wrote: »
    not learning german language when i worked there yrs ago twould be handy with the last few yrs with the recession

    Es tut mir leid


  • #45
    NipNip
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 656 ✭✭✭NipNip


    My life is one long list of big mistakes lol


  • #46
    bitemeluis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭bitemeluis


    RandomIrishGuy wrote: »
    Cheating on my wife.. One night of drunken foolery cost me my life.

    Is that a typo?


  • #47
    magicmushroom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭magicmushroom


    Moving to Ireland when I was 21 on a whim, for a guy I ended up marrying, who I am now seperated from.

    I missed out on precious time with Grandparents, lost friends and also missed out on a 10k redundancy package.

    As much as I like it over here now, the reality is I am only here because I can't afford to move home.
    I have made friends etc but it's pretty lonely sometimes having no family around.


  • #48
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Lenin Skynard wrote: »
    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.

    Actually no I did not get the job though I might have if I had disclosed the diagnosis, equal opportunities employment and all that.


  • #49
    Dowl88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 167 ✭✭Dowl88


    Probably taking a dump in a pringles can and then leaving it on the managers keyboard and getting caught. He was a dick.


  • #50
    miss no stars
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭miss no stars


    Allowing the cat to come in the window 5 minutes ago because she was crying in the rain.

    Turns out the little fecker had caught a baby rat and wanted to come into the warm dry house to kill it. Chasing a rat aorund the sitting room after midnight not fun.


  • #51
    Pablodreamsofnew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭Pablodreamsofnew


    RandomIrishGuy wrote: »
    Cheating on my wife.. One night of drunken foolery cost me my life.

    This mad me sad but you will come through this!!


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  • #52
    Jogathon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭Jogathon


    Buying a house in 2006 with a friend to live in for three years and then sell off at a huge profit.

    Only sorting it out now. But am almost through it. It'll take years to pay off my debts tho. Am so not a catch.


  • #53
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    Not studying hard for the Leaving Cert, which lead to doing a Business Studies degree... during which I didn't work hard enough as I got too distracted by having fun for four years.... so not even getting a good Business Studies degree.....

    That, and alcohol.


  • #54
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    Lou.m wrote: »
    Joining and not leaving boards.ie! I waste waaaay too much time here!

    I tried life once. You're not missing anything.


  • #55
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    I bought 100 tonnes of lead batteries at €100 a ton, the lead market was dead as a doornail and stayed that way for months and months, so i sold them off for a loss to get rid. A year later scrap lead batteries were at €650 a ton minimum...I tend to kick myself a lot over that. There's loads more. I have some shyte ideas.


  • #56
    dreamers75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    Not a mistake or a regret more a pondering of what if.....turned down a job in level design in EA San Fran(money was ****) would have worked on MOH Spearhead. Always wondered what would have happened if i took that job.

    actual mistake offered a house in WestBourne for 5k didnt buy it....went for 500k at the height of the boom.


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,824 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    takamichinoku wrote: »
    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.

    Well that depends on how bad the sandwich really was, I suppose!

    Yeah, I stuck with it due to stubbornness as well. I guess it's not the end of the world, since I did get an honours degree after all, and I have an MSc as well (not that that was much more enjoyable or anything). Sadly though, I'm now back living at home, stuck in the middle of nowhere, unable to find a job (and it's jobs in Dublin that I've mostly been applying for) and have no money or social life. :(

    So I can't help but feel like I'd be in a better place right now if I'd done a degree that I cared more about - it might have made getting good marks and a good job easier. It really sucks to think about it but Captain Hindsight is no help to me now so I just have to make the most of it I guess. *shrug*


  • #58
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,965 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Not taking the offers of credit and ridiculous pre-approved mortgages in the Good Times. Yes I know that a lot of people who did are suffering badly, but doing things sensibly have only left me exposed to paying for their mistakes anyway and with nothing to show for it

    Also, an ex is an ex for a reason


  • #59
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Career choice.


  • #60
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 23,214 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Waiting for later to see Mr. T. at the mall.

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



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  • #61
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Brian? wrote: »
    Waiting for later to see Mr. T. at the mall.

    Dental Plan! be way over yonder sir.


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