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ACHIEVEMENTS....That aren't really achievements

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  • #62
    ChippingSodbury
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭ChippingSodbury


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    You're right but hey, i don't make the rules...


    Why do husbands die before their wives?





















    Because they want to :)


  • #63
    Cool_CM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Cool_CM


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    Having the courage to openly admit to playing computer games is an achievement in my book.

    I got to tell a recruiter what level I was in Battlefield last week (even though it was for a rival company).

    I can also lick my elbow. This has won me many free drinks.


  • #64
    Optimalprimerib
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭Optimalprimerib


    When ever I get a pointless answer in pointless.

    One person's footstep could be another person's mountain.


  • #65
    ChippingSodbury
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭ChippingSodbury


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Giving birth without pain relief

    Sounds similar to kfallon's experience this morning...


  • #66
    Adorable
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭Adorable


    I managed to sleep for nearly 22 hours.


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  • #67
    Roselm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Roselm


    fussyonion wrote: »
    I know a girl who keeps telling everyone she lost 2 stone in a year.
    Erm, it took you a year to lose that?!

    Well if you put 2 stone ON in a year it would certainly be noteworthy.
    Why not losing 2 stone?!


  • #68
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    If someone wants to celebrate something and it makes them feel good, and good enough to continue living better or whatever it is then leave them to it.


  • #69
    Dots1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Dots1982


    LeeLooLee wrote: »
    A Spanish girl with a full-time job telling me she 'contributed' at home by buying her own shampoo and lactose-free milk. Giving out about her friends whose parents support them. She's 27. When I was 23, I was living abroad, on my own and she wanted a pat on the back for buying her own shampoo. :eek:

    FFS


  • #70
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    People who go on about having kids and engaging in parenting like its an achievement.


  • #71
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    smash wrote: »
    People who go on about having kids and engaging in parenting like its an achievement.

    Shuddup yew, being a 'Full time mammy' is an achievement! :mad::mad::mad:


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  • #72
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    I don't know man. I'm considering making the term "marriage survivor" a phrase for divorcees who overcame the suffering! :D


  • #73
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Ruu wrote: »
    Shuddup yew, being a 'Full time mammy' is an achievement! :mad::mad::mad:

    'Tis de sacerifice only a true hero wood make. But sure de little angles is wurt ih!


  • #74
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Answering more than 1 question correctly on University Challenge.


  • #75
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    People who proclaim the ability to multitask when they're talking about the most mundane activities.


  • #76
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    "I successfully cut-out bread"


  • #77
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    smash wrote: »
    People who proclaim the ability to multitask when they're talking about the most mundane activities.

    Oh yeah. "Hey guys check me out, I can fiddle with the phone while listening to the telly and chewing gum!!!! Like OMG, hashtag woman!"


    fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF*CK OFF.


    As for me, people asked my why I didn't celebrate getting top marks in the college phases of my apprenticeship, or indeed passing the apprenticeship itself.

    Because it's a requirement, not an achievement. I spent a few years at it, the end result was automatic. I've already put the work in, it's just a piece of paper that says I actually did that time while somehow not killing a family of four by leaving a wheel loose. Or at the very least, successfully pinning the blame on someone else if I did..


  • #78
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    "I successfully cut-out bread"

    "Into the crude shape of a penis and dipped it into my runny egg"


  • #79
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    I finally made it on to the property ladder...


    Cool. Enjoy your crippling debt!


  • #80
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Blackhorse Slim wrote: »
    When I was a kid I remember seeing some guy on tv who held the world record for balancing coins on your elbow, flipping them and catching them without dropping any. I was impressed, tried it, and found I could get reasonably close. So I practiced for days, and finally managed to flip and catch the exact number the guy on tv did. I think I was around 9. So I was kinda unofficial joint world record holder.

    See now good for you, because normally kids are the worst for this nonsense. 'Ooh look what I drew, look how fast I can run, look at how I ate all my dinner' STFU you little git I could do all that way better, you ain't shít. Give me the crayons and prepare to get owned.


  • #81
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    kfallon wrote: »
    Managed to push out an 8 inch 'log' this morning! Tbh that's not much of an achievement but to get my bunghole to close back up to it's normal state after it was :o

    Those one night stands are a killer ........ do you even remember his name?


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  • #82
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    fussyonion wrote: »
    I know a girl who keeps telling everyone she lost 2 stone in a year.
    Erm, it took you a year to lose that?!

    Better than those people who put on 2 stone a year and never even try do anything about it.


  • #83
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Gaming achievements. Sometimes akin to celebrating time-wasting.


  • #84
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I no longer take two bottles into the shower.


  • #85
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Gaming achievements. Sometimes akin to celebrating time-wasting.

    Ah now in fairness, I've something like five thousand people rolled over with a car in gta4 :D


  • #86
    sullivlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    I cycled to Galway from Maynooth in one day last year - 200km. At the time I was full of the sense of achievement, but a year on, with lots more cycling done, it's just another "meh" thing.


  • #87
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,971 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    So anybody got j list of achievements that aren't really a big deal?

    I was talking to my uncle and he told me he was off the drink for the past 6 days, he was looking at me as if I should throw him a parade or something, people look for praise for every little thing these days.

    Anyone got any other ones?

    He does deserve a parade, anyone who quits a horrible family splitting disease deserves all the praise they can get.
    Do you know how difficult it is to quit? My father unfortunately likes his drink too much and I've seen first hand the ****ty affects it has on the family which also forced to move the hell out the moment I hit 18.
    If only his nephew could see when an achievement is actually an achievement.


  • #88
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    smash wrote: »
    People who proclaim the ability to multitask when they're talking about the most mundane activities.

    So I'm not supposed to be proud of being able to walk and talk at the same time? :(


  • #89
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Candie wrote: »
    So I'm not supposed to be proud of being able to walk and talk at the same time? :(

    Sure if you did that you couldn't concentrate on breathing and then you could die!!!!


  • #90
    hairyslug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    I can fit my fist in my mouth, that's all I got, not much else going on in my life right now, just fisting my mouth


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  • #91
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    I figured out how they get the fig in a fig roll!


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