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Your favourite accomplishment of the decade?

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  • 18-11-2019 11:49am
    #1
    Infernum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭


    The 2010s is drawing to a close and surely life has taken us on some interesting and bizarre journeys over the past nine/almost ten years.

    What has been your favourite or most meaningful accomplishment of the whole decade? What are you hoping to achieve in the 2020s?

    For me, it was gaining control of my life and my health issues after a strange series of coincidental experiences.


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    [Deleted User]
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    No longer put sugar in my tea, took tremendous willpower. It will be graffitied onto the odeon of human achievement.


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    Sharp MZ700
    Registered Users Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Sharp MZ700


    Read all the etiquette thread without laughing. Some load of shìte.


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    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 3,968 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    taking the plunge to leave the family business and regaining some work life balance as well as my health


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    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,018 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Can we veto the okhuns driveling over their cute little angles?:p


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    Bogwoppit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,581 ✭✭✭Bogwoppit


    Got me hole..... ... twice..


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    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Bogwoppit wrote: »
    Got me hole..... ... twice..

    Who was he?


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    #8
    [Deleted User]
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    Yeah..I did not have a good decade..


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    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Who was he?

    Johnny Flash!


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    frag420
    Registered Users Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    I am just glad I survived it...


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    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    Finally finished 3rd Level and stopped drinking. Both things that I should have done a decade ago. Better late than never eh. :)


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    [Deleted User]
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    Published my paperback.

    Flew a drone, got it registered with Irish Aviation Authority.


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    #13
    branie2
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    Becoming a godfather to my little nephew.


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    #14
    RedXIV
    Registered Users Posts: 8,407 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    The 10s will be remembered fondly if through weary eyes. In this decade I managed to:
    • Get my first full time job in my career
    • Had 3 kids
    • Passed driving test
    • Got married
    • Will have completed a masters (with approx 20 days to spare :p)

    And yet I can't help thinking my greatest achievement will be the time I won a pizza eating competition sponsored by my workplace against a girl half my size. Great times


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    Pac1Man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    I threw a perfect game in Wii Bowling.


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    #16
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,260 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I gave up drinking lucozade well I had no other option. The ruined it for me!


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    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    Purchased a house abroad for personal use
    Got married
    Purchased a bigger house in a nicer location
    Got a dream job

    Polar opposite of the Noughties when i was on somewhat of a slippery slope


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    #18
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    I finished college and got a degree (which ultimately led to nothing).

    So I would say finishing 8th in the world and 1st in Ireland in Gameweek 4 of Champions League Fantasy football would be my highlight.


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    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,362 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    RedXIV wrote: »
    The 10s will be remembered fondly if through weary eyes. In this decade I managed to:
    • Get my first full time job in my career
    • Had 3 kids
    • Passed driving test
    • Got married
    • Will have completed a masters (with approx 20 days to spare :p)

    And yet I can't help thinking my greatest achievement will be the time I won a pizza eating competition sponsored by my workplace against a girl half my size. Great times

    I tip my hat to you on your pizza eating achievement.

    My greatest achievement, I have a mean looking tank full of tropical fish and I survived sepsis.


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    Sorry about that
    Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Sorry about that


    Ficheall wrote: »
    Can we veto the okhuns driveling over their cute little angles?:p

    Thanks for reminding me, #blessed.


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    #21
    JupiterKid
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    An incredibly tumultous decade for me.

    Started it having to walk away from a great job due to workplace bullying, serious mental health problems, resorting to alcohol to cope and then becoming alcohol dependent, struggling badly, continuing to work part time, eventually giving work up altogether due to anxiety and alcoholism, ending up in hospital very ill, losing my father to terminal cancer, my sister having a massive stroke, my long term relationship falling apart - hospitalisation, numerous stints in rehabs, recovery groups, AA, doing the 12 steps with my sponsor, finally turing a corner, back to part time work, getting into art, ceramics and creative writing, rebuilding my life and career, a new relationship and firmly on the road to recovery.

    I just hope the 2020s bring continued recovery, peace of mind, happiness and aren't in any way as dramatic as the 2010s, a decade I will frankly be glad to see the back of.

    You know what they say - what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. And I am pretty sure after all I've been through the past 10 years, I am a survivor. :)


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    IAMAMORON
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    Great to see Ireland become a lot more progressive.

    Gay marriage legalised and we finally got our abortion laws sorted.

    Considering we were in the teeth of a recession 10 years ago we have all done remarkably well and made some great achievements in the last ten years.

    Well done everybody, congratulations.


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    #23
    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users Posts: 20,540 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    branie2 wrote: »
    Becoming a godfather to my little nephew.



    Ok without being a dick its a great thing but its Hardly an achievement ?


    Someone else done all the work and then picked you to have a title ?
    You literally had to do nothing


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    #24
    Infernum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭Infernum


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    Ok without being a dick its a great thing but its Hardly an achievement ?


    Someone else done all the work and then picked you to have a title ?
    You literally had to do nothing

    It places a degree of responsibility on him, so it still counts.


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    #25
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,362 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    Ok without being a dick its a great thing but its Hardly an achievement ?


    Someone else done all the work and then picked you to have a title ?
    You literally had to do nothing

    Is it possible your piles are acting up ?


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    #26
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,374 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I moved to a bigger island.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #27
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    I’ve had a terrible decade but with one great high point: meeting my husband in 2011. I’m so glad I got one thing very right.

    I’m also glad I didn’t die without seeing abortion legalised. I never thought I would see that happen.


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    #28
    bernard0368
    Registered Users Posts: 1,424 ✭✭✭bernard0368


    That I am still alive, after loosing my whole family through various tragedies over a 18mth period.


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    #29
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Pac1Man wrote: »
    I threw a perfect game in Wii Bowling.

    Take that, Big Ern McCracken!


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    #30
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Moved across the world completely alone and made a success of my time there.

    Came home and built a life for myself, despite getting a life changing diagnosis shortly after my return.

    Managing to learn what makes me happy and what's worth my time.


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    #31
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Ipso wrote: »
    Take that, Big Ern McCracken!

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