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Your favourite accomplishment of the decade?

  • 18-11-2019 11:49am
    #1
    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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  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Sharp MZ700


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,062 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,034 ✭✭✭Ficheall


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭Bogwoppit


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


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


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

    Who was he?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Yeah..I did not have a good decade..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    Who was he?

    Johnny Flash!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    I am just glad I survived it...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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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  • Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Published my paperback.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Becoming a godfather to my little nephew.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,460 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    I threw a perfect game in Wii Bowling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


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


  • 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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,408 ✭✭✭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.


  • 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.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,887 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    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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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,812 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭Infernum


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,408 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    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 ?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,538 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I moved to a bigger island.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,424 ✭✭✭bernard0368


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


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

    Take that, Big Ern McCracken!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Ipso wrote: »
    Take that, Big Ern McCracken!

    N6z0GkP.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,348 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Got married, bought a house, became a dad to two kids, bought a boring Dad car, knocked the drinking on the head.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    On a personal level its been getting my autistic kids education sorted, one is in mainstream school and meeting his targets, the other just graduated university.

    On a wider level it's been marriage equality and repealing the 8th, never expected to see either of those happen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Completed the couch to 5k programme


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭u140acro3xs7dm


    Did a sh1te that weighed over a kilo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Eggs For Dinner


    I haven't given up. Wasn't easy at times, but I'm still here. Be good to yourselves folks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    I have yet to deicide?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,495 ✭✭✭XsApollo


    Bit of an up and down.
    Second child ,
    First house ,
    Second house,
    ******
    *****

    Haha
    Roll on the 20’s

    Edit; just read its accomplishments.


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


    Did a sh1te that weighed over a kilo.

    Which scales did you use to weigh it? (Asking for a friend)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,955 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    After 3 years of cancer treatment, I am in remission and during that I got published in Phoneix Magazine.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    valoren wrote: »
    2020s? Regaining my chunky bollox status :(

    You should log it on social media..Call it your weight gain journey.. Could be an article in the indo for you out of it in a couple of years..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭corks finest


    My kid


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Alpha_zero


    Got married, bought a house, became a dad to two kids, bought a boring Dad car, knocked the drinking on the head.

    Bro you were meant to list an achievement, have another go


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Alpha_zero


    Did a sh1te that weighed over a kilo.

    Well clearly more of an achievement than spawning an offspring.


  • Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    My kid

    Awww, I like goats too.

    Can't think of any significant accomplishments, ive been battling depression for 3 years now. I'm determined to get better, medication helps, roll on the 20's.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭u140acro3xs7dm


    Which scales did you use to weigh it? (Asking for a friend)

    Any good digital scales will do, weigh yourself before, and after. Don't weigh the sh1te itself, that's wrong.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,063 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    Personal: I suppose I could look at it in a sequence of major events in my life but if I look at the overall bigger picture and compare my life now to my life at the end of 2009 I can say I've definitely gotten my ѕhit together and grown up!

    Society: Too many to count really, the advances made in computing, science and medical technology have been amazing over the last decade, some are new ideas and some are existing technologies or concepts that have been mainstreamed and mass produced. Drones, In home AI, cryptocurrency, PrEP, Ebola vaccine, streaming media, sharing economy, 3D printing.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Climbed Aconcagua in Argentina. Just under 7000m.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 647 ✭✭✭sidcon


    2010 lost my business to overheads
    2011 1st kid
    2012 2nd kid
    2013 bought a house
    2014 got married
    2015 job taken over lost my job.
    2016 got a promotion in new job
    2017 enjoyed life
    2018 got another promotion
    2019 after taken leave due to issue outside my control got a massive pay rise to stay with company plus my own office.

    Life has been good


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,741 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    TooGars wrote: »
    People caring more about nature being conscious about the danger around us.
    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Great to see Ireland become a lot more progressive.

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

    yeah but, what did YOU do?

    I did nothing, same as yerselves it seems


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    yeah but, what did YOU do?

    I did nothing , same as yerselves it seems

    I am quite confident your right there Quantum.

    I grew ten years older and after that my achievements are my own business.

    I never knew you cared however, so thanks for asking.


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