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Your favourite accomplishment of the decade?

  • 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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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    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.


  • #3
    Sharp MZ700
    Registered Users Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Sharp MZ700


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


  • #4
    Kevhog1988
    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


  • #5
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,034 ✭✭✭Ficheall


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


  • #6
    Bogwoppit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭Bogwoppit


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


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


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

    Who was he?


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


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


  • #9
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Who was he?

    Johnny Flash!


  • #10
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    I am just glad I survived it...


  • #11
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    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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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Published my paperback.

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


  • #13
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Becoming a godfather to my little nephew.


  • #14
    RedXIV
    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


  • #15
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    I threw a perfect game in Wii Bowling.


  • #16
    freshpopcorn
    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!


  • #17
    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


  • #18
    Richard Hillman
    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.


  • #19
    corner of hells
    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.


  • #20
    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.


  • #21
    JupiterKid
    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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  • #22
    IAMAMORON
    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.


  • #23
    yourdeadwright
    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


  • #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.


  • #25
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,408 ✭✭✭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 ?


  • #26
    ancapailldorcha
    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



  • #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.


  • #28
    bernard0368
    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.


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


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

    Take that, Big Ern McCracken!


  • #30
    Lollipops23
    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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  • #31
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Ipso wrote: »
    Take that, Big Ern McCracken!

    N6z0GkP.gif


  • #32
    super_furry
    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.


  • #33
    eviltwin
    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.


  • #34
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Completed the couch to 5k programme


  • #35
    u140acro3xs7dm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭u140acro3xs7dm


    Did a sh1te that weighed over a kilo.


  • #36
    Eggs For Dinner
    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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  • #37
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    I have yet to deicide?


  • #38
    XsApollo
    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.


  • #39
    Sorry about that
    Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Sorry about that


    Avi Jealous Self-satisfaction wrote: »
    Did a sh1te that weighed over a kilo.

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


  • #40
    skimpydoo
    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.


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    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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  • #42
    corks finest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭corks finest


    My kid


  • #43
    Alpha_zero
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Alpha_zero


    super_furry wrote: »
    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


  • #44
    Alpha_zero
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Alpha_zero


    Avi Jealous Self-satisfaction wrote: »
    Did a sh1te that weighed over a kilo.

    Well clearly more of an achievement than spawning an offspring.


  • #45
    BuboBubo
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    corks finest wrote: »
    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.


  • #46
    u140acro3xs7dm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭u140acro3xs7dm


    Sorry about that wrote: »
    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.


  • #47
    Ten of Swords
    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.

    Moderator: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender, Vegan & Vegetarian

    Category Moderator: Social & Fun



  • #48
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Climbed Aconcagua in Argentina. Just under 7000m.


  • #49
    sidcon
    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


  • #50
    Quantum Erasure
    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


  • #51
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    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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