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    #92
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    No matter what is going on in your life, illness, relationship troubles, bereavements - whatever, the world moves on regardless. If you stop to mope it it will just leave you behind.
    Nobody really cares about your problems, suck it up and get on with things.


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    #93
    The Tetrarch
    Registered Users Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    Promises are just a way of saying no.


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    #94
    Antares35
    Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    Never settle for being second best. Your gut will tell you and if it does, get out of that relationship fast. The right person will never make you doubt what you mean to them.


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    #95
    Agricola
    Registered Users Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    That there are some truly honest people of integrity and decency out there, but they are few and far between. The vast majority are honest and decent when it suits them, but when push comes to shove, they'd sell their mother into slavery if there was something substantial in it for them. Everyone should be told this when they're 18 imo.


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    #96
    2pacshakur
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 58 ✭✭2pacshakur


    Never ever use a razor to shave your pubes, the itchy ness is unbearable


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    #97
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    Aceandstuff wrote: »
    That other people desperately want to see you doing worse than them, behaving worse than them, and having less than them. And they will try to tear you down.

    That people who say that someone else "will do anything for you if you need help" will abuse your kindness.

    That anyone who isn't an idiot is potentially malicious, and cannot be trusted.

    That anyone who isn't malicious is potentially an idiot, and cannot be trusted.

    That anyone who hasn't been in your shoes is blaming you for everything wrong in your life.

    That you should never admit to being poor in a social situation, or being a woman on the internet.

    So everyone but you is an idiot and all your problems are other people's fault?


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    #98
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,984 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Bones don't bend much.


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    #99
    stoneill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭stoneill


    I said this before, and I'll say it again, Bread Soda and Soda Bread are not the same.


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    #100
    Aceandstuff
    Registered Users Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Aceandstuff


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    So everyone but you is an idiot and all your problems are other people's fault?

    Not at all. But pretty much nobody can be trusted in the long term, and you can't know what their intentions are. None of this is blaming all of anyone's problems on anyone else.

    None of my problems and none of my successes are anyone else's business, and they can all be used against me.

    That last bit there is the lesson, everyone but me is not me and can't be trusted with my problems, regardless of whose fault they are. And others knowing about my problems will often lead to judgement and people actively trying to s#it on me.


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    #101
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Always have it explicitly stated in warranty document for IT gear you as a customer are corporate / business.

    "Some clients are more equal than others" quote from Work email to me in tech support 18 years ago.


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    #102
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    kippy wrote: »
    Don't eat yellow snow.
    Or Low Black Berries !


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    #103
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    razorblunt wrote: »
    Never accept a counter offer in the workplace unless you're deliberately trying to call their bluff.
    What if you need a new Counter ?


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    #104
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    blinding wrote: »
    What if you need a new Counter ?

    'twould depend on if the counter adds up.


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    #105
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,165 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    The Tetrarch wrote: »
    Promises are just a way of saying no.

    you should work for Hallmark, writing messages on the inside of greeting cards


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    #106
    Get Real
    Registered Users Posts: 881 ✭✭✭Get Real


    I learned that I was actually fit years ago and took it for granted. Got back into running after three years of being lax, and Christ, I feel dead at a fifth of my previous "normal" run.

    Hard facts to face personally.


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    #107
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Smoking nutmeg gives the ****s. Definitely not worth the experiment. :D


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    #108
    mr_fegelien
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭mr_fegelien


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Smoking nutmeg gives the ****s. Definitely not worth the experiment. :D

    I took half a bottle of Tesco nutmeg and it was a ****ed up experience. I got high but it was like a dirty weed type of high. Time was really slow, my eyes were extremely red. It's a mix of inebriation and being high.

    Ate too much and then got horrible nausea. This is where nutmeg psychosis kicked in and I had my first panic attack ever. Thought I was going to die so called A&E who took me to St. Vincents in Ballsbridge. Did a test and they found THC in my blood and the nurse got angry with me despite me reassuring her I didn't have money for weed.


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    #109
    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Brown sauce in tea is not a thing anyone wants to try. Absolutely vile!


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    #110
    99nsr125
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭99nsr125


    When she says I'm cuming, cum in me
    that really means impregnate me

    You can't taste mifepristone
    in Indian food


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    #111
    Anus Von Skidmark
    Registered Users Posts: 181 ✭✭Anus Von Skidmark


    If your going to poopsturbate in your granny's house, lock the effing door of the crapper first. I'll never forget her face when she walked in to see me, lad in hand, turd halfway out, blasting arcs of jism across the room in her direction. She was never the same after that. RIP granny :-(


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    #112
    bitofabind
    Registered Users Posts: 939 ✭✭✭bitofabind


    Your ego will stand in your way about 80% of the time. If you can overcome or ignore your ego, you can learn, see and become so much more valuable and interesting as a human. You can grow as a person. When your ego takes over, you're just reacting. The growing and learning part takes a backseat.

    Be curious and learn to be comfortable with not having answers.

    I work in Sales, and I get so much further with people by answering questions with "I don't know, actually. That's a really good question. Can you tell me more about what that means to you?" than schooling them on what I assume to know about their industry or the solution I'm selling.


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    #113
    Sheridan81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Sheridan81


    Never play a game of charades with a fellow hospital patient. Turns out the answer wasn't Flatliners.


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    #114
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Get Real wrote: »
    I learned that I was actually fit years ago and took it for granted. Got back into running after three years of being lax, and Christ, I feel dead at a fifth of my previous "normal" run.

    Hard facts to face personally.

    Although it leads to another lesson learned... often becomes easy when easy is often.


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    #115
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,531 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    Always p1ss before leaving a place, even if you don't need to.


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    #116
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Young wans ; Don’t go round to Jeffrey Epstiens House even if it is Andy !


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    #117
    Bishop of hope
    Registered Users Posts: 2,927 ✭✭✭Bishop of hope


    At national school, it was with the thin end of a ruler with a bitch of a mistress in the first 4 years and a bastard of a master with a Sally rod for the next 4.
    I learned that these were just bullies, not teachers.


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    #118
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,774 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Never click on threads to do with immigrants, feminism, the dole, cyclists, climate change, GAA et al.


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    #119
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,531 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    Say Your Number wrote: »
    Never click on threads to do with immigrants, feminism, the dole, cyclists, climate change, GAA et al.

    What if your a mod and need to police them ha


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    #120
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,842 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Bones don't bend much.

    That reminds me, always tidy away your laptop charger, especially if you have a wooden floor.

    Oh, and never forget to put a towel down on the bathroom floor when you shower/bathe.


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    #121
    2pacshakur
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 58 ✭✭2pacshakur


    Stop wasting your time on Internet forums talking to strangers and do something productive.


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