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advice to your younger self

  • 01-12-2010 2:57pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭red menace


    If you were allowed to go back and give your younger self one pieceof advice what would it be?

    Mine would be:
    "Stay away from software engineering it's totally not for you and you will suck at it"


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


    Start **** earlier..........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,167 ✭✭✭gsxr1


    buy loads of houses and sell them in 2007.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    you will never be a famous movie director, stop trying :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    i wouldnt change anything tbh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Don't smoke. You will get addicted.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    i would say..........................
    "dont worry, be happy"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    never say 'im with someone' you missed out on loads of bunk ups for saying this admiral


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Don't listen to that ancient cunt. He's nearly 40 for fucks sake: practically a pensioner.


  • Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭godscop


    Lock the door before you have a ****


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    kfallon wrote: »
    Start **** earlier..........

    What, like before school?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    "Here are details to a thing called "Facebook", learn some programming and get cracking on it!"

    "Here are lotto numbers for the next few years"

    "When a fat, little bitch asks you for money don't give it to her, you'll never see it again!" :mad:

    "And one more thing...........When you go back in time to give your younger self advice, remember to bring enough plutonium with you for the DeLorean so you can go back to your present time............now, I'm stuck with you!!" ..............much hilarity ensues


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭red menace


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    "Here are details to a thing called "Facebook", learn some programming and get cracking on it!"

    "Here are lotto numbers for the next few years"

    "When a fat, little bitch asks you for money don't give it to her, you'll never see it again!" :mad:

    "And one more thing...........When you go back in time to give your younger self advice, remember to bring enough plutonium with you for the DeLorean so you can go back to your present time............now, I'm stuck with you!!" ..............much hilarity ensues

    has the makings of a good sitcom


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    Don't mess around with the space - time continuum


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    There have been a couple of people I should have f*cked out of it. But my younger self let it slide and I regret not saying anything. With time I have been vindicated. I'd go back and tell myself to put them in their place.


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


    bonerm wrote: »
    What, like before school?

    Why not, no point wasting a good pisshorn :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Stay away from boys.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,739 ✭✭✭pawrick


    Don't repeat every subject you did in the LC because you don't know what to do in College!!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭curlzy


    Don't stay in a relationship because you don't want to break someone's heart, you will eventually have to get out of it and the longer you leave it the worse it gets. Also don't smoke.


  • Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭ederkeh


    Don't waste your sunday mornings at mass


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    you're going to go to a concert by yourself with the biggest ride in your year. she will ask you to stay in her aunts house that night, it's empty, she's away. RIDE HER YOU STUPID, NERVOUS 16 YEAR OLD TWAT FACE:mad:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭Mr Trade In


    Hunt down Brian Cowen and Bertie Ahern and kill them,you will save the future.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    "You'll go on a date when you're 17, you will go back to a house party with the girl, while your mooching on a bed with said girl another girl will lie down beside her and start mooching her too. Whatever you do, DO NOT GET UP AND LEAVE YOU STUPID PANSY TWAT!!!" *smack*.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Don't be a dick to your first real girlfriend, try to hang onto her. She's perfect and you'll never meet anyone like her again...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Stay away from your older cousin Mark. He's not a nice person even though you think he's great and pays you lots of attention.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭tommyhaas


    There's no point in trying to give up smoking, you'll just fail repeatedly. Keep smoking

    Also, stop wearing white tracksuits, time wont be kind to them


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Don't play "hide the sausage" with my younger cousin CrazyRabbit. We were good mates and I payed him lots of attention, things were never the same again


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭Chuchoter


    Stay away from her. She's lying about being bi and she is going to crush you. :(

    Study more!

    Be angry with them and not with yourself. You aren't the awful person they say you are.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Don't do what Donny Don't does :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,397 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Enjoy every minute of free time you get before you have a child because you don't realise how much you will miss it.

    When you have a child value all the time you get to spend with them.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    I'd go back to 1986 and say:

    "You're not Marty McFly, hanging onto a Cement Truck won't make you look as if you are I promise you, it won't end well.

    "Also, in three years time, ten or so guys are going to come looking for you and when you see them, you'll tell your mate that you're with, that you ain't running, fcuk them .. well, don't do that - run!

    "Oh and this won't make sense now, but something called the Internet is coming, save all your money and in 1994 register the domain names on this peice of paper, as this is what happened to them!"
    1. Insure.com, sold to QuinStreet for $16 million in 2009.
    2. Sex.com, sold for $12-$14 million in 2006.
    3. Fund.com, sold for $9.99 million in 2008.
    4. Porn.com, sold for $9.5 million in 2007.
    5. Business.com, sold for $7.5 million in 1999.
    6. Diamond.com, sold to Ice.com for $7.5 million in 2006.
    7. Beer.com, sold for $7 million in 2004.
    8. Israel.com, sold for $5.88 million in 2004.
    9. Casino.com, sold for $5.5 million in 2003.
    10. Toys.com, sold to Toys ‘R Us for $5.1 million in 2009.

    "You'll be rich then and what I want you to do to show your appreciation is on the 25th March 1993, go to Johnnie Fox's pub. Bring a few mates and the odd baseball bat. Then, sit outside until you see this woman leaving, something bad is gonna happen to her, stop it."


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭Napper Hawkins


    Attack every sap who crosses you.

    Smoke less joints.

    Don't do pills.

    Drink less and don't smoke.

    Ride lots and lots of young ones, no matter how thick they are they all look the same in the sack. (stay away from wrecks)

    The LC is not the end of the world despite what you've been told and college is only worth bothering with if you know for certain what you want to do. Just get a job.

    The people with authority over you are lying to you because it suits them.

    Most people you will encounter are either idiots or ***** who couldn't give a **** if you die or exactly the same as you with the exact same insecurities and bull**** in their lives so stop worrying what others think, I can't stress that enough.

    For gods sake leave Ireland the second you get a chance and never come back.


  • Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭Some12


    There's a new company starting up looking for funding for a new concept called "DOS". A few hundred dollars is a great investment. The company is called "Microsoft".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭Gulliver


    I'd probably say nothing. Just walk up to myself and kick youngerme in the nuts. Hard.

    As I walk away I'll just say "Doesn't matter what I tell you - you'll always make the wrong decision, you gobsh1te!"


  • Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭scoll


    Don't be afraid of new things... especially in the bedroom!!


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Tinsley Bewildered Rent


    dont get that tatoo ahhh


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭Gulliver


    scoll wrote: »
    Don't be afraid of new things... especially in the bedroom!!

    Helluva first post! :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭knird evol



    Ride lots and lots of young ones, no matter how thick they are they all look the same in the sack.
    .

    They ALL asked you to turn the lights off :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Attack every sap who crosses you.

    Smoke less joints.

    Don't do pills.

    Drink less and don't smoke.

    Ride lots and lots of young ones, no matter how thick they are they all look the same in the sack. (stay away from wrecks)

    The LC is not the end of the world despite what you've been told and college is only worth bothering with if you know for certain what you want to do. Just get a job.

    The people with authority over you are lying to you because it suits them.

    Most people you will encounter are either idiots or ***** who couldn't give a **** if you die or exactly the same as you with the exact same insecurities and bull**** in their lives so stop worrying what others think, I can't stress that enough.

    For gods sake leave Ireland the second you get a chance and never come back.

    true!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,861 ✭✭✭Irishcrx


    Pull out.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭Napper Hawkins


    knird evol wrote: »
    They ALL asked you to turn the lights off :eek:


    No, just your ma did so she wouldn't feel guilty about riding a young fella.

    Fair play to her I say.;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Sykk wrote: »
    Don't play "hide the sausage" with my younger cousin CrazyRabbit. We were good mates and I payed him lots of attention, things were never the same again

    Wow...I thought you committed suicide 11 years ago.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭knird evol


    I suppose the advice I would give, having a lifetimes experience of watching James Bond films, I would tell my younger self that every time you walk into a room, immediately size up all objects, liquids, electronic devices etc that can subsequently be improvised as weapons in a vicious, unexpected fight to the death where your survival hangs on a knife edge.
    Also 'neither a borrower nor a lender be'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    Don't get in that taxi when you were 19 after getting loaded at a house party after the niteclub and after eating some of that half cooked frozen pizza.

    Or if you do get in, make sure and puke first.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭knird evol


    No, just your ma did so she wouldn't feel guilty about riding a young fella.

    Fair play to her I say.;)

    I was born in a test tube. I don't have a ma.


  • Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭godscop


    Sykk wrote: »
    Don't be a dick to your first real girlfriend, try to hang onto her. She's perfect and you'll never meet anyone like her again...
    She is perfect pal, thanks :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    NothingMan wrote: »
    "You'll go on a date when you're 17, you will go back to a house party with the girl, while your mooching on a bed with said girl another girl will lie down beside her and start mooching her too. Whatever you do, DO NOT GET UP AND LEAVE YOU STUPID PANSY TWAT!!!" *smack*.

    Hee hee, something similar for me.

    When you leave the pub and your two female friends are urging you to get into the taxi, get the f*ck in!! they are going to have sex with one another and are going to include you, get in, quick!! Don't get the last bus home, wtf are you thinking??? :mad:

    Turtyturd wrote: »
    Enjoy every minute of free time you get before you have a child because you don't realise how much you will miss it.

    When you have a child value all the time you get to spend with them.
    Bingo! :)
    OutlawPete wrote: »
    "You'll be rich then and what I want you to do to show your appreciation is on the 25th March 1993, go to Johnnie Fox's pub. Bring a few mates and the odd baseball bat. Then, sit outside until you see this woman leaving, something bad is gonna happen to her, stop it."
    Annie McCarrick :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Never join a website called www.boards.ie. It will take up far too much of your time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    Do not let yourself down if somebody critises the way you look, your weight, your ambitions, your goals, and your dreams. You will begin to live with upmost regret, wishing you could start your life over at the youthful age of 19.

    You will live the way people want you to live - going to college and getting a degree - when all you want to do is get out and work. Don't let people say ''There's no work'', there is, even if it's working twelve hours in a restaurant, the work is still there. Even if you have to stay on the Dole for a while.

    Boardsies, live the way you want. Don't live up to other people's expectations. If you want to drop out of college, then do. If you want to live abroad, then do. If you want to say F*ck off to the world and stay indoors all the time, then do. It's your life, you have one chance, waste it whatever way you want.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    NothingMan wrote: »
    "You'll go on a date when you're 17, you will go back to a house party with the girl, while your mooching on a bed with said girl another girl will lie down beside her and start mooching her too. Whatever you do, DO NOT GET UP AND LEAVE YOU STUPID PANSY TWAT!!!" *smack*.

    i think i'd cry myself to sleep every night (even 13 years later) at the thought of an opportunity of this magnitude missed. my thoughts and prayers are with you nothingman.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭jackiebaron


    Set up a young Bertie Ahern with a hooker and take photographs thus wrecking his political career before it starts.


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