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that you know now?

(Rodney singing "Ooh La La" is on the radio...)


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 11:38 am
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Posted : 04/07/2012 11:40 am
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I wasn't as unappealing to the opposite sex as I thought.

Almost any exam can be passed with a bit of studying. Almost any exam can be failed by not studying.

People who look and sound as if they are correct often are not.

The people who tell you recreational drugs are "bad" are those who have never taken them and talking out of that excessively tense hole between their ass cheeks.

Everything your mother does is for your benefit.

People make mistakes. Often.

Stuff you read on the internet may not always be correct 😉


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 11:48 am
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That the more money you earn,the more corrupt youre likely to be, and be able to get away with it.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 11:51 am
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the cost of tattoos will keep going up, even in a recession or two.

exercise can be fun and it benefits both the mind and body


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 11:52 am
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All Tories are approximately 10 times as evil as they first appear. Never trust a single solitary one of them. EVER!


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 11:53 am
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That [i]everybody's[/i] just winging it.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 11:53 am
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Never marry a woman.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 11:57 am
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To have got a trade earlier rather than speed years in university to find I am happiest spending my day using my hands and fixing things.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 11:59 am
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How easy it would have been to jack in school and travel the world

That I didn't have to do what my parents told me.

Not to listen to people who said I had a crap job (It was. But I liked it)

That I should have bought a motorbike a lot earlier

That bikes, ANY bikes make me happy, and time without one was wasted time


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 12:00 pm
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When Sarah XXXXXX who you fancied like mad came over to go clubbing with you in Derby for the night for her birthday. And when your were sleeping on the floor when you let her sleep in your bed and she said you could sleep in the bed with her, that perhaps you should have tried it on!!


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 12:01 pm
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That everybody's just winging it.

This.

Plus, people who commute on race bikers aren't necessarily idiots.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 12:03 pm
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That everybody's just winging it.

So true...


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 12:04 pm
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It's not worth getting angry about stuff you read in the papers about the injustice of it all

Students have zero political clout


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 12:06 pm
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That the running purple patch wasnt going to last so race now as every season after this one will be buggered by illness and injury 🙁


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:04 pm
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Raven haired wimmin will cause you to lose your mind.

Shimano will cease production of Deore XT Thumbshifters - make sure you stock up!


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:06 pm
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Another vote for everyone winging it!


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:08 pm
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That the jelly bean jar theory was ABSOLUTELY TRUE 👿


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:09 pm
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What I wanted to do with my life.

[i]that you know now?[/i]
Ah, but not that bit.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:12 pm
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That my girlfriend won't always be this 'openminded' and a polaroid camera will be a good investment.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:14 pm
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[s]Students[/s] people under the age of 60 have zero political clout

FTFY 😀


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:17 pm
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On a serious note...that a year flies by and that getting out of Uni and getting a job could wait a few years while you bum around the world doing the shit you'll never have time to do later.

EDIT: I'd have moved to Manchester. Imagine the friends I'd have now. 🙂


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:17 pm
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Think about what you enjoy/are good at doing and do that, not what other people tell you is a good thing to do.

Drinking isn't actually that good.

Don't settle for rubbish due to being scared of change.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:20 pm
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calculus...


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:21 pm
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Don't settle for rubbish due to being scared of change.

Are you divorced?

🙂


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:23 pm
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Sugar makes you depressed.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:23 pm
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a load of winning lottery numbers, and where Cheryl Cole lived


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:23 pm
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That the jelly bean jar theory was ABSOLUTELY TRUE

Just googled that. Now I'm sad.

Although thinking about it it could just mean you have an absolutely knackering, but brilliant, first year.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:25 pm
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C and its variants, or possibly Visuall Basic, would have been a better choice of programming language to specialise in than PICK DataBasic with SB+


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:29 pm
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Sow the seeds early.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:32 pm
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Joanne
Carly
Sarah
Hannah
Nicola
Nicola
Zoe
Ginny
Jenny
Julie

all would have. Just MTFU.

Oh, and get a trade.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:34 pm
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C and its variants, or possibly Visuall Basic, would have been a better choice of programming language to specialise in than PICK DataBasic with SB+

That's [u]exactly[/u] what I wasn't thinking.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:35 pm
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The Jelly Bean theory, is that exclusive to your wife?


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:37 pm
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I wasn't as unappealing to the opposite sex as I thought.

this

and the bit about bikes make me happy


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:39 pm
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Most people are greedy if given the chance.

With greed they turn nasty backstabbers at work.

There are very few genuinely good hearted people around.

I learn that political correctness and spin is very much the creation of greed.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:44 pm
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Most people are greedy if given the chance.

With greed they turn nasty backstabbers at work.

There are very few genuinely good hearted people around.

I learn that political correctness and spin is very much the creation of greed.

Wow.

🙁


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:47 pm
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Wow.

You're a lawyer - surely this can't be news to you? 😉


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 1:49 pm
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Specifically It would have been -

Learned to snowboard earlier
Spent more money on a better bike earlier
Do the BUNAC Canada thing
Scrap Vicky for a girl you have some chance of making happy.
Live in the city, and don't have a Garden.

Generally

Don't tear the a**e out of it
Be excellent to one another.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 2:23 pm
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That people are actually pretty good, really. That no matter how shocking you think people might find things about you, generally they just learn to accept and deal with it in their own little way.

That the longer you fret over a massive decision, the less time you have to reap the reward of having made it.

That Nicolai make some fab bikes.

Rachel


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 2:45 pm
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That people are actually pretty good, really. That no matter how shocking you think people might find things about you, generally they just learn to accept and deal with it in their own little way.

They are only good if you stay out of their way and let them do as they like or benefit them. Yes, most people accept them in their own little ways but these are the good ones but most have the tendency to encroach on others. They want more.


That the longer you fret over a massive decision, the less time you have to reap the reward of having made it
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The problem with a massive decision is that it create a norm for others to follow and that most people just have to suffer for it.

I am afraid I can't afford fab Nicolai bikes ... :mrgreen:


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 2:58 pm
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That self belief and self confidence are more important than any qualification in the world.

That schools and parents both seek to undermine self confidence and self determination with alarming frequency.

That nearly every qualification can be obtained at a later point in life, so screwing up at school or not doing higher education is not the end of the world people tell you it is.

People who are 'doing things for your own good' are usually intent on helping themselves and don't care about negative impacts on you.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 3:11 pm
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Doesn't sound like you have had a good experience of other people, chewkw??

And, somehow, I doubt my own massive decision is likely to encourage others to follow me… 🙄

Rachel


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 3:11 pm
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People who are 'doing things for your own good' are usually intent on helping themselves and don't care about negative impacts on you

unless they're a nurse or doctor 😉

its easier to put on weight than lose it.
you only get as much out of life/friendships/jobs etc as you put into them.


 
Posted : 04/07/2012 3:16 pm
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And this too:

When your attractive friend Sonia from Toulouse invites the 19 year old you in for coffee after a night out, it might [i] not[/I] be literally coffee that she's thinking of


 
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