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Posted by D. Lerious on :

you could relive a certain, moment, or phase in your life, what would that moment, or phase be and why?

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Honestly? And without any sarcasm or satire?

A single night in June, 1998. I stood outside of a hotel room in downtown Anahiem and debated saying something Important. I didn't. I would this time.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Well, assuming I had the knowledge then that I do now...

January 22, 1989.
I would have said...
"Sarah, it's too icy to go out. Let's stay home."

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

A Thursday night sometime at the beginning on 1999. I wouldn't have got off the bus at my stop. Probably for exactly the same reasons as Sol.

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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

I'd go back to May 13, 1998, around 4:00 PM. There was something I did around half an hour later that's changed my life ever since. I still think I did the right thing, but there were a lot of things in the months afterwards that I really screwed up that were in relation to that. I'd love a shot to get it right.

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Posted by Fructose (Member # 309) on :

nothing. I like my life the way it is and I wouldn't want anything changed on accident. Who knows what event leads to what events? I have regrets, but usually everything has worked out for the best.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

There are so many, I wouldn't know where to begin... :-)

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :

What TSN said.

Simon, I hope if you could, you'd choose the other way. If not, DT and I would have to beat you mercilessly . With a carrot ;0

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Well, I'd go back a coupla week ago and do something I should have done.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I love the way no-one actually says what their situation was. Just vague hints. Kind of defeats the purpose of the thread, eh? *L*

Not that I'm surprised, or anything. I'm not giving any specific examples, either... *L*

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Although anyone want to make a guess at Simon's?

Either the door contained his best friends current extremely sexy girlfriend, naked, and gagging for it from him, or a giant robot with which he could take over the world.

Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

A day in Late June 1999. I would have picked up on and returned the flirtatious advances of a Girl while in the photography Dark Room. I probably could've got some.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

I suppose people would look at me oddly if I said it was a naked giant robot.

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Not at all. In fact, I'm quite intrigued... :-)

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-Matt Groening

Posted by Warped1701 (Member # 40) on :

June 18, 2000, around 1:15 PST. The flight that was supposed to leave ran about an hour and a half late. That plane was supposed to take me back to where I live, but I shouldn't have gotten on it. I was already home, with the only thing in the world that really mattered to me. If there was anything I could change, it would be staying in San Diego with Jess where I was happy, instead of being here in Texas where I'm bored and miserable. Hindsight is always 20/20, unfortunately.

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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

I know what Simon's is, but I won't tell.

I have nothing I need to change, since I'm largely content with my life. Basically if it's in the past and unpleasant, I forget about it and move on. Also, I see a number of these involve a potential mate, so perhaps my lack of regret comes from my lack of romantic relations.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Well, I'll fess up. A few weeks ago (more like a month now), I took my neighbour's daughter out on their ATV. We headed up a hill, the bike bogged down, I let go of the gas, downshifted... Anyone who drives ATVs knows what happened next.

So, when we got back, I didn't confess. Big mistake. Now I can't drive ATVs for a while...

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[This message has been edited by Fabrux (edited August 03, 2000).]

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Uh...ok, perhaps I just have a really dirty imagination, but did this thing you didn't confess involve the vehicle or the neighbor's daughter?

Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :

Please tell me that the ATV didn't have HT's on it?

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

It involved the vehicle. And what are HT's?

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"Fragile. Do not drop"
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I know jack shit about manual transmissions, and even less about ATVs. However, I thought you were supposed to upshift when going uphill?

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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra, and then, suddenly, it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
-Matt Groening

Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Depends on traction conditions. In the winter, it's a lot easier to get up my steep driveway in low gear.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

On an ATV, when going uphill, if the bike can't make it, you downshift. This gives the engine more power. That's why an ATV can get through just about anything in Bulldog low (1st gear)

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"Fragile. Do not drop"
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Okay, so what did it do to the ATV when you did it?

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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra, and then, suddenly, it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
-Matt Groening

Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

This had the effect of rolling the ATV backwards, rolling right over top of us. It finally landed on its wheels at the bottom of the hill, facing to the right of where it was facing heading up the hill.

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"Fragile. Do not drop"
--posted on a Boeing 757

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Stop it! It's turned into a conversation in an old person's home.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I didn't know many old people flipped their ATVs...

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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra, and then, suddenly, it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
-Matt Groening

Posted by TerraZ on :

Well, I haven't posted here in a long while... so I'll answer the question.. and I'm not afraid of details

Sometimes during the Spring of 1990 (4th grade), at school, a big guy of the bully type comes toward me on my way back from school me and starts calling me unpleasant names. In those days, although I never endulged in physical fights, when someone called me names, I always responded with names of my own.

However, the guy somes toward me and starts squeezing my cheeks. What I did wrong that day was that to free myself from his grasps, I had to bite his finger almost to the bone. Like I said, I never fought because I couldn't punch, so whenever I had to hurt someone, it was by biting.

I live in a small city where there was only one school so news travel fast. During summer camp that year (where all the troublesome kids end up), that guy and his friends (about 20 of them) started calling me a Raging Dog, a nickname that stuck to me for at least 3 years. Even though only those guys ever said it, I started avoiding public area at school, taking refuge into the library instead, fearing I might run into them. And I still did, from time to time. The humiliation was horrible. It changed me. I became reclusive, too quiet, anti-social even. I was timid before but it became worst than ever after that. Up until recently I was so shy I was afraid of looking a cashier in the face when purshasing something as ordinary as a book.

Where's my life right now? I'm depressed most of the time and extremely pessimistic. I still don't have a girlfirend, I'm even still a virgin and my timidity is still big enough to prevent me from even asking a girl out. Plus I only really have one real friend, the only person on this sorry world to really understand what I feel. The only one I do stuff with. I'm also traumatized with the future and unable to take chances for about anything. "Wanna go to that upcoming concert?" "No, I might not like it..." And I'm convinced I'll never do anything remotely useful in my life.

In short, I hate life except for those trivial immediate pleasures like eating, watching TV, reading forums on the net and debating with my (only) friend about anything.

Feels good to relieve myself of this...

Feel free to comment but please, no "You'll see! Life will get better! You just have to be positive". It doesn't work coming from my friend, so it ain't gonna work coming from you even if it's with the best of intentions. Sorry if I sound angry, but it still hurts...

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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

Terra, you can't control what happens to you, but you can control your response to it. Don't let a few moronic bastards control your life. They're not worth it. I want to help you. I know you don't believe I can change anything, but at least give me a shot. Email me at [email protected] or post yours here so I can email you.

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--Anonymous Indian guru

Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Liam: What in the hell are you talking about? I flipped the ATV. We weren't hurt. Old folks talk about how nice slacks fit and that surgery coming up and how they don't like the doctors. Also, they talk about how the tapioca pudding was like that day and how it interacted with their medication. And they talk about their last bowel movement.

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"Fragile. Do not drop"
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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

*smacks Terra*

You're depressing me. Reason: you sound like me, but worse! Ridiculed, became reclusive, now lacking ability to talk to people, only one good friend, no GF (although I have asked a girl out, but she didn't hear me, and when I called today, she wasn't home). Tell your friend something for me: tell him/her to actually FORCE you to do something. My friend did me a real favor by threatening to beat me with artificial poultry if I didn't ask a girl out. It really helped.

But seriously, it's dangerous not to have SOMETHING that you enjoy and look forward to. I honestly do suggest "finding God", if you haven't already. But failing that, you CAN NOT be afraid to try new things. If that's your situation, you may as well just curl up in a corner somewhere, 'cause that's about the effect you're going to have on the world around you. If you don't try, then you've ALREADY failed. What could be worse: Trying every new thing that you come across, and hating them all, or where you are now? Moreover, what are the chances that, in trying everything, you won't find ONE thing you like? Or at least meet a gal in the process?

Your life is what you make of it. If you hate the way your life is, then CHANGE IT. "Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fate and captain of your soul."

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

It had turned into a conversation where everyone had got fixated on such small, minor, and pointlesss details, it sounded like a conversation my nan has wit hher friends. Where they discuss, oh, I dunno, sweet wrappers for about half an hour.

Plus, everyone was saying ATV too many times.

(I can see what's coming).

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[This message has been edited by PsyLiam (edited August 05, 2000).]

Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Nyah!

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

I have a lot of dreams where my current self gets to go back in time and act as a mentor to my younger self. Truthfully, I'd have changed a LOT.

"Okay, kid. Time to start the workout."
"Take the karate class your parents offer to enroll you in."
"Ask her out, you idiot. She likes you."
"Don't SAY what you're THINKING."
"Follow through after you hit him the first time, don't stand there gawking"
"You don't like math enough to be an engineer."
"Don't get involved with her."
"Don't get involved with HER, either."
"DEFINETELY not her."
"There! There! Go! Now!"

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

I would go back a couple of months, get on a plane to London, buy a gun and stop a couple of guys from throwing my friend out from the third floor.

Posted by TerraZ on :

Hope I didn't worry you too much. I tend to be overly dramatic, especially when it's late at night and I'm tired...

While it's true I'm often depressed, it happens most when I reflect back on what I did of my life and what I'm gonna do in the future. Of course, that childhood humiliation still hurts a bit when I think about it, but it's like a rape, you never really forget about it.

The problem comes from the way my whole personnality changed from that day. It's hard to get back on your feet, and I'm still working on it. As for being pessimistic, when I really start to enjoy life (meaning a girlfriend and a good job), that might change. Right now, I'm really starting to take control of my life back, thanks to my friend (who happens to shake me up from time to time when I need it). I'm still worried about the future because of my big lack of self-confidence, but I'm working on it. It just need time.

Don't worry about me. Some people need your help and support a lot more than myself.

Like Jeff Raven for example. When I hear things like that happening to someone I know, I feel bad complaning about my fate.

Jeff, if you're reading this, I offer you my deepest regrets for your loss.

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-If you took that broomstick out of your tail-pipe once in a while, you might have some FUN for a change!
*Rattrap - Beast Wars*

-Let the Fates land where they may!
*Megatron - Beast Machines*

Posted by JareshInyo_A on :

In Grade Eight, I was provoked by the new kid at the school. He just wanted to show off that he was tough and could stand up to the big guy.

I was having a really shitty day. I tried to talk him down, he kept shoving me. I lost my temper.

He ended up with a concussion and I've lived in shame ever since.

I think I'd change that.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Terra: First off, regardless of what anyone says, do not "find god", unless it's in the sense of uncovering the ancient mythology of some lost culture, which would be rather cool. But, in the traditional sense of "find god", which I believe was the intention of the comment, don't. You seem to have enough trouble w/o adding self-delusion to the mix.

And, next time someone grabs your face, forget biting. Kick him in the frickin' nuts... *LOL*

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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra, and then, suddenly, it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
-Matt Groening

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Nimrod: That sounded serious. What happened?

Half the people here seem to regret not hitting someone. And the other half seem to regret actually hitting someone. Can't please you lot, can you?

Jarish: Did you just give him a concussion? Don't worry about it. I'm sure he got over it. And you might have gotten a really cool nickname out of it.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Well, my friend got into some bad company, He had some suspicious affairs going on, I think he had a couple of large debts, too. Some people weren't happy with his attitude and so they murdered him.
The police had some good leads, but his mother didn't want to put her family through all that, so she put the lid on it.
It feels terrible not knowing who did it, but I understand his mom, she has many other deaths in her family just this past year, one who died two weeks ago, plus she's a widow.
So anyway, that was what came up naturally when I saw this thread, although not a hilarious post...

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Ready if I'm ready for you, Dangerboy
Ready if I want it now, Dangerboy?
How dare you, dare you, Dangerboy?
How dare you, Dangerboy?
I dare you, dare you, Dangerboy...

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

How can that happen? The family didn't want to go through w/ it? It's a murder! That's not exactly the sort of thing where you should have a choice whether or not to press charges. Just because one person doesn't think the killers should be caught doesn't mean the families of the next person they kill will feel the same way!

Why is the world such an incomprehensibly fucked-up place? *sigh*

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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra, and then, suddenly, it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
-Matt Groening