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What one decision would you go back and change if you had the chance?
If not, why not?

Alt Q: Life after death - bollocks or possible?
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 21:54, 177 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
You've caught me in a good mood.
So I'm not going to voice any regrets, every decision (well, mostly) I've made, has, at the time. Been made for the right reason.

Even if it turned to shit afterwards.

Alt: I just don't see it myself. You?
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 21:56, Reply)
I think I would try not to get expelled from boarding school this time round.
Alt: Nope, It makes sense why the idea came about but I think we are learned enough now to realise it's all a bit gimpy.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 21:57, Reply)
What did you do to get expelled?
Or were you there on full scholarship and they'd worked out they could sell your bed-space?
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 21:59, Reply)
Final straw was fighting and setting a dorm on fire.
I never settled but looking back I threw away a good opportunity.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:01, Reply)
What was the reason behind boarding in the first place?
If you don't mind me asking.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:02, Reply)
Rich parents, my brother had done it and done well
Got me out of the house for the week.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:05, Reply)
Where did you go? QEH?

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:05, Reply)
Clifton College.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:06, Reply)
Was it a big fire?

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:09, Reply)
Big enough, had to replace two bunk beds, curtains and a new carpet.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:11, Reply)
That sort of thing happens all the time*.
I'd say you'd been unlucky.

*At Hogwarts.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:15, Reply)
That place it super posh
isn't it?
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:13, Reply)
I don't think there's been a decision that has significantly changed my life one way or another.
If anything I would have said something to my cousin the night he died.

alt: I believe in it.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 21:58, Reply)
That;s a point, I might go back to the night my friend hanged himself and make sure
I went out with him and tried to cheer him up.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:00, Reply)
I feel that even if I'd said something to him it wouldn't have mattered.
and because he died, it's an even bigger reason I believe in an afterlife.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:02, Reply)
Is you belief in an afterlife based on a spiritual or christian belief?
Don't feel obliged to answer, I'm not getting into ANY sort of debate about religion, and I appreciate it's a person thing.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:04, Reply)
i am a christian but i think its equally spiritual and religious, for me

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:13, Reply)
Did you have a strict Christian upbringing?
I only ask, as I had the full-on Catholic education and that was more than enough to turn me away from organised religion for life.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:20, Reply)
no, in fact my mother is more religious now than she was growing up
And I hate going to church. the church I grew up in is full of hypocrites and has completely turned me off the idea of organised religion and the idea of ever going to church, i prefer to have my beliefs and leave it at that
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:41, Reply)
If that works for you. Who am I to question it?

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:45, Reply)
True but it would have been nice to have tried.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:06, Reply)
definitely
but you don't always think "I should say this because they may die"
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:15, Reply)
A decision you can think about making though K.
And it is a positive one.

'Once you've applied for your passport, where you'll want to go with it!'

Even if it's just a pipe-dream at the moment, having dreams about where you want to visit is a healthy thing.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:00, Reply)
she should come to England and see us lot

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:01, Reply)
you totally want to snog me

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:17, Reply)
He'd run a fucking mile.
However, if you are coming over. Bring Echo eh? There's a good girl!
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:20, Reply)
I would have not read the last thing to piss me off
I'm too tired to form any decent argument than to just point at the screen in mild disbelief and say "EH?!?! Fucking idiots!" a lot.

Alt: It's a nice idea, of course it is, it rids us of the barriers of death. That's all it is though, a nice idea.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:01, Reply)
EH?!?! Fucking idiots?
Well, if you will read OT...
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:02, Reply)
I know, I'm like some kind of masochist.
Unfortunately, the offending article is here: istyosty.com/86p

Repeat after me: "EH?!?! Fucking idiots." That is NOT a fucking news story, it's fucking Nadine Dorries level propaganda.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:06, Reply)
I'm more concerned with the headline.
I know doctors are getting younger, but for the NHS to employ baby-doctors.

Tsk.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:09, Reply)
Cheaper, innit?

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:11, Reply)
But what is the REAL cost Bella?
What is the REAL cost, eh?

We're talking about LIVES here.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:16, Reply)
They should have aborted.
Both times.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:18, Reply)
CTRL ALT DELETE
Task Manager.

'Close' Baby.

Like that?
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:19, Reply)
Yep
That is my understanding of how the procedure is carried out in the digital age.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:21, Reply)
Makes sense.
I should be a doctor.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:34, Reply)
we're all fucking idiots here!!!

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:05, Reply)
Does she not mind that you're typing at the same time?

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:07, Reply)
Cheryl Cole?

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:08, Reply)

twitter.com/cherylkerl
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:19, Reply)
I can't think of one
decisions don't have much to with it, mostly stuff just happens to me, good or bad.

alt : extremely unlikely.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:11, Reply)
I wish I'd never signed up on b3ta
Alt Q: bollocks
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:14, Reply)
yeah
then you'd be footloose and fancy free in Stockholm roaming over hectares of free-range scandinavian quim.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:19, Reply)
Mmmmmmm
Quim. Nah, I'm a serial monogamist (as described by my sister). I'd be with someone else equally mental but not as good.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:26, Reply)
Tasty quim
I prefer caged over free range though
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:29, Reply)
battery farmed and hopped up on steroids.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:37, Reply)
yep
I'm so hard right now
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:40, Reply)
I don't really do regrets
regretting things can't change them; just learn from where you fucked up and you might not do it next time. That said, I wish I'd worked harder during my A-levels and at uni. But other than that...it's like that film, where one tiny change has the potential to alter the course of your life: I might piss and whinge a lot, but I actually quite enjoy being me, living my life, and my past has shaped that. If I changed it, it might be for the worse.
Either way I'll never know so stop worrying about it. Same goes for the alt really.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:15, Reply)
of course you know
It's bollocks. Tsk, call yourself a scientist.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:16, Reply)
Well, of course I'm a scientist
I need a mechanism and proof of principle then tested to n=3 before I'll believe.
Ain't gonna happen is it?
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:17, Reply)
Ain't likely to happen either way though.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:18, Reply)
True
but since there is no proof, then your null hypothesis is that there is no life after death.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:21, Reply)
I still say scientists should be as pompously
arrogant about atheism as Dawkins.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:21, Reply)
He's a scientist?
I thought he was a prophet.

Damn, better tear down that Dawkinsite church I was building.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:22, Reply)
that'll win them over

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:24, Reply)
I agree with most of what he says
But he's a smug twat.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:28, Reply)
The fact that he is such an absurdly smug twat
puts me right off ever wanting to agree with him though.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:32, Reply)
same here
I know he's talking sense most of the time but his personality really grates and I don't think that helps get the point across.

By the by there was a good episode of horizon on tonight about the public perception of science.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:33, Reply)
I'm with you berk.
Nothing I can do about the past.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:18, Reply)
Nope
always try and remember that, it stops you moping.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:33, Reply)
From your earling posts it sounds like not only have you stopped mopping.
You've stopped cleaning and tidying your flat too.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:37, Reply)
I haven't stopped
I've just been away for the weekend, which is when I usually do the housework...
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:41, Reply)
I'm pulling your leg berk.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:46, Reply)
Well don't
the way I feel right now, it might fall off.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:48, Reply)
They you can put your missing leg on your head
And wave your arms around whilst shouting 'I'm the Isle of Man! I'm the Isle of Man!'
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:51, Reply)
I would have had a cheese sandwich instead of a ham sandwich for lunch.
Alt q: also bollocks.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:30, Reply)
just think how different things could have been
Heya. Your husband still a hot looking little midget?
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:35, Reply)
Yeah, he's hottest of all the little folk.
Here he is.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:46, Reply)
nice
did you take away the ladder on him?
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:50, Reply)
Aye, he's still up there, scrabbling about in the insulation.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:53, Reply)
awww ... he's making a nest
if he starts gnawing through any cables you might want to put down glue traps or something.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:58, Reply)
Have you considered waxing?

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:58, Reply)
Nah, it's too cold.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:01, Reply)
That is soooooo hot

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:56, Reply)
All his own teeth and good quality, functioning sperm.
What more could a girl want?
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:00, Reply)
Someone who can reach things on high shelves?

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:03, Reply)
Ah, but I have his ladder!

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:05, Reply)
This made me giggle far more than it ought to have done.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:00, Reply)
You'll be having 'nightmares' over that.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:36, Reply)
I would keep my mouth fucking shut on many occasions and not get so drunk on 3.
The one I just remembered still makes me kick myself.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:33, Reply)
It's OK
I said I've forgotten about it already.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:36, Reply)
...as have I.
How are you doing, Mr DJ?
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:36, Reply)
Dr DJ :P
I'm grand. Tempted to crack open my final beer before hitting the sack.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:39, Reply)
It's up to you!
I'm eating gum and watching Tool Academy. It's amazing.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:40, Reply)
I've decided against it
I'm going to bed.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:52, Reply)
Well. Share your misfortune.
Come on.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:36, Reply)
Manage to make a fresh start with the boy I really, really liked.
He'd agreed to sleep with me again, and was looking forward to it, and we were arranging it. I get drunk and miss him, so drunk-call him.

He tells me that I had him back, but he's changed his mind.
The fact he said I had him back hurt the most.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:39, Reply)
sounds like his issue, not yours

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:47, Reply)
One day you'll hear this sorry tale when you have a spare 3 hours.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:51, Reply)
we can get 3 bottles of wine to go with it

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:52, Reply)
Do you really think the story will be that boring?

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:58, Reply)
She'll have to put up with me weeping.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:59, Reply)
But you're full of awesome. You won't weep.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:01, Reply)
Oh yes I will.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:02, Reply)
Well take the awesome points anyway.
I insist.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:09, Reply)
Thank you very much, love.
-tucks into bra-
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:09, Reply)
"I've lost my oyster card!"
*chuckles*
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:16, Reply)
Stingray card!

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:20, Reply)
Bras are definitely handy storage places.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:25, Reply)
+ for tits.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:26, Reply)
And the taxi fare home...

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:30, Reply)
Sometimes they even provide the taxi home!

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:32, Reply)
Tips or Tits?

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:33, Reply)
Perhaps with a set like yours, they have!

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:36, Reply)
Nah, for things like hands.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:33, Reply)
You're getting confused with pockets.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:38, Reply)
Was it Steve Irwin?
In which case, I think you've had your revenge.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:49, Reply)
He was beautiful but we were very not right for each other.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:51, Reply)
It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:52, Reply)
Can you please persuade my 15 year old self that THIS IS NOT THE CASE

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:00, Reply)
How?

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:08, Reply)
Time travel
I hear you can achieve it if you pump your dick in and out of a Doberman fast enough.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:09, Reply)
Really?
I've had burns, but I've yet to experience time travel.

And they can be quite nasty (the burns, not the dogs, the dogs? They LOVE IT).
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:11, Reply)
more KY
K9 KY
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:12, Reply)
Could be onto something there.
K9-KY

*Phones to go on the Dragons' Den*
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:20, Reply)
Which end have you been going from?
You've got to go front end. Keep the teeth intact, they're the catalyst.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:20, Reply)
88mph
1.21 gigawatts
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:22, Reply)
You know what this means?
This damned thing doesn't work!

*falls off the toilet, in some clock-hanging shenanigans*
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:24, Reply)
Well then why be sad?
you're storing up a whole load of hurt when you know you weren't right for each other and thus it probably wouldn't have worked.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:53, Reply)
I've only come to terms that we weren't right in the last few months.
I get upset as he never agrees to any of my terms then complains I leave everything up to him. Agreed, left.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:58, Reply)
"He'd agreed to sleep with me again"
Aww, and they say romance is dead.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:03, Reply)
Refused to kiss me, too.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:06, Reply)
very unsporting that

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:08, Reply)
we should send an OT mob round
to beat him up. He sounds like a dick
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:10, Reply)
GEEK ATTACK!

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:25, Reply)
ROLL D20 FOR DAMAGE AND ADD WEAPON MODIFIERS!

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:27, Reply)
He would counter with science.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:28, Reply)
Can't change the past love
I have a couple of those myself and whilst they still make me cringe I am working towards successfully repressing them and not making such an epic Katie-Price-size tit of myself on future occasions.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:37, Reply)
It's just all the could-have-beens :(
And also saving myself a lot of hurt by not doing stupid things, or people.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:40, Reply)
But you can't change what's happened
the only thing you're doing by let it continue to hurt you, is, well. Being hurt. Learn from it and let it go.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:44, Reply)
Ah well.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:46, Reply)
getting married
/obvious answer
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:42, Reply)
No regrets Crunchy.
I'm sure you went into it believing it would be a happy union.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:48, Reply)
yes I did
but I was a blind fool FOOL I tell you!
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:54, Reply)
We've all been there Crunchy.
Well, I have
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:03, Reply)
*there there*

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:06, Reply)
*sobs*
Thanks.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:07, Reply)
Pfft
you do that to me all the time.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:10, Reply)
I think he meant it
that's the nicest anyone's ever been to him on here
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:11, Reply)
It is.
I was quite touched.

Not that berk cares.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:12, Reply)
I bought him cake as well
I'm just far too nice.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:12, Reply)
Thank you.
Again.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:18, Reply)
You're welcome.
Still :)
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:21, Reply)
Well that's all right.
As we were.

:)
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:22, Reply)
If you come to Blousie's bash
you might even get to try some more.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:27, Reply)
Depending on how I'm fixed, time wise.
And, assuming that Blousie wouldn't mind, I'd consider putting in an appearance.

Will you be making a special cake for Blousie's birthday?
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:28, Reply)
Which kind of special are we on about here?

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:29, Reply)
What do you mean?

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:30, Reply)
I made her 'special' brownies last year
this year it might just be special in the sense of awesomely good, as I can't find anyone to sell me ye olde MD's.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:33, Reply)
butbutbut ...
you get cake and presents!
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:48, Reply)
It was nice cake
but I think he ended up keeping most of the presents
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:54, Reply)
what a wrong'un.
I wouldn't settle for anything less than a set of pans and toaster.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:02, Reply)
If I could sneak into his house now
I'd get the drill. Then I'd drill his face. Then I'd steal the drill
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:06, Reply)
+ make good my escape in my honda accord.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:23, Reply)
*likes*
does that mean I then get to go off and shag Johnny Depp* while eating croissants?

*I know it's supermodels, but I'd prefer some hot guy
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:26, Reply)
Johnny Depp?
you can have Johnny Vegas and like it.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:41, Reply)
being at work
this evening. humph.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:45, Reply)
Ouch.
*There there*

Still, you have access to Wotsits.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:47, Reply)
oh
um. that's very kind of you, but you're not really my type.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:48, Reply)
Eh?
How do you get from wotsits to a 'type'
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:50, Reply)
your cheesy little wotsit

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:50, Reply)
Oooh. You cheap harlot.

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:53, Reply)
meh!
i told you, i'm savage today. rarrrr.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:54, Reply)
And now I'm annoyed.
I can't find a picture of Vince Savage from Grange Hill to mock you with.

*You win THIS round Swipe!*
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:56, Reply)
I was at work til nearly 9pm
this probably doesn't help you much though.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:49, Reply)
it makes me think both our lives suck

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:50, Reply)
I knew that already about mine
I'm inclined to think yours is more...temporarily inconvenienced, than sucky.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:59, Reply)
both could be worse, remember

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:01, Reply)
Yep
I could have BUBONIC PLAGUE. For instance.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:04, Reply)
exactly

(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:05, Reply)
I'm not sure, I don't think there is anything in my past that I could change, all the things along those lines in my life are outside of my control.
Perhaps if I asked out more girls in my teens I would have more confidance now.

I strongly believe in something after death, whatever it is, I donno, but I don't think everything is gone when we break.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:48, Reply)
I didn't realise the previous thread was dead, but that ravilo dumpling thing I made is stunningly amazingly the best experment I've done yet.
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150375037670627&set=a.10150177652520627.433960.532685626&comments
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 22:50, Reply)
Agreeing to a threesome
With my ex hubby and lesbian best friend.
We've been separated many years now, but they are still together.
I'd say I'd change it only not to lose my friend, but actually cant have been that much of a friend
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:13, Reply)
:(
people suck
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:19, Reply)
She certainly did
*poker faced reply *

snorts
(, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 23:21, Reply)
I'd accept my place at Winchester college.

(, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 8:36, Reply)
I'd have not hurt the 3 girls I have.
With one of them, it's made us closer as friends, because they know that I wasn't the right guy for them, but we got on really well with each other.
(, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 8:52, Reply)

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