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( , Wed 14 Jan 2004, 13:01)
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Recently I had a bit of an epiphany with the help of a close friend, specifically to stop being a bit of a pussy and get the remaining crap areas of my life together. What moments can you share that involve you performing (or helping someone to perform) a personal 180?
( , Wed 29 Dec 2010, 23:39, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

About as interesting and imaginative as the last two anyway.
EDIT: That should be last THREE now.
( , Wed 29 Dec 2010, 11:38, Reply)

Anything.....please...just something that will produce properly funny stories.
Remember the good ol days when reading QOTW would provoke real laugh-out-loud moments? when you would click back a few hours later to find another 4 pages of excellent stories had appeared?
We have gone an awfully long time with some pretty tiresome questions now. :(
( , Wed 29 Dec 2010, 9:19, Reply)

Before we go into new years resolutions that won't get kept, how about we talk about the moments that caused you to change something significant (or not) in your life. What was the final straw for you?
( , Thu 23 Dec 2010, 20:07, Reply)

everyone has them, right? Like for example I go down on one knee to pee (only in nice toilets mind) as it makes splashing not a problem and I don't have to concentrate on my aim. My wife says it looks like I'm proposing to the loo.
( , Wed 22 Dec 2010, 18:20, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

How and when did you find out? My moment was fifth class primary when teacher decided we were old enough to know resulting in half the class erupting in tears and many complaints being recieved due to the schoolyard fallout.
( , Fri 17 Dec 2010, 17:55, Reply)

You knew it was a bad idea but you did it anyway. You discovered a crucial piece of information that you are beginning to suspect you really needed half an hour ago. You realised immediately after you stopped talking that you'd just stepped in a massive pile of figurative horse-shit. You wondered why everyone was giving you that look all day, then you found out. You watched events unfold as though in slow motion, knowing exactly what was going to happen but powerless to stop it.
( , Thu 16 Dec 2010, 13:06, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

but not all music is good for getting the moment right. I once went out with a girl who insisted on playing the Red Hot Chilli Peppers to get in the mood, which would put any right thinking person off.
What's the worst combination of music and 'love' you've ever had to put up with?
( , Thu 16 Dec 2010, 10:57, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

What about nominating stories from the last year for funniest, saddest, Nicest, sickest, worst, most pandering, worst trolling, most Honda Accord, etc?
( , Thu 16 Dec 2010, 9:57, Reply)

Supposedly, travel broadens the mind, but we all know that it's not always great. There's a quote “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” For every person that goes to far flung shores to experience something new and exotic, there are millions of Britons every year who traipse off to Magaluf for the summer, to spend two weeks complaining that the English breakfast isn't very good, the chips are the wrong sort and the poor reception on the telly spoilt their enjoyment of the Arsenal match.
What are your stories of wonderment, enlightenment, and awe, or of general ignorance and fear of all things forrin.
( , Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:40, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Somehow every year despite best effort planning Christmas preparation becomes a rushed panic. Shopping on Christmas eve when the shelves are bare and stroppy rants at the loved ones. How do you cope with Christmas and what's gone wrong for you?
( , Wed 15 Dec 2010, 9:41, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

NOT 'they played this at the first dance at my wedding reception' but a piece of music that, when you hear it, takes you right back to a location and a time immensely removed from where you are now.
Me? The Race by Yello was the first time I'd heard anything that needed, nay, DEMANDED a bass speaker. When I heard that, it was like aural sex.
( , Wed 15 Dec 2010, 3:25, Reply)

I once spent a 13 hour flight from New York trapped inbetween two Mormons from Utah. When they weren't preaching about God, they were insisting to me that Northern Ireland was separate from the UK, whereas the Republic of Ireland was part of the UK. It was a hellish journey.
What's your story of terror in the skies?
( , Tue 14 Dec 2010, 21:20, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Tis the season... What are the best and worst things to happen at an Office party??
Stalkers creeping up and making their feelings known?
Bosses breakdancing?
FIGHTS!!
Tell us all.
( , Mon 13 Dec 2010, 9:43, Reply)

Have you ever been the person you see ogling everyone without a disfiguring skin condition, or carried out the most abasing and notorious acts because you were gagging for a shagging? Have your dry spells made you settle for an oily flannel? How desperate have you been and what were the results?
Jokes in which the premise is that you were so desperate that you carried out a criminal act should be kept to a minimum.
( , Sun 12 Dec 2010, 21:42, Reply)

That split second where, if you had done something differently, your life would not be the same now. For better or worse.
*Supergrass references aside
( , Sun 12 Dec 2010, 5:30, Reply)

i once spent 2 hours in a pub, crawling under tables, looking for german spies because i'd been stupid enough to volunteer to get hypnotised.
tell us your tales of hypnosis, whether it's been you or someone you know that's had it done.
( , Thu 9 Dec 2010, 18:33, 5 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

First time I saw porn, I was most disappointed. It was rubbish.
When have your expectations been too high?
( , Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:52, Reply)

a dislike of something or other. They always generate a massive number of posts as EVERYBODY dislikes something or other.
Edit: Pet peeves Part 2 perhaps because since the first one, there's been a good 20,000 new members
( , Thu 9 Dec 2010, 15:06, Reply)

Who have you met/shagged/stalked.
And were they any good etc??
Experiences, good and bad with a to z list celebs.
Apologies if this had already been a QOTW
( , Mon 6 Dec 2010, 17:02, 8 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

I'm feeling warm and fuzzy. What are the oddest little things your significant other does that remind you why you love them in the first place? The strange habits that make you think "She's a mentalist, but she's MY mentalist"? The curious couple-speak based on a vocabulary of shared experience?
What makes YOU warm and fuzzy? Then we can all be warm and fuzzy together.
Which will be nice. And possibly Xmassy.
( , Mon 6 Dec 2010, 17:01, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

It's been a while.
( , Sun 5 Dec 2010, 17:27, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

My in-laws have been embroiled in a month-long feud stemming back to my sister-in-law not drinking a cup of soymilk that my mother-in-law had made for her.
As it's the festive season why not share our experiences of catastrophic family arguments about the most trivial issues possible.
( , Fri 3 Dec 2010, 5:13, Reply)

regale us with your Christmas stories, this could be something as funny as your old man getting stuck up the chimney, or simply funny things relatives say or do over this festive period, or even the mammouth trip you have to under take to be with your loved ones. Or even how much you hate Xmas and everything about it....Bah humbug!
( , Thu 2 Dec 2010, 10:35, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

When your blind date turns up late, drunk and reeking of vomit, you're probably in for a rough evening. Tell us about your dating disasters so we can sympathise and/or laugh.
( , Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:36, 5 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

We've had mums, and dads, what about friends ? My best friend is currently snoring at 130db and it's 4 o clock in the afternoon...but I still love him. Tell us about your bestest friends and how they enrich your lives.
( , Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:55, Reply)
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