Things 2003 has taught me

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Alrighty! In the spirit of reminiscing about the year that is about to end, I ask that you all contribute to this thread by listing one or two things you have learnt from 2003. To get the ball rolling, I offer the following:

If you have a laptop, a WiFi card and a cable modem, it is possible to sit on the loo and experience the effects of diarreah whilst surfing the web.

It is possible to survive seven months with zero income, provided you’re a real tight-arse.

Toblerone “one by ones” are significantly better than Toblerone bars, despite being made of exactly the same substance.
Alright everyone, let’s hear it! What new knowledge has 2003 given you?

Max. :smiley:

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A 10 month deployment in 2003 has taught me to never take anything for granted, and there are always people worse off than you are.

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I was wrong. I was way too optimistic in my dire predictions of what the greedheads would do to this country.:frowning:

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Serious: Life has this way of slapping you round the face with bad news when you least expect it, so enjoy the good times when they come.

Sometimes the decisions that you make can have unforeseen consequences that cause you to regret that decision- but that’s life, none of us can see the future.

Fun: I look really cool with short hair! And it’s so much more fun to style than long hair!- I wish I’d got up the courage to chop it all off years ago.

That my boyfriend is still the hottest thing since hot cross buns ( and still has very nice buns too)

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That you can never pack enough underwear or socks.

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Dopefest are very hard on my knees.

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I am underpaid. Must ask for more pay, less/same work.

Online relationships aren’t successful.

Cyber-foreplay rocks!!:smiley: Cybersex is uh…frustrating.

Must make note not to go hitchhiking across europe with the joke of the office.

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If your life sucks, and trying to patiently cope with it hasn’t worked well… try figuring out what you want and assertively arranging to get it!

–says FisherQueen, from her new apartment, in her new city, taking a well-deserved break from her new job

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From 2003, I have learnt that…

you can still be good friends with your ex.

apple cider makes me VERY giggly.

and that I really, really need to stop eating a whole bucket of buttered popcorn every time I go to the movies.

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It is time to simplify my life and change my priorities.

Patience and perspective - I think I am beginning to get it now…after only 43 years.

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that love does not conquer all in the real world

that I don’t need nicotine to live comfortably

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No good deed goes unpunished.

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Never get used by anyone, and do what you think is good for yourself, the best thing is to not give in to peer pressure.

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Urinal candy isn’t really.

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That rum and coke is really, really, reallym, really, reallty, really, really, really good. And I have a weakness fir it. Yurrrrrmmmmmm.

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In 2003 I learned -

Marriage is the greatest thing in the world…In laws, however, should be outlawed…
Never try playing video games while extremely drunk…It gives your wife something to laugh about for months…
Don’t eat the yellow snow…

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I learned that you can’t trust anyone. No, not anyone.

And that you really can get great random hot sex off the internet if you know where to look.

I learned that I am more self-sufficient and more tough than I thought I was.

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I learned that the old saying “Better to have loved and lost…” was never any more true.

I learned that you should stop and chat (even just a little) with as many acquaintances as you can each day. You never know if they’ll live to see the next day.

It takes exactly 3 hours to get from my house to Columbia, MO.

I also learned that I can harden my heart if I really need to, even to the detriment of others.

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To land on my feet.

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Sometimes the thing you always thought you’d have turns out to be harder to get than you’d planned.

(I’m hoping that 2004 will teach me that working harder for it makes it all the more precious.)