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    got this idea from a claim that a poker volume prop bet for change was

    Quote Originally Posted by kmind View Post
    I think this idea was the worst decision of my life.
    Like, occasionally a bad decision relating to poker has cost me some $$, but meh.

    among my worst decisions was not accompanying some muso english guy i met surfing to his friend's hotel party in sydney - i'd got him in to some club for free cos i was door-listed, so the pom was repaying the favour. Anyway, i didn't go the party cos i wanted to go to bed early so i could head out for a dawn surf next day.
    apparently things got pretty wild at said party, he claimed to have told me that some girl band was hosting - i'm pretty sure he didn't...

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    in b4 wufwugy gets emo over some bird

    although i guess 70% of FTR's worst moments are to do with girls
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ash256 View Post
    in b4 wufwugy gets emo over some bird
    Heh. I'm not sure how women being soulless succubus robots hellbent on reaping destruction in their wake has anything to do with my decision-making.

    Only bad decisions I make are refusing to learn from my mistakes
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ash256 View Post
    in b4 wufwugy gets emo over some bird

    although i guess 70% of FTR's worst moments are to do with girls
    correct. mine included
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    Besides the prop bet, getting with a certain girl that was/is off limits. Griff knows what I'm talking about.
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    I moved in with a girl my freshman year of college and co-signed a lease for 1 year.
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    We broke up in 13 days but lived together the entire time
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    cool timing bro...
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    Dated a girl long distance for 3 out of my 4 years at college. fucking retarded
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigred View Post
    Dated a girl long distance for 3 out of my 4 years at college. fucking retarded
    lol bigredaments god i hate you

    im drunk!
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigred View Post
    Dated a girl long distance for 3 out of my 4 years at college. fucking retarded
    Didn't do it nearly that long but I concur!
    [00:29] <daven> dc, why not check turn behind
    [00:30] <DC> daven
    [00:30] <DC> on my hand?
    [00:30] <daven> yep
    [00:30] <DC> because I am drunk
    [00:30] <daven> nice reason
    [00:30] <daven> no further questions
    [00:30] <yaawn> ^^Lol

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    made a really poor decision in July 2006
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigspenda73 View Post
    made a really poor decision in July 2006
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    I can't think of anything. What does that mean?
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    I mean probably when I'm old and decrepit like bigred I'll look back with exactly the same worst decision as he and DC, but for now fuck you all, haters gonn hate etc.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kiwiMark View Post
    I can't think of anything. What does that mean?
    it means that you've already made the decision - it's just that you haven't had the std test yet to realise that it was a mistake rather than another notch/milestone
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    Any time I ate at Subway.
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    I was baking some bread today. I wasn't sure what Germ (german) translates to, but I thought it was yiest, yeast... something like that, so I googled it and hit image results.

    Definitely the worst choice I've made today.


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    My worst decision was definitely the second date with my now ex wife.
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    Ok, oskar, good point.

    Worst mistake was doing a google image search for Harlequin. You think you'll just get images of jolly dancers but oh no.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Donachello View Post
    Didn't do it nearly that long but I concur!
    What were your problems with long distance if you don't mind? (for DC and bigred)
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    dating my 2nd serious boyfriend eric, it really fucked me in the head. emotionally abusive boyfriends ftl!

    but, it does make me much more thankful for an understanding fiance like spoon. he's the sweetest man i have ever known.
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    Turning down a trading job on the Chicago Options Exchange for the trading gig here at BP in Houston (which I ended up get getting let go from) because...

    I was scared I would fail up in Chicago.

    Job would have had me trading faster and given me more experience than the job at BP

    Now, it seems like I can't get my foot back in the door to do trading, which is what I love.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    I was baking some bread today. I wasn't sure what Germ (german) translates to, but I thought it was yiest, yeast... something like that, so I googled it and hit image results.

    Definitely the worst choice I've made today.


    don't... just... don't
    Not taking your advivce was definitely the worst decision of my day
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    And worst decision of my life - taking my ex girlfriend to Uni with me, even though she wasn't going to uni, and living with the psycho bitch for a few miserable fucking years whilst my friends had a fuckin ball.

    And all because it seemed easier to take her with than break up with her at the time I told her I was going to uni, cos surely she won't actually go through with it and come with, and if she does, surely she just won't enjoy it and will just leave, and if she stays for a year, surely she'll want to do something with her life and not just hang around waiting for me, and if she does hang around surely I won't get a joint lease on a flat with just the two of us for my final year and the bitch then, fucking then, after all that fucking time, then, when only I've signed the lease cos it's student digs and she aint a student, then,..... then the bitch fucking leaves!
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    Quote Originally Posted by kmind View Post
    Besides the prop bet, getting with a certain girl that was/is off limits. Griff knows what I'm talking about.
    who knew the worst decision could feel so good!

    My worst decision was not starting to play poker 6yrs before I actually did!
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    "No Woman, No Cry" ITT.

    My worst decision was one time I was being rude to spoonitnow.
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    aimbots itt
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    Quote Originally Posted by kmind View Post
    What were your problems with long distance if you don't mind? (for DC and bigred)
    Talking on the phone every day, squeezing as much time into weekend or holiday visits with each other, the mind games of what she's doing when she's out and what she wonders what you're doing when you're out, etc, etc is not a real relationship. Don't get me wrong, she's a great girl and while we didn't ultimately work out I don't regret dating her as a person. I regret dating her for so long in what was never a true relationship. Long distance is just impossible to grow as a couple imo.

    Plus I'm banging your gf when you're not visiting her so you should probably end it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigred View Post
    Talking on the phone every day, squeezing as much time into weekend or holiday visits with each other, the mind games of what she's doing when she's out and what she wonders what you're doing when you're out, etc, etc is not a real relationship. Don't get me wrong, she's a great girl and while we didn't ultimately work out I don't regret dating her as a person. I regret dating her for so long in what was never a true relationship. Long distance is just impossible to grow as a couple imo.

    Plus I'm banging your gf when you're not visiting her so you should probably end it.
    All of the above.
    Plus you don't get to meet as many cool people, and by cool people I mean vaginas.
    [00:29] <daven> dc, why not check turn behind
    [00:30] <DC> daven
    [00:30] <DC> on my hand?
    [00:30] <daven> yep
    [00:30] <DC> because I am drunk
    [00:30] <daven> nice reason
    [00:30] <daven> no further questions
    [00:30] <yaawn> ^^Lol

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    inb4 someone fyp's dwarf
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    Quote Originally Posted by Donachello View Post
    All of the above.
    Plus you don't get to meet as many cool people, and by cool people I mean vaginas.
    You're also banging his gf? Dammit, I thought I was special
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigred View Post
    Talking on the phone every day, squeezing as much time into weekend or holiday visits with each other, the mind games of what she's doing when she's out and what she wonders what you're doing when you're out, etc, etc is not a real relationship. Don't get me wrong, she's a great girl and while we didn't ultimately work out I don't regret dating her as a person. I regret dating her for so long in what was never a true relationship. Long distance is just impossible to grow as a couple imo.

    Plus I'm banging your gf when you're not visiting her so you should probably end it.

    ya, 100% agree with all of this. Long distance is just clinging to something that needs to end ftmp. There are exceptions, but they are rare, and they are even rarer when the two people (or one of them) is in college.
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    So 4 people that I know of are banging my gf? Fuck this.

    I think I have a new girl for my worst decision...
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    Shoulda went home instead of going to that other bar. The other bar was closed so I had to drive home. Then I saw them in the rearview mirror.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kmind View Post
    So 4 people that I know of are banging my gf? Fuck this.
    Wait, which number am I? I lost count.

    She makes me a nice snack after. She's alright.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sasquach991 View Post
    Shoulda went home instead of going to that other bar. The other bar was closed so I had to drive home. Then I saw them in the rearview mirror.

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    ?
    He said rearview mirror...stupid.
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    never finishing a fucking thing i start.
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    Quote Originally Posted by givememyleg View Post
    never finishing a fucking thing i start.
    also this

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    Massively decreasing the volume I play every time I downswing like 10BI or more.
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    Propping against yaawn in the HU tourney of feesh.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BooG690 View Post
    He said rearview mirror...stupid.
    I lol'd pretty hard at this.

    Also, going to boot camp was probably not a wise choice.
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    Ok then, mine is a bit strange. Sorry for the gimmick but I need to cover my ass.

    I was 17 at the time, and was down the pub of an afternoon getting drunk with my first girlfriend. She had straight red hair, a gorgeous smile and the charisma that only a girl who has been emotionally abused at some point has. I fancied the arse off her at the time, she had epic T&A and was a year older than me. We had been together about 5 weeks but living about 2-3 hours apart we hadn't stayed over at each other's places.

    About half an hour before the bus home was due, she started acting pretty randy, straddling me, sending me the signals, wanting to go back to mine. Problem was, my room was an absolute fucking cesspit, like bachelor frog's worst nightmare. You couldn't really see the carpet and where you could there were enough items of decaying food matter to feed a colony of rats for at least half a year. It smelled like someone had collected a large amount of bin juice and squirted it all over the walls with a Super Soaker.

    Thinking that I didn't want to put her off me by allowing her to see this work of evil, I denied her requests to stay over.

    The next day, a spark had left the relationship. We clattered our way through the next 4 weeks, I asked to stay at hers but she had family over, etc. Things just weren't the same.

    We broke up by "mutual consent". I genuinely felt I was fine with it, but it seems the ego hit gave me a nasty dose of anxiety disorder and irritable bowel syndrome, which fucked up my ability to attend college lectures and feel like a normal human being. It took a year or so to kick it, although it would later reappear when I was made redundant. Trust me, IBS makes you fucking miserable to the core. Imagine planning your time outside around whether or not you have anti-diarrhea tabs and where the nearest shitter is.

    The next year of college I never found the right girl. I had interests like a musical brunette (who's since become pretty stunning), but she wasn't right for me.

    I then got a job near my parents house and simply didn't meet any girls I liked (it sounds ridiculous but where I live a good looking and intelligent girl is super-rare). The few times a year I did get off with a girl, the anxiety would kick back in and I'd be unable to perform.

    So thanks to that split second decision that spiralled, I'm a 21 year old virgin with a butchered sexual identity who gets anxiety attacks and wants to take a shit when he's trying to get with a girl. Even though I've improved myself in so many ways since that moment, I've never been able to forgive myself for that fuckup. This is something that weighs heavily on my shoulders.

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    Think it's fairly likely you'd be really anxious and would still have had bowel problems had she come back and seen the terrible mess of your room, thrown upand left. It sounds like a cooler to me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kcimmiG View Post
    Ok then, mine is a bit strange. Sorry for the gimmick but I need to cover my ass.

    I was 17 at the time, and was down the pub of an afternoon getting drunk with my first girlfriend. She had straight red hair, a gorgeous smile and the charisma that only a girl who has been emotionally abused at some point has. I fancied the arse off her at the time, she had epic T&A and was a year older than me. We had been together about 5 weeks but living about 2-3 hours apart we hadn't stayed over at each other's places.

    About half an hour before the bus home was due, she started acting pretty randy, straddling me, sending me the signals, wanting to go back to mine. Problem was, my room was an absolute fucking cesspit, like bachelor frog's worst nightmare. You couldn't really see the carpet and where you could there were enough items of decaying food matter to feed a colony of rats for at least half a year. It smelled like someone had collected a large amount of bin juice and squirted it all over the walls with a Super Soaker.

    Thinking that I didn't want to put her off me by allowing her to see this work of evil, I denied her requests to stay over.

    The next day, a spark had left the relationship. We clattered our way through the next 4 weeks, I asked to stay at hers but she had family over, etc. Things just weren't the same.

    We broke up by "mutual consent". I genuinely felt I was fine with it, but it seems the ego hit gave me a nasty dose of anxiety disorder and irritable bowel syndrome, which fucked up my ability to attend college lectures and feel like a normal human being. It took a year or so to kick it, although it would later reappear when I was made redundant. Trust me, IBS makes you fucking miserable to the core. Imagine planning your time outside around whether or not you have anti-diarrhea tabs and where the nearest shitter is.

    The next year of college I never found the right girl. I had interests like a musical brunette (who's since become pretty stunning), but she wasn't right for me.

    I then got a job near my parents house and simply didn't meet any girls I liked (it sounds ridiculous but where I live a good looking and intelligent girl is super-rare). The few times a year I did get off with a girl, the anxiety would kick back in and I'd be unable to perform.

    So thanks to that split second decision that spiralled, I'm a 21 year old virgin with a butchered sexual identity who gets anxiety attacks and wants to take a shit when he's trying to get with a girl. Even though I've improved myself in so many ways since that moment, I've never been able to forgive myself for that fuckup. This is something that weighs heavily on my shoulders.

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    Highly unlikely its Bbickes.
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    ha! admin panel confirms it's bigred.
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    Wow, Muzzard, that's rough. Sorry to hear.

    Now you keep the bin juice out of your room, amirite?
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    ha! admin panel confirms it's bigred.
    lolz, i would easily take that chick back home
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    Quote Originally Posted by kcimmiG View Post
    She had straight red hair, a gorgeous smile and the charisma that only a girl who has been emotionally abused at some point has.
    I really like this line. nh sir.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kcimmiG View Post
    I was 17 at the time, and was down the pub of an afternoon getting drunk with my first girlfriend. She had straight red hair, a gorgeous smile and the charisma that only a girl who has been emotionally abused at some point has. I fancied the arse off her at the time, she had epic T&A and was a year older than me.
    OK .....so who tried cracking on to chelle before spoon?
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    Quote Originally Posted by kiwiMark View Post
    I really like this line. nh sir.

    ya, this line made me grin when I read it.
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    We clattered our way through the next 4 weeks, I asked to stay at hers but she had family over, etc
    Dude. Clean your fuckin pad!? 4 weeks wasn't long enough??
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    Quote Originally Posted by will641 View Post
    it's a tough call, it's probably a 10 way tie.

    I'm guessing one of them has to do with chatting with some stranger on AIM and accepting a direct file transfer..

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