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1. Not doing my lottery 3 weeks ago when five of my numbers came up.

2. Wishing I had taken up some kind of judo or self defence classes in my lifetime as I got rudely accosted week

before last by a few guys in a club and would love to have done a Bruce Lee on them all!

3. Telling someone I really cared about that I hated him when in fact I actually really cared for him and fancied the

pants off him,I was just embarrassed as hell, (I was only a nubie at the time)

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can't recall it LGD so let's keep it going - in no particular order


1) Staying in Swindon for 2 years and 11months longer than I needed to

2) Getting Married (obviously this was pre Lady MacGabhann

3) I can still do something about but if I don't do it it will be a regret eventually - find a way of living of whatever creative talent I can convince people I might have instead of spending whole life in an office

1. Going to? no no, after the swelling went down I met a girl because of that.


2. Never having? oh no, not actually, that thing ended up falling over and killing all those people.


3. Taking all that? come to think of it no, not at all, that was actually tremendous fun however unpleasant the consequences were.


Although I know what you mean about the creative thingy there Mac.

I'm a bit like you Brendan, there are things I could regret, but ultimately the person I am today is a product of all my experiences so farin life. If I really think about it I can come up with two though:


1. Not telling my sister to go straight to her doctor when she showed me the big lump in her neck.


2. Boring career related one this - not taking the final part of the MRCP exam (post graduate specialist medcial exam). I didn't need it at the time and it hasn't made any difference to my career, but I worked really hadr for the first two parts and I think I'd feel better if I'd finished it.

for sure, good things come out of bad. But who knows what BETTER things might have happened had I not kicked around that god-awful time in the mid-late 80's...


In fact if the rest of my life turned out to have been relentless misery it would still have been better than living there for 3 years


(sheesh, I thought I was over it as well!)

Swindon is bad.

Although, growing up in rural Gloucestershire a trip to the Swindon Oasis (swimming pool with slides Ooooo) was regarded as a spectacular treat. Almost as good as Club Tropicana (outdoor swimming pool with slides(which of course with a good Gloucestershire accent becomes Club Tropi-caaar-neerrrr)) in Weston-Super-Marein the summer!

I'm with Brendan and Annaj, I have thought about things, but don't really regret them as such.


Things like the thousands and thousands of pounds I have drunk or smoked in the past 10 years... Believe me, I couldn't put a figure on it, but it would probably bring a tear to most people's eyes. Obviously that money could have been better spent, but then I have had amazing times, and met most of my best friends through my bad habits!!! (I luv ya twingle).


I know what david means about meeting your other half earlier, but again, why regret it, just enjoy each other now.


I guess for me I'd say


1. Not pushing myself further. I'm by no means unhappy (I have been, but I'm not now), but I know I have just scraped by on what talent / brains I was given, I have never done more than was absolutely necessary, and I do regret that, as I could have been doing something else now.


2. Not finishing a very long and drawn out relationship at the first warning signs... But then who the hell does, and we did have some amazing times in amongst all the heartache.


3.... Don't know yet...

Moos Wrote:

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> Mr Hannah, at the risk of being really irritating,

> wouldn't you have to have been a teenager?!


Err, I suppose so yes. That might seem a bit early I guess. Never been happier though.


Edit: In retrospect it's probably not the 3rd biggest regret of my life EVER but I was stuck on two and three seemed "sweet". My new three is not having slept with hundreds of woman, just to redress the balance, like. ;-) Christ I hope 'er indoors isn't reading this!

david_carnell Wrote:


...Never been happier though.

>

> Edit: In retrospect it's probably not the 3rd

> biggest regret of my life EVER but I was stuck on

> two and three seemed "sweet". My new three is not

> having slept with hundreds of woman, just to

> redress the balance, like. ;-) Christ I hope 'er

> indoors isn't reading this!


Takes a real man to be open about his feelings (one of the reasons I fell in love with Mr. Moos). That said, of course 'er indoors will read this and you are in fact toast. But as you yourself said happy toast.


I don't really regret anything I've done - although if time-regrets come into it, I too wish that I could have got together with my other half sooner in life so that we could have had a longer couple-life before having a family-life. And I really really wish that my father could have met his grandson. But those are things that I couldn't possibly have done anything about.


However, I do regret things that I am.


I regret that I act without thinking and on impulse and that that sometimes makes me abrupt or unkind or just stupid.

I regret that I am a bit lazy and often fail to seize the day.

I regret that I know these things about myself and have done for years, and yet do not change...

je ne regrette rien


Well maybe un or deux things.


There this one girl, see, and I really regret not giving her one. Don't get me wrong, she asked me to give her one, and I was bang up for it, but for some reason I hesitated and the moment was lost. Anyway, a few days later, I thought I'd see if she was still up for one, but apparently she couldn't because she was already giving one to someone else.


Nice girl. Married a doctor, I heard.

LizzygotDizzy Wrote:

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> 1. Not doing my lottery 3 weeks ago when five of

> my numbers came up.

> 2. Wishing I had taken up some kind of judo or

> self defence classes in my lifetime as I got

> rudely accosted week

> before last by a few guys in a club and would

> love to have done a Bruce Lee on them all!

> 3. Telling someone I really cared about that I

> hated him when in fact I actually really cared for

> him and fancied the

> pants off him,I was just embarrassed as hell,

> (I was only a nubie at the time)



Sorry, one more - I regret never ever having seen Genesis live, missed out on that one having just bought their latest music DVD and watched a live concert, (awaiting the farewell tour in Rome end May 08 one) I do think Phil Collins is brilliant on his own definitely, but I would have loved to have seen Genesis perform live - oh woe is me!

Ah! been there myself a few times *Bob*.

If I'm really honest here the only regret I do have is that I was a hopeless alcoholic and a serious drug fiend by the time I was 21 and I lost the only girl I ever really loved. It broke my heart and it took me a very long time to get over it but I learnt and prospered from the experience.

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