Lessons You "Learned The Hard Way"

[Nimzabaat]

If you break up with someone, write down everything that made the relationship fail. If you think about getting back together, reference that list and understand that nothing will change.

Also credit card debt is the worst kind. Don't carry a balance...ever.

 

[Gerishnakov]

That life isn't fair, and it isn't easy.

Met a girl while I was in sixth form (high school) before I went to university back in 2006, started going out with her, fell in love, stayed together when I went to uni, stayed together the whole time I was at uni. I graduated, couldn't find work at home or near her, she went to uni. Slowly it became clear to both of us that despite still being in love after nearly 5 years our lives would be shit if we didn't break up and try to make our own separate ways in the world.

We broke up February 2011 and to be honest I still don't think I'm really over it. I'm not saying I'm constant despair, but that pain is still in there somewhere.

 

[SextusMaximus]

I should have paid more attention is school. Yes, it's a cliche but boy did that one come back to bite me in the ass.

I should have paid more attention in primary school, not knowing your times tables is a *****.

YES THIS. Jesus, 7s are easy for me but 8s just go over my head.

I'm technically top set maths as well, I don't know my 8 x tables past 8 x 4. -_-

 

[FatalFox]

don't bite off more than you can chew,
and learn to say no.

Yeah, in my line of work (programming) learning to estimate correctly is definitely worth doing. Don't think I've ever got burned because of it, but I'm pretty sure some of the others have.

Also bear in mind other people don't know your job, so if it's an hour job, but it's gonna take you a few days to get round to it, say it's gonna get done in a few days not in an hour. Definitely seen people making that mistake, then having someone constantly ask 'em when the work is done, when there's far more important things to do.

very true, I've done that mistake before too.

 

[Starke]

One of the many ways in which movie physics are horseshit is when it comes to breaking glass. You don't just punch through glass and the glass shatters. Your arm and hand get fucked the hell up, with bits of glass stuck in and bleeding all over the place. Took 2 weeks before I could use my hand again. Never got all the blood cleaned up. Some of it just dried into the walls, door and light switch.

Yeah, they use sugar instead of sand to make that shit. It does break like that, but obviously, you'll never see sugar glass used in the real world for anything.

Never had a problem with getting blood out of, well, anything. Then again, sometimes you just need to settle down with a toothbrush, a putty knife, a glass of coke and a bar of handsoap to get that shit out...

 

[Vault101]

The internet has taught me how to give up and walk away from an argument or stuff in general, because it's pointless. I always used to be the type of person who wouldn't give up on anything, no matter what it was.

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similar thing here

I learned that people WILL hate stuff I love....and thats ok, its better to just ignore it and understand that the internet is a "glass half empty" kind of place

 

[Luftwaffles]

The internet has taught me how to give up and walk away from an argument or stuff in general, because it's pointless. I always used to be the type of person who wouldn't give up on anything, no matter what it was.

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similar thing here

I learned that people WILL hate stuff I love....and thats ok, its better to just ignore it and understand that the internet is a "glass half empty" kind of place

But yeah i know what you guys mean. I usually find myself typing a response, then deleting it.

On topic:

When they say dont run by pools, dont. I still have the scar on my foot.