I wouldn't have bothered with uni; would have joined an employer with straight out of school; would have purchased property earlier and would have done everything much earlier.
I definitely wouldn't have chosen the white jeans I wore to that party in 1991.
But on a more serious note, I would have been more outgoing at university, met a wider variety of people, got involved in things other than drinking, and would have actually studied something rather than relying on what I learned for A Level.
p.s. a friend of mine got asked in a job interview “do you have any regrets so far?” and he responded “I’d like to have taken more drugs and had more sex at university”. It was for a junior tech job so the interviewers were on his wavelength
I would have done something different at uni. Potentially would have done something theatrical or artsy. Because I still could have just done the MA conversion afterwards and ended up in law if I really wanted to, rather than being miserable doing a really dull area of science.
been more outgoing and got a lot more sex. cared less earlier in life what anyone else thinks about anything.
“settled down” earlier in life - 54 year old dad and two year old boy is hard work!
I had a choice of a room in two different shared houses about 20 years ago and I chose the wrong one. Possibly the only sliding doors moment of my life. All good now but the intervening years could’ve been better.
Me - did my own choice of A-levels at age 16 rather than be persuaded by my father to do some more numerate subjects I was completely disinterested in.
I feel your pain Mr B Iguana - so tired! Swings and roundabouts tho innit? Will be a better Dad now than I would have been 20 years ago (except football and tree climbing).
Still I’ll be telling my boy to start earlier - always the option of a late trade in and round 2 if he wants it/can afford it at 50.
Worked harder at school – both O levels and A levels (especially A Levels). It has turned out pretty well anyway, but I could have made it a lot easier for myself and avoided some harder years at the start.
More importantly – more than 20 years ago I pulled a girl at the LPC Ball and, after discovering in the cab that all she was wearing was shoes and a dress, went back to mine. I was not prepared for the earlier ‘no knickers’ discovery to be topped. Imagine my surprise to find out she initiated and was obsessed by Alan. She left the next morning and then later that day called me asking what I was doing that evening and would I like to come over to hers or should she come round to mine. To my eternal regret I said I would come over to her place (she gave me the address). I fell asleep around 5 pm (being worn out after exams, ball and the relentless Alan demands of the previous night) and woke up at midnight. It was the days before mobiles and I did not have her number. Term then ended and everyone dispersed. I regret to this day not saying “why don’t you come over to mine”.
As an aside I was recently at a dinner party where her name, completely unrelated to above, came up in conversation. She had been a trainee with someone at the dinner party and he told a story where she had let slip that she had had colonic irrigation. Lady Long was present so, sadly, I could not add a marvelous foot note to his story. She will forever be associated with missed opportunities for me.
Very little to be honest, but I might have applied myself a bit harder at getting that one year all expenses paid scholarship to an Ivy League university now that I know quite how daffy many American girls go for my particular flavour of accent.
I tried pretty darn hard back in the day but have been rather more lazy in recent years. Not sure what Pornhub has to do with it but I've enjoyed the variety.
Panicked when offered a 3 some from 2 female mates. I turned into a News of the World Journo and made my excuses and left. I since learned they carried on without me.
Heh jelly! V similar burning regret - about 1996 in Prague with v hot and “adventurous” (but bonkers) gf - we got talking to v hot “exotic dancer” in a nightclub who suggested that the three of us get friendly back at the hotel (small fee involved) - gf was up for it but to my eternal shame I chickened out!
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I would (after having watched season 1 of the Resident) probably have elected to be a doctor instead
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I would, as stated before, not concern myself with Israel, jewry and my extended family from my father's side
if I could go back in time and do as stated above, my life would have been a *lot* better
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Would have picked the winning Euromillion numbers obvs
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I wouldn't have bothered with uni; would have joined an employer with straight out of school; would have purchased property earlier and would have done everything much earlier.
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Studied something interesting at university. Probably history.
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I would have killed more people.
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I would have had a lot more sex.
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More sex, more snogging, more adventures and travel. And the Euromillions.
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Different subject at uni/different PhD direction.
Not become a solicitor.
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I definitely wouldn't have chosen the white jeans I wore to that party in 1991.
But on a more serious note, I would have been more outgoing at university, met a wider variety of people, got involved in things other than drinking, and would have actually studied something rather than relying on what I learned for A Level.
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Nothing
no point dwelling on the past
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study something else at uni the first time around and then pursue an academic career in it
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p.s. a friend of mine got asked in a job interview “do you have any regrets so far?” and he responded “I’d like to have taken more drugs and had more sex at university”. It was for a junior tech job so the interviewers were on his wavelength
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Discommunicate my family years earlier
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I would have realised I had a chance to kiss the love of my life aged 16 and taken that chance.
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summersails - thinking about kissing a 16 year old now is probably not something you should openly be talking about
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I was 17 at the time.
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that's why I said now, as I assume you are significantly older
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YOUR MUM!!!
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Dammit. Panda beat me to it.
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Never gone anywhere near my ex-wife. That ruined me.
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Probably gone into the Army.
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Would have escaped law a lot earlier.
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I would have voted remain. The biggest regret of my life.
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I would have done something different at uni. Potentially would have done something theatrical or artsy. Because I still could have just done the MA conversion afterwards and ended up in law if I really wanted to, rather than being miserable doing a really dull area of science.
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I wouldn't have wasted 5 years of my life with a Spanish girl who started out nice but turned out to be full on mentalz.
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you really didn't need hindsight to know that a Spanish girl was gone go all loco on you
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Good point well made - my new policy is not to get involved with any woman who hails from south of the Alps.
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Studied art history instead of straight history or possibly fine arts degree
Not let myself get fat
Not dropped the second and third tabs of LSD at the 1991 Halloween Grateful Dead show
Set my bindings a bit tighter back in December of 1992, preventing the walkout and subsequent ACL and MCL tears.
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Sorry, that’s four things
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I always say "nothing" to these things, but actually not falling off that horse in 2003 would have been good.
it poss taught me more patience than I knew I had tho
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been more outgoing and got a lot more sex. cared less earlier in life what anyone else thinks about anything.
“settled down” earlier in life - 54 year old dad and two year old boy is hard work!
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I had a choice of a room in two different shared houses about 20 years ago and I chose the wrong one. Possibly the only sliding doors moment of my life. All good now but the intervening years could’ve been better.
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“Not dropped the second and third tabs of LSD at the 1991 Halloween Grateful Dead show”
oh my
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bullace - I hear you! 50 year old with a 2 year old boy here. Ah well, I had my fun in the first half of my life.
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Me - did my own choice of A-levels at age 16 rather than be persuaded by my father to do some more numerate subjects I was completely disinterested in.
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Started Roffing sooner
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Possibly not left the Army when I did but stayed in for another tour.
Mostly, however, not jumped a hedge and ditch on my horse and crashed a little while back. It made a bit of a mess of me.
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Why anyone bothers with horses I have no idea
I know at least 2 people who have been killed on them
Many more permanently injured
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Bernstein, I’m afraid that there are few adrenalin rushes that come close
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Gone to another doctor for a second opinion when it could have actually made a difference.
I knew it wasn't the flu. Couldn't possibly be just the flu..
So why on earth did I just meekly go home and pretty much wait to die.
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Not breaking various bones would have been good
Specially the neck
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I feel your pain Mr B Iguana - so tired! Swings and roundabouts tho innit? Will be a better Dad now than I would have been 20 years ago (except football and tree climbing).
Still I’ll be telling my boy to start earlier - always the option of a late trade in and round 2 if he wants it/can afford it at 50.
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Wow Blue Iguana you must be tired! You appear to have forgotten the difference between disinterested and uninterested.
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Worked harder at school – both O levels and A levels (especially A Levels). It has turned out pretty well anyway, but I could have made it a lot easier for myself and avoided some harder years at the start.
More importantly – more than 20 years ago I pulled a girl at the LPC Ball and, after discovering in the cab that all she was wearing was shoes and a dress, went back to mine. I was not prepared for the earlier ‘no knickers’ discovery to be topped. Imagine my surprise to find out she initiated and was obsessed by Alan. She left the next morning and then later that day called me asking what I was doing that evening and would I like to come over to hers or should she come round to mine. To my eternal regret I said I would come over to her place (she gave me the address). I fell asleep around 5 pm (being worn out after exams, ball and the relentless Alan demands of the previous night) and woke up at midnight. It was the days before mobiles and I did not have her number. Term then ended and everyone dispersed. I regret to this day not saying “why don’t you come over to mine”.
As an aside I was recently at a dinner party where her name, completely unrelated to above, came up in conversation. She had been a trainee with someone at the dinner party and he told a story where she had let slip that she had had colonic irrigation. Lady Long was present so, sadly, I could not add a marvelous foot note to his story. She will forever be associated with missed opportunities for me.
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don’t worry mate she definitely ROFs
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You can't change anything obviously, its already happened. You can change the future.
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ultra classic chambo
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are there any rof parents of one child - and who chose not to have another - who would choose to change that decision? and if so, why?
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Chambo
Are you Steve Barnes from the Steve Bruce novels?
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sorry chambo - that made me laugh.
PS - still working out a drive down to your quarter for that pint. Will update.
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Very little to be honest, but I might have applied myself a bit harder at getting that one year all expenses paid scholarship to an Ivy League university now that I know quite how daffy many American girls go for my particular flavour of accent.
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bullace: yes. I would have pushed harder for a 2nd but I let it go for various reasons.
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90% of what the rofers said can be summarised as:
I’d like to have fooked more women.
Amen brothers
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you should be more inclusive, laz.
We'd like to have fooked more.
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I'm perfectly happy with my number and have no desire to increase it
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Could have skipped a few tbh
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there's probably a deal to be done, tricky
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not too late tricky my dear
*winks*
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told u
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Bullace and Blue have definitely persuaded me I'm too old to have children.
Strutts I also wonder what would have happened if I'd gone with the advice of a Canadian friend of my parents and gone to university in Canada.
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I left a good job to start a business with someone once - and that person turned out to be an utter, utter, bellend.
I wish I hadn't done that as it was horrible and also financially a bad idea. Nothing good came of that year
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More sex, fewer LTRs, more rock n roll.
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I’d have had more children.
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The number of blokes saying “more sex” is surprising- did you really turn it down that often?
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Betty I don't think they're saying they turned it down and are actually saying they should have tried harder to find it.
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Or done it more with different people
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More sex with different people doesn’t result in pornhub-like variety though.
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And you probably tried harder than you recall SS.
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I think for the blokes we can just take "more sex/sex partners" as read.
Well done Peter Principle. Have an OBE for services to pedantry.
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Bullace - yes, I was totally unfit for fatherhood until about age 40.
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I tried pretty darn hard back in the day but have been rather more lazy in recent years. Not sure what Pornhub has to do with it but I've enjoyed the variety.
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I would have shagged the cute blonde at college, instead of shying away.
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Surely everyone has sex regrets of some kind
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Went for a cinnamon bun this morning and should have had an almond croissant
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Panicked when offered a 3 some from 2 female mates. I turned into a News of the World Journo and made my excuses and left. I since learned they carried on without me.
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Heh jelly! V similar burning regret - about 1996 in Prague with v hot and “adventurous” (but bonkers) gf - we got talking to v hot “exotic dancer” in a nightclub who suggested that the three of us get friendly back at the hotel (small fee involved) - gf was up for it but to my eternal shame I chickened out!
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