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Post by mekon on Jan 5, 2021 15:48:30 GMT
Watching a film called From Bedrooms to Billions about the 8 bit computing era and those who programmed all those early games on the Speccy and C64 etc.
Wishing I'd got past 10 Print "boobs"
20 GOTO 10
and actually learned to code like my old man hoped when he bought that BBC Model B. Sadly playing the games was easier than programming the fuckers. I did try but after you've spent an hour typing some shit in and it just crashes you lose interest.
Anything you wish you'd done in life other than be a motorbike racer and knobbing loads of birds?
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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Jan 5, 2021 17:47:12 GMT
I wish I had learned languages. I could have moved around the world and done work in different settings. Fucking rat race.
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Post by spentcase on Jan 5, 2021 18:33:17 GMT
Nothing major to be honest. I applied to join airborne forward air control in the Army but I got attached to the Marines and did 3 months of arctic warfare in Norway instead,so I missed the selection course.
I wish I hadn't sold my original '92 Blade or my '95 748SP, both of which I had from new.
My biggest regret is something that I did do and that was allowing a management company to look after my finances, that was a very expensive mistake.
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Post by neilf on Jan 6, 2021 6:58:29 GMT
I wish that gone into mechanical engineering instead of electronic engineering as an apprentice... In later years I've gained more pleasure in designing something that I can actually "touch".
Also, I should have shagged that girl Candy at her house party when she invited to her room after it wound up, but I was too stoned to understand what she was saying and I fell asleep on the sofa instead.
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Post by spentcase on Jan 6, 2021 8:42:59 GMT
Also, I should have shagged that girl Candy at her house party when she invited to her room after it wound up, but I was too stoned to understand what she was saying and I fell asleep on the sofa instead. But Neil, that would be messing with the AIDS time continuum. For as nice as a bit of mick-jagging with Candy might have been, you could have ended up with that there slimming disease. |
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Post by neilf on Jan 6, 2021 10:36:30 GMT
Also, I should have shagged that girl Candy at her house party when she invited to her room after it wound up, but I was too stoned to understand what she was saying and I fell asleep on the sofa instead. But Neil, that would be messing with the AIDS time continuum. For as nice as a bit of mick-jagging with Candy might have been, you could have ended up with that there slimming disease. Back in the day (early '90s), I always carried at least one, in-date wellie with me  |
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Post by pantah on Jan 6, 2021 11:17:24 GMT
I wish I’d taken my racing more seriously.
I was pretty tidy on the track but lacked the commitment required to take it to the next level and let birds and booze get in the way far too often.
Also wished I’d emigrated to New Zealand when I had the chance. Got accepted 20 years ago but the wife backed out at the last minute because of family. Fucking crystal ball would have been handy seeing the fucking state of things now.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Jan 6, 2021 13:14:52 GMT
The Chinese have an ancient saying which roughly translates as "if yir granny hud baws she'd be yir granda'..."
I'd change pretty much everything I did from the age of 17 until around 30. I've got a decent career now but if I'd started it 15 years earlier without the burden of an utter cunt of a wife then I'd be raking in a 6 figure salary by now.
Of course, the other side of that coin is that exactly 25 years ago I was lying in a hospital bed with my leg in a million bits after winter courier work finally cashed in its chips. I had fuck all qualifications, fuck all prospects and was about to turn 30. That single event led to going back to university, 2 degrees and ultimately my current job.
There's no point wishing. It is what it is and as the Chinese say...
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Post by bella on Jan 9, 2021 13:29:05 GMT
I could have done with meeting the sister in law before the wife, but never mind, as they say.....any port in a storm.
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Post by mekon on Jan 9, 2021 15:55:25 GMT
Wish I'd not taken up BMXing and MTB dirt jumping again at 40+. At first getting smashed up was some sort of life affirmation that I could 'still do it' but now for the sake of a few pics of me doing tabletops in the local skatepark I wish I'd not bothered as all I did was fuck up a perfectly good right shoulder, bend my wrist back a few times and knacker my ankles up more. Now I wish I'd skipped the BMX and just gone roadie instead.
I remember getting one of my mates who claimed he used to be legend out with me one morning and he took a few rides around a bowl, shit himself and made excuses about it and went home. I was well pissed off with him for being a puff but I guess he's laughing now and can reach for the rice crispies off the top shelf without 5 minutes of shoulder warm up. Then again his girlfriend is an evil cunt so maybe he's not.
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Post by philthewindsurfer on Jan 9, 2021 17:06:48 GMT
Also wished I’d emigrated to New Zealand when I had the chance. Got accepted 20 years ago but the wife backed out at the last minute because of family. Fucking crystal ball would have been handy seeing the fucking state of things now. Any particular part of NZ? I went to NZ in 2002 for 4 months and had a great time. When I got back I checked out what was required points wise to get in, but as I had just turned 40 that lost me a few points. If I had gone and checked in 1998 I think people with computer programming skills would have been in demand due to the Y2K bug. I dont think it was on the required skills list when I looked. Windy Wellington would have been good for work and windsurfing for me. At the time the exchange rate was 3.3 NZD to the £, I could have bought an amazing place. Now its just 1.8 NZD. It didn't bother me too much at the time as I had a good job and was able to travel around Europe on my bike. NZ is a bit isolated. Not so much of a missed opportunity but just the way it was. I think swapping a 2nd trips to places like the Sachsenring & long weekends in Europe to going to do a trip further afield to somewhere like a bike tour in Northern Thailand, The Golden Triangle I think its called, or to Chile might have been a good idea. Do the far flung stuff when younger and the cosy ones when older. |
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Post by beefus on Jan 9, 2021 18:21:39 GMT
I thought about the Oz/NZ thing in the 80’s but never followed up....I’ve been to Oz several times(my brother lives in Brisbane so stayed with him and NZ twice (friends emigrated to Christchurch in 2003). I probably enjoyed NZ more, we did a road trip around the South Island, staying in campsites and barbqueing every night....loved it. Not been to the north island yet though.
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Post by mekon on Jan 9, 2021 19:02:21 GMT
My brother lived in NZ for about 17 years then decided to move to Australia about 3 years ago as it was too quiet for him and the music scene wasn't big enough (he's into live jamming and that sort of thing). Wish he'd stayed as we could have done with a base for a long holiday.
He actually almost got kicked out and his boss had to sack him and then put his job up. Basically his boss had to prove that nobody else from NZ could do his job. Once he'd got his job back he was allowed residence.
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Post by pantah on Jan 9, 2021 19:41:50 GMT
Also wished I’d emigrated to New Zealand when I had the chance. Got accepted 20 years ago but the wife backed out at the last minute because of family. Fucking crystal ball would have been handy seeing the fucking state of things now. Any particular part of NZ? I went to NZ in 2002 for 4 months and had a great time. When I got back I checked out what was required points wise to get in, but as I had just turned 40 that lost me a few points. If I had gone and checked in 1998 I think people with computer programming skills would have been in demand due to the Y2K bug. I dont think it was on the required skills list when I looked. Windy Wellington would have been good for work and windsurfing for me. At the time the exchange rate was 3.3 NZD to the £, I could have bought an amazing place. Now its just 1.8 NZD. It didn't bother me too much at the time as I had a good job and was able to travel around Europe on my bike. NZ is a bit isolated. Not so much of a missed opportunity but just the way it was. I think swapping a 2nd trips to places like the Sachsenring & long weekends in Europe to going to do a trip further afield to somewhere like a bike tour in Northern Thailand, The Golden Triangle I think its called, or to Chile might have been a good idea. Do the far flung stuff when younger and the cosy ones when older. Planned to live in the south island Phil. My wife and I rode round both islands on a Triumph Tiger starting in Auckland. I actually fancied living in the Nelson area but for work had decided on Christchurch. Maybe dodged a bullet in a way cos subsequently they had an earthquake and a terrorist attack. Thought the South Island was beautiful and an adventurist’s heaven. Fond memories and I’ve love to go back again. |
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Post by spentcase on Jan 9, 2021 20:47:09 GMT
If I had gone and checked in 1998 I think people with computer programming skills would have been in demand due to the Y2K bug. But didn't it get fixed by a chemist who invented a gel called Y2K-KY that helped you get 4 digits in one date? |
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