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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

What's done is done i know, but sometimes reflect on the near misses that makes me cringe a little, scars and sceletal injuries.

Some incidents i could've lost limbs, eyes, hearing, stabbed or been killed.

Is it very common for people of my age, late 50s?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Common to look back at these near misses?

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

I'd say it's common to look back. I guess what you look back on varies. I'm obviously not in my 50s but I do find myself looking back over certain incidents in my life and thinking I'd never do that now.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I'd say it's common to look back. I guess what you look back on varies. I'm obviously not in my 50s but I do find myself looking back over certain incidents in my life and thinking I'd never do that now. "

Any regrets and thunking/wishing you hadn't done it?

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

I sometimes look back and wonder how I’m still here!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I think back to some of the shit I've gotten up to over the years, the near misses I've had, yeah I think I'm lucky to still be here but I had fun doing a lot of them and they have moulded me into the man I am today.

I'll probably continue to do a lot of foolish things here and there but if I'm not hurting anyone else and they make me smile, who else cares?!

Enjoy your life....you dont get another one!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

OP loving the post as its a great subject for us oldies, myself around 30yrs ago had an accident at work never knew i had CPR done to me , so cat with 9 lives

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex


"I'd say it's common to look back. I guess what you look back on varies. I'm obviously not in my 50s but I do find myself looking back over certain incidents in my life and thinking I'd never do that now.

Any regrets and thunking/wishing you hadn't done it? "

In some ways yes *but* I've also learned a lot from these things and I think have improved myself so I think regret might be useful in that way.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"OP loving the post as its a great subject for us oldies, myself around 30yrs ago had an accident at work never knew i had CPR done to me , so cat with 9 lives "

Wow, ive definitely lived long enough to learn from them. Im very cautious now.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I'd say it's common to look back. I guess what you look back on varies. I'm obviously not in my 50s but I do find myself looking back over certain incidents in my life and thinking I'd never do that now.

Any regrets and thunking/wishing you hadn't done it?

In some ways yes *but* I've also learned a lot from these things and I think have improved myself so I think regret might be useful in that way.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"OP loving the post as its a great subject for us oldies, myself around 30yrs ago had an accident at work never knew i had CPR done to me , so cat with 9 lives

Wow, ive definitely lived long enough to learn from them. Im very cautious now. "

i am 56yrs old mate and that was the most scariest thing in my life , i now have a eye disorder commonly know in ages off people off 65+ so eveey 8 weeks i get an injection in eye . Have always believed life forliving so i try do now what i did when i was in my 20's

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"OP loving the post as its a great subject for us oldies, myself around 30yrs ago had an accident at work never knew i had CPR done to me , so cat with 9 lives

Wow, ive definitely lived long enough to learn from them. Im very cautious now. i am 56yrs old mate and that was the most scariest thing in my life , i now have a eye disorder commonly know in ages off people off 65+ so eveey 8 weeks i get an injection in eye . Have always believed life forliving so i try do now what i did when i was in my 20's "

Good attitude mate

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex


"OP loving the post as its a great subject for us oldies, myself around 30yrs ago had an accident at work never knew i had CPR done to me , so cat with 9 lives

Wow, ive definitely lived long enough to learn from them. Im very cautious now. i am 56yrs old mate and that was the most scariest thing in my life , i now have a eye disorder commonly know in ages off people off 65+ so eveey 8 weeks i get an injection in eye . Have always believed life forliving so i try do now what i did when i was in my 20's "

Macular degeneration?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"OP loving the post as its a great subject for us oldies, myself around 30yrs ago had an accident at work never knew i had CPR done to me , so cat with 9 lives

Wow, ive definitely lived long enough to learn from them. Im very cautious now. i am 56yrs old mate and that was the most scariest thing in my life , i now have a eye disorder commonly know in ages off people off 65+ so eveey 8 weeks i get an injection in eye . Have always believed life forliving so i try do now what i did when i was in my 20's "

Please tell me it's not actually injected "in" your eye......kudos if it is, bigger balls than me Môn Frere

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"OP loving the post as its a great subject for us oldies, myself around 30yrs ago had an accident at work never knew i had CPR done to me , so cat with 9 lives

Wow, ive definitely lived long enough to learn from them. Im very cautious now. i am 56yrs old mate and that was the most scariest thing in my life , i now have a eye disorder commonly know in ages off people off 65+ so eveey 8 weeks i get an injection in eye . Have always believed life forliving so i try do now what i did when i was in my 20's

Please tell me it's not actually injected "in" your eye......kudos if it is, bigger balls than me Môn Frere "

My neighbour has that done.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

I used to look back at those episodes and laugh at how stupid I was, not and look back and cringe for the same reason.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex


"OP loving the post as its a great subject for us oldies, myself around 30yrs ago had an accident at work never knew i had CPR done to me , so cat with 9 lives

Wow, ive definitely lived long enough to learn from them. Im very cautious now. i am 56yrs old mate and that was the most scariest thing in my life , i now have a eye disorder commonly know in ages off people off 65+ so eveey 8 weeks i get an injection in eye . Have always believed life forliving so i try do now what i did when i was in my 20's

Please tell me it's not actually injected "in" your eye......kudos if it is, bigger balls than me Môn Frere "

It is.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"OP loving the post as its a great subject for us oldies, myself around 30yrs ago had an accident at work never knew i had CPR done to me , so cat with 9 lives

Wow, ive definitely lived long enough to learn from them. Im very cautious now. i am 56yrs old mate and that was the most scariest thing in my life , i now have a eye disorder commonly know in ages off people off 65+ so eveey 8 weeks i get an injection in eye . Have always believed life forliving so i try do now what i did when i was in my 20's

Please tell me it's not actually injected "in" your eye......kudos if it is, bigger balls than me Môn Frere

It is. "

Yoiks, brave soul.

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By *wiftieeMan
over a year ago

near Glasgow

After spending 16 nights in hospital as a result of an RTA, my wife was told that if I had been in an ordinary car, rather then a 4x4, I probably wouldn't be coming home.

And, I very much regret the way I treated a lady here, many years ago now, a real regret of my life.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"After spending 16 nights in hospital as a result of an RTA, my wife was told that if I had been in an ordinary car, rather then a 4x4, I probably wouldn't be coming home.

And, I very much regret the way I treated a lady here, many years ago now, a real regret of my life. "

You ok physically now?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is it always like that in Sunderland?!

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

On a firing range, if not for a corporal swift action I would’ve had my head blown off. No open casket for me Another Squaddie rather keep his rifle pointing down the range after a live firing exercise, accidentally pointed it next to my head.

There’s been periods of my life when I wished his trigger finger had been used, very rarely, but knowing I’d have had (as far as I’m aware) a very quick and painless death seemed to be something I’d welcome at really painful times in my life.

However now I’m in a better place with three children who wouldn’t be here if that had happened, also helps me realise no matter what you go through, eventually it’ll pass.

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By *wiftieeMan
over a year ago

near Glasgow


"After spending 16 nights in hospital as a result of an RTA, my wife was told that if I had been in an ordinary car, rather then a 4x4, I probably wouldn't be coming home.

And, I very much regret the way I treated a lady here, many years ago now, a real regret of my life.

You ok physically now? "

I'm fine thanks, a little reduction on the reach on one shoulder, but that's all.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"After spending 16 nights in hospital as a result of an RTA, my wife was told that if I had been in an ordinary car, rather then a 4x4, I probably wouldn't be coming home.

And, I very much regret the way I treated a lady here, many years ago now, a real regret of my life.

You ok physically now?

I'm fine thanks, a little reduction on the reach on one shoulder, but that's all. "

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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By *oo hotCouple
over a year ago

North West


"What's done is done i know, but sometimes reflect on the near misses that makes me cringe a little, scars and sceletal injuries.

Some incidents i could've lost limbs, eyes, hearing, stabbed or been killed.

Is it very common for people of my age, late 50s?

"

I can relate to this.

Aged 19, given opium to smoke in a whore house in Rangoon. Completely freaked out, ran away and woke up in a bush with thousands of ant bites.

Aged 19, shot at by security guards in the port of Maputo when leaving a party.

Aged 21, robbed at gunpoint in Durban South Africa

Aged 22, caught up in revolutionary protests in New Caledonia - gunfire; Molotov cocktails and soldiers acting like cunts.

Aged 24, mugged at knifepoint in Mombasa.

Aged 26, too much LSD in Oslo

Aged 27, alcoholic poisoning in Spain

Aged 27-50 - grew up and behaved a bit more rationally.

Aged 52 - had a stroke (determined to be a hole in the heart and was fixed)

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Is it always like that in Sunderland?!"

Not on Sunderland. Its nice n boringly safe.

Incidents were with army, then later on as an nhs nurse

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