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The best advice someone gave you.
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 8:38 am
Heinlein: It is better to copulate than never.
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 12:10 pm
Everyone has given me bad advice.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 1:22 pm
(April 2, 2019 at 12:10 pm)Sal Wrote: Everyone has given me bad advice.

If you'll pm me your banking info, I will send you back some guaranteed good advice.

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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 1:28 pm
(April 2, 2019 at 8:07 am)onlinebiker Wrote:
(April 2, 2019 at 8:05 am)Mathilda Wrote: Don't try to swim upstream.

Well that sucks!

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Spawn till you die-- a bit of advice given to everyone by Ray Troll. I'm not sure it was good advice. But a lot of people liked it.
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 1:36 pm
(April 2, 2019 at 6:19 am)Brian37 Wrote:
(April 1, 2019 at 8:44 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Don't leave witnesses.

Don't commit crimes then you don't have to worry about witnesses.

Hobbies.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 1:58 pm
Always treat it like it's loaded.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 2:17 pm
(April 1, 2019 at 5:27 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: "Boy - if you' re learning to drink coffee - learn to drink it black. Anywhere you go, they'll have coffee - but they may not have all that milk and sugar you' re putting in it. Besides - if you want a milkshake go to Mcfucking Donalds."

This is great advice, and advice I did not heed. It's a struggle. 

Best advice: 

1) Laughter is strong glue in a marriage (paraphrased) 
2) Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 2:20 pm
Make a bet every day.  You could be walking around lucky and not even know it.

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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 2:31 pm
If you talk with someone based on your preconceptions and misconceptions of them, you are really talking to yourself.

I don't know if I got that right word for word. It was said to me by the superintendent of a public school district. He said lots of wise things. But I don't think that he actually adhered to any of them. He seemed more ambitious than wise. But that could have been my misconception of him. Ultimately, he went down in flames for misappropriating funds.
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 2:51 pm
(April 2, 2019 at 2:31 pm)Yonadav Wrote: If you talk with someone based on your preconceptions and misconceptions of them, you are really talking to yourself.

I don't know if I got that right word for word. It was said to me by the superintendent of a public school district. He said lots of wise things. But I don't think that he actually adhered to any of them. He seemed more ambitious than wise. But that could have been my misconception of him. Ultimately, he went down in flames for misappropriating funds.

If you talk to someone clinging to the past, they are still clinging to the past.

It is 2019. Living your life by old mythology today is like insisting on using the Pony Express in the age of cell phones ant pm''s ant text messages.
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