| Best advice received? 11:13 - Oct 24 with 8350 views | Sonofpugwash |
What's the best piece of advice someone has ever given you?
I was in Morrisons some years ago and a Scotsman lurched up and intoned.
"Keep it in yer troosers."
You know what,I haven't looked back since. |  |
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| Best advice received? on 15:17 - Oct 24 with 1708 views | HAYESBOY |
My late parents always instilled in me to say please and thank you. Manners do not cost a anything. |  |
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| Best advice received? on 15:32 - Oct 24 with 1679 views | WokingR |
| Best advice received? on 13:42 - Oct 24 by Jeff |
I'm always dispassionate about big broad wooly worldly advice like 'aim for the stars if you miss you'll hit the moon' or 'never give up chasing your dreams' and other aspirational stuff as it's not grounded in an y sort of reality, not measurable, and if you're struggling for motivation or inspiration or needing a boost it offers almost no real salve.
I prefer my advice to be simple, practical and immediately implementable.
"Never buy cheap bin bags"
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Or toilet paper ! |  | | |
| Best advice received? on 16:15 - Oct 24 with 1617 views | robith |
| Best advice received? on 13:42 - Oct 24 by Jeff |
I'm always dispassionate about big broad wooly worldly advice like 'aim for the stars if you miss you'll hit the moon' or 'never give up chasing your dreams' and other aspirational stuff as it's not grounded in an y sort of reality, not measurable, and if you're struggling for motivation or inspiration or needing a boost it offers almost no real salve.
I prefer my advice to be simple, practical and immediately implementable.
"Never buy cheap bin bags"
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Recently started buying primo bin bags, making a huge difference to my life, legitmately |  | | |
| Best advice received? on 16:15 - Oct 24 with 1615 views | BathRanger |
When you're on your death bed, you're not going to wish you'd spent more time in the office |  | | |
| Best advice received? on 16:15 - Oct 24 with 1615 views | robith |
| Best advice received? on 14:55 - Oct 24 by bosh67 |
My late dad told me, the greatest currency we have in life is kindness. |
Similarly mine always said "It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice" | | | |
| Best advice received? on 16:30 - Oct 24 with 1595 views | GaryT |
"it is easier for a blind man to pass through the eye of a needle, than it is for a camel to....
...than it is for a camel to". (Rowan Atkinson).
Ok, not really advice so...
"You can't reason with an unreasonable mind" and "If it aint broke..." |  | | |
| Best advice received? on 17:13 - Oct 24 with 1542 views | digswellhoop |
allways look on the bright of life |  | | |
| Best advice received? on 17:16 - Oct 24 with 1531 views | sparkey |
You're the average of the five people spend the most time with.
So don't hang around with ar$eholes | | | |
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| Best advice received? on 17:32 - Oct 24 with 1486 views | essextaxiboy |
Retire as early as you can , the future is not yours . |  | | |
| Best advice received? on 17:36 - Oct 24 with 1480 views | Sonofpugwash |
My mum used to say..."Every day put on a new pair of underpants"
At the end of the week I couldn't get my jeans on.
(that old joke is playing prior to retirement at the end of Blackpool Pier) | |
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| Best advice received? on 17:43 - Oct 24 with 1463 views | highleverhoopL |
If a jobs worth doing, it's worth forcing someone else to do it | | | |
| Best advice received? on 18:46 - Oct 24 with 1394 views | radfords |
Only an idiot works for an idiot | | | |
| Best advice received? on 18:59 - Oct 24 with 1384 views | stainrods_elbow |
'Trust no one - not even yourself! (My huge Russian tattoo artist.) |  |
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| Best advice received? on 19:01 - Oct 24 with 1386 views | Northernr |
The latest you should ever be for a meeting is on time. |  | | |
| Best advice received? on 20:33 - Oct 24 with 1307 views | plasmahoop |
My uncle (who was married for 60 odd years), always told me, don't get involved with women. I don't really agree with him, but following my divorce I can see where he was coming from | | | |
| Best advice received? on 21:46 - Oct 24 with 1252 views | CiderwithRsie |
"If any of your kids have never given you a sleepless night, they just haven't got round to it yet." | | | |
| Best advice received? on 22:02 - Oct 24 with 1236 views | awin |
My dad once advised me ‘Every run of bad luck comes to an end, just like every run of good luck.’ | | | |
| Best advice received? on 22:27 - Oct 24 with 1201 views | derbyhoop |
Treat everybody the way you want to be treated |  |
| "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one's lifetime." (Mark Twain)
Find me on twitter @derbyhoop and now on Bluesky |
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| Best advice received? on 22:35 - Oct 24 with 1179 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
Never trust a skinny chef or a sparky with no eyebrows. |  | | |
| Best advice received? on 23:18 - Oct 24 with 1146 views | SydneyRs |
Before I went travelling "don't worry about whether the trip will work out, just go". | | | |
| Best advice received? on 00:51 - Oct 25 with 1111 views | hantssi |
My grand dad who was a second fix carpenter/cabinet maker once told me;
“The jobs not finished until the swarf is in the bin”.
Had no idea what he meant until I started work as an apprentice plumber/heating engineer, soon found out then! | | | |
| Best advice received? on 00:53 - Oct 25 with 1105 views | PunteR |
Measure twice cut once.
The 6 P's
Proper preparation prevents piss poor production.
The building game seems to have quite a few pearls of wisdom. I should listen to it some times. |  |
| Occasional providers of half decent House music. |
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| Best advice received? on 01:14 - Oct 25 with 1084 views | johncharles |
| Best advice received? on 00:53 - Oct 25 by PunteR |
Measure twice cut once.
The 6 P's
Proper preparation prevents piss poor production.
The building game seems to have quite a few pearls of wisdom. I should listen to it some times. |
Just in before me with measure twice cut once. First rule of carpentry but a good rule for life. |  |
| Strong and stable my arse. |
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| Best advice received? on 01:18 - Oct 25 with 1078 views | Boston |
Don't write when you can talk, don't talk when you can nod, don't nod when you can wink.
No good deed goes unpunished. | |
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| Best advice received? on 01:20 - Oct 25 with 1077 views | hantssi |
| Best advice received? on 01:14 - Oct 25 by johncharles |
Just in before me with measure twice cut once. First rule of carpentry but a good rule for life. |
Not on subject here but my dad played against John Charles whilst doing his National Service, dad was playing CF and was being marked by John, dad said he was a real gent who spoke to him all game but never let him win the ball once! | | | |
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