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My dad is a very wise man and everything he told me as a child (most of which I wasn't ready to believe at the time of course) has turned out to be true. Of course now I'm trying to start off this post, my mind has gone blank for examples! Will come back to you on that one...


What's the best piece of advice you've ever been given?

You obviously had more than a whiff of teenage rebellion about you...


We once had a school assembly all about drugs, all very clever, to do with 'samples' that turned out to be things like mixed herbs and ginger cake. The moral seemed to be: if you;re going to be silly enough to buy drugs, at least make sure you're being sold the genuine article. Still not sure if that's a positive lesson or not?

Two from my late father were:-


"When the last great scorer comes to write against your name

he'll ask not whether you won or lost but how you played the game."


I can't remember who actually wrote that originally but I think it's a good one.


And the other was "moderation in all things."


It's only now after a lifetime of excess that I've learnt the value of this very sound advice.

Mark Wrote:

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> don't go scuba diving when you're pissed


From personal experience may I slightly extend these particular words of wisdom:


"Don't go scuba diving when the tanks have been 'filled' by wankers with a hang-over."

Don't end up regretting never having done something ... better to have tried than never known.


Advice I haven't always heeded and definitely paid the price for it.


But then I guess that could have applied to scuba diving in Ayai Napa .... so .... hmmm

When I was about 16 a mentor of mine said


"Never go out with a beautiful woman. After 5 years when she dumps you she'll break your heart. Go out with an ugly one, after 5 years when she dumps you you won't care"


Mind you last time I saw him he was a lonely and rather bitter man. I'm not sure what it all means, but there was something about its fatalism that really appealed to me as a young'un and it always makes me chuckle.


Mind you, total bullsh!t of course.

You always care!!

Here's some of my very own homespun advice, which Mr Wee Quinnie has encorporated into a training course for the BBC:


When your partner is slagging "someone" off, don't start sticking up for "someone". - Calculated to really annoy.


Mr Wee Quinnie refers to this as "The Yeh Bitch Rule"



Believe me, it makes married life so much more harmonious when The Yeh Bitch Rule is followed. I haven't got any other marital insights, in case you're wondering.

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