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

[embellina]

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?

[Mark]

don't go scuba diving when you're pissed

[Alan Dale]

My uncle once said to me: 'Listen Alan, I don't give a f*ck what you get up to, just make sure you don't get caught.'

Not sure what he thought I was going to do though..

[embellina]

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?

[mockney piers]

Surely the police or geography teachers must have known who the reputable dealers were. Some names and addresses would have been good hard practical info.

[Cassius]

My headmaster at Primary School told us that 'Life isn't fair' and I think that's been very good advice!

[Jah Lush]

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.

[Michael Palaeologus]

"Because"

[Domitianus]

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."

[KalamityKel]

Dom... such lovely ppl u associate yourself wiv! :p

[Domitianus]

Ayia Napa in 2002. Let me tell you - 20 feet under the Med, on your first ever dive, is not when you want to discover that someone hasn't filled the tanks properly.

[Vik]

Don't piss on the electric fence.

Don't eat the yellow snow.....

[benjaminty]

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

[Marmora Man]

Two pieces of advice:

1. Listen but don't necessarily act on advice given - make up your own mind. From my father.

2. Try everything - except incest and Morris Dancing. By anonymous - unless someone can authenticate an author?

[Jah Lush]

It was Oscar Wilde.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Think I mentioned it elsewhere a while back but George Orwell exhorting the working man to not forget his roots but to continue to improve his mind has always stuck with me

oh and " If the man comes, make ready for the man"

[mockney piers]

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!!

[SeanMacGabhann]

I had me one of them too - every day I thank someone that I had that mentor - I learnt a lot.

Mind you he's a godawful mess now.... so we share that as well

And your beautiful woman is doing ok by you so far

[KalamityKel]

Awww that's so "sweet"!

[wee quinnie]

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.

[mockney piers]

"And your beautiful woman is doing ok by you so far"

Ha ha, yes she is, but part of me, thanks to damaged mentor, is still waiting for that sword of Damocles to fall!!

[Jah Lush]

Don't vote. The government always gets in.

[barrymarshall]

If only more people heeded that one, Jah.

[Keef]

Hurt yourself if you like, just don't let others get hurt whilst you're doing it.

[bagpuss78]

'He's not worth it' My dear mother has said that to me many times!...woah is me!