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Or if you're not much past 19, then your younger self?

I would tell myself to chill out, and that I don't need to have all my life line up in perfect order by the time I'm 21.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 1:56 pm
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Get a job you like.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 1:57 pm
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one in the bum IS harm done.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 1:58 pm
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Get out of the rat race. Now.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:00 pm
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two things:
- don't try and race that MR2, the thermostat's gone and you're going to crack a cylinder head
- you've left the filler cap back at the petrol station

#carsareexpensive


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:00 pm
 Drac
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She’s not the one.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:00 pm
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keep the records and sell the drugs NOT the other way round


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:01 pm
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People will pay £3 for a cup of coffee.
People will pay £3 for a cup cake.

No, really they will. Get in 'that game' now!!

DrP


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:01 pm
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Riding your GSX-R everywhere at double the speed limit is going to hurt and you're going to get banned


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:02 pm
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STOP SMOKING CIGARETTES!


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:03 pm
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Think for yourself and don't let anyone tell you you can't do something. Choose something you love and stick with it.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:03 pm
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Nope, don't let it last more than a couple of years. Then move to Europe and never look back.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:03 pm
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Art college might a be great laugh, but think about what you're going to do afterwards.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:04 pm
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Do maths not aeronautical engineering.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:04 pm
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Buy 500 Microsoft shares on 31/03/86 and sell on 01/12/1999


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:06 pm
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Go to the GP, say you're struggling with grief related depression, get some help rather than retreating into an alcoholic fug....


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:06 pm
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35 45 17 03 29 27


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:06 pm
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Don't be a dick.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:07 pm
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grow up
you are not all that tough really
be patient
learn humility


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:09 pm
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Don't waste your working life grafting your nuts off, it won't get you anywhere.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:11 pm
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Nothing, wasted breath.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:11 pm
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No this isn't the way everyone else feels. Get help.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:11 pm
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Spend more time with your dad, he won't be here for long.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:14 pm
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You don't have to jump down every flight of stairs.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:14 pm
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Don't waste your working life grafting your nuts off, it won't get you anywhere.

Funnily enough that's what I did tell myself at 19! 😆


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:18 pm
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That Louise is nothing but trouble.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:20 pm
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Buy those bitcoins 🙁


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:24 pm
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Go and do the fully-funded PhD studentship in Sweden 😕


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:25 pm
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Uni, make a call, either work hard and do it properly or quit and move on. Either is fine, staying and messing around for another 2 years then failing your final year is a huge waste of time and money.
Elaine from the union will invite you back to her house after a shift behind the bar. Do not turn the offer down, she'll not offer again.
The girl you will shortly start going out with, she wants serious things and you absolutely do not. Make the call and move on, both of you will be happier in the long run.
Richard is a good guy but not someone you would want to share a house with, move in with the other lot, you'll end up there in the end anyway.
Vanessa, the girl you'll meet in The Works is fit, clever and interested, so when you turn up to visit her in Oxford don't turn up with a hangover so bad you can't keep a bagel and a pint down. You'll never hear from her again if you do...
In 18 years your wife will get so depressed that you feel more helpless than you've ever felt in your life. Look for the signs and see if you can help before it gets to that point. But if you don't, that's OK, it's not your fault, and she does get better, just be there.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:32 pm
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Top right.
That's where it's coming from..


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:34 pm
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You won't go blind.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:35 pm
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Don't drink, buy even more property.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:35 pm
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Dont worry, I still dont know what I want to do when I grow up and nothing too bad has happend yet.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:38 pm
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Think I'd play a practical joke on myself. Something like "Buy some Gary Glitter gold discs, he becomes a national treasure and they will be worth loads".
like to think I'd find it funny.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:42 pm
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Go to UNI it is actually a good idea. But thinking back it did say that to myself 😀 but I didn't listen to myself then and probably wouldn't again 🙁


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:43 pm
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You live in Halifax, buy a bike you lazy bastard.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:47 pm
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Think I'd play a practical joke on myself. Something like "Buy some Gary Glitter gold discs, he becomes a national treasure and they will be worth loads".
like to think I'd find it funny.

😆 like it


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:49 pm
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“Don’t become a victim of distraction, don’t let distraction become hours, those hours become days, those days become weeks, become years, become a lifetime”


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:51 pm
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1. If you actually do some revision, you'll get better grades.
2. [i]Don't[/i] become a primary school teacher.
3. In about five years time, the house three doors down will be for sale. Buy it, then sell it three years later and pay off your mortgage aged 28.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:53 pm
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Do not smoke.

Stay out of the sun.

Look after your teeth.

Spend time with your parents.

Learn a musical instrument.

Ask out that girl you like even though you might be punching.

Learn to ski or snowboard, you will have the best holidays for the rest of your life.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:56 pm
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In your first year at uni:
Play more sport, but don't give up riding your bike.

Drinking every night is not a good idea.
Don't get glandular fever from your mate's flatmate.
Don't mess Debs around. She doesn't deserve that.
Stay away from Louise and Amy - they are not worth the hassle.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:59 pm
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being a teenager is hell, it gets a lot easier

ask a girl out for coffee. just do it

over the next 5 years try to find a sensible balanced between getting ratted and working hard. And don't spunk all that insurance money from the sampler on booze and drugs


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 2:59 pm
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In the future people will make a great living from playing video games and talking shite on this thing called youtube, buy a camera now and start practicing.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 3:01 pm
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Stay away from your mate’s Mrs.


 
Posted : 13/10/2017 3:01 pm
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Get as messed up as you like at University. That is what it is for. Just wind it in at revision time, as resits really spoil summer drinking.


 
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