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Control the controllables.
It'll happen if you worry, it'll happen if you don't - Grandfather
THe Devil looks after His own, would like like a rich tea?
courtesy of my great grandmother who made it to 101 (not room, ripe old age)
Dad or driving instructor, can't remember. Waiting to go onto a roundabout, car with priority is indicating to come off it.
"That driver's indicating - what does that mean?"
"Erm, he's going to turn off?" says I
"It means the bulb works"
Sure enough, the car didn't turn off the roundabout and I would have pulled out in front of it.
Can't believe it's not been said yet, but
"Don't be a dick"
I may even have read in on here somewhere first. It's advice I take in to most situations in life.
"If you can't be good, be careful".
That was basically the entire 'chat' I had with my mother about the brds and bees. Still, it was sensible advice.
Dad: if she’s not rich make sure she can cook.
Ah, I got "Learn to cook properly: kissing doesn't last, cooking does" from an old friend of the family once.
As I was attempting for the third time to manouever a screwdriver into a stubbornly tight gap I heard "Try imagining that it's got some hair around it" from an ex-g/f.
2 bits of advice, both almost polar opposite -
Make sure you do the jobs no-one wants, that way you'll always have a job.
Object is to get the job automated so much that you make yourself redundant.
Never managed 2, not through lack of trying and it has then made 1 a permanent basis!
Issue with 1 is you'll never get promoted!
“If you can’t be good, be careful”.
Good? I'll be ****ing BRILLIANT.
A wise boss of mine once told me that "A cat never shits where it eats".
If you have boys, dont have carpet in the toilet
My Nan. Who had 3 boys
Measure twice, cut once.
I did chortle at one back on p1; "look where you want to go" being an MTB bit of advice. No, it's much more important than that!
From my old man when I was 15..."Don't join the army son, its a bit tough and you're a bit soft"
Strangely I've never been good at listening to advice, I used to see it as a personal challenge to prove them wrong.
“Start praying your next ride is in a police car not an ambulance.”
Outnumberd and fronting up to right wing skinheads in Huddersfield late 80’s.
Stay away from internet forums..
Pi*$ when you can, not when you have to
"You don't stop playing cos you grow old, you grow old cos you stop playing"..... never recall who said that to me......way back in the day....LOL
Working in an engineering toolroom.
"If you've never scrapped owt you've never done owt"
"Measure twice cut once"
Try and be the best person that you possibly can .
Says it all really .
Never turn down a brew
If it bleeds we can kill it
there was something in one of the tom sharpe books where the old lord of the manor type chap told his young relative that
"you can learn more between the legs of a good woman than at any university"
I can't find the exact quote. It might have been the book with the guy with the waggler...