What's the best (or worst) piece of advice you've gotten?
Please type with your feet as I’d like to see correct grammar and punctuation for a change.
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That yellow snow is orange flavoured.
“Plastics”
You win 10 cents for naming the movie.
You win 25 cents for identifying the person listening (and being told) “plastics”.
You win 50 cents for identifying the mother in the movie (either character name or actress)
You win 75 cents for identifying the husband of the actress who played the mother.
dont type with your feet,
defends on you. im typing with my feet to find out
ALL of the advice that was given to me when my ex sent my then-16 year old daughter home from Seattle pregnant. My family, with the except of my mom and dad, just came unglued. Noone offered to give me a hand, just presented me with dire predictions. “SHE’S JUST GOING TO BE A WELFARE MOM FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE!”
When I said she was going to go to college, I was scoffed at in disgust.
She went to college and graduated with honors.
I got 0 support or comfort from anyone in my family. None.
Not a single word.
They have also remained silent about the fact that I was able to pull myself and 4 kids out of post-divorce severe poverty and was able to buy a home in 1998, and I did it all by myself.
I met Rick in 2002 and now we have a nice camper, and a pontoon boat and cool stuff to play with as we approach retirement.
My youngest sister, the one who screamed that my daughter would be a welfare mom, living off the tax payers for the rest of her life, called and asked to borrow $200 last week! It was the first time she was has ever asked for money, so I sent her $250, trying not to think about how unsupportive she, and the rest of the family, were to me, and how they would have flayed me if I had asked to borrow money from them…which I never did.
@Dutchess_III – I imagine those comments would be hard to forget. Then again, they let you know exactly what you are dealing with.
@elbanditoroso
The Graduate
Benjamin Braddock ( Dustin Hoffman)
Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft)
Mel Brooks
You now owe me $1.60
@zenvelo – This makes me so proud of my razor sharp memory.
I have seen that movie…and not just once. XD
Am I the only one who is confused? What you talkin’ ‘bout Willis??
@Dutchess_III -That movie with Dustin Hoffman & Anne Bancroft -“The Graduate”
Oh, I know the movie/ I just don’t understand what it had to do with @elbanditoroso‘s Post, or plastic or this question.
The worst advice was from the Russian guy who told me I ought to have children immediately “because children prefer young parents” (I was 18 and didn’t even have a girlfriend) and that I ought to kill my own parents just for economic efficiency.
@Zaku -Now that is some bad advice.
Ah @zenvelo! Got it. Thanks. I don’t know if I’ve ever actually seen the movie. I was only 9 when it came out. I’ve heard of it, of course, and know the basic premise. I’ll have to look for it.
@zenvelo next time I see you, I’ll hand it to you
@Dutchess_III It is one of those movies that were part of the zeitgeist of the 1960s, to the point where quotes and references are still made to it 50 years later. And, it had one of the best movie soundtracks ever.
Best: Never rub another man’s rhubarb
Worst: Trust an animal with a square arse
@ucme -I thought everyone knew that.
Same advice for best and worst:
“Never say ‘no’ to a gig.”
@cookieman-I feel the same about artwork commissions.
@ucme-I used to ride my bike past a farm that had Highland cattle.
They looked murderous.
@ragingloli No, it all seemed like bad advice, even at 18.
Worst advice: Stay in the marriage despite loveless and irresponsible husband and interfering in laws.
Best advice: Go back to school upgrade and got into College , then life changed for the better with good jobs etc
So was a “Clock Work Orange” @zenvelo. Which I could never get into either.
@Dutchess_III A Clockwork Orange came out 8 years after The Graduate, and was about a dystopian future. The Graduate took place in the ‘60s and was of the moment. It was not of the zeitgeist.
Either way, they were both ahead of my time.
Don’t worry about it.
Everything will be okay.
Coming from my dad, the worst advice. His approach to life’s problems was to keep smiling until it went away.
Coming from my partner, the best advice. They understand my neurosis and know when I just need to take a deep breathe.
Worst advice, from my dad. “You’re a beautiful woman. You don’t need a college education. Just find a good man to marry and take care of you.” I was on break after my 4th semester at Kstate, which Dad paid for. That meant he wasn’t going to pay for my education any more.
When Mom found out she was livid. They had split up by this time. She said, “I know how much he makes and he can comfortably send you through college!”
Anyway, I took out a loan for one more semester…and that was it.
Came home.
Went to work at Boeing, in Boeing Computer Services.
Met a man at work.
Married him.
Had kids and quit my job.
And you know the rest of the story.
Best advice: “Pick one day out of the week, and set aside a certain number of hours in that day, to worry about your problems. Just get them off your chest so they don’t haunt you as you go through the days.”
@Dutchess_III -I have heard the same thing but it was limited to 5 minutes to bitch/whine/ worry about whatever.
I personally like the 5 minute plan.
It took me much longer than 5 minutes to try and map out a plan to fix whatever the problem was. Sometimes it included selling my beloved furniture pieces to pay bills. Thankfully it never really came down to that, but a few times I thought it was going to. I’d sit and cry and look at the pieces I’d collected over the years and just cry.
The absolute WORST advice ever was for me to type with my feet…. ~
@Dutchess_III -That is unfortunate but maybe you can find pieces like the ones you’ve sold.
I like the hunt and have a few things on my list that I’d love to run into.
I recently refinished a desk from the 40’s (I think) I got to work with veneer for the first time and that was interesting. i like it very much but would love to run into a Stickley desk.
Which advice? To type with my feet?! No, it did not work out, Sam I Am.
@Dutchess lll-Micheal Flatley teaches a class on that technique.
Which advice are you referring to?
1) The advice my father gave me? No. It ended in unmitigated disaster for the kids and me for 5 years.
2) The advice to pick out one day of the week to worry about stuff? Yes it did, to a certain extent. I just read it in a magazine somewhere, though. I didn’t take any classes.
3) The advice to type with my feet? No, it didn’t work out. My toes aren’t long enough to reach the other keys from my home keys. ~
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