What is the worst and best advice to you have ever given or received?

Best advice: Plastics !!

See this video: at :37

It helps if you have seen The Graduate (film)

My best advice to me was to go for a walk.
The worst advice to me was to take a year off from university.

I don’t have enough insight into how my advice was good or bad.

Most of it was the worst. They just threw out opinions and “advice” without trying to imagine what the reality that I, and my children, would have to live with if I followed their advice.

Best advice- don’t have sex on the beach.

Did I listen? No. Sand in your butt crack and vag is not fun.

My father gave me three pieces of advice when I was a child, and all three are wise.

(1) Never pay for sex. There are enough people who will give it away for free that no matter what you look like, you will never need to pay for it.

(2) You don’t need to win every fight, but you do have to get a good one in. By that he meant, there’s always someone tougher than you, and you may be facing more than one person, which means you’re going to lose. But you have to make absolutely certain that even if it costs you a worse beating this time, you must get at least one good punch in to make them think about it the next time. If they know the cost of coming at you is 100% guaranteed to result in a black eye or a broken nose, they’ll probably go looking for someone else to pick on.

(3) Never wait for the other guy to throw the first punch. If you know there’s going to be a fight, don’t stand around and swap insults, don’t wait for the crowd to gather, don’t grab the guy and dance; haul off and sucker-punch him first and put him on his ass hard and fast. To quote Jayne from Firefly, “Hell, I’ll kill a man in a fair fight… or if I think he’s gonna start a fair fight.”

The latter two are probably what made me such an effective activist and organizer for 25 years.

“Don’t touch the stove”- My Mom.

Best: Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see.

Worst: Wedding vows should say, “Until I get tired of you. You know, people shouldn’t get married. It’s only a piece of paper. People divorce all the time and that’s ok.” <—my mother