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Post by elystokie on Feb 27, 2020 20:29:14 GMT
Never stray off the path Never eat a windfall apple and Never trust a man who's eyebrows meet in the middle. Or wears jeans with no belt or even worse hands his keys on his jeans Or doesn't support a football team.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2020 20:35:51 GMT
'Lord loves a working man .....don't trust Whitey'
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Post by noustie on Feb 28, 2020 10:30:09 GMT
Not a saying but an experience I had in Nepal in my 20’s will live with me for ever. In the tourist area of Kathmandu got a haircut, shave and head massage for 400 rupees which is about a £3.50.
My future wife took me to visit her family in Pokhara a few months later and her parents don’t speak English. Her dad told her I should go for a shave at the barber he used on the main road outside their village which was a 20 minute walk each way for me. The haircut, shave and head massage was brilliant and couldn’t believe when the fella charged me 40 rupees so about 30p.
I went home and told my mrs and told her how much it cost in comparison to the tourist area which was an absolute bargain anyway. When she translated this to her dad he got up without saying anything and left the house. Over an hour later he came home and handed me 15 rupees (12p) and translated through my wife that the bloke usually charged him 25 rupees (20p). Her dad at the time was 80+ with arthritis and it must have been about 85 degrees outside so whereas I thought I had got a bargain, and distastefully bragged about it, my future farther in law thought I had been ripped off sufficiently to painfully walk in sweltering heat to fall out with his barber he had recommended over 10p. Taught me the difference between cost and value without saying a word I could understand.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2020 21:42:07 GMT
Not a saying as such, but something I've learned works for me.
I've always been a worrier. I stress about my kids all the time. And just worry in general and overthink.
Exercise is the best thing to keep me sane and keep my mind at peace.
So, yeah, my advice would be to exercise regularly. Great for the body and mind.
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Post by lordherefordsknob on Mar 1, 2020 22:18:25 GMT
Whoever is your favourite band listen to their influences, the listen to their influences and so on.
You will probably here some fantastic music and also more than likely find Lonnie Donnigon.
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Mar 1, 2020 23:15:40 GMT
'Ah..fuck em'
Or 'Ah..fuck it'
Works quite well in a lot of circumstances.
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Post by The battheader chronicles on Mar 2, 2020 0:42:57 GMT
I suppose the best advice I can remember is to never go to bed with your partner with an unresolved argument hanging in the air. The most recent one aired seems to be reasonable advice though.... In a world when you can be anything, be kind. I cannot stress enough how much I love this or Clive James in general. His loss recently is a great sadness
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Post by Dutchpeter on Mar 2, 2020 0:47:48 GMT
Nobody’s harder than a piece of 3x2.
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Post by rivival on Mar 2, 2020 4:16:24 GMT
Its better to have loved and lost. So love as many as you can and tell the rest to get lost^
A bird in the bush is worth two in the pub.
Don't put off 'till tomorrow things you can get some other bugger to do next week.
And finally....Be alert...because the world needs more lerts^
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Post by zerps on Mar 2, 2020 6:49:46 GMT
Or wears jeans with no belt or even worse hands his keys on his jeans Or doesn't support a football team. Or says he supports a football team then says he hasn’t really followed it for years.
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Post by cerebralstokie on Mar 2, 2020 19:22:59 GMT
My Aunt Marge (aged 100). "If you worry, you die, if you don't, you die, so why worry?"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2020 19:24:46 GMT
"Don't f**k with the Wongs"
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Post by clarkeda on Mar 3, 2020 7:44:59 GMT
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Mar 5, 2020 7:57:24 GMT
Wash your hands. Stay in.
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Post by bathstoke on Mar 5, 2020 8:09:30 GMT
Not a saying but an experience I had in Nepal in my 20’s will live with me for ever. In the tourist area of Kathmandu got a haircut, shave and head massage for 400 rupees which is about a £3.50. My future wife took me to visit her family in Pokhara a few months later and her parents don’t speak English. Her dad told her I should go for a shave at the barber he used on the main road outside their village which was a 20 minute walk each way for me. The haircut, shave and head massage was brilliant and couldn’t believe when the fella charged me 40 rupees so about 30p. I went home and told my mrs and told her how much it cost in comparison to the tourist area which was an absolute bargain anyway. When she translated this to her dad he got up without saying anything and left the house. Over an hour later he came home and handed me 15 rupees (12p) and translated through my wife that the bloke usually charged him 25 rupees (20p). Her dad at the time was 80+ with arthritis and it must have been about 85 degrees outside so whereas I thought I had got a bargain, and distastefully bragged about it, my future farther in law thought I had been ripped off sufficiently to painfully walk in sweltering heat to fall out with his barber he had recommended over 10p. Taught me the difference between cost and value without saying a word I could understand. Yeah, I remember a Canadian tourist in Cuba telling me that when Pope John Paul ll visited there in 98, America lifted the travel ban for their journalists(probs so they could use it for propaganda)& they paid over the odds for whores, skewing the market. Cost went upto $10 a jump. Where’s the value in that...
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Post by redstriper on Mar 5, 2020 12:50:39 GMT
I tried "When the going gets tough, the tough get going" on my 11 year old daughter when she got dropped from the hockey team. She said "but I'm not tough daddy" back to the drawing board for me
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Post by georgieboy52 on Mar 5, 2020 13:25:43 GMT
What's the best advice ( or worst) that you have had in life? Advice you took or , looking back, perhaps should have taken ? This must come close ( for some of us). ( straight to the comments) "Nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all" Arthur Balfour I believe
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Post by noustie on Mar 5, 2020 14:16:22 GMT
Not a saying but an experience I had in Nepal in my 20’s will live with me for ever. In the tourist area of Kathmandu got a haircut, shave and head massage for 400 rupees which is about a £3.50. My future wife took me to visit her family in Pokhara a few months later and her parents don’t speak English. Her dad told her I should go for a shave at the barber he used on the main road outside their village which was a 20 minute walk each way for me. The haircut, shave and head massage was brilliant and couldn’t believe when the fella charged me 40 rupees so about 30p. I went home and told my mrs and told her how much it cost in comparison to the tourist area which was an absolute bargain anyway. When she translated this to her dad he got up without saying anything and left the house. Over an hour later he came home and handed me 15 rupees (12p) and translated through my wife that the bloke usually charged him 25 rupees (20p). Her dad at the time was 80+ with arthritis and it must have been about 85 degrees outside so whereas I thought I had got a bargain, and distastefully bragged about it, my future farther in law thought I had been ripped off sufficiently to painfully walk in sweltering heat to fall out with his barber he had recommended over 10p. Taught me the difference between cost and value without saying a word I could understand. Yeah, I remember a Canadian tourist in Cuba telling me that when Pope John Paul ll visited there in 98, America lifted the travel ban for their journalists(probs so they could use it for propaganda)& they paid over the odds for whores, skewing the market. Cost went upto $10 a jump. Where’s the value in that... Appreciating the adoption of capitalist ideals of supply and demand?
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Post by musik on Mar 5, 2020 15:45:00 GMT
"Always remember to put a lot of air into the freezer bags, before you put the food in the freezer."
"It doesn't matter at all what food a person eats; everything you need will be transformed inside your body if there is a lack of anything."
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Post by heyzeus on Mar 5, 2020 19:47:17 GMT
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2020 19:50:59 GMT
When you have lost something, and after a search, you find it - why say "It's always in the last place you look?"
Could anything be more stupid - or do some folks carry on looking after they have found the item ....?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2020 20:35:14 GMT
When you have lost something, and after a search, you find it - why say "It's always in the last place you look?" Could anything be more stupid - or do some folks carry on looking after they have found the item ....? On par with where did you last have it? My Ma's favourite , 'He was killed, dead'...I used to ask her as opposed to what other way of being killed...
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