The Best Advice Your Elders Ever Gave You

[Dog_Yoghurt]

"There is no such word as 'can't'"


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Yeah, my old junior school teacher used to tell us all that one. She'd say "There's no such word as `can't`, you either choose or choose not to do something" with the obvious subtext that choosing not to do something was not an option.

Another one she used to come out with was "Children who tell lies will get boils on their tongue"

She was a right old boiler.

[cailin maith]

If they are talking behind your back, they are talking to your arse.

I love that!!

[realityhack]

My old CDT teacher had one - "strangely strange, but oddly normal"

Never sure quite what he meant - he had a nervous breakdown shortly afterwards.

[richard-af]

My grandad used to say:

"Early to bed,
Early to rise.
Makes a man healthy,
Wealthy & wise"

He followed that advice until his dying day. He died penniless, aged 52, and was as thick as pig's poo.

[Methuselah]

My old CDT teacher had one - "strangely strange, but oddly normal"

Never sure quite what he meant - he had a nervous breakdown shortly afterwards.

Song by late 60s Irish folk (sort of) band Dr Strangely Strange.

Relationships/recorded with/exchanged members with Steeleye Span & Incredible String Band IIRC.

[realityhack]

Song by late 60s Irish folk (sort of) band Dr Strangely Strange.

Relationships/recorded with/exchanged members with Steeleye Span & Incredible String Band IIRC.

Oh - thanks for that - you've cleared up one of those old niggly questions for me - he was a beardy folk type.

[Diver]

My teacher said I was slow but sure.

Slow to learn and sure to forget

My old granddad was ex military and always told me - Act thick and never volunteer, you will have a longer and happier existence

[thunderlizard]

Never agree to anything while on somebody else's yacht.

[Old Greg]

My teacher said I was slow but sure.

Slow to learn and sure to forget

My old granddad was ex military and always told me - Act thick and never volunteer, you will have a longer and happier existence

My Dad's advice from his army days which I've always lived by was:

Never volunteer for anything. Never sign for anything.

[richard-af]

My Dad's advice from his army days which I've always lived by was:

Never volunteer for anything. Never sign for anything.

He had an aversion to sponsored walks, etc., then?