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What advice would you give to your younger selves?

Harp

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you just chalk it up to one of those things-an American expression, sorry. Last night I was
thinking along somewhat similar lines about a Lufthansa stewardess a long time ago.
I should have married her...a memory I cannot chalk up to one of those things....:(
 

Edward

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Oh, here's a good one... to 28 year old me:

"Yes, you're starting to bald young. Yes, it's unfair. Now don't waste the next four years on buzzcuts: shave it all the hell off now, it's going to be more liberating than you could imagine."

Don't smoke!


In all truth, I'm always disappointed to be reminded John Waters was ever under about 55. I like to think he, as we know him now, just came out fully formed that way and has always been so....

Gotta kinda disagree. Guilt is a nudge, something in your brain telling you that something you did was wrong. Though I endorse the "Don't indulge it" part. Letting guilt fester just saps the will, becomes a thing to be nurtured in itself, and makes one demoralized, defeated, or Roman Catholic.*

*Sorry, Catholics. But, really, you've got to be used to these jokes by now.

I'll see you your Catholic Guilt and raise you Northern Ireland Protestant Guilt, with neither Confession nor Absolution! ;)

Don't expect your life at sixteen to be even remotely like anything you will experience as an adult. Because it never is.

"In thirty years' time you'll be wearing really wide trousers, you'll be fat and bald, and you'll have a day job. And you'll love it."

“You don’t have to pee on an electric fence to know that it’s not a good idea.”

When Nature's callin', don't go stallin',
but use your common sense.

When ya gotta go, just let it flow -
but don't whizz on the electric fence!

Fond memories of Ren and Stimpy back in the day...
 

Nobert

Practically Family
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I'll see you your Catholic Guilt and raise you Northern Ireland Protestant Guilt, with neither Confession nor Absolution! ;)

Protestant guilt is going about your life feeling vaguely guilty that you're not sure what you're supposed to be feeling guilty about, so you hedge your bets and distribute it around to more or less everything.
 

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