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My pal inspects factories for a living, and I shall take his expert advice to the grave: "Never eat the meat pies". Tell us the best advice you've ever received.

(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 20 May 2010, 12:54)
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A gentler one this time
Never have anything in your house that you don't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

(Edited to correct the quote!)
(robbersdog, Tue 25 May 2010, 13:37, 5 replies)
What about if it's just simply interesting
Like the big old iron key I found when I was 7, that sits on my mantlepiece to this day and attracts admiration and comment?
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 25 May 2010, 13:38, closed)
I'd say that's a beautiful object
It's interestingness being it's beauty.
(robbersdog, Tue 25 May 2010, 13:40, closed)
Especially wallpaper & poetry,
yes?
(I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 25 May 2010, 13:55, closed)
Or panthers
While you feast with them?
(McChinaman banned, Tue 25 May 2010, 14:57, closed)
No one is going to say "Then I better throw out wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend/life partner*"?

*delete as applicable
(sabre-tooth monkey, Tue 25 May 2010, 15:01, closed)
I was just wondering how to tell the missus she was out...

(I helped save b3ta! BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Tue 25 May 2010, 15:03, closed)
Funnily enough...
...my wife moves out on Friday. :-D
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 25 May 2010, 15:23, closed)
It's not because of me, is it?

(I helped save b3ta! BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Tue 25 May 2010, 15:52, closed)
That's a line from William Morris
Although it's "....think to be useful or know to be beautiful..."

Either that or it's the other way round.
(Barnetboy, Tue 25 May 2010, 15:14, closed)
I'm pretty sure that's it.
I thought PlayStations etc. were an exception because they are entertaining, then decided that makes them count as useful.
(I helped save b3ta! Bob Todd whee, Tue 25 May 2010, 15:24, closed)
Googled
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
(Barnetboy, Tue 25 May 2010, 15:33, closed)
Thank you!
I've corrected the quote. It flows a lot better now.
(robbersdog, Tue 25 May 2010, 22:58, closed)

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