Advice from Old PeopleSometimes, just sometimes, old people say something worth listening to. Ok, so it's like picking the needle out of a whole haystack of mis-remembered war stories, but those gems should be celebrated.
Tell us something worthwhile an old-type person has told you.
Note, we're leaving the definition of old up to you, you smooth-skinned youngsters.
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chthonic, Thu 19 Jun 2008, 16:16)
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Not so much advice from an old personas an old book.
I once found a diary which had belonged to my uncle as a boy, and on each page was a Scottish proverb.
Some were dialectical versions of English proverbs and some were common sense, but others were hilarious. But the one which sticks in my mind most, is the invaluable advice:
Bring not bagpipes to a man in trouble.
Which is indeed true. I mean, could you imagine the situation when Jock falls into a pool of quicksand. Upon hearing his cries, his pal shouts, "Jimmy - Jock's in a bit o bother. C'mon ower here wi yer bagpipes!"
It just wouldn't work.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 20 Jun 2008, 14:03,
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Quicksand in the highlandsis a bloody nuisance!
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Not as much of a hazard as thistles.Thistles and kilts do not mix.
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^ thisnor do kilts and midges mix
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