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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When I was a kid my parents told me never to pick spots because if I did they'd turn into a pig's foot. Now I wasn't young enough to believe they would actually turn into a porcine trotter, so assumed that it was some kind of hilarious metaphor I didn't understand, much like the rude jokes I watched on the Two Ronnies that I later grew up to realise weren't funny. But no, they really meant a pig's foot, and for years I couldn't understand why they were threatening me with something that was clearly impossible.
Now 30, and no pig's feet! (although I do derive a perverse pleasure from picking the few spots I still get)
(, Sun 22 Jun 2008, 2:09, Reply)
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