You walk in there like you own the f*!!ing place and say "FIX. ME. SAMMICH."
84) Don't be fat.
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85) Stay out of debt and your life is a lot easier.
86) It's better to have an old car you own than a new car with payments.
87) Happiness is realizing there are no bills and you just got paid.
88) Never buy insurance.
89) Experiment with crime.
90) Remember to begin having children when in your teens.
91) Do run up huge credit card debt early in life.
92) So you don't tire yourself out, be a bad employee.
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93) For god's sake, when a woman says everything is 'fine' dont just accept her word for it!. 'Fine' is female for "There is something wrong, but i'm not going to tell you straight. If you love me you'll figure it out and fix it".
94) Rental cars are for doing everything you see in a movie.
95) Be sure there is some kind of insurance on the rental car.
96) DO NOT LET FRIENDS DRIVE THE RENTAL CAR! (Unless they are on the paperwork.)
100) The secret to long term happiness with a woman is that she always respect and admire you. The only way to achieve this is to be a person worthy of respect and admiration.
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102) If you ever apply to graduate school, apply to work in a research area that has lots of funding to take on new students, then once you get accepted and start the semester, switch to something you like. If you do this you will get into a better school.
102) Remember this and it won't be a shock: Marriage is doing crap that you don't want to do for the rest of your life and then you die.
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103) Finding the right spouse won't fix all of your problems. Be responsible for your own personal development. Fix yourself and enjoy life. The right partner will find you soon enough.
99) The fingernails on a baby can cut through anything.
Wasn't that the lesson *you* taught your parents?
106) If you have a million dollars you are a millionaire, but if you spend just $1 you are no longer a millionaire.
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107) Shave before you shower, not afterwards.
108) Confidence, manners and a bit of preparation gets you everything.
109) The Golden Rule
110) Humans love to be recognized and they love to be complimented. If you can manage this sincerely, you'll go far.
111) Humans are not interested in you. They are interested in themselves, and how you add to that.
112) Learn every day. Don't stop.
113) School will teach you how to fit into the system, not how to succeed in it. Not everyone is allowed to succeed. It's up to you to research this yourself.
107 is a big one for me. I wonder if this true for other black men or if it's just a me sorta thing.
114) Socialism is the only way to go for a country to get a good and steady economy in the long run.
114) Socialism is the only way to go for a country to get a good and steady economy in the long run.
In which country? Because here it only led to big international debts, corruption and inefficiency everywhere not to mention skewed social expectations, and it took only forty years to fall apart. More or less the same for neighbors.
115) DO NOT KANCHO YOUR WIFE!
116) Eventually you need to sleep and you are defenseless.
117) How to manage my money better
118) That I should've gone into computer programming instead of broadcasting
119) Having a basic grasp of auto mechanics is necessary
There are many more, but I'm too tired to think of them. As for the ones I've listed, they tried to teach me those things. I didn't listen, and I regret it now.
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114) Socialism is the only way to go for a country to get a good and steady economy in the long run.In which country? Because here it only led to big international debts, corruption and inefficiency everywhere not to mention skewed social expectations, and it took only forty years to fall apart. More or less the same for neighbors.
Hey, nothing in this thread said the lessons have to be correct. :P
...in the workplace, competence and skill count for nothing. Popularity is the thing that gets you ahead. Odds are, your management consists of a bunch of former D students, with IQs under 100...
Bingo.
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Capitalizing on what Reckless said, my parents gave me the WORST possible advice when I was in school. They told me "Student council is just a stupid popularity contest. Popularity doesn't count for anything. Focus on schoolwork." They were dead wrong in that; in the workplace, competence and skill count for nothing. Popularity is the thing that gets you ahead. Odds are, your management consists of a bunch of former D students, with IQs under 100 and mail-order [degrees] but who are gifted at schmoozing...
...and whose actual accomplishments are got from the tireless efforts and dedication of those subordinate to them...
114) Socialism is the only way to go for a country to get a good and steady economy in the long run.
121) Posters who troll for socialism within their first fifteen posts are...destined to be my friend!
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The likelihood that some 'fact' is wrong increases with the number of people who believe its true.
So God most likely does not exist?
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129. Most people rely overly much on tradition and precedence for guidance, even when it flies in the face of common sense and reason. As a result, whatever progress we make as a town, a nation, or an entire race is slowed to an infuriating crawl by the staggering weight of the average person's Wisdom score.
130. The average person's Wisdom is about 6. AKA "Common sense isn't common."
131. Most people believe that they're good and altruistic and talk as if life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are precious. But if others having those things will raise taxes or inconvenience them in the slightest, a disappointing number of people will forget those professed ideals in a heartbeat.
132. Talking as if people with money and/or power don't need oversight in business and politics, as if a growing government isn't the natural result of time and technology, as if 'socialism' was a four-letter word that we're not already part of, and as if the nation was better in "the good ol' days" are great ways to get elected. (See #129.)
107 is a big one for me. I wonder if this true for other black men or if it's just a me sorta thing.
Okay now I'm curious what the problem is with shaving after you shower, other than having to wipe off the condensation on the mirror.
114) Socialism is the only way to go for a country to get a good and steady economy in the long run.In which country? Because here it only led to big international debts, corruption and inefficiency everywhere not to mention skewed social expectations, and it took only forty years to fall apart. More or less the same for neighbors.
I'm curious where 'here' is for you?
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"As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.”
- Alexander Dumas
I keep this quote dear to me these days.
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138) People will often accuse you of doing or being the very thing they, themselves, are guilty of doing or being.
139) The more irrational and unexpected the personal attacks of others, the more likely they are projecting their own failings onto you, mistaking you for their parent, or otherwise unjustly taking out on you things they either lack the courage or insight to say to the persons actually deserving of their ire, tears, or wounded demands.
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140) No good deed will go unpunished.
Some of you seem to expect your parents to teach you all about the birds and bees. That's why they invented the internet and the printing press.
138) People will often accuse you of doing or being the very thing they, themselves, are guilty of doing or being.
138 Addendum) The Psychological word for this is reaction formation.
140) No good deed will go unpunished.
141) If you join the military never volunteer for anything.
142. Conversely, volunteer for EVERYTHING. You'll get some good experiences with the bad.
Just wondering, Have you ever been in the military?