What advice would you give to you?

Pighead

Pighead was watching Back To The Future 2 a while back and thought about how great it would be to go back in time and meet young Pighead and give him a couple of words of advice to set him up nicely for his future years.

Moneys overrated and makes people ugly so all advice would have to be of a non financial nature. I'd probabbly go back to 1990 when I was 13 as lets face it life doesn't really start until your balls drop.

So the advice that Pighead would give to 13 year old Pighead would be to learn how to play an instrument and get yourself into a band within two years. Chicks will love you and fellas will want to be you. Every young teenage lad should be in a band. I'd also recommend me to ditch my CD colection( Bon Jovi's "New Jersey" and Saw Doctors "If this is Rock and Roll I want my old job back") and start getting into The Pixies The Stone Roses and The Burt Bacarach Collection.

Oh and I'd tell me to stay the hell away from that cow Sarah Conlon. Lying bitch promised young Pighead she wouldn't tell anybody about that problem I was having.

So what would you tell you? (Financial advice not allowed)

NextSteps

I'd tell me (circa age 10) to get a dress sense so that looking back at my childhood photos wouldn't be so cringe-inducing. Purple tracksuits, my God.

Heyes

• To never judge someone solely on meeting them once
• Get up off your arse and keep healthy
• Dont be shy, say what you think
• Never to believe someones better than you, cause there not, nobody has a right to think someones better than them
• Take Risks

Nalz

i think this calls for a "dear pighead" forum. Agony ant pighead style.

I for one wished I'd have stayed at the music, havin taught myself 3 (no joke) instruments well from 8 - 13 years old. Ah well.

I wish I had shot instead of passed in the cup final when I was 16, I still have nightmares of Clancys miss from 3 yards. Flippin eegit!

Papillion - I was 17 or so, I had it written out... 20 pounds win, I bottled it and wrote out a fiver each way.

Not to have made a complete spa out of myself at 22 over a erm....woman. Not sure if thats an appropriate word to call the likes of her.

Yesterday, at 23, shouldnt have eaten those mushy peas and battered cod. Flushed......

Pighead

Heyes wrote:

• Dont be shy, say what you think

Response from Young Heyes: "Alright then how about this. Fcuk off ya crazy loon, whaddya mean your the older version of me from the future. Get the hell out of my sight before I call my Daddy."

seamus

"Stay the course big Ned, you're doing super!"

It's the ****ups in the my past that make me the person I am today. If someone had helped me avoid my mistakes, then I would be lacking in that extra experience now

Pherekydes

Pighead wrote:

...as lets face it life doesn't really start until your balls drop.

Pighead is being sexist. Pighead should recognise that there are two halves to the human race: the good half, and the half whose life begins when their balls drop.

Pighead

seamus wrote:

"Stay the course big Ned, you're doing super!"

It's the ****ups in the my past that make me the person I am today. If someone had helped me avoid my mistakes, then I would be lacking in that extra experience now

Yes but whos to say that given the right advice you wouldn't have become and even more magnificent human being?

Now Pigheads not knocking you at all here buddy. From what I read on here your a top notch fella and your words of advice and encouragement steered Pighead away from permanent boards bans and eternal shame in the online community.

But* maybe with the right advice you could have become more than what you are today. Maybe some sort of Gandhi type figure saving lost souls in the real world from lives of misery and anguish.

*Is it ok to strat a sentence with but?

connundrum

Don't spend that money on a stupid car when you could be buying a house! I'm tellin ya, there's gonna be a massive property surge and you could stand to make a fortune!

She is not the love of your life, cop on! You're only 17 ffs! :mad:

Stick your life savings on Ireland to get to the 1/4 finals of Italy 1990... (actually I don't know if I'd believe that even if my future self was standing in front of me!)

Know the one thats one too many - then I'd beat my future self up!

Pighead

Slow coach wrote:

Pighead is being sexist. Pighead should recognise that there are two halves to the human race: the good half, and the half whose life begins when their balls drop.

Oops sorry Slowcoach, forgot that this board was national. Pigheads from Dundalk where both the sexes have testicles.

ferdi

i'd tell me to learn piano and learn how to brake-dance

Beruthiel

Don't be such a smart arse and think you know it all by 21, cos ya don't

FlutterinBantam

Both!!!

What's this about two sexes in Dundalk????

connundrum

Beruthiel wrote:

Don't be such a smart arse and think you know it all by 21, cos ya don't

23 ftw!! Ba da bing!


(or not like y'know. No pressure)

Pighead

FlutterinBantam wrote:

Both!!!

What's this about two sexes in Dundalk????

Eh Male and Females Flutter. Its actually not just restricted to Dundalk, its kind of worldwide. Have you never seen a female buddy?

Check out Beruthials pic in Know Your Nerds for a example of femininity at its best.

petes

Pighead wrote:

Oops sorry Slowcoach, forgot that this board was national. Pigheads from Dundalk where both the sexes have testicles.

Classic.

I'd tell me to stay in college.

chamlis

Don't open it.

Dragan

Bet on red.

scojones

1. Pick up the acoustic guitar at a younger age.
2. Read up on Buddhism at a younger age.
3. Spend more time with my friends who passed away suddenly.
4. Life is too short to dwell on things. Chin up.
5. Don't get depressed because you'll have a great sex life.

Heyes

Pighead wrote:

Response from Young Heyes: "Alright then how about this. Fcuk off ya crazy loon, whaddya mean your the older version of me from the future. Get the hell out of my sight before I call my Daddy."

Young ?? why thank you but sadly not

Don't eat yellow snow.

thelordofcheese

Hmmm, well if i could, i'd tell my younger self the following

1. Pick up the acoustic guitar at a younger age, and don't stop till yer decent
2. Kiss her, you moron.
3. Avoid that yoke from out strandhill way. Like the plague.
4. If ever someone close to you is ill, and you have booked to go visit your then lady friend in scotland, don't go.
5. Don't go see any of the new star wars films, they'll suck.

Any questions from a younger me will be met with a knowing laugh and the words "you'll know when the time comes", except for 5.
I will give myself the key plotpoints of all three films. Just so i'll never feel the urge to go see them.

Mrs_Doyle

I would tell the younger me to look after my figure.
To eat healthily and to exercise more.

I would go back and tell myself that my mates BF was bad news, and not to so much as sit in his company.

Oh, and I would tell myself to spend just an extra 30mins a night going over my Cultural Studies course work, as it would make the difference between a 2.1 and a 1st degree,

Pighead

It would probably be best to arrive for your meeting with the younger you armed with a naggin of vodka and six cans of lager. Tell your younger self to strat drinking now so as to build up a magnificent resistance.

petes

Pighead wrote:

It would probably be best to arrive for your meeting with the younger you armed with a naggin of vodka and six cans of lager. Tell your younger self to strat drinking now so as to build up a magnificent resistance.

What age are we talking here? Six? Seven?

Pighead

petes wrote:

What age are we talking here? Six? Seven?

Whatever age you want to be petes. For Pighead it would be 13. Thats the beauty of time machines, the choice is yours.

Miguel_Sanchez

"Look out behind you!!!"

Then I'd laugh cause I'd have made my younger self look. Hah!

After that I'd tell him who to leave dumped when they'd been dumped and to get making films younger because it's what you'll end up wanting to do anyway so you might as well get a headstart. Also - keep at the guitar.

Red Hand

Heyes wrote:

• To never judge someone solely on meeting them once
• Get up off your arse and keep healthy
• Dont be shy, say what you think
• Never to believe someones better than you, cause there not, nobody has a right to think someones better than them
• Take Risks

Very good ones.:)

I'd add "Learn as much as you can....grasshoppa. Read and stay away from the goggle-box.":)

Ok advice I would say to myself at 17
(has actually been said to me ...surprise surprise :eek: ...and I consider it great advice):)

keep my private life private, there are bad people out there, who will hear what you have to say and then judge you and speak badly about you.

I would tell me not to **** on my own doorstep - in other words, do not go off with the boy next door, across the road, brothers best mate, best mates brother, cousins ex, etc.
I would tell me that drama aint all its cracked up to be, and eventually, it will wear me down
I would have said don't drink so much as it will add ten pound's and then eventually another few more and the size 10 figure will be gone
I would have said move out of the family asap despite college etc!

Dragan

coolsmileygirl wrote:

do not go off with the boy next door, across the road, brothers best mate, best mates brother, cousins ex, etc.

Busy week?

c - 13

At about 14-16

I would tell myself to **** all the begrudgers and naysayers, pay no attention to any of them, because by the time your in your 20's you will be in a position far better than any of them ever could be.

Get out and exercise more, that way I wont have to work so hard at it now.

Believe in yourself becasue you will get to where you want to be.

Also Never Listen to rumours, certainly dont believe in them, because its cartain that in due time some of those rumours will be about you.

jaggeh

dont freeze yourself in the snow to wait for the wii

Red Alert

strike while the iron is hot

i should have had that phrase up on a big neon sign in my bedroom

Pighead

Pighead would tell young Pighead to hug Shep like you've never hugged him before when the Summer of 1991 arrives. Mammys taking Sheppy to the vet and he won't be coming back.

Dutchology

• Don't have that first cigarette
• Love yourself
• Don't go to that ATM
• Keep your flower

Heyes

Dutchology wrote:

• Don't have that first cigarette
• Love yourself
• Don't go to that ATM
• Keep your flower

haha very good

Nalz

Dutchology wrote:

• Don't have that first cigarette

yeap...gotta agree there

Pighead

Dutchology wrote:

[*]Love yourself

Pigheads would be Love yourself less. The blister scars I have today are a constant reminder of a young boy too in love with himself.

Dutchology

Heyes wrote:

haha very good

*thanks you*

Pighead

Pighead wrote:

Pigheads would be Love yourself less. The blister scars I have today area constant reminder of a young boy too in love with himself.

Go back in time and tell yourself to use use lotion and a warm flannel!

Scar's aren't cool

Miguel_Sanchez

c - 13 wrote:

Also Never Listen to rumours

I'd go further than that and say don't listen to any Fleetwood Mac albums.

Dutchology

Oh, screw inhibitions!

NextSteps

In 10 years you won't even remember what he looked like, so stop writing his name on all your copybooks, and go and get a life. Or go and shift him. Whichever, but make your mind up, dammit.

Terry

jaggeh wrote:

dont freeze yourself in the snow to wait for the wii

Kyle?


as for myself, I'm with Seamus except that i would say something along the lines of 'Dude, don't smoke that cigarette. they are as addictive as people have told you and you'll be wheezing like an old man when you're 31.'
I made plenty of mistakes along the way and they have made me a better person as i know not to do those things again.

Sleepy

1. Don't take up smoking, it's not as cool as you think it is.
2. Don't take out student loans, the job market isn't going to be so sweet when you graduate.
3. Save.
4. The marking scheme for your postgrad will be different from the one for your undergrad so work harder (I got a lower grade for higher results)
5. Don't care so much what other people think.
6. Go to the gym or take up a sport.

petes

julep wrote:

Kyle?

Cartman.

Terry

petes wrote:

Cartman.

that went over your head. think back to the episode in question.

petes

julep wrote:

that went over your head. think back to the episode in question.

Ah. That it did.

watna

Great thread pighead!

I'm all up for learning from your mistakes but there is one or two things I'd like to tell the young me.

I'd go back to the 18 year old me and tell her "what the hell are you putting that down on your CAO for. Are you mad?" Than I'd tell her. The guy you'll meet in college will be bad news, don't fall for it!!

Ruu_Old

"If you are offered the After Hours modcap, don't take it! If you do, then ban Pighead for life, he is just a bad apple!"

megadodge

1. I'd tell the 10 year old Primary School me that I will never learn another thing in school that will be of any practical use in the real world therefore I can sleep even more in Secondary school than I actually did.

2. Leave school at the earliest possible legal age. Work flat out in more than one job if necessary in order to save up for a deposit on a house and buy one. Keep working and save up more deposits. In a few years start using the equity to buy more. By the time I'm in my mid-20's I'll never have to work for anybody again. And for God's sake whatever you do, don't listen to the "prices can't keep going up" brigade !!

3. Don't ever, ever, EVER put a woman on a pedestal (a. they don't deserve it, they're just human like you. b. they don't appreciate it).

4. Go for it.