Older generation passing on knowledge and life's teaching.

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I have to admit, I've always been good at this. Listening to advice that my elders give me. A lot of people don't and a lot of people giving advice just aren't good at it or give ****ty advice.

One of the best bits of advice though I have found is, that it has all happened before, war/conflicts, economic turmoil, one generation thinking another generation's music is terrible.

The most eloquent piece of advice that I have ever come across though is this rage comic made by an 86 year old.
http://img.ie/04c28.jpg

So what is the best advice that you've been given and what was the most eloquent way it was given?

abouttobebanned

I prefer one liners myself.

looky loo

The best advice I can give you is to make your link legible.

The King of Moo

From The Simpsons, I believe, and perfect advice for any teenager:

"Don't trust anyone over thirty."

It's good to learn at a fairly young age that most adults aren't so clever and merely pretend to know what's going on.
It makes adulthood a much less daunting, pressure-filled prospect.

--Kaiser--

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

Mark Twain

Where To

Nobody gives a sh1t.


Told to me by a five year old

AnonoBoy

"Son," said old GranddadAnono, "Here's some rules to live by: Don't go mixing up your it's and your its. Don't go voting for someone just cause they ain't somebody else. Don't go shooting your mouth off when you should be shutting up. Don't go sticking your fists up when or where you shouldn't. Don't go sh*tting where you eat. Don't go betting with your heart, always use your head. Don't go listening to young folk who don't know nuthin'. Don't go taking women back who done cheated on you. Don't ever back down from a fight. Don't go pickin' fights neither. Don't take a mule kick and come back up asking for more grits. Don't forget the mistakes of history for you shall be doomed to repeat them. But don't go wallowin' in the past neither. Don't go to sleep on an argument with a woman and more importantly don't go to sleep during an argument with a woman neither cause that's just rude. If you're using the bathtub for washin' then don't use it for moonshine too. Don't tell a friend the truth if it ain't gonna do no good. Don't lie to friends for fun neither. Don't forget your Mamma's birthday. Don't drink before breakfast and don't eat cheese after supper. Don't forget to wash all them hard to reach places - especially if someone's gonna be a-kissin' there later. Don't ever ever ever watch Big Brother, your life will be boring enough without being bored by other people's lives too. And don't go listening to old codgers like me who think they know it all neither. Now quit starin' boy and go fetch me my spitoon."

I loved having a pretend Hill-Billy granddad.

Bipolar Joe

"Always like this." Leon, the Professional.

catbear

I'm glad I ignored the only words of parental wisdom ever offered, "buy a house, buy a house, rent is dead money".

Actually they contradicted what they said above with another one, "never a borrower or lender be".

peckerhead

Wisdom? Try ****mydadsays... (you know what to replace the '****' with).

Dyr

"wear sunscreen"

f**k off