Advice you would give yourself if you could go back in time...

AARRRGH · 05-01-2008 6:36pm #1

What advice would you give yourself if you could go back in time? It can't be specifics like "buy Microsoft stock" or "break up with Tony", it has to be general stuff.

In no particular order, these would be mine -

Being political is more important than being a good worker
If you ever have to wear a suit and shoes, make sure they are expensive (e.g. a designer suit and leather soled shoes)
You will absolutely regret smoking
If you'd be happier being single than with your current partner, dump them
Education is very important
Always spend less than you earn
Believe in yourself - you're nearly certainly more competent than you think
Alcohol is genuinely bad for you
Good time keeping can make a moron look competent
Don't be afraid to be different - the crowd aren't necessarily correct
The unhappiest people are those who compare themselves to others
Don't be afraid to take risks - don't grow up to be an old man full of regrets

Yours?

Karl Hungus · 05-01-2008 6:38pm

I'd tell myself "The pheasant has no agenda!"

Totally wierd myself out.

dsmythy · 05-01-2008 6:44pm

I'd stay away from myself. When you return, god knows what the results will have been of you interfering with yourself.

Karl Hungus · 05-01-2008 6:46pm

dsmythy wrote: »

I'd stay away from myself. When you return, god knows what the results will have been of you interfering with yourself.

Thank you for nearly making me blow beer out my nose laughing!

Fremen · 05-01-2008 6:47pm

I'd tell myself "The pheasant has no agenda!"

Totally wierd myself out.

Well played, sir, well played.

Ruu_Old · 05-01-2008 6:47pm

Don't push the red button! :eek:

The_Minister · 05-01-2008 6:49pm

I'd say "Go for it" to me at 15.

Dudess · 05-01-2008 6:49pm

If you're referring to sex, I'd say the opposite to myself - wait until you're in your 20s instead of just getting it over with at barely 18.

This is gonna go all Microwave and Time Machine-y - I can feel it in my bones.

milli · 05-01-2008 6:51pm

Ruu wrote: »

Don't push the red button! :eek:

damn that's what I was gonna say.

I'd tell myself to go for women and not men..

aidan_walsh · 05-01-2008 6:53pm

Shouldn't have eaten the yellow snow...

AARRRGH · 05-01-2008 6:53pm

Dudess wrote: »

If you're referring to sex, I'd say the opposite to myself - wait until you're in your 20s instead of just getting it over with at barely 18.

I agree with this. I don't think people are properly ready for sex until their 20's. Maybe even mid 20's.

Naos · 05-01-2008 6:59pm

This thread started off with such good potential.

Personally, I would play Baz Luhrmans 'Everyones free(To wear sunscreen) and tell myself to listen to this every morning and try to abide by it.

Dudess · 05-01-2008 7:00pm

It probably depends on the individual too, but for me, sex only started to become really good from around 22. Since around 27 it's become utterly fantastic! Please god let this pattern continue!

Confidence and being relaxed in yourself are crucial to good sex, and those come with age - for me anyway.

Fad · 05-01-2008 7:03pm

dublindude wrote: »

Alcohol is genuinely bad for you

well i makes you look bad anyway :rolleyes:

well for me.....
dont listen to your peers EVER! (theyve led me no where)
scoring people for the sake of it, is just sad!
study for your 5th year xmas exams (i am not looking foward to that imminent report card)

LadyE · 05-01-2008 7:03pm

I wouldnt tell myself anything, you learn from your experiences, and imo makes a better life rather than "doing the right thing" all the time!

L31mr0d · 05-01-2008 7:04pm

dublindude wrote: »

What advice would you give yourself if you could go back in time? It can't be specifics like "buy Microsoft stock" or "break up with Tony", it has to be general stuff.

In no particular order, these would be mine -
Being political is more important than being a good worker

If you ever have to wear a suit and shoes, make sure they are expensive (e.g. a designer suit and leather soled shoes)

You will absolutely regret smoking

If you'd be happier being single than with your current partner, dump them

Education is very important

Always spend less than you earn

Believe in yourself - you're nearly certainly more competent than you think

Alcohol is genuinely bad for you

Good time keeping can make a moron look competent

Don't be afraid to be different - the crowd aren't necessarily correct

The unhappiest people are those who compare themselves to others

Don't be afraid to take risks - don't grow up to be an old man full of regrets

Yours?

why not just give yourself a book of clichés? :rolleyes:

for me, i'd probably just do what Biff did in Back to the Future 2 and give my past self the winning scores to a load of future sports games so I could become a millionaire and never have to work another day in my life. A pithy phrase or quote isn't worth the paper its written on imo.

Pj! · 05-01-2008 7:05pm

Get on Bindaree for the Grand National. Its 33/1 young Forky!! Get a loan from the bank, fair enough little Forky you are young with feck all income. They'll give you 15k, its good times you live in.
Thats half a million for you young Forkison.

Best of luck, oh and when the zombies arrive, run to the hills (just to freak him/me out a bit).

AARRRGH · 05-01-2008 7:06pm

L31mr0d wrote: »

why not just give yourself a book of clichés? :rolleyes:

You say that like good advice is bad, just because you've heard it before.

The_Minister · 05-01-2008 7:07pm

L31mr0d wrote: »

why not just give yourself a book of clichés? :rolleyes:

BURN!!!!!!

Dudess, I was thinking of a specific girl, and not sex.

Fremen · 05-01-2008 7:08pm

I'd tell myself that the Cubs will win the world series against Miami, so put some money on it...

Great scott!

Einstein · 05-01-2008 7:09pm

i'd tell myself never to post in the poker forum again...

Dudess · 05-01-2008 7:11pm

The_Minister wrote: »

Dudess, I was thinking of a specific girl, and not sex.

And the difference is...?

Wertz · 05-01-2008 7:16pm

Grow weed. Grow lots and lots of weed.

Oh and learn to speak chinese.

Jesus Wept · 05-01-2008 7:17pm

dublindude wrote: »

Good time keeping can make a moron look competent

No it doesn't.
You don't get Brownie points for good time keeping.
You are just a useless ignorant cúnt if you are continually late.

AARRRGH · 05-01-2008 7:20pm

The-Rigger wrote: »

No it doesn't.
You don't get Brownie points for good time keeping.

I disagree. I know lots of useless ****ers who come in early and are therefore seen as good workers.

The-Rigger wrote: »

You are just a useless ignorant cúnt if you are continually late.

I wouldn't say useless ****, but definitely shooting yourself in the foot.

Agent Smith · 05-01-2008 7:21pm

i'd have gone back and told myself the lotto numbers

Jesus Wept · 05-01-2008 7:35pm

dublindude wrote: »

I disagree. I know lots of useless ****ers who come in early and are therefore seen as good workers.

There is a difference between good time keeping (been there at the right time, ready, and coming in early.

AARRRGH · 05-01-2008 7:36pm

The-Rigger wrote: »

There is a difference between good time keeping (been there at the right time, ready, and coming in early.

Sorry, my bad, I should have clarified that

Toots · 05-01-2008 7:45pm

I'd have told myself:

1. Credit cards are only a good thing if you pay them off every month.
2. Chocolate is not a staple food.
3. Drinking a whole litre of Bacardi and passing out doesn't make you cool. (to my 16 year old self)

Ginny · 05-01-2008 7:58pm

Don't go out with him (at 17)
Leave him when you feel you need to instead of hanging on (at 27)

cold_filter · 05-01-2008 9:03pm

1) Tell me GF of 7 years ago I didnt want her and stopped me from wasting 1.5 years of my life!
2) Got with the girl i really wanted to 7 years ago so i wouldnt be in my current predicament!
3) Learn LC physics better!
4)Dont piss around in college so much
5)Seize the day!

manTime · 05-01-2008 9:11pm

Save your shoes

slipss · 05-01-2008 9:16pm

dsmythy wrote: »

I'd stay away from myself. When you return, god knows what the results will have been of you interfering with yourself.

Sticky hands....

I'll get my coat.

Toots · 05-01-2008 9:16pm

manTime wrote: »

Save your shoes

Would that have been to your 3 year old self?

pclancy · 05-01-2008 9:22pm

Do NOT start a business at 21, go travelling instead.

The Bollox · 05-01-2008 9:29pm

I already have / need to (this time travel business is a real mind fúck) my future (soon to be present) self said to me (soon to be my past self) here's a tip for you. and he / I put 2 20c coins in my / his hand and he / I dissapeared laughing.

he's / I am a right bollox

dsmythy · 05-01-2008 9:39pm

The Bollox wrote: »

I already have / need to (this time travel business is a real mind fúck) my future (soon to be present) self said to me (soon to be my past self) here's a tip for you. and he / I put 2 20c coins in my / his hand and he / I dissapeared laughing.

he's / I am a right bollox

That has me thinking. And it hurts.

If your future self came back to you would your instinct say to refer to the individual as he or I?

Cheeky_gal · 05-01-2008 9:42pm

Dont go down the road of wearing deks/dubs/dubarys whatever you wanna call them, as they DO give you flat feet eventually...:(

EdgarAllenPoo · 05-01-2008 10:09pm

I'd go back to about 2003 and tell myself not to take up judo and as a consequence spend three months out sick from school and repeat fifth year(that was by choice).

A lot of stuff could have been different in mine and my family's lives if I hadn't done that and gone straight into sixth year.

darkestlord · 05-01-2008 10:15pm

never mess with another man's cabbage

L1011 · 05-01-2008 10:17pm

Why can't I do specifics? "Don't drive down Stacumny Lane in the rain at night (cause a British twat will run you off the road)" and "Never work for British Telecom" would sort me out fine...