What life advice did your father hand down?

[DigDog]

every single one of the advice my dad gave me turned out to be BS;
he did teach me to dress well though.

 

[John Connor]

"Don't use your hand to pry an axe out of the wood." The wood will fuck your hand up when it pinches you.

That's all I have. *shrug*

 

[bryanl]

Don't cheat anybody, and don't let anybody cheat you.

 

[crab]

I learned at a fairly young age that he wasn't worth the fucking air he breathes.

 

[Maximilian]

Don't try to be a great man, just be a man. And let history make its own judgments.

 

[JumBie]

My father passed away when I was 15, I didnt have the chance to take any real advice from him.

 

[tortillasoup]

the only people you can trust are me, your mom and your uncle.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

"If someone hits you, hit back twice as hard."

Probably didn't help me tbh.

"Just be nice and girls will like you"

lol

i like u :$

 

[ponyo]

my dad passed away way too early and i feel that he worked way too much in his life and that is why he died too young, so basically without him even knowing, he taught me to not work your life away and enjoy your time away from work. i think that is part of the reason that i work no more than 40 hours a week and never will.

Pretty much the same with my dad. He passed way too early and worked all the time. He rarely had the time to travel and go on vacations due to work. He told me he regretted not taking the time to travel and see the world. I don't want to end up like him yet I'm working way too much too.

 

[lxskllr]

Can't think of a thing. He led by example, and not explicit words. It's a large collection of subtle cues, and can't be boiled down to a trite sentence.

 

[MarkXIX]

"Boy, don't join the Army"

Best bit of reverse psychology he could have attempted.

 

[TeeJay1952]

Do not let fools waste your time.
This was before Internet....

 

[Carson Dyle]

"Never eat anything bigger than your head."

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I learned a lot.

A successful man is one that takes care of his family no matter how much or little he makes. A failure is the one who neglects them no matter how rich he is.

Never feel obligated to participate in someone elses foolishness.

 

[Sonikku]

I never knew my father, he bolted a few days after I was born. Had a great mother, but she had to work 3 jobs to provide for us due to the lack of the father. It felt like I had no parents at all most days. Kind of sucked really.

Don't try to be a great man, just be a man. And let history make its own judgments.

Tell your dad to get his rear in gear and invent warp travel. I'm ready to leave this rock. :'(

 

[Mai72]

Don't use a condom.

 

[T9D]

Not a damn thing. I learned to do the opposite of what he did. If I followed anything he did it would be like following the blind. He's a co-dependant, stress freak, who is massively in debt and has a debt addiction. He listens to everyone he meets and considers them all "professionals" and will fall for anything. Actually I'm the one who tries to teach him. But it's hopeless. His moto is "It'll all will work out alright". Meaning he doesn't think anything through, just lets someone else tell him the path to take, and stresses out like a chicken with his head cut off until it's over. In the meantime someone else took a huge cut and got their money from him.

I guess if I had to try, it would be "look both ways before crossing the street". That's honestly the deepest thing he's taught me. That's pretty sad.

 

[rpanic]

Not a damn thing. I learned to do the opposite of what he did. If I followed anything he did it would be like following the blind. He's a co-dependant, stress freak, who is massively in debt and has a debt addiction. He listens to everyone he meets and considers them all "professionals" and will fall for anything. Actually I'm the one who tries to teach him. But it's hopeless. His moto is "It'll all will work out alright". Meaning he doesn't think anything through, just lets someone else tell him the path to take, and stresses out like a chicken with his head cut off until it's over. In the meantime someone else took a huge cut and got their money from him.

I guess if I had to try, it would be "look both ways before crossing the street". That's honestly the deepest thing he's taught me. That's pretty sad.

Sound like my dad.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Damn. Every once in a while it hits me like a tidal wave as to just how lucky I've been in life ... family, friends, health.

This is one of those times.

 

[Tombstone1881]

We are all whores.

We sell our ass every day for xx dollars for xx hours, servicing other people.

 

[Grooveriding]

"life's not fair. get used to it"

Heard exactly this from my father and it was excellent advice. No sense whining about anything, do something if you're not happy about it.

 

[mmntech]

"Get up you lazy bum, what do you think this is, a hotel?"
and
"Quit wasting your life watching TV and playing idiot video games"

I now work at a TV station, so I get paid for watching TV. And I work afternoons so I sleep in every day.

And more recently
"That's my food you're eating"
While he's finishing off the cold cuts I had just bought for my dinners at work.

 

[MtnMan]

Son, there is only one reason to go to church on Sunday, and that is to see who is sitting in the front pew, for that is the bastard that will try to screw you on Monday.

 

[alkemyst]

Most of you idiots should go back and kick your dad in the nuts.

 

[Mark R]

My dad gave me the following advice:
Never give anything, especially money, to beggars. Never forget that the government and charities are also beggars.