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    Default Stupid advice thread

    This thread is dedicated to advice that is dumb, trite, hackneyed, not well thought out, etc...for example...

    I hate when people say "live every day as if it were your last!"

    That is about the stupidest goddamned thing you could do. If I did that, I'd be broke in one day because I'd quit my job and spend all my money as quickly as I could, I'd likely be dead because I'd be doing things like skydiving and racing cars around high cliffs, and I'd piss off everyone I know because I'd visit all of my friends and relatives all the time and demand that they spend the whole day with me, all day, all the time.

    So that is stupid advice that everyone thinks sounds great, but it's really just dumb.

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    "If you don't LOVE your job, quit!"
    A variant being, "If you wouldn't do your job for free, don't do it at all."

    Right, because enough people "love" their jobs enough to maintain a functioning society if those few oddballs who don't have a job they love were to quit...

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    "Be nice to the nerds, you'll be working for them someday." The nerds I knew in High School are 20-21 YO, single, living at home and playing World of Warcraft all day. I probably make at least double what they do by camming.

    Good idea for a thread, by the way!!

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    I grit my teeth when people recommend "self help" books like the Rules or He's Just Not Into You.

    "Here's something from this self help book: translation: I'm too stupid to think for myself so I get my dating advice from a book written by a woman who couldn't stay married or an alcoholic comedian.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sammii View Post
    "Be nice to the nerds, you'll be working for them someday." The nerds I knew in High School are 20-21 YO, single, living at home and playing World of Warcraft all day. I probably make at least double what they do by camming.

    Good idea for a thread, by the way!!
    Hey don't knock us WoWers!
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    When I was a kid, if I lost something - my Mother always used to say -

    "You'll find it in the last place that you look for it......."

    Umm....like.....thanks Mum.
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    "Don't worry about it, it's all water under the bridge." ....Umm...?

    "It will all come out in the wash." when referecing HUGE life changes/decisions. Kind of a terribley passive way to view your future.

    "I know you're in pain but..." or any variation of this. Fucking sucks.
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    Oh and "Absence make the heart grow fonder". No. Absence makes the heart grow horny. It doesn't bode well for a relationship.



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    "god has a plan for you, just believe"

    how lame was that growing up with christian parents

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    I don't know-- I think some amount of distance does help a relationship.

    My two pet peeves are:
    1. Blood is thicker than water: no it's not-- do you know how many fucked up families are out there where your friends are going to be the best family you're ever going to get?

    2. Time heals all wounds-- tell that to a man who's lost his wife in something completely out of the norm and unexpected.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JayATee View Post
    Hey don't knock us WoWers!
    Haha, I don't have anything "WoWers;" just that stupid quote people used to tell me in High School.

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    Work smarter not harder.

    I every person that has said it to me has been an idiot that could fuck up finger painting.

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    a new one i started to hate since everyone is starting to use it "it is what it is" WTF!!!! If your not happy with it then CHANGE IT!!!!!
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    "If you're able to pay all of your bills each month, then you are doing just fine."





    This would only be true if you want to always be living on the edge of financial hardship and you don't care what your future is like. If all you can do is pay your bills each month, then there isn't any money left over to save and invest in order to get ahead and provide for the future. Besides, what happens if one more expense than you were expecting comes along? You would no longer have the money to pay all your bills each month and wouldn't be 'doing fine.'

    Being able to pay your bills each month is not a measure of how well you're doing financially. Having enough savings to deal with major financial emergencies is a measure of how well you are doing financially. So is being able to support yourself for three to six months if you lose your income. So is having no debt and being able to do whatever you want with all of those payments each month. So is building up savings and investments so you can one day be wealthy. The only reason so many broke people think that being able to pay your bills each month is doing well, is because so many broke people can't pay all of their bills each month. They wish they could, so they think anyone who can pay all their monthly bills is doing well financially.





    "You should buy yourself a nice car (house, vacation, etc.) because you deserve it."




    Even if you do 'deserve it,' that doesn't matter...the only thing that matters is that you can afford it. Just because you deserve something doesn't mean you can afford it. I usually hear this one from people who are trying to talk themselves, or someone else, into buying something they really can't afford. Using this kind of thinking will keep you in payments for the rest of your life and you will never be debt free. Remember, the only time you can really afford something is when you have saved up enough money that you can pay cash for it without using money intended for something else--including money meant for emergencies. Don't fall for this one. It is very shortsighted and is a perfect example of thinking like a broke person.


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    "Think outside the box"

    Well, if ya hadn't built the box and put us 'in it' giving us limitations in the workplace...we wouldn't have to.

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    "Everything happens for a reason."

    I know people mean well when they say this, and yes, I agree with it for the most part. But it just annoys me...

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    Another one that pisses me off:

    It happens when you don't expect it. Wrong. For instance if I am not looking for a man I don't find one.

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    I thought I might be the first to add, "It is what it is." Ugh, I hate when people say this. It is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Silk beat me too it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arianna419 View Post
    "Everything happens for a reason."

    I know people mean well when they say this, and yes, I agree with it for the most part. But it just annoys me...
    I fucking despise this one. What's the "reason" I got kidney disease? Or ripped off by my first husband? Or why my best friend got raped? It's trite and so que sera sera it makes me want to kill someone.

    It's right up there with "Its god's plan". I'm an atheist. STFU.

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    LOLZ! "Gods Plan". Gods a malicious bastard in that case....

    I'm not atheist, but I'm willing to admit that not everything has to do with God and his big plans. Sometimes life just takes a shit on you.



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    "If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything"

    A place I use to work at had a motivational poster with this saying. It's actually a quote from Back to the Future.

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    "If you love something, set it free, if it comes back, it was meant to be"....
    yeah... it's gonna come back with an STD....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Hyde View Post
    This thread is dedicated to advice that is dumb, trite, hackneyed, not well thought out, etc...for example...

    I hate when people say "live every day as if it were your last!"

    That is about the stupidest goddamned thing you could do. If I did that, I'd be broke in one day because I'd quit my job and spend all my money as quickly as I could, I'd likely be dead because I'd be doing things like skydiving and racing cars around high cliffs, and I'd piss off everyone I know because I'd visit all of my friends and relatives all the time and demand that they spend the whole day with me, all day, all the time.

    So that is stupid advice that everyone thinks sounds great, but it's really just dumb.
    i was talking to customer about this just yesterday, we were saying how its was so stupid and if i were to that i would walk up to a dancer who had annoyed me and just cut off her hair and saying "snip!

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    Quote Originally Posted by _Avery_ View Post
    "If you love something, set it free, if it comes back, it was meant to be"....
    yeah... it's gonna come back with an STD....
    LOL ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by sweetsam View Post
    Even if you do 'deserve it,' that doesn't matter...the only thing that matters is that you can afford it. Just because you deserve something doesn't mean you can afford it.
    YES! Thank you! I want to print this out and staple it to one of my ex-roommate's head. She was constnatly bitching about how she could barley afford to live in our house, then she blew a bunch of money on a trip to New Orleans over spring break. When she was arguing with another roommate, this became a point of contention, because he kept saying she had no right to bitch about being short on money if she was going to go on vacation - she thought otherwise. I was on his side, another friend was on her side. I said "She does not have any right to spend money on a vacation" and my friend "But she does!" Not if the bitch doesn't have the fucking money!

    I will also +1 "everything happens for a reason." Stupid if you think about it in a "cosmic" sense. Common sense and not really worth anything if you just think of things as chain reactions.

    I hate "Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present." Just... stupid... I get where it's going... but... just... ugh

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