Useful Advice

[Hector Valdez]

Once is a fluke, twice is luck, and three times is a cheat.

[The Magic Pudding]

Once is a fluke, twice is luck, and three times is a cheat.

Who the f'k taught you that?

[Sandra Craft]

[Huh, I always wondered how you did that. I would also like to know more about these cat fashions.

I tried to click on it, just in case.

[Crow]

There are two rules for success:
1. Never reveal everything you know.

[Asmodean]

Don't start fights, but be ready to finish them.

Disagree. Only get into a fight you are absolutely certain you'll win - much safer, yes?

[Tom62]

Never make a promise that you can't keep.
Trust but verify
Other people's lack of planning is not your emergency
Learn something new every year
Never invest money in something that you don't understand

[Asmodean]

Never make a promise that you can't keep.

Defeats the purpose of lying.

Trust but verify

Somewhat self-contradictory. Trust after verifying is much better, no?

Other people's lack of planning is not your emergency

...Unless they are the emergency rescue and you are trapped in a house on fire.

Learn something new every year

We learn something new every day - unless it's a day spent out-of-your-mind drunk on the couch.

Never invest money in something that you don't understand

...Except nukes and petrochemicals - there is money in that.

Now, whos advice shall His Grayness direct His wrath at next?  

[DeterminedJuliet]

*cough* *cough*

I'm not really intending for this to turn into a debate about the merits of each piece of advice

*ahem*

[Stevil]

Trust me, I know what I'm doing - Sledge Hammer

[Asmodean]

*cough* *cough*

I'm not really intending for this to turn into a debate about the merits of each piece of advice

*ahem*

[technolud]

Disagree. Only get into a fight you are absolutely certain you'll win - much safer, yes?

My dad used to tell me this.  I never could figure out how you "knew" which fights you could win.  I suspect the real advice was, don't get into fights.

We heard to especially good pieces of advice when we first had kids:

1)  What ever stage they are in, if its good, enjoy it.  If its bad, bear with it.  Both will change soon enough.

2)  If you having a problem, talk to some one else with a kid 6 months or a year older then yours.   They have just been through it.  Grandma and Grandpa don't really remember any more.

[Asmodean]

Disagree. Only get into a fight you are absolutely certain you'll win - much safer, yes?

My dad used to tell me this.  I never could figure out how you "knew" which fights you could win.  I suspect the real advice was, don't get into fights.

You have a gun and know how to use it. Your opponent is within your accuracy range and has yet to notice your presence. Or you are reasonably good at boxing and your opponent is an unarmed and friendly neighbourhood nerd. OR you have four capable friends and your opponent does not, and so on and so forth.

Determining absolute superiority is not that hard.

[hismikeness]

Disagree. Only get into a fight you are absolutely certain you'll win - much safer, yes?

My dad used to tell me this.  I never could figure out how you "knew" which fights you could win.  I suspect the real advice was, don't get into fights.

You have a gun and know how to use it. Your opponent is within your accuracy range and has yet to notice your presence. Or you are reasonably good at boxing and your opponent is an unarmed and friendly neighbourhood nerd. OR you have four capable friends and your opponent does not, and so on and so forth.

Determining absolute superiority is not that hard.

I always took the advice to mean fight in the loosest sense of the word. From small disagreements to fist fights, or as Asmo put it 'absolute superiority', be always in a position to end a "fight" should someone be unwise enough to start one. most time that does not require fisticuffs.

I really couldn't imagine myself in a fist fight. I've only ever been in one (in sixth grade). I feel there is no reason to, but am aware enough to know I may stumble in to one, say, at a football game where a drunk spectator starts it. Or something.

If I'm above you in a stadium, you could be in trouble. Just sayin. Not you Asmo, nor technolud. General you.

[technolud]

You have a gun and know how to use it. Your opponent is within your accuracy range and has yet to notice your presence. Or you are reasonably good at boxing and your opponent is an unarmed and friendly neighbourhood nerd. OR you have four capable friends and your opponent does not, and so on and so forth.

Don't have a gun or know how to use one.  Can't box, am a nerd.  I have four friends, but don't know if any of them can fight. 

Out of luck I guess.

[Asmodean]

If I'm above you in a stadium, you could be in trouble. Just sayin. Not you Asmo, nor technolud. General you.

The Asmo would not go to a stadium in the first place, but if dragged there, He'd keep at least four of His eyes on the people immediately behind Him.