Comments on: Advice, part II

By: peggy

peggy — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 04:19:15 +0000

Who is Gwen Stefani?
(heh,just kidding)
I set all our clocks to her.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 02:00:23 +0000

I don’t know, I was just watching a women at work, appearing to be well over 30 but wearing fishnet stockings and then dark stockings over the top of them that went up to her knees, leaving this nice stretch of fishnet stocking between her knees and her skirt.

Now the money she spent on this outfit may not have made her happy or feel younger, but it did make ME feel happy…

Not sure what that means in the grand scale of things, but more happiness can’t be bad can it?

By: Horst

Horst — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:04:59 +0000

It’s weird how you seem to be writing about my life. And I don’t find your advice funny; actually, I think it’s spot-on and dead serious.

By: mig

mig — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:23:26 +0000

And if that doesn’t work, move to another continent.

By: kay

kay — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 18:28:12 +0000

i just got up and i’ve not had coffee, but in this state of non-awake i’m happily seeing the world as full of men in dark suits, drinking whiskey. i wouldn’t mind looking like gwen, and i like gin. i like black dresses.

it’d would be a good looking world. also, sort of drunk.

By: eeksypeeksy

eeksypeeksy — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 19:20:30 +0000

Are we still playing the Advice game? I forgot to post when it started.

First, a bunch of related buying advice that all comes down to: don’t do it.

If it’s such a great book or movie, it’ll still be great next year and you’ll be able to buy it cheaper or borrow it for nothing; if it’s bad, you won’t be one of the guinea pigs to discover that. Use the library.

If it’s something you didn’t want last year, you probably don’t need it this year, no matter what your propagandized brain is telling you.

If you already have a fully functional something or other (especially an electronic gadget) but you think you need a newer one, don’t buy it. Or if you can’t stop yourself from upgrading, at least stay one or two generations behind — you’ll get it cheap and with all the major bugs worked out. For example, if you plan on getting a flat-screen television because you suddenly realized that your current television just isn’t flat enough, first try slapping yourself out of it. But if the brainwashing will not be denied, at least wait another year or two, because you’ve lived this damned long without one and never even noticed. This approach will also stop you from committing most fashion crimes — buy fashions that are at least a year or two old and are still being sold to and worn by folk you don’t mind being lumped together with.

If you’re buying something because you think it’ll make you look smarter or sexier or cooler, don’t bother. Smart, sexy, cool people can, for example, wear burlap potato sacks and still be smart, sexy, and cool; people who aren’t will look like a bag of potatoes. You cannot buy your way out of your predicament by adding more possessions to the heap you are sitting on. If you have to spend money on this problem, spend it on confidence lessons or hypnotism or a decent education or something.

By: Elsa

Elsa — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 06:06:03 +0000

Only yesterday, I was thinking that the single most valuable thing I’ve learned over the years could be distilled to two sentences:

“It takes longer than you think. Plan accordingly.”

By: jim

jim — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 04:48:58 +0000

Regarding “How to make money doing…..whatever” books: My thought is that if this is such a good deal, why is the author writing about it? If this is a good way to make money, then the person would be making money and not writing books. This is especially true for books on “How to make money in the Stock Market”. People who write about how to sell short or how to day-trade obviously lost their shirt(s) and are trying to recoupe some of their losses.

“How to make money in Real Estate”…Dudes!! Give me a break! If you are making 100% on capital per deal, then you’d be doing that and not writing books about it. My considered opinion on all of this genre is to avoid it like the plague. Same can be said of gambling books. In fact, these are all gambling: stock trading, real estate flipping, Texas Hold-‘em.

Oops…hot button…I work in a Barnes & Noble store these days…I get pretty cynical about this genre of books…

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:34:53 +0000

Here's how: "Tony called me and I was like, 'Dude, I suck.' And he was like, 'Dude, come over.' So I went to his house and a bunch of our friends there were playing these tracks that Tony was doing that were, like, stupid. I was like, "You did not do these." And he's like, 'Yep, you wanna hear your tracks?' And I was like, 'Nuh-uh, you did not.' So he pulls out this one and I'm like, 'Oh my God, that's my song.' " http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/people/202261_people06.html

By: paul

paul — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:52:20 +0000

So I’m not the only middle aged man listening to No Doubt cd’s wondering how a 35 year old woman can sound so young and hot? She looks pretty good in the videos too.

By: mig

mig — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:35:07 +0000

you’d think she’d do something about that thing between her eyebrows.

By: Michael M.

Michael M. — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:22:57 +0000

* If you have a large beak [www.goodplasticsurgery.com/archives/005066.html] get it carved down. You’ll look much better for it.