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    Annoying Advice

    I've been seeing this a lot recently and it is kind of annoying. Like in an article about being able to afford to travel, which interested me because I have not much money and would like to travel, one piece of advice was "Win a sweepstakes." Oh, okay, thanks. That's like butting "Win the lottery" as financial advice.

    Then I read something else about how to earn more money and one of the pieces of advice was "Work hard and save money" . Thanks for that. You obviously do know how to make money because someone payed you to write that.

    What is some annoying advice you've received?

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    "Don't drink alcohol while you're on this antibiotic."
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    Jinx you are absolutely smurfing insane. Never change.

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    "Take a 15 minute break every hour that you are playing video games"

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    "Be cool/be yourself." People can never make up their minds which it is they want.

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    "Just force yourself to smile, and depression will go away!"

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    "If you want to do something, just do it."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pike View Post
    "Take a 15 minute break every hour that you are playing video games"
    smurfing Link Between Worlds telling me to take a break everytime I save. I'm 28 years old. I'll take a break when I damn well feel like it!

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    Pretty much anything anyone's ever tried to tell me in the way of advice IRL... It's either crap I already know or it's just like.. Not good advice at all.

    'Cuz.. You know. I'm Always Right. I know what I need to do and when I need to do it & I'll do it when I damn well feel like it, tyvm.

    and literally everything everyone ever tried telling me while I was pregnant. "Oh you can't eat sushi! It isn't safe!" ............ Screw you. As long as it doesn't have a high level of mercury and you limit it to every once in awhile, it's fine. "You shouldn't drink while pregnant!" Eh. Wrong. A glass or 2 a week of white wine is ok. Mix it with Sprite & ice, you can have 4 glasses.

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    Hmm. People telling me not to take an antibiotic when I had a kidney infection and that I should take an herbal remedy. And being told not to lay on my back during pregnancy because that could cause my tailbone to "break". :O

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    "Cheer up! Stop being so negative!"

    "Have you tried going door-to-door looking for jobs?"

    "Have you tried asking for help?"

    "Why don't you think about what you want to do?"

    Also, any sort of "inspirational lifestyle article" where a wealthy Millennial or Gen X tycoon drops everything and goes backpacking around Europe for six months in order to "discover themselves" and their "core values".

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    "You should talk more."


    ... Maybe I don't have anything nice to say.


    "You should go out with--"


    No.

    Starting on my left with one, your number comes up, you go.

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    "You should talk more" is one I hear a lot. More it's my parents getting upset with me because I really don't talk that much. I hear things like "I know you talk to your friends/everyone else more than us" a lot. I try to tell them i really don't most of the time, but they don't believe me. I'm pretty universally known among for being quiet.

    I don't get annoying advice very often though. In general, I really don't get any advice very often.

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    Some of the advice here is pretty sensible
    This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calliope View Post
    "Have you tried going door-to-door looking for jobs?"
    I've basically done this before. It didn't work.

    In fact, I don't know anyone who's actually gotten a job this way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vivi22 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Calliope View Post
    "Have you tried going door-to-door looking for jobs?"
    I've basically done this before. It didn't work.

    In fact, I don't know anyone who's actually gotten a job this way.
    I have a couple of times.
    Quote Originally Posted by Fynn View Post
    Jinx you are absolutely smurfing insane. Never change.

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