"You're in a third world country. Think like it." The guy who told me that keeps pestering my folks if I'm in town because he needs cash. I'm living miles away in the business district of Metro Manila. I'm glad I scoffed and laughed at the time he said that without knowing he was serious.
I had a bully (and sometimes he'd be joined by his buddy) that'd follow me home every day when I walked home from school, even though he lived on the opposite side of town. He/they would throw shit at me if I didn't respond to the stupid insults thrown my way. Here's the advice my mom gave me: Just ignore him. Tell him to stop. Tell a teacher. Go a different way home. Use headphones to block him out. The only thing that got him to stop was me beating the absolute shit out of him in a fit of rage and sadness one cold December morn.
I got exactly the same advice Dan. Problem was the beating just continued at home for no other reason than me being a mistake. I'm now 53 and the mental scars are still there from multiple attempts on my life. I got broken ribs at age 4, for asking for a glass of water on a hot day. Left the entire family behind in 2010.
@@rogerramjet6429 That is messed up beyond all levels. I'm so sorry you went through all that, you didn't deserve any of it. I'm glad you left them all behind, and I hope you never see any of them again, and that you continue the rest of your life healing.
"You need to get her pregnant. That will fix your relationship." Thank you former friend with 3 kids and a horrible marriage. Me and my ex broke up instead because we couldn't stand each other.
A friend told me that if an alligator is chasing you, run in a zig-zag pattern. This is a complete myth. Alligators don’t follow you directly no matter what path you take. They’ll either catch you on the zig, or the zag. The best way to escape a charging alligator is to put something between yourself and it. Something like a tree, a rock, anything that would slow it down.
"Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, become guidance counselors." My high school guidance counselor and my college advisor were both pretty useless. It seems like the best you can expect is a guidance counselor who knows a lot about metagaming the SATs i.e. another bullshit part of the academic world.
Worst advice ever that was extremely detrimental to my life for over 30 years was " you need family around no matter what". Which has been the advice STILL given by people that dgaf that my mother was attempting to end my life many times. She's just bloody useless at everything in life.
yeah, you can do what you're passionate about, but you're interests also change over time so there's also a "Go with the flow" part as well. In high school I wanted to go into video game design, but here I am almost 6 years later, a Sgt in the Marines working on getting into gunsmithing who absolutely despises working with computers
I was clearly not an academic. Grew up with the constant parental lecture of "if you don't get a college degree, you will live a bad life and miss out on everything". Don't go to community college (comedy college), don't go to a tech. school, not a real degree. So when I couldn't hack it in college, I spent a LOT of time thinking I was a person of low capability and worked a lot of low-wage jobs thinking that's the best I could ever hope for. Discovered Temple Grandin online. Started taking community college classes. I was outperforming the phi beta kappa students. Only then did I realize that I had aptitude, but just not scholastic aptitude. Not pointless academic classes, but actual classes with a specific field of employment in mind. Then it all came together. Got an entry level job and quickly ascended because I could work hard and could continuously learn on-the-job. But I just cant sit in a classroom, being lectured for hours and then pass a test.
Airforce story is literrly my life right now. Wouldn't you think getting help makes things better? I think it proves I'm more mentally stable than some people around me going for the same jobs.
“You’re deaf! You can’t be a paramedic! You should go for SSI instead.” I’m a paramedic and loving my job. Just because my ears are crap doesn’t mean I’m useless. My hearing assistance dog alerts me to the alarm and a text tells me the call type and address.
"High school is the best time of your life, so you'd better enjoy it." I wanted to die. Fortunately, I was assured that it's not true at all. And it turned out it not to be true. Anyone who tells you that high school was the best time of their life, pity them. And anyone who tells you that high school will be the best time of your life, dropkick them into another hemisphere.
Some jobs offer free therapy to their employees, unfortunatly I suspect most of it is needed as a result of the stress and lifestyle of working those jobs. Job is 1 step away from just assigning you a therapist as part of orientation.
@@DanPantzig it’s not false, maybe you just work in a different location or haven’t been told about the hotline. i had very bad depression and anxiety when i worked at walmart and one of my coworkers told me about the hotline.
11:00 I’d be proud of my daughter. I don’t have kids, two nieces and they’re doing amazing, and guess what?! I’m proud of them because they’re hard workers.
Ah yes because the years I was bullied horrifically by people at school, verbally abused by my father and was completely ignored by everyone about my mental health are the best years of my life. I nearly killed myself back then. I've always hated people who say that to me. Maybe your high-school was good but not mine. I'm doing ten times better now then I ever was back then and I still have mental health issues but I'm around people who are willing to listen and help unlike high-school.
Yeah, I sort of agree with that last one! Back in high school, and indeed throughout most of my teenage years, I was a depressed and anxious basket case.
Not really advice given. Forced, but not given. To set the stage this was in the late 1990s. "You have to go to ITT Tech. We already paid for the application fee and you've wanted to go there since you were 14. The recruiter already said you're a shoe-in for the scholarship!" "A scholarship that only covers like half my tuition. The other scholarship is full-ride and there's already a job and housing set up for me. All I have to do is get there. Cue whining about it being 600 miles away and what if something happens to the car and how I should study Electronics in college because that's what I studied my whole life and would make classes a breeze and computers will never take off and the networking degree would be worthless in "real life" because most people don't even have one computer, let alone more than one, and blah blah blah. This from my high school dropout mother who got married and had me out of spite because she was mad at my Grandpa. A whole lot of dirt came out in the wash after she died a few years back and I inherited her computers (yes plural) and read everything. I was being groomed as her old-age caretaker so of course she wanted me to stay local. Same reason she didn't want me dating in high school. Everything she had in mind for me utterly ignored my status as a sentient being. She felt I owed her something and by damn I was going to pay...dearly. Well, didn't happen. She developed a condition that caused cancers due to cells having to divide so quickly and mutating at an alarming rate. Her body was deliberately trying to make her 100% cancer in the literal sense. I can only call it Nuclear Karma now, but I didn't see it like that at the time.
I don’t think anyone told me this but I can say is that if someone tells you that being one of those gangster slang talking junkies will make you cool, just say no or walk away I see too many guys my age talking like they were raised in the hood, in MIDDLE SCHOOL (probably will be the same when I become a freshman later this year)
Good gods, if someone told me my high school years would be my best years, I'd probably have killed myself halfway through them. High school was the WORST years of my life by far.
Jesus died for you was buried and rose again on the third day according to the scriptures. If you confess with your mouth Jesus is lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the desd you will be saved. please repent of your sins and accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior
What a complete crock. Stop believing the lies. Christianity is nothing more than a hate cult using fear to control those desperate for anything that might make them think they’re better than others instead of just a shill for the conmen to get money and power from. When you die, your dead. Stop thinking your life will get better after you die. It won’t, you need to make it better, while you’re still alive.
Jessica, just shut up. I'm stunned at the mindless indoctrination your people throw around thinking it's something that makes you a good person. Just because you've been sucked in doesn't mean everybody else needs a lobotomy to follow. Wake Up FFS.
"You're in a third world country. Think like it." The guy who told me that keeps pestering my folks if I'm in town because he needs cash. I'm living miles away in the business district of Metro Manila. I'm glad I scoffed and laughed at the time he said that without knowing he was serious.
I had a bully (and sometimes he'd be joined by his buddy) that'd follow me home every day when I walked home from school, even though he lived on the opposite side of town. He/they would throw shit at me if I didn't respond to the stupid insults thrown my way. Here's the advice my mom gave me:
Just ignore him.
Tell him to stop.
Tell a teacher.
Go a different way home.
Use headphones to block him out.
The only thing that got him to stop was me beating the absolute shit out of him in a fit of rage and sadness one cold December morn.
But, didn't it feel good? Finally showing him/them just how badly they had fucked up.
I got exactly the same advice Dan. Problem was the beating just continued at home for no other reason than me being a mistake.
I'm now 53 and the mental scars are still there from multiple attempts on my life.
I got broken ribs at age 4, for asking for a glass of water on a hot day.
Left the entire family behind in 2010.
@@rogerramjet6429 That is messed up beyond all levels. I'm so sorry you went through all that, you didn't deserve any of it. I'm glad you left them all behind, and I hope you never see any of them again, and that you continue the rest of your life healing.
"I don't know if I'll ever find a job I enjoy because I don't enjoy much of anything."
This so much. 💔
"You need to get her pregnant. That will fix your relationship."
Thank you former friend with 3 kids and a horrible marriage.
Me and my ex broke up instead because we couldn't stand each other.
A friend told me that if an alligator is chasing you, run in a zig-zag pattern. This is a complete myth. Alligators don’t follow you directly no matter what path you take. They’ll either catch you on the zig, or the zag.
The best way to escape a charging alligator is to put something between yourself and it. Something like a tree, a rock, anything that would slow it down.
I thought that was komodo dragons that you were supposed to zig zag to escape?
"Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, become guidance counselors."
My high school guidance counselor and my college advisor were both pretty useless. It seems like the best you can expect is a guidance counselor who knows a lot about metagaming the SATs i.e. another bullshit part of the academic world.
Worst advice ever that was extremely detrimental to my life for over 30 years was " you need family around no matter what".
Which has been the advice STILL given by people that dgaf that my mother was attempting to end my life many times.
She's just bloody useless at everything in life.
Well here's good advice: cut your mother out of your life, AND cut out the people who tell you to go back to her.
Blood may be thicker than water, but honey is thicker than blood.
I'm sorry about your mother.
yeah, you can do what you're passionate about, but you're interests also change over time so there's also a "Go with the flow" part as well. In high school I wanted to go into video game design, but here I am almost 6 years later, a Sgt in the Marines working on getting into gunsmithing who absolutely despises working with computers
I was clearly not an academic. Grew up with the constant parental lecture of "if you don't get a college degree, you will live a bad life and miss out on everything". Don't go to community college (comedy college), don't go to a tech. school, not a real degree. So when I couldn't hack it in college, I spent a LOT of time thinking I was a person of low capability and worked a lot of low-wage jobs thinking that's the best I could ever hope for. Discovered Temple Grandin online. Started taking community college classes. I was outperforming the phi beta kappa students. Only then did I realize that I had aptitude, but just not scholastic aptitude. Not pointless academic classes, but actual classes with a specific field of employment in mind. Then it all came together. Got an entry level job and quickly ascended because I could work hard and could continuously learn on-the-job. But I just cant sit in a classroom, being lectured for hours and then pass a test.
Temple Grandin is just delightful.
@@celiashen5490 a real life saver for me, and I love the way she speaks to people who ask dumb questions.
Airforce story is literrly my life right now. Wouldn't you think getting help makes things better? I think it proves I'm more mentally stable than some people around me going for the same jobs.
“You’re deaf! You can’t be a paramedic! You should go for SSI instead.”
I’m a paramedic and loving my job. Just because my ears are crap doesn’t mean I’m useless.
My hearing assistance dog alerts me to the alarm and a text tells me the call type and address.
"High school is the best time of your life, so you'd better enjoy it."
I wanted to die. Fortunately, I was assured that it's not true at all. And it turned out it not to be true. Anyone who tells you that high school was the best time of their life, pity them. And anyone who tells you that high school will be the best time of your life, dropkick them into another hemisphere.
anyone who says this is either lying, or hates their life
possibly both.
@@jmjedi923 or maybe people had different experiences?
if you’re ever considering a job at walmart, thinking how bad could it be, just know this:
walmart has its own suicide hotline for employees.
Some jobs offer free therapy to their employees, unfortunatly I suspect most of it is needed as a result of the stress and lifestyle of working those jobs. Job is 1 step away from just assigning you a therapist as part of orientation.
I work at Walmart and this is patently false.
@@DanPantzig it’s not false, maybe you just work in a different location or haven’t been told about the hotline. i had very bad depression and anxiety when i worked at walmart and one of my coworkers told me about the hotline.
@@mintylaser1655 even Google says walmart says call the national hotline.
11:00 I’d be proud of my daughter. I don’t have kids, two nieces and they’re doing amazing, and guess what?! I’m proud of them because they’re hard workers.
Ah yes because the years I was bullied horrifically by people at school, verbally abused by my father and was completely ignored by everyone about my mental health are the best years of my life. I nearly killed myself back then.
I've always hated people who say that to me. Maybe your high-school was good but not mine. I'm doing ten times better now then I ever was back then and I still have mental health issues but I'm around people who are willing to listen and help unlike high-school.
Yeah, I sort of agree with that last one! Back in high school, and indeed throughout most of my teenage years, I was a depressed and anxious basket case.
Not really advice given. Forced, but not given. To set the stage this was in the late 1990s. "You have to go to ITT Tech. We already paid for the application fee and you've wanted to go there since you were 14. The recruiter already said you're a shoe-in for the scholarship!" "A scholarship that only covers like half my tuition. The other scholarship is full-ride and there's already a job and housing set up for me. All I have to do is get there. Cue whining about it being 600 miles away and what if something happens to the car and how I should study Electronics in college because that's what I studied my whole life and would make classes a breeze and computers will never take off and the networking degree would be worthless in "real life" because most people don't even have one computer, let alone more than one, and blah blah blah. This from my high school dropout mother who got married and had me out of spite because she was mad at my Grandpa. A whole lot of dirt came out in the wash after she died a few years back and I inherited her computers (yes plural) and read everything. I was being groomed as her old-age caretaker so of course she wanted me to stay local. Same reason she didn't want me dating in high school. Everything she had in mind for me utterly ignored my status as a sentient being. She felt I owed her something and by damn I was going to pay...dearly. Well, didn't happen. She developed a condition that caused cancers due to cells having to divide so quickly and mutating at an alarming rate. Her body was deliberately trying to make her 100% cancer in the literal sense. I can only call it Nuclear Karma now, but I didn't see it like that at the time.
A surprising number of people hold the belief that they shouldn't apologize for anything. Ever. Dumb as all frick, how else do you grow and learn?!
"I like when women are on top 'cause I can only f%ck up."
I thought it was only a pickup line.
I don’t think anyone told me this but I can say is that if someone tells you that being one of those gangster slang talking junkies will make you cool, just say no or walk away
I see too many guys my age talking like they were raised in the hood, in MIDDLE SCHOOL (probably will be the same when I become a freshman later this year)
My drunk grandpa gives me dumb advice how to get a girlfriend lol
Title: what bad advice you got?
Thumbnail: *R E D D U C K*
It's a reference to an ancient meme format called Malicious Advice Mallard
@@morgansheepman2403 is a mallard a type of duck?
@@itsnotpaul8548 You're joking...right?
@@itsnotpaul8548 Yessir
@@chainsawsubtlety9828 no
How about a video about people giving other people bad advice or what’s the worst advice you’ve ever given.
Those blue vests just aren't worth it.
Good gods, if someone told me my high school years would be my best years, I'd probably have killed myself halfway through them. High school was the WORST years of my life by far.
I’ve heard the term space cadet a couple of times. But I’m not quite sure what it means. So what is that?
For the Charlie horse get a monthly or weekly massage therapy
Masturbation makes one needing glasses
Jesus died for you was buried and rose again on the third day according to the scriptures. If you confess with your mouth Jesus is lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the desd you will be saved. please repent of your sins and accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior
What a complete crock. Stop believing the lies. Christianity is nothing more than a hate cult using fear to control those desperate for anything that might make them think they’re better than others instead of just a shill for the conmen to get money and power from. When you die, your dead. Stop thinking your life will get better after you die. It won’t, you need to make it better, while you’re still alive.
Jessica, just shut up.
I'm stunned at the mindless indoctrination your people throw around thinking it's something that makes you a good person.
Just because you've been sucked in doesn't mean everybody else needs a lobotomy to follow.
Wake Up FFS.