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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Oct 19, 2014 21:09:12 GMT -5
She was probably just trying to save money by limiting the shampoo use. Sounds like something my Scottish father would do.
(Scots do have a reputation of being cheap penny-pinchers.)
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Post by imanangel on Oct 19, 2014 23:29:08 GMT -5
I don't remember any good ones from my mother. My father said I didn't need an education, I just needed to find a man. My mom said this to me. She said I didn't need an education, I was pretty enough to find a rich man.
Needless to say, I am the only one in my family (I have 2 brothers) that graduated from college.
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Post by imanangel on Oct 19, 2014 23:30:48 GMT -5
Like Home 6, I struggled with algebra & some other math subjects in high school. But, I'm very comfortable with business math.
Wouldn't it be fun to look up a former math teacher, & tell him, "nope, I never used it after I got out of school"?
BTW, the worst advice I got from my Mom (she meant well) was, to never wash your hair more than twice a week, or else it'll fall out, so of course the minute I left home for college, I was washing it every day. I do not wash my hair every day. I shower every day, but I wash my hair every other day.
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Post by mmhmm on Oct 19, 2014 23:40:17 GMT -5
Going on 15+ years...still waiting to apply it. Sorry, I forgot it's mostly women on this board. It won't help you figure out the new price when something is 20% off at the store, or how to convert quarts to fluid ounces... but as someone that works in engineering and surveying it's extremely applicable. LOL! I'm afeared you're about to take it on the chin from some of our female engineers!
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Post by toomuchreality on Oct 19, 2014 23:47:58 GMT -5
It was a joke. I thought it was over the top enough to be obvious. Unfortunately, this happens to me quite often. UGH. BTW- Welcome!
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Oct 19, 2014 23:48:09 GMT -5
I already addressed that in Post #26 on page 1.
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Post by toomuchreality on Oct 19, 2014 23:50:04 GMT -5
Sorry, I forgot it's mostly women on this board. It won't help you figure out the new price when something is 20% off at the store, or how to convert quarts to fluid ounces... but as someone that works in engineering and surveying it's extremely applicable. LOL! I'm afeared you're about to take it on the chin from some of our female engineers! Or on the
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Post by chapeau on Oct 20, 2014 13:33:59 GMT -5
My mom always told my sisters and I to "Be nice to those boys. They might have cute friends." because we attracted the nerdy types. She was wrong. They never have cute friends. You just get a reputation of being nice to those kind of guys, so you always have a crowd of them around you. That's why the cute ones never asked us out -- they couldn't get through the crowd. Or so we told ourselves. Sadly, I don't mean the start-up founding type of nerds. I mean the ones who were just weird.
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Post by chiver78 on Oct 20, 2014 13:45:14 GMT -5
Going on 15+ years...still waiting to apply it. Sorry, I forgot it's mostly women on this board. It won't help you figure out the new price when something is 20% off at the store, or how to convert quarts to fluid ounces... but as someone that works in engineering and surveying it's extremely applicable. this female engineer gave your original comment a don't go messing it up...
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Post by damnotagain on Oct 20, 2014 13:58:04 GMT -5
My Dad , gave me the talk. He laughed for almost a half hour after we had it. Wonder if it was my reply? Mom ,finds a naked picture of a girl in my billfold, evidently this upset her and Dad was supposed to talk to me about it. Well we get in the car , he's taking me to work with him one summer day , he was a fireman and worked other jobs on his days off. Anyway , He hands me the picture back of this girl and says " son don't put your D>ck in anything you don't want to marry. " That was it ...... End of conversation .... I thought I was going to get murdered. So I look back at him and say " But dad, I want to marry them all !" I can still see him laughing.
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Post by zibazinski on Oct 20, 2014 15:44:06 GMT -5
Good to see that even Dads give weird advice.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2014 17:21:05 GMT -5
"Only dumb girls work in an office. Now what do you want to be? A nurse or a teacher?"
That was Mom's generation. I just COULDN'T be a nurse or a teacher. Did very well for myself working as an accountant (in an office!). I think she came around and was proud of me!
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Post by Abby Normal on Oct 20, 2014 19:29:45 GMT -5
My mom's wonderful comments mostly centered around my wedding. Or maybe those are the only ones I remember.
"Don't get the cake knife engraved. If you get divorced you can't use it again. " I remember thinking- If I get divorced am I really going to care if I can use the cake knife again?
And my personal favorite that I still give her a hard time about. "If you get divorced, it WILL be ALL your fault" She said that the day of our wedding. She loves my DH.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Oct 20, 2014 19:55:53 GMT -5
I don't understand why people bother getting the cake knife engraved - it usually ends up sitting in a china cabinet, never to be used again..
Of course, if you ever did get divorced, Abby Normal , you could always exact your revenge with it. ,
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Post by Abby Normal on Oct 21, 2014 10:23:40 GMT -5
I don't understand why people bother getting the cake knife engraved - it usually ends up sitting in a china cabinet, never to be used again..
Of course, if you ever did get divorced, Abby Normal , you could always exact your revenge with it. , If she had said " don't spend the money on engraving- you'll never use it again" would have been totally reasonable.
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Post by tskeeter on Oct 22, 2014 19:02:31 GMT -5
My mother had a different version of the OP's #2: "You don't have to marry for money but it never hurts to marry where money is." I guess that must have been standard "mother fodder". The flip side of this is a friend of my brother's, who married a daughter from a very wealthy family. Large regional construction company, palatial home in one of the finest neighborhoods, building at the university with the family name on it in recognition of the donations that family had made, multiple office parks, and the like. After they were married his house wasn't good enough for her. Buy a new upscale house in an upscale development. His car wasn't good enough for her. Buy her Dad's one year old Mercedes. Lost contact with guys who had been buddies for decades because time with her family was more important than buddy time for him. The golden rule in practice. And she controlled the gold. I suspect that marrying rich frequently isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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Post by mmhmm on Oct 22, 2014 19:15:42 GMT -5
My mother had a different version of the OP's #2: "You don't have to marry for money but it never hurts to marry where money is." I guess that must have been standard "mother fodder". The flip side of this is a friend of my brother's, who married a daughter from a very wealthy family. Large regional construction company, palatial home in one of the finest neighborhoods, building at the university with the family name on it in recognition of the donations that family had made, multiple office parks, and the like. After they were married his house wasn't good enough for her. Buy a new upscale house in an upscale development. His car wasn't good enough for her. Buy her Dad's one year old Mercedes. Lost contact with guys who had been buddies for decades because time with her family was more important than buddy time for him. The golden rule in practice. And she controlled the gold. I suspect that marrying rich frequently isn't all it's cracked up to be. Absolutely. As far as I'm concerned, one is marrying a person, not a wallet. If you marry a wallet, don't be surprised if it snaps shut on you somewhere along the line, trapping you inside its jaws.
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Post by tskeeter on Oct 22, 2014 19:17:53 GMT -5
"Only dumb girls work in an office. Now what do you want to be? A nurse or a teacher?"
That was Mom's generation. I just COULDN'T be a nurse or a teacher. Did very well for myself working as an accountant (in an office!). I think she came around and was proud of me! I'm sure that when your Mom gave you that advice, she was thinking that a nurse or a teacher were the most challenging jobs that a woman could hold. And that you were up to the challenge. She probably wasn't thinking that there were other career choices available to smart, competent women. Obviously, she wasn't thinking about lining you up with a good husband who would take are of you. Because, when you think about it, there aren't all that many men in medicine or education, as a percentage of the workforce, even today. But that there are lots of guys in office jobs. And in accounting? Lots of smart, well educated, guys who make a good living. She had to be thinking you were plenty capable of taking care of yourself!
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Post by tskeeter on Oct 22, 2014 19:20:19 GMT -5
I don't understand why people bother getting the cake knife engraved - it usually ends up sitting in a china cabinet, never to be used again..
Of course, if you ever did get divorced, Abby Normal , you could always exact your revenge with it. , An engraved knife sticking in your murdered spouse is just too big a clue. Skip the engraving. It expands the possibilties.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Oct 23, 2014 20:06:53 GMT -5
Go to your room and stay there.
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