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Part of the Furniture Now
Jul 7, 2024
553
3,338
Sealy Texas
Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.

Keep skunks, bankers, and politicians at a distance.

Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.

The best sermons are lived, not preached.

Forgive your enemies; its what GOD says to do.

If you don't take the time to do it right, you'll find the time to do it twice.

Don't corner something that is meaner than you.

Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.

It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.

You cannot unsay a cruel word.

Every path has a few puddles.

When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

Don't be banging your shin on a stool that's not in the way.

Borrowing trouble from the future doesn't deplete the supply.

Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.


Don’t judge folks by their relatives.

Silence is sometimes the best answer.

Don‘t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t botherin' you none.

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’.

Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

The biggest troublemaker you’ll ever have to deal with watches you from the mirror every mornin’.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Good judgment comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgment.

Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin’ it back in.

If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around.

Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

When all else fails smoke a pipe

Most times, it just gets down to common sense.
 

Sig

Lifer
Jul 18, 2023
2,063
11,694
54
Western NY
Wow, no wonder my life is so difficult.
I have not followed about 2/3 of this advice. :(

Oh, and I need to say this about the first piece of advice from experience.
Out of the three, the bull is the least likely to bust your fence.
Pigs are smart, horses CAN be dumb. They both try the fence due to these attributes.
The bull just waits until YOU slip up.
 

fr0st

Starting to Get Obsessed
Feb 7, 2014
197
1,087
Colorado, USA
Some great advice from one of my favorite authors, James Lee Burke:

"Here are a few admonitions from the bottom of the food chain. They can be interpreted literally or metaphorically, depending on the situation.

1) Don’t silhouette on a hill.

2) Get rid of your jewelry, particularly civilian junk. Ostentation can put you in a box.

3) Don’t make enemies with anyone in records.

4) Don’t threaten anyone who knows your location when you don’t know his.

5) Never piss off the people who prepare or serve your food.

6) Be aware that clerks and secretaries run the world and own rubber stamps that can turn your life into a broken pay toilet.

7) Never sass a hack or drill sergeant or any dull-witted white Southerner who has authority over others.

8) Grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It drives the bad guys up the wall.

9) Get the right people on your side. Who would you rather have covering your back in a back-alley brawl, an academic liberal or a hobnailed redneck?

10) Never buy into the acronym FEAR (fuck everything and run). Swallow your blood and don’t let others know you’re hurt. If that doesn’t work, spit it in their faces.

11) Even in the most desperate of situations, stay away from the Herd. Situating yourself between loud oinking sounds and the trough is a surefire way to get trampled to death.

12) Burn this list before anyone catches you with it."
 

fr0st

Starting to Get Obsessed
Feb 7, 2014
197
1,087
Colorado, USA
A couple things I’ve picked up:

If something doesn’t fit, more force is seldom the answer, and usually causes more work.

It takes more strength to ask for help than finishing a two man job on your own. - This is a hard-earned lesson, and why I needed back surgery at 40.

A person needs to be comfortable in their own company, or they won’t be comfortable anywhere.
 

Briarcutter

Lifer
Aug 17, 2023
2,085
11,628
U.S.A.
You cannot polish a turd
Funny story of my ignorance. When I first started at the machine shop I was reading a blue print. the print had an arrow pointing to a radius which said "polish radius". I thought it was some machine shop lingo. So I thought and thought what could be a "Polish" radius. Then I asked my trainer, what's a
"Polish" radius? He looked at me, the newby, with a smile on his face and said he didn't know, (he knew darn well what it was). He said I should ask the boss, so I found the boss, showed him the print and asked in all sincerity "what's a Polish radius?". He just smiled at the newby and said... "polish". I walked away feeling like an idiot but my trainer was all smiles😂 I think my boss got a kick out of it too. All that for one capitol letter!!!
 
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