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A list of annoying things your parents told you about ...that ended up being true:
Aviv, Benjamin Golub, Dobromir Hadzhiev and 17 other people liked this
Ill start: "Life isn't fair"
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah, that about does it. :)
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Love does not equal sex
- Bwana ☠
Cigarettes are a bad thing
- directeur
You don't want to be a rich man, just want to live like one
- Mark Forman
A little humility goes a long way
- Bwana ☠
Eat your vegetables
- Bwana ☠
One day, you'll understand
- Bwana ☠
Don't write global variables in code. Yeah, really.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Ferris Bueller is wrong
- Bwana ☠
Don't ride motorcycles.
- Russellreno
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
- Mark Trapp
RTFM. Though my dad said it more politely to me
- Tris Hussey
from twhirl
People are mean
- Bwana ☠
It's more important to be smart than popular.
- Dana Franks
from twhirl
My parents told me about joining slivers of bar soap together to make a new soap bar. No wonder I'm so demented. :)
- Morton Fox
If you dont wash it, it will fall off.
- Colby Olson
Don't talk to strangers... and what do I do here? :p
- directeur
Don't go looking for trouble, trouble will find you --Dad, 1st grade
- Jeremiah Owyang
don't rely on twitter.
- Eric Schlissel
from twhirl
"Close the door, we're not heating the world." Oh, wait, that may not have actually been the case
- Christian Anderson
from fftogo
"If you don't have nothing nice to say, don't say nothing at all"
- Bwana ☠
Nice one Christian :)
- directeur
If you don't take care of your teeth, they won't take care of you.
- Kevin Fox
I dunno, but now I'm saying them all to my kids. I should ask them which one is most annoying.
- Cyndy
You'll understand when you're older, but listen to me now.
- Jeremiah Owyang
"because I'm the [mom or dad] that's why"
- Tris Hussey
from twhirl
Just wait until you have a child of your own
- Liz Polay-Wettengel
"Cheap is expensive" (in spanish: "lo barato sale caro")
- Virginia Fonticiella
"do it right NOW!!! tomorrow will be late"
- Lora Lufark
I hope you someday have a child as bad as you someday, hahah
- Jeremiah Owyang
"Who are you? How did you get in my house?" http://xkcd.com/163/
- directeur
you think this is loud, wait until you have kids
- Tris Hussey
from twhirl
Calculators will make you dumb.. :|
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
10% of life is what happens to you, 90% is how you deal with it.
- Tiffany
Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play poker with a man named Doc. Never sleep with anyone crazier than you.
- Mitch Wagner
If you pick at it, it won't heal.
- Alanna Shaikh
Only floss between the teeth you want to keep.
- Sterling Communications
You are what you eat, Twinkie.
- Kawika Holbrook
If you can do something about it, don't worry. If you can't do something about it, don't worry.
- Kawika Holbrook
[don't remember any that were true! there's about as much misinformation in the parental world as there is in the business world :) ]
- Rotkäpchen
As you get older, the years go by faster.
- Marianne O'Connor
Can't isn't a word.
- lisa-k
"Quit throwing the dog at your brother! That ain't right!"
- Rhonda Hitchcock
"Quit playing so much or someone's going to get hurt." That crap never failed to come true! Someone ALWAYS got hurt.
- Corvida
Don't do drugs.
- Ginger Makela Riker
Corollary to Bwana's "Love does not equal sex." . . .Good sex (for now) is not enough to sustain a marriage (for . . .ever . . .)
- Cecilia Pineda Feret
And you believed that guy?
- Charlie Anzman
"You are judged by the company you keep." MMMmmm, so sometimes I like to hang out with weirder than me types. . .so?
- Cecilia Pineda Feret
"Men are only out for one thing." welllll, personal research shows: Power, then sex or money . . .and they use either #2 or #3 to confirm have #1.
- Cecilia Pineda Feret
Retirement comes sooner than you think . . .start saving now . . .
- Cecilia Pineda Feret
"You're not getting any younger." Yeah, well, duh, Mom!
- Cecilia Pineda Feret
Some amount of spirituality is bound to help!
- Cecilia Pineda Feret
Just because a billion people in China wear clogs, that doesn't mean you should. Circa 1976, during Clogmania in the USA.
- Cecilia Pineda Feret
save your work and money often. (ok they didn't tell me that, but i tell that to my kids frequently)
- Doug Brooks
take that out of there or it'll get stuck! word up mom
- Anthony
"think smarter, not harder" ok well that wasn't my parents, but scrooge mcduck
- Jeremiah Owyang
[Mom] One day you'll meet a nice boy, settle down, get married and have kids. (That always made me respond with, "Eeeewwww that's gross Mom!")
- Rhonda Hitchcock
"sorry I didn't come to pick you up from school today - I missed dad's note this morning because Twitter was down again"
- Aviv
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