Useless advice zone -.^

[Susan]

NOTE: I am NOT saying I am useless or that any other person who gives advice here is useless. I am saying that advice posted here may be good and it may be totally useless.

I thought this thread would be a cool idea since there are threads like it at other forums. Basically you post your questions, and anyone who has advice is free to respond. The questions can be serious or silly, and the advice can be serious or silly. The advice simply has to match the question (IOW, do not answer a serious question with silly advice)

The   or smileys may be used to indicate a humorous remark or question that would otherwise be taken seriously.

 

 

[KeepTheFaith15]

hmmmmm im ready and willing to give advice.

 

[Mr.Cheese]

Useless advice...
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

 

[Sher]

/me wonders how mr. cheeze would know this...

 

[KeepTheFaith15]

ouuuuch

 

[A Sheep]

No advice is useless .

 

[A Sheep]

How do I post to this thread?

 

[* kittie *]

leapfrog? owwww...

advice? i like giving advice. unless if i don't know the situation/i'm going through the same thing and i feel like a hypocrite for giving advice. mmm...

 

[A Sheep]

How can one coerce a person, without hurting their feelings, into using correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, and sentence structure?

 

[AngelAmidala]

I don't know if anyone could coerce another person to do anything.

I had a guy I dated online back in 1997 who got so mad at me every time I spelled a particular word wrong (I can't remember what it is now). He would correct me and be like, "How many times do I have to tell you how it's spelled?" I'd be like, "I'm sorry. It's habit to spell it the other way." He'd say, "But it's wrong! You need to spell it right!" and then he went around and spelled some other word wrong even though I told him that wasn't the proper way to spell the word. (He also told me that "crises" was not the plural of "crisis.") I did eventually learn to spell the word right, but it annoyed me to no end whenever he corrected me. But I don't know if there's any good way to get someone to do that without annoying them.

I guess just being a good example of it yourself is one way to do it though.

Okay...that was rather serious. Hmmmm......

Here's a question....sorta silly sorta serious...

On pain relievers and cold medicines and stuff it tells you something similar to the following:

Take 2 capsules every 4-6 hours. But do not exceed 8 capsules in a 24-hour period.

Okay...if these are the instructions for a pain reliever and I have a massive headache that's not going away I'm going to take the capsules every 4 hours. But 4 capsules every 4 hours...would be 12 capsules in a 24-hour period...which is over the 8 they tell me I can take. So am I supposed to suffer in pain?

 

[A Sheep]

It says 2 capsules/pills/gelcaps every 4 hours, not 4. . .

And you would be up for 14 to 18 hours only .

 

[A Sheep]

My advice is to not take any pills.

Within the last 5 months I have had several dozen days with terrible headaches, but I just did not take any pills.

 

[AngelAmidala]

Serious advice question then....does that work? Not taking any pills whatsoever for a headache? What do you take instead? (I'm a migraine sufferer and I'm taking pills as soon as I can...If I take something at 1am I'm already trying to figure out when the next time I can take something is in case the headache doesn't go away...which happens about 99% of the time.)


Here's some useless advice I learned while working as a Girl Scout camp staff member.....

Water is wet and fire is hot.

 

[A Sheep]

Originally posted by AngelAmidala
Serious advice question then....does that work? Not taking any pills whatsoever for a headache? What do you take instead? (I'm a migraine sufferer and I'm taking pills as soon as I can...If I take something at 1am I'm already trying to figure out when the next time I can take something is in case the headache doesn't go away...which happens about 99% of the time.)

I just take nothing; I just live with the pain - I do not like drugs (however, if there is medication that will stop the pain of my chronic illness I will take it). A cold wet cloth on the forehead works pretty well, but then I would just have to lie in bed with the lights off (doing that I could not talk to someone that I really enjoy talking to).

Here's some useless advice I learned while working as a Girl Scout camp staff member.....

Water is wet and fire is hot.

Not very useless, actually.

 

[Kirisutokyoo-shinja]

Originally posted by A Sheep
How can one coerce a person, without hurting their feelings, into using correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, and sentence structure?

 

Basically, just speak the way you speak and perhaps it will rub off on them.  You never know how influential your choice of words can be on another individual's vocabulary repository. Cuz ah wud kno, dat people afta a while seem to conform to mah way of speaking in general. But then again...I don't really have a norm



 

And uh...any advice on my erm...phone number signiture?

 

[A Sheep]

Since signatures have to be 7 lines or less, it has to be shortened. But if you want to have those phone numbers viewable by other people, you can go here: http://www.christianforums.com/member.php?action=custompage and paste all of those numbers in your custom page (also name your custom page, then click "Submit Modifications"), and in your sigvature, simply have a link to your custom page; title the link "Emergency Phone Numbers."

 

[Kirisutokyoo-shinja]

Considering the fact that I have attained...oh...2 post...that won't be necessary for a while. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[A Sheep]

You are welcome. Oh, yeah, that did not come to mind. I guess you can post a new thread entitled "Emergency Phone Numbers" in the Fellowship Court and then in your signature simply have a link to that thread.

 

[* kittie *]

Originally posted by A Sheep
How can one coerce a person, without hurting their feelings, into using correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, and sentence structure?

hmmph...is there something you wanna say A Sheep?  i have some advice for you:

learn to like it, cuz you'll be seeing a lot of it!

 

[* kittie *]

Originally posted by Kirisutokyoo-shinja
 

Basically, just speak the way you speak and perhaps it will rub off on them.  You never know how influential your choice of words can be on another individual's vocabulary repository. Cuz ah wud kno, dat people afta a while seem to conform to mah way of speaking in general. But then again...I don't really have a norm



 

And uh...any advice on my erm...phone number signiture?

he's talking bout me