Wise sayings from your old Dad

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Saluki

World class procrastinator
Never wait for anyone for longer than 20 minutes. If they are that late they are not worthy of your time.
He also said that America was the most dangerous country on Earth
Politicians lie. You can always tell when as their lips move.
Politicians are corrupt in thought and deed.
Keep your chain oiled & always carry a repair kit - Dad had a cycling shop :smile:

He said lots of other things too but many not repeatable in polite company.
 

Tiger10

Über Member
Location
Nr warwick
- Dad had a cycling shop :smile:

He said lots of other things too but many not repeatable in polite company.[/QUOTE]

Well it should be fine to tell us on here then!!
 

macp

Guru
Location
Cheshire
Measure twice cut once

The other one which was always said with tongue firmly in cheek was stick with me kid I will show you the world. Years later he remarried had kids and I got booted out so ironic really. We became friends again years later but sadly he passed last year before we could recover some of those years.
 

simon.r

Person
Location
Nottingham
To explain the principles of a 4 stroke engine to me - "suck, squeeze, bang, blow". One I've used recently to explain the same to my step-son.
 

guitarpete247

Just about surviving
Location
Leicestershire
Not my Dad's but my Mum's, to my dad. "If there's nothing you can do about it stop worrying".

Dad is always complaining about something. He has in the past emailed TV companies anout the fact that there adverts are louder than the programmes. Once at the pictures, having taken my young cousin to see a Bond film he went out into the foyer to find the manager to get him to turn the volume down in the cinema. He says they did, she said it was just as loud when he came back to his seat.
 

EltonFrog

Legendary Member
I hadn't seen my dad for 7 years, when I met him again we went down the pub and came back pissed I didn't really know this man at all, I was 18. Standing in his garden having a slash he said to me three things.

" When you pay as much as I do for a mortgage you can piss in you garden if want to"
" Never tell a girl you love her"
" Don't have any feckin' kids."

I've applied 1 & 3.
 

Mrs M

Guru
Location
Aberdeenshire
My dad advised to grab life, you only live once and not long enough (true for him, was only 60) :sad:
My uncle Tommy advised to save hard and get on the property ladder asap (best advice and always remember him saying that, I was about 11). He died young too and left all his money to relatives, wish he'd enjoyed it more.
 
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