What (trivial) knowledge might save your life one day?

1. Don’t let animals - eg your pets, lick your food, butter etc - toxoplasmosis is not fun.
2. Don’t do drugs, (especially illegal ones) you have no idea if the wee packet of powder you have just bought off your ‘pal’ who get’s from his ‘pal’ who get’s off his ‘pal’ is cocaine or caustic soda mixed with, if you’re lucky maybe a wee bit of speed.
3. Don’t smoke, it will kill you. It’s taken three of my family.
4. Don’t drink too much, as above, just not necessarily as quickly. It’s taken one of my family.
5. Don’t sleep around too much, I don’t suppose STD’s are much fun, much like I assume HIV/Aids isn’t. If you feel the need to ‘sow your wild oats’ then always wear protection.
6. Love, laugh and live. Hate, bitterness and fear will ruin your life and it’s highlights. There is always something good around every corner, sometimes you just have to wait.
7. Don’t ignore male (or female) depression. It is a very lonely place and picking your tree to end it all is easier than some might think.
8. To repeat the line in the song “Wear sunscreen”. The sun causes cancer - although it feels like doesn’t everything these days!?
9. To quote the self help book “Feel the fear and do it anyway” otherwise you’ll very possibly miss out on life’s good things or at the very least beat yourself up later in life for not doing it.
10. For that matter, don’t support Scotland or any Scottish team either and at anything, we will break your heart and on a regular basis and consistently so. I think it must be some law up here.
11. Don’t support England at anything, literally anything in a establishment that serves alcohol and shows live sport in Glasgow, Dundee, Edinburgh or Aberdeen. (or any major suburb) This is a law. Partially joking, partial decent life saving advice, most of us are pretty decent but there are drunken idiots everywhere. ;-)

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