Good Advice?
Dec. 8th, 2003 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davywavyI don't know if you've ever heard this little bit of pithy advice:
Dance like nobody is watching
Love like you've never been hurt
Work like you don't need the money
It's an inexplicably popular little mantra because, like most attempts to sum up a philosophy of life in a few lines, it can't possibly succeed. At least one of the lines is self evidently stupid: in terms of advice you shouldn't take, "Work like you don't need the money" ranks up there with "Chop vegetables like you don't need fingers" - if I didn't need the money then I wouldn't be working,duh.
Imagine my first day in the job where I didn't need the money:
David; "Morning, losers!" (skims boss's toupee off his head with an insouciant flick. It skims across the room and catches neatly on the hatstand.
Boss (turning purple) "And what sort of time do you call this, Wade? It's nearly ten to eleven. I hope you've got a good excuse."
David: "Screw you, baldy. I've just won the National Lottery."
This is not going to lead to rapid upward career progression.
And as for "Love like you've never been hurt", it sounds like a wild, uninhibited piece of life advice but applied to reality could lead to all kinds of problems ("Yeah, I know Darren used to knock me abaht, but Wayne is a real gentleman, like. He sez that if he can't have me, nobody can. Isn't that just so romantic?").
Now as far as I know, advertising does not usually impinge on me at a conscious level, but strolling home at about 4am on Saturday morning with nothing else to think about I noticed that Bacardi Rum is using this in it's current poster campaign, with pictures of people dancing like nobody is watching or loving like they've never been hurt whilst living the Bacardi lifestyle. I really had to laugh. Encouraging people to act irresponsibly whilst under the influence of booze makes for an attractive and exciting advertising campaign, but I'm not sure it's really all that ethical. In that light I'd like to present a few more lines that Bacardi might use, based upon the way people usually act when they've had a few too many:
Drink like you've never tasted alcohol
Smoke like they're good for you
Make Love like you've never heard of contraception
Drive like you've never had a lesson
Talk to girls like you've never seen breasts
One could extend the advice to other spheres of life, too.
Jog like you don't have a heart condition.
Scratch yourself like nobody's looking.
When you think about it they're just as sensible long-term lifestyle plans as the originals and, unlike the first, they don't pretend to be deep, meaningful, or anything else that they're not.
Dance like nobody is watching
Love like you've never been hurt
Work like you don't need the money
It's an inexplicably popular little mantra because, like most attempts to sum up a philosophy of life in a few lines, it can't possibly succeed. At least one of the lines is self evidently stupid: in terms of advice you shouldn't take, "Work like you don't need the money" ranks up there with "Chop vegetables like you don't need fingers" - if I didn't need the money then I wouldn't be working,duh.
Imagine my first day in the job where I didn't need the money:
David; "Morning, losers!" (skims boss's toupee off his head with an insouciant flick. It skims across the room and catches neatly on the hatstand.
Boss (turning purple) "And what sort of time do you call this, Wade? It's nearly ten to eleven. I hope you've got a good excuse."
David: "Screw you, baldy. I've just won the National Lottery."
This is not going to lead to rapid upward career progression.
And as for "Love like you've never been hurt", it sounds like a wild, uninhibited piece of life advice but applied to reality could lead to all kinds of problems ("Yeah, I know Darren used to knock me abaht, but Wayne is a real gentleman, like. He sez that if he can't have me, nobody can. Isn't that just so romantic?").
Now as far as I know, advertising does not usually impinge on me at a conscious level, but strolling home at about 4am on Saturday morning with nothing else to think about I noticed that Bacardi Rum is using this in it's current poster campaign, with pictures of people dancing like nobody is watching or loving like they've never been hurt whilst living the Bacardi lifestyle. I really had to laugh. Encouraging people to act irresponsibly whilst under the influence of booze makes for an attractive and exciting advertising campaign, but I'm not sure it's really all that ethical. In that light I'd like to present a few more lines that Bacardi might use, based upon the way people usually act when they've had a few too many:
Drink like you've never tasted alcohol
Smoke like they're good for you
Make Love like you've never heard of contraception
Drive like you've never had a lesson
Talk to girls like you've never seen breasts
One could extend the advice to other spheres of life, too.
Jog like you don't have a heart condition.
Scratch yourself like nobody's looking.
When you think about it they're just as sensible long-term lifestyle plans as the originals and, unlike the first, they don't pretend to be deep, meaningful, or anything else that they're not.
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Date: 2003-12-08 05:40 am (UTC)Love like you're not getting paid.
Dance like you've never been hurt.
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Date: 2003-12-08 05:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-08 05:53 am (UTC)This would involve replying to LJ entries all day, not that I ever would... erm, ooops.
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Date: 2003-12-08 05:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-08 07:30 am (UTC)Suprisingly he couldn't dance, He didn't know how to love, and he was unemployed!
Not that i'm bitter!
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Date: 2003-12-08 07:56 am (UTC)My favorite. ;)
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Date: 2003-12-08 07:57 am (UTC)Hello!
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Date: 2003-12-08 09:47 am (UTC)Problems. queries, comments...
Date: 2003-12-08 09:56 am (UTC)1 - Where's the fun in that?!?
2 - This often leads to unfortunate colliding incidents
Love like you've never been hurt
1 - Club Wicked bans this sort of talk I think
2 - We are not all virgins.
Work like you don't need the money
1 - So, basically, surf all day? Check...
2 - This is a Good Attitude. If only my bank would adopt it.
There is actually a fourth line missing...
Live like its heaven on earth
1 - I'm a witch
2 - I cannot play the harp
3 - Surely this is what terrified Chicken Lickin?
Now, as for...
Work like nobodys watching - check. LJ and music on.
Love like your not getting paid - check. Hey, I was young!
Dance like you've never been hurt - check. Splits? What splits? Knees? Oh they send you on holidays to Europe to get free new ones now!
ps, Hi... wandered over from likes of
I'm working like nobodys watching. No-one else is in the office.
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Date: 2003-12-08 10:29 am (UTC)Re: Problems. queries, comments...
Date: 2003-12-09 01:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-09 12:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-25 05:39 pm (UTC)I've always thought that the original can be summed up thusly: Live like you have a brain injury.