Unsolicited Life Advice: Household

If you're opening an oven, especially if you wear glasses, and unless you're sure that it won't, hold your head out of the way so you don't get a blast of steam in your face which fogs up your glasses.

If you're in the middle of doing something and get distracted, don't rely on your mental stack to recover it. If you're reading an important letter and get distracted, put it on your keyboard, not on a pile. If you're leaving the house and someone speaks to you, lock the door, or hold it open, don't close it and trust yourself to remember to come back and lock it later :)

Unsolicited Life Advice: Being taken seriously as a large organisation

If you want to be taken seriously as a film:

* Do not call any chemical element "unobtainium" even if you think you have a good in-universe justification

If you want to be taken seriously as a long, cross-country highway:

* Have at least two lanes all the way along. Having a roundabout where two lanes have to squish into one at a roundabout, and two lanes in two different directions have to cross each other on a roundabout or slip road, with traffic lights does NOT count for "two lanes all the way along".

If you want to be taken seriously as a country:

* Do not do things that are evil AND don't work. To be honest, you're pushing it with EITHER of those, if you're doing things that are both, you're really fucking up.