When someone (usually a parent) tells you a story about how they used to complete a task that is almost exactly like one you have to do when they were your age in order to get you to perform your task the same way. They do not say it is advice - they just tell you the story and leave it at that.

Intelligence agency term for "psychological operation". A government or corporate-sponsored operation, usually taking the form of a "terrorist attack" or "crazed gunman on a spree", with the intent of panicking the public into demanding more police and laws inhibiting freedom. Psyops are usually carried out by drugging a civilian or group of civilians with aggression-promoting drugs, psyching them up, arming them, and sending them out to commit mayhem. Government-sponsored terrorism. See also blackshirts, conspiracy