Chook, There are 2 people inside of me...the polite one who would say to your friend, Thank you for that advice, I will take it under advisement...and the honest Me, who would buy him a very large cactus and then tell him to sit on it...and then tell him to harden up as a doctor plucked 15000 needles out of his private parts...just saying...
But since you are probably so much nicer than I am, you might consider him being moved from the 'friend' column to the 'person I do not need in my life' column...
Sharon