to ask what's the worst/silliest advice you've seen on here?

[Francoitalialan]

MN is such a tremendous source of info but sometimes it goes wonky. What's the worst/silliest advice you've seen?

Have a spa day. Solution to everything apparently. Fuck off with your spa days! Do you have any idea how much they cost?!

Telling someone complaining about cats shitting in her garden to get her own cat.

Same shit, different cat.

Loads of times on debt threads there's people giving ridiculously wrong outdated advice ie your hose will be blacklisted etc.

Husband didn't put bins out.

Husband abusive and should LTB.

The three night rule for having bf stay over if you are on benefits.

There is no such rule.

Not exact but very similar.

OP; I have an unavoidable training day while on ML I don't know what to do with my 12 week old baby. I cannot take baby into room with me.

Helpful Poster; Why not take baby to work, I'm sure the receptionist would love to have cuddles while you do your training.

Because of course someone else wants to look after your baby.

OP; A stranger I walked past in town looked a bit weird.

Helpful Poster; Phone 101 and log it.

Generally there is a belief on MN that the State is some form of omni-benevolent entity and therefore there is a corresponding raft of well-meaning, but extremely naive advice to have things 'logged' or 'flagged' with various authorities.

Once information is 'in the system' it is nigh on impossible to get it back.

Giving abusive dangerous partners a second chance if only you could work something out/behave better/dress nicely blah blah blah.
Straight out of the 1950s supposed advice on how to be a good wife.
Sheer bollocks.

your hose will be blacklisted etc.

They don't just stop at your hose!?!

Amused at all the LTB posts for relatively minor offences. Seems most of the Posters have absolutely perfect relationships where neither party ever does anything wrong!

It's the way some people grasp at straws that gets me.

"My husband never remembers my birthday. I've never had a card or a present or even an acknowledgement from him. Today it's my birthday and he's gone out drinking with his friends."

"Do you think he's planning a huge surprise party for you?"

Someone comes on saying they are on a budget and looking for xyz. Cue a gazillion posters linking to amazingly expensive xyzs

Report it. Report this, report that. Call 101. Phone Social Services. Report report report.

Granted there are times when an intervention may be required, but most of it is just a short course in advanced busybodying.

OP: "Help, I dyed my hair blonde but its a bit rusty orange looking, I don't really like the shade"

Response: "Use colour B4, it will strip the colour out and make it your natural colour again".

Uh, no it won't, your hair has been lightened, colour B4 will do exactly nothing.

There's a thread at the moment, OP is on maternity and being asked to go into work but can't take baby.

"Leave baby with a neighbour".

WTF?! I'm sure my neighbours who I barely know and are elderly would be thrilled if I turned up on their doorstep and asked them to look after my 4 month old DC We don't all live in an ideal world where we are friends with our neighbours and pop around to eachothers houses to help each other out. And I'm sure if that was the case, OP would have considered that option.

Invite the horrible bully who is making your dc's life a misery to your child's birthday party. I don't know anyone in rl who would actually do that - so the little sod is hurt that he/she hasn't been invited. Tough.

And yy to spa days. Why are they considered the answer to everything on here? They are my idea of hell. Someone on here described it as being mauled around by strangers whilst listening to whale music. Pretty much sums it up imo

I think it is wrong and dangerous that suicidal posters are encouraged to post on Mumsnet and rely on support from people here. I wish HQ would sort this out.

Clearly "show them this thread" is, 99.9% of the time, utterly ridiculous advice.

However I do have to share some advice I was given myself on here. It was about still using a pushchair for nearly 4yo to get to nursery in the mornings. One poster was so desperate that I give up the pushchair they recommended that I buy a bike and a bike seat, and walk pushing DD on the bike instead of a pushchair

Q. 'There is a slight whiff of weed near my house'

A. Call 999 at once!

Q. 'There are a few sheep on the road'

A. Call 999 at once!

Q. There is a dodgy looking tramp sleeping in my mum's garage.

A. Stop being so judgemental! Take him a flask of soup and a sandwich at once!

'We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do'

Usually in answer to an OP asking if she should have a third child despite her DH not wanting one and them being so broke they're living in a treehouse.

Imperial I know...that sort of inane shite gets on my nerves too. This real life, not Byker Grove ffs. It's not like on the telly you know.

Shirley Glass (religious nut who had been dead for over a decade) holds the answer to all your relationship problems.

"Show them this thread."

Really?