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?

bugger off, even

Have a cream egg instead, Narp.

Lweji

Nah, don't try and get round me

Ach, OK then. Only if it's an old-fashioned one though. The new ones are rubbish

I think it's already been mentioned but when a poster has a physical condition that is already being addressed/investigated but not to their satisfaction...

Someone will pop on the thread and say 'I'd go to your GP/A and E and demand to be seen/given what you want and refuse to leave.

I've been a HCP for almost twenty years and IME, that usually results in an awful scene where the person is often removed by security.

I've even seen people say 'those that kick up the most fuss get what they want'. They really don't usually and it can result in people being removed from GP surgery caseloads and having to try to find somewhere else.

Got to be honest....if someone randomly gave me an Creme Egg, it would definitely pick my mood up.

Although I would imagine some mner would tell me that it might be poisoned and to set fire to it immediately

I'm loving this thread, it's cheering me up.

Bit shocked that one of my posts has come up though

Axekick

Particularly if the one giving you the egg was like this.

When someone is ill and is getting pressure from a boss to go into work, and is told if they have a sick note, they can't be sacked. Totally wrong. People can be, and are sacked for being off ill. And not just by dodgy firms either. Our Local Authority has sacked quite a few people for being off sick.

'Oh he/she sounds like he/she has autism/asperges or whatever.'

Yes, bacause its really easy to diagnose people from a few paragraphs on the Internet. You see this all the time and it's ridiculous. It's ok to suggest speaking to a gp or health visitor or whatever but giving a diagnoses over the Internet is irresponsible.

LurcioAgain

I agree completely regrading women feeling they need a medical label to validate their lived experience that their partner/husband is an utter bastard to live with. It seems that without a label of unfixable personality disorder, many women feel obliged to keep waiting for the bloke to change.

Remembering that is the only thing that stops me posting, "so where did you do your doctorate, hmm?" on threads!

Giving ANY advice to people who are having suicidal thoughts other than giving phone numbers of the Samaritans. Giving sympathy and 'listening' ' is ok.

I dispair when I see posters telling people who are suicidal to 'think of their children' when they may well be thinking of their children and thinking that their children will be better off without them. I suspect some people with suicidal thoughts are not thinking that rationally.

I think someone touched on this upthread, but I remember a poster saying she had a problem with her son's pre-school. She was advised to report to Ofsted. But she lived in Belfast, and Ofsted only cover England and Wales. So she politely pointed that out. And was argued with repeatedly that Ofsted was the answer. It was as if people thought that she could ring some Ofsted helpline and they would suddenly launch an inspection on a nursery that was outside their area of responsibility

LTB
Cut off your friends.
NC with your family is the only way.
(We're your friends now)

Threads on children who are bold,the first thing thrown out is asperagers,on the spectrum.The child might just be a brat.[thlsgrin].

Omg the autism advise. Cause obviously every child who's ever been naughty has it.

The go to your a&e and don't leave advise as mentioned above

The leave the bastard advise

The one i always remember is a woman who was pissed off at her DH for not putting the supper in the oven and she got called abusive and controlling

Lewij been a long week but I have a hazy memory that it was a nursery parking thread where it was suggested. Might have been another random bar of chocolate to start with but by the end of the thread it had morphed into hand out creme eggs to pissed off people.

Always an eggcellent idea. It will really throw them off. :)

"Go to your GP to get proof you felt poorly yesterday and accidentally set off your phone camera in the toilets and got escorted off the premises."

Feel bad for the OP but a GP appt isn't going to provide anything to make the incident less embarrassing.....especially not "proof" she felt unwell.

No wonder the NHS is on its knees if this is the publics' perception of the role of a GP

lweji love that!!! I defo will avoid her though. No matter how much I need a Creme egg, to solve the worlds problems

I remember a post in Pregnancy, it was quite sad really. People even agreed with the ridiculous answer of the poster!

Q I'm 17 and pregnant, but I only work part time. My DP works full time and can provide for us. We live together. Any advice on where to go from here?"

A DON'T YOU SEE? YOU ARE RUINING THAT CHILDS LIFE BEFORE ITS EVEN BORN, ABORT!

Those were her words... Anyone else clock on to the irony in her second sentence?

I don't think it's good form to mention current threads unless you've said the same thing on that thread

Don't let this become a taat or it will be deleted.

I am going start carrying a multipack of Creme eggs around. You know, just in case.

I have been thinking about posting about DS, but haven't as I know I will get the 'could he be autistic' line thrown in.

I also hate the 'you clearly know nothing about AS' assumption. Actually I do. My usual response is 'I do know a bit as I have Aspergers, o just happen to disagree with you'

You see the UN are missing a trick really. Just drop Creme Eggs and flasks of tea into war torn countries. Problem solved!