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?

Minky - I have a feeling the dropped my mobile and got escorted off the premises thread may go poof sometime soon and not because it got dropped on the floor. ..

'Call women's aid'.

In cases where the OP appears to be in an abusive relationship that is potentially helpful advice.

But I also see it suggested on threads where the OP is just exiting a non - abusive relationship and is worried about finances/housing/navigating contact arrangements.

I'm not criticising posters who suggest it as they are well - meaning but I think often, they've seen it suggested on other threads and assume Women's Aid is some kind of helpline/advice service for women.

It isn't. It's an over - stretched charity that is designed to help women and their children exit abusive relationships.

I liked the thread when op said they were finding it difficult to manage with only one family car and someone suggested they buy another car! Amazing advice. I bet the op was glad she posted.

I hate the ones where op is really upset and posters shout at her for saying 'I should of' instead of 'I should have' and how she had no paragraphs etc. There is a time and a place for being pedantic.

I just thought of one. I asked for some advice about my sister after finding something out about her and was worried. (She's a lot younger than me and this still dependant on mum)

I received no advice just a lot if people telling me I was horrid and must have been stalking her.... Not that anyone has ever said something to someone realising they didn't know... As why my case. And a lot of people telling me I was definitely lying

Oh! Recently on here, someone was APPALLED that OP fed her dogs raw chicken. That made me LOL for days.

Move house. Find a bigger place.

Like its that fucking easy!

I've seen a fair bit of bad advice given about banking queries. About the process for debit card disputes, direct debits that go wrong, banking complaints they're not happy with, charges and fees and so on. I've worked in banking for 10 years and much of what people think they know is actually bollocks.

Some people just pull information out of their arse when they have no idea what they're talking about.

OP: 'I'm fucked, I have no money.'

Poster: 'Check your Paypal account.'

If you have no money for food bake your own bread.

Oh, yeah, because I've been ignoring the yeast and flour in my cupboard for a laugh.

If you can't wfford something being told its only x number of takeout coffee. Newsflash many people can't afford coffee shop coffee.

When I posted saying I was stressed just because I worked full time & had to do the school run & pay the mortgage & really wanted to move to a desert island...I was told to downsize.

I've fecking done that....twice. A desert island is my only option now.

What about when op says she is struggling with kids, job, life, and never mentions a DH and posters say her dh could look after the kids while she goes for a night out or a spar

Spa even

When I first came to mn about 4 years ago I got drawn into a sahm vs wohm and one poster said 'women should have the right to choose for themseleves.....that said I think being a wohm is fucking selfish and neglectful'

I bowed out of the thread at that point.

I think an awful lot of bad advice is given by people who have literally no idea what it's like to be actually, properly, poor. Some people think being poor is not being able to afford a new car every three years, or having to have their hair cut every eight weeks instead of every six. And with the best will in the world, they are never going to understand what it's like to have no money.

Op Living in London is so expensive randoms move north !never fails to make me lol. Jus t move north like the north is one place

Oh and a more recent one

Op 'I have been buying unlicensed drugs off the internet and dr says it making me ill'

Answer 'no worse than having a glass of wine on a night, keep doing what you think is best'

lynette have you considered the north

She would obviously prefer a desert island MrsJayy aibu to be insulted at that

I'm just breaking my bollix laughing at this thread.Its really a great tonic.

Starling you're spot on. Some posters on here are like Tory politicians, they claim to know what it's like to have no money but really they have no fucking clue. Some posters think that being poor is having one less holiday each year or getting a smaller car

North London

Yes! There was one thread on here where the OP really wanted to buy a flat within zone 1. Cue loads of posters telling her to buy a house in Essex / Surrey and commute for an hour (exactly what she said she didn't want).