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?

To someone facing a cat 5 hurricane, who is following all official advice, to break into a car and drive.

Go to A&E for..........absolutely everything, then when you point out that it's unnecessary and can be solved by either waiting or seeing the GP, someone will come along and say......... "don't listen to her, go straight to A&E, my auntie Doris had exactly what you're describing OP and she was dead within 42 hours, but not before they'd sawn her left leg off, removed her spleen, given her IV antibiotics and rehomed her cat

Or the threads will my 37 year old dc be alright in the house while I nip to the shops.

I just don't understand why people don't make decisions, rather than ask strangers on the web about it.

The ones that really really grind my gears are the ones relating to being guilty of transphobia unless you accept every single argument in favour of unrestricted access to every single all female environment. No exceptions (such as transition or sexual assault or sensitivity of subject), no consideration to the needs of anyone not trans, no acknowledgement of the fact that it smacks of a male against female point scoring to insist that a man, who looks male with male genitalia, who dresses as a man most of the time can still feel like a woman, have full access to all female services regardless and who are we to argue.

StarlingMurmuration - I think you have hit the nail on the head about people who are poor, most people don't struggle in a meaningful way, with regards to poverty although everyone has to manage their own money so they think they "know what they are talking about".

I think your theory works for health as well. I have seen advice given to chronically ill friends (a friend with diabetes) and I have also received it as I suffer from recurrent bladder infections. I have noticed two things

1. The person giving the advice is always someone who has had a "chronic illness" (not really).

1. Has overcome it using some bizarre diet / remedy (e.g., homeopathy, veganism).

It just makes me question - were they chronically ill or did they just have health anxiety? It really gets on my wick.

That everything in life would be so much better if only I believed in God.

Think I remember a thread about someone's cat being taken in and fed by the neighbour, and a poster was adamant they should call 999 next time they saw the neighbour with the cat because it constituted a theft in progress.

I just don't understand why people don't make decisions, rather than ask strangers on the web about it.

True. But it would kind of spoil mumsnet.

I think my favourite post I've seen on here about getting medical care was one poster that informed the OP that they needed to seek immediate help because she had been 'fatally ill' with the same symptoms.

Fatally.

Serious stuff.

Yy the twats helpful posters who offer homeopathic remedies to the OP whose dp/dc has just been diagnosed with a life limiting illness

As per my previous post, a very knowledgeable person will always come along and attribute your diagnosed illness to a thyroid problem

And similarly not everyone has the skillset or education or even necessarily the ability to get a really highly paid job - so if they're struggling to make ends meet in the job they currently have, it might not be much use to say "Get a better paid job, OP".

Or worse, when a woman is being blatently financially abused/controlled by a much better paid partner or husband, usually because she's given up full time work or become a SAHM to raise their kids with his full agreement, saying something like "Get a fully time job that pays more than him, OP. I earn five times what my DH does and I highly recommend it!" Um, ok, I'll just stop working at ASDA and become a stockbroker then, wish I'd thought of that!

Some of the medical advice really scares me. I saw a poster with an ear infection advised to put onion juice in it because that was a natural way to cure it. Lots of posters recommend putting oil on burns which is a big no no. Then there's the anti-vaxxers who are in a class of their own.

Ah I see the "it must be your thyroid and/or lupus" posters have already been mentioned.

I posted about struggling with juggling the loss of status of my part time role and Dh's full time job which involves significant travel and missing my time with the two DC's. I got told to LTB if he didn't put my career before his and to go full time and get a nanny. Yes because getting a nanny is so cheap and so much better than spending time with your kids when you are lucky enough to be able to. And DH should obviously drop everything at work every time I say so.

Never posted about that sort of thing since.

MrsJayy Fri 23-Oct-15 20:59:41
lynette have you considered the north

Anyone who doesn't realise me moving to a desert island is the answer to my woes is just silly.

usual, I'm quite literally on the floor laughing

I was advised to wear ankle boots with a certain dress once....so fucking wrong. Haven't 100% trusted S&B since....I mean, who takes fashion advice from someone you can't see?

Anyway, the boots and the dress combo never happened.

Oh and you know (well hopefully you can say no) you are having a miscarriage, and it's that hellish period were it's actually happening and your having scan and the such like

If you unfortunately post here, because you want to let the anguish out, there's always posters who tell you 'not to lose hope, because it's possible to bleed in pregnancy and it be ok'

Yep thanks, I've mentioned I'm passing clots, but go on bang on about the ridiculous possibility I'm still pregnant.

I think my favourite was someone on a Sleep thread who stated that they had had four children and teething pain was a myth. None of their children had had any issues with teeth and therefore other parents claiming their babies were awake due to teething were just, well, imagining it.

But that's just one example of the many, many people who project 'my kids were fine about xyz' to 'people who have a problem with xyz are CLEARLY DOING IT WRONG'. My personal fave are those who turn up on food threads to say that they never gave their children snacks, ergo NO CHILDREN NEED SNACKS.

Moln been there. :( (clinging to hope and all)