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?

the threads where a poster is really skint and her house is a mess....cries of get a cleaner, jesus wept, skint folk are the fucking cleaners!!

also the feminism boards make my eyes water, man hating bitches dressed up as forward thinking feminists some of them are

OP: A woman was rude to me today.

MN: She was probably having a bad day! You should have taken her out for a coffee, offered to look after the kids, and given her your support. She is probably a Mn-netter!

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OP: A man was rude to me today.

MN: Dial 999 immediately!

OP: I was in a restaurant with the kids earlier and I needed the toilet. I struggled to take them with me.

MN: There was probably a Mumsnetter nearby who could have watched the kids for you?

WTF!!! Who would leave their kids with some stranger whom they think they know from the internet?

I never understood all this advice telling people to practically move in with, cook and clean fir and to spend hours chatting daily to all these people so vile their family don't even visit them.

man hating bitches dressed up as forward thinking feminists some of them are

I don't think I've once visited that board.

its a revelation servingsuggestion

on every other part of the boards you're not allowed to be goady or trolly or sock puppety or anything too un-pc, but my god get onto the feminism board and you can call men every name under the sun and run them into the ground and its okay, cos you're a feminist

I think your posts say more about you than the feminism board ssd

I knew this thread would descend into this.

yeah, I hate women and am a disgrace to the sisterhood purple, well done for spotting this....

Any specific examples, ssd?

What ssd said.

Any specific examples, ssd?

Oh do shut up and bore off.

Gwenwhyfar I didn't know that Ofsted only covered England. If anything that makes the 'you need to contact Ofsted' advice even more ridiculous!

Wtf? You sound lovely.

Someone said on a thread this week that 95% of MN users avoid the Feminism topic.

i am part of that 95% with it firmly hidden. But unfortunately threads keep escaping from it.

Get a sling.

Baby feeding every 12 minutes - get a sling.
Baby is teething - get a sling.
Baby won't sleep - get a sling.
Baby can't stay awake - get a sling.
My MIL wants to baby-sit - get a sling.
DD keeps being mistaken for a boy - get a pink sling adorned with unicorns.

You get the idea.
(I got a sling. DD hated every second in it.)

Oh , people who live in rural areas and who's children attend a predominantly WB schopl should move from.their lovely house and outstanding school to some grotty deprived town with no employment opportunities in the parents fields so their children can attend a more diverse school no matter how terrible.the school is or their children will grow up to be racists.

Oh, and there was the poster who said that a baby bf-ing every 20 minutes day and night would cause her no issues as it was purely a mindset thing - 'you just view it in the same way as breathing and allow unfettered nipple access at all times'...

Fnar.

'unfettered nipple access at all times' sounds a bit alarming.

Generally the advice is good but there are a lot of armchair psychiatrists out there and a lot of over-reactors to some really trivial stuff that wouldn't merit more than a passing in RL, but can produce a thread that is such a corker you know someone is going to pop up and say "only on MN" as if there are no other chat sites where keyboard warriors assemble

At least the phrase "I pity your children" has fallen out of favour.

I worry though with call 101 and ss being mocked as silly advice if this might result in people thinking it is silly advice when it isn't.

It is very hard to persuade the victims of DV to contact WA and 101. Yet that is what they need to do. Incidents of DA, even if they are not physical, should be logged for a number of reasons, not least the victims safety.

I know this thread is meant to be light hearted (or so I thought) but the advice to call 101 is MN hysteria meme that is going around just now is potentially deterring women who really do need to do it by telling them its a fuss about nothing and/or police will not take it seriously. (Which is exactly what theur abusers would like them to believe). These women are often already reluctant to believe they have the right to 'bother' the police.

Sometimes 101 is the right thing to do. Better to call and it not be a big deal than to not call and end up in danger.

Can we not have a thread about some of the brilliant advice you get on MN

But that's the problem with the internet. You get a post of a paragraph and then people are expected to make decisions/give advice using just that info.
Maybe in some cases 101/WA is appropriate, maybe it isn't. That's why I don't go onto the Relationships topic. I don't have the knowledge/qualification/skills to advise internet strangers WRT their relationships, and it would just be an opinion/guess and that's not fair.

Has it greenhill? I've been told I shouldn't have children (particularly daughters) and that I clearly hate women by some lovely people that frequent the feminist board. (Despite spending years helping women in RL) Not going to tar everyone with the same brush though. There are some lovely MN feminists too who can put their opinions across without being rude/insulting/aggressive.

Thumb - blind/partially sighted people having better hearing is a myth. Piano tuning is a popular (or popularly encouraged) career for bps people as it's not reliant on sight, hence the high percentage of piano tuners with sight loss.

As Sparkling says I tend to only offer advice on things I've had direct knowledge of, or what I know has happened with friends and their DC.

Sometimes people like to post an opinion on health without any knowledge, just a hunch, or something that happened to their mum 40 years ago.

I'm glad that MNHQ has warnings at the top of threads in mental health, health and relationships that warn people that they haven't checked anyone's qualifications.

I did laugh the other day when someone said they always posted that a school had drug problems when opinions were asked on comparisons with two famous ones, especially when she said, it was in relation to primary schools everything on the internet should be taken with a pinch of salt.