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?

I will always suggest it if I see red flags and I am not bothered if it makes people groan and roll their eyes.

I do as well.

Thank you.

I would like to believe they were trying to be kind rather than intentionally cruel, but I felt so incredibly vulnerable at the time that it felt like a twist of the knife. I am glad I had a small scrap of strength at that point to take it with a pinch of salt.

Someone else, however, might not and it may affect them negatively.

I just saw the computers

Although rabid computers would have been in keeping with the tone of the stand-off thread, which had MNers offering to come and dress as zombies for a giant thriller-dance-off at the rude woman. And then in the middle of it all came 'the why don't you just walk ' suggestion.

I remember the poster in question commenting on it 'only being 2 miles' when I'd actually said it was 2 miles to the main road I needed to use to get to nursery. It was actually more than 4 in total, but even a 4 mile round trip each day with an 18 month old, while working from home, would have been pushing it, leaving aside the fact it would be a suicide mission on those roads!

There's also the posters who love to take anything as a personal insult."Well, I was 30 minutes late to pick up my child once because I was at the hospital with my dying mother, then got in a car accident after driving home from a charity, and my phone died because my battery died because my autistic son unplugged it the night before. But I guess it's ok to call SS on struggling people who have dying parents and SN children to take care of you insensitive bastard!"

Ugh, those ones make me sprain my eyeballs.

I just recalled something, because I've just spoken to a friend; this friend was years ago, the subject of a thread I started seeking advice. She had, after a stressful pregnancy, had her baby, very early at 27 week, at this stage all was ok, baby was home and three months old (not adjusted) and I hadn't seen her yet, nor had she seen anyone. I come on to ask at what stage those that who had had a premature baby had felt comfortable leaving the house. In other words I wanted to know should I be concerned about her mental well being or was it normal to be very cautious.

There were a handful of posters that told me that she obviously didn't like me and I should just fuck off.

The best advice ever comes from the posters who wade into a thread where a intelligent, reasonable discussion is going on about something and say..

"Well I just asked my husband and he said....."

And never offer their own opinion at all.

It's as if all of us women are struggling to have a point of view and need a big manly man to show us the way.

its a personal bugbear of mine

"Well I just asked my husband and he said....."

I know, gets my goat every time (unless the husband has some specialist knowledge pertinent to the matter).

Compo you never mentioned that you had a goat!

Is it a girl or a boy?

A girl-goat called Demi-Jade.

We enjoy watching my 50" plasma screen TV whilst counting the ill-gotten loot from my fraudulent benefit claim.

Elsa, my hubs agrees with you. Xxx

Thank goodness your hubster was there to validate my opinion purple I can't believe I had the nerve to air it without approval from a man in the first place

Thank goodness your hubster

I am a gentleman-mumsnetter, but I am planning on divorcing my wife and entering a same-sex marriage, just so I have a husband to validate any opinions I may have on any given topic.

You can always ask your wife's husband.

That is showing some real dedication to the cause there Compos

In all fairness if anyone came on a thread and said they had just asked their wife and she said.... and didn't offer their own opinion I would be just as annoyed, but I've never seen that happen, yet.

Your wife may be upset for a while, she may even cry. Tsk. But tell her it's for the greater good.

You can always ask your wife's husband

Nah, he's a bit of a tosser.

Not exactly advice but...
OP asks if partner is abusive or has anger management / MH problems.
Someone asks OP "Does he shout at people at work/ show aggression to people in the street/ kick the cat/ swear at his mum...
Hmmm?
No?
Thought not".

Anytime you mention you want to eat healthy all of a sudden everyone shouts eating disorder.

No its not an eating disorder but I know eating a donut will make me feel shit in an hour and would take loads of exercise to burn off so I'm much happier not to.

I don't get why that's cherry? Surely the idea is that, if someone who manages their anger at work, the problem isn't their ability to manage it. It's their choice not to manage it around their partner.

Anytime you mention you want to eat healthy all of a sudden everyone shouts eating disorder.

Bollocks, do they.

Problem: I had a row with

Answer: Go no contact

I mean does that ever actually work for anyone ever?

I think im an alcoholic.
I think you should give up alcohol.

I'm homeless
Book yourself in to a b and b

I'm suicidal.
Ring the samaritans and think of your children.

My husband is having an affair
Have you considered couples counselling?

I think giving the Samaritans phone number to someone who says they're feeling suicidal is a sensible thing to do.