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?

There's no equivalence between buying a poppy and being awarded a medal for bravery.

One can be obtained for pennies (and from what I can see in the media, is usually done for "look at me, I'm wearing a poppy" reasons); the other is awarded for valour in battle so extraordinary it demands recognition - is it really so strange that someone would want to hang on to a symbol of that?

WHERE is this cream egg thread? I want to see it.

I'd like to see the vc one.

I'd like to see the vc one again.

Im sure she said something about having a damp rented flat that wouldn't get fixed and couldn't afford to move out of.

I think people that place so much importance on an object are funny. Selling the medal doesn't take anything away from how it was earnt, and as most are on display allows more people to see it.

It's so sad how some people only see the monetary value of something, rather than the significance and value of it's story and history. Especially when they show it in such a callous, grabby way.

Nobody knows it's story or history, and it is hidden away in a drawer! It's just a very expensive trinket without those. The man who knew it's meaning, good or bad, kept them secret...and is dead. It's no more significant than his watch, or best pen, or glasses with no history.

To allow a living descendant of the owner live in squalor for the sake of keeping it in a drawer is a bigger insult than selling it.

I think the VC one was deleted.

Quite honestly that OP was entitled.

The medal was not hers and the mother wanted to keep it. End of.

I don't recall the Op living in squalor. Not saying she wasn't but I don't remember that.

I do remember her getting stroppy because her mother wouldn't use it to buy a house. Parents are not obliged to buy their children a house whether they could sell something to pay for it or not.

The medal was the the owners fathers. My nana dies 15 years ago. Mum has her jewellery. Never wears it and never sold it. I would be appalled if dbro tried to force her to sell it to give him a deposit.

Oh and we have dhs grandad a medals in a drawer. We know they are worth quite a bit and no I wouldn't sell them.