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?

Having problems at DC's school? Immediately withdraw them and homeschool....

[grin} purpleponcho

OP: lost my job, hunting for a new one but really struggling to make ends meet.

Response: you must be paying out money for an Internet service if you are using mumsnet?! Cancel your broadband!!

OP: I can't afford broadband, I'm using the data allowance on my phone.

Response: well you must have a smart phone to be using the Internet. Sell the phone!!

No word of a lie I actually saw this once as advice.

show them this thread

I'd love to hear from anyone, or about anyone, who has actually taken that advice and what the consequences were. Bloody stupid.

OP: I am staring at a work colleague all the time, she seems uncomfortable.
A: She probably fancies you, but is shy

OP: She never looks me in the eye even if I stare really hard walking towards her
A: That's what I'd do if I fancy somebody and I'm shy

OP: She walks the long way now avoiding me
A: She's shy and fancies you

get a sling.

seriously not everyone wants a radiator that ways iver a stone attached to their sore from BF chest. they want to be able to put the baby down not hold it more.

My mother in law put a plastic bottle in the general waste instead of the recycling.

'Narcissistic bitch. Go NC.'

I saw that one, reni! He was so obviously creeping the poor woman out and everyone was saying she secretly fancied him.

Bake your own bread (when OP is a bit skint)

Leave your bastard of a husband and bring the kids back to the UK without bothering to ask his permission (endless times when OP is abroad- because she really fancies doing time for kidnapping her own kids right?)

Complain to the school/the governors/the LEA/the PM/the Queen/God when Junior gets shouted at or gets given a whole 5 spellings to learn over the next 10 days.

Agree with "show them this thread".

I can't imagine that ever ends well.

Poor people should feed their families on blackberries.

OP: "I am annoyed/fed up/angry/bored/feeling a bit sad"
MN: "you have depression, go for counselling"

It's like you are not allowed to feel any negative emotion without it being labelled 'depression'. And counselling is always the answer. Really pisses me off.

I do love MN, though.

I'm really struggling to find a job/ need extra hours / finding it very difficult to get back into the job market :
Answer : Become a childminder - yes because it's that's easy

Agreed Giles. Slings just made me very sweaty and uncomfortable, I couldn't wait to peel it off during the very hot summer DS1 was born. it felt like still being pregnant.

Some of these are brilliant!!

OP: My husband has been drinking for three days/nights straight, he left on Tuesday and fell in the door at 8am, I'm wrecked from having the 4 dc's alone and it's only 9am, what will I do?

Chorus of replies: Leave him with the dc's and go off for coffee and and magazine in peace

Eh ya cause leaving children in charge of a someone drunk as a skunk is totally fair and it is ALWAYS said on threads like that, I read it and think it's times like these we should be able to reach through the screen and slap people!!

That frying anything in Extra Virgin Olive Oil will KILL you, with unspecified diseases. Followed by posters expressing amazement that not everybody knows this.

I might unhide the Relationships topic. I seem to be missing all the interesting advice.

OP: lost my job, struggling to make ends meet, there's bills to pay that I just can't afford.

Response: set up a business from home.

Yes, because it really is that easy to just set up a business and start making decent money

My baby doesn't sleep and I'm on the verge of suicide from exhaustion.

They're only little for such a short while. Just co-sleep and wear a sling and rock them.

There's a few prolific posters on the relationships board that seem to push their own agenda rather than offer advice.

Any post about property/rent prices in the south East

'move up north/Wales'

Yes, because buying a 3 bed in Bradford for £150k is what everyone in the SE wants to do when they have been born and bred, all their friends and job is in the SE.

Definitely the spa day.

My DH is a shit and does fuck all round the house.

Have a spa day. Or go out for a coffee. That'll learn him!

'My DH and I do exactly 50:50 household chores and childcare - if yours doesn't you should LTB'

On the pet board, someone recommending a cat that was covered in itchy sores from a reaction to flea bites to cover the poor sod in lemon juice. OUCH!!