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?

op: sometimes my relationship with my mum/dad etc is difficult I love them but find it hard at times to spend time with them and wish I could change things

mn: cut them out go NC

op: but i just want to be able to know how to deal with our relationship

mn: its impossible you need to go NC

I must admit that I've been on a Spa Day

AND I really enjoyed it!

I had two different types of massage so I didn't look any different, but I felt fab Didn't cure or solve anything though

I can't imagine that ever ends well.

I wonder do they imagine the partner/friend/parent who was the subject of the thread will react with 'golly gee, now I've read the responses from anonymous to aa brief, unuanced, one sided version of the problem I have completely changed my mind. And thanks for splashing my private life all over the internet for a group of strangers to pore over, that really helps build trust.'

you forgot to add "it's normal fir them to not sleep ever and feed round the clock, call to boost supply and pump in between so eventually your baby can be left off you long enough to have a bath" geneva

ffs give to dp let him.give a bottle and go take a nap.

It's the women breadwinner ones that get me:-

'My DH is a SAHD, he hasn't done the ironing so I'm not giving him his allowance this week. Aibu? '

'no yanbu.tell him to buck up his ideas. He's taking advantage of you'

I think it is wrong and dangerous that suicidal posters are encouraged to post on Mumsnet and rely on support from people here. I wish HQ would sort this out.

They are not at all. You are supposed to report threads with suicidal posts to MNHQ.

"Sleep when baby sleeps" Gee- thanks, only she can and I can't do it in 15 min bursts spread evenly over 24h and I do and she doesn't have to work, sort out clean clothing and food for us all.

Exactly compos.

'Sleep when baby sleeps' always a bit dodgy advice when you have a two year old and a newborn.

"Do your own research" which really means "Google!"

I'm amazed at the perfect lives and relationships that people on here have. I was once told I was abusive because I'd slammed a door!

I know right Malice! Talking above a gentle agreeable whisper is abusive for some of these people!

ask for this thread to be moved - AIBU is full of cunts

when actually people can be very kind and supportive as well as cunts

what gets me is it's usually the posters ONLY contribution to the thread (or AIBU)

and YY to the spider ones - look if I could catch them it wouldn't be such a scary issues now would it

"I've just had to pay a huge bill and have £4.32 in my purse for the week."

"Couldn't you use your credit card?"

"I found £17 down the back of my sofa - check yours!"

"Ask the bank for an overdraft."

Really - do people think the OP would be posting if those were options?

I must admit that I've been on a Spa Day

I hope your husband was drunk at home in charge of your dc, not doing the housework cause he was smoking weed and on his xbox or otherwise it wasn't a proper spa day at all

Some of the advice when people post with an immediate financial problem, whilst well meaning, is a bit bollocks mind you half the threads themselves are bollocks

Eg I have five DC, no money at all for two weeks and nothing to eat

Solutions:

Look down the back of the couch (yes 15p will do nicely)
Ask a neighbour? (My neighbours would probably punch me if I rocked up and asked for money)

Once I remember someone being advised to shoplift...

oh and the fucking NITS ones ...'use hair straighteners/mayo/dog poo/fucking fairy dust' NO use nit killer ffs

just comb it (every night for 14 nights when you have 3 kids with thick long hair)

and I use Tee fucking tree and we never have them

OP: I have no money for Christmas. Help me make it through on a mega-budget.

A:spend £6 on pot pourri oil from white company, it's cheaper than their proper room scents.

I think the OP was worried about the basics, not scent-layering her living room. Am sure the poster meant well but did make me laugh at how different people interpret having "no money".

Q. "My husband sometimes goes out to the garden shed and smokes a joint"

A. OMG you are living with a vile junkie, what about the children, you should leave him at once, at once I say!

I think I hate the 'learn to drive ones' or 'get a cleaner' as they treat the poster like an idiot whilst being incredibly ignorant to the barriers faced by the poster (be they financial, time, health etc)

So when someone posts about difficulties with public transport and inevitably you get the response of

'Learn to drive and buy a car'

Does the person offering it really thinking that the op is sitting on the bus thinking 'if only they had smaller, private version of buses, powered by a petrol engine and with four seats that I could drive. Someone should invent that.'

Op: I've chopped my arm with a chainsaw, it hanging on by a couple of threads -should I go to A&E"
Poster: It's people like you who are destroying the NHS. Phone your GP on Monday for an appointment. A routine one mind, not one of those fancy emergency ones

ask for this thread to be moved to Relationships. People are kinder and give better advice

I look at the pps already on the thread and many of them usually post on Relationships. Including moi.

Get a cleaner.
Go to a gym with a crèche.
Eat less, move more.
Use a sling.
Co-sleep.
Dream feed.

Telling an autistic person on the brink of meltdown to get a grip. FFS - they probably would if it were that simple and may not even understand what it means!