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?

" you signed up to the schopl you agreed to the rules"

god forbid your child has a medical condition that means wearing tights or blazers all day or not being allowed a coat even on the way to school leads to extreme discomfort or medical problems either home school or suck it up

One that sticks in my mind is someone saying that maintenance for a child should not be spent and should be saved for a Uni fund!

Love this thread! But no one has ever advised me to go and have a spa day Maybe cos I don't have a dp/dh to leave to fend for themselves

"I quite fancy someone at work."
"You are a selfish cow who is cruelly betraying your husband. Leave him and your children immediately."

Op: My husband likes to play computer games in the evening after all the jobs have been done.

Poster: OMG he's a total manchild / cocklodger. LTB

I shall take bets on how long this thread takes to kick off...we all know it will

Poor people should feed their families on blackberries.

I remember this thread. There was also another, similar thread where a woman couldn't believe that people struggled to feed themselves because they lived in the highlands and her husband was able to fish and shoot game/deer. She was really upset when people pointed out this wasn't an option in Inner-city Birmingham!

On every eczema/psoriasis/dry skin thread there is always somebody who mentions oats in the bath like its some magic bloody cure!

I'm an employment lawyer (when not on mat leave!) and have seen some real bollocks posted.

DH is a dentist and his pet bug bear is "weak enamel" being trotted out for a child with a mouth full of gob rot nothing to do with the multiple sugar intakes during the day the ? And, yes, smoothies contain a fuck ton of sugar. I'm assuming if he was actually registered here that would be what he would post!

Nocabbage - iirc he took the day off to pick DS up from school and may have watched a bit of telly.

So no, not a proper Spa Day. Damn.

My DH went out for a few beers after work, he said he'd be home by eleven. It's now ten past eleven and he's not back, what shall I do?

He's obviously having an affair, change the locks and burn his clothes.

Call 999 to report him missing and ring round all the A&E departments to see if he's there.

Check his FB and see if he's been tagged in somewhere then get a mate to take you round there and look for him.

My landlord wants to sell the house I rent from him.

Refuse to go until he takes you to court.

Yeah, because that's going to make you dead attractive to your next landlord isn't it?

Sahm vs wohm threads.
All sahms are lazy.
All wohms are neglectful.

If we could just agree those two statements are garbage then there need never be another sahm vs wohm thread!

Q. Both dp and me work full time, i do all the gardening, cleaning, shopping, cooking, house admin, sorting out the children. AIBU to stop cooking and washng his clothes?
A. Stop being so petty, you need to lom after each other and it's just as easy for you to do his at the same time.

Q. I am a SAHM, every evening my dp eats the meal I cooked, leaves his dirty plate on the sofa, then plays computer games until 2am. Every weeke he spends his time playing golf and then goes to the pub. AiBU to expect he joins in with family life and help clear his breakfast stuff away. I feel as he has no respect for me.
A. Awww the poor guy he must be very stressed being the only one who brings in money and he must be so exhausted siting in an office all day. Yabu. Why dont you get an evening job?

Because spendng all day looking after toddlers, doing all the cleaning, cooking, putting them to bed, then going out to a min wage job whilst he continues to stay glued to Call of Duty will make him respect you.

OP: my autistic child feels unsafe and bewildered by her constantly changing cabdrivers, whose heavily accented English she doesn't understand.

Answers #1-61: RACIST!
Answer #62: train your wilful "autistic" child to clearly explain that she doesn't understand and to behave in a civilised manner and react to things normally. It's really that simple.
Answer #63-infinity: RACIST!!!

OP: I'm tired.

Poster: Have you had your thyroid checked?

OP: Yes, it's normal. But my leg fell off the other day that's pretty weird.

Poster: Normal! Bet they didn't check your T4 did they? Bastards!

OP: They did and it was also normal. My leg stumps pretty sore do you think I should get it seen?

Poster: Please post your results and reference ranges on here. Bet they didn't race your T3 with unicorn tears. Your doctor is a cunt. Go to healthunlocked get some print outs and march back to the doctors for some thyroxine.. Or buy some stuff from China

OP: My T3 is normal.

Poster: No it's not.

A doctor once gently suggested that maybe every illness wasn't thyroid related and sometimes you could trust your doctor. Posters from here put a shout out elsewhere so all the internet experts could come and give her a pummelling for being a big pharma bitch.

Troll, can't say I've seen those types of responses to those situations! I would have thought it was more along the lines of:

He sounds charming. Does he have any redeeming features? LTB.

In the depths of crushing home sickness and desperately sad I doubt I'll ever get to go home.

I was advised to put a few pounds aside each month so I at least felt like I was working towards getting there. "There" is literally the other side of the world. Several thousand pounds at a couple of pound a month is more than my lifetime.

I nearly cried after being advised that (or to just get over it yeah thanks)

There's always one buried in the pages.

sparkling I wouldn't bother unhiding it if I were you, the same posters are still there posting the same four things -
What do you get out of this relationship?
I don't understand why people put up with this, LTB
Shirley Glass
Lundy Bancroft

I love spa days, you weirdos.

"Sleep is as good as food for a tiny baby".

Bollocks.

I always wonder at some of the more outlandish advice as to whether it's a troll that is so under the radar that people haven't noticed. Hence all the spa day / get a nanny / get a cleaner / learn to drive, buy a car, insure and tax it because a poster has complained that their bus fare is so expensive type thread.

After all most of this ridiculous advice about over-reacting phoning 101 for someone unfamiliar walking down your road / contacting SS about a child looking sulky after a shopping trip / someone always pops up on a busy thread in AIBU to say that the rude person encountered may be autistic / don't complain about your family as their family was wiped out in a freak meteor shower / my baby cries continuously so I'm at the end of my tether thread means someone always pops up to say they're infertile so they'd love that baby more than you do, you heartless bitch type threads.

Then after 3 months they get to post in the sex topic, because no one has noticed that they've just posted LTB repeatedly

I answer the 999 and 101 calls. Sometimes I do wonder if people have rung because mumsnet told them to. And yes we get a lot of ridiculous calls.

My favourite was the poster that had inherited a house with a tenant in it and didn't know what to do about it as I think she wanted to sell the house but was reluctant to make the tenant, an elderly lady I think have to look for a new home ...... The best answer to that was along the lines of 'give the old lady the house, it's the right thing to do.'