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?

Anytime someone trying to bf is advised to supplement with formula or use a dummy. Excellent advice if you are trying to sabotage the bf relationship.

Yes, I am always a bit baffled at the number of posts advising that 101 be called (or whatever the non-emergency number is).

It seems rather Orwellian to be dobbing your neighbours in for benefit fraud, smoking weed, not recyling etc. Just live your life and let others live theirs I say.

And on the Relationships thread when someone says their DH has been acting a bit funny, immediately he is "having an affair". These kind of conclusions are very damaging.

Anyone mentioned 'just relax and it'll happen' given to someone who's been ttc for three years and whose vagina is about to fall out from relentless shagging?

Yes, every ailment known to man is attributable to a thyroid problem on here.

OP - I fell of my horse 3 years ago and my back hasn't been the same since.
Reply - that'll be your thyroid then. Get it checked and don't listen to them when they tell you you thyroid function is normal.

OP - dh has got some very worrying symptoms and is having a scan tomorrow. I'm worried he may have cancer.
Reply - tell him not to bother with the scan. Get his thyroid checked, it's bound to be that.

Give him a cream egg

I count before mh is suggested, followed by recommendations to take drugs.

I am appalled by medicalisation of human condition.

These drugs have appalling side effects and curtail life. Although supposedly quality is better. (Told to me by con who said that he was told this in training.)

Astroturfing?

maybebabybee many people have narcissistic tendencies

most of us can behave at some point in our life in a narcissistic way have we not all obsessed about ourselves at some point this could also be tied in with being very anxious or depressed but that is just one aspect

someone who has narcissistic tendencies would not necessarily be diagnosed with NPD

the criteria for MH diagnosis for personality disorders covers a range of behaviours and feelings we can tick boxes for many of them but not have a personality disorder its very complex

CPN. Not con.

One-size-fits-all advice on the money crisis threads.

OP - It's a week until pay day. I have £10 to feed four of us, but a fair bit in the cupboards/fridge/freezer.
Reply - Tell us what's in your cupboards! You can pad out lots of dishes using lentils. Here's my recipe for cheap cottage pie.

OP - If I can't raise £5K by Monday we will be out on the streets.
Reply - Tell us what's in your cupboards! You can pad out lots of dishes using lentils. Here's my recipe for cheap cottage pie.

@roundandround

When someone posts about a difficulty of some kind with their parents or in-laws.

Along comes a poster screaming TOXIC and they need to go no contact immediately and here's a linky to a book on amazon called Toxic Parents/In-Laws/Sister/Whoever.

Oh I've remembered another one - and I was merely on the thread in passing as it were but had mentioned my DS was in nursery. I was told in all seriousness that even though it would lead to me being unable to pay the mortgage and eventually lead to us becoming homeless, nursery wasso ddamaging to children I should give up my job and live on benefits.

I like the threads where someone's DH has invited someone to stay and the OP isn't happy about it.

"We live abroad and my Mil is coming to stay for three months. I'm a SAHM and don't fancy having her stay for so long".

Response:

"Make your DH take annual leave to look after her!" Because clearly this family don't need the income that the DHbrings in and he will have infinite holiday.

Or

"We have a load of inconvenient guests arriving to stay for four weeks"

Response:

"Give them the number of a hotel" because people can easily afford to pay for hotel rooms for a month.

Why don't you address these things on the threads themselves?

Narp Fri 23-Oct-15 16:44:06
Why don't you address these things on the threads themselves?

Because it would end in a bunfight probably.

because it is more fun to have a biatchy thread about it, Narp.
Did you like 'Hot Fuzz'?

If you were to challenge any of the ridiculous suggestions you could get into all sorts of bother, and the poster will get all huffy and defensive.

Why don't you address these things on the threads themselves?

Does that count as crap advice?

often they are challenged

a thread can change course with one post and other times challenges have just been ignored and posters too caught up to notice

LTB, hate that one. Its quoted so many times for small things, as if people leave their husbands rather than have an adult conversation.

The christmas ones always make me laugh though, standard MN is anything more than a few pieces of fruit is spoiling your children.

The skint and need meal ideas where the MN chicken that feeds ten for five days has to be the best. Unless it's the size of a huge Turkey then the meal may as well not have the chicken in for how much there must be.

Actually I do address these things on the threads.

Usually ends up with the poster twisting what is being said.

Someone once said that letting your child stay home from school every day wasn't neglecting the child. (Not being home schooled either)

I said 'actually it is neglect, but in the rare circumstances it isn't neglect, the school would be aware of the situation'

Several posters cut and pasted the 'actually it is neglect' then argued that it might have been arranged with the school.

After correcting them and repeats egg the full sentence 3 times I gave up.

no idea why repeating turned into repeat egg