To ask the most bizzare 'facts' you have read on mums net

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Everyone obviously thinks what they are telling you is true but sometimes their sources or opinions are not factually correct.

What is the most ridiculous or bizzare fact/opinion you have seen ?

Can you get a DNA sample from poo? Bit risky if so. Wear gloves so no fingerprints but leave a poo?

Oh yes I know someone who got burgled and they poo'd in the middle of the living room floor.

that since you only pay £4 per hou childcare, ecerybody who pays more is insane/naive/stuid. compketely ignoring the dact that you live in the northeast and the other person around London. and the 15/30 free hours nursey - not available everywhere, sorry!

I don't think you can get DNA from poo. I'd need to verify but I have a feeling you can't.

You pee via your vagina.

I don't think burglars shitting is an adrenaline response. What about people jumping out of planes? They don't poo on the way down.

I did wonder Stripy. (MN makes you wonder about odd stuff doesn't it!)

Google says you can. So don't know - mind you don't think there's a DNA id catalogue anyway.

I suppose if the pooing burglar had previous they could say the poo all belonged to the same person.

That Scottish law is no different to English law.

It's well known that some burglars defecate at the scene. It's included in some crime detection books

Maybe, but its not an adrenaline thing.

It can be. You need to remember that a lot of burglars are under the influence of sustances or withdrawing from them - which plays havoc with the bowels. Add a stressful/exciting situation (depending on the offender) and sometimes they need to go.

You can't force out a shit if you don't need to go.

Oh you can.

I can't believe I am still thinking about this but surely unless the burglar is naked then most will be contained within clothing if it is an accidental one.

I'd be there for hours trying to force one out if I didn't have the urge to go at all... Anxiety/adrenaline does make you feel the need to go, but the act of actually shitting on the floor is deliberate, not accidental.

The sudden urge to go must correlate with the idea of leaving a shit as a parting gift I reckon.

Curry - you can shit on cue? At least your GP doesn't need to give you a pot to take away ☺

That you can only have flu if you're too weak to raise a phone to your face, or wouldn't be able to crawl out of bed to pick up a £50 note, or some other arbitrary measure. Flu is often symptomless, and just as often presents like a mild cold.

That children must have "a protein" at every meal or they will DIE.

That diets work.

That every badly behaved child has SN.

Talking of spiders, people on here always trot out the "tip" that you can deter them by placing conkers around your house. Bollocks can you

All that happens is that you hoover up the damn conkers, block your hoover and end up having more webs there taunting you as you are now unable to hoover them up

In my experience

I can't but I know people who can.

It's a talent, I suppose. Not one Simon Cowell would like to see though!

I believe that the poo at a crime scene thing is often used in crime detection books as a trick question re DNA. Poo does a not contain DNA (other than a bit of mitochondrial DNA picked up as it scapes against the poo canal. If, however, the miscreant wipes his or her bum thereby pulling out some bum hairs at the root, they can very easily be identified.

True fact innit.

In reality it happens but is not that common.

Oh, speaking of unscientific myths - that eating yoghurt or probiotics cures thrush.

As for periods in swimming pools...

"Your period doesn't slow down or stop in water — it just may not flow outside the vagina because of the counter pressure of the water."

Well yes, they could chose not to poo on the floor, but a surprising number do!

So not shitting themselves exactly but not an uncommon occurrence