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 ?

If your DC can't walk two miles alone along a busy road at night from the age of 5, and get themselves across town on a bus by the time they've cut a full set of teeth, you're a snowflake helicopter parent who's already ruined their cotton-wool wrapped life.

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Here's a passage from a crime detection book. Can't quite believe I've just looked that up..

That you can't be made redundant/be sacked if you are pregnant/on maternity leave.

Am a police officer, spent five years in uniform and in that time dealt with hundreds of burglary reports. Never once was there a poo at the scene.

Have dealt with plenty of customers who like to shit themselves in the cell and smear it all over the walls though.

Your period might not come out with the counter pressure of the water in the pool but what about when you get out?
It'd be a long walk back to the changing room.

Grumble - yes. And that you can't be sacked for having too much sick leave related to a disability as you're 'covered by the equality act'.

That nobody sends Christmas cards. That all ILs are totally unreasonable . That everyone has things they can sell on eBay.

Coldilox - I worked in prisons for several years. A few offenders who shat at the scene.

Two friends burgled in the last 5 years who also found a shit at the scene (one was in a shed that was robbed to be fair). One of them put the shit in a bag and asked the Police if it could be used for DNA!

And posh chocs or a naice woollen scarf and gloves is the answer to any tricky present dilemma. Has to be written in a certain tone though, as if the OP is stupid to have asked. D'oh, I would never have thought of anything SO unusual!

Or a photo frame. Just give them a photo frame. Do people actually do this nowadays?

Got another one. That pet owners are constantly having to pick huge, disgusting animal hairs out of their food, at every single meal.

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I don't go swimming tamponless btw, just in case I gave the wrong impression
Indeed, I suppose what happens when you leave the pool may depend on how heavy you bleed
Idk

That the houses of cat owners always stink of cat

(My beautiful princess cat does not smell AT ALL)

That you can weave lentils.

they do actually

I knew the imaginary cat smellers would not be able to resist

It’s like catnip

Oh yes, the shitting burglars. Count yourself lucky if they shat in the middle of the floor. At some acquaintances house, the burglar shat in the kitchen sink. The police officer said it was because then the burglar can quickly jump out of the window and escape if you come home.

And yes you can find DNA in faeces. Even if it has become a fossil: www.nature.com/news/genomes-and-fossil-faeces-track-the-first-americans-1.11006

geogenetics.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/26558

Hmm Sycamore, am with you for the first paragraph.

But actually 20 years ago a cranial osteopath did very quickly sort out my son's asthma. Plus she had referrals from, and gave lectures to, Great Ormond Street Hospital. So not ALL quacks, but a lot are.

I can imagine catnip smells too

why do cat owners not admit their houses smell of cats, especially if you have more than one? cats that lie around, smell, its as simple as that

How disgusting. And the British homeopathic association is registered charity, even worse.

Do we refer for phrenology or treatment based on the four humours?

Osteopaths and chiropracters are quacks. If they could do what they claim, it would have solid evidence behind it by now. But they can't, so it doesn't.

True. But we all know about the placebo effect and the fact there are enormous amounts of completely unevidenced treatments or interventions available that people report benefit from.

When people say 'referred/recommended by NHS practitioner' I suspect it's more a case of 'I heard Reiki/homeopathy/eating placenta/whatever can help Dr, and you don't seem to be able to' and Dr says 'there's no evidence at all to support it but it doesn't seem to be harmful so up to you (shrugs)'.

That everybody goes to bed at a ridiculously early hour. How dare the neighbours leave the lights on after 9pm as obviously we're all in bed by then.

That if a spa day won't cure your relationship problems, then losing weight/getting a haircut/having a bubblebath will.