What is the worst advice someone has ever given you?

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I was told as a young adult to put butter over a bad burn I had got. I ignored it of course.
What about you?

It's not an infection just clean it with salt water for a couple of days.

Cue raging fucking infection two days later. Antibiotics, cut open and walking round with a drain sewn into me for two weeks.

To have a bath with lavender oil to help heal my episiotomy wound. The stitches burst. Not sure it was directly related to that, but thinking about it, soaking stitches in water seems like a really bad idea.

Oh, and that was the midwife.

My sister insisted we used nair on my moustache at 7 years old!

"It's supposed to sting, and you'll look so much better"

It didn't pull out the hairs but it burnt all the skin on my upper lip :(

Queue me shaving it from the ages of 11 upwards for fear of putting anything else on it and being burnt

Biology teacher to the all female class in 1972
'If you have sexual intercourse with more than one male, you will get venereal disease.'
She did not mean 'at the same time' (such things weren't thought of in my school )
She meant 'in your life'

"don't be silly dear, of course the endowment will pay off your mortgage"

By endowment salesman to me back in the '80s.

So along with a billion other mugs DH and I went ahead with the endowment. Nowadays I'd just punch his lights out but back then things were different.

Don't bother with exercise/going to the gym.
Thanks Mum. Luckily I ignored that one - it's the only thing that keeps me sane!

“It’s trapped wind. I can’t believe you called a doctor out in the night for this. I’m going to report you to your College Master”.

Feeling dire the next day. I refused all my friends suggestions I go to hospital as I was so embarrassed.

I collapsed and they called an ambulance. I had a ruptured appendix and peritonitis.

My College Master reported the GP to the GMC...

Sure why would u want to go to university? Do a secretarial. Get a steady job...
Did as instructed by my mum who's horizons were v. Limited. I always thought there was something wrong with me rather than the work I had chosen being a bad fit. If that makes sense
Funnily enough the same did t apply to my brother.
In the end I returned to university etc. And sort of realised I was actually ok. Which was a revelation and I have ignored nearly everything DM has said since.

Funnier one than most on here:

"Why don't you give her a chocolate bar to keep her quiet?"

Dd2 was having a massive strop in the trolley at a supermarket we'd stopped at on the way on holiday. The strop was because she needed the toilet and wanted to go in to the toilet area without me. She was 2yo.

She had a very long memory. If I'd given her a chocolate bar to keep her quiet round the supermarket, she'd probably still be expected one today over 10 years later.

By a 111 operator - see your midwife I the next 2 weeks.
Luckily I didn't listen because I had life threatening complications at 32 weeks pregnant that nearly killed me and my baby.
If I'd listened to that man I'd would have died that night

From my father
“ oh use your imagination! Every teenage girl wants to go into nursing. It’s a doctor’s dogsbody job. “
Ended up taking me 4 years longer to apply for a nursing course and starting age 22.

When a friend of mine started secondary school she developed a crush on a boy a few years above her, the boy was in the same class as an older girl from our street who was friends with my friend. The older girl (15 or 16) told my friend (11/12) that a boy of that age wasn't going to be interested in her unless she had sex with him. Apparently she was supposed to this right there in the school corridors outside the classrooms at lunch time, she was supposed to wear a skirt, pull her knickers to one side and just ride him right there next to all his friends. It didn't happen thankfully.

Don’t pay to have the laminate flooring done, you can easily do it yourself. 😤😭

Don't go "pissing your talent up the wall" by studying art at university.

Still regret it

I’ve always been told, and for a long time believed, that friends are more important than partners. Now I think it’s rubbish. Friends come and go just like partners can. Friends can let you down. They’re not this perfect support system that is always there. Because they have their own lives. A good partner is worth more than a good friend, in the long run.

@Storm4star I second that.

"Just ignore the bullies". Didn't work. However, when I did get enough and slapped one of them several times that did work. Funny that.

Not me but my partner.
We are expecting our first baby and someone from his work told him he has to ensure he has 2 nights a week to himself and goes out on those nights regardless of how I’m feeling because he’s the one going to work and otherwise I’ll just expect him to go to work all day while I sit around cuddling a baby then expect him to come home and look after the baby because I’ll claim to be tired.
Thankfully my OH is not a prick and didn’t take this ridiculous advice.

Just be yourself....when going for job interviews.

My midwife told me not to eat broccoli as that would give the baby wind

That was in 2009.

‘He’s fine, just put him in nursery’ NHS Salt about DS. He was diagnosed with ASD privately 6 months later.

Wait with kids until you're older.

I can't keep up with my two year old, no bloody energy.

My mum, when I told her I was leaving my fiance:

"You can't leave him! You've got his name tattooed on you"