To ask what the most ridiculous advice/suggestion you've seen on here is?

[Phillipconnarthy]

I was looking for ways to pay off my credit card faster and was told by somebody that I should sell my TV (it cost around £110) on which I only have Netflix and don't pay for a licence as I don't watch anything else.

I was told watching TV is a luxury and I should be happy with just listening to the radio!
It made me feel that some people think people with debt or low income don't deserve even the simplest of pleasures.

Has anyone else had silly advice?

This!! And if you dare to entertain the idea that men make mistakes you're almost certainly going to be met with 'well, if that's what you're willing to accept then you're setting an incredibly low bar for yourself'.... when really all he did was leave the toilet seat up/forgot to take rubbish out etc

I find LTB advice often quite ridiculous tbh
as though it's that simple when there are children and finances to consider.

To let babies cry it out all night

That you are entitled to flexible working… no you’re entitled to request it. It doesn’t have to be granted.

I'm the same with the way people use "just". Can't you just move house/throw up an extension/book a two week holiday in The Bahamas/get a better job/learn to drive/LTB/go NC with your entire family.

Like it's just that easy.

Ultimately it's the women's choice though and pro choice goes both ways .

literally every reply to anyone who has some kind of issue with their DH of 'leave him immediately!!!' (despite kids, jobs, house etc etc etc). It seems to be standard advice. Your husband picks his teeth > leave him! Your husband gets angry about a dirty car > leave him! Mumsnet is populated by people who don't understand that people and relationships evolve and grow and can even be rescued. The one exception - domestic abuse. Definitely leave him

Constipation advice is often dangerous particularly when it ,s obvious someone is impacted .

Struggling for money? Just get a better paid job / retrain as something else.

yeah, like it’s that easy…

I read a thread this morning where a woman was gushing blood from her eyeballs and wondering whether she should go to A&E. There were more than a few "that's normal, happens all the time" type comments.

OP posts about awful living situation, useless DH who changed after the children arrived and doesn't respect her, etc and someone will always comment "why did you have children with this man?" or "and yet you had children with him?" as if

a, all dickheads walk around ringing their little dickhead bell and wearing their dickhead sandwich board to alert everyone to the fact that they're a dickhead

and

b, OP can just solve her issues by shoving the children back into her womb and un-making them

You don’t realise how wrong most advice here is until you see a thread on an area you actually know about. It’s way off, people just make shit up.

it makes you realise that if that’s the case on the thread where you do actually know things, it’s also the case on many many others where you do not.

The one that most made me cringe was a poster being advised to print off the thread and show it to her GP.
Because real life, actual, trained doctors need advice from random, non-medical chat forum posters. 🙄

Any employment thread which advises "letting someone go" rather than try and work around the insert protected characteristic here

Last year an OP was having a serious medical issue and was apprehensive about going to hospital. Many of the comments were telling the her to stay at home and see how she felt in a few days because well the usual NHS excuses. Another poster noticed how serious an emergency it was for the OP and that she needed medical attention asap. The OP updated to say she went to hospital on the advice of that poster and was found to be experiencing or on the verge of, if I remember rightly, sepsis. Had the OP not gone to A&E that evening she may not have woken up the next morning.

If anyone remembers this in more detail or I've got bits wrong let me know, I can't remember the thread or the poster who recognised the symptoms.

Oh and all of the ones where the OP is told to never get involved with the day-to-day parenting of her step children. Or have any kind of robust discussion with her husband/partner's family. The cries of "let him do it!" To the point where these poor children have no clean school uniform because he hasn't done 'their' washing. Or his mum/sister/brother is allowed to talk to you like shit because it is his job, alone, to deal with them.

Well meaning but clueless posters who post,on threads about children with disabilities ,their advice is often completely unrealistic in real.life

"grades don't matter", "do what makes you happy"

They SAY they will do this. They don't. My XH also ended up owing me more than £30k that CMS seemed, despite all their lengthy letters telling me about their ability to do all sorts, unable to get off him.

One from this morning.Someone’s child bolts off.. So they get told to hold their hand and be a parent.

Im convinced MN is full of irritated menopausal women.

The A&E threads are always full of people telling them not to go or wait a few days.

Don’t go to hospital with red flag sepsis symptoms

“Put them in care” usually. Like there’s thousands of care homes with open arms and qualified carers waiting to take in all the disabled children parents can’t wait to get rid of.

It is 100% the women's choice, but we can't shy away from the fact that sometimes the choice means a woman gets what she wants at a cost to the child.

Hahahaha yes or “just put them in respite for the night”.

I often forget how stupid a lot of people are, bless them.