Useless adviceAs a new parent, people seem to think it's OK to pass on any and every old wives tale possible. "Don't hug him too much". What? Quite what possesses people to pass on baseless, idiotic, useless advice I don't know.
That said, I quite often give car drivers directions and then, after they've moved off, realise that I've sent them down a bike-only route, so I can give as good as I get.
What useless advice have you been given (or handed out) recently?
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chthonic, Thu 19 Oct 2006, 10:29)
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health and safetyI did a first aid course at work where the 50 year old teacher went to great lengths throughout the day to remind the men on the course that we must be careful when treating a female casualty NOT to grope them by accident. He did this by singling out a series of the girls on the course to demonstrate exactly how many different ways in which we could accidentally grope them. I took notes.
I also once took some fire steward training for Glastonbury. The guy taking the training course was a lovely chap but had a very peculiar and often melodramatic turn of phrase, coming up with some classic lines of advice.
"Remember, when stewarding a festival, the worst thing that can happen, IS DEATH". Yikes.
"You know when a fire is of a safe size to tackle when you can pick it up with your hands and put it in the bin" er, ok.
"if you should see someone lying unconscious, the first thing you should do is wander past and kick them. If they move about they're probably ok" mmmmakes sense but still a bit odd.
anyway there was a bunch of other stuff he said which I wrote down at the time but have lost now so can't really remember, um, what they, where...funny though....
...sorry are you still reading this?
fool.
(, Thu 19 Oct 2006, 15:07, Reply)
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