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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My mum told me two whoppersMy mum told me, when I was small, that I shouldn't touch photographic film because it's poisonous. Quite how that advice came about I can't remember but it was only at the age of 25 and embarking on a degree at film school that I realised she was talking rubbish.
She also told me never to break up, saw up or in any way damage polystyrene because it gives you cancer. I was old enough at the time to ignore that particular gem.
(, Thu 19 Oct 2006, 16:31, Reply)
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