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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BagpipesI found an old diary once which had belonged to one of my uncles in the 1960s. It had on each page an old Scots proverb. Most of them were Scottish versions of other proverbs, but among the dross was the gem:
"Bring not bagpipes to a man in trouble".
Not really useless advice, but certainly irrelevant. Imagine someone hanging from a cliff by his fingertips, and him shouting for help. Who in their right mind would think of going to bring him a set of bagpipes, before phoning the police or fire service?
Unless of course you didn't like the cliff hanger, in which case playing a mournful and very loud pipe tune may well prompt him to let go...
Also, A Good Egg posted about never trusting a man who drives while wearing a hat. This is not useless - it's very good advice. Behatted drivers are either wee neds in baseball caps driving Novas/Saxos/Corsas etc very badly, or old blokes pottering about in their Rovers forgetting that there are other cars on the road these days. Both should be treated with caution, or you'll end up with a story which is too late for last week's QotW.
Average length, I'd say.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 20 Oct 2006, 8:53,
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