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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Bullshitters are funny.My complete twunt of an ex-boyf was full of bollocks. Two pearls of wisdom which I found particularly laughable were:
• When the allocated amount of iron in cereal was not sufficient for the quantity they put in a box, they just chuck very fine iron filings in the packet to make up the difference.
• You should never eat a jacket potato that has been cooked in a microwave, as it retains the radioactive micro rays and if eaten will eventually give you stomach cancer.
You may think he was just making these stories up for a laugh, but he was completely serious to the point where he actually had a massive bitch-fit when I laughed and denounced him as a bullshitter. Mind you what can you expect from a man who swore blind that he was half-'merkin (to the point that he said he had an American passport and called his mum 'mom') when in fact he was the nephew of a woman who had married one.
I sometimes wish I had taped some of his bits of advice for a summat to larf at when I'm feeling down.
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Droog is too orangey for crows, Fri 20 Oct 2006, 12:37,
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