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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This wasn't recent adviceBack in 1985 I was advised to go for a new type of course that had just come out. A B/TEC National Diploma! Equivalent to five A-Levels! A vocational focus but with an academic basis!
I signed up, and after finishing my O Levels I ended up doing a B/TEC National Diploma in Computing for two years.
I would meet in the refrectory and chat with my old school friends. Many of them were doing three A levels, and spent a long time complaining about the workload. I checked - most were doing 17.5 hours a week. I was doing 35 hours a week. It was like a bloody job!
At the end of it, several of us applied to universities, only to get the basic response of "What's a B/TEC?". Two of us got into Thames Polytechnic. Most of the the rest of us were able to get computing jobs right out the gate, myself included, so it wasn't a total disaster.
It was still useless advice. I regret never having been to university (wait, that was last week).
(, Mon 23 Oct 2006, 22:16, Reply)
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