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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Windows error messages"Printer not recognised", "You cannot delete this file", "Installation failed", "Windows will now shut down, and that document you have been working on for three hours will not be saved, ner ner ne-ner ner" etc. etc. Fair enough, computer glitches happen, but why is the only option when these messages appear a smug-looking "OK" in the middle of the box? Why can't we have two buttons, one for OK and one labelled "well actually, it really isn't OK at all, but I guess I can't do much about it" or words to that effect?
Also, if something fails the first time, is there one single documented case of the "retry" option working (except when refreshing expired Web pages)?
(, Wed 25 Oct 2006, 12:50, Reply)
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