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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Many many years agowhen Britain still had the death penalty for very odd things that never really happened like treason, arson in the royal dockyards, fannying about on her majesty's ships and the like, a working gallows had to be kept just in case we needed to hang someone. These weren't used for ages after it was abolished for murder so they gradually fell into a state of disrepair until some prison official noticed and brought it to the relevant authorities attention. The official report advised that they really should be sorted out sharpish as they were so decrepit that it was only a matter of time before somebody got killed on them.
(, Thu 26 Oct 2006, 16:46, Reply)
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