‘What’s the most unhinged advice you’ve ever received?’ – 21 so-called pearls of wisdom to make you run a mile

13.

‘I was going on holiday abroad. My uncle begged me to wait to get my foreign currency in the airport when I arrived at the destination ‘because that’s where you’ll get the best rate’. WTF… airports are notorious for rip-foreign exchange rates!’
–ForwardImagination71

14.

‘When I was about 25 and having massive problems with my nob of a boss, a colleague told me he’d bully me less if I wore skirts and makeup more and smiled at him. Erm, no.’
–Moop_the_Loop

15.

‘Someone once told me to put onions and cumin in my socks when I go to sleep because I had a cold. Lovely person but that was absolutely mental. I’m sure it’s some old wives cure.’
–lorl3ss

16.

‘When I lived with my parents, my bedroom was infested with moths because I had a wool carpet. I vented about it on Discord and someone told me to buy some house spiders to eat the moths. Honestly I’d rather have just nuked the house than do that.’
–ans-myonul

17.

‘To confront my fear of being disliked, my therapist said to throw coins on a busy road and then take ages picking them up in order to make drivers angry and thus cure me somehow. Call me crazy but I think playing in traffic is a poor space for this.’
–rainribs

18.

‘Had a mouse in the house. My dad’s advice was to hit it on the head with a hammer.’
–SpikeSpeegle

19.

‘My alcoholic neighbour told me to get a fox to deal with our seagull problem. Said you never see a fox and seagull in the same place.’
–darcsend_eu

20.

‘When I was buying my first place in the 1990’s. Height of recession – not had a pay rise in five years. Older chap I worked with said I should really stretch myself on the mortgage, it would feel cheap in a few years. Thankfully, I ignored him.’
–sihasihasi

21.

‘I was advised to get baptised because Jesus is likely to return in 2015 due to everything that is going on in the Middle East with Isis.’
–Bbew_Mot

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