19 pieces of bad yet widely accepted advice
11.
“Nobody owes you anything”
We do owe each other basic respect. Using that logic it’s fine to murder or abuse someone.
RadiantHC
12.
That if a little boy is mean to a little girl and pulls her hair and calls her names and stuff that means he likes her.
AFrogInDisguise
13.
“Tip your head back when you have a nosebleed.”
Never do this. You will swallow a ton of blood and it will make you sick. Sit down, lean forward, and apply an icepack and gentle pressure to the bridge of your nose, on both sides of the bone.
thewitchmaker
14.
“Just go up to her and be yourself”
Myself is not someone who would just go up to a girl I don’t know and start talking to her. Lol.
qwors
15.
Rubbing butter on a burn.
copout
16.
“It can’t hurt to ask.”
Sometimes it can, when I see you as someone trying to get out of their responsibilities, and I have to recommend you for a job later on.
grumblecrumb
17.
‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’
Why the funk not?! I regularly do this and it’s great.
PhantomLamb
18.
3 pay checks to buy an engagement ring. Good marketing trick but a load of crap.
justpassingbye1
19. HandyDrunkard posted this topical one.
“Don’t listen to scientists, do your own research”
In Virology Top Trumps, scientists beat ‘your aunt’s mate’s neighbour who knows a man’ every time.
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