The Stupidest Advice People Received

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Eric Lund
Sep 7, 2021 3:00 PM EDT

There is no shortage of advice in the world. There is, however, a great shortage of good advice. This results in the funny, baffling and tragic worst advice people have ever received. Probably one of the more interesting outcomes of receiving horrible advice is the realization that your parent or friend who urges you to buy a new car on a minimum wage salary might be a complete moron. When you get bad advice, you learn more about the person giving the advice that anything else. Here are some of the dumbest business ideas people have seen.

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  • 01
    Smile - jittery_raccoon - 4d 2 e 32 Invest in DVDS because you can pawn them for cash when you need money
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    Font - GavinBelsonsAlexa · 4d 2 My grandmother told me that if I wanted to stop being poor, I should find a job in logistics or warehousing. I was literally managing a warehouse at the time.
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    Font - Killerbeth - 4d O 2 Lawyer said I should just admit that I did it. I denied it and the case was dismissed.
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    Font - Sonnyboy1990 · 4d · edited 4d Not me but I remember reading a thread about a man who told his girlfriend everyday that she stinks. She washed two or three times daily, tried everything she could to get rid of this smell. Until she cracked and started screaming at him asking wtf was he smelling. Apparently his father told him "tell a woman she smells everyday and she'll be constantly clean." He just took that as normal good advice to live by.
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    Font - SaturnMarket - 4d · edited 4d 2 worst advice received and acted upon. My friend out of high school got a job at Ford starting at $28/hour full time and in the UAW. His mom said he shouldn't waste his life working "at a factory" and go to collage despite him having a 1.8 GPA in Highschool and very good with working with his hands. He quit, took 2 classes at college and dropped out. He spent the next 8 years making pizza because the job market was trash.
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    Smile - oh_jaimito - 4d 2 2 2 2 2 e2 3 In my early 20s, my stepdad encouraged us (us = Me, Sister and Brother) to max out our credit cards. Then file bankruptcy. My sister did it. My brother did it. I didn't. He insulted me for years, for being stupid.
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    Smile - ISnortBonedust · 4d 2 2 "Put some butter on it" -My father to me directly after getting a 3rd degree burn on my arm (cooking accident)
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    Smile - BurlHopsBridge · 4d e 3 2 Was told by a sailor of 5 decades that the best way to get rid of a sunburn is to take the hottest shower possible. Not only did that cause immeasurable pain, but didn't help in the slightest.
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    Gesture - Sel_drawme · 4d · edited 4d O To file for bankruptcy over a $2,500 car loan.
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    Smile - DustyWalnuts - 4d 2 22 S 2 'Good things come to those who wait' Nah good things come to those who go out and take them
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    Font - Drafty_Dragon · 4d - edited 4d e "If you go work somewhere else no one will pay you as much as me." -my dad I'm currently making twice as much plus benefits
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    Plant - BrownEyeGivesPinkEye · 4d 9 2 3 From my father: don't go to the doctor's office if you only have one problem. Wait until you have four or five; that's how you get the most bang for your buck
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    Font - TalkinDolphin · 4d I mined 2 Bitcoin in winter 2015/16 (BTC price was less than $300-$400 back then). My friends knew about my funny little hobby. When the price peaked at -$19k in December 2017 and was dropping to $6k, and then even to $3k, my friends were all advicing me to sell it immediately, because it was just a nonsensical bubble that burst. Guess what, I kept them until March 2021 and will be moving to my own apartment debt free next year.
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    Font - Vladimir_Chrootin · 4d - edited 4d "Replace all your office computers with Macs, then you don't need to set up network drives because you can use iCloud instead. Don't worry about <industry-specific software we pay ££££ for>, there'll be something in the App Store you can replace it with"
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    Rectangle - Therearenogoodnames9 - 4d 24 3 E 2 "All you have to do is prove to the woman that you are better than the man she is with and she will come running," from a former manager who had seven girlfriends, and a wife (who stabbed him when she learned about the girlfriends).
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    Font - Back2Bach - 4d S "As a temporary measure, it's ok to insert a copper penny into a screw-in fuse box circuit until replacement fuses can be obtained." That dangerous "advice" almost caused a house fire due to an overheating circuit.
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    Font - sudolake · 4d It's too late for you to learn to code - I was 14
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    Smile - Deep_Drones · 4d e2 2 If you run out of dishwasher detergent, just substitute it with regular dish soap. A big mistake that will only be made once.
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    Font - TheCervus · 4d S "Go to college and get a degree, any degree. Doesn't matter what it is, they'll hire you with a bachelor's degree and no experience. If you don't have a college degree, you're going to be flipping burgers at McDonalds and living under a bridge for the rest of your life. And you are NOT going to a trade school, trade schools are for stupid people." - -My parents, teachers, and guidance counselors in the 90's.
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    Plant - FenHarels_Heart · 4d "Just find a girl you don't like. Ônce you get married you'll just hate her anyways." God, I hope he was joking.
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    Font - thesilentwizard · 4d 2 When I went to university I could choose between two major: engineering or language. Being an Asian kid, most of my family, friends, relatives and even teachers recommended Engineering. Because it's a "men's job", translator or interpretor are for girls. So I let myself be convinced and picked Engineering although I sucked at Maths. Fast forward 8 years now I'm a low level worker at a manufacturing plant because I dropped out of uni not being able to keep up with th
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    Font - JonnieWhoops - 4d $2 'If you actually cared about being organised you wouldn't have 'ADHD"
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    Font - Worlds_Best_Coffee 4d At 24, while making $12 an hour and renting an apartment my parents convinced me to buy a brand new Honda Accord. They assured me it was the ONLY WAY to get a new car and that used ones broke down immediately. The payments were one entire paycheck of the two I got every month.
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    Rectangle - Sunny245 - 4d 2 "Winners never quit." I think that is horrible advice. Calculated quitting is how you progress in life. If I never quit I would be stuck in bad situations.
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    Font - shmoopiefunk · 4d My husband needed a medical card after his heart failure from viral cardiomyopathy. The social worker told me I should get pregnant so we would qualify for help with his medical costs. I was 24 and lived in Ohio. I was horrified. She listed all the "help" we could get if I could get pregnant. He was in an ICU ward recovering from heart surgery. I walked out of there just disgusted
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    Font - BrobdingnagLilliput - 4d "Don't study computer programming. The market is probably going to be saturated by the time you graduate." From a computer science professor in the mid-80s.
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    Font - OnemoreSavBlanc - 4d Needed to give my newborn baby some water. My mother "don't give him sips of plain water, he won't like the taste! Give him cordial or plain old Ribena." Suddenly all the root canals and cavities I'd had made sense.
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