So we should have a choice of conflicting advice

So we should have a choice of conflicting advice.
The reaction to this column was interesting. Fifty per cent of you thought it was excellent, while 50 per cent advised me that it was codswallop. I think that shows I am getting it 100 per cent right, so today here are some more of your problems, with their solutions.Is it a good idea to take photographs on holiday?A) No. In years to come you will remember only the photos of the holiday, not the holiday itself.B) Yes. If the holiday is terrible, programmes such as Watchdog will need visual evidence of your claims.My wife and I had an argument recently about whether it was ever necessary to know the words of other nations’ national anthems. She said it was only polite to learn the words in case you ever got caught up in a state occasion abroad, or a World Cup or something. I said most people didn’t even know the words to their own anthems.

Somewhat to my surprise, my wife has stuck to her guns and has started an evening-class course of ‘National Anthems of the World’, from which she comes back flushed and stirred, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I must admit that her rendition of the Brazilian national anthem is a bit of a show-stopper Nevertheless, I can’t help feeling she is wasting her time. What do you think ?A) What she is doing is utterly praiseworthy. If only more people made the effort.B) Nobody anywhere offers an evening course on national anthems There is no such thing. Wake up, man! What she is actually doing is having a hot, torrid affair with some secret lover Brazilian, probably. Act now while there is still time!My son is coming to stay next weekend with his new girlfriend.

Should I put them in separate rooms?A) No! If you put them in separate rooms, that shows only one thing – that you are making sexual assumptions about them which may not be at all true You are the person who is obsessed with sex, not them. Most couples spend most nights together without any thought of sex crossing their brains, just enjoying each other’s proximity. Be honest – ask yourself when you and your wife last had sexual congress! Treat your son and his girl as responsible adults. Put them in the same room and let them get on with it, even if it is nothing that they are getting on with.B) Yes! Separate rooms every time! If you give them separate rooms, you are giving them the freedom to choose.