You're on a discussion forum where the topic is colon cancer. Surely you understand that people are going to discuss it?

It's a bit hard to tell from your post what you're saying. Certainly I can imagine being annoyed by constantly being given health advice from layman. But this is... a forum.

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pdpi an hour ago | parent | next [-]

There's a bazillion ways to discuss a topic that don't involve giving advice with unearned confidence. Even just saying "My experience is that doing X helped" instead of "You should do X" is a massive massive difference.

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staticassertion an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That's fine. It's just unclear to me if the parent poster is being critical exclusively of people "irl" giving unsolicited advice or if they're speaking to the forum of users who come here explicitly to discuss topics like these.

If it's the former, I'm ambivalent. I don't give advice as a general rule. If it's the latter, I find that totally silly.

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Freedom2 34 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

One thing I've noticed is that Americans typically use the latter while conversing.

	▲	pdpi a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		(Nearly) everybody does, it's not an American thing. It takes a bit of personal discipline to avoid it.

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