Would you believe....they put a man on the moon!!

Beetlebum

A girl I work with came into the office this morning with a big grin on her face, she could barely retain her excitement. We went downstairs to make coffee and she said to me 'Conor (a guy we work with and a renouned piss-taker) won the Euromillions last night!!! Apparently he had texted her the good news. He came in minutes later and tried to keep the pretence going. She eventually realsied he was joking....duh....

When I was a kid I was really gullible though I think most kids are. I remember watching an old movie with my dad and he told me that the reason there was no colour was cause the world used to be in black & white, I fell for that for years...he also told me if I didn't drink my milk all the cows would be really mad and would come and get me. To this day I hate milk...

So, how gullible are my fellow boardsters....

accensi0n

I used to believe in a big jolly bearded man who brought you presents once a year.

I used to believe in a fairy that for some reason collected teeth and left money for them.

I used to believe in a rabbit that left chocolate eggs for you.


I was a gullible chappy.

Archeron

accensi0n wrote:

I used to believe in a big jolly bearded man who brought you presents once a year.

I used to believe in a fairy that for some reason collected teeth and left money for them.

I used to believe in a rabbit that left chocolate eggs for you.


I was a gullible chappy.

What do you mean.....used to???

When I was a really small nipper, my brother brought me to the other end of the housing estate we lived in, and told me we were in China. I started crying because I thought I was so far from home.

EWheelChair

My older sister told me once (when i was about five) that if i bit the top off a cola bottle sweet and sucked, the cola would come out. I sucked for quite awhile

chamlis

My brother told me he had pet dinosaurs when he was my age.

chickenpoo

My sister came to me one evening telling me about this documentary she had just watched about drugs, "apparently there's a new drug called cake!" Turned out she'd been watching Brass Eye... :rolleyes:

Nalz

I believed the FAI when they said they were getting in a world class manager





oh wrong forum sorry!

Beetlebum

Archeron wrote:

What do you mean.....used to???

When I was a really small nipper, my brother brought me to the other end of the housing estate we lived in, and told me we were in China. I started crying because I thought I was so far from home.

Aawwww....that is so sweet!! I'm gonna tell all the kids I know the same thing, then watch them cry....

petes

After I had eaten damsons and the pip inside someone told me that the pip was actually a seed and a tree would start to grow inside me. Now thats gullible.

Robbo

I believed that if you swallowed chewing gum, it would wrap itself around your heart and you'd die. Conclusive proof for this was "it happened to a kid in America".

You can basically make any guff vaguely credulous by prefixing it with "In America...".

FlutterinBantam

I was told if i took a dump in "open country" that the goblins who "owned" the field would investigate,track down the perpretator and set up home in ..erm.. the offending orifice. :eek:

Had me goin' for years!

Archeron

I also used to believe that my older brother had what we called a "piccadilly Book" Basically, it was like a book full of pictures of sweets and choccy bars, except you could just pluck the sweets out and eat them. Then when you closed the book everything reappeared again for eating the next time.

He told me he kept it locked in a special hole in the wall in his room, and I spent ages looking for it.

aodhu

Robbo wrote:

I believed that if you swallowed chewing gum, it would wrap itself around your heart and you'd die. Conclusive proof for this was "it happened to a kid in America".

You can basically make any guff vaguely credulous by prefixing it with "In America...".

the version i believed was that it turned in to a big spider-like web and stopped your food from getting to your tummy! (It was a tummy in those days :rolleyes: )

accensi0n wrote:

I used to believe in a big jolly bearded man who brought you presents once a year.

I used to believe in a fairy that for some reason collected teeth and left money for them.

I used to believe in a rabbit that left chocolate eggs for you.
.

It's great now that I've a daughter I get to believe in all of those again

One morning, a couple of years ago, my brother and sister came sprinting into my room and woke me up. It was just before the summer. They excitedly told me that it was christmas day and that I had been in a coma for over 6 months. Didn't work though, thankfuly.

I'll give them point for originality.

popinfresh

"One morning, a couple of years ago, my brother and sister came sprinting into my room and woke me up. It was just before the summer. They excitedly told me that it was christmas day and that I had been in a coma for over 6 months. Didn't work though, thankfuly."

that reminds me of the time my brother got frost out of the freezer, made a snow ball threw it at me when i was asleep and told me it was snowing outside. I got dressed and sprinted down the stairs but alas, there was no snow.

popinfresh

popinfresh wrote:

that reminds me of the time my brother got frost out of the freezer, made a snow ball threw it at me when i was asleep and told me it was snowing outside. I got dressed and sprinted down the stairs but alas, there was no snow.

Hrm.

That sounds like a plan for me at some point tomorrow morning

NeiloMac

I swollowed a penny i was really worried about it, So my dad turned me upside down, then dropped a penny making me think it came out my mouth,

skywalker

Beetlebum wrote:

A girl I work with came into the office this morning with a big grin on her face, she could barely retain her excitement. We went downstairs to make coffee and she said to me 'Conor (a guy we work with and a renouned piss-taker) won the Euromillions last night!!! Apparently he had texted her the good news. He came in minutes later and tried to keep the pretence going. She eventually realsied he was joking....duh....

What makes that all the worse is the euromillions draw is on a Friday, I.e. there was none last night.

Mrs_Doyle

My dad used to bring me, my brother and my sister, to the park, by DCU, every weekend.
At the time, the park was like a forest to us, and seemed a million miles form home, and the biggest place, ever.
Before DCU was as built up as it is now there used to be some sort of farm land over there - well, actually, tbh, I am not sure what it was, but I do remember having to climb over one of those big iron gates that you find on farms, and that there was lost of mud, and what sounded like cows mooing!

Anyhow, we would climb (or be lifted) over the fence, and would duck under branches, and jump over little bushes, until eventually we came to.....

THE LOLLIPOP TREE!!!!!!!!!!!

We would all stand under the lolly pop tree, and shake it like crazy, until eventually, 3 little lolly pops would drop from it's branches. One for each of us!
Sometimes, if the tree was feeling particularly generous, it would drop a bar of chocolate, that we would bring home to my mam, and she would have it with a cup of tea as we told her all about the amazing lollipop tree, hidden deep within the Forest Farm!


I really hope that LolliPop Tree is still around when I have kids, because it was THE coolest thing EVER!

Setun

popinfresh wrote:

that reminds me of the time my brother got frost out of the freezer, made a snow ball threw it at me when i was asleep and told me it was snowing outside. I got dressed and sprinted down the stairs but alas, there was no snow.

That's genius. Must try that out soon

My Dad used to tell me that black helicopters were owned by kidnappers, and they'd drop down a rope and hook kids up into the chopper.

Mean bastid

cujimmy

Interesting comments, but did you all know that the word "gullible" is NOT in the Oxford English Dictionary

connundrum

Stork -> Babies = me as a 13 year old telling everyone in the class that they were wrong and that this 'sex' thing was obviously a blatant lie

cujimmy wrote:

Interesting comments, but did you all know that the word "gullible" is NOT in the Oxford English Dictionary

I see what you've done there, and I like it Goddamn it!

Mrs_Doyle

http://www.musiclegacy.com/Pages/lollipop.htm


They actually have a lollipop tree song!
Oh, well, I hope they are sharing royalties with my dad, because the lollipop tree was all his idea, I am sure of it!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

The teacher (and parents) who trold me quiet aggressively that Irish was the most important thing in thw world and if I was no good at it, there was no point in me attempting anything else.

The state that told me that the inter Cert and Leaving Cert were vitally important.

Mum and Dad telling me not go down to the local disused railway (now Luas) because their was a weird man taking children from there. Dunno if this counts because we went down looking for him.

Dan133269

popinfresh wrote:

that reminds me of the time my brother got frost out of the freezer, made a snow ball threw it at me when i was asleep and told me it was snowing outside. I got dressed and sprinted down the stairs but alas, there was no snow.

He probably got the idea from the Simpsons, Lisa did the exact same thing to Bart.
For years I had a terrible fear of eating cheese late at night because I was told it gives you nightmares

Demetrius

My brother used to scare me by falling down after I tackled him and playing dead. I would get into a total panic and actually used to kick and pummel him alive again.

I was only 3 or 4 and he must have been 13 or so. Should have known better!

Binomate

I used to believe in God!

Dan133269

Binomate wrote:

I used to believe in God!

Biggest delusion of them all! Some people take their whole lives to realize what nonsense it is

petes

NeiloMac wrote:

The kid was quite upset, and mopped around,

I'd be telling everything is make believe. He might have cleaned the whole house.

/nice edit neilo

Ruu_Old

accensi0n wrote:

I used to believe in a big jolly bearded man who brought you presents once a year.

I used to believe in a fairy that for some reason collected teeth and left money for them.

I used to believe in a rabbit that left chocolate eggs for you.


I was a gullible chappy.

Hehe, fools *sekritly cries*:(

My folks once told me that they found me under a head of cabbage in the back garden and when I asked if there was chocolate there too (being very important to me at that age), they said yes!

peasant

Along the main road of my home town where all the shops were, there also was an Italian ice cream parlour. When I saw all hehse people walking around with their cones and little cardboard cups spooning the ice cream ...of cours I wanted some too.

Mother was very conscious of what a three year old could do to clean clothes with ice cream:D and usually in a hurry anyway, so she always promised me ice cream for when we got back ahome.

To be fair ...she delivered. But not ice cream (those where the days when the only freezer you had was the little compartment in your fridge ...and there usually wasn't anything as luxurious as ice cream in it ) ...but Yoghurt !!

For quite a few years I believed that ice-cream was either pink or dark pink and tasted of stawberrie or cherrie ...and you definetly had to eat it with a spoon !!

Tar.Aldarion

My brothers used to believe I was a vampire with a magic stick in my pants.

tallus

My mother used to tell us that if you ate an apple core that an apple tree would grow out of your ears !

WhiteWashMan

petes wrote:

After I had eaten damsons and the pip inside someone told me that the pip was actually a seed and a tree would start to grow inside me. Now thats gullible.

ahahahah. i had the same with apple trees.

except we used to eat the pips on purpose, coz pparently when youre 5 years old, having an orchard growing out of your belly is a really cool thing

Feral Mutant

Ah, I remember the lolipop tree song.

cujimmy wrote:

Interesting comments, but did you all know that the word "gullible" is NOT in the Oxford English Dictionary

A few months ago, someone in my class said that to the french teacher. She believed it, till everyone started laughing.

im_invisible

Dan133269 wrote:

Binomate wrote:

I used to believe in God!

Biggest delusion of them all! Some people take their whole lives to realize what nonsense it is

i cant believe some people still think there isn't a God

...NEway

Celticfire

EWheelChair wrote:

My older sister told me once (when i was about five) that if i bit the top off a cola bottle sweet and sucked, the cola would come out. I sucked for quite awhile

Ditto.

Binomate

im_invisible wrote:

i cant believe some people still think there isn't a God

...NEway

Yep, same with Santa Clause.

looksee

When I was about 5 two young boys I was playing football with convinced me that you were supposed to kick the football with both feet together! Like a fool I tried it and of course went flat on my back. I got the last laugh though as their mother came to investigate the howls and I got the chocolate cake mixing bowl to lick, and they didn't.

Karoma

circuit wrote:

Oh Looksee thats so funny!! Oh my god!!!!!

Banned.
12 posts - each as unamusing as the next. Goodbye.

afatbollix

i used to live in a estate.. and we had the local ice cream man with his van and siern.. but because my mother dident want us getting any she said that during the winter he dident sell ice cream but coal... never even said a word about it then for a while till my narbour got a ice cream about a year latter and then the penny droped....

bluto63

My babysitter once told me that the walls spoke to my parents when I wasn't around, telling them all the things I had done to the babysitter that night. Didn't even think about the fact that the babysitter could tell my parents

Tried making a fanta tree by pouring out an entire can onto the ground

trout

my dad convinced me that every joint in a giraffe's body is an elbow joint ... which is why they are so gangly ... i believed that until quite recently

that's nearly as cruel as an ex-girlfriend who, as a well endowed 12 yr old, convinced her flat chested best mate that rubbing butter on her chest would make her boobs grow ahead of schedule ... poor girl must have smelled like a goat

johnp

Used to believe the world used to be in black and white too. Damned TV :mad:

Also used to believe in Superman. I only found out he wasn't real when one day I was looking up into the sky and my older brother asked me what I was doing.
"Waiting for Superman to fly by" I said, nonchalantly.

He cracked up laughing, and a dream was shattered

AbusesToilets

When i was younger i watched that Malteezers ad where the person would bite one in half and walk up a wall.So many wasted afternoons...:rolleyes:

the_syco

I used to believe some dude died 2000 ears ago for sins which I've yet to do... go figure:rolleyes:

Suaimhneach

Carrotts = see in the dark.
I had two people living in my ears.
Never played Easter... it never made sense to be fair.
Love the lollipop tree one, and the upside down penny one. Might use them on my kids when I have some...!

Den_M

NeiloMac wrote:

I swollowed a penny i was really worried about it, So my dad turned me upside down, then dropped a penny making me think it came out my mouth,

Well you did swallow a penny, it could have happened.

generalmiaow

I'm not sure who originally told me this but I used to believe (up till about 5) that girls peed out of their belly buttons. Also a sort of runner-up is that a friend had me convinced that you could make honey by mixing gutter water with old paintm but not convinced enough that I'd actually drink it.

generalmiaow

What am I thinking, I forgot the stuff my granny gulled me into thinking. She used to lie all the time to get me to behave. She told me that she would spit blue feathers if she got angry enough, that Jesus would magically turn my tongue black if I told a lie and also before I could read that what later turned out to be the best before date on "Snack" chocolate bars actually said "for adults only".

imeddyhobbs

I read the headline and i started on page 3 and i have to say that ye are all mad!
And why did they put that man on the moon?Did he survive the electric chair?
Is the moon the next step of US torture techniques?