Old Wives Tales

Voltex

I was having a shave with my electric razor this morning and my 3 yo son comes in and asks can he have a go....so not thinking itd be any harm i let him hold it and pretend to shave...then my wife comes in and has a freaker!!...she reckons that if he sahves off his baby hair on his face (which tbh I dont think he actaully has) it will cause them to grow back like an adults beard!!....when she said that I cacked myself laughing...but is there any truth to it, and have you any old wives tales worth telling??

alwaysadub

"If the wind changes,you'll stay like that"
Was threatened with that a LOT growing up!!

LenaClaire

It is not true

When I was 5 I got into my dad's razor and shaved my eyebrows and fringe clean off. The eyebrows and fringe grew back and I did not grow a beard.

InkSlinger67

alwaysadub wrote: »

"If the wind changes,you'll stay like that"
Was threatened with that a LOT growing up!!

Now look at ya!

I was in Dublin too one time when the wind changed and now I'm stuck a Dub!

genericguy

Apparently **** makes you go blind. I don't even eat carrots to balance out my daily overdose of hand shandy and I've got perfect vision.

smiley girl

During 'that time of month' a women should never wash her hair.
I was told that by my gran aunt years ago!!

snow ghost

genericguy wrote: »

Apparently **** makes you go blind. I don't even eat carrots to balance out my daily overdose of hand shandy and I've got perfect vision.

Look what happened to Stevie Wonder. :eek:

Sarn

No truth (obviously) to the hair thing. When the hair is cut the nice tapered ends are chopped off making the chopped ends feel coarser afterwards.

When I was a kid my mum told me that if I swallowed chewing gum it would make my insides stick together. When I finally swallowed some by mistake I thought I was going to die. Needless to say twenty odd years later I'm still alive to tell the tale.

InkSlinger67

genericguy wrote: »

Apparently **** makes you go blind. I don't even eat carrots to balance out my daily overdose of hand shandy and I've got perfect vision.

Ehh....we're over here! :pac:

genericguy

snow ghost wrote: »

Look what happened to Stevie Wonder. :eek:

what happened to him exactly? are you implying that he wanked too much as a fetus which resulted in his being blind from birth?

EllieB

Don't put an umbrella over your head indoors.... you won't grow any taller.

I stopped at 5ft 1" so maybe there's some truth in that :rolleyes:

genericguy

InkSlinger67 wrote: »

Ehh....we're over here! :pac:

who said that??

landsleaving

Sarn wrote: »

No truth (obviously) to the hair thing. When the hair is cut the nice tapered ends are chopped off making the chopped ends feel coarser afterwards.

When I was a kid my mum told me that if I swallowed chewing gum it would make my insides stick together. When I finally swallowed some by mistake I thought I was going to die. Needless to say twenty odd years later I'm still alive to tell the tale.

I thought I posted that because I have the same avatar. Facepalm, as they say.

I was always told chewing gum would be in your stomach for 7 years, but when I swallowed some it went straight back out with my next bowel movement.

InkSlinger67

genericguy wrote: »

who said that??

I think it was genericmum waving a generic rolling pin

alwaysadub

EllieB wrote: »

Don't put an umbrella over your head indoors.... you won't grow any taller.

I stopped at 5ft 1" so maybe there's some truth in that :rolleyes:

Oh,i was told it was bad luck just.
But i'm not much taller than you,so maybe yours is right:D

alwaysadub

landsleaving wrote: »

I thought I posted that because I have the same avatar. Facepalm, as they say.

I was always told chewing gum would be in your stomach for 7 years, but when I swallowed some it went straight back out with my next bowel movement.

Did you check and see??

landsleaving

alwaysadub wrote: »

Did you check and see??

Sorry meant to add.

Source: Non-impaired by masturbation yet vision.

tman

alwaysadub wrote: »

Did you check and see??

Just had an image of him poking his fresh bum baby with a stick to make sure that the chewing gum made it out:p

landsleaving

tman wrote: »

Just had an image of him poking his fresh bum baby with a stick to make sure that the chewing gum made it out:p

Had to make sure, 7 years is a long time

Gummy Panda

Girls who have unprotected sex should duce out their vag with coke.

Ex heard of that old wives tale and use to laugh about it.

GLaDOS

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Girls who have unprotected sex should duce out their vag with coke.

Ex heard of that old wives tale and use to laugh about it.

Actually know someone who did that with Lilt...

landsleaving

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Actually know someone who did that with Lilt...

Did she have unprotected sex with a Jamaican?

GLaDOS

landsleaving wrote: »

Did she have unprotected sex with a Jamaican?

No, her boyfriend told her about it after the condom ripped He knew it wasn't real obviously

InkSlinger67

Parents are cruel, cruel people. My folks used to tell me that if I ate orange pips they would pass through the body and come out from under my toe nails.

And now they wonder why I'm always getting scurvy!

Voltex

I remember being told not to blow on my skin with a bicycle pump...that it would give me warts!!

ddef

Voltex wrote: »

I was having a shave with my electric razor this morning and my 3 yo son comes in and asks can he have a go....so not thinking itd be any harm i let him hold it and pretend to shave...then my wife comes in and has a freaker!!...she reckons that if he sahves off his baby hair on his face (which tbh I dont think he actaully has) it will cause them to grow back like an adults beard!!....when she said that I cacked myself laughing...but is there any truth to it, and have you any old wives tales worth telling??

If this is true, I am shaving my future sons face as soon as he's born! imagine how cool hed look at 8 with a full on beard....
but in all honesty, I could do with a few extra hairs on my face, and if this is true ill slap my dad around for not telling me to shave earlier.

whatdoicare

smiley girl wrote: »

During 'that time of month' a women should never wash her hair.
I was told that by my gran aunt years ago!!

What did she think would happen?? Actually, thinking about it, my mam used to tell me not to have a bath during that time. Never asked why...?

InkSlinger67

whatdoicare wrote: »

What did she think would happen?? Actually, thinking about it, my mam used to tell me not to have a bath during that time. Never asked why...?

Mystery solved

whatdoicare

InkSlinger67 wrote: »

Mystery solved

Wow! That girl must need the ultra industrial strength tampons!:eek:

Voltex

InkSlinger67 wrote: »

Mystery solved

dont know wheather to luagh or cry!!

Voltex

whatdoicare wrote: »

Wow! That girl must need the ultra industrial strength tampons!:eek:

Im not a great man for dem wimens problems!!...make me feel all quezey!!

Voltex

ddef wrote: »

If this is true, I am shaving my future sons face as soon as he's born! imagine how cool hed look at 8 with a full on beard....
but in all honesty, I could do with a few extra hairs on my face, and if this is true ill slap my dad around for not telling me to shave earlier.

now I have it in my head my son with be hitting primary school sporting a Magnum PI tach!!

Martin_Kelly

I was told as a child that GINGERS HAVE NO SOULS!!!..... needless to say i have black hair, but always fun to say to your bitch of a teacher!! ^^

Martin_Kelly

Another good one was 'If you dont clean your room, so help me god I'll cripple ya'
To this day I walk with a limp.... but twas very much worth it!! ^^

Ann22

Voltex wrote: »

I remember being told not to blow on my skin with a bicycle pump...that it would give me warts!!

I heard that too!:D I also heard it was bad for pregnant women to hold their arms above their heads in case the cord wrapped around the baby's neck...and that it was bad to go near a corpse or to stand in a graveyard.

I heard the spooky ones too.. like that if you hear three knocks at the door and there was no one there that someone in the house was about to die :eek: and if a picture of a person fell off a wall for no apparent reason that they were on their way out too.

Biggins

Sarn wrote: »

...When I was a kid my mum told me that if I swallowed chewing gum it would make my insides stick together. When I finally swallowed some by mistake I thought I was going to die. Needless to say twenty odd years later I'm still alive to tell the tale.

Ya sure? Maybe we just see dead people! :eek: