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Urban myths people always pass off as 'true'

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    #182
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    On a few occasions since 9/11, my mother or one of her friends have apparently noticed that African or Asian men had dropped their wallet/money on the street, and picked it up and handed it back to them.

    As thanks, they told her not to fly on a particular date.


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    #183
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,918 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Whatever happened to the cancer-causing mobile phone scare a few years back?


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    #184
    Turfcutter
    Registered Users Posts: 100 ✭✭Turfcutter


    Biddy from Glenroe and Bibi Baskin.


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    #185
    Turfcutter
    Registered Users Posts: 100 ✭✭Turfcutter


    Dr.Internet wrote: »
    It happened to my friend. After pulling out of the petrol station a van started flashing it's lights behind her. It was 2 am and she freaked. She was heading home and the van kept following her and flashing the lights. Her house is down a country lane with no others and the van kept following her. She beeped her horn to alert her parents, parked the car and jumped out. The van was still following her. It turned out the van driver had seen the axe murderer jump in the back at the petrol station and was flashing his lights and following her to warn her he was in the back!!

    Something similar happened to me. A van started following me out of a petrol and flashing its lights. I made a couple of detours and it was still following me. Eventually I shook him off and rested up for a while before going home relieved. As I got out of car, the horrible realisation dawned on me.
    I'd left the petrol tank door open.


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    #186
    wawaman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,982 ✭✭✭wawaman


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    If everybody that missed the Titanic actually got on it, it would have sunk in Cork Harbour.

    That would have been hard considering it never docked in cork harbour. Cobh now on the other hand.....


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    #187
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,977 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Whatever happened to the cancer-causing mobile phone scare a few years back?

    mate of mine has spent many years messing around with radio and microwave transmitters. is convinced he ll be riddled with cancer later in life. i think he could be right. the scare you mention hasnt gone away. all these microwave and radio transmitters around the place cant be good for us


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    #188
    Hyzepher
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,662 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hyzepher


    That the immaculate conception relates to the conception of Christ by the holy spirit


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    #189
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,918 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    mate of mine has spent many years messing around with radio and microwave transmitters. is convinced he ll be riddled with cancer later in life. i think he could be right. the scare you mention hasnt gone away. all these microwave and radio transmitters around the place cant be good for us

    We'll see. :/


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    #190
    Flaccus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Flaccus


    "Throw it into me boss. You know your only massive"


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    #191
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    OMG! My friend was in town today and he went up to some foregin looking fella and said "Are you the 96FM fugitive?" and the guy like totally freaked out and lashed out at my friend and then he legged it down the street in like a total panic!


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    #192
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    mapaca wrote: »
    That people put "Baby on Board" stickers on their cars in case of an accident, to let paramedics know to look for a baby in the car. Not true!

    Nope indeed, those stickers are for idiots that want to tell the world they are fertile.

    There's a baby in this car so please drive carefully, but cars with older kids or adults in them - yeah feel free to drive like a fu*king maniac ...


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    #193
    chewed
    Registered Users Posts: 3,408 ✭✭✭chewed


    The one where the house was broken into and a few valuables taken, but nothing else major stolen or trashed, so family continue living as normal. A few days later the dad gets the film from his camera developed and spots a few photos showing each of the family's toothbrushes shoved up someone's anus!


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    #194
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    él statutorio wrote: »
    I really want this one to be true!

    Wouldn't surprise me with Bill Murray :D


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    #195
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,918 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    cowboyBuilder wrote: »
    Nope indeed, those stickers are for idiots that want to tell the world they are fertile.

    There's a baby in this car so please drive carefully, but cars with older kids or adults in them - yeah feel free to drive like a fu*king maniac ...

    Amazing that people believe this sh*t, even when you point out that paramedics aren't idiots relying on the presence of a 3'' sticker (that's attached to a rear window which may smashed to smithereens anyway)

    They still don't twig that it's a novelty accessory with variations like "Little Princess on Board" or "Little Man-U Fan on Board"


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    #196
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    cowboyBuilder wrote: »
    Nope indeed, those stickers are for idiots that want to tell the world they are fertile.

    There's a baby in this car so please drive carefully, but cars with older kids or adults in them - yeah feel free to drive like a fu*king maniac ...
    I came across a clown with one of those stickers yesterday, I only noticed the sticker as the clown drove through a junction crossing the main road without stopping or looking :rolleyes:


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    #197
    discus
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    chewed wrote: »
    The one where the house was broken into and a few valuables taken, but nothing else major stolen or trashed, so family continue living as normal. A few days later the dad gets the film from his camera developed and spots a few photos showing each of the family's toothbrushes shoved up someone's anus!

    A bloke I used to work with used to burgle around Surrey but mainly Chertsey. All to supplement his income as a teenager. Some of the stuff they did was just depraved, totally unnecessary and such an insult to injury.


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    #198
    Dr.Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭Dr.Internet


    I was at a U2 concert and Bono was giving the speech about how every time he claps his hands a child in Africa dies. It was really quiet as everyone was listening and my friend yelled out "Well stop clapping your hands then"!!


    It was so funny


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    #199
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    Vomiting on your exam paper gets you an A in the leaving cert.

    Also exam question :

    "bravest thing you've ever done"?

    "This"

    Got an A.


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    #200
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    sure RTE were offered father ted and they said it was sh1t and then they went to channel 4


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    #201
    Dr.Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭Dr.Internet


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    Vomiting on your exam paper gets you an A in the leaving cert.

    Also exam question :

    "bravest thing you've ever done"?

    "This"

    Got an A.

    Writing your exam number correctly gets you points. My friend put a Fiver in between the pages for the examiner and got an A.


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    #202
    Michael D Not Higgins
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    Taking LSD and the guys kills himself because he thinks he's an orange and tries to peel himself.


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    #203
    Turfcutter
    Registered Users Posts: 100 ✭✭Turfcutter


    Germany wear a green away kit because Ireland were the first team to play them after WW2.
    Socrates studied medicine in Dublin and played Sigerson for UCD and got rejected by Shels/Bohs/Pats when he asked for a trial.


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    #204
    Dr.Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭Dr.Internet


    Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »
    Taking LSD and the guys kills himself because he thinks he's an orange and tries to peel himself.

    He should have felt like a banana and split!

    I'll get my coat I'll make like a tree and leaf :pac:


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    #205
    Stranger Danger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭Stranger Danger


    If you eat enough green smarties you'll grow women's tits.


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    #206
    HandsomeDan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 843 ✭✭✭HandsomeDan


    A Friend of mine bought a cactus home from south American...after a few weeks it start to vibrate..they rang a florist and told them the type..was told it was a vibrating cactus.


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    #207
    Michael D Not Higgins
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    Dr.Internet wrote: »
    Writing your exam number correctly gets you points. My friend put a Fiver in between the pages for the examiner and got an A.

    I had a teacher who did correcting for Irish in the Leaving Cert. He had plenty of stories about finding money, but it didn't sway him. He also found someone's cheat notes, needless to say they failed.


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    #208
    chewed
    Registered Users Posts: 3,408 ✭✭✭chewed


    discus wrote: »
    A bloke I used to work with used to burgle around Surrey but mainly Chertsey. All to supplement his income as a teenager. Some of the stuff they did was just depraved, totally unnecessary and such an insult to injury.

    I'm intrigued now! Maybe that could be a new AH thread?


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    #209
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    osarusan wrote: »
    Radio show where person must reveal details of the sex they had with a partner (who has already spoken about it) - if the specific details match they win a prize.

    When pushed for specifics, the first partner to speak specified that the sex was in the kitchen/shower/on washing machine, etc, but when the radio host say the second partner must be more specific to ensure their stories match and they are in fact telling the truth, the second partner (usually a woman) admits that it was actually anal sex.
    Actually did happen, though it wasn't a radio show (that appears to have been a rewrite of the original incident)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-qc-ntq5qw


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    #210
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,088 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    The one about the guy knocking one out in the bath, he gets out and his mom gets in the same water after. 9 months later she has a baby.


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    #211
    Bogger77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭Bogger77


    wawaman wrote: »
    That would have been hard considering it never docked in cork harbour. Cobh now on the other hand.....


    Cobh is in Cork Harbour, but the strange thing is the ship never entered Cork harbour, but lay anchor outside Roches Point.
    People were brought by small boat from Cobh to the ship, instead.


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