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What bullshιt were you told as a kid? Lies from parents etc.

  • 17-04-2018 09:24PM
    #1
    Ahhhh for forks sake!
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 143 ✭✭


    I was told the classics, i
    • If you stare at the telly your eyes will turn square.
    • If you lie your tongue will turn black.
    • If you don't behave the man will come and take you away.
    • If you put your shoes on the wrong feet your feet will turn square.
    • If you make faces and get a fright you'll get stuck like that.
    • If you eat sugar straight from the bowl you'll get worms inside you.
    • Santa is watching you.
    • If you don't eat your dinner your ears will fall off.
    • If you pretend to be sick, you'll end up really genuinely sick for the rest of your life.


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  • #2
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    If you unscrew your belly button, your arse will drop off.


  • #3
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    We don't have a favourite child. Now get back up to the attic with your fish heads, dinner is almost ready.


  • #4
    Arrival
    Closed Accounts Posts: 779 ✭✭✭Arrival


    Drugs are bad


  • #5
    idnkph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 674 ✭✭✭idnkph


    Of you swallow chewing gum your bones will stick together


  • #6
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    ‘If you chase those pigeons away someone will complain about it on the internet.’

    Even as a child I knew nobody could be that petty.


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  • #7
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    'We love you'.


  • #8
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Nothing wrong with instilling a bit of fear

    That's what's wrong with some of the children today no fear of consequence over ones actions


  • #9
    Ninjini
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,137 ✭✭✭Ninjini


    If you swallow chewing gum your lungs will stick together was what I was told :D


  • #10
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    When the ice cream man plays music, it means he's run out of ice cream.


  • #11
    Ninjini
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,137 ✭✭✭Ninjini


    If you lie, your tongue will turn black. I genuinely fell for that one until I was about 8 :o


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  • #12
    Ahhhh for forks sake!
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 143 ✭✭Ahhhh for forks sake!


    Ninjini wrote: »
    If you lie, your tongue will turn black. I genuinely fell for that one until I was about 8 :o

    Forgot that one !! I'll add to the OP :)


  • #13
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,722 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Chinese people have sideways fannies


  • #14
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    My friend's mam told us that if you whistle it makes the Virgin Mary cry.


  • #15
    filbert the fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 809 ✭✭✭filbert the fox


    if you die with a Mortal sin on your soul you automatically go straight to hell.

    God (not Santa) is watching you.

    There's a child in Africa who would love to eat that (tripe usually)

    stick out your tongue and i will know if you're lying


  • #16
    eeguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭eeguy


    Tooth fairy, santa.

    My dad used to tell me we were related to famous people like Frank Sinatra. "There's your uncle on the telly". Poor fool me believed him.


  • #17
    Ninjini
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,137 ✭✭✭Ninjini


    My Nan also told me that rain was God crying and thunder was when God was angry.


  • #18
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    I was found under a cabbage as a baby.


  • #19
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    "Stop crossing your eyes, if the wind blows the wrong way they'll be stuck like that!"


  • #20
    filbert the fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 809 ✭✭✭filbert the fox


    if you don't behave you'll end up in ARTAINE


  • #21
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    antodeco wrote: »
    Chinese people have sideways fannies

    Pretty sure thats true


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  • #22
    baylah17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭baylah17


    Ahhhh for forks sake! wrote: »
    I was told the classics, i
    • If you stare at the telly your eyes will turn square.
    • If you lie your tongue will turn black.
    • If you don't behave the man will come and take you away.
    • If you put your shoes on the wrong feet your feet will turn square.
    • If you make faces and get a fright you'll get stuck like that.
    • If you eat sugar straight from the bowl you'll get worms inside you.
    • Santa is watching you.
    • If you don't eat your dinner your ears will fall off.
    • If you pretend to be sick, you'll end up really genuinely sick for the rest of your life.

    Adults know best!


  • #23
    Mena Mitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭Mena Mitty


    If you go outside with a wet head after a bath you'll get pneumonia.

    Packet soup is flavoured with dried insects.

    Teabags are the sweepings of the tea factory floor.

    There's a black hole in the Garda barracks where they put bold children.


  • #24
    tupenny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭tupenny


    Billy86 wrote: »
    We don't have a favourite child. Now get back up to the attic with your fish heads, dinner is almost ready.
    Hugho? 😔


  • #25
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Standard reply from my mother if you were looking for something that was lost and you asked where it was.
    "Up in Nellie's room behind the wallpaper."
    We didn't have an upstairs, no wallpaper, and no idea who Nellie was. :confused:


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,847 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I was found at the butt of Slievenamon in a biscuit tin.

    The hot water bottle leaked. (My sister and I shared a bed)


  • #27
    NickNickleby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    filbert the fox wrote: »
    if you don't behave you'll end up in ARTAINE

    As a child living among ex-pats in UK, I'd heard that. Well, guess where I live now????? In the former grounds. Given the hundreds of houses here, I won't be easily identified, and no one round here knows I was a bold child.:pac::pac:


  • #28
    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    The big scary man will take you away :rolleyes:


  • #29
    Amalgam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,030 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    Eating chopped liver and various other unmentionables would give me bat like powers, see in the dark etc..

    Basically, a fib to get me to eat the, 'offal of the week', when the house budget was tight.

    Feckers.


  • #30
    filbert the fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 809 ✭✭✭filbert the fox


    if you use bad language to your parents your hand will stick up out of your grave


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  • #31
    LirW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    If I'm not eating my plate empty there will be thunderstorms the next day and it's my fault.

    Also my nan took myself, sister and cousin out in the car and would stop where the forest would start, would go over and call for the witch and she then made witch like noises that she wants to eat the kids. She was scarily good at it and we were scared sh1tless.


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