Unhealthy stuff you did as a kid, but never thought about it

whiskeyman · 2006-07-22 09:09:40

Was just thinking about this the other day... when I was a v young kid, meself and my best mate would pick up old ciggie butts on our street and put them in our mouths and pretend we were smoking them!! :eek: !! I know!! What the fook were we thinking... Eating toliet paper (before use...) was another. Don't ask.... Anyone…

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#32 22-07-2006 03:54PM

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I found a dead rat once... nice and decaying and all... put it in me pocket and brought it home. Me ma wasnt to impressed when i showed her what id found...

So has any of yis did the thing where a load of ye piss in a bottle and tell one your mates that its lime???

as for chewing gum off the ground.. thats just plain disgusting.

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#33 22-07-2006 04:24PM

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hmm well i have a lot to confess. when i was 6 i used to "smoke" old hollow reed type things .i used to take the tar off the roads,i once shot an walther ppk cap gun and sucked the smoke in(burnt the **** outta me lol) and i used to make little "huts" in the tolka valley, burn down trees,burn other peoples "huts" etc.

Now im all good

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#34 22-07-2006 05:57PM

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I use to pick up dandelions out of the ground and the suck the juice from them :eek:

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#35 22-07-2006 05:59PM

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i once found the gum of a cow, complete with teeth, in my garden. I thought this was cool and picked it up and brought it to show to my mom and my cousins...they looked a bit sickened for some reason....

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#36 22-07-2006 07:54PM

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Here are a couple of posts I made in an old thread over on Soc > Parenting-

A friend of mine tells a story of how she found her toddler son in the garden with a satisfied look on his face, clutching half a slug...

Anyhow, I told my friend that I'd mentioned her son's 'slug incident' here, and she informs me that he once told her that he didn't like snails because "they are too crunchy"

Apparently, her daughter once approached her making a sour face, said "Yucky!", and handed her the tail of the family goldfish.

More similar stuff here- So what have yours eaten?

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#37 22-07-2006 07:58PM

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Solvents, cigarettes, unprotected sex.

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#38 22-07-2006 08:08PM

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I never did this but friends of mine used to eat dog biscuits.
And one used to suck on these weeds - think they were called clover - she would suck on it to get this honey out of it....... if I am remembering correctly that is!
I remember once I went to an orchard up the road from me, and must have eaten about 3 cooking apples - I still remember the cramps!

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#39 22-07-2006 08:12PM

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I used to get £5 together and buy 50 x 10 penny bags and eat all 500 sweets in one sittings. I've done the lick old chewing gum thing, usually off the underside of tables in macdonalds.

My lunch for the summer usually consisted of a cup of tea and a full packet of bourbon biscuits, I wouldn't actually drink the tea, i'd just use the biscuits to slowly soak up the tea.

I once got dared to drink the dregs in the end of a lucozade bottle in a bin, I had tonsilitis for a week.

Also, heres something you could still do now as its not really unhealthy but disgusting. Get one of your friends to swallow a tablespoon full of half lemon juice, half instant coffee granules. It doesn't really sound that bad, which is why its so good to do to someone. Its the most awful mixture I have ever tasted, its like the bile that comes up in the back of your throat.

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#40 22-07-2006 08:24PM

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Aoife-FM104 wrote:

Solvents, cigarettes, unprotected sex.

*in a super posh voice* oh my god thats despicable

lol

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#41 22-07-2006 08:26PM

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L31mr0d wrote:

I used to get £5 together and buy 50 x 10 penny bags and eat all 500 sweets in one sittings.

I still do that

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#42 24-07-2006 02:33PM

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I used to grab a spoon and a tub of Flora and scoff the whole lot...

I also used to eat raw sausages, never got sick though....

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#43 24-07-2006 02:43PM

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There were these flowers in my garden that we used to suck the sourness out of, we called them sour-bellies. There were also other flowers in the back, red with purple things in the middle that we used to eat, never once crossed out minds that maybe dogs had pee’d all over them.

Did the chewing gum thing, of course I blessed it 10 times so it was ok. Baby oil/butter while sunbathing.

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#44 24-07-2006 02:47PM

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i used to eat my own poo

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#45 24-07-2006 02:51PM

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once, was alone in the kitchen and saw a glass of yellow liquid sitting on the counter. Thinking it was some tasty orange juice i took a quick gulp only to discover that it was a glasss filled with the drained off fat from the deep-fat-frier....very pleasant taste!!!

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#46 24-07-2006 02:54PM

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All of my barbie legs were destroyed me chewing on them, as well as pencils,pens and markers. markers were my favourite. chew them up and or just suck on the tip of the marker, ink and all.
Dog biscuits taste like wheat thins

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#47 24-07-2006 02:55PM

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Used to eat a lot of toothpast. Mmminty.

Used to have sh*te fights. The local field was always full of dry horse poo which made for great wars.

Let my dog lick my ice cream and then continue eating it myself. (only got caught once)

If I had dinner that I didnt like, I used to stuff it into these hollow building blocks that I had and hide them all over the house. I found a batch of them about 10 years later and they were full of chip fossils.

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#48 24-07-2006 03:35PM

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Mud Pies mmmmm with worms inside as extras, didnt go as far as eating the worms but did serve it up on a plate , also juicy looseys (???) clover type thing growing in the garden that had a real sour flavour when eaten. We were prob tasting cats wee or something!

Ohh yeh i love SMA y'know the baby powder, used to eat it as a kid but got addicted again when i had my kids !

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#49 24-07-2006 04:54PM

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Kiera wrote:

There were these flowers in my garden that we used to suck the sourness out of, we called them sour-bellies. There were also other flowers in the back, red with purple things in the middle that we used to eat, never once crossed out minds that maybe dogs had pee’d all over them.

Did the chewing gum thing, of course I blessed it 10 times so it was ok. Baby oil/butter while sunbathing.

I thought I was the only one :eek:

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#50 24-07-2006 04:56PM

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raheny red wrote:

I thought I was the only one :eek:

Ew, Now that’s just gross! Never ate them, only sour-bellies.

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#51 24-07-2006 06:25PM

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i got totally addicted to eating bonjella...

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#52 24-07-2006 06:36PM

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Unhealthy stuff you did as a kid, but never thought about it

Crystal meth.

Oh sure the family all have a good laugh about it now.

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#53 24-07-2006 07:12PM

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practically eating pens (not just chewing them) right down to the end-worse still i still have to be reminded to stop!

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#54 24-07-2006 07:20PM

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I know a guy that apparently had to have his stomach pumped as a child due to over-dosing on Calpol. Don't blame him really, that stuff was lovely.

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#55 24-07-2006 07:26PM

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When we were about 10 myself and my mates would roll up newpapers into tubes, light one end and the inhale the burning smoke - pretending we were smoking cigarettes... Jaysus that would sting your lungs, and eyes.

Made me the man I am today

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#56 24-07-2006 07:29PM

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one more for the chewing gum brigade!

abetarrush wrote:

when I was teethin I bit a tube of superglue in Easons and its burst

Are you serious? What happened next?

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#57 24-07-2006 07:31PM

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biko wrote:

When we were about 10 myself and my mates would roll up newpapers into tubes, light one end and the inhale the burning smoke - pretending we were smoking cigarettes... Jaysus that would sting your lungs, and eyes.

Made me the man I am today

Omg I did the same but we used hollow stick things filled with grass... God I still remember that horrible taste and that hard to breathe feeling

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#58 24-07-2006 07:31PM

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splinter wrote:

i got totally addicted to eating bonjella...

That, and calpol were soo tasty as a kid

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#59 24-07-2006 07:39PM

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lets see, I ate chewing gum found on the ground, picked my nose and ate it (sorry if anyone is eating while reading this) not sure what else tho

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#60 24-07-2006 08:12PM

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used to eat bonjella as well

~ Idgeitman

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#61 24-07-2006 08:13PM

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According to my mum, I regularly ate crayons. Another time I managed to chew open the welded-in top of my toy baby's bottle and drank some of the pretend milk inside, which was obviously some highly toxic substance as I was violently sick and had to be rushed into A&E! Another time, my friend's mum bought me, her and her sister to a nature reserve-type place. We noticed a cluster of Maltesers on the ground so, naturally, we got stuck in. The "Maltesers" turned out to be goat ****.

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