Things you where told when you where young....

Jet Black · 12-07-2008 10:41PM #1

.. that was a complete lie.

I remember a friend of mine told me a man in shiny shoes and a cruch was going around killing children my age (he was two years older than me)
I hid in my wardrobe for a week until he said he was jokin with me.

Any other stupid things you believed when you where young?

buckrodgers · 12-07-2008 10:47PM

I went to a convent primary school and the sash windows had red pull cords for some reason. Some older girls told me they were red from the blood of the girls the nuns used to hang! I was so innocent I really believed it!!

Quality · 12-07-2008 10:50PM

My brother used to tell me terrible lies, There was a monument type stone put at the entrance to the estate we lived in growing up. He told me that he put it there before he went to live in america in the 1980's, I used to tell everyone that he put it there. Argue with them over it..:o

Jimbo · 12-07-2008 10:55PM

I was told if you let the underside of an umbrella touch your head, it would stunt your growth. I can't believe I believed it.

eVeNtInE · 12-07-2008 10:56PM

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AARRRGH · 12-07-2008 10:56PM

"It's what's on the inside that counts".

I thought she literally meant your insides.

/I know this isn't quite a lie, but at the time I thought she must be lying

Somnus · 12-07-2008 10:59PM

Santa anyone?

A bit too common I suppose

Sherifu · 12-07-2008 11:00PM

That aids was spread from toilet seats.

Jimbo · 12-07-2008 11:01PM

Mr Crystal wrote: »

I was told that if I made faces and the wind turned my face would be stuck like that.

I got that one too

HoneyButterfly · 12-07-2008 11:03PM

I was told my baby brother came from underneath a head of cabbage in my uncle's house. My Grandad told me this (I was 4) I went into school telling everyone that would listen that I knew where babies came from....cabbage!!

HoneyButterfly · 12-07-2008 11:07PM

Oh I also believed that Timbucktwo (spelling??) was a real place because everytime my Mam and Gran brought me shopping they told me was in Timbucktwo. So for a long time I thought Newbridge, was in fact, Timbucktwo!!

ejmaztec · 12-07-2008 11:15PM

HoneyButterfly wrote: »

Oh I also believed that Timbucktwo (spelling??) was a real place because everytime my Mam and Gran brought me shopping they told me was in Timbucktwo. So for a long time I thought Newbridge, was in fact, Timbucktwo!!

cough cough - Timbuctoo is a real place:P

Joe Cool · 12-07-2008 11:17PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

cough cough - Timbuctoo is a real place:P

+1

Nowhere near Newbridge though.

ejmaztec · 12-07-2008 11:19PM

Joe Cool wrote: »

+1

Nowhere near Newbridge though.

Newbridge is real?:eek:

callaway92 · 12-07-2008 11:25PM

That Carrots make yore eyesight better

HoneyButterfly · 12-07-2008 11:26PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

cough cough - Timbuctoo is a real place:P

Yeah, Oh I knew that too....seriously. I going to blame the tiredmess or the blondness or something equally stupid....but you get what I mean anyway, as a child I was going around "Yeah we went shopping in Timbuctoo today..." ..."Yeah course ya did"

stevecrow74 · 12-07-2008 11:28PM

callaway92 wrote: »

That Carrots make yore eyesight better

ermm... carrots are full of vitamin A, which is good for healthy eyesight

easter bunny anyone...

HoneyButterfly · 12-07-2008 11:33PM

callaway92 wrote: »

That Carrots make yore eyesight better

Theres vitamin A in carrots, and lack of Vitamin A leads to night blindness...so its actually true!

GhostInTheRuins · 12-07-2008 11:52PM

I was told chewing gum was made from tails of dead rats that were scraped up off the road.

I was told that when I reached a certain age (2 or 3 I suppose) a man (called Mc something or other) would come and take away all my soothers and leave me a present in exchange. A brilliant train set was there when I woke up one day

I was told that the Robin was one of santys helpers and was always spying on me to make sure I was being good. If he saw me being bold I would only get a lump of coal at christmas.

When I was about to start school and didn't want to go I was told that the Gardai would be checking that all the children showed up for school, if they discovered that some weren't they would come to my house and put me in prison.

If I was in a shop and wanted particular sweets or chocolates or whatever, I was told I couldn't have them because they were for dogs and I'd be really sick if I ate them.

I can't remember many more right now but I know they're just the tip of the iceberg.

BaconZombie · 12-07-2008 11:53PM

This was started by the UK Army during the war as disinformation to hide the fact that they had Radar which let the accurately shot down German planes at night.

HoneyButterfly wrote: »

Theres vitamin A in carrots, and lack of Vitamin A leads to night blindness...so its actually true!

GirlInterrupted · 13-07-2008 12:05AM

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

I was told chewing gum was made from tails of dead rats that were scraped up off the road.

I was told that when I reached a certain age (2 or 3 I suppose) a man (called Mc something or other) would come and take away all my soothers and leave me a present in exchange. A brilliant train set was there when I woke up one day

I was told that the Robin was one of santys helpers and was always spying on me to make sure I was being good. If he saw me being bold I would only get a lump of coal at christmas.

When I was about to start school and didn't want to go I was told that the Gardai would be checking that all the children showed up for school, if they discovered that some weren't they would come to my house and put me in prison.

If I was in a shop and wanted particular sweets or chocolates or whatever, I was told I couldn't have them because they were for dogs and I'd be really sick if I ate them.

I can't remember many more right now but I know they're just the tip of the iceberg.

Your family was MEAN:eek:. Do you spend much on therapy?

I was told that if I ate my toast crusts I'd get lovely curly hair.....and I wasn't found under a head of cabbage, but under a dustbin lid.

HoneyButterfly · 13-07-2008 12:09AM

BOFH_139 wrote: »

This was started by the UK Army during the war as disinformation to hide the fact that they had Radar which let the accurately shot down German planes at night.

What?!! What?? Can you explain

tracker-man · 13-07-2008 12:23AM

you see the british had radar, unknown to the germans and were able to track down german planes and shoot them from the sky. Everyone was wondering and asking how the british were being so successful, the british didn't want to reveal they had radar and so said their pilots were eating lots of carrots which improved their eyesight

Run_to_da_hills · 13-07-2008 12:29AM

I was led to believe that God resided in that little Gold Box on top of the alter

dancingqueen · 13-07-2008 12:38AM

When I was 3 years old, my gran told me that if I was bold "the boys would get me". For 3-4 months, my mother could not explain why I would hide behind her in shops when people came in.. on hearing my gran saying this the penny dropped.

kittensoft1984 · 13-07-2008 12:43AM

callaway92 wrote: »

That Carrots make yore eyesight better

people still tell me that! im 24 now!!! :eek:

AlmightyCushion · 13-07-2008 12:47AM

stevecrow74 wrote: »

ermm... carrots are full of vitamin A, which is good for healthy eyesight

Yeah but they didn't say it would make your eyes healthy, they just said it would make it better. I ate carrots by the barrel load expecting to be able to see through walls and shoot lasers out of my eyes.

Overheal · 13-07-2008 12:48AM

weve had a bajillion of these threads but sure my brothers told me tornados were intelligent; fed off children and had a pit of lava in the middle.

Roxanne · 13-07-2008 12:54AM

Some I remember....

* That chewing gum was made from cat's guts :eek:

* That if an earwig's got into your ear when you were asleep and made you deaf. (When I was a child I seriously used to go to sleep with my fingers in my ears. Was terrified) When my mam was a kid she was told that they would crawl into your brain and make you go mad:pac:

gogo · 13-07-2008 02:01AM

Roxanne wrote: »

Some I remember....

* That chewing gum was made from cat's guts :eek:

* That if an earwig's got into your ear when you were asleep and made you deaf. (When I was a child I seriously used to go to sleep with my fingers in my ears. Was terrified) When my mam was a kid she was told that they would crawl into your brain and make you go mad:pac:

Good god are you related to me, was told both of these things, earwigs eat the "main cord" - presume they meant veins - which was connected to your brain from your ear. thus killing you instantly.Still to this day cover both ears when asleep, even in hottest temperatures, I can't bear to have my head uncovered when sleeping.

A friend by the name of McDonald told me Ronald McDonald was her uncle, i was always hanging around her waiting to meet him.

I look nothing like the rest of my family and my brothers and sisters told me I was adopted for years, and that one day my real family would show up and collect me and I have no choice but to go with them. I hated strangers calling to our house in case it was 'them'. Actually believed this for years:o

georgem25 · 13-07-2008 02:11AM

A friend of mine was told that when the ice cream man played the music that meant he had no ice cream left!!!

How cruel were his parents!!

Things you where told when you where young....

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