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

Roxanne · 13-07-2008 02:12AM

gogo wrote: »

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

Haha! I seem to have gotten over it now and funny enough I haven't seen an earwig in years (thanks be to jebus!) but I totally feel your pain!

javaboy · 13-07-2008 03:00AM

Not to tell my parents :eek::(:o

GhostInTheRuins · 13-07-2008 09:15AM

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

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

No not yet, but if any more of these supressed memories come back I might have to

af_thefragile · 13-07-2008 12:43PM

Watching tv from close and for long hours will spoil your eyes...

what a load of crap!

Run_to_da_hills · 13-07-2008 12:56PM

af_thefragile wrote: »

Watching tv from close and for long hours will spoil your eyes...

what a load of crap!

My Granny used to tell us that we would get square eyes from watching too much tv,

crybaby · 13-07-2008 01:00PM

if you swallow chewing gum it will stick to your heart

sidneykidney · 13-07-2008 01:05PM

crybaby wrote: »

if you swallow chewing gum it will stick to your heart

Omg i was told that also,still to this day i never swallow gum.

Captain Darling · 13-07-2008 01:08PM

The_Dazzler wrote: »

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Thats a fcuking lousy thing to say. Know your limits you fcuking twat.

Laura Appleby · 13-07-2008 01:11PM

I was told i was a man

January · 13-07-2008 01:13PM

The_Dazzler wrote: »

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That's uncalled for! Why is this any of your business??

Aspiration · 13-07-2008 01:48PM

Mum told me babies come out of bellybuttons... And depending how many grains of rice I left behind at dinner, this would be the number of spots my future husband would have... :rolleyes:

cjm4eva · 13-07-2008 01:51PM

Aspiration wrote: »

Mum told me babies come out of bellybuttons... And depending how many grains of rice I left behind at dinner, this would be the number of spots my future husband would have... :rolleyes:

Obviously you have parental issues. i dont think this is neither the thread nor the forum for you.

BlackWizard · 13-07-2008 01:54PM

My parents once told me Santa didn't exist. The things kids believe...

Aspiration · 13-07-2008 01:54PM

I agree - i do have parental issues. Thanks for pointing that out :rolleyes:

af_thefragile · 13-07-2008 02:15PM

crybaby wrote: »

if you swallow chewing gum it will stick to your heart

I was given a slightly more scientifically plausible explanation that if you swallow chewing gum, it'll block your wind pipe and you'll die of suffocation.

Very very rarely plausible but mostly bull crap! It'll only happen if you sorta like snort it or something. If you swallow it, i'll just go to your stomach...

cjm4eva · 13-07-2008 02:26PM

af_thefragile wrote: »

I was given a slightly more scientifically plausible explanation that if you swallow chewing gum, it'll block your wind pipe and you'll die of suffocation.

Very very rarely plausible but mostly bull crap! It'll only happen if you sorta like snort it or something. If you swallow it, i'll just go to your stomach...

Actually everything you said there is a lie; Chewing gum when mixed with Hydrochlroic acid, which is found in abundance in the stomache forms hydrochlroic pixalatic acid which- if you've ever done junior cert biology forms a cottage cheese like substance similar to phlem, which coagulates in the stomaches and is regurgitated but because of an involuntary reaction it reappears in the nose where one then begins to suffercate due to the mixture with oxygen and the nitrogen in the air causing the hydrochloric pixaltic acid to solidify further.

http://www.juniorscience.ie/jsss/Main/Biology1A2.htm

Captain Darling · 13-07-2008 02:30PM

cjm4eva wrote: »

Actually everything you said there is a lie; Chewing gum when mixed with Hydrochlroic acid, which is found in abundance in the stomache forms hydrochlroic pixalatic acid which- if you've ever done junior cert biology forms a cottage cheese like substance similar to phlem, which coagulates in the stomaches and is regurgitated but because of an involuntary reaction it reappears in the nose where one then begins to suffercate due to the mixture with oxygen and the nitrogen in the air causing the hydrochloric pixaltic acid to solidify further.

http://www.juniorscience.ie/jsss/Main/Biology1A2.htm

Wow, do you do science in college or something?

cjm4eva · 13-07-2008 02:42PM

yeah, did. in the 90's when college meant something

weemcd · 13-07-2008 02:59PM

Used to be told to eat the crusts of my toast and that would give my hair curls... now i would have ate the feckin crusts no bother, but why the fúck would i want curly hair? way to talk me out of eatin crusts there...:rolleyes:

on a completely different and in no way related note note, and nobody ever told me this, but i always knew from a young age that changing your phone company was a) more hassle than its worth, b) going to save you nowhere near the amount of money promised, and c) gonna cause you a lot more hassle when you try and return to your old company.

i didn't do it · 13-07-2008 05:30PM

Dr.Poca wrote: »

Santa anyone?

A bit too common I suppose

what you saying about santa:mad:

forestfruits · 13-07-2008 05:39PM

was told if I swallowed the pips in apples a tree would grow out of my mouth!

And if I didnt stop biting my nails and swallowing them- yuck I know- they would come out through my stomach and rip my clothes!

I was only 3/4 ish -it worked though stopped biting my nails!

birdie08 · 13-07-2008 10:16PM

HoneyButterfly wrote: »

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!!

I was told that one too! As i got older well( i wont reveal the age) that if i kissed a boy I would have a bun in the oven! which I believed for some time:o

SUNGOD · 13-07-2008 10:19PM

birdie08 wrote: »

I was told that one too! As i got older well( i wont reveal the age) that if i kissed a boy I would have a bun in the oven! which I believed for some time:o

do you mean pregnant or when you went home there would be an actual bun in the oven ?

birdie08 · 13-07-2008 10:25PM

SUNGOD wrote: »

do you mean pregnant or when you went home there would be an actual bun in the oven ?

ha ha preggers sungod:)

BroomBurner · 13-07-2008 10:27PM

cjm4eva wrote: »

yeah, did. in the 90's when college meant something

My sister swallowed an entire pack of Juicey Fruits by mistake and nothing happened to her. Maybe she is a scientific anomoly.

BroomBurner · 13-07-2008 10:28PM

Oh, was always told "I'll tell you when you're older" when I was a kid. I was never told.

Weidii · 14-07-2008 03:44AM

Heh, heh, in school they told us that there was a man in the sky who created the earth and everything... Still haven't figured out why!

LolaLuv · 14-07-2008 04:20AM

At my school, which was public (not in the UK sense, not sure if it's the same in Ireland, but in the American sense) we were told that women had one less rib than men. I think that was second grade or so, and I believed it for years. Ahh, the Bible.

hussey · 14-07-2008 04:43AM

Was told if I swallow chewing gum, spiders would grow in my belly.
if I told a lie my tongue would be black .. which even if I was telling the truth my tongue was still black according to my mother :eek:

Though a guy I work with, his mother told him, when the ice-cream van plays music, it means they have run out of ice-cream, and they will be back later

MagicMarker · 14-07-2008 05:55AM

I was told that if you eat the white part of watermelon then you die!!!:eek:

Also, not a lie, but something i misunderstood at the time... Does everyone remember Graham ''turnip head'' Taylors picture in the papers in the early 90's due to Englands failure to qualify for the 94 WCF.

Well, i was a little naive at the time, what with not really watching football or knowing who Graham Taylor was.. I thought he ACTUALLY had a turnip head!!! :eek::eek:

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

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