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Our Parents Lied To Us/Things you believed as a child

  • 05-08-2008 01:12PM
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭


    Lies our parents told us:

    "If you pick your nose your brains will fall out"

    "If you put a sea shell to your ear, you can hear the sea waves"

    "The street-man turns on the street lights"

    lying fookers :(


    Things I believed as a child:

    That if you killed a bee they gave off a dying noise other bees heard to come and attack you.

    You could get a girl pregnant by kissing.

    If you tied a knot in an electric cable the electricity couldn't get through.

    Swallowing an apple pip would make apples grow in your belly.

    That canned laughter on TV shows was the sound of all the other people laughing in their respective homes.

    That my Ma & Da had a chip in their heads and knew when I was been bold.

    That if I concentrated really really hard I could stop time.



    Erm. 2 things.

    1) Please tell me my parents werent the only ones, and

    2) That I wasnt dropped on my head as child which resulted in the above thoughts.

    kthnxbye


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    That canned laughter on TV shows was the sound of all the other people laughing in their respective homes.
    That's a good one... must save that for the next time I meet someone who's tripping.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18 anna766


    My enterprising mother had me convinced for years that the ice-cream man was in fact an ambulance! I used actually feel bad for the sick people (and never clocked that whenever anyone in the estate got a heart attack, all the other kids got 99s :o )


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭and2


    i was told the music from ice-cream van meant that the ice-cream had run out! now that was a recession!


  • Posts: 17,735 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I was always told that the ice-cream from the ice-cream van was 'made from the engine' or something along those lines which meant it was dodgy/dirty ice-cream. Odd altogether.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,021 ✭✭✭LadyE


    Canned laughter..I always thought that the shows were filmed in front of an audience - the sound of laughter was the audience.:confused: Yeah, Im thick :D

    If you lie your tongue turns black "But I just ate a blackjack"...I use this with my own son now :p

    If you go outside with wet hair..you will be physically sick.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    and2 wrote: »
    i was told the music from ice-cream van meant that the ice-cream had run out! now that was a recession!

    proper lol!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    That if you killed a bee they gave off a dying noise other bees heard to come and attack you.

    There's truth in that one but I think it's more wasps and pheromones rather than a noise: http://www.the-piedpiper.co.uk/th4.htm

    My parents told me there would never be another "Lies you were told as a child" thread. Lying b@stards! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Myth wrote: »
    I was always told that the ice-cream from the ice-cream van was 'made from the engine' or something along those lines which meant it was dodgy/dirty ice-cream. Odd altogether.
    I was told the man in the icecream van went to the toilet in a bucket and didn't wash his hands... so the icecream... again would be dirty... but who knows, maybe it was true.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭showry


    I was probably about 9 when I realised that "2 little boys" wasn't actually about me and my brother


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    If I swallowed chewing gum, it would stick to my ribcage. Ah bless the innocence of youth.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    I was told if I touched my poo I would go blind.
    I was told that yellow wee is unhealthy wee and see-through wee is healthy.
    I was told God created us all and I was told to go to church.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭buckieburd


    One of the girls in class told me when I was 8, that you had a big egg in your stomach that contained lots of little eggs, and that when you went to the school nurse she would punch you in the stomach and the big egg would break then a little egg would come out each month and that was your periods. For years after that I would sh!t myself going to the nurse, kept waiting for her to dig me in the belly!!!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    buckieburd wrote: »
    One of the girls in class told me when I was 8, that you had a big egg in your stomach that contained lots of little eggs, and that when you went to the school nurse she would punch you in the stomach and the big egg would break then a little egg would come out each month and that was your periods. For years after that I would sh!t myself going to the nurse, kept waiting for her to dig me in the belly!!!

    Fookin hell :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 523 ✭✭✭keevita


    My mom told me sausages grew in a field when I had a vegetarian phase.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    I was told God created us all and I was told to go to church.

    Let me be the first to shake your hand. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Seachmall wrote: »
    I was told if I touched my poo I would go blind.

    Who didn't hear the story of some kid who got dog poo on his hand, scratched his eye and subsequently went blind when they were a kid? It's plausible too.
    I was told that yellow wee is unhealthy wee and see-through wee is healthy.

    See through wee means you're well hydrated doesn't it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭ART6


    Things I believed because my ma told me:

    1. Bats are sticky and if you don't wear a hat at night they will get into your hair and be impossible to remove.
    2. If you get a cut in the web of skin between the thumb and index finger you will die.
    3. If you get wet in the rain it is essential to take a mustard bath to avoid catching cold.
    4. If you go outdoors within an hour of a bath you will catch pneumonia.
    5. Goats give you fleas (and we lived on a farm -- they sure did!).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    javaboy wrote: »
    Who didn't hear the story of some kid who got dog poo on his hand, scratched his eye and subsequently went blind when they were a kid? It's plausible too.
    I don't know if thats sarcasm:rolleyes:
    See through wee means you're well hydrated doesn't it?
    It means you're overhydrated and your body wants to get rid of water. Yellow pee means your dehydrated and your body wants to get rid of salts (among other things). Neither of them are 'healthy' per se but they're not unhealthy either. Its just your body managing your water levels.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Seachmall wrote: »
    I don't know if thats sarcasm:rolleyes:

    Nope not really. There was always a story of how some kid who lived nearby (but not quite near enough that you could actually check it out to see if it was true) went blind after picking up dog poo.
    It means you're overhydrated and your body wants to get rid of water. Yellow pee means your dehydrated and your body wants to get rid of salts (among other things). Neither of them are 'healthy' per se but they're not unhealthy either. Its just your body managing your water levels.

    Ok javaboy time to back away. Urine way over your head on this one.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    javaboy wrote: »
    There's truth in that one but I think it's more wasps and pheromones rather than a noise: http://www.the-piedpiper.co.uk/th4.htm

    I was a feckin' genius even back then!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,635 ✭✭✭tribulus


    I was told that if the wind changed direction while I was crossing my eyes they'd be stuck like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    This threads been done, a lot. Search first.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭ART6


    javaboy wrote: »
    Who didn't hear the story of some kid who got dog poo on his hand, scratched his eye and subsequently went blind when they were a kid? It's plausible too.

    Among local authority workers there is a thing called "mower's eye". It is a parasitic infection of the eye caught by employees who mow street verges and get dog poo traces on their hands from the grass on the mower. Then when they wipe their eyes...... They don't go blind but they do suffer a lot of irritation for a while.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    Mary was a virgin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    hussey wrote: »
    Mary was a virgin

    She was. :cool:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Overheal wrote: »
    This threads been done, a lot. Search first.

    Havent seen either topic here in 4 years of reading AH. Links or they didnt happen.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,821 ✭✭✭RxQueen


    keevita wrote: »
    My mom told me sausages grew in a field when I had a vegetarian phase.

    HA thats a good one!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey




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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Overheal wrote: »

    Ooooh. Where they all come from?

    To be honest I think there's very, very little we havent covered on AH by now :cool:

    But good work. Noted.


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