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

5starpool · 05-08-2008 02:30PM

Overheal wrote: »

This threads been done, a lot. Search first.

Glad you felt the need to tell the world that. I hope it made you feel better.

Overheal · 05-08-2008 02:44PM

It really did. How bout a multi-thread merge?

IvaBigWun · 05-08-2008 02:47PM

Overheal wrote: »

It really did. How bout a multi-thread merge?

+1

Terence?

Winters · 05-08-2008 03:30PM

Overheal wrote: »

It really did. How bout a multi-thread merge?

Yes, why not merge every duplicate thread in After Hours since 1998 :rolleyes:

Larianne · 05-08-2008 03:35PM

My Uncle died of Lupus when I was very young and after my mam told me its a disease that affects the tissue in your body, I started eating toliet tissue...

Homer · 05-08-2008 03:40PM

It's 1983 and I'm 10 years old. Ski Sunday is on the telly, and I ask my dad why onlookers are banging cowbells and shouting every time a contestant skis past.

He says,
"it's so that blind skiers can keep away from the sides". :mad:

Solarball10 · 05-08-2008 03:41PM

Santy was the worst. I really thought he'd existed. When they told me aged 11, I still didn't have the foggiest. But finally, I had someone to blame face-to-face for that 1 year when I asked for a Barbie dreamhouse and got a crappy robot instead.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 05-08-2008 03:46PM

I used to think that your calves and thighs were actually where you stored all the chewing gum that you swallowed. My parents didn't tell me that I don't think though. I used to swallow chewing gum on purpose and stare at my calves to see if I could see it appearing under the skin.

Oh, and I didn't quite get the concept of false teeth, I thought my grandparents were literally taking their teeth out of their heads, had a vague idea it had something to do with the toothfairy and "grown-up" teeth

Steve_o · 05-08-2008 03:58PM

My dad told me as a kid that people only started seeing in colour in the 70's and that everyone saw in black and white before that, hence the photographs, believed him for years too... I was a stupid child!

Zzippy · 05-08-2008 04:07PM

That Jack and Jill went up a hill, just to fetch a pail of water... :rolleyes:

Homer · 05-08-2008 04:08PM

Snyper's Dad once told him that their family were descendants of Irish lords ... He used to beleive him too but then his father told the Judge he wasn't a child molester so now he has his doubts...

shenanigans1982 · 05-08-2008 04:24PM

Steve_o wrote: »

My dad told me as a kid that people only started seeing in colour in the 70's and that everyone saw in black and white before that, hence the photographs, believed him for years too... I was a stupid child!

I thought that too, don't think my parents told me. Before I knew of shaving I also thought you had no choice in whether you developed a moustache or beard and prayed I would never ever get one.

My parents had me convinced if I picked my nose my head would cave in, still works to this day.

IvaBigWun · 05-08-2008 06:40PM

Steve_o wrote: »

My dad told me as a kid that people only started seeing in colour in the 70's and that everyone saw in black and white before that, hence the photographs

Bold Daddy.

adsgirl · 05-08-2008 08:36PM

That an ice-cream was called a poke:o

Trinity · 05-08-2008 08:38PM

My dad told me he was allergic to peas and beans due to an accident and the doctor told him he had to eat a bar of chocolate everyday. I belived him up to a few years ago about the peas and beans, basically he didnt like them and didnt want us to stop eating them.

That your womb turns when you have your period kinda like pouring out a cup of water, led to a very embarrassing moment in 5th year when in biology class :mad:

That if you hold your wee wee in your kidneys will turn to sand.

My friend told me once if you wee in the swimming pool 'you get a yellow ring around you and everyone will know it was you'. I thought for a long time that she meant the lifeguard would physically put a yellow swimming ring around you to let everyone know you were a piss in the pooler.

Christ loads more but cant think.

Seachmall · 05-08-2008 08:40PM

Trinity1 wrote: »

That your womb turns when you have your period kinda like pouring out a cup of water, led to a very embarrassing moment in 5th year when in biology class :mad:

I hate when dumb sh*t you believed as a kid comes out on front of all your friends and class.

Trinity · 05-08-2008 08:42PM

Seachmall wrote: »

I hate when dumb sh*t you believed as a kid comes out on front of all your friends and class.

The teacher called me after class to ask was i joking and proceeded when i said no to give me a very sad look and patted me on teh shoulder while explaining my anatomy.

Seachmall · 05-08-2008 08:45PM

Trinity1 wrote: »

The teacher called me after class to ask was i joking and proceeded when i said no to give me a very sad look and patted me on teh shoulder while explaining my anatomy.

That sounds like a porno I saw the other night...

jigglywoo · 05-08-2008 08:50PM

My brother told me that doing exercise will make you anorexic.

A neighbour told me that if you ate tomato seeds a plant will grow inside you, she also told me that if you don't leave the cover of the toilet seat down then rats will crawl out of your toilet at night.

My Dad spent years trying to convince me he was an alien.

My parents told me they met when my mother was walking along a wooden bridge but fell through it and my dad jumped in to the canal to save her. There was an old dilapidated bridge in town so it was believable.

john concannon · 05-08-2008 08:54PM

I was told IF SANTY and the EASTER BUNNY saw you awake that they would send you to another dimension.I now know that was code for sending me to LEITRIM.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 05-08-2008 09:02PM

jigglywoo wrote: »

My brother told me that doing exercise will make you anorexic.

A girl I went to school with once said, during the course of a conversation about whether or not Keira Knightley was anorexic "jesus lads, the past week or so, I keep throwing up after I eat anything. I think I've caught bulimia"!!!!! I never thought this girl was a genius or anything, but the fact that she'd managed to get to age sixteen with the only information she'd retained about bulimia being that you throw up after eating...she's never lived it down

The_Conductor · 05-08-2008 09:20PM

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.

Well- in retrospect, it is the sort of icecream most likely to be contaminated with SA and other bacterial no-noes........

Trinity · 05-08-2008 09:53PM

Seachmall wrote: »

That sounds like a porno I saw the other night...

Was it girl on girl by any chance? My teacher was a woman NYOM NYOM

Zillah · 05-08-2008 10:01PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

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.

I couldn't be bothered reading the rest of the thread, but the bee thing is actually true. When a bee stings it releases a pheremone that tells other bees to attack you. I'm sure crushing a bee would release similar chemicals.

Seachmall · 05-08-2008 10:08PM

Trinity1 wrote: »

Was it girl on girl by any chance? My teacher was a woman NYOM NYOM

Yeah, it was filmed in some Colaiste. It was called 'Kristy and her School Yard Krush' or something like that.:P

Wurly · 05-08-2008 10:48PM

My mother told me that I was purchased from the local chemists.:pac:

Her way of prolonging the birds and the bees talk.:rolleyes:

IvaBigWun · 08-08-2008 10:59AM

Zillah wrote: »

I couldn't be bothered reading the rest of the thread, but the bee thing is actually true. When a bee stings it releases a pheremone that tells other bees to attack you. I'm sure crushing a bee would release similar chemicals.

I was a genius even back then so?

javaboy · 08-08-2008 11:02AM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

I was a genius even back then so?

:eek: I thought I was getting a bit of deja vu there but I checked and you did post pretty much the same thing earlier in this thread. Panic over. Evrybody sit down.

A_M101 · 08-08-2008 11:06AM

I believed a little bird was actually telling my parents things.

I believed that Toad from the Wind in the Willows lived in a big house on the way to Waterford.

adsgirl · 08-08-2008 11:07AM

My mother told me at seventeen, my boobs would eventualy grow bigger, still haven't come to terms with that awful lie:mad:

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

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