Things others have convinced you of/ made you believe

javaboy · 19-01-2009 01:36AM

Rojomcdojo wrote: »

A few months ago my girlfriend, who is 18, was asking me about catholicism and protestantism etc. I told her that if both of her parents are catholic then that makes her a protestant...And vice versa etc. And made up all these crazy religious rules regarding children that she just believed :o

Sounds like she'll swallow anything. \o/

Sharpshooter · 19-01-2009 01:55AM

Like a duck to water.

K-9 · 19-01-2009 02:00AM

javaboy wrote: »

Sounds like she'll swallow anything. \o/

Well she thinks she's Protestant. It's funny they tend to be the antithesis of the name!

French letters and all that.

K-9 · 19-01-2009 02:01AM

PS. I remember telling an ex Cuba and N. Vietnam where still Communist.

She didn't believe me. Seriously!

Took me 5 years to cop she was looped!

Havermeyer · 19-01-2009 02:55AM

For a while there, this dude with a pointy hat had me believing that there was some bloke called jebus (!? open to correction regarding name) that lived in the sky.

The joke was well and truly on me, I tell ye.

Cupcake_Crisis · 19-01-2009 03:23AM

my mam used to tell me that if you used too much vinegar on your chips that your blood would dry up and you would die. I do enjoy vinegary chips.

she also used to tell me that if i stood on the cracks in the path the devil would come up and snatch me. Im still wary of walking on cracks......

......maybe she just doesnt like me....

jobucks · 19-01-2009 11:13AM

My mam used to tell me that if I swallowed the pip from an Apple / Orange/ pear that a tree would grow in my belly.

Also was told on numerous occasions when I was small, that if I kept sticking my finger in my belly button my ass would fall off... believed that one for years!!

On the other hand, had a bit of a laugh during the week when my other half asked me what was the name of the new movie with Kate Winslet and Leo Di Caprio, told him it was Titanic 2 the sequel.... o how I lol'd when he said "really, cool" (would make quite a good zombie movie though)

used to tell my little sister when she was about six and had a fascination with "Hetty Winthrop Investigates" Told her that was the ladies name, that HettyWinthrop was her first name and "investigates" was her surname. Got years out of that one

Hagar · 19-01-2009 11:39AM

I convinced my sister that Haggises were little animals with two short legs on one side specially adapted for living on the steep hillside in the Scottish Highlands. I told here that they could run very fast and were incredibly difficult to catch. The only effective way was to sneak around from the other side of the mountain and force them to turn and run with the short legs on the wrong side. This caused them to tumble down to the bottom of the hill where they could easily be picked up in a dazed state.

Fajitas! · 19-01-2009 11:45AM

samhail wrote: »

my sister is so easy

O Rly?

I'm a bit of a bastard for winding people up. I gotta say, OP's story is epic. Out and out dedication

Mimikyu · 19-01-2009 11:59AM

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funk-you · 19-01-2009 12:01PM

We used to hang around with a fairly gullible girl when we were about 17. Myself and a mate convinced her that bears didn't exist, when people talked about them they meant teddy bears.

Another time we had her believing that couriers we people who collected curry from the central curry shop in the city centre and delivered it to the chinese takeaways around the city to reheat.

-Funk

Earthhorse · 19-01-2009 12:08PM

When I was a wee lad I had the following conversation with my brother.

:cool: Hey Earthhorse, you know the world is coming to an end on Thursday?

What?
:cool: The world is going to end this Thursday.

No it's not. Why?
:cool: Nostradamus said.

Who? Who's he?
:cool: Nostradamus. Said the world's going to end this Thursday.
:mad: MOM! Frank says the world is going to end on Thursday.

Pay no attention to him. The world isn't going to end. Not until the four horsemen of the apocalypse arrive.

Okay, that last bit may have been indulged for dramatic effect.

r3nu4l · 19-01-2009 12:09PM

I knew someone who was going to Finland to visit an Aunt who lived there 'in a big old house'.

I told her to be careful of the infamous 'Finnish House Scorpion (Arachnis habitus Internalis)', a strain of scorpion that evolved to live indoors due to the cold climate in Finland. I told her they seek out warm bodies in houses and curl up beside them at night in beds. I told her that Scorpion stings were the number one cause of death in Finland, second only to death due to accidents on the commuters 'skiing highways'.

That was me convincing someone else. When I was very young a friend of mine once told me that under Irish law Guinness could only use water from the Liffey to brew Guinness and that was why the level of the Liffey rose and dropped during the day. When it was low Guinness were siphoning off the water, when it was high, they weren't siphoning water. I believed it until a week later when I mentioned it to my Mam who told me the truth...once she had stopped laughing

javaboy · 19-01-2009 12:13PM

Earthhorse wrote: »

When I was a wee lad I had the following conversation with my brother.

:cool: Hey Earthhorse, you know the world is coming to an end on Thursday?
What?
:cool: The world is going to end this Thursday.
No it's not. Why?
:cool: Nostradamus said.
Who? Who's he?
:cool: Nostradamus. Said the world's going to end this Thursday.
:mad: MOM! Frank says the world is going to end on Thursday.
Pay no attention to him. The world isn't going to end. Not until the four horsemen of the apocalypse arrive.

Okay, that last bit may have been indulged for dramatic effect.

Names have been changed to protect identities.

Earthhorse · 19-01-2009 12:16PM

javaboy wrote: »

Names have been changed to protect identities.

Frank - Phil
Earthhorse - Nostradamus
Nostradamus - Mom
Mom - Frank

Ebonyellie · 19-01-2009 12:21PM

ever been sent to the bookies to put a bet on hoof hearted ?

javaboy · 19-01-2009 12:40PM

Ebonyellie wrote: »

ever been sent to the bookies to put a bet on hoof hearted ?

In fairness puns and joke names are common for horses so that's not so far fetched.

I remember starting work on the first day of my second spell at a particular job and one of the lads (who I bloody worked with for a year before) tried to get me to go next door and ask for a long stand*. Obviously I didn't fall for it but I did get him back a few days later when I asked him to get steam pellets for the fog machine.

*Might have been sky hooks/stripey paint/skirting board ladder etc. It was one of those ones.

Quazzie · 19-01-2009 12:56PM

We convinced a guy that there was a time difference between Ireland and Scotland and he went around Glasgow for the whole weekend thinking it was an hour later than it actually was.

I also convinced a couple in Portugal that it was safe to leave their little kids alone in the apartment. Oh how we laughed.

homerun_homer · 19-01-2009 01:01PM

My sister's used to convince me as a young lad that they could peel off their skin to reveal alien/lizard look of the Aliens in V. Used to freak me out when they put their hands up to their face to rip their faces off. They used it to make me go to the shop and stuff.

Only realised last week they were taking the p!ss:pac:

javaboy · 19-01-2009 01:02PM

My brother met some English girls in Portugal years ago and they didn't have a clue about Ireland. They were asking did we have electricity and television. :rolleyes: So he said yeah we do but they have to overdub a lot of the programs like Eastenders because we can't understand the accent. He had them believing we had a one child law as well to counteract overpopulation.

EDIT: Used to tell my cousin that despite his joypad not being connected, we both in fact had an equal input into the actions of a pixellated plumber. Wireless controllers. That SNES was way ahead of its time.

Mimikyu · 19-01-2009 01:22PM

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GAAman · 19-01-2009 01:23PM

Like javaboy, when i worked in superquinn we were always sendin the new starts for all kinds of crap, one of my faves was sending them for a leg of salmon (do it hurriedly so they dont think about it) or send them to the chemist a few doors down for a bottle of cop-on ( say calpol at the start to sell it but then keep sayin cop-on)

I was with this girl and she was gullible as fcuk, i convinced her that zombies broke out in Dublin years ago (she wasn't from Dublin) and when she asked why she had never heard about it i told her it was a govt coverup

:D

DonkeyPunch · 19-01-2009 01:39PM

When my little brother was about 6/7 I asked him had he grown his second penis yet, he just stood there with a worried look on his face. I then called my other brother and got him to play along. We both told him we had grown our second penis by the time we were 5. Cue little brother going out to our mum with tears in his eyes, asking my mother why he was different and not grown his second one yet.

19-01-2009 05:21PM

javaboy wrote: »

My brother met some English girls in Portugal years ago and they didn't have a clue about Ireland. They were asking did we have electricity and television. :rolleyes: So he said yeah we do but they have to overdub a lot of the programs like Eastenders because we can't understand the accent. He had them believing we had a one child law as well to counteract overpopulation.

lol. Did the same to some American girls I met over there. My mate and I told them that Dublin wasn't a city, and was just a big farm that we all worked on so we could have food to eat. And that if they gave us any crap in Dublin we would be able to beat them up because if a womans pissing you off in Dublin it's ok to do it

Fiend-Foe · 19-01-2009 05:53PM

gino85 wrote: »

i did somthing similar to a dude i worked with, was shortly after the iodine tablets were posted out to everyone, we told him Selafield blew up during the year and when he finishes work he should go home and take one, we said we already took ours and had him worried all day lol

I ate mine as soon as I got it, made me tummy mighty sick!

Doubt it would help too much to be honest...

Snowie · 19-01-2009 06:03PM

i once had a group of girl in England going mad about leprechauns saying that they where little gets and actually existed it was great

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