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Things Said To Make You Stop Doing Things..

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  • 31-03-2010 06:41PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering if people have little things they were told, that were of course not true, but had some sort of sticking point in their minds.

    Such as:

    My mother always said when I made a funny face: ''If the wind changes while doing that, you'll be stuck like that forever...''.
    Of course this had the opposite effect to what she wanted, but she always said it anyway.

    Or the old chesnut: Too much masterbation will make you go blind.
    20/20 all the way baby. :p

    So has anyone got any little sayings?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    "If we find you at the school gates again, we're arresting you."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Not really. If I was doing something that could lead to me harming myself in someway then I would get a small slap, and I would stop doing it. As a result I trust my parents.

    I shall be employing the same tactic when I have kids.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    'It'll all end in tears.'

    They were right.
    Still.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    young stew was usally told to 'stop fcuking acting up' or 'act your fcuking age'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,591 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    "Don't swallow that gum...it'll wrap around your heart"

    They didn't teach biology in my mother's school obviously


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 230 ✭✭nucking futs


    "The Man"

    A figure of fear in everyone's childhood


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭RMD


    "If you don't ****in' stop I'll bleedin' smack ya"

    I had knacker parents.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭Vinta81


    "Where's my wooden spoon?"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    RMD wrote: »
    "If you don't ****in' stop I'll bleedin' smack ya"

    I had knacker parents.

    No,no. That was everyones parents.

    I remember getting the shit beaten out of me in numerous shopping centres etc by my mother.

    Or else she would threaten to beat me with a wooden spoon (sore yoke).
    I would laugh at this and then she would beat me around.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    'I'll leave you back on the side of the road where I found ya!'


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    "DON'T"

    Or

    "I'll slap the fcuking arse off ya"

    And I believed, as a young lad, my arse would fall off me... :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,591 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    'I'll leave you back on the side of the road where I found ya!'

    Hehe...my Mam had a similar one about giving me back to the knackers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭Scarydoll


    If you fall of that wall and break your two legs, don't come runnin to me!

    That was a particular favourite of my parents.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    "The Man"

    A figure of fear in everyone's childhood
    I was pointed out as "The Man" before, in another thread somebody else was too, i.e. a woman with a screaming kid in a shop said to the kid "be quiet or The Man will throw you out" and pointed at me!

    As for phrases
    "get a pension or you will end up a homeless wino"

    I had a wooden spoon broken on me, first pathetic hit, really sickener for her!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    Nanny always used to say If you eat the ice in your drink, your stomach will explode....

    Always eat the ice though...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Vinta81 wrote: »
    "Where's my wooden spoon?"

    My grandmother still does that on occasion. I'm 6'2" and 20, she is 5'4" and 70, guess who wins that fight! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    i was regularly threatened with being sent to timbucktoo


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 15,264 Mod ✭✭✭✭FutureGuy


    rubadub wrote: »
    I was pointed out as "The Man" before, in another thread somebody else was too, i.e. a woman with a screaming kid in a shop said to the kid "be quiet or The Man will throw you out" and pointed at me!

    Sue the b!tch for defamation of character.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭sidneykidney


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    "If we find you at the school gates again, we're arresting you."

    Pity snyper didnt heed that one :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,591 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    "Eat your dinner, there are millions of starving childredn in Africa who would love that" The reply "Well put it in a f*cking envelope and send it to them" when I was feeling very brave/stupid one day resulted in a red cheek


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭PK2008


    "You were a mistake"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    when we got our first microwave
    "leave that pizza to cool down for 5-10minutes or it will cook your insides"
    had to eat the fecking things almost cold!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    There was also 'I'll redden your arse for ya!' but that would probably attract some strange looks these days


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭cafecolour


    I'm not sure what it was that said to me, but it certainly worked - I haven't done sh*t in about 30 years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    cafecolour wrote: »
    I'm not sure what it was that said to me, but it certainly worked - I haven't done sh*t in about 30 years.

    Try eating more bran.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    My grandmother still does that on occasion. I'm 6'2" and 20, she is 5'4" and 70, guess who wins that fight! :D

    your gran?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    rubadub wrote: »
    when we got our first microwave

    When we got our first one ('88) me and a mate of mine on our school luch break decided to cook some eggs in it.

    They seemed perfect, cracked nicely with the cooked egg white poking out a little.

    We sat down to watch Neighbours ... my mate butters his toast and slices egg in half and .. BANG!!! - EGG EVERYWHERE!!

    All over the places .. clothes covered, carpet, hair .. everything.

    I put my plate down and even without cutting it, it too exploded and splattered the place even further.

    We were late back to school that day .. :p


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,442 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    rubadub wrote: »
    I was pointed out as "The Man" before, in another thread somebody else was too, i.e. a woman with a screaming kid in a shop said to the kid "be quiet or The Man will throw you out" and pointed at me!
    her!



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    My grandmother still does that on occasion. I'm 6'2" and 20, she is 5'4" and 70, guess who wins that fight! :D

    Your awesome Grandmother!


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