Things Said To Make You Stop Doing Things..

PK2008 · 31-03-2010 07:38PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

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 ..

"Yeh ma, I swear, those are egg stains all over our trousers"

Duggy747 · 31-03-2010 07:41PM

The sound of the drawer containing the wooden spoon opening would send a shiver down the hardest man's spine.

I used to be told that Bill Bixby from The Incredible Hulk TV show and Michael Landon from Little House On The Prairie & Highway To Heaven died from cancer because they watched too much TV :eek:

If you see an earwig kill it or else he'll crawl in your ear as you sleep and nibble on your eyes.

Computer games were no friend of God :pac:

Hank_Jones · 31-03-2010 07:45PM

Forgot about tv actually.

My mam would say my eyes would turn into rectangles from watching too much tv.

Severly disciplined about watching tv back in the day, was only allowed to watch one hour a day.

So I would bring anyone I could over and say that there was something on that they wanted to watch...
Worked every time...
Manipulative little bastard.

Chilli Con Kearney · 31-03-2010 07:46PM

Yeah, well if X told you to jump into a fire would you do it??

But my personal favourite was, not so much as to stop you doing something, but to pull up a friend who said something "Stupid":

Cop on to life, before life cops on to you.

PK2008 · 31-03-2010 07:55PM

Ma: "You'll eat whats on your plate and be glad. Theres black babies in Africa that are dieing for a bit of food."

Me: "Can I send them over this then?"

Ma: *SHLAP!!!!!*

Shivers26 · 31-03-2010 07:58PM

'Act your age not your shoe size' - my dad still says this to me sometimes

'I'll put you in the buy & sell if you dont start behaving' - my dad now threatens his grandchildren with this but he has moved with the times and says he'll sell them on eBay.

'You weren't born you were quarried' - I dont even know what this means but my mam always used to say it to my little sister

'X will never be dead while you are alive' - another choice phrase my mam used to say to little sister.

OutlawPete · 31-03-2010 08:00PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

I used to be told that Bill Bixby from The Incredible Hulk TV show and Michael Landon from Little House On The Prairie & Highway To Heaven died from cancer because they watched too much TV :eek:

:eek:

Reports Duggy's parents.

RosyLily · 31-03-2010 08:23PM

The parents had a few gems back in the day. Some memorable ones include:

"Don't swallow that gum...it'll stick the two cheeks of your arse together!"
"If you don't stop, I'll get the wooden spoon/spatula after ya!"
"Don't sit so close to the telly or you'll go blind"
"If you don't behave it's out to the garage you'll go!!!"

Ah memories!:D

Professey Chin · 31-03-2010 08:44PM

My aunts one "Dont play with that knitting needle or your mammy and daddy will die in a car crash"

Absolutely twisted with no relevance to the knitting needle but it worked

ScumLord · 31-03-2010 08:48PM

Drugs are bad. Turns out they're awesome.

Biggins · 31-03-2010 08:51PM

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Things Said To Make You Stop Doing Things..
So has anyone got any little sayings?

While eating ones dinner, other half comes in... "I'm preggers" :eek:

That usually works!

thebillynator · 31-03-2010 08:51PM

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!

if the mother was good looking you should have said "oh yeah i'm the man" :cool:

then wink at the mother

bonzodog2 · 31-03-2010 09:19PM

" If you're late again the supervisor said we're going to put you on daily signing"
Frankie Goes To Hollywood c.1985 (?)

Mr Benevolent · 31-03-2010 09:32PM

How many parents here still tell their child this garbage? All of them, I'd bet.

Not that I'd be any different, parenting hasn't changed for 200,000 years.

Tigger · 31-03-2010 09:34PM

boarding school

in retrospect it was far to expensive

GirlOfGlass · 31-03-2010 09:36PM

"Eating raw noodles gives you worms"

IT DOES NOT! And Google proves me right.

I love raw noodles.

Als76 · 31-03-2010 09:38PM

"you get that/this" i thought me name was you for a few years

"dont eat chewing gum its made from rats tongues"

445279.ie · 31-03-2010 09:40PM

My mother told me that if I opened my belly button my bum would fall off :eek:

Still afraid to prove her wrong

Hank_Jones · 31-03-2010 09:45PM

Tigger wrote: »

boarding school

in retrospect it was far to expensive

And the games that went on there as well...

Apparently...

You know what I'm talking about

fikay · 31-03-2010 09:51PM

Ma: Fikay, stop playing with your tillywag.

I didn't, now i'm blind with bear hands

LoanShark · 31-03-2010 10:12PM

My Dad, "Whos Fcuking Cursing?"
Eh, You for a start!

smiley girl · 31-03-2010 10:29PM

When I used to try 'drink' the rain falling I was told that worms fall with rain and I would end up eating them!!

Another was, 'don't chew your hair, it'll form a ball in your tummy and you'll die', think that's true?

If you don't sit still I'll tie you to the chair!!

Waterloo Sunset · 31-03-2010 10:31PM

"If you don't brush your teeth, you'll end up with ones like Shane MacGowan!"

smiley girl · 31-03-2010 10:38PM

Waterloo Sunset wrote: »

"If you don't brush your teeth, you'll end up with ones like Shane MacGowan!"

Bet that one worked:D

Waterloo Sunset · 31-03-2010 10:42PM

Bet that one worked

You'd think that wouldn't you! :P

chocgirl · 31-03-2010 10:53PM

My Mum used to say she'd sell me to this old woman down the road, poor woman had a seriously bad case of BO and a purple rinse and used to peek out from behind the curtains when anyone passed. Pretty much everyone was scared of her as a child.

Got threatend with the boarding school too where they had no heating and no lights and no telly and only cold porridge to eat.

Got told I'd go blind if I got too close to the telly.

We had a "good" room that was only for visitors, used to be told a that a troll with huge teeth for eating children lived in there.

If I picked my nose my brain would spill out through my nostrils.

Even mention of the wooden spoon did the trick though, can still hear that dreaded rattle when the drawer was opened.

Doop · 01-04-2010 02:42AM

OutlawPete wrote: »

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 ..

commonly known as an eggplosion

I still cook some eggs this way... its all about timing, im still learning

Hank_Jones · 01-04-2010 02:44AM

Doop wrote: »

commonly known as an eggplosion

I still cook some eggs this way... its all about timing, im still learning

Bad pun overload...

Nulty · 01-04-2010 02:52AM

I never got told any of this!

Explains where I have ended up though!

I'm blind, I look like Shane McGowan (so i'm told) my blind eyes are rectangular and my legs are broken cause Joe jumped off a cliff....What else was I supposed to do? He jumped!

Bonito · 01-04-2010 02:54AM

"That's it, I'm gettin' your father in to you"

Things Said To Make You Stop Doing Things..

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