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What was your parents' direst threat?

  • 04-03-2011 09:42PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭


    Okay, so it tends to be a version of " Just wait 'til I get you home."

    But what was the variation in your house ?

    In our house, it was:

    1) " If I have to come up those stairs and I tell ye, there'll be wigs on the green"

    2) "For two pins now, and I'll turn this car around, and nobody will be going anywhere."

    and

    3) *looks for copywrite symbol*

    "I'll reach back there now in a minute and I don't care who I hit"*

    *done while raising a finger off the steering wheel to salute the oncoming driver, and lighting a Players No.6*

    So AHers. What were your parents' favourite threats?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭Bobjims


    One more word out of you and I'll get the wooden spoon!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,968 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    For me, +1 on the wooden spoon. Now that was to be feared


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    "Wait till I tell your father".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 louloubelle


    Oh the dreaded wooden spoon in our house too:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    "Do you want to go back to the cellar with your brothers and sisters?"


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,506 ✭✭✭lil'bug


    it was a plastic spoon in our house used to sting like a motherfcuker


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭redz11


    The wooden spoon. Always that dreaded wooden spoon.

    And it wasn't just a threat either!

    :/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Xivilai


    "I'll break your ****ing neck"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    "If you tell anyone what happened to your grandmother you'll join her under the patio."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,026 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    I hated that wooden spoon. It seems to be a uniquely Irish method of keeping kids in line.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭mahamageehad


    "If you fall off that tree and break both your legs don't come running back to me to cry coz i warned ya"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    "If you don't get up and clean your room I'm hiding the modem!!"

    Worked every time...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭stevejr


    Stop that crying or I'll really give ya something to winge about...

    What's the reason for being reasonable?

    Is that an unreasonable question?



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    My parents didn't believe in threats, it gave up the element of surprise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,214 ✭✭✭rednik


    Off to boarding school with ya.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭rachaelf750


    Rite no supper for you!


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


    'I'll buy a cat o' nine tails'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Just wait til your Da gets back...I was 21 before I realised he was never coming back.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭CitizenKeane


    It was usually just an order, it was the implied threat that did it!

    Usually "Get up those stairs!" or "Get into bed this minute"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    I don't care who started it, I'll finish it...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 242 ✭✭Ghetto Cornetto


    "I'll dance on ye."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭Up-n-atom!


    Too many to remember. If we didn't eat our dinner we'd get the whole 'if you don't finish that I'll put you in a box and post you to Africa'. This also worked for anything that we were 'ungrateful' for like if we were bad and we'd just got something shiny and new.

    The wooden spoon was a big thing too. If we'd done something really bad (like break something or clatter a sibling) we'd go and hide, and then be told that if we came out, nothing would happen to us. Needless to day, I don't think she ever kept her word.

    My mam is a lovely woman:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭AskMyChocolate


    Xivilai wrote: »
    "I'll If youbreak your ****ing neck don't come running to me"

    ayp* ( a is for amended)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭AskMyChocolate


    lil'bug wrote: »
    it was a plastic spoon in our house used to sting like a motherfcuker

    Spoilt rotten.

    *spoilt pronounced spylte*:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭Screaminmidget


    rednik wrote: »
    Off to boarding school with ya.
    This.

    Or:
    "you saw what happened to the last guy who got thick with me"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭EverEvolving


    "I'll get the sally rod"

    Never quite knew what it was but I presumed it was a stick of some sort!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Nolimits


    I used to get threatened with the belt, often threatened, never used, I must ask my dad one day if he actually would have.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    If you keep that up im sending you to the good shepherds...(people from Waterford will know what im talking about):)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    Twas the wooden spoon in our house...often threatened, never actually used.
    My mammy is a Home Ec teacher and had about 5 wooden spoons that she never could find because we would hide them on her. :o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,549 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Almost every car journey included the "I'll turn this car around right now" threat.


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