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What was your parents' direst threat?

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  • #32
    LambsEye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭LambsEye


    My mom would ALWAYS threaten us with the wooden spoon. Until I hid it, I knew it was gone, she knew it was gone but neither one could stand down. So she'd pretend to rattle the drawer, getting the spoon and I'd pretend to be scared.

    She started using the spatula then.

    Also: "I'll brain you"

    Also: (When my Mam wanted to emotionally scar us) "I'll leave now and I'll go up the mountain at Ballyhooly and you won't see me again."


  • #33
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Its only in the last two years or so I've heard of these supposedly common wooden spoon beatings. I often got a slap as a child but by a bare hand not a spoon.


  • #34
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    The wooden spoon or stopping at the side of the road for a sally rod! :/


  • #35
    HoneyRyder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 240 ✭✭HoneyRyder


    The Stealth Pinch during mass was a favourite of my Mum's


  • #36
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    when i was bold i was told 'keep that up and you'll go to the home'


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  • #37
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    I threatened once to move out and live with my Dad. Was told to have the bags packed next time I said it.

    Never did say it again.


  • #38
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    LambsEye wrote: »
    My mom would ALWAYS threaten us with the wooden spoon. Until I hid it, I knew it was gone, she knew it was gone but neither one could stand down. So she'd pretend to rattle the drawer, getting the spoon and I'd pretend to be scared.

    She started using the spatula then.

    Also: "I'll brain you"

    Also: (When my Mam wanted to emotionally scar us) "I'll leave now and I'll go up the mountain at Ballyhooly and you won't see me again."

    Ballyhooly's not that high. I think your mom was bluffing, personally.:pac:

    My Mom's threats:

    "I'll get the wooden spoon!"

    "You'll get the hooby-gannett!"-I've literally no idea what this means...

    "I'll take away the television and you'll never watch it again."

    "You won't be going to town Saturday!"


  • #39
    danslevent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭danslevent


    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »
    Ballyhooly's not that high. I think your mom was bluffing, personally.:pac:

    My Mom's threats:

    "I'll get the wooden spoon!"

    "You'll get the hooby-gannett!"-I've literally no idea what this means...

    "I'll take away the television and you'll never watch it again."

    "You won't be going to town Saturday!"

    So American :P

    My Mam would say, "I'll leave the house and get an apartment in town" when I was younger and would fight with my sisters. Empty, empty threats! :P


  • #40
    number10a
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭number10a


    The wooden spoon of course!! Used to hide it alot. Once we tried breaking it - that was a really bad idea!!! Splinters and hard edges just make them worse.

    Or we used to get threatened that my mam would walk into our classroom when we'd least expect it and annouce to everyone how bold we were. That was way worse than the wooden spoon.

    Or being made to go live with my cousins down the street - they were raised quite strictly.

    My nana's favourite was "Stay quiet or I'll put ya out to the dogs." We only ever had one dog and he was really small and lived inside. :confused:


  • #41
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Ill wipe that smile off your face.:D


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  • #42
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,193 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    I'll burst ya!


  • #43
    Alter-Ego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Alter-Ego


    The wooden spoon of course. Always a threat, never used.

    Another one was "I'll sell ya to the gypsies"


  • #44
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    danslevent wrote: »
    So American :P

    My Mam would say, "I'll leave the house and get an apartment in town" when I was younger and would fight with my sisters. Empty, empty threats! :P

    American???? Begorrah bejamey, a wisha, I'll wipe that thoolamarawn of a shmirk off your face, you young cheeky gossoon!

    (Mom is what we were brought up with and we were rural. My Mom called her mother "Mom" as well. I think it's because in Irish, you say "A Mham" (pronounced "A vom/mom") when addressing your mother, and it has stuck around in English in parts of Ireland. IMO)


  • #45
    Giselle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


    I was never threatened with a wooden spoon or with a slap. My parents were into psychological warfare and would threaten me with their disappointment.

    Like ''If you don't behave yourself while the visitors are here, I'll be very disappointed'' or ''If you don't have x and y done by the time I'm home, I'll be very disappointed''. It worked. I don't know why, but the thought of my parents being disappointed in me was devastating.


  • #46
    Galway K9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Galway K9


    Alter-Ego wrote: »
    The wooden spoon of course. Always a threat, never used.

    Another one was "I'll sell ya to the gypsies"
    lucky b*****d!


  • #47
    LambsEye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭LambsEye


    "I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed." Fuck off Mom. You're mad, I know you're mad, let's call a spade a spade.


  • #48
    Griffen262
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 286 ✭✭Griffen262


    Many wooden spoons were cut up and hid around our house...


  • #49
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    We'll send you back to the orphanage :(

    Cruel bastards.


  • #50
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    "If you don't stop that Ted will come and smother you"


    (Remember Ted, from the Den? Yeah, him. When I was older the Ted family expanded, he had a wife and a load of little baby teds who all wanted to smother you)


  • #51
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    If we were bickering in the car, my mum would tell us she'd dump us at the side of the road and drive off. She actually did this once to my sister, she only drove around the corner but the point was made!


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  • #52
    LambsEye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭LambsEye


    Fishie wrote: »
    If we were bickering in the car, my mum would tell us she'd dump us at the side of the road and drive off. She actually did this once to my sister, she only drove around the corner but the point was made!

    When we were fighting in the car and my Mam was driving, she'd reach her hand around and start smacking any bit of skin she could find.

    My Dad used to say: "Don't be sorry, just don't do it again," which, when I think about it is TERRIBLE advice.


  • #53
    evercloserunion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭evercloserunion


    F*cking wooden spoon.

    Whenever I did something bad and knew I would be found out I would try to hide it.


  • #54
    Ricardo G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Ricardo G


    Fishie wrote: »
    If we were bickering in the car, my mum would tell us she'd dump us at the side of the road and drive off. She actually did this once to my sister, she only drove around the corner but the point was made!

    My father would just stop the car and beat the crap out of us.... much more effective:D


  • #55
    some_dose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭some_dose


    Every morning we'd be passing by the hospital and my dad used to say to me and my sisters that there was a room in the hospital where there were witches and that if we were bad we would be sent there.


    Terrified me for years.


  • #56
    Ricardo G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Ricardo G


    some_dose wrote: »
    Every morning we'd be passing by the hospital and my dad used to say to me and my sisters that there was a room in the hospital where there were witches and that if we were bad we would be sent there.


    Terrified me for years.

    lol for a minute their i thought you were gonna say "their's a room in there and you'll both be in it if your not careful"


  • #57
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    "I'll kill ya stone dead".

    Fyi, regarding wigs on the green as per OP:

    http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-wig1.htm


  • #58
    Nemanja91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,814 ✭✭✭Nemanja91


    "I'll break your f*cking legs"


  • #59
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


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

    Too bad most of the arsehole kids around nowadays have never felt the rath of the wooden spoon.


  • #60
    Alan_007_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 362 ✭✭Alan_007_


    "The man will come over and give out to you"


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  • #61
    LambsEye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭LambsEye


    Alan_007_ wrote: »
    "The man will come over and give out to you"

    Why do parents do this? Outsourcing their discipline. I used to waitress and I'd get Mams saying "Stop now or the lady will throw you out." I won't like. I won't do anything with your child.


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