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What was your parents' direst threat?

AskMyChocolate

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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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."

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.

Ruu_Old

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

HoneyRyder

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

admiralofthefleet

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

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.

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!"

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

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.

LETHAL LADY

Ill wipe that smile off your face.:D

IvySlayer

I'll burst ya!

Alter-Ego

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

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

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)

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.

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!

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.

Griffen262

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

Micky Dolenz

We'll send you back to the orphanage

Cruel bastards.

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)

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!

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.

evercloserunion

F*cking wooden spoon.

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

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

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.

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"

kraggy

"I'll kill ya stone dead".

Fyi, regarding wigs on the green as per OP:

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

Nemanja91

"I'll break your f*cking legs"

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.

Alan_007_

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

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.