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Old Wives tales you still believe in.

J_E

Are there any you find yourself doing on a regular basis even if they are probably not true?

When I was younger I was told if you open a fizzy drink by twisting the bottle, not the cap, fizz won't come bubbling out. I do it to this day and it seems to work...even though I can't think of any reason why it should.

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wretcheddomain

Bit of a sexist name as I'm sure the origin of many of these myths is actually man made. That's one Old Wives tale I'd like to debunk from the start.

Angry_Mammarys

Magpies, you salute them, 1 for sorrow 2 for joy.. also when a black cat crosses your path it's bad luck.

Meangadh

That warm 7up makes everything better. Definitely true.

Angry_Mammarys

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Bit of a sexist name as I'm sure the origin of many of these myths is actually man made. That's one Old Wives tale I'd like to debunk from the start.

It's hardly something to get too worried about in fairness.

LETHAL LADY

Belt the ganglion off you with a bible.

wretcheddomain

Angry_Mammarys wrote: »

It's hardly something to get too worried about in fairness.

And the rest of the tales are? :rolleyes:

Angry_Mammarys

wretcheddomain wrote: »

And the rest of the tales are? :rolleyes:

Actually, I must apologize, I researched the reason they're called old wives tales, and the inner feminist in me is not happy:o

tippspur

Angry_Mammarys wrote: »

Magpies, you salute them, 1 for sorrow 2 for joy.. also when a black cat crosses your path it's bad luck.

I all ways taught that if a black cat crossed your path it was god luck??

wretcheddomain

Angry_Mammarys wrote: »

Actually, I must apologize, I researched the reason they're called old wives tales, and the inner feminist in me is not happy:o

I'll let you away with it this time.

Angry_Mammarys

tippspur wrote: »

I all ways taught that if a black cat crossed your path it was god luck??

It depends I think, different cultures?

Nodster

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Bit of a sexist name as I'm sure the origin of many of these myths is actually man made. That's one Old Wives tale I'd like to debunk from the start.

Aye 20/20 vision is a bonus

Muise...

Cydoniac wrote: »

Are there any you find yourself doing on a regular basis even if they are probably not true?

When I was younger I was told if you open a fizzy drink by twisting the bottle, not the cap, fizz won't come bubbling out. I do it to this day and it seems to work...even though I can't think of any reason why it should.

um, because the bottle is bigger and heavier than the cap/cork, so you twist it slower and shake the contents less?

[Deleted User]

A hat on a bed can really get my granny anxious.

That sounds like a euphemism, but it isn't.

bmcc10

If you cut down a fairy tree they'll take you away

Karl Stein

Drinking a hot cup of tea on a warm day cools you down.

Kinda goes against the laws of thermodynamics.

Angry_Mammarys

Carlos Roca wrote: »

Drinking a hot cup of tea on a warm day cools you down.

Kinda goes against the laws of thermodynamics.

I know a few people who swear by that!

Meangadh

bmcc10 wrote: »

If you cut down a fairy tree they'll take you away

Similar to that one (that I obviously don't believe!) was the idea that if you had a baby with a disability or something wrong with it, that it was a fairy child or changeling left in instead of a healthy child. The thing that gets to me the most about that is that the name for a changeling was a "Síofra", which for some reason nowadays people think is a nice name for a girl... weird.

[Deleted User]

Carlos Roca wrote: »

Drinking a hot cup of tea on a warm day cools you down.

Kinda goes against the laws of thermodynamics.

There may be some truth in it, according to The Smithsonian.

How does this work? “What we found is that when you ingest a hot drink, you actually have a disproportionate increase in the amount that you sweat,” Jay says. “Yes, the hot drink is hotter than your body temperature, so you are adding heat to the body, but the amount that you increase your sweating by—if that can all evaporate—more than compensates for the the added heat to the body from the fluid.”

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/07/a-hot-drink-on-a-hot-day-can-cool-you-down/

Interesting!

KKkitty

New shoes on a table. Won't do it for the life of me.

Angry_Mammarys

The number 13.. I see all these people getting it tattooed when it's Friday 13th, I do think they're absolutely mental:o

WilyCoyote

Not enough red wine is bad for your health.

WilyCoyote

Candie wrote: »

There may be some truth in it, according to The Smithsonian.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/07/a-hot-drink-on-a-hot-day-can-cool-you-down/

Interesting!

I can vouch for that. As a young man I worked as a tunnel miner and we drank hot tea at the face. It works! But I always understood that it made you hotter ........ so starting the sweating process earlier and the sweating process cooling you down.

The Backwards Man

The full moon really does have an effect on people. Up yours science, with your confirmation bias mumbo jumbo, you're wrong on this one.

WilyCoyote

The Backwards Man wrote: »

The full moon really does have an effect on people. Up yours science, with your confirmation bias mumbo jumbo, you're wrong on this one.

And a half moon drives you half mad! I like it.

Daqster

My family were talking about banshees over the Christmas.

I said I didn't believe in them and the looks I got off relatives was if I said I like to have sex with dead people.

All my extended family are from Monaghan and the stories they have about banshees coming to people the night before people passed on etc would give anyone the shivers.

One story involved a father and son and both swear to this day, that walking up the lane to their house (they live in the back of the beyonds) late one night, a little woman dressed in white walked up behind them crying and then disappeared.

The next day the man's mother (the boy's grandmother) was found dead in bed.

mayoman ngalway

i was told by me grandmother that;

"if you put salt on a rabbits tale, it won't run away and you can catch it"

never got close enough to the rabbit to put the salt on the tale though!!!:D

WilyCoyote

Daqster wrote: »

My family were talking about banshees over the Christmas.

I said I didn't believe in them and the looks I got off relatives was if I said I like to have sex with dead people.

All my extended family are from Monaghan and the stories they have about banshees coming to people the night before people passed on etc would give anyone the shivers.

One story involved a father and son and both swear to this day, that walking up the lane to their house (they live in the back of the beyonds) late one night, a little woman dressed in white walked up behind them crying and then disappeared.

The next day the man's mother (the boy's grandmother) was found dead in bed.

Have you not finished off all the Christmas booze yet? Please go to bed ........ you've had enough

Karl Stein

Candie wrote: »

There may be some truth in it, according to The Smithsonian.!

Looks like dodgy science to me - it's saying hot tea helps you cool because drinking it makes you sweat - sweating is the body attempting to cool itself as a result of overheating in the first place.

kylith

Carlos Roca wrote: »

Looks like dodgy science to me - it's saying hot tea helps you cool because drinking it makes you sweat - sweating is the body attempting to cool itself as a result of overheating in the first place.

Yeah, but you feel cooler.

Daqster

WilyCoyote wrote: »

Have you not finished off all the Christmas booze yet? Please go to bed ........ you've had enough

Eh, what?

Did you actually read my post.