Old Wives tales you still believe in.

J_E · 06-01-2014 01:57AM #1

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.

wretcheddomain · 06-01-2014 01:58AM

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 · 06-01-2014 01:59AM

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

Meangadh · 06-01-2014 02:00AM

That warm 7up makes everything better. Definitely true.

Angry_Mammarys · 06-01-2014 02:00AM

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 · 06-01-2014 02:01AM

Belt the ganglion off you with a bible.

wretcheddomain · 06-01-2014 02:01AM

Angry_Mammarys wrote: »

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

And the rest of the tales are? :rolleyes:

Angry_Mammarys · 06-01-2014 02:04AM

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 · 06-01-2014 02:07AM

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 · 06-01-2014 02:08AM

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 · 06-01-2014 02:08AM

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 · 06-01-2014 02:17AM

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... · 06-01-2014 02:20AM

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?

06-01-2014 02:23AM

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

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

bmcc10 · 06-01-2014 02:25AM

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

Karl Stein · 06-01-2014 02:29AM

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

Kinda goes against the laws of thermodynamics.

Angry_Mammarys · 06-01-2014 02:33AM

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 · 06-01-2014 02:33AM

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.

06-01-2014 02:38AM

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 · 06-01-2014 02:42AM

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

Angry_Mammarys · 06-01-2014 02:45AM

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 · 06-01-2014 02:49AM

Not enough red wine is bad for your health.

WilyCoyote · 06-01-2014 02:53AM

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 · 06-01-2014 03:21AM

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 · 06-01-2014 03:27AM

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 · 06-01-2014 03:30AM

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 · 06-01-2014 03:30AM

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 · 06-01-2014 03:33AM

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 · 06-01-2014 03:33AM

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 · 06-01-2014 03:39AM

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 · 06-01-2014 03:41AM

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.

Old Wives tales you still believe in.

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