Urban myths people always pass off as 'true'

thelad95 · 21-10-2015 2:41pm #1

Do you ever cringe when you hear people tell you a story about something that happened to their friends cousin when you know it's an urban myth that you've read and heard about countless times? Here are a few examples:

The person with the pet snake that started stretching out vertically beside it's owner in bed. The owner takes it to the vet who says it's preparing to eat the owner.

The person who shifted a guy in (insert European city, usually Amstersam). He asks her to come home with him but she says no as she doesn't want to get separated from her friends. A few weeks later she's getting a medical checkup when the doctor discovers strange traces of mould and blood on her lips. She tells the doctor about the guy who is then arrested and loads of dead bodies are found in his house.

The 'lob it up there boss' story with the traveller girl. I don't know how many stags this has supposedly happened on.

Guy gets with girl, goes back to her house, is in the middle of having sex when her boyfriend comes home. He hides in the wardrobe and of course her and the boyfriend have sex and he **** into your mans suit and sneaks off when they fall asleep.

I'm sure there's plenty more out there, I just don't know how people are sad enough to pass them off as having happened somebody they know when they are well known urban myths.

MilesMorales1 · 21-10-2015 2:44pm

That one about Bill Murray eating the girls chips then saying 'no one will ever believe you'

Fr_Dougal · 21-10-2015 2:45pm

The one about the Chinese food.

the evasion_kid · 21-10-2015 2:47pm

The one about the dog food

fleet_admiral · 21-10-2015 2:48pm

The one about the asylum seeker leaving the buggy on the bus and saying 'ill get another one off the social'

MilesMorales1 · 21-10-2015 2:49pm

fleet_admiral wrote: »

The one about the asylum seeker leaving the buggy on the bus and saying 'ill get another one off the social'

Sure was that not a boards joke?

tupenny · 21-10-2015 2:50pm

Bono and Springsteen

fleet_admiral · 21-10-2015 2:50pm

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

Sure was that not a boards joke?

I heard it first in 2005 just before I joined boards

NIMAN · 21-10-2015 2:51pm

That we swallow 6 spiders per year whilst sleeping.

drunkmonkey · 21-10-2015 2:51pm

It's illegal to marry your cousin.

maximoose · 21-10-2015 2:53pm

There are more people alive now than have ever died.

Dumb crap probably born on a facebook meme that I've heard 2 or 3 times recently, utter bollix.

Bono/Bruce Springsteen in Dublin.

Will Smith "hit the ground" in an elevator.

Beckhams/Beyonce/Lampards trying to take someones wedding date.

kirk buttercup · 21-10-2015 2:53pm

The one where the girl gets a nasty infection in her lady parts only to find out her boyfriend has been having Relations with the Dead ... Ive been told that story on three seperate occassions.

Bulbous Salutation · 21-10-2015 2:55pm

The innate 'wit' of the average true blue Dub.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 21-10-2015 2:55pm

fleet_admiral wrote: »

The one about the asylum seeker leaving the buggy on the bus and saying 'ill get another one off the social'

Asylum seeker, Polish woman, traveller or skanger, depending on who you talk to

NoCrackHaving · 21-10-2015 2:56pm

The snopes website is great for these.

mad muffin · 21-10-2015 2:58pm

The one where vegans tell you about milk causing osteoporosis.

Mr.Carter · 21-10-2015 2:59pm

More than 50% paid their water bill.

byronbay2 · 21-10-2015 2:59pm

The one about the lad pulling the gorgeous "girl" in Thailand. All went well until he dropped the hand etc.

Corholio · 21-10-2015 2:59pm

The one where people are claiming things are urban myths when they have absolutely no idea if they are or not.

Wizard! · 21-10-2015 3:01pm

The one with the introduction of potatoes to certain communities. Where nobody wanted the potatoes, until they secured them in a guarded silo. Then all of them where stolen during the night.

21-10-2015 3:01pm

There's one about a girl who goes home with a chap she met in the nightclub, following morning he heads off to work tells her to let herself out etc. She thinks he's great, goes for a dump, floater, won't flush. She gets a plastic bag from kitchen caputures it and leaves it on table while she heads outside to see where wheely bin is, door closes and ooooops turd left on plastic bag on kitchen table.

Heard that a few times, first time though a lad living near me (bit of a talk before think type) told us that in the local, except it was factual and his daughter was the lady involved, she was absolutely scarlet about it so ....

Duggy747 · 21-10-2015 3:04pm

That a full moon causes people to go crazy / commit crimes.

valoren · 21-10-2015 3:04pm

"Hi, Bruce Springsteen, will you take a picture of us with Bono when he get's back from the jacks?"

jimgoose · 21-10-2015 3:04pm

Wizard! wrote: »

The one with the introduction of potatoes to certain communities. Where nobody wanted the potatoes, until they secured them in a guarded silo. Then all of them where stolen during the night.

That is a variation of a true story - Captain James Cook vastly improved the scurvy situation on his ships by convincing the crew to eat plenty of sauerkraut. He did this by letting it be known that the sauerkraut barrels were for the use of the captain and officers only, so of course the lads started stealing it.

mapaca · 21-10-2015 3:05pm

That people put "Baby on Board" stickers on their cars in case of an accident, to let paramedics know to look for a baby in the car. Not true!

Wizard! · 21-10-2015 3:07pm

jimgoose wrote: »

That is a variation of a true story - Captain James Cook vastly improved the scurvy situation on his ships by convincing the crew to eat plenty of sauerkraut. He did this by letting it be known that the sauerkraut barrels were for the use of the captain and officers only, so of course the lads started stealing it.

True. But you can read many variations for all over Europe. Russia, England, Greece, Spain, Germany, Belgium and every country support the myth as their own.

fleet_admiral · 21-10-2015 3:10pm

Allen Alive Corkscrew wrote: »

Asylum seeker, Polish woman, traveller or skanger, depending on who you talk to

I would be very surprised to hear that story about a pole since they are all hard workers and sound

FionnK86 · 21-10-2015 3:10pm

The ridiculously disgusting story of the dirty couple in the poorer school in town. They are having a fun time in bed, when the girlfriend asks the boyfriend to put some sweets,usually Smarties in *Ahem* somewhere where smarties shouldn't go. In goes 4 or so smarties, boy then removes said smarties with his tongue and digests them.

But there are 5 smarties! Shock horror, the extra one was supposed to be a sack of crab eggs....so rotten. And of course, that's been told about every couple in that school...

fleet_admiral · 21-10-2015 3:13pm

FionnK86 wrote: »

The ridiculously disgusting story of the dirty couple in the poorer school in town. They are having a fun time in bed, when the girlfriend asks the boyfriend to put some sweets,usually Smarties in *Ahem* somewhere where smarties shouldn't go. In goes 4 or so smarties, boy then removes said smarties with his tongue and digests them.

But there are 5 smarties! Shock horror, the extra one was supposed to be a sack of crab eggs....so rotten. And of course, that's been told about every couple in that school...

wtf

faceman · 21-10-2015 3:14pm

thelad95 wrote: »

The person with the pet snake that started stretching out vertically beside it's owner in bed. The owner takes it to the vet who says it's preparing to eat the owner.

The vet guy who used to be on the Ray D'arcy show on Today FM got a text in with a question about this (along the lines of my snake is affectionate with my son, blah blah, lies beside him in his bed). The vet told them to get rid of the snake, it was sizing him up.

We were trolled on National Radio

Bulbous Salutation · 21-10-2015 3:17pm

FionnK86 wrote: »

The ridiculously disgusting story of the dirty couple in the poorer school in town. They are having a fun time in bed, when the girlfriend asks the boyfriend to put some sweets,usually Smarties in *Ahem* somewhere where smarties shouldn't go. In goes 4 or so smarties, boy then removes said smarties with his tongue and digests them.

But there are 5 smarties! Shock horror, the extra one was supposed to be a sack of crab eggs....so rotten. And of course, that's been told about every couple in that school...

Ara Jesus.

Urban myths people always pass off as 'true'

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