Lies you grew up to believe

Cork Trucker · 28-05-2020 12:58am

If you got suspended or expelled from school you’d never get a job. I was never suspended , just expelled.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 28-05-2020 1:04am

Leg End Reject wrote: »

There was also "A good job in the bank", which bank was never specified.

That was only if you had a relative already in said bank.

CrankyHaus · 28-05-2020 1:12am

"You'll never beat the Irish"

Rarely heard nowadays, it was hard to avoid this brash statement in the heady years after Italia 90.
The mounting defeats over ensuing decades, as Irish football was run down from potentially world beating underdogs to a glorified slush fund, have proven that in fact you probably will beat the Irish, most of the time.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 28-05-2020 1:16am

CrankyHaus wrote: »

"You'll never beat the Irish"

Rarely heard nowadays, it was hard to avoid this brash statement in the heady years after Italia 90.
The mounting defeats over ensuing decades, as Irish football was run down from potentially world beating underdogs to a glorified slush fund, have proven that in fact you probably will beat the Irish, most of the time.

IN fairness, in the early 90s, it had truth to it - they were a very difficult team to beat.

Modern reincarnations, not so much - we simply don't have the players.

28-05-2020 1:23am

Lies you grew up to believe?

The existence of any god (even the one some people refer to as the one true god), ghosts, fairies, faith healers, fortune tellers etc seem to be widely believed lies.

I grew up to believe that our system of justice, Gardaí, the courts and judges would adequately punish people for doing horrible things to others. Now commonly seen to be just as untrue as the other nonsense we’re taught to believe as children.

Larbre34 · 28-05-2020 1:33am

JayZeus wrote: »

The existence of any god (even the one some people refer to as the one true god), ghosts, fairies, faith healers, fortune tellers etc seem to be widely believed lies.

Where you would be atheistic, I'm agnostic.

As Stephen Hawking himself often said when asked, and I paraphrase a lot here; we have learned so much, we can trace the science back to a point in space and time, a singularity, but what inspired that episode of infinite mass and infinite energy to blink into existence?

A previous destruction maybe, a cycle of universal eons, but what was the first. Who or what lit the touch paper? Our own best minds agree on that point of origin, but from where was it inspired to live?

Intelligent design? Maybe infinite intelligence and damn all design.

28-05-2020 1:45am

That distant planets could affect our lives with their own unique vibes.

Then I turned fifteen.

randylonghorn · 28-05-2020 1:53am

Pherekydes wrote: »

Ouanking will make you go blind.

I didn't believe that one for long, thankfully.

From the time I was about 7/8 my eyesight was deteriorating, and there wasn't much they could do about it back then.

The condition unexpectedly stabilised when I was about 11.

Just about the time that I started …

Frynge · 28-05-2020 7:37am

That Pluto was a planet

Ultrflat · 28-05-2020 7:56am

branie2 wrote: »

Margaret Thatcher was very evil

My old man literally left England because she got into power :pac:

28-05-2020 8:06am

I'm taking this as being lies I grew up believing until I was an adult. - Lies that others encouraged I believe:

Maths taught in school would be useful/necessary. (Apart from the basics, very little was of any real practical use)

Rote learning was the only way to learn anything. (shocked me after college, when I found out the wide variety of learning/study techniques)

Feminism sought equality.

You could Trust the government and the banks.

Wayne Jarvis · 28-05-2020 8:21am

I believed growing up that if my aunt had balls she would become my uncle.

Feisar · 28-05-2020 8:26am

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm taking this as being lies I grew up believing until I was an adult. - Lies that others encouraged I believe:

Maths taught in school would be useful/necessary. (Apart from the basics, very little was of any real practical use)

Rote learning was the only way to learn anything. (shocked me after college, when I found out the wide variety of learning/study techniques)

Feminism sought equality.

You could Trust the government and the banks.

Maths in and of themselves aren't of any use beyond the basics however it's the only school subject what develops any cognitive ability so I believe they have a secondary benefit that outweighs the primary reason.

Panda Killa · 28-05-2020 8:29am

Guy Person wrote: »

I believed growing up that if my aunt had balls she would become my uncle.

Nope, all she needs is €20 and a gender recognition certificate.
No balls needed

whisky_galore · 28-05-2020 9:08am

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

The Leaving Cert only had two outcomes: a college place or a job sweeping roads.

The jobs "sweeping the roads" were highly sought after and came with a great pension, better than whatever you'd get after your Arts Degree.

whisky_galore · 28-05-2020 9:14am

The dog has gone to live on a farm.
The cat ate all her kittens.

Tordelback · 28-05-2020 9:37am

[quote="Larbre34;113571099"Intelligent design? Maybe infinite intelligence and damn all design.[/quote]

Not to go all Dawkins on you (no-one needs that), but the Aristotelian 'unmoved mover' argument is the weakest one of all. 'Something must have started it all, why not a supreme intelligence' only begs the question of what started that supreme intelligence. It's the same exact problem of how things got started, only now we're also supposing a pre-universe state that generates supreme intelligence capable of creating universes.

Like the lady says, it's turtles all the way down.

Mad_maxx · 28-05-2020 9:40am

Being truthful always pays off in the end

Fritzbox · 28-05-2020 11:33am

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Two words - Poll Tax.

I remember the poll tax over 30 years ago, I was living in London at the time. I didn't like it then - don't know if I would object to it so much now. It certainly doesn't make Maggie evil (in this instance at least), here in Germany I have to pay "Nebenkosten" every month - that doesn't make Angela Merkel evil, does it?

CrankyHaus · 28-05-2020 11:52am

Fritzbox wrote: »

I remember the poll tax over 30 years ago, I was living in London at the time. I didn't like it then - don't know if I would object to it so much now. It certainly doesn't make Maggie evil (in this instance at least), here in Germany I have to pay "Nebenkosten" every month - that doesn't make Angela Merkel evil, does it?

It was fairly regressive. The Council Tax that replaced it was better, and far superior to our mess of "Local" Property Tax that may be spent at the far end of the country along with charges for everything.

Fritzbox · 28-05-2020 12:11pm

CrankyHaus wrote: »

It was fairly regressive. The Council Tax that replaced it was better, and far superior to our mess of "Local" Property Tax that may be spent at the far end of the country along with charges for everything.

It could be true that the Poll Tax is a tad regressive but the local councils and boroughs still need their funding. As you say, the Poll Tax may not be any worse than the Irish "system".

fullstop · 28-05-2020 12:12pm

branie2 wrote: »

Walt Disney was cryonically frozen after his death

May he freeze in peace.

Lies you grew up to believe

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