Parents all tell lies. This is a conclusion I came to after discussing it with my mates. Popular ones would obviously be Santa, Tooth Fairies, Easter Bunny, etc, but there were some others my Mom told me that I found quite odd:


If you eat the crusts on bread, it makes you have curly hair!
If you sleep on your back, you'll have nightmares. :huh:
If you eat apple pips, an apple tree will grow out of your bum!


What lies did your parents tell you?

K x

If you don't wash your ears potatoes will grow out of them.

I was told not to touch toads because it would give me warts. This caused me to be an object of derision when I brought it up in front of some mates when I was a student at around 20 years old.
thanks mum!

LOL.

Great thread :D

I got if you eat an apple seed it will grow out of your mouth
Don't gawp, you'll catch flies
The wind will blow and your face will stay like that

Stop doing that or you'll go blind.

Lying cow :lol:

Originally posted by Kristian
Parents all tell lies. This is a conclusion I came to after discussing it with my mates. Popular ones would obviously be Santa, Tooth Fairies, Easter Bunny, etc, but there were some others my Mom told me that I found quite odd:


If you eat the crusts on bread, it makes you have curly hair!
If you sleep on your back, you'll have nightmares. :huh:
If you eat apple pips, an apple tree will grow out of your bum!


What lies did your parents tell you?

K x My mother told me burnt toast curled your hair. Obviously so we didnt waste bread

If you don't behave yourself, Father Christmas won't come.

He he!

Great thread.

Parents are the biggest liers going. :

- "You'll fill out eventually". No, still skinny.

- "You're too young to understand". Hmm, at 33 I still haven't got a clue about anything. This must be the biggest myth of all times: that annoying way parents and adults in general make kids believe they have the answers to everything.

I also had a frog/toad experience. I caught a little baby frog at Crabtree Pond and brought it home. My mum told me to let it play in the garden, if I called it after tea it would come back. I cried for days.:(

"Don't go out with wet hair,
you'll get chin cough" :loopy:

ahem

I got don't go out with wet hair - it will freeze :omg:

Originally posted by fhain29
My mum told me to let it play in the garden, if I called it after tea it would come back. I cried for days.:(

That's really sad. I had a similar experience with a gingerbreadman! My Mom bought one for me, but I wouldn't eat it because I felt sorry for it (I thought it was alive :blush: ) Anyhoo, it 'ran away' one night about a week later! :( I guess, in her defence, it had probably gone mouldy. :gag:

I get so passive agressive when I think about things like that, it makes me want to take revenge! Now, where did I put those budget nursing home brochures? :D

K x

Originally posted by Kristian
Parents all tell lies.
If you eat the crusts on bread, it makes you have curly hair!

Kristian,

We have two children,
one WILL NOT eat crusts, and has straight hair,
the other eats crusts for England, and has curly hair.

Your parents were telling the truth!

Just ask my kids. :D

Mine told me if I swallowed my bubble gum, it would wrap around my heart and kill me and if I picked my nose, my head would cave in!

Fond of the scare tactics, my mother!

:D

Originally posted by Bruce_Shark
Kristian,

We have two children,
one WILL NOT eat crusts, and has straight hair,
the other eats crusts for England, and has curly hair.

Your parents were telling the truth!

Just ask my kids. :D

That's clinical proof if ever I saw it :D

K x

My mum told me that when i was young that if i ate watermelon seeds, a watermelon would grow out of me!! Or that if i ate pumpkin seeds, pumpkins would grow out of me!! I was told by my father that if I ever had sex I would die, right after I did the deed!! That still hasn't happened, yet!!!

Originally posted by Lily04
I was told by my father that if I ever had sex I would die, right after I did the deed!!

:wow: How old were you when this happened Lily? :o

K x

Originally posted by slinky
Mine told me if I swallowed my bubble gum, it would wrap around my heart and kill me and if I picked my nose, my head would cave in!

Fond of the scare tactics, my mother!

:D

That made me belly laugh - you poor thing!!!

Originally posted by Lily04
I was told by my father that if I ever had sex I would die, right after I did the deed!! That still hasn't happened, yet!!!
Which hasn't happened yet?

Originally posted by foo_fighter
Which hasn't happened yet?

Took me a while to get there, but I'm with you now! :thumbsup: :D :D

K x

My mum told me that if you eat too many pickled onions the vinegar dries your blood up. She is also fond of the chewing gum/heart thing.

Please note my mother has no medical training.

parents are awful!!!

We've told our kids that they can get a motorbike when their dad gets his unicorn :)

My parents always insisted that Uncle Walt had, "a good heart". Why, then, did he drop down dead in the middle of Barnsley market in 1985 with a cardiac arrest? The things they tell us...

Originally posted by Moonfire
We've told our kids that they can get a motorbike when their dad gets his unicorn :)
Now you've done it, just because I've got a motorbike, my 2 kids want a unicorn each now.

:nono:

LOL

well maybe next year ;)

Originally posted by feargal
My mum told me that if you eat too many pickled onions the vinegar dries your blood up. Please note my mother has no medical training.
Your Mum may be slightly closer to fact than fiction with this;

If your body becomes acidic you respirate more to blow off the excess acid...
For example: Go for a 10 minute sprint. You increase the CO2 (carbon dioxide) content in your circulation through utilising oxygen & breakdown of glycogen to fuel your muscle. Then your Hb (haemoglobin) has to transport this excess CO2 to your lungs to be expired & quickly replaced with O2 (oxygen).
Basically you become breathless.

Hyperventillating loses moisture. Losing Moisture dehydrates you. Eventually you dry up. (Like a mummy. :hihi: )

Eating lots of acidic foods like vinigar & citric fruit juice has a similar biochemical effect in acidifying you...



I fear that you'd have to eat your own weight in pickles for every meal in order to mummify yourself though.


But your Mum was on the right trax! :thumbsup:

Apparrently, there really is something in the myth about carrots enabling you to see in the dark! Don, can you shed any light (pardon the pun!)

K x

My dad lied to me. Constantly...
The biggest was:

"Son, never buy a house - a mortgage is a millstone round your neck... :Always rent"......

I took his advice & didn't buy 'till I was 32.......

My £52k millstone mortgage would have been £9k millstone if he had kept his big gob shut. And it would be paid off now...

My mum once told me:
"you don't want peppers - they're red hot & will make you poorly" when I showed interest in red peppers as a nipper on a shopping trip.

Even to this day I EXPECT peppers to be hot when I bite into one.
It could not be FURTHER from the truth!
They are sooooo refreshing!


AAaaaarrrggghhhh! parents! :rant:

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
Your Mum may be slightly closer to fact than fiction with this;


Oh no, I shan't tell her. She'll never leave it alone... in a similar pickled-onion related "hint" she suggests sticking your pickle fork in the garden to stop it going a funny colour.

I'm surprised I've turned out so well balanced really. ;)

A friend of mine used to tell his kids that when the Ice-cream van played his tune, it was to tell every-one that there was no ice-cream left.

Originally posted by Kristian
Apparrently, there really is something in the myth about carrots enabling you to see in the dark! Don, can you shed any light (pardon the pun!)

K x
Kris, thanks. I'll try...
Carrots are a good source of Vitamin A, carotenoids (not a pun) & antioxidents... which all help to fend off chronic age related conditions for example; cataracts & age related macular degeneration.
They also contain calcium, magnesium, potassium, & beta-carotene (the carotenoid)...
They really are good for you!

and for the where's-your-evidence-Thomas's....
http://www.allaboutvision.com/nutrition/
start here..... :thumbsup:
and there's more....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_notes/2042906.stm

Originally posted by feargal
Oh no, I shan't tell her. She'll never leave it alone... in a similar pickled-onion related "hint" she suggests sticking your pickle fork in the garden to stop it going a funny colour.

I'm surprised I've turned out so well balanced really. ;)

Mate, I have to say this all sounds like grounds for a whole new VIZ character.

"Feargal's Mum, the pickle expert!" :thumbsup: :hihi:

Mrs owdlad says that after she found a condom her Mother said it was what she used for her Dad's packing up. :gag: :gag: :gag:

Cheers Don! Thing is, I've inherited the "quality facts" gene.

feargal, don't worry, that's one of Don's compliments! :D

K x

This is a classic.

My mate used to work with a bloke who had 2 little kids, who had grown up to believe that the chimes on the ice cream van meant that it had run out of ice cream.

They would run out of the door when they saw it coming and slowly trudge back in empty handed when they heard the music..

sadistic..

Originally posted by muddycoffee
This is a classic.

My mate used to work with a bloke who had 2 little kids, who had grown up to believe that the chimes on the ice cream van meant that it had run out of ice cream.

They would run out of the door when they saw it coming and slowly trudge back in empty handed when they heard the music..

sadistic..

Do you mean to say it isn't true ? :o :o :o

that is so mean lol

when i was young on a trip to the supermarket my mum would never get the sherry trifle as she told me you had to be 18 to eat it i was very disappointed as i was only 7 at the time:loopy: :loopy: :loopy:

When I was a small kid in hillsborough, we had a local window cleaner that came up our street, and my mum said to me that he used to work on a ship.
So I went and asked him, and he got a bit upset about it.

Apparently it was what you said about windowcleaners who used to miss the corners [portholes on ships don't have corners]

Luckily I was a bit small for my teeth to have a fight with the end of some ladders.

From time to time I saw my mum biting her finger end or nail. As we weren't allowed to bite our nails and mum had long nails I asked her why she was biting her nails.

"It's blue skin" she always replied..

I was told to stand still if a wasp or bee flew near cos then it wouldn't sting me.........been stung by the buggers twice when I've stood still, so now I do the "mad cow frightened of wasps" dance when I see one and nope I don't get stung then!!

My mum used to make my dad pastrys with currents in. I asked her what they were and she said they were called 'fly cemeterys'.
"whenever your dad catchs a fly, he gives it to me and I put them in a jar. When I've got enough I make these for him."!!!!
I wasn't that bothered about eating them honest!


Still have a slight aversion to all dried fruit!

i got the father christmas and tooth fairy lines,,
and not to pick my nose or my head will cave in.
and you pull a face the wind will change it and keep like that forever

but also my mum & dad use to tell me when i cut my self and was scared to get it washed has it hurt my dad use to come in and say "if we dont get it sorted we have to take you to hospital to get it cut of like your unlce lez"
now at this point i thort it was true as my uncle only had one arm i did not know till i was older that he lost it in an accident.

How funny is this thread?!

OK, if you grew up Catholic you were in for some weird ones:-


Apparently, Our Lady blushes if girls whistle . . .

Patent leather shoes were the devil's own as someone might see your knickers in their reflection . . .

If you prayed for your grandma/grandad/dead cat long enough you could get them out of purgatory and straight into heaven(oh, the wasted hours!)


My mum added some of her own - I've only just been able to put a wet spoon into the sugar bowl (in a teaspoon crisis, obviously) without fear of instant death - thought it was crime of the century!

Originally posted by JoyfulGrrl
My mum added some of her own - I've only just been able to put a wet spoon into the sugar bowl (in a teaspoon crisis, obviously) without fear of instant death - thought it was crime of the century!

It WAS the crime of the century when I broke my Grandma's crystal cut glass sugar bowl. It was a kind of pedestal / martini glass kind of affair, and had been her Grandma's. I NEVER lived it down. Not ever. :(

K x

What about this. If you don't stop wetting the bed you'll be given a mouse pie. No wonder i'm a vegetarian. Reckon they did their good deed
Vera

Originally posted by vhopkinson
What about this. If you don't stop wetting the bed you'll be given a mouse pie. No wonder i'm a vegetarian. Reckon they did their good deed
Vera

:wow: They really told you that? :o I'm veggie too, but not because of mouse pie! My Mom did once try to feed me rabbit and tell me it was chicken though! Jeez, where did I put those nursing home brochures?!? :suspect:

K x

Originally posted by Kristian
Apparrently, there really is something in the myth about carrots enabling you to see in the dark! Don, can you shed any light (pardon the pun!)

K x

My physics tutor at college, told me that this was a myth, invented in world war II, to cover the fact that the allies had a brilliant new weapon...
Radar!

It was to put the axis forces off the trail of this amazing new system of navigation.

The myth was put about, according to him, that the reason for the pilots' superior wayfinding skills in the dark, was the fact that they ate carrots and it aided ther sight.

(Although I believe he e is some truth in the story that the condition night blindness is caused by a a deficiency in vitamin (a?) and that carrots can help, a bit, in this.)

PT

I think you should sue your physics teacher for he was obviously pulling your leg!

The same as our biology teacher who told us that Welsh sheep had legs shorter on one side so they didn't topple off the Welsh Hills... it also meant that they could only go one way round the hillocks.

Pillocks I say.

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
Pillocks I say.

Thank you Don! I haven't heard that word pillock for nearly twenty years! Oooh, I've gone all sentimental now! :D

K x

We're going to see a man about a dog!

My Mum and Dad always used to tell me that when they were going out to the pub for a drink. So all night I was left wondering, what dog? where? Are we getting a dog? The next day I went on and on about the dog. What kind of dog? Who's dog? What's his name?.......

That Santa Claus was able to make it to everyone's house in one night because he took the freeway.

What. I grew up in California. ;)

:) Sierra

Originally posted by Funke88
We're going to see a man about a dog!

My Mum and Dad always used to tell me that when they were going out to the pub for a drink. So all night I was left wondering, what dog? where? Are we getting a dog? The next day I went on and on about the dog. What kind of dog? Who's dog? What's his name?.......

I remember my Grandad saying that when I was a nipper! Oooh, I'm lovin' this thread, It's making me so nostalgic! :) :sad: :cry:

Good to see our American friends can be bothered to be up while I still am; now, where did I put those Nytol.....

K x

It must be late where you are Kristian. About 4 or 5 am? Is that right? 8 hours difference, I think.

It's only 9 pm here. Still Tuesday night. Wishing you only good dreams...

:) Sierra

Originally posted by Sierra
It must be late where you are Kristian. About 4 or 5 am? Is that right? 8 hours difference, I think.

It's only 9 pm here. Still Tuesday night. Wishing you only good dreams...

:) Sierra

05:13 now, and still Mr Sandman hasn't visited! :( Humph (I'm liking that word tonight!)

K x

I got told the blatant lie that if you stand still then the bee/wasp won't sting you as well.

Well thanks a chuffing bundle folks, aged 6 I disturbed some wasps and heeding Mothers advice I stood stock still in a cunning attempt to throw off the enraged winged beasties and............. Got stung to Christ knows what.

Cut to the kitchen, me sobbing my little heart out while a highly irritated Mother dabs at the stings with TCP admonishing me getting stung to bits

Never again I assure you, to this day even if a wasp is not bothering me I'll swat the blighter out of pure spite.

The worst lie I was ever told involved my own death!!

I once drank some Baby Bio plant food, thinking it was cola. My mum told me I was going to die and only had so many hours left to live before the stuff killed me as it was poison. I sat there counting away the minutes, scared stiff I was going to die. When the time came I was hysterical, only for my mum to say "serves you right" or words to that effect. Obviously I didn't die and she confessed to doing it to scare me into never ingesting stuff without asking ever again!

Believe me, I never touched anything else without asking first!

Bit cruel though don't you think?

My mum had some great ones, as well as the chewing gum, apple pips, nose picking and burnt toast lies, she also claimed :

1) that sitting on a cold bench would give you piles,

2) killing a wasp/bee would cause all it's "friends" to come and get you,

3) not cutting your toe nails would cause them to grow round and you would have to have your toes cut off,

I think the worst one was when i swallowed a whole peach stone... i couldnt tell anyone for years as i was so scared as my parents told me that swallowing a peach stone can be a very dangerous thing to do... (gulp!) :hihi:

Never swallow chewing gum... it sticks your insides together :?

Never bite your nails... you'll have them growing out of your back :? ha... that didnt stop me... (stopped now tho)

Never swallow pips... otherwise you'll have a tree growing out ya bum... :o thank goodness i listened... :)

My parents once ried to convince us kids, that we were being fed a nice joint of beef. We were young, but not thick.....the 'nice joint of beef' was infact heart (full of veins etc)....no matter how they tried to convince us, we would not touch it as it looked repulsive.

Originally posted by FetishFairy
The worst lie I was ever told involved my own death!!

I once drank some Baby Bio plant food, thinking it was cola. My mum told me I was going to die and only had so many hours left to live before the stuff killed me as it was poison. I sat there counting away the minutes, scared stiff I was going to die. When the time came I was hysterical, only for my mum to say "serves you right" or words to that effect. Obviously I didn't die and she confessed to doing it to scare me into never ingesting stuff without asking ever again!

Believe me, I never touched anything else without asking first!

Bit cruel though don't you think?

Cruel? Sadist maybe..... i'd have called the NSPCC and got her locked up ;)
Fancy putting Baby Bio in the reach of kids anyhow

Hehe,

I've been told about the sitting on cold benches/stone walls gives you piles

And that swallowing chewing gum clogs up your insides (i'm still not a great fan of chewing gum)

Not sure about the "killing bees" one but with wasps it may happen, apparently the sting gives off a scent of an "open target" whether or not this is true or not who knows, i read it somewhere :)

Originally posted by Kristian
:wow: How old were you when this happened Lily? :o

K x
when my parents tried to have the sex discussion with me!! I was about 12 or 13, I think!!

Originally posted by foo_fighter
Which hasn't happened yet?
nope, I haven't died!!

I once asked my dad how santa was going to make it down the chimney as it was blocked with a large plumbed in gas fire.

Quick as a flash he said,
"oh that's why he has a magic key to get in the front door"

If you eat freshly made bread or cake while it's still hot, it will stick to your ribs. This will eventually stop you breathing and you will die of cake.

I remember putting one of my milk teeth under my pillow for the tooth fairy to swap it for money in the night. In the morning, when my Mom woke me, there was no money under the pillow. :cry: :sad: When I looked disappointed, she said to look on the bedside table, and there was my cash! :D She told me she'd seen the tooth fairy in the night, and that she'd left the money on the table bacause I looked peaceful, and she didn't want to wake me. I was satisfied with this explanation until I asked how the fairy had got the tooth out without waking me; cut to Mom telling me not to ask questions etc!

K x

Originally posted by feargal
die of cake.

Hmmmm. Death by cake! :D

K x

Heard on the radio today the little boy whose mother told him the ice-cream seller playing his chimes meant that he had sold out and had nothing left :hihi:

Can remember mine telling me when I was very young that if I went down the cellar I would get lost and she wouldn't be able to find me again.

If you don't stop playing with it, it'll drop off!





She was right, y'know........

Heard on the radio today the little boy whose mother told him the ice-cream seller playing his chimes meant that he had sold out and had nothing left :hihi:

Can remember mine telling me when I was very young that if I went down the cellar I would get lost and she wouldn't be able to find me again.

Was she always an optimist? :hihi:

I know someone who was one of 6 children and their parents told them that more than 2 biscuits would give you an upset stomach (count the number of biscuits in a packet and tell me there's not just a teensy bit of convenience there!).

My mother told me that if you corner a rat itll go for your throat.

My mum used to tell my brothers if he picked his nose his brains would fall out

My mum used to tell my brothers if he picked his nose his brains would fall out

I remember being told this! It scared me when I was little, but it did stop me picking my nose. I also used to get told that if I sat too close to the Tv my eyes would go square.

Eat burnt toast & you will have curly hair,I did until most of it fell out.

She also told him not to pull faces cos if the wind changed his face would stay that way

TSK .. Mother's NEVER tell lies !

If you dont stand up straight then youll ebd up with a huge hump on your back!


Like that was gonna put ME off! I crouched for years in the hope of gaining a mighty hunch but it never came.

If you dont stand up straight then youll ebd up with a huge hump on your back!


Like that was gonna put ME off! I crouched for years in the hope of gaining a mighty hunch but it never came.

Maybe you make yourself one out of a pile of whelk shells and some sheep's wool ...... :hihi:

A friend was told by her mum that the county town of Shropshire is Shrop

My mum and dad always said to me not to talk to strangers, it was dangerous, Could not work out how many people they "KNEW" all over the Country

telling lies gets you know where...
oH yes they bloody do...:P

That Santa likes sherry, carrots and mince pies.

That Santa likes sherry, carrots and mince pies.:huh: so why's that a lie??:huh: i dont get it??:huh:

ssshh...kids might be reading this...;)

Kissing boys made your teeth fall out... (this to a six-year old, whose teeth were starting to get "woddly")

Kissing boys meant you were going to "fall for a baby". (to a 12 year old)

If you didn't eat your crusts, your hair wouldn't curl.

the ice cream van chimes were actually the church bells (to my 2 1/2 year old cousin who was clamouring for an ice cream)

If you hold your farts in your intestine will explode.

I now know its not true but I still break wind as often as is humanly possible just for the hell of it.

"you're just going into hospital for a quick check up"

I emerged 3 days later circumcised.

My mum used to tell my brothers if he picked his nose his brains would fall out

my mum used to say if you pull faces and the weather changed you'd stay like it... and another was if i had a spot on my tongue she said it was for telling lies...

Eat your crusts and your hair will curl - despite having pretty curly hair

If you don't stop being a faddy eater you'll die before you're ten (I didn't on either count)

my mum told me she was 21, for about 5 consecutive birthdays. eventually i weedled the "truth" out of her. she was 35. Then i heard her arguing with HER mum on the phone, "for gods sake mum, i'm 45". i was so upset that she'd lied to me. She said she wouldnt tell me the truth because she thought I was the kind of kid that would walk around telling everyone, "my mums 45 you know!". I so wouldn't. I'm not like that. She's 58 now btw!

my mum told me she was 21, for about 5 consecutive birthdays. eventually i weedled the "truth" out of her. she was 35. Then i heard her arguing with HER mum on the phone, "for gods sake mum, i'm 45". i was so upset that she'd lied to me. She said she wouldnt tell me the truth because she thought I was the kind of kid that would walk around telling everyone, "my mums 45 you know!". I so wouldn't. I'm not like that. She's 58 now btw!

Everytime you mention your Mum I actually laugh out loud...she sounds awesome :)

my mum told me she was 21, for about 5 consecutive birthdays. eventually i weedled the "truth" out of her. she was 35. Then i heard her arguing with HER mum on the phone, "for gods sake mum, i'm 45". i was so upset that she'd lied to me. She said she wouldnt tell me the truth because she thought I was the kind of kid that would walk around telling everyone, "my mums 45 you know!". I so wouldn't. I'm not like that. She's 58 now btw!

You sure shes 58? After all she did keep telling you that she was 21 :hihi:

You sure shes 58? After all she did keep telling you that she was 21 :hihi:

Thats true.....hummm. but at least her age increases every birthday now rather than staying the same, so im more inclined to believe her now!

"you're just going into hospital for a quick check up"

I emerged 3 days later circumcised.

You'd think someone would have given you a tip-off.

You'd think someone would have given you a tip-off.

I think they did.

`If you get a boil above the line of your mouth then chances are itll kill you`

I believed that all through my acne years and each time I got a big zit there I almost fainted with fright.

I grew up thinking that walking down the stairs was an extremely perilous business. This was because I believed that many rock and film stars had died "falling down the stairs". It was years before I realised that my mother told me that such people had died in this fashion as a substitute for talking about such unpleasantries as suicide or drug overdoses.

Apparrently, there really is something in the myth about carrots enabling you to see in the dark! Don, can you shed any light (pardon the pun!)

K x


Well you never see Rabbits or Horses wearing glasses :hihi:

I thought the carrots making sight better in the dark was propaganda spread in World War 2 to explain the reason that the RAF always managed to catch the Luftwaffe on their way to bomb cities. They said that plane spotters and pilots ate lots of carrots so they could see the Luftwaffe coming from miles away, even in the dark.

The carrot explanation was to stop any suspicions from German intelligence about a number of towers along the south coast of England that just sat there innocently...

Radar...

I thought the carrots making sight better in the dark was propaganda spread in World War 2 to explain the reason that the RAF always managed to catch the Luftwaffe on their way to bomb cities. They said that plane spotters and pilots ate lots of carrots so they could see the Luftwaffe coming from miles away, even in the dark.

The carrot explanation was to stop any suspicions from German intelligence about a number of towers along the south coast of England that just sat there innocently...

Radar...

Yeah that's right;)

That father christmas was REAL !! :(

Heard on the radio today the little boy whose mother told him the ice-cream seller playing his chimes meant that he had sold out and had nothing left :hihi:

Can remember mine telling me when I was very young that if I went down the cellar I would get lost and she wouldn't be able to find me again.


I remember saying to my daughter (when she heard the ice cream van) she was 4 yrs old and id said "its not the ice cream van its the bread van.....quick as a flash she said "oh thats ok ill have a bun instead!!!!" :hihi:

My Mum used to tell the four of us that if you told lies it said "Lies" on your forehead. My brother used to cover his forehead with his hands, a sure indication he was lying.
Another on I heard, although not me, a young girls brother told her we were only allowed so many words in our lifetime, and once you had used them all, you died, she only spoke when she had to til she was twelve.

poorly dogs all get picked up by a farmer from the house while your at school,they take them to live in the country on a big farm ,this makes them get better.

it must be true,my mam told me so.

Ye gods mods - did you really have to dig out a two and a half year old thread to tack mine onto ? :confused:

Dont drink vinegar or itll dry up your blood.


God knows where they get these ideas from.

That father christmas was REAL !! :(

He's Not ...? .. :shocked:

Col .. :D

biggest lie your mum can tell you
"who look, heres your dad":D

to add to that i once went up to my mums (2 of my brothers where still living at home) and i when i made a cuppa she told me i treated her better than her own:suspect: :hihi:
she never did tell me if it was a slip of the tongue:rolleyes:

My mum told me when I decided I wanted to be vegetarian when I was 11 (I've since gone back to the delights of meat) that tomato sausage was ok because it didn't have any meat in it.

That if I was a good girl people would treat me nicely back.... what a fib that turned out to be :rolleyes:

He's Not ...? .. :shocked:

Col .. :D


Don't listen to them, of course he's real :hihi:

My mum told me that the milkman was my dad!
Which at the tender age of 6 I believed, it caused a very embarrasing moment one friday teatime when he was collecting the money and I asked him about it:D
Nearly as embarrasing as the time that my brother announced in a very loud voice 'Mum, your toyboy's here!' when the insurance man knocked at the door.:hihi:
Ahh the things you could show your parents up with before everything went to direct debit:D

Oh no, I shan't tell her. She'll never leave it alone... in a similar pickled-onion related "hint" she suggests sticking your pickle fork in the garden to stop it going a funny colour.

I'm surprised I've turned out so well balanced really. ;)

There might be something in that. Apparently people used to bury there cutlery in the garden after having fish on a friday to stop it tarnishing.

When I was younger my hamster died and my mum told me he had run away to live on the school field with all the other hamsters who lived there (!) I believed her years and years and years:(:hihi:

I used to get told that about the ice cream man too, believed her all the time n'all :roll: