I remember having a belly ache. Mum looked in the medicine cabinet to no avail, so gave me a spoonful of 'chocolate granules.' She told me I'd be better in 20 minutes / half hour ... and I was.
Looking back I reckon I had a spoonful of Horlicks. One must never under estimate the power of a placebo.
Don’t put on any clothes that are not completely dry, otherwise you risk catching pneumonia.
I sh*t you not, my Mum used to run the neck rim, cuffs, you effing name it along her mouth to check whether there was anything damp whatsoever on the clothes I was about to put on. How she ever let me in the sea on holiday I will never know...
Obviously, I am not the only one to experience something nasty there. When I was about six, I went to Danson Park with my mum, dad and older brother and went to the toilet, I could not find any toilet paper in any of the toilets (this is in the early 50s). I was approached by a man who showed me to a toilet and said there was some paper in there, when I went in he tried to come in with me, I shouted, pushed at him and run out. I was too afraid to tell my parents and never went to Danson Park again until I was a teenager
Eating carrots will help you see in the dark (general health advice) What did your last slave die of? (when being lazy) Just you wait and see (mild overused threat) You'll take someone's eye with that (whenever showing signs of boisterousness with anything in the hand) If I told you to put your head in an oven, would you do it? (if a friend suggested something stupid) You weren't born in a barn (when you leave a door open)
While my Mum was inclined to use many of the aforementioned daft sayings, she was more well known for just all round silliness. Asking esoteric questions like "do sheep eat all night" or telling my Dad that sex was not on offer because her thumbs hurt. (The mind boggles.)
The carrots thing is interesting. It was of WW2 origin because carrots were actually available. But if you had a vitamin A deficiency (and you'd think almost all vitamins were marginal at that time) then you could develop "night blindness" and eating carrots would correct that - but only back to regular night vision levels.
Once (probably after my mum and dad had a row) my mum was mashing a saucepan full of spuds outside the kitchen door in the garden, I asked her why and she straight away came up with ‘it makes your mash whiter if you mash outside’. Skip forward about 10 years,yep, there’s me in my early twenties mashing spuds outside feeling superior about the wisdom passed on. It really didn’t occur to me my mum was making it up on the spot.
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Looking back I reckon I had a spoonful of Horlicks. One must never under estimate the power of a placebo.
you will go out in black (you will drop dead)!
eh, don't you believe any of it then
I sh*t you not, my Mum used to run the neck rim, cuffs, you effing name it along her mouth to check whether there was anything damp whatsoever on the clothes I was about to put on. How she ever let me in the sea on holiday I will never know...
I had no idea what piles were.
So, it's OK to eat the peel on an unpeeled apple, but if you peel it first and then eat the peel, woe betide you.
'You were a beautiful baby. You could have won a baby competition'.
I've seen the photos and I believe it. I still have that inner beauty 😉
Actually this thread is weird because if you recognise it as bullshit, why would you believe it?
The carrots thing is interesting. It was of WW2 origin because carrots were actually available. But if you had a vitamin A deficiency (and you'd think almost all vitamins were marginal at that time) then you could develop "night blindness" and eating carrots would correct that - but only back to regular night vision levels.