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Bullshit your mum told you and you still believe it

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  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,682
    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.
  • StubleyAddick
    StubleyAddick Posts: 2,552
    Everytime you hear the music from an Ice Cream van, it means they've run out of Ice Cream.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,230
    Every time I have Horlicks I get a rash round my mouth!!
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    'only fat people eat whilst walking along'


  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,783
    Er... so do you lot still believe all this bollocks? That’s what the thread says after all!
  • Silverdreammachine
    Silverdreammachine Posts: 370
    Come into a room wearing brown (suit etc)
    you will go out in black (you will drop dead)!
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 22,527
    lordromford said:
    Er... so do you lot still believe all this bollocks? That’s what the thread says after all!
    It's all a bit of fun,.. and anyway who's to say it's all bollocks
    eh, don't you believe any of it then ;)
  • Pavoren007
    Pavoren007 Posts: 2,525
    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...
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Don't sit on a cold wall or you'll get piles.

    I had no idea what piles were.


  • addickson
    addickson Posts: 891
    Of course you weren’t a mistake
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  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    mistrollingin62 said:
    "Don't take sweets from men in cars"
    "Don't go in the men's toilets in Danson Park".
    "Always wash behind your ears before you go out"
    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
  • JohnnyJoeyDeeDee
    JohnnyJoeyDeeDee Posts: 1,040
    Never eat ice cream after having fish as it will make you sick (grandma not mum)
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,791
    thai malaysia addick said:
    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)

    Did we have the same mother without realising it?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,791
    Brendan_O_Connell said:
    Stop moaning!  The Priest does that to all of the children, it's part of being a catholic. 
    I remember when young boys wanted to get into the Clergy.  Now,...
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,791
    Dizzle said:
    “If you play with it too much you’ll go blind”...

    I can confirm that this is a lie
    "It" being what?  Your Scalectrix set, your football, your dog?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,791
    One from my Nan: if you eat the peeled peel of an apple, you'll get worms.

    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.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,753
    My Mum told me again the other day:

    '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?
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    My dad once told me that if the Union Flag was flying over Buckingham Palace then we could go in and have egg and chips with the Queen 
  • ProperCharlton
    ProperCharlton Posts: 2,254
    edited October 2020
    ValleyGary said:
    It’s illegal to put the light on in the car while driving 
    I only found out this was a lie last week
  • Dizzle
    Dizzle Posts: 5,190
    AddicksAddict said:
    Dizzle said:
    “If you play with it too much you’ll go blind”...

    I can confirm that this is a lie
    "It" being what?  Your Scalectrix set, your football, your dog?
    You know what I mean, come on. Don’t play innocent here.
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  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited October 2020
    Honestly he is your Dad.
  • tom_k
    tom_k Posts: 1,207
    The dye will appear if you pee in a swimming pool.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    StubleyAddick said:
    Everytime you hear the music from an Ice Cream van, it means they've run out of Ice Cream.
    Don't you mean the Kipper van?
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    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.
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    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.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Do you shoelaces up, you'll trip over and break your neck.

  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    ValleyGary said:
    It’s illegal to put the light on in the car while dogging
    I think this was nearer the truth.

  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Don't go swimming straight after eating or you'll get stomach cramps.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Dad always said when I went out on the town as a teenager - "If you're not in bed by midnight,  come home"
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    ValleyGary said:
    It’s illegal to put the light on in the car while driving 
    Lol this is a good one

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