What lies did your parents tell you?!
Question: My dad told me if you eat too much sugar you get worms grow inside you (sadly I was 24 when i realised this was a lie when i blurted it out to a boyfriend who had just eaten a sugar cube - the moment of realisation came too late ie. he was a laughing heap on the floor!)
A friends dad told her Jeremy Beadle had one hand smaller than the other because he trapped it in the washing machine (have to wonder how he would close the door?!)
Some other good ones:
*If you stand in a puddle your shoes will shrink on your feet
*If an earwig gets in your ear it will eat your brain
*If you pick your nose your head will cave in
*If you swallow an apple pip a tree will grow in your belly
Answers: My dad told me if you eat too much sugar you get worms grow inside you (sadly I was 24 when i realised this was a lie when i blurted it out to a boyfriend who had just eaten a sugar cube - the moment of realisation came too late ie. he was a laughing heap on the floor!)
A friends dad told her Jeremy Beadle had one hand smaller than the other because he trapped it in the washing machine (have to wonder how he would close the door?!)
Some other good ones:
*If you stand in a puddle your shoes will shrink on your feet
*If an earwig gets in your ear it will eat your brain
*If you pick your nose your head will cave in
*If you swallow an apple pip a tree will grow in your belly
I once told my ex's kids when it was snowing that the cows outside don't get cold because they are snow cows and their milk is used for making ice cream.
My dad use to tell me that "everything" would give me cancer....from piercings to hickeys...lol
Father Christmas!!
That if I watched too much television I would get square eyes!
If I told a lie, a bird would come and peck my tongue out!
My mom told, to stop me from drinking milk( i drank soooo much) that if i drank anymore I'd turn into a cow...
If you make a silly face and the wind changes your face will be stuck.
there is a tooth fairy and santa clause bring you presents at xmass
I was told if I stayed in the bath too long, I would turn into a fish.
eating the crust off my bread would make my hair curly.
if you steal your hands will drop off
My grandmother use to tell me that my tongue was going to stay out and dry out if I stuck my tongue out at her or if I talked back.
She also told me that my hand was going to get mumified if I ever try to hit her or any adult.
My parents didn't actually tell me any lies. No Santa Claus, no easter bunny, no lies about sex. I'm almost surprised by the fact that I can't think of a single lie they have ever told me.
There is no father Christmas
My dad use to always tell us to eat out crust cause it made our hair curly.
But now that i have my own children i find myself saying things to like if ya pick your nose your finger will get stuck up there.
& Eating to much sweets makes you fart real bad.
haha i only remember one. i hate eating green peas since i was little and never wanted to eat it. my mom always use to say i have to eat it because the 'green pea man' was watching from outside..so i eventually ate it...haha
don't laugh but they told me:
if you masturbate, it will grow hair in your hands (big lie lol)
if you smoke cigarretes, you will not grow up (i don't smoke so, I don't know if that is true, but I am starting to beleive is true because I have a friend very short, and he smokes more than a not passed smoke check car.)
if you don't write a letter santa will not bring you gifts.
if you stick you finger in your belly-button you bum will fall out. and my friends nearly 38yrs and he still wont put his finger in there!
you should find out where he got the stores from.
i have a cousin that was dieing and the doctors could not find out why all her organs where shutting down in an ultra sound of her belly area thy found a sesame seed was growing.
you we have still shots of the plant growing inside her.
so what else could be true that you father said?
i know that you can get worms from eating raw potatoes .
Many of these things are OLD WIVES TALES and have been passed down through the generations. Some are WHITE LIES, used to instill fear in children to modify their behavior. If you don't stop it you will go blind, Big lie at 53 I still don't need glasses. My parent did not know they were lies, as they were told this crap by their parents, WE were told that eating the seeds from fruit caused appendeseedis, the word does not even exist. Or the Pinocchio theory, if you lie your nose will grow. I like my big nose.
my mums father is scottish and my mum always told us that a haggis is an animal that lives on the hills of scotland and the legs on it's right side are longer than the legs on its left side so it can balance on the steep slopes of the hills BUT it can only walk around the mountain one way or it would fall over.
Whenever my grandad had a haggis sent to him I thought it was the animal with its head and legs cut off ready for eating.
I still cant look at a haggis without picturing that poor animal, doomed to an eternity of walking around the mountain in one direction.
Also, if I watch too much TV i'd get square eyes.