"You're a right weirdo if you read a book in the hairdressers"... and other bonkers opinions

[BookWormhole]

I'm going to the hairdressers shortly and I'll be taking my book to read while my colour's on, like I always do. I told my friend.

She said I'd be a right weirdo if I read my book while I was in there. She couldn't give a specific reason but was adamant it wasn't the done thing.

She's nuts.

My mother still clings to the belief that you shouldn't do washing on a Sunday. Apparently it "doesn't look good". My mum's an atheist.

My mother also believes that going out in the cold with wet hair will give me (almost instantaneous) pneumonia.

She's nuts.

Tell me about all the bonkers opinions that people in your life hold.

My late mother used to say "never trust a man who wears red socks or doesn't like animals"!

I'm on board with the whole disliking animals thing, to be fair. I am deeply mistrustful of anyone who doesn't like animals

I did agree with her about the not liking animals thing. But the red socks one was a bit odd! Mind you, I did get dumped by my first 'real' boyfriend (IYSWIM?!) who wore red socks, so maybe she had a point?!

OP, I have to say that I agree with your mum about not trusting someone who doesn't like animals. But I'm not too convinced about the red socks...

Huh?!

Oh no, I took a book last time I went to the hairdressers! It was the first time I’ve done it - I didn’t fancy reading last year’s Heat magazine. Now I feel so judged!

Not so much a bonkers opinion, probably more of an old wive’s tale but when I was pregnant with DD1 my mum had a panic when I was pegging the washing out - apparently you’re not supposed to hold your arms above your head when you’re pregnant. Fuck knows what she thought would happen! Wave ‘em in the air like you don’t care!

Someone told me never to trust a man who doesn't wear a belt, because he's in too much of a hurry to get his trousers off...

BusySittingDown apparently the hands above the head in pregnancy thing is supposed to ‘tangle the cord’ 🙄

The holocaust never happened.
An opinion still held by my ex H

The red socks thing is probably based on the type of gent who wears a suit to work (in the 1960s) and thinks that the delightful deviancy of wearing red socks at the same time is the height of excitement and really shows off his wacky, offbeat character.

Someone who's dull as ditchwater, basically.

A friend's new wife turnout out to be a moon landing denialist. And we showed her the evidence and she changed her mind! It had been instilled in her by mad parents. We were all very pleased.

There's a red socks/Eton thing, I think.. Definitely wouldn't trust anyone who went to Eton!

Don't trust a man whose eyebrows meet in the middle.
You can't have a bath if you are menstruating - it's just not done.
Tampons are evil and will break the hymen.
Red shoes no knickers.

Heard these beauties from various "wise" people over the years.

If you wear a short coat in cold weather you'll get a chill in your kidneys.
That's one of my mum's. She did like bundling me up and I spent a lot of my childhood uncomfortably warm. I only bother with a coat in heavy rain or sub zero.

And this one's from a friend of mine: -
"I always leave the kitchen when the microwave is on and I give it a minute or two before going back after its beeped. Just incase there's still microwaves sloshing about."
I may have reminded her about the GCSE physics lesson we'd both attended about the em spectrum and the speed of light.
She still doesn't trust microwaves.

cigar ..is your friend not worried about the microwaves getting her as she leaves the kitchen??

MIL tried the wet hair/pneumonia on dd, aged about six.. who then shot her down with impeccable logic

I am fairly sure if you go out with wet hair you will only get pneumonia if you are on your period.

Also red telephones are common

Men age better than women

And other delights from my mother.

I'm a hairdresser and I take a book to the hairdressers! I also don't want to read last year's heat magazine or sit staring at myself in the salon mirror whilst my colour develops!

I know someone who doesn't believe in dinosaurs (and I don't mean dragons or unicorns. Dinosaurs)

At school where we had those old-fashioned radiators...."DON'T SIT ON THE RADIATOR,GELS! You'll get piles and your future husbands won't thank you!"

@AviatorShades...ERRR....was she specifically expecting your future husbands to have a use for the part of you afflicted by piles?? Seems like a more worldly view than I'd've anticipated....

Dunno, but they were such an unworldly group of spinsters, who knows?
Biology lessons were limited to the reproductive habits of sticklebacks iirc.

MIL has some very specific ideas about how people should behave. She took against the fiancee of one of her nephews when she met her for the first time before our wedding because she came into the hotel lobby with her coffee from the bar

She also thought it was seriously 'weird' when her work colleague asked what was in her salad once

If you sit on a cold floor..... you'll get piles (from my mum)

A much older relative told a much younger me 'Don't sit with your ankles crossed because it will make your hips spread'.

30 (ish) years later I am pleased to confirm that this is bunkum.

Nothing to add except I love to read a book when my colours on.