What's one thing your parents used to tell you not to do, that you actively do in adulthood?

[Sadmac]

I'll start: Sticking the knife in the toaster to pull out a stuck slice. I haven't died yet

@ClaudiaJ1 Australian life surf saving club is the one that teaches me every year during an all day first aid course! That the key of their rescues are related to people going for a swim straight after food! I competed it at Randwick just 4 months ago, so you are the troll here. Accusing people of being trolls when they are not one.

Yes @Happy1982ish I'm a qualified nurse, I work in tech now; I have two degrees.
I'm not outing myself anymore just so you can dig out my old posts that have no relevance to the topic.

@ClaudiaJ1 and I have to compete first aid course (which I usually do at Aussie life savings club yearly).
Maybe your family is the life saving club needs retraining.

[quote lousanne]@ClaudiaJ1 Australian life surf saving club is the one that teaches me every year during an all day first aid course! That the key of their rescues are related to people going for a swim straight after food! I competed it at Randwick just 4 months ago, so you are the troll here. Accusing people of being trolls when they are not one. [/quote]
Seriously just stop your trolling now, none of what you say is true. You've been outed.

@Thecurtainsofdestiny

Put my own needs/ feelings first at times.

Oh, hear hear!!!

Saying no to things I don't want to do.
Not answering the phone if it's inconvenient.
Saying yes to a cup of tea or a drink immediately if I want one, rather than going through an endless pantomime of 'No, not at all, it's too much trouble, and I've just had one etc etc'.
Disagreeing with men.

@ClaudiaJ1 what a bully you are. This was the training where I was told majority of rescues are due to people going for a swim straight after food. Why do you keep insisting I'm a troll?
Unfollowing this thread so please don't bother responding.

@Thatsplentyjack

Sit with my knees tucked under my butt on the sofa.

how do you do that?

Yes, are you a contortionist?

And exactly also to suiting myself as to whether I wear a coat or not, regardless of weather. My mother has some mad ideas about 'wrapping up', whereas I'm not someone who feels the cold particularly -- she continually wants me to force DS (9) into long trousers in winter, whereas I think he's the only one who will suffer if he wears shorts and feels cold in December.

[quote lousanne]@ClaudiaJ1 what a bully you are. This was the training where I was told majority of rescues are due to people going for a swim straight after food. Why do you keep insisting I'm a troll?
Unfollowing this thread so please don't bother responding. [/quote]
You're lying. You know it, I know it. I know for a FACT that no one has been rescued due to swimming after food for at least 5 decades. I KNOW THIS. The fact is food does NOT stick in your throat, it takes 10 SECONDS to reach the stomach. This is a medical fact, and you could have googled before coming on here, making up an absurd, laughable and outrageous lie. You were caught out and exposed so are running away. Next time, at least, at least put even a little thought into your bizarre tall stories.

Eat in the street
Swear
Eat dinner on my lap in front of TV occasionally
Sometimes don't make my bed
What a rebel

I expect pp poster meant tucking her feet under her bum, with her knees bent.

Bit of a weird one:

Shave my legs, and allow my teenage DD to do the same. My DM has never shaved her legs in her life (luckily she has very fine blonde leg hair) and considers it to be something that only 'that sort' of woman would do. I remember the razer burns I got from trying to secretly use an old bic razor my dad left in the bathroom cupboard (I had no idea I needed foam).

Seriously, why do people troll and lie when their lies can be so easily exposed, especially when the lies are so absurd, so plainly bizarre lies? What do they get out of it? Especially when it isn't even physically possible for what they're saying to happen. I mean, why? Not even a pre-teen would tell such bizarre tales.

I do the knife in the toaster thing too! It's fine if it's popped up!
Also cross roads before the green man shows
Lick my plate
Slurp my tea
Slurp my soup
Only use a fork to eat with
Feed the seagulls

My mother told me to never have "women in the house" cos women spread gossip and lies and will tell everyone your business.

No I did nt listen. My female friends practically live at my house 👧🙂

Spend all my money.

Keep family secrets

Give blood.🩸
Vote. 🗳
Celebrate Christmas.🎄
Celebrate birthdays. 🥳

@Fe2O3Girl

Give blood.🩸 Vote. 🗳 Celebrate Christmas.🎄 Celebrate birthdays. 🥳

Well done on getting out @Fe2O3Girl

@LaurieFairyCake

Don't eat proper food if I don't fancy it - just eat dessert

I must admit I inhaled sharply when I read this.

You daredevil, @LaurieFairyCake, you.

@BruceAndNosh

Korean fan death Say, what?

Apparently in South Korea (and possibly parts of Japan) until fairly recently it was a WELL KNOWN FACT that having a fan on in a room with closed windows would suffocate you and you would die, via some poorly defined mechanism - much like how eating before swimming was something that everyone knew would KILL YOU but noone could quite tell you how (but normally it involved cramp rather than this very odd choking theory).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

Wear dangly/hoop earrings (they are for gypsies)

This was like a stroll down memory lane! Practically everything on here ( not the toaster, I’m not that much of a gambler)
The most annoying one was no reading at the table, which I do all the time now, unless we have guests.

Pick my nose and eat it
Eat in the living room without a tray

@SportsMother

Gallivant!

No better way of spending your time.

I would expand on this and say Gallivant Around.

I love gallivanting around now I'm grown up and there's nothing she can do about it!

Oh and also making myself a coffee when I feel like having a coffee. And not waiting until "coffee time"