to think this is a bit strange?

[MrsDeathOfRats]

Last night I had a weird sort of bicker with DP.

Last week, in Lidl, I bought loads some kids clothes. Namely the fleece leggings for girls and some of the 2 packs of tops.
The tops had one round neck in and one turtle neck. I though this was great. Warm for winter.

I out one on her for nursery yesterday, and DP saw when she came home. After she was in bed he told me not to put turtle neck tops on her or ds again.
His reason is 'they cause illness'. He claims that they keep the throat warm and then the next day when you go out without it the throat is exposed and vulnerable and therefore you catch an illness.

AIBU to think that is a total load of crap?

That's a polo shirt, and completely different to a polo/turtle necked top.

It made me laugh to be honest!

I smiled when I read he is Algerian

I worked in Tunisia years ago and agree that they have a strange attitude towards catching colds and illness and most I met were terrible hypochondriacs they loved to talk about illness and bodily functions. You would often see babies and young children wrapped up in blankets no matter how hot it is but they would think nothing of sitting a young child on the back of a moped with no crash helmet and take them to hospital

Also most of the wisdom regarding health matters comes from grandmothers and no one knows better than they do

I passed out once in a busy bank, came round to being almost suffocated by the smell of perfume that had been sprayed on a hankie and shoved under my nose. The reason I passed out was because I had gone swimming in the sea and caught germs from the sea, nothing to do with me being dehydrated and not drinking enough water in the extreme heat

Jokes aside, I have a weak throat and I notice that if I wear a scarf or high neck I always get a sore throat the next day. I have had this strange occurrence since I was a child, I remember my parents laughing about it.

Not sure what the science is behind that, but it is annoyingly true in my personal case. I am sure it doesn't apply to most people as I have never known anyone else have this happen to them, apart from my dad, so it is obviously genetic somehow. PS we are also from a hot country but nothing to do with superstition or credence, just something that happens to me!

I thought he might be Italian - it's obviously a southern thing :D

I get this a lot in France but in reverse because a lot of people seem think that if your throat is exposed you'll catch a cold. My friend had nothing but utter contempt for the doctor who told her this was not the case!

Yes very odd, and completely untrue.

It does sound like something my Mum would say though, but then she does also believe in homeopathy.

turtle neck or polo neck or roll neck?

Geez Anneka I am back being confused . I think we are going to have to take a vote on what constitutes a turtle neck in the UK.

I am still confused.

A turtle neck and a polo neck are the same thing.

The OP posted a photo of a polo shirt with the words "this is in fact what I am talking about"

Crew neck - round and finishes at the base of the neck.
Turtle neck - finishes midway up the neck.
Polo neck - folds over and finishes either midway up the neck, or at the top. It's the folding over that differentiates it from a turtle neck.

I'm British & totally agree with Stratter5 on clothing definitions, esp on turtle / polo neck distinction.

My tropical-country-dwelling in-laws were most put out when I offered cold water to DH's uncle when he had a cough.
I mean, I know warm drinks are soothing for the throat but he asked for a drink of water and I always prefer water cold but they were concerned of its medical effects.
Even my DH who has a PhD in biological science.

concerned about its medical effects.

All the wee boys from north Africa and the middle east I teach wear long johns under their uniform, even in relatively clement weather, they must be stifling hot.

I was about to post some witty anecdote about my DH and his stance on matchy track suits on toddlers, but I see the thread has turned into a far more serious fashion definition discussion.

Yes it has taken a turn that the pedant's topic would be proud of!

I meant the type that comes all the way up to your chin. Polo/turtle NECK. Not polo shirt. I did not realise it had different names

However, I do find him amusing some of the time and can live with it.

Matching track suits on toddlers are vile though. my ds is wearing one now which was a total accident and I think he looks awful in it but am too lazy to change him this close to bedtime

Wow i have never heard that!
It's crap though.
Colds are a virus, nothing to do with actually being cold.

Stratter5 thank you thank you!
so turtle is midway up neck and doesn't fold over, polo folds over and is midway or all the way up.. [gavel]

sorry OP! my life is a little more complete now that I know this. It's a bit like the enlightenment I experienced when I was informed that the lyrics to Salt n Pepa's 'Push It' weren't 'Ah Mushi Mushi, Mushy real good'

You realise that at some point your child wearing the polo neck will coincide with them catching a cold - and he will insist it proves him right

Kurri I'm trying now to think of when something similar has happened as a coincidence and he was literally giddy at being right! So yes that day will probably come round again!

I'm not from Algeria or thereabouts but from Ireland. We always were told that if you begin wearing polo necks you should stick to them as moving from one to the other in cold weather makes you more susceptible to a cold..It's like wearing a thermal vest. Either wear one or don't but don't move from one to the other as vulnerable to getting a cold. And we were also told about not getting a very short haircut ( men mostly) while having a cold in bad weather. I think there is wisdom in all that so your dh is not being completely silly. It's alternating that's the issue not one kind or another.

Alternating between wearing a vest and not wearing a vest makes you susceptible to getting a cold? I was never told that in Ireland.

Someone once told me off for tickling my son's feet because it would give him a stammer.

surely only when he's being tickled temp