.. to ask for the weird rumours you believed in primary school? (And still sort of do)

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Just remembered these weird ink eraser things.. and how we all were sure they had pig wee in them..!? also that if you swallowed even one piece of chewing gum you'd have to have an operation to remove it ... Etc etc!

Oh and a secondary school one. If someone punched your BCG scab then they would be expelled because you would probably die. I totally believed it. But thinking back now it’s ridiculous. Imagine if nurses came into school and gave you a vaccination that was so serious that you would die if the scab got banged. It would never happen.

Does anyone remember doing the "light as a feather, heavy as a rock" levitation thing where you'd try lifting a mate with one finger. It definitely worked one time and I've no idea how.

At my secondary school we had a row of showers in the changing rooms. At the end of the row as a small hole at the bottom cut out of the tiles. The rumour was that the boys changing rooms and showers was exactly the same and the boys could get a mirror and look at the girls in the showers....... At 11/12 you can be pretty naive and gullible...... Now at 38 I can safely say that the hole cut out was quite clearly a drain and they would have to have had a bloody long mirror as between each changing room was two large offices for the heads of P. E!! Still believed it though and according to friends who have kids of their own there now, the rumour is still going strong!! 😂😂

A man used to come to our school to give yearly demonstrations. He had a missing finger and the rumour was that it was lost in an accident at the school and one of the reception teachers had accidental swept it away in a dustpan.

That it was terribly unlucky to open your crisp packet from the bottom

When I was doing an overnight camp with school (all girls school) we were told to stamp on the ground before squatting for a wee because once a girl didn't and a ferret jumped inside her and started eating her from the inside out. Was about 14 and completly believed it, especially coming from a teacher!

Drinking too much sunny D would turn you orange.

Some of these are hilarious.. I keep being reminded of more and more there was a rumour about the girls outside toilets at our primary school .. drafty outbuilding with 3 girls loos and 3 boys loos.. apparently someone saw a rat down the toilet once! Used to use them as quick as poss and stand up and pull my pants up quick!!
Also being told by an older child when in approx year 3 that when you had the much discussed year 6 sex education lessons you had to 'do it'.... Being quite an innocent 8 year old I remember telling mum about that one .. still remember her laughter

There were girls in my sisters year at school in floods of tears because they believed the Peter Andre rumour

I believed all of these.

Richard Gere and the hamster. Yes

It was rumoured that there was a cane still kept in our primary school. This was in 1988, not long after corporal punishment was banned in state schools. This rumour would raise its head whenever Victorian school was taught, or Boy by Roald Dahl had been read.

The Kenan and Kel one is weird. I went to school in the north east of Scotland and even we heard that story.

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That there was 100 pennies squished into a pound.

I read that as 100 penises

Red Skittles were made out of crushed beetles.

When you started secondary school you’d be asked if you wanted to see the blue fish, and if you said yes you’d have your head flushed down the toilet.

If you went onto school grounds in the holidays there would be security guards with massive german shepherd dogs who would eat you.

A girl once slipped on a piece of tomato while doing PE in the hall after lunch and broke her leg. I was terrified of doing PE in the hall after lunch after hearing that one.

Hmm. I grew up in a completely different country far far away and we had Marilyn Manson, Bloody Mary and the chewing gim ones.

Dandelions make you wet the bed

True if you eat the leaves, they are a diuretic. The French call dandelions pissenlit - piss en lit, piss the bed.

If you stuck a stamp on a letter upside down, at the very least, your letter wouldn't be delivered; at worst, you could be arrested for "disrespecting the queen".

The Marilyn Manson/removal of ribs one seems to be common but did anyone else have the rumour that as a child he played Paul in the Wonder Years? Maybe that was confined to my school 😆

Oh god yes to Marilyn Manson in The Wonder Years!

I've just googled kenan and Kel. Well after my time. What was the rumour?

That it was terribly unlucky to open your crisp packet from the bottom

To this day I feel really weird eating a packet of crisps that’s been opened upside down.

If you said "white lady white lady I've stolen your baby" 3 times she would come and ACTUALLY KILL YOU.

A group of us dared do it once. 3 minutes later there was an enormous electrical storm. We proper shat ourselves.

@Whatisthisfuckery, the ‘red Skittles made from crushed beetles’ thing is basically true — before about ten years ago, the red colouring carmine was derived from an insect. (As was the shellac wax coating that stopped the colour ‘leaking’.)