The 'sayings' that were fashionable in school, stay with you forever

[FrankButchersDickieBow]

I remember a saying with school, that if you sneezed 8 times on the run, you would have an orgasm. I'm forty fuckin three and just sneezed 6 times on the run andi never thought 'oh I need a tissue' I thought, 'ooh another 2 sneezes and I'll have an orgasm' 🤣🤣

Nothing fact based please.

Just the sayings that went round in school that you kinda believed but were vvu!!

If you peel your satsuma in one, you’re a virgin.
Picking labels off bottles means you’re sexually frustrated.

@Bellver888

if you fart during sex you become paralysed 😂😂

Thank fuck that's not true

After we had learned about Victorian schools, and it being pointed out that our school buildings were Victorian, it was rumoured that certain things were still kept in the school, such as a dunce cap, a cane, or baskets in which naughty children could be strung up to the very high ceilings.

@letsgomaths

After we had learned about Victorian schools, and it being pointed out that our school buildings were Victorian, it was rumoured that certain things were still kept in the school, such as a dunce cap, a cane, or baskets in which naughty children could be strung up to the very high ceilings.

We had a bell tower in primary and apparently someone to do with Florence Nightingale had gone up to ring if to alert someone of a death, the bell was stuck, she wiggled it and fell to her death. It was rumoured her ghost inhabitanted the school so many dares were made to go up the bell tower stairs. No one ever managed it. Years later we found out school was never a hospital, had naff all to do with Nightingale, and no one had died there.

@MrWendel
I remember this story 🤣

It's not a story or a saying, but what was "oggy oggy oggy .... oy oy oy" all about?

Boy I went to school with needed stitches in the back of the head after Swinging on the back two feet of his chair. Next week, same class, did it again..wasn’t the brightest 😂

As a teacher, children rocking on their chairs has always been my absolute pet hate. This very week one of our children (after being reminded again and again not to) fell forward doing this, nutted the table in front of him and broke his nose. He's got two black eyes like a panda to go with it too.
I have laughed out loud at this thread even though it does remind you just how awful children can be!

The myth about the labels on bottles still exists according to 18 year old ds!

I remember as well lots about ways to avoid getting pregnant, that you couldn’t if

• It was your first time
• You did it standing up
• You had or just had your period

Nothing as obvious as using a condom of course

The number of 'heel wrinkles' or 'wrist wrinkles' ( for want of better explanations 🤣) determined how many kids you'd have.

Of course.

If you fart and sneeze at the same time, you'll die.

@shouldistop

I remember that except I think it was only 3 times?

I thought a sneeze was an eighth of an orgasm!

We were told they'd banned British Bulldogs because a boy broke his elbow doing it. Then one summer we were on the playing field sneakily playing BB and a boy actually broke his arm and the bone was sticking out. The dinner ladies didn't believe us when we ran over shouting 'HELP'!

It was quite exciting having an ambulance drive onto the school field though, and a few people feined trauma from seeing it and spent the afternoon in the staff room eating biscuits!

If you fiddle around with, or even pull off the label on your drinks bottle, then you are horny.

That someone once ate a used sanitary towel thinking it was a jam sandwich. Seems legit.

If you picked dandelions you’d wet yourself

There was a story that occasionally did the rounds about someone who'd been bitten by a spider on holiday and developed a sore lump in the spot. It eventually burst to disgorge hundreds of baby spiders.

Not exactly a rumour but I remember being overawed by someone who'd been to the USA: 'They have twenty channels on their TVs and one of them shows nothing but kids' programmes!'

Naah ... I thought (in the days of having only 3 channels in the UK). How can you have twenty TV channels - not possible to make that many programmes.

Of course when the wonders of Sky, Freeview etc. eventually landed I realised it's possible to have hundreds of channels as long as you accept most of them will only show shite or endless repeats.

🙄

There used to be the YKK club at school, which you were automatically a member of if you had a zip with YKK anywhere about your person.

I can't help wondering whether JK Rowling went to a school with a ghost in the girls' toilets...

Re the leaning over backwards on a chair - I once got doubly told off about that. Once for leaning too far back, and again for chewing a pencil. I had gone flying right over backwards, the blunt end of the pencil hit the skirting board and the sharp end went right through my lip.

If you see a Mini, you have to slap someone. If you see a three wheeler car, you could punch them!

@EmmaGrundyForPM

I don't remember the anklet thing but I do remember the idea that boys/men with a single ear pierced (very trendy in the early 80s) were gay if they had the earring in the left war. It was like a secret sign to other gay men. Right ear was fine though.

In the 70's it was either ear. Men didn't wear ear rings unless they were gay.

@kitschplease

If you fart and sneeze at the same time, you'll die.

I've died many times in that case

I am very, very old, and went to High School in 1966. I knew nothing of the facts of life (neither did most of school friends - Catholic school). Anyway, one girl who seemed to know about these things told me and a group of friends: "You know a boy's thing? Well, when he sees a nice looking girl, or smells a nice perfume, maybe on the bus, well his thing goes up and down, up and down." We all oohed and aahed at this, but I had a mental image of Tower Bridge and assumed for ages that when a boy got hard it went up and down, up and down, in a nodding kind of motion.

There was also a widespread belief that if you put blotting paper inside your shoes and stood while counting to ten, that you would faint.