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

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FrankButchersDickieBow · 03/03/2021 23:57

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!!

OP posts:
SwanShaped · 04/03/2021 08:01

That if you punched someone on their BCG jab scab the poison would go into their blood and they would die. So anyone who punched a BCG scab would be immediately expelled. Even tho I was 14, I properly believed that I had to be really careful not to knock my scab in case I died.

SwanShaped · 04/03/2021 08:02

I’ve never had it confirmed that this isn’t true either! I’m just assuming now that they wouldn’t let a load of 14 year olds wander round with such a dangerous scab on their arm.

Lobsterquadrille2 · 04/03/2021 08:02

@Standrewsschool yes, St Albans!

VegetarianDeathCult · 04/03/2021 08:08

@SwanShaped

That if you punched someone on their BCG jab scab the poison would go into their blood and they would die. So anyone who punched a BCG scab would be immediately expelled. Even tho I was 14, I properly believed that I had to be really careful not to knock my scab in case I died.
Having actually got a bad, comparatively deep cut (needed stitches) right across my BCG scar in my teens , I can confirm that no poisons were released into my bloodstream, and I remained perfectly well!
SwanShaped · 04/03/2021 08:10

Oh thanks veg !I can’t believe I actually believed it. It was only about 20 years later that I suddenly thought, hang on, that can’t possibly be true.

BikeRunSki · 04/03/2021 08:11

Did anyone do those puzzles where you wrote down your name, and that of your intended next to each other? On top of each other? Then you did something akin to long division where you crossed out the letters the two names had in common, and the result was how much “percent” you were in love?

SwanShaped · 04/03/2021 08:12

Oh yeah I remember those puzzles. Can’t remember how to do them tho but I know you crossed out letters.

ChainsawBear · 04/03/2021 08:13

This thread says a lot about the preoccupations of teenagers and not a few adults.

There was a story circulating our school about a girl who got her period while her boyfriend was going down on her. This was reported as the most shameful, disgusting thing she could have done and as though she had done it on purpose. It's a miracle any of us grew up normal really.

shouldistop · 04/03/2021 08:14

Sallie

Loves

Timmy

20011
2012
213
34% love

Greyrootszerohoots · 04/03/2021 08:17

There was always a gay/lesbian bench, where if you sat on it with a friend you were definitely ‘lezzas’. God kids were awful.

And in keeping with chair legs - pen lids. Always a kid that choked on a pen lid.

DaysAreGettingLongerNow · 04/03/2021 08:20

@BikeRunSki

Did anyone do those puzzles where you wrote down your name, and that of your intended next to each other? On top of each other? Then you did something akin to long division where you crossed out the letters the two names had in common, and the result was how much “percent” you were in love?
Oh that rings a very distant bell! I think it showed compatibility for us.
Chunkymenrock · 04/03/2021 08:22

If a train goes past you, you need to immediately touch something green or you'd have bad luck. We used to play netball near train tracks and we'd forever dash off to touch the grass at the side of the court during a game!

ThePontiacBandit · 04/03/2021 08:23

Only lesbians wear dungarees. Definitely a sneeze was an 1/8 of an orgasm. We were told sitting on a cold wall gave you piles. The story about the head on the car was an urban legend I believe, vaguely based on a true story? Smoking a cigarette knocked 5 minutes off your life.
The chair thing - I met a young lad who tipped back and he hit his head, damaged his scalp and had to have it repaired in theatre. So yes, best avoided - but all these stories seem to be about heads not backs!

LunaNorth · 04/03/2021 08:23

If you pick a guinea pig up by the tail, its eyes drop out.

I believed this wholeheartedly until the day I informed my 7 year old DS and he disabused me of the notion Blush

BikeRunSki · 04/03/2021 08:27

@shouldistop

Sallie

Loves

Timmy

20011
2012
213
34% love

@shouldistop - how did you do that?
BikeRunSki · 04/03/2021 08:29

Rumour in Lower School secondary was that the head of 6th form had a metal plate in her head. It was only in 6th form when we started learning to drive that we discovered that this was true, and she would tell us in detail about the road accident that had caused it.

CaptainMyCaptain · 04/03/2021 08:29

@FrankButchersDickieBow

I remember hearing that if a boy came in your mouth, you would get cancer, but remember when michael Douglas said his throat cancer was due to cunnilingus? It took me back to the school theory. Only as a fleeting thought, but I bet he heard that in school Haha
At my school it was said that come in the mouth cured sore throats.
CaptainMyCaptain · 04/03/2021 08:31

@Greyrootszerohoots

There was always a gay/lesbian bench, where if you sat on it with a friend you were definitely ‘lezzas’. God kids were awful.

And in keeping with chair legs - pen lids. Always a kid that choked on a pen lid.

That's why pen lids now have holes in them.
shouldistop · 04/03/2021 08:33

@BikeRunSki

You write down the number of 'L' 'O' etc then add the numbers together from the right to the left repeatedly until you've only 2 numbers left.

Hailtomyteeth · 04/03/2021 08:35

@OlympicProcrastinator are you from Oldham? That was reported in the now-defunct local newspaper. I heard about it beforehand from a woman I worked with - the young woman victim was treated badly in hospital by nursing staff who thought she'd been partying hard.

SunshiningBetty · 04/03/2021 08:35

@SleepingStandingUp

There was a quite low fence between the fences of our selective single sex school and the state school adjacent to us. It was our playing field but not massively used to the other schools. All dinner ladies were clearly trained to tell us of we went to near we would fall into it and impale ourselves (on a penis from a boy I think was more the concern). It was a standard type fence, no big posts....

The upside down crisps Def means you're in love

Saying white lady on the mirror three times would mean you'd see her ghost

You didn’t go to a school in the West Midlands did you as my selective girls school said that too Grin
Caneloalvarez · 04/03/2021 08:39

@OlympicProcrastinator I was thinking of that one and thought surely this wasn't a common one!! We had the same except it was the mayonnaise from the kebab shop that was sent off for testing (?) and the jizz of 6 different men was found lol (London school)

msssm · 04/03/2021 08:46

Split a pole, you want your hole.

If a friend went one way round a bollard/lamppost when all the rest of you went the other way it meant she wanted a shag 😆

SleepingStandingUp · 04/03/2021 08:47

@SunshiningBetty what year were you there? I'm curious how long it persisted. 90s for me and yes, same school 🏫🤣

jessstan2 · 04/03/2021 08:52

How absolutely beastly.