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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!!

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FenceSplinters · 04/03/2021 16:52

I remember the McChicken Sandwich story too.

A rumor went around our school that a girl in the year above had sex outside, and ants went up her bum and she had to go to the doctor because they laid eggs and ants were crawling out of the bumhole.

Bellver888 · 04/03/2021 16:52

@Sunshineonarainydayy I remember that one too, still knocks me sick

shouldistop · 04/03/2021 16:56

@FenceSplinters are you from Newcastle?

Bellver888 · 04/03/2021 17:06

@Hailtomyteeth I was just thinking if PP was Oldham ways, I remember that story, didn’t it turn out to be true?

FenceSplinters · 04/03/2021 17:09

@shouldistop no, South London. Did you have the rumor about the ants too?

HepLaurenceLB · 04/03/2021 17:29

Stepping on three drains in a row, we used this rhyme “one for luck, two for a fuck, three for bad luck.” You had the option of holding your elbow until you saw an ambulance which would cancel out the bad luck.

There was also the rumour that a boy had a shower after having anal sex with his girlfriend. He found a lump on his penis, it was a piece of sweetcorn under his foreskin.

Hailtomyteeth · 04/03/2021 17:46

It was absolutely true, @Bellver888. There was a court case and I think the restaurant might have been closed down. Had to be 1991, I heard about it in August, with the court case reported later, maybe 1992. According to the woman who told me, the victim was with a group of friends who were behaving rowdily. She complained about her meal and sent it back, and the staff took revenge. The hospital workers thought she was 'loose' and looked down on her.

the80sweregreat · 04/03/2021 17:52

Not really a school one, but when lakeside first opened in the early 90s people reported a man who had gags and ropes in the boot of his car and he would lie in wait in the car park to kidnap women! A few people said they were neatly abducted over there! It was scary hearing about this.
I've heard so much about mc Donald's over the years I've gone off all of it. It's all probably urban myths though.

shouldistop · 04/03/2021 17:52

@FenceSplinters no, I thought not wearing a jacket was a Newcastle thing
I'm Glaswegian, we definitely wear jackets.

Rupertbeartrousers · 04/03/2021 17:56

Loving this thread

Sharing a can of fizzy pop... someone saying, “suck your slurp” to get rid of the little dribble in the rim of the can not envy

MemoryIsRAM · 04/03/2021 18:13

you were missing a trick: once you'd twisted off the apple stalk to get the first letter of the first name you had to poke it into the apple skin while reciting the alphabet again. The letter that it pierced the skin on was the first letter of the surname!

Gutted if you fancied Zach Zauberman!

lockdownconfused · 04/03/2021 18:15

Omg @zen1 I heard that one too!
We used to do the loves compatibility sum too! and had very many superstitious things like if you walked over 3 drains you had to find 2 drains to go over, if you stepped on a crack in the pavements you had to hop for the next 2 pavement slabs, I'm sure there were many more I've forgotten about now!

dexterslockedintheshedagain · 04/03/2021 18:18

If you unscrewed your bellybutton, your bottom would fall off.

SenecaTrewe · 04/03/2021 18:28

@isthismylifenow

We used to fold up a piece of a4 so that you could put your fingers into the pockets and open them forwards and sideways (this is difficult to explain, so I hope someone knows what it mean

. On the outside, were numbers. you picked a number then you counted and opened the flap and inside was a message. It was always some good and bad things like X (was always the most popular person at school) has a secret crush on you, or today you will pee your pants etc.

I did if for my dd during lockdown and she just gave me the look. Ok, was was 17, but still

I remember making these!! What were they called?

Bracknellite · 04/03/2021 18:29

Continuing a theme...

Our junior school toilets were haunted and if you looked in the mirror and said ‘Bloody Mary’ three times a witch would appear from out of the bowl.

FrankiesKnuckle · 04/03/2021 18:39

@FenceSplinters No, not as SE as that. We heard of other schools that they'd reportedly visited, the regaling of injuries was horrific! It seems it was definitely a London wide thing, they must've been so busy! 😂

Of course, these visits never actually happened.

CaptainMyCaptain · 04/03/2021 20:02

@Bracknellite

Continuing a theme...

Our junior school toilets were haunted and if you looked in the mirror and said ‘Bloody Mary’ three times a witch would appear from out of the bowl.

Judging by your name, I may have gone to primary school in the same place as you. I went to two different primary schools there but it was in the 60s and I don't remember a witch in the toilet

IEat · 04/03/2021 22:05

@VeganVeal

Marc Almond collapsed, went to hospital, had his stomach pumped and they pumped out 7 pints of jizz. This was early 80's. Years later was talking to a colleague from the other end of the country and he heard the same story! I have since heard that this story has done the rounds for many years, although the involved person has changed

Heard it was Boy George

MrWendel · 04/03/2021 22:27

@isthismylifenow

We used to fold up a piece of a4 so that you could put your fingers into the pockets and open them forwards and sideways (this is difficult to explain, so I hope someone knows what it mean

I did if for my dd during lockdown and she just gave me the look. Ok, was was 17, but still

We used to call these 'chatterboxes'!

MumofSpud · 04/03/2021 22:28

In my school it was 7 sneezes in a row!

VeryQuaintIrene · 04/03/2021 22:29

@HollysBush

BluePeterVag we did the apple stalk thing (I always got the same letter and my dh name starts with that letter-spooky!) and our ghost was called Mabel. If somebody of the opposite sex touched you or your things, you got ‘the lurgy’. We had a dinner lady we called grotbags (after the 80’s Witch TV character) and we were genuinely scared of her, we used to run away screaming. Poor woman. Zen I remember the McDonald’s chicken pus story 🤢

Fortune tellers! Yes!!!

winewolfhowls · 04/03/2021 22:52

A woman with a beehive haircut came back from an exotic holiday and several days later hundreds of baby tarantulas crawled out of her hairdo. Now I'm surely thinking she would have washed her hair in that time!

Something about people putting hamsters up their bum because it felt good when it wriggled?!

Bloody awful, but all the boys would yell at each other, you dropped your gay card.

winewolfhowls · 04/03/2021 22:54

Writing if deleted forever true or IDFT on graffiti about who you loved.

winewolfhowls · 04/03/2021 22:59

If you didn't believe someone you stroked an imaginary beard and said chinny, chinny recon, or chinny chin chin (highly unbelievable, like I saw Mark Owen in the Spar).

MerylStropp · 04/03/2021 23:37

If you held a buttercup under someone's chin and their skin reflected the yellow colour, it meant that they liked butter... alternatively you could just ask them

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