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!!

@FuckingFabulous

Taking the labels off your drinks bottles meant you were sexually frustrated

I remember this too! As a pp said - the preoccupations of teenagers!

@FuckingFabulous

The story of the kid who looked at his maths GCSE and clearly thought "fuck this, I'm done with life" and shoved his two regulation pencils up his nostrils and then violently banged his face on the desk, forcing those pencils into his brain and killing him immediately

How were these urban myths so widely spread, given that social media was not around when I was young? I remember so many of these!

@Luckyrabbitfoot

That’s not a statement of fact by the way, it’s what they used to say at school!

I still don't risk it!

@Bettina500

If you turned round chanting Bloody Mary 3 times in the PE changing room mirror something bad would happen to you before the end of the day. If you did the buttons up on your school blazer you were 'square.'

And also have never risked the mirror one!

In my NQT year, a boy was swinging on his chair, lost his balance and fell face down onto the edge of the desk. He bloodied his nose and knocked out two teeth. That was in 1989 and I still tell that tale to my class. I usually add more gory bits for entertainment value.

You'd shout someone's name then when they turned round, they'd get 'you know your name don't ya!'
Or if you looked at someone you'd be asked 'do you want a picture?!' 😂

Are you a PLP

No: so you are not a pretty lovely person?
Yes: so you are a public leaning post?

@HepLaurenceLB

Are you a PLP

No: so you are not a pretty lovely person?
Yes: so you are a public leaning post?

Proper Living Person. In the 60s.

In the mid 80s a boy at my school put around a great rumour about Neighbours.

This was at the height of the Jason / Kylie mania.

He said his Australian cousin had told him that the last ever episode had just screened in Australia. The entire population of Ramsey St had gone on a magical mystery tour, the bus had gone off a cliff, everyone, Scott, Charlene, Mrs Mangel and the rest had died, and that was the last ever episode of Neighbours.

The girls were going round with very long faces for two or three days until one of them phoned her actual cousin in Australia and discovered it was bollocks.

@Rupertbeartrousers

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

Gross, we used to say ''you forgot your friends'' for this.

"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!"

@winewolfhowls
Gosh i remember a story going around similar to this but it was along the lines of a lady who used hairspray everyday on her beehive instead of redoing it and it was like totally stiff and hard. Then she went insane/died and when they cut open the beehive it was full of baby tarantulas.

In the 1960s some women used to keep their beehives in for a week, sleeping practically upright. I suppose there were some who left it in longer. I've never heard of spiders in there but I have heard of headlice infestations.

Oh my goodness, we had soo many of these and I had forgotten them. White lady in the toilets mirror

Round here if you walked over a line of 3 drains it meant certain death.

We used to say that you shouldn't share a can/bottle because the last 10% would be the persons spit.
To this day I still feel slightly queasy if anyone asks for a sip of my drink.

Primary school: there was an old hall (like a church hall) that was not attached to the school but still on the grounds. We used it for music lessons and if we needed to go to the loo at lunchtime we had to use the one in there. Apparently it was haunted and if you went in the toilets and said 'lived' (devil backwards) in the mirror 6 times the devil would appear.

Secondary school:

Drains- 1 for luck, 2 for a fuck, 3 for bad luck

Big street signs with 2 posts to hold them up- if you walked under it you HAD to swear out loud at the same time as walking under it or you would get bad luck.

Stupid stories:

• the boy who had anal sex with a girl and found a piece of sweetcorn under his foreskin
• the kebab shop in a nearby town that got done by environmental for finding traces of semen from 7 people in the garlic Mayo

I can’t believe that so many of us had such similar stories pre-social media days!

Once you started to wear a bra, you had to wear it every day or your boobs would rot away!
That men in Greece ate bananas to make their cocks grow big! That has put me off bananas to this day!

If you step on the cracks in the pavement you get bad luck. Walking over three drains too. I didn't do either of those things for a good few years after school 😂

Sitting on a radiator gives you piles.

@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.

It was the other way round in my school, the saying was "right ear, right queer"

God, kids can be vile!

@Bellver888

Did anyone get told about that person who put 5 fruit pastels in his girlfriends vagina and swallowed one extra that was a “HIV lump” or were we just over imaginative

Yeah people at our school said it was a cluster of herpes 😅

We had the thing for counting the love percentage. And the thing with putting the coke can puller back and forth and the letter it came off on was a boy who fancied you (I always got excited if mine came off on G for Gary 😂😂)
“Gaylord” was the insult du jour when I was at primary school, even if none of us knew what it meant.
And at secondary pulling someone’s tie really hard so the knot went super tight was “peanutting” them..

We had a few different ones when i was in school.
We had hold your collar if you saw a hearse until you saw a magpie.
We also did the "Magpie" song, you know, 1 for sorrow, 2 for joy, 3 for a girl 4 for a boy ect, we would spend hours trying to get to see magpies that would take us to 6 for gold!
A gap between someones 2 front teeth meant theyd be rich when older.

If a girl sneezed while getting fingered they'd break inside her, lots of sneeze based ones it seems

If you have a nosebleed and swallowed the blood, flowers would grow out of your mouth

@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

Cootie Catcher or Paper Fortune Teller