Random shite your parents tell you with utter conviction...

[CharleyDavidson]

but that you know is bollocks!

My Mum insists that anything that you can inherit genetically from your family always skips a generation.

My Mum's blood is negative. As is mine. She asserts that I must have inherited that from my Grandmother. And she must have inherited hers from her grandmother.

Bonkers. I know that genetic traits can skip generations, but not always and not with such predictability. But she won't have it.

Wow, some this stuff would really wind me up!

Used to have the 'feel the benefit' rubbish so forced to take off coat when entering the ruddy freezing house, so was shivering inside the house, and then out of the house as well when it was cold

I have been known to say it's too cold too snow, I don't know if it's a fact or not, however, snow seems to follow when the temperature rises after a really cold spell.
I seem to know when it's going to snow by the colour of the sky, it takes on a strange dull grey hue.

My mum:
Couldn't do washing on a Sunday, it's disrespectful to the Lord (God)
Don't go out with wet hair, you'll catch a cold.
Sitting on a cold surface = Piles.
Washing your during your period was bad for you, in what way was never explained, it was just bad.
A visit to the doctor meant a full strip down wash, clean clothes, clean vest and knickers, shoes polished, the works. If a house visit was required she'd spend the hours waiting for the doctor to call feverishly cleaning and polishing the house from top to bottom, especially the bathroom, he'd need to wash his hands you see.
I was really ill once with a mastoid infection, think I was 14, I was in bed hallucinating, fevered, vomiting and crying in pain, the doctor came and asked where he could call an ambulance from, long before mobile phones were invented, we didn't have a telephone at home so he had to use the call box on the corner of the street. In the few minutes he was out making the call, mother got the hoover out as she'd spotted a thread on the carpet of my room.

blonde ..just thought, we were not allowed to play out on a Sunday morning, grownups are either relaxing or getting ready for church and on Sunday afternoon only able to play quiet games within the garden, no balls, bikes etc.

It can and does snow below 0 degrees but the whole 'its too cold to snow' is true in a sense as when it is very very cold (-20 or below for example) the air is usually very dry which means it can't snow as there isn't enough water vapour to turn into snow.

But its never too cold to snow in the UK, damp country that it is!

Sorry posted in the wrong place - reported.

A Lot of these are true! Some of you should google before dismissing old ladies, they are wise.
A lot of the others have a basis in fact or would have been advice given at the time by doctors etc, eg foot size an indication of pelvis size .
In 20/30/40/50 years time our daughters and granddaughters will be rolling their eyes at us as we protest at them feeding their 4week old babies mashed potato and WHOLE grapes. " but that's what's best nanna , it was different in your day" .

'old ladies'?

People have already pointed out that foot size used to be taken as an indication - but the whole point is that it isn't any more.

Maybe you should read the thread before making patronising comments (equally patronising about other posters and about 'old ladies' - my mum would spit feathers at that.)

My parents are in their 50s. Who you calling old ladies?

And he may be wise, but he still didn't see the northern lights on a light summer's night in bloody Kent.

My dm said lots of these too.
You can't dress a baby in green, it's unlucky and you just wouldn't risk it!
She used to say something about purple being unlucky at Christmas too.

One of her most puzzling ones was
"if someone stops you in the street and asks the time, Never tell them! That's not what they Really want"!
Me and my sister were so confused.

""if someone stops you in the street and asks the time, Never tell them! That's not what they Really want"! "

This has been my experience of men asking the time on the continent.

It can definitely snow below 0!

My mum's convictions:

• Sitting on a cold surface gives you cystitis.
• Washing when you're ill is bad for you (I think from a getting wet and chilled point of view?)
• You shouldn't use water in hotels, as they're bound to clean the taps with the same cleaning cloths as the toilets, and you're bound to get sick.
• Shaving your legs will turn the hair really thick and curly and give you man stuble.
• Wearing make up gives you spots. Same to eating chocolate.
• Nothing cures a cough/asthma/cold like some brandy.
• Absolutely every woman is able to breastfeed as much as their baby needs (oddly I've read my baby notes and I was mixed fed).

My mum says that if you catch a mouse in a humane trap, you HAVE to release it a long way away from your house - like, a ten-mile drive - otherwise it'll find its way back home "and be back in your kitchen before you are". Walking it to the field at the end of the road isn't good enough apparently.

She's often to be seen chauffeuring mice out to the next village of a morning...

I think the gold ring with styes can be effective. I've used it before

Nothing cures a cough/asthma/cold like some brandy.

I'll drink to that! Sounds good advice to me (for adults that is).

Not my parents but me.
I worked in a cattery years ago. I told one of the girls when she had a cold she had caught cat flu. I also told her when she had the skits she needed her anal glands doing. She went to the doctors both times . 😆
I also told her that cows in Switzerland have two legs shorter and can only go round the mountain clockwise otherwise they fall over.

Hi folks

We've moving this one to Classics with the OP's permission

I do the gold ring thing whenever I or the kids have had stayed, it seemed to work.

*Styes not stayed, 😏

Frequently told me as a kid that it was "too cold to snow"

I think that's true in the U.K., something to do with cloud cover. We don't usually get extreme cold temperatures, minus 10 at worst, and in order to get so cold there can be no clouds. So if it's really cold then there are no clouds therefore no possibility of snow.
When the snow clouds appear it raises the temperature. I think

I recall being told about a gold ring by the chemist when I had a stye. This was in the West Country though.

My big sister told me you can eat the paper on choc ices. I'd been doing it ever since and only found out that you're not supposed to when I consumed one in front of my now ex husband and he asked me what the hell I was doing...

It weren't much me mom it was me grandad.

Trying to do Shakespeare homework he told me "Shakespeare was a dirty old man"

I said "grandad I can't write that...I'll write Shakespeare liked his women" (me being gullible) I handed it in... dunno what teacher thought but don't think I got a good mark for it lol shouldve asked me dad cos grandad was a piss taker 😄

I was brought up with a gold ring getting rid of a stye, mentioned it to a Dr last time I had one as I was there for another reason and she noticed it, she was and gave me cream.

I did wonder if my parents had been joking around but then realised that I had seen them do it too and even as a child they lent me their wedding rings so they must believe it. I didn't use the cream and it went with the ring

I was told it had to be a wedding ring though, I think that is due to them being the only ones really made with gold in the past? That made me think maybe it was an old wives tale