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Lies you were told....

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shonaspurtle · 15/03/2007 23:42

Following on from the forbidden thread, what outrageous lies were you told as a child by so-called responsible adults?

My grandma told me:

  • Not to swallow chewing gum or it would wrap around my heart and kill me
  • Not to swallow apple pips or an apple tree would grow in my stomach
  • not to eat sugar out of the sugar bowl or it would give me worms
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tubismybub · 15/03/2007 23:44
  • Going to see a man about a dog (never did find out anything about that dog
wotzsaname · 15/03/2007 23:44
  • Not to sleep under the bed covers or else I might suffocate.
( I used to pull them over my head to sleep always) . Im still here!
tubismybub · 15/03/2007 23:44

Oh yeah - burnt toast will give you cancer

Lact8 · 15/03/2007 23:45

If the wind blows your face will stick like that

If i ever had an ulcer on my tongue my mum would say I'd been telling lies (and I've caught myself saying this to DS1 even though I used to be outraged at the suggestion!)

Califrau · 15/03/2007 23:46

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Mirage · 15/03/2007 23:47

If you read too much,you will ruin your eyesight (courtesy of my aunt).

IdrisTheDragon · 15/03/2007 23:48

I had a feeling that burnt toast possibly does have potential carcinogenic things in it, but I'm not sure where I've got that from.

pageturner · 15/03/2007 23:49

Ah yes, I was told the toast one too.

Dh's mum was particularly good at lies:

  • she told him that if he missed a programme it was repeated at exactly the same time on the same date the following year;
  • she told him that if you stared at the test card girl for long enough she winked at you
  • one day they passed a car, it backfired then went round a corner so when dh looked round it was gone and she told him that was it, it had disappeared, gone forever
  • age 7, doing homework, he asked her the capital of America and she said New York: he was the only child in class to get it wrong (she knew the answer, but just said the first thing that came into her head, rather than think about it properly).

Um, there are loads more, will have to check with dh.

tubismybub · 15/03/2007 23:49

The cats gone to live on a farm

IdrisTheDragon · 15/03/2007 23:50

Have now found something about it

here

In the paragraph starting with Toasters.

Soapbox · 15/03/2007 23:50

Tub - that isn't a lie!

There was some research about 2-3 years ago which showed that any foods which had a high carbon content were linked to cancers. Those foods included jacket pots, crisps, burnt toast, and other typically carbo rich well cooked (with burnt bits on) foods.

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tubismybub · 15/03/2007 23:50

I love burnt toast so hope it's not true

tubismybub · 15/03/2007 23:51

Crossed posts - Oh sod!

bubblicious · 15/03/2007 23:54

Tampax - was a sweet! LOL until I tried to eat it!

Pinkchampagne · 15/03/2007 23:55

Babies came out of your belly buttons!!

tubismybub · 15/03/2007 23:56

All your spots will go when you're an adult

bubblicious · 15/03/2007 23:56

oh and bidets were for washing your feet in! I got into a heated discussion about this and thought the girl I was arguing with was repulsive- hence I dont lye to my DC!

bubblicious · 15/03/2007 23:57

No PC they come from gooseberry bushes- Dont they?

Pinkchampagne · 15/03/2007 23:58

Well that's what I thought!!!

bubblicious · 15/03/2007 23:59

Crumbs our parents/adults when we were young were cruel, its a wonder we ever grew up at all!!!!!

princesscc · 16/03/2007 00:19

I was lied to for FOUR years about my budgie or should I say 3 budgies! I thought it was the same one, but no they kept dying and my parents kept replacing them and I never knew!

bubblicious · 16/03/2007 00:22

how sad!, what must our parents of been thinking of!

charlottegeorgiaolivermums · 16/03/2007 00:36

Pilots through white flower out the window so they can find their way home again! ing how could they the kids at school couldn't stop laughing i believed it for years!

VeniVidiVickiQV · 16/03/2007 00:46

My dad told us (and my mum, more shockingly, believed it too) that birds dont get electricuted when the land on power lines because they stand on one leg

Father Christmas was obviously a big fat lie.

If the wind changes when you are pulling a face it will stay like it.

SPot on your tongue means you have lied.

That I could have jam sandwiches and watch TV whilst 'visiting' a hospital if I put my pyjamas on....litte did I know i was having an op and staying overnight.....