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How did you torture your siblings?

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ApocalypseNowt · 14/07/2014 11:27

If, indeed, you did.

I distinctly remember bopping my sister on the head with a recorder one time. I can still hear the 'donk' noise it made.

Then there was the favourite of repeating everything she said in a whiny voice.

My DH's eldest brother used to keep a fart jar then pin down his younger siblings and hold it over their face.

Any other gems any of you would care to admit to.....?

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Monopolice · 14/07/2014 13:42

My DBro and I used to push each other down the stairs. As Diary says - no idea where my parents were.
Also did the copying thing, and yelling "he's annoying me" for which he'd always get told off - I have no idea why I was seen as something so precious that couldn't get annoyed, or remember what happened if I did get annoyed perhaps I've blocked that out

EndoplasmicReticulum · 14/07/2014 13:51

My brother used to throw spiders at me.

He also hid under my bed once for ages, until I'd just about gone to sleep, before climbing out and jumping on me and yelling.

I used to wind him up too, things like repeating everything he said until he completely lost it and attacked me, at which point I would sit on him.

This continued until he got bigger than me.

ApocalypseNowt · 14/07/2014 13:51

WhyDiagnose that's awful! Shock

I was thinking more along the lines of ripping the eyes out Simon Le Bon posters and the like. So sorry you were treated like that.

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ClockWatchingLady · 14/07/2014 14:03

Definitely hear you on the whiney-voice-repeating one.
And all manner of other "copying" antics.

Once my DBro gave me a chocolate truffle which he'd stuffed a whole raw garlic clove into. Took me a while to forgive him for that.

DSis and I used to really dig our nails into each other when angry.

We were really horrible Grin

AggressiveBunting · 14/07/2014 14:29

Encouraged her to eat a steradent tablet by saying it was grown- up toothpaste ( she foamed at the mouth)

Frizbee'd a place mat into her shin which left a dent ( I was pretending to be Odd Job)

Pushed her out of a tree onto a gate ( broken rib)

Got my cousin to coax her into the cellar and then jumped out on her in the dark.

Ripped out the last page of a famous 5 book she was reading( got bollocked for that)

She did as bad to me. We actually got on pretty well considering.

MetalLaLa · 14/07/2014 14:33

I used to do all sorts to my sister who is a few years older than me.
Dropped a brick on her foot
Pushed her on to some barnacles at the seaside and flat out denied it
Jumped out at her from behind her bedroom door
Still don't get on now, unsurprisingly.

EndoplasmicReticulum · 14/07/2014 14:34

Soap on the toothbrush was a favourite too.

redexpat · 14/07/2014 14:34

my sisters sent me into my parents' bedroom when they were shagging to shout make it a boy this time. i was 3 Grin

SorrelForbes · 14/07/2014 14:36

I used to pretend that she was invisible (like air) and then sing a little poem/sing about the wind being annoying.

I also used to hit her in the hollow of her back so that it made an echoing kind of sound.

I'm ashamed to say that I told her that we weren't related. To be fair, she didn't look like any of us!

We get on very well now Grin

The elder brother of the girl down the road used to throw darts at us both!

Degustibusnonestdisputandem · 14/07/2014 14:36

Oh we were terrible to each other! We had a nice big farm with huge gardens to get up to mischief in Grin

Off the top of my head I can remember:
pinning my sisters' arms down with my knees while tickling them (in fairness mum did it to me!).

stealing (at the time) youngest sister's clothes and hiding them up a tree while she danced around in her pants, yelling

waiting in ambush and throwing (very hard!) not ripe plums at each other

jumping on each others VERY favourite, precious stuffed toy when annoyed with each other

One time my sister had a sleepover, & they were all staying up watching Stephen King's Cujo. I decided it would be hilarious to sneak up on them and then bark loudly (it was, they jumped a mile!)

There are many more, will try to think of them (we all love each other, really!)

ApocalypseNowt · 14/07/2014 14:37

"I was pretending to be Odd Job" - that made me giggle AgressiveBunting [grin[

redexpat but did it work.....? Wink

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Degustibusnonestdisputandem · 14/07/2014 14:37

Oh! I just remembered another really mean one, we convinced one of my sisters that she was adopted (which looking back on it was very silly, as she's the one that looks most like mum & dad!)

momofmonster · 14/07/2014 14:46

I used to dress my db up in dresses and do his make up when he was about 7 or 8 - he was very pretty lol!!

I once made him eat a whole packet of horseradish sauce by saying if he did it i would give him a 20!! then handed him 20p - he was not amused!! think we were 12 and 15 then!!

Oh when we were teenagers my db had fairly long hair and i offered to give it a cut - but got bored half way round so he had shorter hair on one side than the other - my mom ended up shaving the whole thing off!!

even in my 20s if i went to stop at my moms after a night out (it was closer than my flat so cheaper taxi) i would phone the house phone from my mobile in the morning, hear my brother run downstairs to answer the phone, then i'd say while you're down there could you make me a cup of tea.

he got his own back as he used to do naughty things then blame me like losing the house keys or even stealing money from dm - that one did not end well for him!!

glenthebattleostrich · 14/07/2014 14:46

My parents have no idea how my 3 siblings and may survived childhood, we spent years trying to kill each other. A few examples :

We convinced little bro to ride his trike down the stairs through a plate glass door.

I pushed older brother out of a window

Older brother used to hang me over the banister by the ankles

Little bro used to wee older Bros bed

Hide favourite toys

My favourites was when older bro got younger bro grounded. Younger bro spent the afternoon putting drawing pins point up in his bed then carefully covering them over with his duvet and waiting for older bro to come to bed. We do still giggle about the sight of mum picking the pins out of his arse.

Or how we convinced little bro he was adopted and used to be a girl.

We are all pretty close now believe it or not

RevoltingPeasant · 14/07/2014 14:52

My sister used to put her finger about half an inch from me and say "not touching. Not touching" over and over.

She also once locked me in the loo. I climbed out of the window, ran around the outside of the house, and sneaked up behind her..... Grin

I also put my younger sister in the tumble dryer and turned it on Blush

FiveGoMadInDorset · 14/07/2014 14:54

Undid the bolt that held her fold up bike together and watched her try to go round a corner on the lane.

Told her Jaws was in a cage underneath the swimming pool and told her that if she was naughty then Dad would put her in the pool and press a button.

squoosh · 14/07/2014 14:56

My brother claims I pushed him down the garden steps leading to him splitting his forehead open.

I told him to get back to me with some proof.

17leftfeet · 14/07/2014 14:57

I know a song that'll get on your nerves
Get on your nerves
Get on your nerves
I know a song that'll get on your nerves
Get get get on your nerves

And repeat...

I know a song...

redexpat · 14/07/2014 15:41

No apocalypse it didnt Grin

Pangaea · 14/07/2014 15:55

I pinned my little sister to the floor, sat on her, and head banged so my extra-long hair would whip her face.

Plenty of tickles too. She's so ticklish.

Monopolice · 14/07/2014 16:39

He also hid under my bed once for ages, until I'd just about gone to sleep, before climbing out and jumping on me and yelling.

My dad did this to me once Hmm - in an attempt to prove there was nothing under the bed/to be scared of/some stupid, stupid reason that totally backfired as he then had to sit with me at bed time for months. Somewhere I could see him, clearly Grin

EndoplasmicReticulum · 14/07/2014 17:16

Oh I did the adopted thing with my brother too.

Monopolice my dad used to scratch on my bedroom door and pretend to be The Tailipo (completely terrifying children's story which involved something scratching on the door).

RevoltingPeasant · 14/07/2014 17:43

Endo my dad once scratched on our window for a joke after we'd gone to bed as he was out in the garden and could hear us chatting.

When he went in later to check on us, apparently we were both bolt upright with fear in our beds, and my sister said "Daddy, Wee Willie Winkie is knocking at the window!"

She was terrified of WWW for some time Grin

Adikia · 14/07/2014 17:55

I used to repeat everything in a whiny voice too and everything my big brother said was answered with 'I know you are, you said you are but what am I?' I also sang 'Andy Pandy's coming to play, la la la la la la' every time he walked into a room (his name is Andrew and he has always hated being called Andy).

Then my much younger siblings were born and they drove me mad, the next oldest is 10 years younger than me so I was too old to retaliate but not old enough to ignore it. Littlest sister's ultimate act of torture was to teach DD 'I know a song that will get on your nerves' (sister was 7, DD was 2, DD is 5 now and still sings it).

GiantIsopod · 14/07/2014 18:08

I have a twin sister. She died nine years ago, and I found an old photo of me with the grumpiest look on my face, poking her, which made me smile.

I made her pull me around in this little trundle cart thing, even though I was always taller than her. When older, I made up loads of tortures and described how I'd use them on her in exact detail. They included a human cheesegrater, being locked in a room with thousands of starving hamsters (we had a hamster which had a tendency to bite, so this was the worst thing ever, it seemed) and having your skin peeled off like a plaster. I did try to pretend to be her, but, despite being identical, I am taller and beanpoley (she was the one who had proportions) so it didn't work, ever. I would steal her hairbands then 'find' them after hours of searching. I would lick off all the salt in any open crisp packets she had.

She pushed me down the stairs, once! She didn't mean to seriously hurt me (I broke my leg) and was trying to tickle me...

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