Rampant lies grown-ups told you.

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Prompted to do this from the "Tooth Fairy" thread, where I remembered that my dad once told me that the tooth fairy needed teeth to do voodoo on me if I was naughty. What a guy :)

Anyhow, I got to thinking that in general, kids get lied to all the time, from little lies such as "If you pull that face, and the wind changes, you'll be stuck like that." ( Which, of course, every kid tried. I remember standing in my garden gurning and waiting for the wind to change direction. It did/didn't work, depending on who you ask. ) To massive lies, such as "I love you" ( roffleroffle. )

I have been told :

1. In France, the right of way laws for driving are the other way round. For example, when you want to pull out onto a main road, you just go right ahead, and the people already on the road have to stop for you. If they don't, then the accident is their fault and they get guillotined. - My dad, while we were on a Ferry on the way to France. I was about 8.

2. If you eat at McDonalds, then you're going to hell, because its an evil company. - Very strange one from a Sunday school teacher, I was about 4-5 at the time. She was quite young, so its possible she was a student, worked at McDonalds, and was taking the NO SWEARING!!!.

3. If you don't exercise, you'll have a heart attack. - My mum, I was about 6 or so. Now, although this isn't exactly a lie, the way she said it made me think that I was going to have a heart attack at 6. I got obsessed with taking my pulse, especially after I hadn't exercised for a bit, like in class. My teacher thought I might be autistic, and sent me to see the school nurse.

Your go.
 
[DOD]Asprilla said:
A swan can break your arm All time classic and I've yet to see the documented proof (although I'm not going close enough to disprove it though experimentation).

This is actually true. I used to live with a med student, and she came in all happy one night saying that that very day, she had bandaged up a kid who had had his collarbone broken by a swan hitting it with a wing.
 
Hahaha, I was just on the phone to my brother, and he swears that this is true.

In RE classes, at age 11, the teacher was asked "Why don't Jews eat pork?" Her response was "Because a pig attacked Moses once."

Quite literally, holy crap.
 
Oh, a recent one, perhaps not strictly a lie, but good anyway.

My dad was in the market for a new motor, so rang me up asking advice. The conversation went something like this.

Me - "How about a Fiat?"
Dad - "I'm not gettng one of them, they're not safe."
Me - "How do you mean? this one's got about 50 airbags and 90 seatbelts"
Dad - "That as may be, but Italians make seatbelts out of pasta and fill their airbags with gravel."
Me - "I love you dad."
 
Kronologic said:
Pairs. You know the game where you try to match up cards. Well I had an animal pairs game where you matched the adult and child animals. My dad would play it with me. Boy did he cheat, The tabby cat used to be the pair to the female lion (unless he found the cat pair first) Once a penguin became the baby to the panda. Etc. Basically if there was a tiny possible chance of him being able to blag it, he would

Monopoly. I never won against him, he was so lucky (and mean) every time he took a chance or picked up a community chest he would either get money or go to the property he needed to make a set. This is before he extorted me out of property and racked up multiple hotels on the same square (including utilities and stations)

Hahahaha, your dad is comic.

My dad did much the same thing at monopoly, hotels on stations etc. I look forward to having my own kids so I can beat them at stuff by cheating.
 
rotters said:
my mum used to say to me , when i used to winge saying its not fair! her reply would be "Dark haired people never are!" (she had pitch black hair at the time).

Yeah, I got something similar from my dad.

"Thats not fair!"
"Neither is a black cows arse son."

Always confused me, which was probably the point.

My grandad, of course, being of the racism-is-okay generation, tended to use:

"Neither is a ******'s arse"

Nice bloke, he called Andy Cole a "Stealth Bomber" once, back when Man United had an all black away strip.
 
MetalStorm said:
My parents told me that apple seeds had cyanide in them! I still haven't dared to eat apple cores!

Another one from my dad was that sometimes spiders hid in the end of banana skins - which is once again why I still never eat the end of the banana and just throw it away!

I'm 19.

The apple thing is actually totally true.

Apple pips do contain minute quantities of cyanide. Certainly not enough to kill you if you eat anything but a massive bowl full of only apple seeds. You also have to crush them up, or they just pass through your digestive system unchanged.

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/apples.asp
 
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