Rampant lies grown-ups told you.

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It pains me to tell this but....

I got told by my big brother that when the Ice Cream van drove by playing the sounds it meant they had ran out of ice cream...

Still makes me smile now whenever one drives past my house :mad:
 
Longbow said:
It's an exaggeration. They may help with the eyes, but they don't give them night vision super powers.
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Good lord, really?! Here's me thinking I'd be able to watch Mrs O'Leary across the road removing her petticoats before bed if I ate a plate of carrots.
 
Hehe, just remembered one that I used to tell my brother (although I was by no means an adult at the time). I used to tell him that I wasn't me and that I was a robot version of me, but I'd seen the real me in the kitchen/lounge/bathroom. When he ran off to find me, I'd run to another room and act astonished when he found me and explained that there was a robot version of me walking around. :D
 
UncleBob said:
"It'll put hairs on your chest!"
A rather bewildering ploy to trick kids into eating greens, favoured by my grandad.
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Allong with 'It'll put Lead in yer Pencil!' :D

A god um was:

'Stop Playing with IT or it'll drop off!!' :eek:

And...

'If the wind changes, you'r face'll stay like that!'... Said to me by my mum whan I was sticking my toung out at her and pulling a face! (I was 6 at the time!!) :p ...
 
Nozzer said:
Good lord, really?! Here's me thinking I'd be able to watch Mrs O'Leary across the road removing her petticoats before bed if I ate a plate of carrots.
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Yeah well tell the others who still believe it :p
 
Aliboy said:
I'm glad someone else has pee'd the beet juice as well. When it happend to me I thought I was bleeding to death but never said anything to me mam :D

And the reason that I'm not in glasgow today Vonnieboy is that I have about 3 A4 folders of reading to catch up on. I also have to tidy my study up as it is looking a wee bit of a mess but I can't drag myself away from these dreaded forums :D
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Bless the forums. I bet you have porn mages stashed in the folders.

At risk of a slight digression, why did Ford stop naming their cars after porn mags like the Ford Escort, and Fiesta ?

I for one would love to own the all new Ford Razzle or the Ford Readers Wives Arses Special.
 
funnyest one i can remeber was when my little sister was taken on a nature walk (nature, not naturist you dirty minded so and sos) and told to look out for "drop bears" these little, very shy bears that hang from trees and drop off onto mice and stuff to eat them!

she came back with half a roll of film of "drop bears" strangely enough none of the photos she took actually captured a drop bear :( took ages to convinse her it wasn't true :D
 
I remember this bizaare one, " If you drink your milk too fast, the fairies will trip over and skin their knees". What the christ is that about?

Peas are just small, green potatoes. The manky taste is all in your head.

'Eating your crust will give you curly hair', I still don't know if that was supposed to encourage me to eat them or not.
 
Shotgun_ned said:
It is actually sort of true. Carrots contain a lot of vitamin A which help develope vision.
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It was originally put about as propaganda during WWII to explain how British aircraft crew could find the Germans at night.....we did not want them to know we had developed Radar :)
 
Davey_Pitch said:
Of course I'm not mad with you - Parent speak for "I'm so livid with you I wish I'd had an abortion with a blunt spoon"
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I laughed out soooooo loud when i read that, that my coffee came out through my nose!!!! thanks, need to change my shirt now!


Rotters
 
scorza said:
Apart from the guillotine part, is this not actually true? They still have the priorite a droit rule unless otherwise stated. I know I've been surprised driving in france before when someone pulls out right in front of me.
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on round abouts only afaik.

no unusual lies for me.

carrots / eyes
and brocolli / curly hair or something
crusts / chest hair ?
 
Bill101 said:
''when the ice cream van sounds it's bells ,it mean's that they have run out of ice cream.''....I almost believed that one

''It's too cold to snow''.......As I found out years later, those Polar Bears are living in -20 degrees and there is white stuff falling out of the sky all around them
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The "too cold to snow" comes from the fact that in Britain when it's normally below feeezing the air is very dry...however when it snows (around 1-2 degrees) the air is *full* of moisture. Hence the saying - it's too cold to snow.
 
Amleto said:
on round abouts only afaik.
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Heh no, priorite a droit means give priority to traffic coming from the right - on French roundabouts you give way to people on the left not the right. In fact every roundabout in France will have a sign saying "Vous n'avez pas la priorite" to remind people that priorite a droit doesn't apply.
 
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