Rampant lies grown-ups told you.

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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.
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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
 
i remember being told that if i lift my sheets on my bed fast enough of a night id see little bedbugs scatter away jeez i couldn't sleep for months
 
i remeber not wanting to go to bed at xmas and being a bit naughty so my dad said right thats it im phoning santa to tell him not to bring you any presents...he went off to the phone and dialled and then asked for santa...ive never cried so much in my life :(
 
Otacon said:
A dummy :)
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Reminds me, that was pretty much the reason my mum gave me to give up my dummy.

I was apparently quite ill one time, and had trouble breathing, so I had my dummy taken from me with the so called promise

'You can have it back when your better'

Im obviously still ill
 
GTA said:
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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Crikey. I quite like eating all of the apple, minging waxy and tough core and all. Can you imagine a WWII spy with a boot for of apple seeds?

"YOU VILL TELL UZ VERE ZE SEKRET PLANZ ARE!"
"No I won't, Heinz!" *proceeds to crush boot full of apple seeds and digests*
"VHAT!?!"
"Urrghhggggg"
 
I remeber my dad used to say to me when i was about five, i would be sitting next to him and he would say "go look out the window and see if you can see daddy wlking down the road", i would run up to the window and he would say can you see me yet?

damn him....
 
Kaed said:
He won't get there any quicker

Said my nan as someone in a Honda Civic Type R flew past us while driving down the A46...

What was she on about? - we were doing the national speed limit, he obviously wasn't...
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Actually I find this one to be disturbingly accurate.
Quite routinely I pass people on the motorway doing easily 20 - 30 mph more than them (of course im talking about these really SLOW drivers..not me breaking 70 naturally), but 10 - 15 mins later after leaving the motorway, navigating a few roundabouts and A roads I notice that these people i'd left for dust are actually in FRONT of me.
This happens to me all the time, and in fact happened last night..how do they DO that? :confused:
 
robbiemc said:
Actually I find this one to be disturbingly accurate.
Quite routinely I pass people on the motorway doing easily 20 - 30 mph more than them (of course im talking about these really SLOW drivers..not me breaking 70 naturally), but 10 - 15 mins later after leaving the motorway, navigating a few roundabouts and A roads I notice that these people i'd left for dust are actually in FRONT of me.
This happens to me all the time, and in fact happened last night..how do they DO that? :confused:
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because you go so fast past them you hit a time warp and end up behind...... or they know the shortcuts
 
kempythe2nd said:
i remeber not wanting to go to bed at xmas and being a bit naughty so my dad said right thats it im phoning santa to tell him not to bring you any presents...he went off to the phone and dialled and then asked for santa...ive never cried so much in my life :(
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OMG me too! Except it was about a week before christmas and I'd just had a tantrum. I can actually remember clinging to my dads leg as he walked over and dialled, screaming 'No daddy I'll be good' in a fit of tears!


A classic one was from a friend of mine, I went to her house and needed a 'wee wee' so she took me up to her bathroom (we were no older than 4). They had a bidet, an item of hygeine which I had never seen before. 'Is that a toilet for children?' I asked. She said it was.......
10 mins later her mum walked into the living room 'WHO HAS WEE'D IN MY BIDET!?!?!?!' :(
 
robbiemc said:
I notice that these people i'd left for dust are actually in FRONT of me.
This happens to me all the time, and in fact happened last night..how do they DO that? :confused:
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Your obviously not going fast enough...

Look, if your doing 70mph on a motorway, then 35mph on a B road - to avoid ending up in some random field, your average speed is drastically reduced.

Alternatively, they know shortcuts
 
The biggest lie I can remember being told to me, was by my Mother. When I was about 5 I had a pet slug (I found it in the garden and kept it in an old fish tank), now this slug got to gigantic propotions, and my Mother being a tad squeamish says "If you want you slug to get a lot bigger, feed it salt"

Anyone ever put salt on a slug?????

Slug was no more :( :(

Anyhow, I blagged that I was mega upset and got three pet goldfish bought for me :D
 
Not one from parents - but form the other half...

I'll only be 5 mins...

Translation - Kick your shoes off, settle on the sofa with a nice cold drink and find something good on the TV..

Simon/~Flibster
 
Homer_J_Simpson said:
The biggest lie I can remember being told to me, was by my Mother. When I was about 5 I had a pet slug (I found it in the garden and kept it in an old fish tank), now this slug got to gigantic propotions, and my Mother being a tad squeamish says "If you want you slug to get a lot bigger, feed it salt"

Anyone ever put salt on a slug?????

Slug was no more :( :(
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THAT is the single most EVIL thing I have ever heard!!!
WD for getting the goldfish though :D
 
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