I was told if I swallowed a seed a plant would grow inside my belly.
I was also told if I swallowed gum it would stay in me for the rest of my life.
So far I haven't sprouted anything and my insides are not stuck together.
What baloney did your parents (or others) feed you?
Hhhmm, good question. Let me roll it around for a bit.......
Well, this may be true, one has never studied it...
"If you sit too close to the TV, it will ruin your eyes"
Yeah another one along the same lines...
"Eat your carrots, they're good for your eyes"
Well, as it turned out, the only thing good for my eyes was LASIK surgery.
Ooh, those are good ones! I was told the same things about sitting too close to the TV and eating carrots. (There probably was some value to being told to eat carrots. At least they're healthy, even if they basically taste like sweet dirt. Hopefully rootvegetables won't read this.)
I think I was also told not to sit too close to the TV because it might emit harmful waves.
Speaking of eye damage, I of course was told not to stare at the sun. However that one was probably not boloney.
Yeah, you could probably look back - and even though there may have been a lot of nonsense spewed on you as a child - it wasn't anything that hurt you.
Even religion - it was my Grandmother that promoted it. One took an interest, prayed every night, in Church every Sunday, altar boy, whole 9 yards. Even though I don't believe in it now, one doesn't see that it caused any harm.
ALso, lastly, I give my parents credit in that they were 100% right about food. Insisted on family meals, and it was always plenty of good, healthy food, no garbage. One was very lucky there.
Ok, I don't think I have anything else, nice topic 4L.
You're right, it usually wasn't anything harmful. Some of it was kind of funny though. π
shareI was taught in school and on TV how laws were passed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBpdxEMelR0
Funny stuff.
I was starting to ask how bills are passed in Canada but then I feared that would venture into politics and that goes against my politics.
Let's go in this direction instead. Were you ever told not to get in a swimming pool within 30 minutes of eating?
20 minutes - ma parkerbot didn't want lil parkerbot dropping any O'Henrys in the pool.
shareI always thought they were called Baby Ruths.
And the 30-minute time limit was to prevent cramps, not poops.
Who the heck gets cramps from eating?
What kind of weird science were you Americans fed as kids?
It was a widely held belief. Per the internet:
People believed that swimming immediately after eating could cause cramps because of the misconception that a large portion of your blood flow is diverted to your stomach for digestion after a meal, potentially leaving your muscles with insufficient blood to function properly, leading to cramps; however, this theory has been debunked by medical experts as the body is capable of adjusting blood flow to meet the needs of both digestion and exercise.
I do think that the fact that my mother was worried about me getting cramps in a pool and your mother was worried about you pooping in a pool says a lot about what we were like as kids.
It's a known fact that moose meat is a natural laxative.
We used to eat a lot of moose hot dogs as a kids.
It's just science.
Then wouldn't this have been your mother's concern?
https://imgur.com/8z4l2z9
Okay, I was trying to create an impression that I had caring parents and you had to shatter the illusion.
Here is a Hollywood re-enactment of what actually happened to lil parkerbot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wVeXik5GSw
Why do you keep bringing up such childhood trauma? threelemons was never this mean.
I saw neither a computer nor a Korean in that clip.
Good job quickly diverting the conversation from you pooping out a moose, though.
Well, it's possible I'm related to Gump Worsely and have a genetic pre-disposition to deflection.
I missed you so much I didn't even mind you making me Google! (That was your goal, wasn't it.)
shareHe was a goalie.
I'm going to start correcting these puns.
Someone has to stand up to the samoanjoes' mind virus.
Although I reserve the right to sit down when I do it because it's more comfortable.
We never had Baby Ruths in my part of Canada, and I've never seen them anywhere else, so yeah...Oh Henry! it is.
shareI have learned many things about other countries over the years on message boards but this is the first time I've learned the candy bar referenced when someone poops in a pool. π
share"Canadian" is the Inuit word for educator.
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/981/601/71d.png
What is parkerbot the Inuit word for?
shareInuit are descendants of people from Asia.
Koreans live in Asia.
Inuit and Koreans share many of the same words, including erbot, which was previously discussed in a prior TED Talk, I mean message thread.
I can make up things all day. Wait, I wasn't supposed to say that out loud. Dammit.
That dandruff (like lice) is contagious, and that you shouldn't share hairbrushes or hats with people who have dandruff. Then I go to the dermatologist years later (for another reason) and find out that dandruff isn't contagious at all, it's just some peoples' scalps are more prone to getting it than others.
shareThat is one I was never told. I guess if you used a hairbrush full of dandruff some of the dead skin sprinkles could end up in your hair, though. Temporarily, of course.
shareWell, simply not wanting to share germs should be all the justification you need not to want to share your hairbrush with anybody. Plus, it would be embarrassing to let anyone know you had dandruff.
shareI recently discovered there is NO Easter Bunny, NO Tooth Fairy and NO Santa Claus!!!
My parents have lied to me my entire life!
My parents told me that when the ice cream man played his music it meant he was out of ice creams.
shareI have heard of that tactic before although my parents did not utilize it.
The ice cream truck in our neighborhood plays Christmas music year round. I guess parents around here could tell their kids it's the fruitcake and eggnog truck to prevent begging, should they need to.
I don't recall any baloney from my parents, good for them. From other kids...it's been a long time so nothing comes to mind right away, but I was absolutely floored when Jane Fonda told this story, because I remember hearing it sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s! And kids swore it was true!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRR1aKBOCOQ
That birds would watch me and tell on me if I did something wrong. I didn't really think that other adults would tell my mom when I misbehaved, so I hated birds for awhile.
shareππ
Birds probably would not have told on you, but they might have judged you. They do kind of have that look in their eyes.