What were some things that your parents have told you that doesn't make any sense at all? ie. beliefs, superstitions, etc.
My mom always told me to never sleep with my hair wet because I could get a headache the next day. NOT TRUE.
She told me not to walk out in the cold with wet hair because I could get a cold/fever.
Oh, a friend of mine told me that her mom told her that she had to have a shower before ironing.
The hair wet out in the cold.
Your mom said that to you too?
purelife wrote:
What were some things that your parents have told you that doesn't make any sense at all? ie. beliefs, superstitions, etc.
My mom always told me to never sleep with my hair wet because I could get a headache the next day. NOT TRUE.
She told me not to walk out in the cold with wet hair because I could get a cold/fever.
Oh, a friend of mine told me that her mom told her that she had to have a shower before ironing. [/DIV]
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The wet hair one in the cold I think is true.
My parents said that if you put your hands on your head that they will die.
I've always gone out in the cold with wet hair. Haven't been sick yet. But if water gets in your ear then you might be asking for something.
Dad always told me that.
Yeah, me neither. I've been out with wet hair in the cold and haven't been sick. I think that I get sick from others moreso.
What do you mean about the not putting your hand on your head thing, Aboozer?
Oh, the "you must save yourself after marriage" was another thing that never made sense to me.
you mean save yourself before marriage.
Wait to til you get married, that kind a thing.
Total bull.
I've seen people like that in there 20's and they act like little kids, not matured at all when it comes to talking about relationships.
like you know how you sit in a chair and relax and cross your fingers together kind of and put your hands on top of your head...well some people do that...thats what they meant
and as for the wet hair outside thing, I'm originally from norther alberta where it gets up to about minus 40....so I think thats why it was true for me. In Van you can't help but have wet hair outside with the rain and all.
oops, yup, that was what I meant, SD.
Oh, another thing that my parents told me is "marry an asian guy because the divorce rate is lower".... LOL. what BS!
Aboozer, but what will die? the hair? that doesn't make sense to me...
purelife wrote: Oh, another thing that my parents told me is "marry an asian guy because the divorce rate is lower".... LOL. what BS!
You've just answered the biggest question in the history of DV: Why do Asian women prefer white guys.
no your parents will die if you do that. Its kinda weird...
and of course it doesn't make sense to you...read the title of your thread..haha
when do I get un-newbisized
Aboozer wrote:
no your parents will die if you do that. Its kinda weird...
and of course it doesn't make sense to you...read the title of your thread..haha
LOL Aboozer.
Yeah, I've never heard of that one. truly weird...
Sportsdude wrote:
purelife wrote: Oh, another thing that my parents told me is "marry an asian guy because the divorce rate is lower".... LOL. what BS!
You've just answered the biggest question in the history of DV: Why do Asian women prefer white guys.
Well, I don't know if the rate is lower but I know that the majority of the couples who are asian together aren't happy! They are already divorced at home but not with the gov't.
Ya my grade 2 teacher found it weird too when she asked why I refused to put my hands on my head when we played simon says...
how come it always says 39 posts beside my name and doesn't change everytime I post?
My last post before running away for the day.
"Cover your legs in the cold or you'll get veins"
"Can't swim for one hour after eating"
"Your face will stay like that"
"Why buy the cow when the milk is free" (I ain't no cow!)
"If we trim your hair it will grow long faster"
"Don't shave your legs, it will grow back thicker"
Those are a few of the gems. By tomorrow I will probably remember more.
Ta ta for now.
Speaking of shaving, my mom always said
"Don't shave your vagina because you need the hairs to protect that area." LOL!
"When you are menstruating, don't eat pineapple. It'll make it worse." LOL! I've eaten pineapple plenty of times and nothing bad happens.
purelife wrote:
Speaking of shaving, my mom always said
"Don't shave your vagina because you need the hairs to protect that area." LOL!
"When you are menstruating, don't eat pineapple. It'll make it worse." LOL! I've eaten pineapple plenty of times and nothing bad happens.
Wouldn't surprse me if your parents are country folks and grew up in a rural chinese village. Village people have many beliefs that are largely based on balancing the ying and the yang
here's one when I was a kid..........
"don't swallow the seed, if you do a tree will grow out of your head"
and I also was told not to sleep with wet hair because I will get splitting headaches when I am old.
When I was doing something that made my mom angry, she would always say "I'll lamb baste you to a wall". It was all I could do to not laugh, because it made absolutely no sense to me at all. (It still doesn't)
Don't hang your underwear out on some God's b'day. I forget which God she was referring too. Apparently you risk his wrath by hanging your un-menationables outside.
After finding a note in my notebook which I wrote to a friend in class at high school where I used the phrase 'piss me off' my mother told me never to use that word as the only person she ever heard use that word ended up in a mental institution.
When I was four, I was in the bedroom with my mom while she was getting dressed and I noticed that she had hair "down there". I asked her why and she said, "God put it there."
So I asked her when she'd been in heaven.
P.C. wrote:
"When I was doing something that made my mom angry, she would always say "I'll lamb baste you to a wall". It was all I could do to not laugh, because it made absolutely no sense to me at all. (It still doesn't)"
Here's your answer:
lambaste lam-BAYST, transitive verb:1. To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.2. To scold sharply; to attack verbally; to berate.
Really ?????? You've heard this before ?
No foolin', it's a word.(//forums/richedit/smileys/9.gif)
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rofl.....the visual I had as a kid involved roasting.
I knew someone who said tea tasted better if the water was only allowed to just come to a boil. If the water boiled for too long, too much oxygen would escape, and the tea would not taste as good.
If too much oxygen escaped, you would then have a pot of boiling hydrogen on the stove.....
That would be a problem.
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My parents said a lot of things that didn't make sense to me as a kid......but most of them do now. (except for the lamb thing)
lamb basting:
(http://www.saranjan.com/img/burgos_cook_h240_hc.jpg)
That could be true, jeffbc......sounds possible.
I remember a story of a woman who was cooking a ham for Easter dinner. As she sliced a one inch slab off the end of the ham before placing it in the roasting pan, her daughter asked her why she cut the slab off. The mother said, that's just the way you cook a ham......my mother always did it like that, and it was always delicious.
The next time the woman and her daughter were at the 'grandmas' house, she asked her mother why you had to cut the one inch slab off the ham. Her mother answered......I cut the one onch slab off the ham, because it didn't fit in the roasting pan.
rofl....!!!!!!
(http://www.saranjan.com/img/burgos_cook_h240_hc.jpg)
There's actually a point to that story.
Are you going to tell us what the point is?
Or just keep it too yourself?
Don't make me give you a lamb basting!!
(Sounds more fun than a lambasting)
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The point is, that we accept things that we learn from our parents with blind faith. Only when we develope the ability to question or use different paths in our brain do we actually learn. We only use such a small percentage of our brain, because there are already concepts 'mapped out' for us. We follow them repeatedly until we learn to think differently. (I think)
Immitation without comprehension.
But why can't we touch our heads? I don't follow that one.
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But why can't we touch our heads? I don't follow that one.
Ummmm....me neither. Did I say that???
Liked talking to you jeffbc, but there's a pillow with my name on it. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/muede/k030.gif" border=0]
Aboozer wrote:
purelife wrote:
What were some things that your parents have told you that doesn't make any sense at all? ie. beliefs, superstitions, etc.
My mom always told me to never sleep with my hair wet because I could get a headache the next day. NOT TRUE.
She told me not to walk out in the cold with wet hair because I could get a cold/fever.
Oh, a friend of mine told me that her mom told her that she had to have a shower before ironing. [/div]
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The wet hair one in the cold I think is true.
My parents said that if you put your hands on your head that they will die.
Aboozer wrote it. I don't get it. Usually these things parents say are in regard to morality or hygene. Touching my head can kill my parents? I don't get it.
Thx, ditto, later
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That one is truly an enigma....rofl. Maybe they meant his hands would fall asleep and FEEL like they were dead. Or maybe they were just.....ummmm.....crazy?
Later.
i'm stealing your pillow
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Swallowing your gum will give you appendicitis. (I don't know why they told us this, because we weren't allowed to chew gum.) Swallowing watermellon seeds would cause a watermellon to grow in your stomach, which is very painful on exit. (I suppose if the first part of this were true, the second would certainly be.)
I was told that about apple seeds. I became very careful about eating apples since I didn't want a tree in my stomach. Eventually I swallowed one accidentally, and that got rid of that myth.
I remember being told that if I swallowed my gum it would all stay inside of me because it took 7 years to digest.
Well, when I was 9 I looked in the toilet, and there was a giant pink wad of gum in my... uh... So, that was the end of that myth. It might not digest, but it doesn't stay in you.
Yeah, yeah. TMI, but what can ya do?
Some Chick wrote:
I remember being told that if I swallowed my gum it would all stay inside of me because it took 7 years to digest.
My mom told me the same thing too, SC. Ditto with the seeds.
One of my friends mom said if you go to the gas station with your radio on it can blow up your car. She believed it tell she was like 16! hehehe.
Not from my parents. But the other day I was informed by an elderly technophobe to take great care when using the computer: "They get viruses you know, and you're bound to catch one eventually".
LOL
I just remembered another one too. "You have a canker because you told a lie. Lies cause cankers."
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LOL Brit_guy. That's cute. :)
Oh, I just remembered something else.
My mom used to tell me to never leave your clothes hanging outside overnight because of the bad spirits. LOL!
[p class="MsoNormal"]My sister use to live 10 minutes down the road from our house, when my mum and sister use to talk on the dog & bone my mother use to say –if Mohamed wont come to the mountain then the mountain will have to come to Mohamed(or something like that)
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My mom told me when I was about 5 that If I kept chewing on my hair it would stay in my
stomach and turn into a huge ball of hair and they would have to cut me open and take it out.
My Dad told me that if I ever kissed a guy my lips would fall off.
How about "sick as a dog"?
I never understood that one.
Something funny too is the misunderstanding my brother had about the term "useless as tits on a boar". In his late teens we were all talking and he said "Useless as tits on a board.." All his life, that's what he thought the adults were saying.
Here's another thing that I don't understand.
If I was still living at home and have a boyfriend, he can't come over and sleep overnight. But, my brother can bring his girlfriend to spend the night with him. What the heck?
hehehe...
Double standard, purelife, plus the male offspring won't get pregnant (not to be the one that carry the baby)...
It didn't get that extreme for me, when I was 12, I asked my mom 'why can't I go home by public transit by myself when my brother can at that age'.
She couldn't answer the question, so I was able to start taking the bus home. I understood her reluctance when one day in broad daylight someone followed me home (I went back to the bus to my parents business place instead of taking a single person transit (on the last leg near my home, where the street was always quiet - mom told me it was a smart thing to do).
Some Chick's Mom's contributions:
If you do that your face will freeze that way.
I have eyes in the back of my head. (some chick believed her mom when she carried down this little gem)
Sit on a cold bench and you'll get hemroids(sp)
(Truth on this last one is yet to be verified according to my mom)
IF your friend jumped off a bridge would you?
I know what you're thinking,
Masturbating causes hair growth on palms
More of that and you go blind (masturbation) (you knew that)
Shaving hair makes it thicker and darker.
Can not get pregnant while nursing.
Some Chick wrote:
Some Chick's Mom's contributions:
Masturbating causes hair growth on palms
LOL. Never heard of THAT one before. Actually, the word has never touched my mother's lips. I think she'd rather eat her hat before she even says that.
No a parent, but someone told me today that one storm doesn't make a teacup!
It took me a long time to be disabused of the notion that swallowed gum stays in your stomach for 7 years. In fact I got called on it by my wife when I was trying to pass it off on my kids.
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I was told that eating pumpkin seeds in the shell will give you appendicitis. WTF?
Also:
Don't swim for 1 hr after eating.
Watching too much tv ruins your eyesight.
Reading in the dark ruins your eyesight.
Reading in the car ruins your eyesight.
Trying on other peoples' glasses ruins your eyesight.
Downshifting an automatic transmission will destroy your car. (lol- I think my parents go thru a lot of brake pads instead!)
White people don't eat proper food. WTF?
It's improper for a girl to phone a boy. Huh?
Here's a doozy from my grandmother:
"You shouldn't do so much exercise. It's bad for your heart to run around too much". lol
lol on the pumpkin seeds. I remember that one too.
Lil Me wrote:
I was told that eating pumpkin seeds in the shell will give you appendicitis. WTF?
White people don't eat proper food. WTF?
It's improper for a girl to phone a boy. Huh?
Here's a doozy from my grandmother:
"You shouldn't do so much exercise. It's bad for your heart to run around too much". lol
Wow Even my wonky parent never used that one ... (bad for your heart)
I wouldn't even know where to start on this thread .... how many terrabytes does this server have???
P.C. wrote:
Swallowing your gum will give you appendicitis. (I don't know why they told us this, because we weren't allowed to chew gum.) Swallowing watermellon seeds would cause a watermellon to grow in your stomach, which is very painful on exit. (I suppose if the first part of this were true, the second would certainly be.)
I had a friend who was told that eating watermelon seeds would make you PREGNANT. Not sure what would happen if a boy ate a seed?!?!
and as for the wet hair outside thing, I'm originally from norther alberta where it gets up to about minus 40....so I think thats why it was true for me. In Van you can't help but have wet hair outside with the rain and all.
AB I grew up in N. Alberta too ... near Grande Prarie - where are you from?
I remember going out in -30 or -40 with wet hair and go figure - it froze solid in seconds. creepy.
I remember going out in -30 or -40 with wet hair and go figure - it froze solid in seconds. creepy.
LOL....who needs mousse !
My grandmother said the same thing about wet hair, not wearing socks making you sick.
My grandparents were full of "wisdom":
"If you pull that hair, two will grow back".
After a meal, you should have a strong cup of tea because "strong tea cuts the grease". Uuuuuh why not lay off the greasy food for a change?
If you leave uneaten rice in your bowl, you will have a spotty complexion.
OMG are you my dead grandfather?
If you leave uneaten rice in your bowl, you will have a spotty complexion.
omg....that's a classic. I'll try not to LOL.
My mom used to say "Those who go to the bathroom (#2) right after a meal means that that person spends a lot of money."
WTH???
Do you want to hear what the opposite is?
My parents never said this to me but I've heard... (just hi-light the text below)
[FONT color=#fdeee0]Those with a tight a** saves money.[/FONT]
I knew you'd like that one, Michel. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/8.gif)