Urban Myth Busters.
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welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
MossCommuter
Guru
- Location
- Salford
If you swallow chewing gum it will wrap around your guts, you will never poo it out and one day you will die
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
Tomatoes work the same way. Mrs Riseborough, the dinner lady told me, when I was about 5, and I'm sure that she wouldn't lie.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Not sure about that. I was told that sitting on a hot school radiator would give me piles. I've sat on cold walls too and have never been a sufferer.
They were talking out of their bums.
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
If you eat sprouts then you'll get curly hair.
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Wow!
That Brian May must have eaten zillions ....
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I met someone who said she refused to use hot air hand dryers in public lavatories. She claimed that the air inlets were entirely choked by a Brillo Pad mass of pubic hairs.
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Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Hmm ... sprouts! 
(Parp!
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(Parp!
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jefmcg
Guru
My grandmother (born in the nineteenth century) apparently told my mother that women needed foundation garments as they don't have the muscular strength to hold their internal organs in place. A self fulfilling prophecy of course, as if you wear a girdle constantly, you will have very weak abdominal muscles.
Conversely, I was once warned - by a qualified pharmacist, no less - that I should be wary of doing crunches because if my abs got too strong, they would crush my internal organs!
(even if that was true, I was in no risk!)
Conversely, I was once warned - by a qualified pharmacist, no less - that I should be wary of doing crunches because if my abs got too strong, they would crush my internal organs!
(even if that was true, I was in no risk!)
Easytigers
Guru
My grandmother used to try and get me to eat tripe saying 'it's good for you...it hangs on yer ribs'
I never pointed out that I didn't want anything hanging on my ribs
I never pointed out that I didn't want anything hanging on my ribs
TwickenhamCyclist
Guest
[QUOTE 3243762, member: 45"]Yeah right. Introducing heat to your body cools you down.[/QUOTE]
There is some logic to that in that the latest theory is that the slight rise in temp triggers more sweat which, under certain conditions, more than compensates for the hot drink. If its not too humid and the sweat isn't dripping off you then tea can cool you down a little while cold drinks can have a slight opposite effect in that they reduce sweating...
Sorry Paul - just read the next two posts making the same point
There is some logic to that in that the latest theory is that the slight rise in temp triggers more sweat which, under certain conditions, more than compensates for the hot drink. If its not too humid and the sweat isn't dripping off you then tea can cool you down a little while cold drinks can have a slight opposite effect in that they reduce sweating...
Sorry Paul - just read the next two posts making the same point
