#mumbollocks

[green1]

That's not #mumbollocks - that's #dadbollocks. Dad gets you another cat to try and cover up the fact that he backed over the old one...

My mum backed over my Raleigh chopper. Apparently it was my fault.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

My mum backed over my Raleigh chopper. Apparently it was my fault.

Death traps, lucky escape.

 

[Schmilliemoo]

Death traps, lucky escape.

Not one of the three bikes then?

 

[Schmilliemoo]

Yes that was another topic we never got a School assembly about, I mean, how were you meant to know what he looked like and how you could avoid him? More to the point, if it was just one guy, then surely everyone must have known who he was anyway!


I'll get me coat...

Probably looked like Jimmy Savile I'd have thought.

 

[Fnaar]

 

[The Horse's Mouth]

Was anyone else found under a gooseberry bush?

I was just referred to as Harry Houdini or Hardy Kruger.

 

[goo_mason]

"We were so poor when we were young that we had to wait until winter so we could get the salt off the road to put on our porridge."

"Eat your crusts - it puts hairs on your chest". (Must've only eaten about 20 crusts in my entire life, then!)

My late Granny used to tell my uncle, when he was a kid, that the solution to him not liking bread with holes in it was to just eat round the hole...

 

[ThinAir]

Haha yeah I used to get told to "stop showing off" when we had company. I swear I had done no such thing!

Getting told to stop "acting up" was another one!

 

[ThinAir]

"We were so poor when we were young that we had to wait until winter so we could get the salt off the road to put on our porridge."

"Eat your crusts - it puts hairs on your chest". (Must've only eaten about 20 crusts in my entire life, then!)

My late Granny used to tell my uncle, when he was a kid, that the solution to him not liking bread with holes in it was to just eat round the hole...

I used to get told "eat your crusts, they will make your hair to curly".

Suffice to say, I ate very few crusts.

 

[Schmilliemoo]

I get the impression most #mumbollocks is simply a way for parents to either scare their kids into or out of certain behaviours or to explain stuff they have no idea about.

The scariest thing is when you hear yourself saying the #mumbollocks and you turn into that parent hehe.

 

[MisterStan]

"We were so poor when we were young that we had to wait until winter so we could get the salt off the road to put on our porridge."

Slightly OT, but a Northern friend of mine used to say that he was so poor, the only pet he ever had was the pit pony....