#mumbollocks

[Alan Frame]

The ice cream van chimes means he has run out of ice cream...

My parents had double glazing installed for the sole purpose of making sure I couldn't hear the ice cream van.

 

[BrianEvesham]

My parents had double glazing installed for the sole purpose of making sure I couldn't hear the ice cream van.

I still tell my boys that they only play the music when he has run out of Ice cream.

 

[Sara_H]

If you pull the plug out whilst in the bath, the plug hole monster will get you. It must be true because you can hear his hungry gurgling when you do pull the plug out. RUN AWAY!

 

[The Horse's Mouth]

Don't pick your nose your lose your finger!

 

[The Horse's Mouth]

Never trust a man whose eyebrows meet in the middle!

 

[The Horse's Mouth]

Usually followed by "You cant trust him his eyes are too close together"

 

[tyred]

If you don't go to bed by a certain time the bogey man will come and get you.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

If you don't go to bed by a certain time the bogey man will come and get you.

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...

 

[Puddles]

Not one I "believe" per se, but mum subscribes to 'If you wash on New Years Day, you'll wash a member of the family away'. She's not a superstitious lady on the whole, and I certainly don't normally entertain that kind of black cat/ladders mumbo jumbo, but she was so adamant with this growing up that its kind of stuck with me ever since.

With mine it was if you wash (clothing) on New Years Day you will wash your luck away, also by midnight on New Years Eve the house must be spotless else you will spend the next year "catching up"

 

[Archie_tect]

Reg, that's the whole point of the thread...

Mind you, my surgeon who removed my appendix did explain that when people get to their mid 50s they become prone to pockets forming in the intestine wall which can become infected... this can also happen with the appendix so in a way she was right.... unless he was wrong.

 

[Archie_tect]

The ultimate one was,
"This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you..."
But having said that she was a particularly sensitive soul and it was my fault, usually.

 

[Schmilliemoo]

Those pockets (or diverticulae to give them their proper name) are common in the over 50s, who are the main group to suffer from diverticulosis - but in themselves can be relatively harmless. They're also common in younger people with certain forms of inflammatory bowel disease (like me). I have to have regular endopscopies (complete with a visit from Agent Picolax) so this is something close to my heart*...

Diveticular appendicitis comprises about 1% of appendicitis cases.






*or rather my transverse, descending and sigmoid colon and rectum.

So, will going out with wet hair give me pneumonia?

 

[Puddles]

So, will going out with wet hair give me pneumonia?

No but if you don't wear a vest you will catch a chill in your kidneys

 

[Schmilliemoo]

No doubt sitting on walls outside will also give me piles.

 

[Fnaar]

No doubt sitting on walls outside will also give me piles.

I thought that was radiators?