Twaddle you've told your kids, or were told when you were young.

[Blue Hills]

'The bogeyman will come for you if you don't go to sleep'.

Yeah right. we're (me and brother) not scared one dot!! There are rotting bodies over our back wall(cemetery)and their ghosts are in or bedroom,so f..k the bogeyman!!



'Foxgloves' will poison you if you go within 6 feet of them'.

Now that did have an affect. To this day I've never touched one and still see them as 'dangerous'.

there's an interesting drug in foxgloves isn't there?

 

[PeteXXX]

there's an interesting drug in foxgloves isn't there?

Digitalis

 

[Profpointy]

there's an interesting drug in foxgloves isn't there?

Not normally used recreationally; it's a heart drug, toxic if taken in any quantity

 

[Turdus philomelos]

Thunder was caused by clouds boxing. 🥊

 

[glasgowcyclist]

A guy I used to work with was told as a child that the rows of turnips in fields, which you sometimes see sheep eating, were in fact the heads of babies.

Whenever we were driving through the Ayrshire countryside and I saw this I would shout, "Look! Weans' heids! Weans' heids!" and he'd have to hold a hand up to shield himself from the view of the sheep crunching into the turnips, while trying not to throw up.

And yes, he told his kids the same thing.

 

[swee'pea99]

A guy I used to work with was told as a child that the rows of turnips in fields, which you sometimes see sheep eating, were in fact the heads of babies.

Whenever we were driving through the Ayrshire countryside and I saw this I would shout, "Look! Weans' heids! Weans' heids!" and he'd have to hold a hand up to shield himself from the view of the sheep crunching into the turnips, while trying not to throw up.

And yes, he told his kids the same thing.

Top parenting!

 

[byegad]

My top class juniors teacher told us matter can neither be created nor destroyed and atoms were indivisible.
Being a child of the 1950s and interested in all things scientific up went my hand to ask how an Atom bomb worked!
No answer! But from then on I questioned everything she ever told us. She was right that 7x8=56 though.

 

[Bazzer]

My mother, who was brought up a strict Catholic, used to say that when I got ulcers on my tongue, I had been telling lies.
Thanks Mum for more Catholic baggage.

 

[Profpointy]

My top class juniors teacher told us matter can neither be created nor destroyed and atoms were indivisible.
Being a child of the 1950s and interested in all things scientific up went my hand to ask how an Atom bomb worked!
No answer! But from then on I questioned everything she ever told us. She was right that 7x8=56 though.

Those are kind of simplifications rather than fibs. I do recall that every year in chemistry they'd tell us "what we told you last year was a simplification/wrong, so forget all that. This is what it's really like"

 

[Dave7]

No answer! But from then on I questioned everything she ever told us. She was right that 7x8=56 though.

She was wrong.
Its 8x7 that =56

 

[Chris S]

All dolphins are gay.

That could be something to do with stroking the dolphin.

 

[Dave7]

Thunder was caused by clouds boxing. 🥊

I thought it was god moving his furniture that caused thunder.

 

[Chris S]

That said, unlike geese swans have toothed beaks which cut you when they grab bread you're kindly giving them

Geese have serrated beaks and can give you a nasty bite. Flocks of them used to be used instead of guard dogs.

 

[Profpointy]

Geese have serrated beaks and can give you a nasty bite. Flocks of them used to be used instead of guard dogs.

Swans' beaks are like saw blades. Goose beaks aren't and a goose peck is merely a pinch

 

[Chris S]

I used to think my mother was magic because she always knew when a car was about to go around a corner. I later found out about indicators.