You cant swim for at least an hour after you eat or you could drown. Remember that one alot.
Yes, that seems to have been common knowledge.
And should you, by some miracle, survive a post-prandial swim and fail to dry your hair thoroughly you will certainly die of influenza.
Pneumonia was the illness we were threatened with as kids.
Nobody ever told us what it was, but there were lots of ways to catch it according to my mom.
So we had to put our jackets on, wear a hat and scarf, tuck in our shirts, wear gloves, don't get wet, etc., or we would catch pneumonia.
To this day I don't know of anyone who ever did.
Nobody ever told us what it was, but there were lots of ways to catch it according to my mom.
So we had to put our jackets on, wear a hat and scarf, tuck in our shirts, wear gloves, don't get wet, etc., or we would catch pneumonia.
To this day I don't know of anyone who ever did.
What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get another germ to catch pneumonia.
After you do, he'll never phonia.
After you do, he'll never phonia.
Good thread.
When a child one of my (Yorkshire-born) Mum's sayings was ' you make a better door than a window' meaning - you are in the way (+) I can't see what I'm doing/ the task in hand
When a child one of my (Yorkshire-born) Mum's sayings was ' you make a better door than a window' meaning - you are in the way (+) I can't see what I'm doing/ the task in hand
You and me both.
I received both the 'Wait till your father gets home!' and the promise of '...the back of the hairbrush' - yet both never materialised.
Reading the sad tales of other contributors above - I am fortunate. So it was easy to threaten even less.
"There is no such thing as an ugly Rich Girl"
But not from MY parents...
But not from MY parents...
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My mother about the neighbours that were having a little marital 'those two are at each other like two snakes in a hot tin can'.
Not quite about crazy things they said but what they did. My mother had a huge phobia that her 3 kids would catch worms. So every 6 months we go 'de-wormed'. It was terrible lime flavoured green stuff called 'Helmazine' IIRC. Followed straight afterwards by a hot cup of epsom salts to flush everything out . She grew up on the 1940's so I guess had a different outlook on these things. I managed to get out of it when I was about 12 or 13 - maybe someone told her not to worry about it anymore - I dunno.
Kids have it easy nowadays 😀
Not quite about crazy things they said but what they did. My mother had a huge phobia that her 3 kids would catch worms. So every 6 months we go 'de-wormed'. It was terrible lime flavoured green stuff called 'Helmazine' IIRC. Followed straight afterwards by a hot cup of epsom salts to flush everything out . She grew up on the 1940's so I guess had a different outlook on these things. I managed to get out of it when I was about 12 or 13 - maybe someone told her not to worry about it anymore - I dunno.
Kids have it easy nowadays 😀
Absolutely!. Or 'you should leave the table feeling a little hungry'
When we were eating we had to keep out elbows off the table and keep them in close to our sides. If they went up as we were trying to cut out food wed get 'Are you flapping your wings trying to fly somewhere?' 😆
I remember get your elbows off the table.
We were not supposed to talk at dinner, told to eat up or shut up.
Dad spoke some Greek it was something like Fika soapa
Told to only drink after you eat as drinking will fill you up and you won’t eat your dinner
If you do not eat your dinner you will get it for breakfast.
Don’t play with your food
Children should be seen and not heard
Do as I say not as I do
Hard a$$
We were not supposed to talk at dinner, told to eat up or shut up.
Dad spoke some Greek it was something like Fika soapa
Told to only drink after you eat as drinking will fill you up and you won’t eat your dinner
If you do not eat your dinner you will get it for breakfast.
Don’t play with your food
Children should be seen and not heard
Do as I say not as I do
Hard a$$
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"No . . . not since Superman died."
I told and taught my daughter to play with the food on her plate. She ate everything, prawns, olives, all as a kid.
Until covid, then it took two years to recover. Structure and touch prooved king.
My dad would always stop and pick up the mail at the post office on his way home every day.
"Dad, did I get any mail today?"
"Who do you know that can write?!"
"Dad, did I get any mail today?"
"Who do you know that can write?!"
This is REAL liquorice, this is!
NO, it's a twig.
Real licorice is black and comes in a sherbet dip.
NO, it's a twig.
Real licorice is black and comes in a sherbet dip.