Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Steve B on December 19, 2007, 22:06:03 PM
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At work today and bored in the office, I asked a question to my colleagues 'As a child, what did you believe was true?'
For example..
I remembered my Aunt saying that the black bits on crisps and chips were dead flies. And still to this day I have to remove these bits!
Here are some of the answers from some of the people at work
As a boy Duncan believed that Twiglets were deep fried stick insects.
As a young girl Sally believed that rain was god having a wee.
Steve believed that he would always be a child.
I bet you lot have some good ones.:P
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I believed my mum when she told me that if you swallowed chewing gum it stuck to the inside of your stomach forever [:o]
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Eating apple pips meant that apples would grow in your tummy :)
Thunder was god moving his furniture
If you were pulling a face when the wind blew it would stay in the same position forever (now that is rediculous)
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Blimey! I remember that line being said to me too... not from your Mum though.
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I was around ten when I went on a trip to Findhorn with my three cousins.
They told me the lumps of concrete on the beach were the chimneys of buried houses.
Years later I was talking to some people at work and one said she was going to Findhorn so I "intelligently" told her about the buried houses.
Talking to Gus later that night and when he stopped laughing told me
that the stones were to stop tanks coming on the beach during the war
Ever since people have wound me up and let me go[:(!] :-\ :o
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I also thought that when the clocks go back, and you get an extra hour in bed, that you got an extra hour in bed every night till they went forward again.
As Del said to Uncle Albert "So you were a bit of a dipstick then as well"
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When I was a kid, I used to think the people on TV could see you too! I know!![8)]
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My mum told me that if I wrote on my arm with a biro I would get blood poisoning and die!
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That if you picked Dandelions you would wet the bed,
That if you didn't wash behind your ears, potatoes would grow and
if you trod on the cracks of the pavement and bear would eat you !!
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When I reached sixteen My mum told me the Tooth Fairy had died.
She also told me that Santa wasn't real, but I don't believe her.
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Originally posted by mike A
When I reached sixteen My mum told me the Tooth Fairy had died.
She also told me that Santa wasn't real, but I don't believe her.
OMG ! Thats enough to traumatise a teenager ! :) What a cruel Lady :) ;)
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She wasn't cruel, she just has a funny sense of humour,
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Originally posted by mike A
She wasn't cruel, she just has a funny sense of humour,
I thought it was lovely actually ! My daughter is 14, so I had better start preparing her - she believes in the Tooth fairy because she says both myself and her father are too tight to leave a pound per tooth, and Santa because the thought of not getting any presents is too scarey !
A lot of these sayings seem to have disappeared, I don't remember saying these things to my daughter, but when I was little everyone seemed to be able to give 'advice' on any situation !! I remember being told, as I was making a cake, not to play with the egg shells because you would get warts...:-\
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I was told by my mum
that a certain pleasure would make me blind and stunt my growth
I am six feet one and and still have excellent long range vision.
My mum is five feet tall and myopic, makes you wonder.
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Don't laugh at me for this [:o]
At a certain age of childhood I knew exactly what physical act happened between a man and a woman that would eventually end with a new baby. However, I thought it happened while they were both asleep.
I remember thinking how horrific it would be if, during said physical act, one of them woke up [:o][:o]
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Originally posted by Scunner
Don't laugh at me for this [:o]
At a certain age of childhood I knew exactly what physical act happened between a man and a woman that would eventually end with a new baby. However, I thought it happened while they were both asleep.
I remember thinking how horrific it would be if, during said physical act, one of them woke up [:o][:o]
But Scunner, how could that possibly happen ? How can you rub noses if you are asleep ? surely you have to be awake to find each other in the dark ?:P ;) I don't think its that horrific really [xx(]
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I thought of another one so I went looking for this topic :D
When I was young, I thought 10 Downing Street was a 2 up 2 down, just like Coronation Street.
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When I was young I thought I'd grow up to be tall:(
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Er, we once told our 14 year old son we were 'going abroad', when we went to the Isle of Wight. We told him that we'd have to take passports and that they used a different currency (Grockles and Groats), plus they spoke a different language.
We sent him into a shop to buy something, we told him to ask very slowly how many Grockles and Groats to the Pound. I wonder if the shopkeeper remembers this. My son certainly hasn't forgotten........
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I can remember seeing Public Houses with the words "FREE HOUSE" and I could never understand why everyone didnt go there if the drinks were free......
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My daughter used to think there was no colour in the "olden days" because all things were shown in black and white on the tv. We also told our grandaughter the farmer was growing baby black puddings in his fields, as you could see the big black plastic rolls that were the daddy puddings.