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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
By: Thitpualso Date: September 6, 2018, 2:55 pm
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As a child in the 1950s and a teen in the 1960s it a given that,
during cold weather, I would always be swathed in several layers
of warm clothes from the waist to the ankles. In warm weather I
wasn’t allowed to wear slacks, shorts or jeans but ski pants
were necessary when the temperature dropped. Wearing the ski
pants under a skirt looked a bit odd but that’s what I had to
do.
I was also forbidden to sit on anything cold or hard. In the
words of my aunts, to do so would expose me to ‘pneumonia of the
blow hole’.
That malady would mean that I could never bear a child. Of
course, the way I was dressed meant that no member of the male
gender would look at me.
Ain’t family beliefs grand?
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
By: TeamBhakta Date: September 7, 2018, 12:59 am
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[quote]
I don't know the validity of this story, may be an urban legend.
Back in the day when cruise control first came out there was a
story going around about a retired couple who bought a motor
home thinking to travel the country. On the first leg of their
trip, husband set the cruise control and went to the back to
make himself a sandwich. Fortunately nobody was seriously hurt.
[/quote]
It's an urban legend that started in the 1970's:
HTML https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cruise-uncontrol/
Even Winnebago has a disclaimer that the story is false:
HTML https://newsok.com/article/1884374/curious-winnebago-yarn-unravels-under-scrutiny
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
By: Chez Miriam Date: September 14, 2018, 2:37 pm
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[quote author=Rose Red link=topic=127.msg8982#msg8982
date=1531925556]
[quote author=Chez Miriam link=topic=127.msg8817#msg8817
date=1531757292]
^ Someone [don't remember who] told me that eating pips/stones
would cause a tree to grow inside me...
Well, the day I get a cherry tree sprouting out of my mouth will
be the day I stop eating cherry stones! ;)
[/quote]
I've accidentally swallowed fruit stones, but is there a reason
you deliberately eat them? I can't imagine it's good for the
system even if not because of a tree.
[/quote]
Apologies for the late reply. We almost always seem to buy
cherries from stalls at the roadside, and I hate the "sticky"
that comes from handling the pits, and I can't bring myself to
spit them out [either into the rubbish bag, or out of the window
(yuk!)]. So I guess it's a combination of loathing sticky hands
and laziness. :-[
I figure they're only a little larger than sweetcorn kernels,
and those seem to pass through without germinating/causing a
blockage. :-\
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
By: Luci Date: September 14, 2018, 5:55 pm
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[quote author=Chez Miriam link=topic=127.msg13765#msg13765
date=1536953850]
[quote author=Rose Red link=topic=127.msg8982#msg8982
date=1531925556]
[quote author=Chez Miriam link=topic=127.msg8817#msg8817
date=1531757292]
^ Someone [don't remember who] told me that eating pips/stones
would cause a tree to grow inside me...
Well, the day I get a cherry tree sprouting out of my mouth will
be the day I stop eating cherry stones! ;)
[/quote]
I've accidentally swallowed fruit stones, but is there a reason
you deliberately eat them? I can't imagine it's good for the
system even if not because of a tree.
[/quote]
Apologies for the late reply. We almost always seem to buy
cherries from stalls at the roadside, and I hate the "sticky"
that comes from handling the pits, and I can't bring myself to
spit them out [either into the rubbish bag, or out of the window
(yuk!)]. So I guess it's a combination of loathing sticky hands
and laziness. :-[
I figure they're only a little larger than sweetcorn kernels,
and those seem to pass through without germinating/causing a
blockage. :-\
[/quote]
Of course a tree or watermelon could not grow on the body's
environment. I knew that by five. But the comparison between
corn which is chewed up properly and whole cherry pits confuses
my. Or do you have really strong teeth?
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
By: Chez Miriam Date: September 19, 2018, 2:43 pm
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[quote author=Luci link=topic=127.msg13787#msg13787
date=1536965726]
[quote author=Chez Miriam link=topic=127.msg13765#msg13765
date=1536953850]
[quote author=Rose Red link=topic=127.msg8982#msg8982
date=1531925556]
[quote author=Chez Miriam link=topic=127.msg8817#msg8817
date=1531757292]
^ Someone [don't remember who] told me that eating pips/stones
would cause a tree to grow inside me...
Well, the day I get a cherry tree sprouting out of my mouth will
be the day I stop eating cherry stones! ;)
[/quote]
I've accidentally swallowed fruit stones, but is there a reason
you deliberately eat them? I can't imagine it's good for the
system even if not because of a tree.
[/quote]
Apologies for the late reply. We almost always seem to buy
cherries from stalls at the roadside, and I hate the "sticky"
that comes from handling the pits, and I can't bring myself to
spit them out [either into the rubbish bag, or out of the window
(yuk!)]. So I guess it's a combination of loathing sticky hands
and laziness. :-[
I figure they're only a little larger than sweetcorn kernels,
and those seem to pass through without germinating/causing a
blockage. :-\
[/quote]
Of course a tree or watermelon could not grow on the body's
environment. I knew that by five. But the comparison between
corn which is chewed up properly and whole cherry pits confuses
my. Or do you have really strong teeth?
[/quote]
Per the bolded: my original comment was meant as a joke. :-[
I chew corn, and still manage to miss bits. :-[ I don't chew
the cherry pits.
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
By: frog24 Date: September 19, 2018, 3:26 pm
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"Will it hurt?" I'd ask about whatever... getting a shot, having
a band-aid come off, getting a cut or scraped washed out.
"Nope!" they'd always say.
Lies! It was all lies, I say!!
Now, when my kids ask if something will hurt, or sting, I tell
them the truth; that it probably will, but I'll be as gentle as
possible and the pain won't last for very long. (Or in the case
of shots, it's something that just has to be done.)
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
By: RubyCat Date: September 19, 2018, 7:11 pm
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My mother used to tell me that the reason the iceberg lettuce
turned brown is that it was high in iron and the brown was rust.
I looked up iceberg lettuce the other day and it really doesn't
have that much iron at all. Lol.
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
By: Thrabalen Date: September 20, 2018, 1:52 pm
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[quote author=RubyCat link=topic=127.msg14153#msg14153
date=1537402315]
My mother used to tell me that the reason the iceberg lettuce
turned brown is that it was high in iron and the brown was rust.
I looked up iceberg lettuce the other day and it really doesn't
have that much iron at all. Lol.
[/quote]
Iceberg lettuce doesn't have much of *anything*.
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
By: Thitpualso Date: September 20, 2018, 3:10 pm
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We have a niece in-law who claims she can get all the protein
she needs by eating two heads of iceberg lettuce a day.
Yeah, right.
MIL said that, instead of drinking coffee or tea with breakfast,
a cup of cocoa would help people remember things better. She
also said that a big glass of grape juice with every meal was a
wonderful memory aid.
‘Where did you learn about these things, MIL?’
‘Oh, I don’t remember
Yeah, right.
#Post#: 14296--------------------------------------------------
Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
By: Aleko Date: September 21, 2018, 8:32 am
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[quote]MIL said that, instead of drinking coffee or tea with
breakfast, a cup of cocoa would help people remember things
better. She also said that a big glass of grape juice with
every meal was a wonderful memory aid.
‘Where did you learn about these things, MIL?’
‘Oh, I don’t remember
Yeah, right.[/quote]
My MIL is also given to retailing things she has just 'heard
somewhere, no, I can't remember where' as fact.
Which would be fair enough if she didn't uphold these things as
gospel in the face of first-hand evidence to the contrary. As
when we were discussing plans for Christmas dinner at my house,
and I suggested that as we were only going to be four people a
turkey would be stupidly large, and how about I roast us a
capon? No, said she, because 'capon is tasteless'. I asked: had
she ever eaten capon? No, she said - but she knew that capon is
tasteless, because she had read or heard somewhere that this was
so. I said: 'It so happens that I have cooked and eaten capon,
and I know from personal experience that not only it is it not
tasteless, it is more flavourful than chicken; in fact it's
excellent.' But to my MIL my first-hand experience weighed
nothing at all against her vague memory of having 'heard
something somewhere'. It wasn't even that she doesn't trust my
taste; she admits I can seriously cook.
(I worked out later what she must have heard. An adult male
bird, like every warm-blooded species, produces testosterone,
which makes for strong, tough, even rank meat: this is why
traditional recipes for cockerels, such as coq au vin, treat it
like game and routinely pair it with other robust flavours - red
wine, onions, mushrooms, bacon. But a castrated male bird
doesn't, which makes its meat less gamey (though still stronger
than hen meat) and tenderer. Obviously MIL heard 'less gamey
than a rooster' and translated that to 'tasteless'.)
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