@@simonpowell2559 Some of us are, indeed, fat, and while a disproportionate number are poorly educated, I've found in my travels that stupid knows no borders.
Only one kid in school actually busted his head open leaning back and that's because he hit the desk behind himself on the way down. In the US watermelon seeds would grow in your tummy. It became a euphemism for getting pregnant when we were older.
MacGuffin yassss omg I remember hysterically crying because I had eaten one and my mom told me this I was going out of my mind thinking my stomach was going to explode one day from a watermelon growing too big
Four years old...Mom's belly starts to bulge...she said she swallowed a watermelon seed, and even after my brother was born, I believed that somehow the watermelon turned into a baby. My older sister didn't help. She said Mom swallowed a crabapple seed to get me.
Did you have this in the UK - that it was illegal to remove the tag from a mattress? I was always scared as a kid that we would accidentally tear our mattress tag and somehow commit a felony!
When I was little, my granny told me if I stick out my bottom lip, it will stay that way and a rooster will sit on it. She also told me that if you eat watermelon seeds they will grow inside you. My little brother used to suck his thumb. My parents told him if he didn't stop it will turn black and rot off. When he was sleeping they colored his thumb with a Sharpie. He never sucked his thumb again.
We didn't use fountain pens in American. In fact most teachers require you write in pencil until almost high school. Also, we did have eraseble pens, but they didn't stink. I think Papermate made the original ones. For the tension we just were forced to do more school work. We were probably welcomed physical labor instead of more book work. We had bleachers to sit in during assemblies in the basketball gym. In highschool we would sit in the auditorium. In elementary school we just sat on the floor in the multi-purpose room and watched the assembly up on stage.
I remember the papermate eraseables pens they were fun as a kid but they didn't work that well. The smell wasn't too bad but was odd and the gunky skipping pen was not fun to deal with.
You must be quite young. We were allowed to use fountain pens in second grade. For me this was 1950! We also had dip pens that were used with liquid ink too. I felt very grown up having my very own fountain pen! I grew up in NYC.
It's not illegal but it is dangerous in a way because it makes it harder for the driver to see a long distance out in front of the car. Also it IS illegal to have all but the very back light on in a school bus. I know this because I am a bus driver. :)
I was so angry about the Santa lie. My parents maintained the Santa lie for many years. What really angered me is that they would talk about it behind my back. I heard my Mom on the phone telling someone how stupid I was because “he’s 8 years old and still believe s in Santa.I swore I wouldn’t do that to my kids. I told them who Santa is but that the gift were from parents and other family members.
I’m 66 years old and I swallowed gum for the first time in my life last month. I was about to give a talk and I couldn’t think of any other way out of it, but I was terrified.
My mom used to spit these sayings out like they were Medieval Curses. My favorite one was “If you fall off that branch and break your leg.....don’t come running to me crying!”. 😳
When I was little and in school and the teacher would be writing on the chalk board and the teacher would say she had eyes behind her head to make kids think she could see what they were doing. I believed it for a long time. Lol
It's interesting how some of these things are universal, or at least between the US and UK, like the chewing gum thing. I wonder how these things spread!
So my parents were weird. I grew up in canada, with 3 years in Europe in grammar school. We travelled Europe a lot. My mom convinced me that, as we drove through the alps, the sheep and cattle had legs longer on one side than the other to make it easier to go up and down the mountains. And... my dad convinced my brother that the lamp hooks in the tower ruins of Heidelberg castle were used to hang captured enemies by the thumbs so their thumbs would fall off and they couldn’t fight anymore. My brother still believes that at 70 years old.
When you fry hotdogs on the stove top they produce a strange shrill squeaky sound so my mom told me that they were baby pig that were still alive and that they were squealing for their mama. I cried and refused to eat them 😢😂
I fell back in my chair quite a few times in my life. However, it wasn't possible in the schools I went to since the chairs were physically attached to the desk.
I'm sure some people tell their kids thinking it's true! My dad had a thing about that and objects in the parcel shelf. It's not something that ever bothered me as a driver
Why did your parents not just tell you the truth.... turning the interior light in makes it harder for the driver to clearly see out while driving. I never heard people thinking it was illegal until moving to New Jersey where my 48 year old cousin actually believes that. I'm from North Carolina & my dad would just always tell me to turn it off, he couldn't see.
I remember my grandma would say if I swallow chewing gum it would stick my insides together. I never knew what that meant exactly but it scared me enough that I never swallowed it.
I wasn't a kid, but that tartan paint story reminded me of when a long ago boss told me to have his bunch of keys copied. They did all but one, and when I showed him the one they couldn't copy, he said, "That's because it's a roach clip".
True story: I read an article a few years back about a man in Russia who had surgery because a tree seed had gotten into his lung and sprouted there. You know how the seed has enough nutrients for the plant to grow for a bit before it needs sunlight to make food. The doctors suspected he accidentally inhaled it while hiking. They said if it had gone to the stomach, it would have died in the stomach acid. Stomach acid is what keeps any of the things you listed from growing inside us when we eat them.
My older clueless cousins (older as in they're like 48 years old.. I'm 37) still believe it's illegal to turn on the interior light while driving. They live in Pennsylvania & New Jersey. I laughed at them when they told me that. I'm from North Carolina & my dad always told me he couldn't see out the windshield very well when the light was on which is very true AND the real reason not to ride around with the light on.
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7-years in your stomach for gum. This is told here in America. The wind-blowing face deal, never heard it like that. I heard the one that says "if you make an ugly face on purpose(like to be hateful to somebody), it'll stay that way permanently." Heard the "illegal to have a light on inside a car" one.
Eyes turn square?! I wore glasses, so I was 'square eyes' anyway...my dad (God rest his soul) was an ophthalmologist, so getting too near to the TV caused cries of "Eyestrain!!!!"
As a recently retired teacher, kids now usually sit in small groups as opposed to rows. They are encouraged to visit other groups when doing an activity during a lesson. I taught Spanish in high school. This change cuts down on mischief because the students do not get so bored in class. De Elaine la profe en NJ
In primary school at the end of the day you used to put the chairs on the desks before going home. I used to think that was dangerous then because what if they fell on the cleaner's heads? The 'historical accident' was a little girl supposedly running back into the classroom because she'd forgotten something, but then ran into a chair which flipped upside down as she fell. She screamed, which meant when she landed on the chair, one of the legs went in her mouth and down her throat and killed her, so that's why we put the chairs on the table, so that doesn't happen. Freaked me out as a kid.
In Virginia in the U.S. I was told by a Police Officer that when people drink too much they feel like they can see better to drive with the inside (dome) light on. If the Police see this they will pull you over instantly. So its not quite illegal it just takes a while to explain. As I remember it anyway. Be safe y'all.
I know a victim of chair rocking. It was actually at our house. My then preschool aged sister had been told off by our mother for rocking her chair for months. One day she was doing it and fell backwards. Problem was, where she was sitting, she was in front of the sliding glass french doors (interior) and she cut her head from ear to ear! So there 'ya go!
For the TV one, newer TVs use LEDs. So, they don't have the emissions that older CRT and plasma TVs had. We were told that our vision would go bad, which made sense for those TVs. As for the face getting stuck, we were told that if we made a face at someone, and someone slapped you on your back, your face would get stuck like that. It was represented in the movie, "One Crazy Summer". Funny movie, by the way.
5th grade I was the most shy kid and super tiny surly not over 4’. I would never step one foot out of line.... I was scooting back to turn in a paper to my teacher and my car tipped back of course I fell and cracked my head so hard. Not only was I over the top embarrassed but hurt my teacher had zero empathy, she told me, “serves you right go to the nurse and get ice pack and when you return you will write 100 lines of I will not tip my chair back.”
When I was in third grade, someone actually did crack her head open from rocking in her chair. Her head hit the desk behind her and she needed stiches. When I was a substitute teacher I would give kids a warning for rocking in their chairs and would make them stand the rest of class after rocking three times in one class. Some kids broke their habit completely after having me for a week.
The old TVs gave of x-rays, so spending a lot of time very close to one was dangerous. The reason why old people try to hold text at a distance to read it is presbyopia, which everyone gets at about the age of 43.
BrandonFlorida not everyone by age 43. I’m 65 and I don’t have it. If you are myopic(nearsighted) the elasticity of your eye muscles sometimes is not noticeable because then you start holding it at a decent distance from your eyes.
@@catofthecastle1681 You may have another feature which compensates, but everybody gets it. How is your close=up vision when you're wearing lenses to compensate for myopia?
Never heard the wind changing one but I remember hearing if someone slapped you on the back while you were making a face your face would stick that way.
In high school I had a teacher who went from teaching grade school to high school. So she obviously treated us like little children. Some of the students were so mean to her, she resigned in the middle of the school year.
Kids were told that about car lights so 1. it wouldn't interfere in their driving at night, and 2. If it stayed on and didn't get turned off or was forgotten, it would drain the car battery and give you a nasty surprise when you went to work the next day.
Dr. Mike said that chewing gum gets mostly digested and the indigestible components get passed through your digestion tract in a a matter of a day or two. However, if you swallow enough gum at one time, it can form a blob that blocks your intestines. So, you're ok as long as you don't swallow packs of gum in a day.
Apple seeds won't grow in your stomach. However, the seeds and pits of fruits in the rose family (e.g. apples, pears, peaches, cherries, etc.) contain minute amounts of arsenic. So, apple pie = good. Apple seed pie = goodbye if you eat enough of them.
Never heard that turning the light on inside the car was illegal. They did try to tell us that it was illegal to drive barefoot, and even some police believe this. But it's not, and if you can find the relevant traffic law for your area, you can throw that in the cop's face when they try to ticket you for it.
I was always told that turning the light on inside the car was dangerous because it caused a glare for the driver and they might not see an oncoming vehicle.
I'm a retired teacher in US & I find it fascinating that students are the same universally. They all act the same as kids no matter their country, race, or religion!😊
I’m a teacher and I would have to remind my first graders all the time. All 4 legs of the chair on the floor! I would threaten them they would crack open their head! A few have hit their head pretty hard but no blood!
It was sung first (I believe) by Lonnie Donegan in 1959 (before my time), but it was sung to me repeatedly by my Canadian mother - which is why I also wonder if when you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last? Pretty sure the version I heard played was by the Irish Rovers, never actually heard the Smarties commercial's version other than from Mom.
If a person makes a face at someone, and someone else slaps them on the back, their face will stay that way. Watching too much TV will weaken your eyes.
Instead of square eyes, at least for me in America, I was told that I would damage my eyes if I stood too close to the TV or like watched it for too long. My dad always yelled at me when I was younger for turning on the lights inside the car while he was driving, he always told me he’d get in trouble if they were on.
We had a teacher in high school who would sneak up behind someone leaning back in their chair and push them all the way down to the floor! It was fabulous watching the look on their face!
I was told a lot of these. The face deal had nothing about the wind for me. It was if you made an ugly face it could freeze like that. My seed lie was usually watermelon seeds, but we southerners spit them usually as contest for distance. My parents told me the truth about the car light. It made it hard to drive at night. Especially in rural areas with no street lights.
I remember scraping gum off desks and it was repulsive. We were told a watermelon would grow in you if you swallowed the seeds. My peers and I were told off for rocking in the chairs at school. For the t.v one I was told my mind would turn to mush if I watch too much.
My daughter went to university to become a teacher and was in her last year when she had to do her first semester of student teaching. She changed her major after that semester to something else. I asked her why and she said...I don’t want to go to prison for killing some smarta***d brat.
I was in school in the 70s and 80s, I graduated HS in 1986. I remember most of these too, except we didn't use fountain pens. I once witnessed a boy when I was in grade school tip his chair, fall a crack his head open on the floor, never tipped back again after that. I heard you'd go blind if you sat too close to the TV, and televisions way back were large tall boxes with small round screens maybe the size of a plate. My father called it the boob tube! The wind one never heard, but if you make a face it would freeze that way. The light in the car was because at night the glare from the inside light could keep you from seeing an oncoming car, my mother always yelled if someone turned on the light! I taught Pre-K for 24 years!
I was the kid that leaned too far back and cracked my head open. Bled everywhere no one leaned back in the chairs for the rest of the year. I got 8 stitches, and have never leaned back in a chair since.
One of my daughter's friends was learning back in her chair and fell, breaking her arm. She was a champion Scottish Highland dancer, and this happened a couple of weeks before a championship competition. So, yeah, don't lean back in your chairs.
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@@simonpowell2559 Some of us are, indeed, fat, and while a disproportionate number are poorly educated, I've found in my travels that stupid knows no borders.
Only one kid in school actually busted his head open leaning back and that's because he hit the desk behind himself on the way down.
In the US watermelon seeds would grow in your tummy. It became a euphemism for getting pregnant when we were older.
We were told if we swallowed watermelon seeds, a watermelon would grow in our stomachs.
MacGuffin yassss omg I remember hysterically crying because I had eaten one and my mom told me this I was going out of my mind thinking my stomach was going to explode one day from a watermelon growing too big
Rugrats told us that
Four years old...Mom's belly starts to bulge...she said she swallowed a watermelon seed, and even after my brother was born, I believed that somehow the watermelon turned into a baby. My older sister didn't help. She said Mom swallowed a crabapple seed to get me.
I was told if I went outside with wet hair I’d get a cold😂😂
My parents wont leave the house after they shower. All I can do is shake my head.
That wasn't true? I'm 39 oops
Wet hair attracts cold viruses. Everyone knows that! LOL
Swallowing watermelon seeds will cause you to to grow a watermelon
Michelle b I was told if I went to bed with wet hair I’d get a stiff neck.
I was told I would go blind if I was too close to theTV.
Bob D - In the US, that was a myth perpetrated by a reading lamp manufacturer.
me too
Same!!! Lol
I was told I would go blind if I watched TV in the dark.
same
Did you have this in the UK - that it was illegal to remove the tag from a mattress? I was always scared as a kid that we would accidentally tear our mattress tag and somehow commit a felony!
That was a US federal law to keep mattress manufacturers from using used mattress stuffing from old mattresses and cushions.
@@robertcuminale1212 Interesting! I didn't know that
This was so fun! I remember being told that if you crossed your eyes they could stay that way forever! Hope you are well!
Dorothy Paul me too. My mother-in-law can’t stand to see kids cross their eyes. It’s her biggest pet peeve.
@@ClaireRader That's hilarious! Hope you are well. Stay safe!
Dorothy Paul or if you frowned and the wind would change and your face would stay that way!
I was told if I crossed my eyes and rolled them in circles then they would get stuck. I still won’t do it and I’m 21 lol
an american lie my parents told me that if i rolled my eyes hard enough my eyes would get stuck in the back of your head
Grace Herbert yep or if you cross your eyes they’ll stay stuck cross eyed forever
Grace Herbert we had ‘if the wind changes you’ll get stuck like that’ when pulling strange facial expressions.
Same
@@madisonoctober I remember that one well. We believed it until about age 15.
Yeah I've heard that one lol
When I was little, my granny told me if I stick out my bottom lip, it will stay that way and a rooster will sit on it. She also told me that if you eat watermelon seeds they will grow inside you.
My little brother used to suck his thumb. My parents told him if he didn't stop it will turn black and rot off. When he was sleeping they colored his thumb with a Sharpie. He never sucked his thumb again.
In the US it's "You'll go blind if you watch too much TV".
Duane Wilcox or if you were too close
We didn't use fountain pens in American. In fact most teachers require you write in pencil until almost high school. Also, we did have eraseble pens, but they didn't stink. I think Papermate made the original ones.
For the tension we just were forced to do more school work. We were probably welcomed physical labor instead of more book work.
We had bleachers to sit in during assemblies in the basketball gym. In highschool we would sit in the auditorium. In elementary school we just sat on the floor in the multi-purpose room and watched the assembly up on stage.
The old school '80s papermate eraseables smelled a little funky, and wrote a bit gunky.
I remember the papermate eraseables pens they were fun as a kid but they didn't work that well. The smell wasn't too bad but was odd and the gunky skipping pen was not fun to deal with.
You just summed up my childhood
In the Stone Age 1970s, we used fountain pens in Shorthand class. Google that young people! LMAO! I'm old old! 😂😅🤣
You must be quite young. We were allowed to use fountain pens in second grade. For me this was 1950! We also had dip pens that were used with liquid ink too. I felt very grown up having my very own fountain pen! I grew up in NYC.
The chewing gum thing, was actually something that scientists believed in like the 1900s. But recent studies show it's not true.
Really?! I didn’t know that! My mom said it was cause it was a choking hazard and that kept kid from trying to swallow it! lol
Re: turning the light on inside a car is illegal: MY FATHER TOLD ME THE SAME THING!!! I'm 68 and I NEVER turn the light on if I am driving!!!
I forgot about that. My parents told me the same thing when I was younger. I'm 42 now.
Mine too!
It's not illegal but it is dangerous in a way because it makes it harder for the driver to see a long distance out in front of the car. Also it IS illegal to have all but the very back light on in a school bus. I know this because I am a bus driver. :)
mine too
My dad said that too!
The one where you're not supposed to go swimming after you've eaten is a crock
I was so angry about the Santa lie. My parents maintained the Santa lie for many years. What really angered me is that they would talk about it behind my back. I heard my Mom on the phone telling someone how stupid I was because “he’s 8 years old and still believe s in Santa.I swore I wouldn’t do that to my kids. I told them who Santa is but that the gift were from parents and other family members.
I remember the 7 years for chewing gun digestion. What BS that was.
As a child I was told that you had to wait 1/2 hour after eating to go swimming or you would cramps up.
One point in favor of Americans.. very few of us lie to British children.
😂
Isn't it 0 percent?
I have never lied to a British child. 🐣
I’m 66 years old and I swallowed gum for the first time in my life last month. I was about to give a talk and I couldn’t think of any other way out of it, but I was terrified.
My mom used to spit these sayings out like they were Medieval Curses. My favorite one was “If you fall off that branch and break your leg.....don’t come running to me crying!”. 😳
My mom would say "You'd better be careful riding that bike. If you get hurt you'll be wishing you had a mama that loved you"
When I was little and in school and the teacher would be writing on the chalk board and the teacher would say she had eyes behind her head to make kids think she could see what they were doing. I believed it for a long time. Lol
Eyes in the back of my head. My mom said that, she always knew what we were doing, even if her back was turned.
Teacher here...I work in a new, state-of-the-art school which has rocking chairs for Kindergarten through 3rd grade.
"You will go blind if you play with yourself".
Can I do it until I just need glasses?
When I was a kid we were always told, "if you watch too much TV you'll rot your brain!"
It's interesting how some of these things are universal, or at least between the US and UK, like the chewing gum thing. I wonder how these things spread!
Especially in the days before the internet.
The light inside the car I guess it's just distracting and annoying for the driver and it's good not to turn it on while someone's driving
So my parents were weird. I grew up in canada, with 3 years in Europe in grammar school. We travelled Europe a lot. My mom convinced me that, as we drove through the alps, the sheep and cattle had legs longer on one side than the other to make it easier to go up and down the mountains. And... my dad convinced my brother that the lamp hooks in the tower ruins of Heidelberg castle were used to hang captured enemies by the thumbs so their thumbs would fall off and they couldn’t fight anymore. My brother still believes that at 70 years old.
When you fry hotdogs on the stove top they produce a strange shrill squeaky sound so my mom told me that they were baby pig that were still alive and that they were squealing for their mama. I cried and refused to eat them 😢😂
That's horrid!
That's cruel😕
I suppose it does sound kinda bad but you have to understand my family has a dark sense of humor. Now that I look back I find it hysterical.
We had to wait an hour after eating before swimming... "You'll get cramps"
LOL... When you have kids and they've asked "Why" for the hundredth time that day.. you'll understand where some of these come from.
I fell back in my chair quite a few times in my life. However, it wasn't possible in the schools I went to since the chairs were physically attached to the desk.
I’m 51 and I always thought turning the interior light on in the car was against the law! I’ve learnt something new tonight! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Amanda lewis uummm I’m 35 and I thought it was illegal. 😅
I was told the same thing as a child! 🤣
I'm sure some people tell their kids thinking it's true!
My dad had a thing about that and objects in the parcel shelf. It's not something that ever bothered me as a driver
Why did your parents not just tell you the truth.... turning the interior light in makes it harder for the driver to clearly see out while driving. I never heard people thinking it was illegal until moving to New Jersey where my 48 year old cousin actually believes that. I'm from North Carolina & my dad would just always tell me to turn it off, he couldn't see.
59 and I'll have to check w/the DMV because I've thought that all my life!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lia said “why are kids so annoying” and an ad came up immediately after for pampers, the irony is too much
We were told we’d go blind sitting to close to the tv
I remember my grandma would say if I swallow chewing gum it would stick my insides together. I never knew what that meant exactly but it scared me enough that I never swallowed it.
I wasn't a kid, but that tartan paint story reminded me of when a long ago boss told me to have his bunch of keys copied. They did all but one, and when I showed him the one they couldn't copy, he said, "That's because it's a roach clip".
That was the key to mellowness. My Mom had that key😂
Those pens are called fountain pens in the US as well
My childhood was a lie! I just realized how much my parents lied to me! Thanks a lot, mom and dad!
Sooo true!!😂😂
And thanks a lot Rachael.
True story: I read an article a few years back about a man in Russia who had surgery because a tree seed had gotten into his lung and sprouted there. You know how the seed has enough nutrients for the plant to grow for a bit before it needs sunlight to make food. The doctors suspected he accidentally inhaled it while hiking. They said if it had gone to the stomach, it would have died in the stomach acid. Stomach acid is what keeps any of the things you listed from growing inside us when we eat them.
HoNeStLy i am 15 and my dad has only just told me that turning on the light in a car at night isnt illegal and i was SHOOK
My older clueless cousins (older as in they're like 48 years old.. I'm 37) still believe it's illegal to turn on the interior light while driving. They live in Pennsylvania & New Jersey. I laughed at them when they told me that. I'm from North Carolina & my dad always told me he couldn't see out the windshield very well when the light was on which is very true AND the real reason not to ride around with the light on.
I forgot the big one how carrots help you see in the dark
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I used to swallow chewing gum just to be a contrarian.
I still do and Im over 60!
And you didn't get a horrible case of chronic constipation?
My dad told me that when he was a kid he got sent out to look for a "left handed spanner (wrench in USA)" which of course does not exist.
One guy in school was told his socks were on the wrong foot. He changed them, but told me he that did rather than argue with the jocks
And shelf stretchers....and sky hooks - too funny!
7-years in your stomach for gum. This is told here in America. The wind-blowing face deal, never heard it like that. I heard the one that says "if you make an ugly face on purpose(like to be hateful to somebody), it'll stay that way permanently." Heard the "illegal to have a light on inside a car" one.
Eyes turn square?! I wore glasses, so I was 'square eyes' anyway...my dad (God rest his soul) was an ophthalmologist, so getting too near to the TV caused cries of "Eyestrain!!!!"
As a recently retired teacher, kids now usually sit in small groups as opposed to rows. They are encouraged to visit other groups when doing an activity during a lesson. I taught Spanish in high school. This change cuts down on mischief because the students do not get so bored in class. De Elaine la profe en NJ
A picture of Joel & Lia with perfectly square eyes needs to happen!
😂 Weren’t our parents great? lol So nice to see your faces. 💕
In primary school at the end of the day you used to put the chairs on the desks before going home. I used to think that was dangerous then because what if they fell on the cleaner's heads? The 'historical accident' was a little girl supposedly running back into the classroom because she'd forgotten something, but then ran into a chair which flipped upside down as she fell. She screamed, which meant when she landed on the chair, one of the legs went in her mouth and down her throat and killed her, so that's why we put the chairs on the table, so that doesn't happen. Freaked me out as a kid.
I've actually been pulled over because of the internal light being on at night. It was well before cell phones so things may have changed.
Even the cops are vulnerable to urban legends😂
In Virginia in the U.S. I was told by a Police Officer that when people drink too much they feel like they can see better to drive with the inside (dome) light on. If the Police see this they will pull you over instantly. So its not quite illegal it just takes a while to explain. As I remember it anyway. Be safe y'all.
Mrs Mimi H or if young people do it really late at night it’s the infamous “dope light” and pull you over for “ suspicion “ !
I am so old that at school we used pens with a nib and ink wells!
I know a victim of chair rocking. It was actually at our house. My then preschool aged sister had been told off by our mother for rocking her chair for months. One day she was doing it and fell backwards. Problem was, where she was sitting, she was in front of the sliding glass french doors (interior) and she cut her head from ear to ear! So there 'ya go!
For the TV one, newer TVs use LEDs. So, they don't have the emissions that older CRT and plasma TVs had. We were told that our vision would go bad, which made sense for those TVs.
As for the face getting stuck, we were told that if we made a face at someone, and someone slapped you on your back, your face would get stuck like that. It was represented in the movie, "One Crazy Summer". Funny movie, by the way.
I read that some guy in Russia accidentally inhaled a pea and it sprouted in his lung
Pea plant.
www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-10945050
Fir tree.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169861/Shocked-Russian-surgeons-open-man-thought-tumour--FIR-TREE-inside-lung.html
@@mplwy a medical show here in the U.S. (can't remember which one) had an episode that featured that exact medical phenomena.
mplwy .....that was a made up story. In truth, he had aspirated the piece of fir that size and didn’t remember it. It didn’t grow in his lung.
@@WyattRyeSway believable, but a link to back up that assertion would go a long way.
Swallowed watermelon seeds explained a lotta baby bumps back when
Thanks for always bringing smiles and joy to my day Joel and Lia!
Adventure on dear friends! Papa Phat :)
5th grade I was the most shy kid and super tiny surly not over 4’. I would never step one foot out of line.... I was scooting back to turn in a paper to my teacher and my car tipped back of course I fell and cracked my head so hard. Not only was I over the top embarrassed but hurt my teacher had zero empathy, she told me, “serves you right go to the nurse and get ice pack and when you return you will write 100 lines of I will not tip my chair back.”
When I was in third grade, someone actually did crack her head open from rocking in her chair. Her head hit the desk behind her and she needed stiches.
When I was a substitute teacher I would give kids a warning for rocking in their chairs and would make them stand the rest of class after rocking three times in one class. Some kids broke their habit completely after having me for a week.
Today's kids are way smarter than teachers today
Thank you for making me laugh so much! Definitely a favorite. 😊 Tons of love from Jean ❤❤
The old TVs gave of x-rays, so spending a lot of time very close to one was dangerous. The reason why old people try to hold text at a distance to read it is presbyopia, which everyone gets at about the age of 43.
BrandonFlorida not everyone by age 43. I’m 65 and I don’t have it. If you are myopic(nearsighted) the elasticity of your eye muscles sometimes is not noticeable because then you start holding it at a decent distance from your eyes.
@@catofthecastle1681 You may have another feature which compensates, but everybody gets it. How is your close=up vision when you're wearing lenses to compensate for myopia?
Never heard the wind changing one but I remember hearing if someone slapped you on the back while you were making a face your face would stick that way.
Seriously, this was fabulous! I laughed so hard! Well done guys!!!
When I was a kid, we had a teacher who would make us wear our gum on the end of our nose, to lunch!
In high school I had a teacher who went from teaching grade school to high school. So she obviously treated us like little children. Some of the students were so mean to her, she resigned in the middle of the school year.
Kids were told that about car lights so
1. it wouldn't interfere in their driving at night, and
2. If it stayed on and didn't get turned off or was forgotten, it would drain the car battery and give you a nasty surprise when you went to work the next day.
Weren't told square eyes....just that we'd go blind. 😂
Dr. Mike said that chewing gum gets mostly digested and the indigestible components get passed through your digestion tract in a a matter of a day or two. However, if you swallow enough gum at one time, it can form a blob that blocks your intestines. So, you're ok as long as you don't swallow packs of gum in a day.
A girl I knew in Jr. High told me she was constipated from swallowing gum, it was obvious she was in pain 😣😨
@@Judy_R the weather has been beautiful! It's a bit breezy today 😄💕 I feel blessed
Yikes 😳😳😳
Leo the short guy Right!? I never swallowed gum again 😫
@Lucy! do you remember when teachers made us swallow our gum?
LOL! Nope - gum passes through.
Apple seeds won't grow in your stomach. However, the seeds and pits of fruits in the rose family (e.g. apples, pears, peaches, cherries, etc.) contain minute amounts of arsenic. So, apple pie = good. Apple seed pie = goodbye if you eat enough of them.
Hey Joel and Lia!! So glad you're holding up well, loving the videos!!
A boy in my class did fall back off his chair and cracked his head open on the radiator. Traumatised us all. Nobody did it after that.
We were told not to sit to close to the TV because it might explode.
Pa Bu I always thought the old TVs could explode. So it was a safety thing. But new ones are more likely to fall on you😂
Never heard that turning the light on inside the car was illegal. They did try to tell us that it was illegal to drive barefoot, and even some police believe this. But it's not, and if you can find the relevant traffic law for your area, you can throw that in the cop's face when they try to ticket you for it.
Lia is a saint to put up with that lowlife calling her dumb right to her face!! Sometimes I think she is too kindhearted for her own good.
I was always told that turning the light on inside the car was dangerous because it caused a glare for the driver and they might not see an oncoming vehicle.
I'm a retired teacher in US & I find it fascinating that students are the same universally. They all act the same as kids no matter their country, race, or religion!😊
I’m a teacher and I would have to remind my first graders all the time. All 4 legs of the chair on the floor! I would threaten them they would crack open their head! A few have hit their head pretty hard but no blood!
I love teaching, but I do believe it is a calling.
My question is, "Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?"
@Stephen Gresser who sang that song and do you know the lyrics? That's a very old tune!
It was sung first (I believe) by Lonnie Donegan in 1959 (before my time), but it was sung to me repeatedly by my Canadian mother - which is why I also wonder if when you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last? Pretty sure the version I heard played was by the Irish Rovers, never actually heard the Smarties commercial's version other than from Mom.
I was told by my parents I was found in the Bull Rushes ,when I asked that question that all parents fear “ Dad where do I come from “.
If a person makes a face at someone, and someone else slaps them on the back, their face will stay that way. Watching too much TV will weaken your eyes.
I was told when I didn't want to eat my vegetables I would disappear. My family would pretend they couldn't see me. It was awful.
Instead of square eyes, at least for me in America, I was told that I would damage my eyes if I stood too close to the TV or like watched it for too long. My dad always yelled at me when I was younger for turning on the lights inside the car while he was driving, he always told me he’d get in trouble if they were on.
We had a teacher in high school who would sneak up behind someone leaning back in their chair and push them all the way down to the floor! It was fabulous watching the look on their face!
It’s so hard to see at night, if someone turns the interior light on. Or.... maybe I’m just old🤷♀️😂
I was told a lot of these. The face deal had nothing about the wind for me. It was if you made an ugly face it could freeze like that. My seed lie was usually watermelon seeds, but we southerners spit them usually as contest for distance. My parents told me the truth about the car light. It made it hard to drive at night. Especially in rural areas with no street lights.
I remember scraping gum off desks and it was repulsive. We were told a watermelon would grow in you if you swallowed the seeds. My peers and I were told off for rocking in the chairs at school. For the t.v one I was told my mind would turn to mush if I watch too much.
I was told most of these lies, too. I was also told that if I sat on my knees, my legs would grow crooked.
My daughter went to university to become a teacher and was in her last year when she had to do her first semester of student teaching. She changed her major after that semester to something else. I asked her why and she said...I don’t want to go to prison for killing some smarta***d brat.
It is just my school but we don’t call detentions detentions instead we call them consequences and years and not called years but called cohorts
I was in school in the 70s and 80s, I graduated HS in 1986. I remember most of these too, except we didn't use fountain pens. I once witnessed a boy when I was in grade school tip his chair, fall a crack his head open on the floor, never tipped back again after that. I heard you'd go blind if you sat too close to the TV, and televisions way back were large tall boxes with small round screens maybe the size of a plate. My father called it the boob tube! The wind one never heard, but if you make a face it would freeze that way. The light in the car was because at night the glare from the inside light could keep you from seeing an oncoming car, my mother always yelled if someone turned on the light! I taught Pre-K for 24 years!
I was the kid that leaned too far back and cracked my head open. Bled everywhere no one leaned back in the chairs for the rest of the year. I got 8 stitches, and have never leaned back in a chair since.
When I was a child and ate watermelon, my grand parent would tell us not to swallow the seeds or a watermelon plant would grow out our ears.
One of my daughter's friends was learning back in her chair and fell, breaking her arm. She was a champion Scottish Highland dancer, and this happened a couple of weeks before a championship competition. So, yeah, don't lean back in your chairs.
Thanks for the claps haha, I actually teach English as a second language and I always recommend my upper intermediate students to watch your youtube channel in order that they can enhance their listening skills.
They really love your channel since you both have a good sense of humour. Keep up the good work!
1. Go get me the left handed screwdriver.
2. Get me the 2x4 stretcher.
3. Would you go get me a bucket of steam?
4. I don't understand....
You cut it twice and it's still too short? How did that happen?
I was 12 when number 4 happened. I'm 47 now and my father still doesn't let me live that down! He has the memory of an elephant!!!
But I still gotta love him!
Can't say I didn't deserve that one. He got me good on that one!
My daughter and I laughed at so many of these. I live in California, USA, and was told so many of these. It was fun reliving childhood.
I’m from Kentucky, USA and I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos! Please keep them coming! Sending love to you both