Myths You Believed.

[leigh white]

26 minutes ago, bolton_blondie said:

That if you took the head off a dandelion you'd piss the bed. What the fuck. 

Don't destroy your dandelions in the garden, all the bees will cease and die, and fucked for a jar of honey in Home Bargains.

[Rudy]

40 minutes ago, bolton_blondie said:

Used to believe my Dad when I asked where Mum was 

'Ran off with a black man' 

Racist bastard 😂

Let me know if she fancies a run 

[bolton_blondie]

5 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Let me know if she fancies a run 

I've told you before FUCK OFF. 

[White on Tyne]

If you put blotting paper in your shoes you’d faint. 

[Duck Egg]

A place I used to work we were having bacon buttys on a Friday and this lass was bemoaning the fact that the bread was warm.  "Warm bread gives you really bad belly ache" she says.

After a bit of questioning on this theory it turned out 30 years previously her dad was a Baker and she'd drop off some of his orders at local shops.  He'd told her this so she wouldn't be tempted nibbling on some of the goods.

[leigh white]

Working in a blacksmiths shop sat on an anvil. An old geezer shouted, get the fuck off that, you will get piles.

[boogs]

6 minutes ago, leigh white said:

Working in a blacksmiths shop sat on an anvil. An old geezer shouted, get the fuck off that, you will get piles.

I always got told that when sitting on the big steel tubes as an apprentice. 

[leigh white]

1 minute ago, boogs said:

I always got told that when sitting on the big steel tubes as an apprentice. 

It came true when I was 19, on a trip down to London, I was in agony with the Nobby Stiles.

[boogs]

7 minutes ago, leigh white said:

It came true when I was 19, on a trip down to London, I was in agony with the Nobby Stiles.

I was also told as an apprentice that if you do get em then the best thing to do was push em back up with a ball peen hammer. 😂 

[leigh white]

1 minute ago, boogs said:

I was also told as an apprentice that if you do get em then the best thing to do was push em back up with a ball peen hammer. 😂 

Had suppositories up my shitter at the time in 73, never had any problems since.

[Traf]

3 hours ago, Mr Grey said:

Carling was a good pint in 1998

Nobody ever believed that one, though.

[Mona]

Butter on a burn 🥴

vinegar on a bee sting

rub a gold ring on a stye

dock leaf on a nettle sting

Bread poultice on a boil 

and wash your hair in beer and vinegar to make it shine

all courtesy of my neighbour Mrs Lowe who would now be 122 years old 

and the best of all

which is not a myth but a fact

peeling a hot boiled egg

 

tap to crack shell

peel under running cold water

find the membrane

then peel thru the membrane and running water

works with all eggs , even quails eggs which are notoriously difficult

not that I cook quails eggs 

chefs tip of the day 

Edited April 18, 2021 by Mona