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Old Mothers Tales ?
Topic Started: Feb 7 2007, 11:10 AM (264 Views)
doc nick
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last night the misses let the kids have something to eat as a snack before bed, they all wanted bananas.

she said no as it gives you nightmares.

is there any truth in this as my mother used to say this as well.

as you can see i'm board today. :D
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hootanany
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Very bad at night Binds your stomache so me mam says cheese give you nightmares
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doc nick
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hootanany
Feb 7 2007, 11:11 AM
Very bad at night Binds your stomache so me mam says cheese give you nightmares

yeah my old mom used to say that about cheese as well, i wonder if theve ever test ed it scientificaly.
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hootanany
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I think i will experment on myself tonight
first of all i will use a babybell as the benchmark and gradually progress to some caminbert shall advise on all data recieved

Over and Under

Hoots
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jassyblue80
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I love old wives tales... they are all rubbish :P rub a gold ring on a sty on your eye was one I was told recently... yes ok i will rub some tatty old ring on an already infected eye ;)
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Blue64
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rubbing butter on a bump on the head, the smell was bad
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hootanany
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when you knock your funny bone you have to knock the other one Poppycock
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davekermito
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"Eat your crusts they'll make your hair curly."

Precisely the reason I'm not eating them mom.
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davekermito
Feb 7 2007, 12:20 PM
"Eat your crusts they'll make your hair curly."

Precisely the reason I'm not eating them mom.

I got told that one too. I am extremely glad it didn't work now. :)
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brasillia
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:LMAO:
Here's a good one especially for my husband!
Dont drink too many pints you will mistake the wardrobe for the toilet!
or pee up the curtains.
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brasillia
Feb 7 2007, 01:34 PM
:LMAO:
Here's a good one especially for my husband!
Dont drink too many pints you will mistake the wardrobe for the toilet!
or pee up the curtains.

thats not a tale just what old wives have to say :P
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Try Winnie's

http://www.whimsy.org.uk/memories_mother.html

Here's some from her site:

MOTHER SAYS DON'T...

...pick that up and eat it - you don't know where it's been!

...smoke in public.

...wear jewellery that makes a noise.

...wear black underwear.

...get your nose pierced.

...wear so much make-up - you don't need it at your age.

...spend so much time in the sun, or you'll look old before your time.

...don't start shaving your legs now, or you'll have bristles to deal with forever after.

...pluck that grey hair out, or you'll get six more in its place.


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patti03
Feb 7 2007, 02:04 PM
Try Winnie's

http://www.whimsy.org.uk/memories_mother.html

Here's some from her site:

MOTHER SAYS DON'T...

...pick that up and eat it - you don't know where it's been!

...smoke in public.

...wear jewellery that makes a noise.

...wear black underwear.

...get your nose pierced.

...wear so much make-up - you don't need it at your age.

...spend so much time in the sun, or you'll look old before your time.

....


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should this be how not to be a chav ;)
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From the Telegraph:

''This myth may have originated from Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge, who blamed "a crumb of cheese" on his night-time visitations. Or its origins may lie with a Fifties' health scare when cheese was found to be problematic for people taking a certain anti-depressant. "

and also here:

http://www.sturnidae.com/OWT001.php

One respondent made several pertinent points.

The nature of dreams is such that you usually don't remember them unless you wake up in one. The way that dreams are interpreted depends a great deal on your immediate circumstances (e.g. the dream ending in an explosion when woken by heavy banging).
Eating anything particularly heavy before going to bed is more likely to wake you up through the night. And you may wake up with some abdominal discomfort and even abdominal noises.
Cheese (particularly cooked cheese) can be quite heavy on the stomach.
Putting these together you may well wake up in the middle of a dream. Your conscious interpretation of the dream will then depend on circumstances ... and since you may be experiencing abdominal discomfort or odd noises for no apparent reason, these could cause a dream to be interpreted in a particularly frightening way. Eating cheese before going to bed won't inevitably give you nightmares. It'll depend on many other factors, including how susceptible you are. Similarly, eating other difficult-to-digest foods (onions for instance) may also have the same effect.

Another respondent reported:

"I find that if I eat cheese after about 21:00hrs, then I have a very poor night's sleep. Not particularly nightmares, but excessive dreaming and largely about workaday problems. Stronger the cheese the more marked the effect, but blue cheese doesn't make it any worse unless it's more mature.

I also seem to recollect that there are know psychotropic agents in cheese (also Marmite and some canned fish) that must not be taken alongside some prescribed drugs."

From the BBC:

Foods containing tyramine (bacon, cheese, ham, aubergines, pepperoni, raspberries avocado, nuts, soy sauce, red wine) might keep you awake at night. Tyramine causes the release of norepinephrine, a brain stimulant.

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It wasn't really an old mothers tale - but my mom always used to say...

"what you want and what you get are two different things."

Always stumped me when I was young - because guess what... she was right.
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Getting arthritus (SP)? if you keep clicking your fingers is another, a mate at work has very, very clicky joints, like his knees, elbows, neck and back whilst he was at the doctors one time he asked if he would suffer bad arthritus but was told that it was only on old wifes tale. lol...
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a true one is, me dad told me never to drink more than 15 pints a night or it makes you keep getting up for a pish - it is spookily true, although barnettsrun didn't believe it and look at the state of his jeans now.... :rolleyes:
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What about the "Waking Someone up who's sleep walking will cause them to have a heart attack & die" one?

I know my mum always used to say that.

True Story - once, while on leave from Navy & staying at Mum & Dads house, I had drunk an "awful lot" of beer. Walked into parents bedroom at 3 am, stark naked - "sleep walking".
Turned on bedroom light, open dads wardrobe, then "relieved myself" before going back to bed.

Didn't remember a thing about it the next day, but my mum didn't try to wake me up during the "deed", so maybe she believed it (God rest her soul :kiss: )

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proccysotv
Feb 7 2007, 06:49 PM
a true one is, me dad told me never to drink more than 15 pints a night or it makes you keep getting up for a pish - it is spookily true, although barnettsrun didn't believe it and look at the state of his jeans now.... :rolleyes:

:LMAO:
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jassyblue80
Feb 7 2007, 01:59 PM
brasillia
Feb 7 2007, 01:34 PM
:LMAO:
Here's a good one especially for my husband!
Dont drink too many pints you will mistake the wardrobe for the toilet!
or pee up the curtains.

thats not a tale just what old wives have to say :P

:whistle: :whistle: and not just your husband.......... :lager: .

only one can remember was my mom telling me If you keep fiddling with that you will go blind (bl**dy liar)

and im living proof :D
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tubcfc
Feb 7 2007, 08:20 PM


only one can remember was my mom telling me If you keep fiddling with that you will go blind (bl**dy liar)

and im living proof :D

now i know why the_bear wears thick glasses and walks a labrador..... :D
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rob
Feb 7 2007, 07:03 PM
What about the "Waking Someone up who's sleep walking will cause them to have a heart attack & die" one?

I know my mum always used to say that.

True Story - once, while on leave from Navy & staying at Mum & Dads house, I had drunk an "awful lot" of beer. Walked into parents bedroom at 3 am, stark naked - "sleep walking".
Turned on bedroom light, open dads wardrobe, then "relieved myself" before going back to bed.

Didn't remember a thing about it the next day, but my mum didn't try to wake me up during the "deed", so maybe she believed it (God rest her soul :kiss: )

Not quite as bad, but on holiday after a few (and only a few) beers, 'woke up' in the night went to the table in the hotel room, opened the drawer and took a slash!

My missus did wake me up but it takes a good couple of minutes for your brain to tell you what you've just done and even then it's quite hard to understand why!

Needless to say the missus was hardly impressed!

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I used to get told the "Eat your crusts, your hair will go curly" and for years and years i would never eat them :D

and also "Dont eat Cheese before you go bed it will give you nightmares" So i ate a plate of cheese :ph43r: and i didnt even have a dream, well not one i can remember anyway
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doc nick
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an old wives tale thats true.

"touch me there again and i'll break your neck"

guess what,? i'm now sitting here in a neck brace. ;)
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jassyblue80
Feb 7 2007, 02:23 PM
patti03
Feb 7 2007, 02:04 PM
Try Winnie's

http://www.whimsy.org.uk/memories_mother.html

Here's some from her site:

MOTHER SAYS DON'T...

...pick that up and eat it - you don't know where it's been!

...smoke in public.

...wear jewellery that makes a noise.

...wear black underwear.

...get your nose pierced.

...wear so much make-up - you don't need it at your age.

...spend so much time in the sun, or you'll look old before your time.

....


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should this be how not to be a chav ;)

Haha, indeed **thumbup
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