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[4getmenot]

When you were young what crazy sayings did your parents have that even though you hated back then you know you will use on your children? If I'd hurt myself I'd say to mum it hurts when I do this� and she'd say 'don't do it then' lol

[liquidspace]

"If you dont wash you neck, you'll grow carrots on it!"

[annie0000]

bike is it - i'll bike you

[natalie_1982]

This is the ultimate weird / freaky thing that my nan used to sng to me. Funnily enough she and my grandad were happily married and she didn't murder him:
"Granded Alec ain't no good
Chop him up for fire wood
When he's dead, we'll boil his head
And turn him into lava bread"

It was to the tune of "Horsey, Horsey don't you stop, just let you feet go clippedy clop, your tail goes swish, etc etc".

Does anyone know that song or was my nan a psycho?

[annie0000]

carrots on you neck? potatoes in your ears surely!

[4getmenot]

your nan is a psycho

[4getmenot]

If the wind changes your face will stay like that

[Lore]

aaaah, following on from that 4get, I get my children to slice or share it themselves...... out come the scales, set squares, rulers, never before have I found that any number is divisible by 3 - without remainders!

[annie0000]

On leaving the door open - "were you born in a field?" The answer to Mum - "you should know, you were there!" was usually countered with - "nah! somebody left you on the step and we took you in as cheap labour" you just can't win with parents - I often used to wonder if it was true! Also got - "you'd make a better door than a window".

[redcrx]

lore, if there were just 2 of us sharing something, mum would let one cut it and the other choose which bit they wanted. Everything was always cut in true halves then

[johnlambert]

My step mum always told me to wear clean underwear becauase if I got run over by a bus, she didn't want the doctors and nurses thinking I came from a dirty house. When I explaned rthat if I were hit by a bus then my underpants would instantly become very very dirty!!!

[Lore]

I remember .. Oi, horse $hit, shift!

always in the road :(

[natalie_1982]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Society-and-Cul ture/People-and-Places/Question120182.html

4get, I asked this question a few years ago, I forgot about it until I just googled my nan's poem. I am not the only one with a psycho granny!

[confused79]

My mum used to say if i ws crying over something, or if she had told me off for something and i cried she would say.
'keep crying and ill give you something to cry for'
I never really understood that very contraditory i think.
But i do hear myself sayign it sometimes to my children, i cringe when i remind myself of my mum and what she used to say, cos i am now sayign the same things. lol

[radiogaga]

my grandfather would say houd yer wisht if i was crying.
translated as be quiet. scots dialect.
yes i do repeat it.

[Answer Guru]

natalie 1982 i have heard that two but dont know where i dont have a face in my mind just those words lol....
if you pick your nose your brains will fall out!!!
if me or my sister asked what was for dinner my dad would say pump handles!!! what are these????

[radiogaga]

or close your mouth the flies will get in.. usually after id seen something / someone which made my jaw drop.

[natalie_1982]

If someone picked their nose my dad would say "Wave when you reach the bridge"

[redcrx]

my mums answer to 'whats for tea?' was

'wait-and-see pie'

[Answer Guru]

another one for "whats for tea" is "ifits!!!" where we would reply "whats ifits" and she would say "ifits in the cupboard we'll eat it!!"

[natalie_1982]

My hubby was always told "Sh*t and sugar" when asking what was for tea. Delightful.