When the channel tunnel was as built, we were going to be invaded by rabid dogs off of the continent. What similarly amusing tripe do you remember from way back when?
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When the channel tunnel was as built, we were going to be invaded by rabid dogs off of the continent. What similarly amusing tripe do you remember from way back when?
by Ambersfruityhobbies
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Chewing gum would stick to your ribs if you swallowed it.
If you sit too close to the TV, you’ll get square eyes.
The two pound coin would devalue the one pound coin by flooding the market with too many twos.
Apparently not swimming straight after eating is bollocks.
I think it’s not advisable to swim straight after a 12 course tasting menu with wine pairings, but I grew up thinking if you stepped in a pool within an hour of consuming anything, you’d better have put your affairs in order first.
Don’t’ Swallow apple pips a tree will grow in your Tummy
Y2K bug will cause a world disaster
That quicksand was going to be an ever present threat to my life.
At school, I learned not to answer the question,’What’s the capital of Thailand?’ Unless I wanted to be hoofed in the bollocks.
Acid Rain…. They were always talking about acid rain
As a kid in the 1970’s, it seemed the biggest hazards were:
1. Rabies
2. Crossing the road
3. Deep water
4. Electricity pylons
5. Quicksand
It’s amazing how many of us made it to adulthood!
Didn’t they put in electric floor sections to prevent animals entering?
Badgers eat mashed potatoes.
We had a school project to design lethal animal traps to stop the rabid wildlife coming to the UK. There were a lot of drawings with kitchen knives on springs.
The world was going to end in the year 2000. For multiple reasons 😂
I remember the big panic in January 2020 was the invasion of murder hornets, until something else took over the news in February.
You could get high from smoking dried banana skin
If you give pigeons rice they will explode
If you go cockeyed when the wind changes direction they will stay like that.
Everyone’s washing machines were going to stop working at midnight December 31st 1999.
Every can of Spice Girls branded Impulse spray included one drop of genuine Spice Girl sweat.
The Beastie Boys did not signal the end of western civilisation.
If I keep messing with it, it will fall off.
It’s still here and I’m still messing with it
The grades you get will determine your future. 🙄
I remember when the Bermuda triangle was a no holds barred arena of death
When the channel tunnel was built, you could take a train from your nearest mainline station, and with one change at a hub in Northern France, we could get another train to major cities throughout Europe.
If you didn’t let my mum take the splinter out of your hands then a tree would grow in your finger and you would forever be known as Treehands and bullied mercilessly for it. It was bad enough I had NHS specs and was called 4 eyes or twisty eyes all the time but adding treehands to that would result in literal school death!
If you put your hand out of the car window while the car was moving, it would immediately get sliced off by a tree.
Mobile phones gave you cancer in the early naughties.
Sunny Delight turns kids orange.
If you google ‘google’ you’ll break it.
Mobile phones give you brain cancer.
That there was a guy who took LSD and ended up permanently believing he was an orange and people were trying to peel him, or that he believed he was a glass of orange juice and was forever terrified of being knocked over…
Didnt work, I took a load of acid in the 90s and had some amazing times!
That we’d be swamped with people walking through the tunnel to get into the country.
20 years ago I went to the Maldives because they “would be underwater in a couple of years”.
Speaking of the channel tunnel, the first one was started and then cancelled because of genuine fears that the French would use it to invade. Those Victorians, eh?
that unoxyenated blood is blue (it’s not, the viens appear blue because of light refracting through the skin, blue light is scattered more by skin and blood vessles so the reflected light appears blue), I got into a full blown argument with a teacher over this, said teacher quickly changed their tune when my ex-nurse mother came in and set them right
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