Lies Your Parents Told YouI once overheard a neighbour use the phrase "nig nog". I asked my father what it meant. As quick as a flash he said, "It's a type of biscuit. A bit like a hobnob." Can you beat this? BTW: We're keeping this thread open for an extra week as we're enjoying the stories so much.
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Fraser has joined the Moomins., Wed 14 Jan 2004, 13:29)
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Not so much a lie by my parents but still a lie nonethelessMy parents are fairly religious and thus I had a religious upbringing. When I was perhaps about 10 or 11 I had started playing D&D with a friend down the road. This was fine with them until some cretin from the church told them that it had the same effects as using a ouija board. When they passed this on to me I was savvy enough by then to know otherwise. However my dad stepped in during one of our games and told us to stop playing because it was evil. Of course I was used to this claptrap but I was still mortified at my friend having to hear my father's misinformed rantings...
We never played D&D again.
And thus were planted the seeds of cynicism against parental advice that later germinated and flourished during my teenage years.
Parents be warned, you reap what you sow!
(, Thu 15 Jan 2004, 13:15, Reply)
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