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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My Parents....For some reason, would lie to me when they weren't quite sure how to explain something. Take the A-Team for example. Many of you probably grew up on the A-Team, taking the examples set by B. A, Face, Hannibal et al, and applying their good natured banter and skewiff politics to your adult life, making you generally well rounded with an affinity to repeat 'I pity da FOOL' every six seconds.
Not I. No, I was not allowed to watch the A-Team, because of the sheer violence and blood in it. Now, being a child, I watched it anyway at my friends houses, and until last year, I was completely baffled as to my Mum and Dad's explaination of why I couldn't watch it. Last year they admitted that it was because it wasn't realistic enough! They would have preferred me to watch Barberella (which they sat me down for when I was 7 - I was terrified) than have a slanted view of the effects of violence (one example - A helicopter crashes into the side of a mountain. Both passengers and the pilot get out, cough, brush their clothes off and wander down, using their guns to aim at everything BUT the A-Team.)
I see their point, but why deprive me of a childhood essential?
edit:apologies for the massive post and lack of humour.
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