Strange ideas

[EDDIE51]

I wonder what strange ideas you have come across recently in other people ?
Today I overheard a girl in an off licence explaining to the shopkeeper that Vodka would not show up on a breath test !
I interrupted her to tell her she was talking absolute rubbish, she was convinced for some reason that Vodka had some special property that made it 'invisible' to a breathalyser. She was quite put out to be told her pet theory was wrong . What if any strange beliefs have you lot come across ?
I don't mean religious ones !by the way.

[craft1948]

One of my daughter's schoolfriends was convinced you couldn't get pregnant if you did it standing up......

[micmak]

That you can't get pregnant the first time you "Do It".

[EDDIE51]

I have heard both of those two myths myself.

[askyourgran]

That you get curly hair if you eat your crusts.

[Hopkirk]

That some fat guy in a red suit brings you presents.

[SpikeyBush]

My mum didn't trust Tony Blair because his eyes were too close together. I didn't trust him either, but not for that reason!

The trouble & strife has strange ideas over itchy palms. "Left to give, right to receive". This works alright. My left palm itches, I have to give money to someone. My right palm itches, some other sod receives money after handing me a bill for something.

[owdhamer]

I could never get through to my father that a moggie was not a mouse.

[MarkRae]

Presumably your father was from Lancashire, where moggy is indeed slang for mouse.

[owdhamer]

You learn something everyday markrae

[EDDIE51]

My Mum was a fan of the eat your crusts to make your hair curl as well, first time I have remebered that in many years. I actually liked crusts best part of the bread as far as I was concerned but my hair was and is straight.
I remember being told the ichy palms one as well.
What triggered this question was the post from someone who thought a learner could drive a car as long as the cars owner was over 25 and had had a licence for 2 years,( along with the Vodka girl ).

[ojread2]

That a pregnant woman can pee in a policeman's helmet

I've not heard that variation of the Vodka thing, just that it can't (rubbish) be smelt on the breath. Believe me when I say it can be - eeuuwww

[EDDIE51]

ojread2 the pee in a policeman's helmet is no myth it is true, there have been recent demands to ban it as an insult to police men
http://www.telegraph....ment-its-the-law.html
Also if you die in parliament they have to give you a state funeral according to the same artical

[sandyRoe]

If you accidentally eat the pips of an apple they will grow inside you and eventually kill you.

[ojread2]

it is a misinterpretation of that very old law
http://www.policespec...ge__hl__peeing+helmet

[Mosaic]

A family down the road from us was convinced that net curtains stopped people seeing in at night as well as in daytime. I even got the eldest girl to stand outside in the road while I waved at her from her bedroom, but she still would not believe that people could see her getting undressed.
Made a lot of chaps very happy though.

[Craftypig]

Tooth fairy......

[weecalf]

heard somebody say say both alan and jimmy carr were funny

[EvianBaby]

I had a friend that believed drinking diet Coke actually made you lose weight.

[tiggerblue10]

I thought moggy was a cat. Never heard the mouse thing.