But it is way ahead of what ever is in second place.
“We’ll see”
Aw man, that always means no.
However, with my parents, this only applied to “if what you want is a traditional female role”, that is, as long as I wanted to be a wife and mother, or a nurse, or a secretary, I could be one of those options. If I wanted to work in a male role, then no, that wasn’t appropriate.
I think that from about 12 until I was about 18 were my most miserable years, and everyone kept telling me that they were supposed to be the happiest years of my life. I still have problems with depression, but not nearly as bad as when I was in my teens.
Negative things single parents sometimes say to our kids about the other parent. And that parent’s new love.
Time heals all wounds.
No, it doesn’t. Not the deep ones anyway.
“Wine makes mummy clever”
“If you put a piece of ham in Daddy’s DVD player it will play a short film about pigs”
From here.
Are you telling me it wouldn’t be great to be Pope and an NBA player at the same time?
My (shameful) contribution as a smoker is “I just need to make a quick phone call/check the mail/get something from the car/take the trash out.”
Anything in life is really fair.
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Been there! As if they can’t smell it all over you, eh?
Ahem,
Hey! I didn’t say that, you dirty quote nester!!
“It’s very important that you know how to multiply fractions. Adults do it all the time.”
(And a host of similar lies concerning the quadratic formula, balancing chemical equations, memorizing the names of all 44 American Presidents, and the majority of other things that we teach kids in school.)
USCDiver didn’t say it,
did.
It’s my trick finger’s fault.
And, money allows one the freedom to choose the circumstances of one’s misery. I’d rather be miserable on a beach drinking a mai tai than miserable living under a bridge.
I was told that thunder and lightning come from clouds bumping into each other.
Believed that for years, I did.
That one is not a lie. It’s not invariably true, but in my experience, more bullies are chickenshit than not.
–StR, former bully
My high school French teacher said that to me once when I was in the throes of a depression. I burst into tears immediately and went down to the school newspaper office, where my journalism teacher straightened me right out. She said, “Forget what Mrs. FrenchTeacher said, she’s a bitter old hag. Trust me. It will get better. The older you get, the better it gets.”
She was right.
As far as big fat lies I was told:
•That will go down on your permanent record.
•We took the dog to go live on a nice farm.
• The tooth fairy will put money under my pillow if I leave my teeth there.
• When you finish all your chores, we will take you to the lake.
And rain was angels crying because somebody sinned.
“You’re special” should always end with “to me” or “to us.”
OK, I’ve never been called upon to recite the names of the presidents, especially in order, or to solve a quadratic equation as an adult. I’ve found it’s USEFUL to recognize a presidential name and the approximate time that they guy was president.
However, as an adult, I multiplied fractions all day long for about 10 years, each work day. I still frequently multiply fractions.
In high school, one of my science teachers said that we didn’t have to memorize most of the science data that we’d use in that class. The teacher said that in real life, scientists just looked that stuff up when they needed to know it. This guy also did NOT require us to keep a notebook. He said that doing so would benefit US, but that he wasn’t going to collect them and grade us on them. He let us have “open book” tests…that is, we could look stuff up in our text books, notebooks, and returned papers during tests, as that was the way that scientists and engineers did it in real life.
He also handed out some mimeographs of humor and interesting/useful facts. One of these little bits of wisdom was “Hot glass looks EXACTLY the same as cold glass”. Another was “Before calling for repairs, make sure it’s plugged in”. Both of those phrases have served me well over the years.
Oh lord, here we go. You mean…it doesn’t?
I know it’s silly, but I just realized I never made the effort to graduate from that childhood explanation.