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If your dad didn’t tell you outrageous lies in answer to your childhood questions about the world, have they even been to dadding class?
It isn’t just dads, though. People convince other people of mad stuff all the time. Never forget that red bus and the blue passports.
When comedian Stevie Martin asked a question on the topic of gullibility, she even threw in an example.
what’s the maddest thing someone got you to believe? an ex convinced me Manuka honey is made by special bees that walk on land like dogs 10/10 best part of that relationship by a billion miles
— Stevie Martin (@5tevieM) November 16, 2021
So many weird mental images from that. Here are the best answers we spotted, but go and check out the thread and quote tweets, because it’s an absolute joy.
1.
As a child my friend was convincingly adamant all the surgeries and injuries on the TV show Casualty were real, and actors really suffered for their art
— Greg Jenner (@greg_jenner) November 17, 2021
2.
When I was 14 a physics teacher was discussing storms, and I mentioned that thunder is caused by clouds banging together. I managed to laugh it off as "a joke", but my dad had told that once, and I'd never questioned it.
He pissed himself when I told him.
— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) November 16, 2021
3.
I was helping a blind man do his shopping in Ledbury Tesco back in the day and there was an announcement asking for the owner of a car reg number to come to customer services. He said it was his car, I said "is it?" and he replied "of course it's not you fucking prat. I'm blind" https://t.co/uRZEvDpoUL
— Ledbury Dan (@LedburyGas) November 17, 2021
4.
My dad convinced me there was a type of monkey called a shinal, so much so that I mentioned it in a meeting at work a few years ago (in primary education context) and everyone just looked at me like, what? https://t.co/ahwLhJkwiu
— Isabelle O'Carroll (@IsabelleOC) November 17, 2021
5.
My slowest burn was telling the kids that our cat, Dave, was so called because he was the colour ‘dave’. A sort of silvery grey blue. 16 years before one of them came banging through the door indignant at having been made to look a little foolish…!
— Not a Professor Bob (@adb62cat) November 16, 2021
6.
That Haggis was an animal with bright ginger hair that ran wild in the Scottish hills. Thanks Dad.
— Murph
(@andsmur) November 17, 2021
7.
My dad convinced me he was responsible for tank recovery in world war 2. When they’d been turned upside down he would go and right them with a big long stick / gallbladder scar was bayonet wound.
I told the teacher at school who ridiculed me. I argued and got into trouble….
— ϧɽєє౧flܮ ࿁. ҉ᵒ ͦ ₀ (@opgreenfly) November 17, 2021
8.
I was told that in Australia there’s a snake called a ‘hoop’ snake that bites its own tale,thus making a circle and can roll up hills.
Oh and a children’s tv presenter, who I can’t remember the name of, had to leave television as he had a permanent erection … !
— Laura Whittell (@Lozplops) November 18, 2021
9.
My sister told me, when I was little, the stuff you wipe from your eyes when you wake up is the poo from the bed bugs that crawl all over your face at night.
I only realised how mad it sounded, when I repeated it as a fact to my wife a few years ago.— Chris Holden (@blinky465) November 17, 2021
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