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9 Things Your Parents Used to Tell You When You Were Young That Are Lies

2016-08-22 , 1:31 pm

You know how when we were young, our parents will usually tell us things to scare us into behaving?

If you’re a kid who lived in the 90’s, you’ll definitely have heard some of these before.

Here are 10 things your parents used to tell you when you’re young that are, well, lies.

Study hard, you’ll get a good job and wife when you grow up.

Then when you grow up, you realise that an education is just an invitation to an interview, not getting the job. And most of the millionaires in the world today are school dropouts.

If you leave rice grains on your plate, your wife or husband will have pimples

Everyone should be familiar with this. Finish your rice or your wife in the future will be mo peng.

Don’t point at the moon or Chang Er will come down and cut your ears off

Ever tried pointing at the moon at night when you’re young? Your mum will hit your arm down and tell you that Chang ‘er will come for your ears if you do that.

When you grew up, you realise that the people who stepped on the moon never found any beautiful lady at all.

Ah Bu Neh Neh will come and catch you

And sell you away.

Your face will get stuck if the wind changes direction

You have that irritating habit of sticking out your tongue at people, including your mum because it’s fun. You stop because it’s not fun to have your tongue sticking out all day.

Sticking chopsticks into your bowl of rice, something will come and find you

Remember that video of the old auntie at the ulu stall?

Police will come and catch you if you do anything wrong

If they come for everything, where got time to catch the real thief?

I’ll sell you to garang guni

Because we thought the garang guni buy everything, including little kids.

Babies come from the dustbin

Asians are not great at giving The Talk, and when confronted with the question: Mummy, mummy! Where do children come from?

The answer is usually the dustbin. Confirm.

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