Fesshole 🧻
When my kids were small I used to make up silly stories to wind them up. My son ,now 20, has just told me that he spent years of his childhood in abject terror because I had told him he might die of poisoning if he swallowed too much toothpaste when brushing his teeth.
Jun 6 at 10:20pmWeb
Show threadLunar 🛸 ♾Jun 6
@fesshole My dad told me once that there were little creatures that lived in the sand beneath the shallow water at the beach. These creatures had razor-sharp teeth and would chomp the bottom of your foot.
Put me off paddling for years, that.
Show threadI love this, so IJun 6
@fesshole it’s true though, via fluoride poisoning. Unless you’re the kind of idiot who buys fluoride-free toothpaste because you don’t want to keep your teeth
Show threadInc Hulk 🧪Jun 7
@jpm @fesshole Not true, despite the silly FB stuff about it, a kid would need to swallow about 50 tubes worth of toothpaste in one go for the fluoride to be lethal.
Show threadI love this, so IJun 8
@IncHulk @fesshole yes that’s what I said, it can kill you if you swallow too much (however unlikely it is)
Show threadMelissa BearTrixJun 6

@fesshole
@VWDasher

I wish I had kids to do this too ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

Show threadKaren D 🇨🇦Jun 7
@fesshole
I told my kids that green things weighed more than red things.
And I told them macaroni and cheese (their fav) came out of the kitchen tap and was kept in the big, town water tower. They called it the Mac&cheese tower into adulthood.
Show threadBoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺Jun 7
@fesshole Don't lie to your children.
Show threadKaren D 🇨🇦Jun 7

@BoneHouseWasps @fesshole

Party pooper

Show threadQueen FaunJun 7
@BoneHouseWasps @fesshole While they might not die from the amount on a toothbrush, swallowing toothpaste can definitely make you seriously ill so I wouldn't call it a lie so much as an exaggeration
Show threadcheesemergencyJun 7
@ackthrice @BoneHouseWasps @fesshole yeah, it does say to contact poison control if you swallow more than used for brushing.
Show threadBoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺Jun 7

@makeitmythic @ackthrice @fesshole it does, yes but you have to wonder why that warning was put on there. I suspect it's likely because of the hysteria over fluoride rather than any actual public health reason. Fluoride is naturally occurring and we don't have such warnings in the UK. Not on my tube, anyway. 😁

However my point was more about lying to your kids in general. It's a bad idea, bordering on cruel. The little idiots will believe just about anything you tell them and they're relying on you to tell them how the world works. People abuse this fact constantly.

Show threadcheesemergencyJun 7
@BoneHouseWasps @ackthrice @fesshole idk, itd probably make you sick. i dont agree with lying to anyone as a matter of course, but i also didnt believe everything i was told as a child.
Show threadVon XylofonJun 7

@BoneHouseWasps @fesshole Do lie to them, actually, but make it so that they can see through it, and make it a challenge for them to call you out on it. They develop the skill to tell when someone's lying to them with an ulterior motive then.

My kid can tell immediately when I'm pulling on their leg, or at least they get suspicious when something doesn't add up.

Show thread13 barn owls in a trenchcoatJun 8
@fesshole What Remains of Edith Finch (2019)