I ran up to my mom once, completely serious and said, "Mom! I know why all fat people are short. They use up all their skin!"
I felt like a genius until she laughed so hard she fell on the floor and peed a little.
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I ran up to my mom once, completely serious and said, "Mom! I know why all fat people are short. They use up all their skin!"
I felt like a genius until she laughed so hard she fell on the floor and peed a little.
I thought that I'd die of cancer because that's my zodiac sign and nobody could convince me otherwise.
That male orgasm was painful. I got this idea from seeing their o-face somewhere and assuming it indicated pain.
New York city was the size of the whole state. Like the entire thing looked like manhattan.
That the world used to be black and white. I once asked how the people making The Wizard of Oz knew when the world was going to change, so they could film the movie correctly.
That a bon fire was a "bomb" fire and therefore, very loud and very dangerous.
That God exists
That we have cables instead of veins inside.
That before I was born cars had the exhaust pipe on the front (in fact I used to draw cars that way).
At some point I also believed that we were born as monkeys and we evolved as we grew up.
I scraped my knee and thought that putting skin-coloured paint on it would heal it
When I was a young lad I thought milk was cow pee and was super confused by the world.
That all television, even live action, was just made by someone who could draw really fast.
The 'H' signs to indicate a hospital was indicating there was a helicopter pad.
Most humans have good ethics and beliefs. The more I grow, the more I'm disappointed in our society.
My grandmother told me England was not part of the European continent. I got an answer wrong on a test because of that. She refused admit she was wrong even after I showed her in my text book.
England is not a part of the Eurasian continent nor a part of Continental Europe. Itβs on the Isle of Great Britain, which is an island, not a continent. She refused to admit she was wrong because she was right and your textbook was wrong.
I thought the glyph for "heated seat" in cars depicted a raised fist with the pinkie finger extended rather than a chair with heat waves eminating from it.
The Tea at the Treedome episode of SpongeBob SquarePants further convinced me I was seeing it correctly, and I since knew it as "the fancy button". In some regard, I wasn't entirely wrong.
"When in doubt, pinkie out!"
I believed that for very small creatures (like ants) time was faster.
that if we break tv's screen , tv charecters can get out of it and we can enter tv
This sounded like it led to an expensive life lesson.
Premises:
Conclusion:
They lie about the WEATHER!?
They frequently do! Like when they report on catastrophic flooding by finding a stopped up drain and standing in it ankle deep and shouting about how awful it is as cars drive by behind them on the slightly wet roads.
That bonzai was Japanese for "fire", and therefore you should never shout "Bonzai!" in a theater.
...Yeah, I'm not sure what I was smoking either.
Not me, but I have heard that kids used to think 'olden times' were black & white, because all old films were before the introduction of colour. Like, it's only in the last 80? years that people see in colour...
It makes me giggle when modern movies use b&w to depict pre 21st century, or even 'flashbacks' are b&w
Actors are dying... for real.
I remember thinking they probably just found actors who wanted to die anyway
That all adults are smokers.
In kindergarden, when one kid was about to hit another, the other kid would say "if you hit me, you have to pay the health insurance!". None of us had any idea what that could mean, and I have no idea where that idea came from, but it worked, because to us, that sounded bad.
Some of my class mates thought that wrestling was real, and a few of them thought there was a place in the US where it was legally possible to kill a man during a wrestling match. They were quite offended when I told them how ridiculous that notion sounded to me.
That we had to pay our employer to get a job.
Pretty common belief among stupid 7-year-olds, I think; humans couldn't see colour up to the mid-60s.
That there were little gnomes inside the doors of the cars and that they were in charge of raising and lowering the windows, especially in the automatic cars.
The semaphore homunculus lived in the stop lights at intersections.
In my Superman onesie (w/ cape), I could fly, but was never brave enough to launch from a high enough step on the stairs. I knew I was flying, but...