Stupid Things you believed as a kid...

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I used to believe that eating dry almonds would cause deafness, my parents would always soak them so I never questioned this and until my mid/late 20's believed it.
Around the age of 9ish (late 80's) there was a lot of media attention around CFCs. I was convinced that once the ozone layer was gone all the oxygen would escape and then everyone would die, had nightmares which involved children falpping around like fish out of water as the sun beat down.
 
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I used to believe that eating dry almonds would cause deafness, my parents would always soak them so I never questioned this and until my mid/late 20's believed it.
Around the age of 9ish (late 80's) there was a lot of media attention around CFCs. I was convinced that once the ozone layer was gone all the oxygen would escape and then everyone would die, had nightmares which involved children falpping around like fish out of water as the sun beat down.
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I feel really bad for finding this funny.
 
slashfan7964
I have a super high metabolism as well. I can load up until the point where I'm so full I keel over in pain and still don't gain any weight.
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*sigh*The same still applies. People have different appetites. If you take in more energy than you spend, you'll gain weight. The other way around, you loose weight. Applies to everyone.

The fact that you can eat until you feel full and then some, yet not gain any weight has to do with your appetite. You may eat a lot for your appetite, but still not enough to be on a stable calorie surplus.

Your feeling of fulness has absolutely nothing to do with it. Overweight people usually have the opposite problem. An appetite that requires much more food to be satisfied.

Again simplified, but the basic thing.

Anyway enough. We can make a new thread if we wish to discuss this.
 
That with the Saturday before Easter when the Churches chime, chocolate eggs would rain down. I actually went out with an umbrella upside down. Then my mum told me it is not true.

That and of course Sinterklaas. I was really disappointed when at the age of 7 I was told he really did not exist. I mean, free toys and presents :)
 
I used to believe in the boogeyman, my brother would hide in our closet and pretend to be him for the longest time. Was pretty terrifying as a kid..
 
Stupid things I believed? My dad.

Whenever we were having chips for dinner, if he came in from work as we were eating, he would tell me that there was a tiger in the garden. I would get all excited and run to the window to look. When I didn't see anything, he would sassy it must have run off. I would then discover that some of my chips had mysteriously disappeared...
 
ScouserInExile
Stupid things I believed? My dad.

Whenever we were having chips for dinner, if he came in from work as we were eating, he would tell me that there was a tiger in the garden. I would get all excited and run to the window to look. When I didn't see anything, he would sassy it must have run off. I would then discover that some of my chips had mysteriously disappeared...
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Same thing here. Except my metal untouched cheeseburger would have a huge bite taken out of it...
 
I believed that in a comic strip (Suske and Wiske) they used to quote the town I lived in, all the time.

It stated "Tiens" like "from Tienen". But actually "tiens, tiens" is French for "well, well"
 
Camaroyenko
Another thing that's very weird....
Phone messages used to scare the living crap out of me for some reason. I always thought they could jump out of the phone and chase me.

Don't ask.
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I confess that for years I was under the impression that the caller could still hear you while they left their message. I still get all quiet when this happens at other peoples' homes!

That my dad was a professional racing driver, because he drove fast all the time. This ended around the time I was 12.

That racing drivers drove their race cars to work, and drove them home.

That athletes wore their uniforms/jerseys all the time, so other people knew what they did in their days off.

That states and/or countries which had the same colors on a map, globe, or atlas were on the same "team" in terms of alliances.
 
I thought that eating chocolate cigarettes could cause the same bodily damage as smoking a real cigarette and warned all my friends against them.

I thought that my dad would smoke a roll-up cigarette from time to time. How naive I was to think it was tobacco.
 
I used to think that the ring of fire around the Pacific Ocean was literally a giant wall-ring of fire :lol:
 
ilikewaffles11
I used to think that the world was black and white before about 1950 and it then started getting color.
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That brings back so much memories!
I was told by an elder that the whole world was 'painted' by an old man after WWII. I was so gullible back then...
 
TankAss95
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That brings back so much memories!
I was told by an elder that the whole world was 'painted' by an old man after WWII. I was so gullible back then...
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Haha I went to ask my dad what it was like when it was black and white one day and thought Ohhh... Hold on a sec... :P

I also believed that the AI in games were actual people playing. Like the other racers in GT3 I thought were people in a big warehouse playing.
 
My grandmother told me, when I was a kid, that the salt in the sea comes from a salt producing tanker that sank in the middle of the sea and it made the sea all salty and still to this day continues to pump salt into the oceans.
 
ilikewaffles11
I also believed that the AI in games were actual people playing. Like the other racers in GT3 I thought were people in a big warehouse playing.
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HA! Someone else, 2 people who have the same feeling as me! i would play My super nintendo all the time and i would think to myself dude that car in last place here on top gear, he must be getting harassed big time where ever he is playing from. he sucks and should quit now. i did think it was weird though that WHENEVER i played someone was ready to play with me

oh, and i turned Super Saiyan once, it was pretty epic, my power was over 9000! it only took me 6 hours to transform, i had to charge.... a lot.
 
Steele_obsidion
oh, and i turned Super Saiyan once, it was pretty epic, my power was over 9000! it only took me 6 hours to transform, i had to charge.... a lot.
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At the cost of losing your voice too I guess :lol:



I used to believe I could be sucked down the toilet at night if I flushed so i used to get up, wash my hands, open the door, stretch as far as possible, press the flush and run away :lol:

Also used to believe there was something under my bed and if I put my legs down to get up some hands would grab me so I used to jump in and out of bed.... Having to pee in the middle of the night was a huge horrible adventure :/
 
Slick Rick
At the cost of losing your voice too I guess :lol:

...i used to get up, wash my hands, open the door, stretch as far as possible, press the flush and run away :lol:

...I used to jump in and out of bed.... Having to pee in the middle of the night was a huge horrible adventure :/
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YES! stretch waaaaayyyyyy out, click it with my foot, and then I was Jessie Owens lol
 
I used to believe that people could hear me through the tv. It was some programme with Noel Edmonds and involved either a live audience that you didn't see or canned laughter. I used to think the laughter was coming from other TV's.

I also used to believe that if we got in trouble at school, it would make it impossible to get a job after leaving School. I.E. I used to believe that the fact that I constantly got in fights with one kid would get pulled up in a job interview.
 
Slick Rick
I used to believe I could be sucked down the toilet at night if I flushed so i used to get up, wash my hands, open the door, stretch as far as possible, press the flush and run away :lol:

Also used to believe there was something under my bed and if I put my legs down to get up some hands would grab me so I used to jump in and out of bed.... Having to pee in the middle of the night was a huge horrible adventure :/
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I used to do that with aeroplane toilets, but not normal ones. And I used to run to and from the bathroom. :lol:
 
Another thing that I used to believe (even up to a teenager) was that somehow my body wasn't like the human anatomy we were told in schools. I thought that I was somehow different, I'm not sure how to explain. I doubted that I had organs like what everyone else had, that I just somehow lived without a liver etc.
And another (lol) thing I used to believe was that when you discontinued to look at something it disappeared until you observed it again.
I had a very strange imagination...
 
When I would put on my Hot Wheels shoes, I would think I was going to run as fast as a car. :P

And that people in a magazine could see me what I was doing. I was paranoid when reading a mag while I was using the little mens room :lol:
 
Toilet snakes.

I still get nervous from time to time... They could strike at any moment.
 

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