childhood misconceptions

WoollyRedHat

Did you have any childhood misconceptions? For me, when an adult was telling you they heard about something you did , they sometimes said," a little bird told me". I actually thought a little bird did tell them

Naturally I asked which littel bird was it. I wanted to know which one of them ratted me out! Was it the blackbird or the robin!

Have any?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

The big red fat guy bringing present stands out. As does the one bout the guy on the cross being really angry with with me if I didn't go to his house once a week.

Jimbo

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

As does the one bout the guy on the cross being really angry with with me if I didn't go to his house once a week.

For what?





Actually, I don't want to know

MooseJam

I thought costing an arm and a leg meant exactly that

KTRIC

I thought 15 was really old

emeraldstar

I thought that if you used permanent hair dye, your hair grew that colour for the rest of your life.

When my mom was making breadcrumbs in the blender-thingy she always told me to keep my fingers away or they'd get chopped off... for years I thought that if you put your hand into a bowl of breadcrumbs/stuffing that your fingers would be chopped off

And I was always terrifed whenever I'd eat honey for fear of finding bees...

Jimbo

emeraldstar wrote: »

I thought that if you used permanent hair dye, your hair grew that colour for the rest of your life.

I thought that too.
I also thought that because we speak English in Ireland, they speak Irish in England. Apparently I was wrong

Creature

I got really excited when I first heard it was raining cats & dogs.

javaboy

My uncle used to say if I told anyone nobody would believe me :eek::eek:


Gross.... anyway some serious ones.

Don't keep pressing that button, it will break. - Eh no ma, it's a button that's what it's for.

Television square eyes.

Wind changes, your eyes stay crossed.

The skin's the best part (This apparently applies equally to all food stuffs) - Well then why do you sometimes give us mashed potato with no skin?

If you keep picking your nose your brains will fall out.



Back when I worked in a leisure centre type thingy, I would get parents whose kids wanted to do activity X comin up. The parent obviously didn't want them to do it and would say "No sorry Oisin/Tadgh/Cian/Jack (all kids are called these names now :mad:), the man says it closed"

They'd give me the wink then to go along with it which I would most of the time. But when they would say stuff like "Leave that alone Fiachra, the man's going to come over and throw you out" I would make a point of not giving a shee-ite about what the kid was doing. Lazy parents using me to do their dirty work

javaboy

jimbo78 wrote: »

I thought that too.
I also thought that because we speak English in Ireland, they speak Irish in England. Apparently I was wrong

I confess. Up until about 5 or 6 I though this too.

PurplePrincess

I always believed that if you swallowed chewing gum it wrapped around your heart.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

jimbo78 wrote: »

For what?





Actually, I don't want to know

Just as well. I still have no idea.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Creature wrote: »

I got really excited when I first heard it was raining cats & dogs.

That really happend once - I kept jumping in poodles.

AlmightyCushion

I thought that when someone sent a fax, it would roll up the sheet of paper really tightly and then shoved it down the phone line. That seems so rediculous now.

Not exactly the same but meh. I had a load of people convinced that after 911 America had brought in a law that forbid a transaction to total exactly $9.11 as it could cause distress to people. It was pretty funny hearing people say how this just prooved how stupid Americans were after I told them.

Boston

That life was fair.

Exit

I thought that life pre-1950s was in black and white.

My parents sent me round the corner when I was about 6 to the shop to get the press. I thought "How am I gonna carry this thing home?" (Evening Press, for those too young to know)

I thought the raisins in the school buns were made from rats blood. I got in trouble for that when I told a kid and he puked.

Naos

That if you stared at a slug you'd go blind.

I still stared, daredevil child that I was.

Krieg

I thought the '999' reconstructions were real

javaboy

I thought the chick and the clown from the TV test card would crawl out of the box and murder me if I slept. :eek:

mikemac

Ever watch the news. They might mention Mr. Justice Carney or some other judge.
I thought you weren't allowed be a judge if your name wasn't Justice

And we used to get gold stars if our Irish work was good and had no mistakes.
So when you watch Nuacht you see the subtitles seperated by stars. I used to the newsreaders were class as they got loads of stars.

Oh and I thought if you murdered someone and got a life sentance that meant you stayed in jail until you died. Lol, still don't understand this one as an adult

kraggy

micmclo wrote: »

And we used to get gold stars if our Irish work was good and had no mistakes.
So when you watch Nuacht you see the subtitles seperated by stars. I used to the newsreaders were class
as they got loads of stars.

Brilliant. Awful cute.

Terry

I thought that there were loads of little people living inside the TV and their sole purpose in life was to entertain me.

I was quite the little worrier when I was a child and can remember being concerned about the welfare of the TV people when the TV was switched off.

javaboy

Terry wrote: »

I thought that there were loads of little people living inside the TV and their sole purpose in life was to entertain me.

I was quite the little worrier when I was a child and can remember being concerned about the welfare of the TV people when the TV was switched off.

Big Brother, Celebrity BB, I'm a washup get me out of here, Dancing on Ice, You're a Star etc etc

There are loads of little people on the TV these days, I just don't find any of them entertaining

In fact if I thought turning off the telly would be like a Voodoo doll for some of those eejits I'd take down the whole ESB grid and be done with it. :mad:

36Degrees

When I was around 4 or 5 I was in the car and we passed this sign that said "Caution loose chips on the road" I thought they meant actual like frozen chips and I was like "I dont see no chips on the road!"

Terry

javaboy wrote: »

Big Brother, Celebrity BB, I'm a washup get me out of here, Dancing on Ice, You're a Star etc etc

There are loads of little people on the TV these days, I just don't find any of them entertaining

In fact if I thought turning off the telly would be like a Voodoo doll for some of those eejits I'd take down the whole ESB grid and be done with it. :mad:

Fortunately they were not around in 1979.

javaboy

Terry wrote: »

Fortunately they were not around in 1979.

No Big Brother was more 1984 wasn't it? :rolleyes: I'll get me coat... again. I'll be like forty coats soon enough.

Terry

And his fifty pockets.

pred racer

I could never find the black spot on the road that was the "accident black spot" I thought they put a black spot on the road to show you where the accident had been.

on the weather forcast, I heard mist or fog as mister fog. we had a teacher named mr. Fog and i presumed he travelled around the country at night:o

javaboy

pred racer wrote: »

I could never find the black spot on the road that was the "accident black spot" I thought they put a black spot on the road to show you where the accident had been.

Me too on the black spot

Were any of the girls told "eat your stew. It'll put hairs on your chest" or did parents reserve that one solely for fellers?

simu

I thought Cork was the capital of Ireland... I was shocked when I discovered it wasn't.

javaboy

simu wrote: »

I thought Cork was the capital of Ireland... I was shocked when I discovered it wasn't.

Many misguided adults who should know better still have that misconception.

The Dudette

simu wrote: »

I thought Cork was the capital of Ireland... I was shocked when I discovered it wasn't.

Yeah, I also thought Cork was the capital - reason being was because I thought it was the biggest county that made capital.

I remember confessing to my dad that I was afraid to go to sleep on my own as I hated being alone in the dark. He told me he wouldn't bring me to see Batman if I didn't just go to bed like a big girl, as apparently you weren't allowed see it if you were afraid of the dark....I believed that, and continued to hide under my covers every night til I was about 10!!

Krieg

Accident Black spots just reminded me of another one -

Cats eyes on the road
I used to feel so sorry for all those cats

iFight

That it was normal to have webbed toes.

floydmoon1

my brother convinced us that the cigarette lighter in the car was a way of blowing up the car when u pressed it.He pressed it one day and we were so scared that the car would blow up.

Miss Fluff

Exit wrote: »

I thought that life pre-1950s was in black and white.

Me too!:)

bleg

that women became pregnant just by eating loads and loads

bronte

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I thought that when someone sent a fax, it would roll up the sheet of paper really tightly and then shoved it down the phone line. That seems so rediculous now.
/QUOTE]

I also thought this

unreggd

I bought invisible ink in the pound shop as I honestly and truly thought it turned things invisible

Genghiz Cohen

"Be good or you'll go to Hell."

WoollyRedHat

Exit wrote: »

I thought that life pre-1950s was in black and white.

Haha same.

How cool would that have been! ( well for a while)

ergonomics

I thought a concealed entrance was one that only magically appeared when someone approached it to use it. It wasn't there the rest of the time.

I thought the soaps were real and as such Heartbeat used to really confuse me. It it was real, why was this one village still in the 1950's?!

emeraldstar

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Haha same.

How cool would that have been! ( well for a while)

No no, it wouldn't have been cool at all!

Jimdagym

My dad used to tell me that if you played with your belly-button, your bum would fall off. Still cant go near it. I get the heeby-jeebies...

WoollyRedHat

emeraldstar wrote: »

No no, it wouldn't have been cool at all!

For a day like! Besides, no one would know what colour you would be wearing and it would be so surreal. Don't worry, colour will be returned!

slade_x

I used to think that the rabbit wasnt in the hat the whole time

conical

I thought that my mothers (very old-style)radio only played programmes from way back in the past.
The fact that she was listening to RTE Radio1 further fueled my belief

-C

Sam Vimes

i thought jesus was from ireland

i thought tigers were female lions

buckieburd

I thought Albinos came from Albania....

Wazdakka

I was about 12 until I realised that girls farted.

*adele*

I used to think everything had a personality(food,toys,plants) and my Mam used to trick me using this:

Mam-"Come on Adele,if you dont finish your dinner its gonna be really sad because it doesnt get to join its friends in your tummy!"

Me-