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Silly thoughts you had as an innocent child

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  • #32
    maccored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,844 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    i used to think tiny people lived in the radio


  • #33
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    We had this bringing toys to the crib thing, brought up a broken toy, in the hopes that God would repair it.

    Needless to say, it was still broken afterwards.


  • #34
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,924 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    That 'ELAMENO' was a letter :pac:


  • #35
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,425 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

    I also used to think that England was up in the sky as my aunt lived there and she used to go there in a plane and the only way to get high enough was in a plane.
    When I was very young, I used to think that England was in Dublin. (I'm not from Dublin.)


  • #36
    buckwheat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭buckwheat


    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    After seeing some old black and white movies, I thought that everything was in black and white years ago.
    I thought it didn't rain over the oceans and seas.
    I thought that teachers lived in the school and never left, when I saw one on the street one day, I was amazed.
    I thought the 'body of christ' (communion) was literally the body of christ, and thought it very wierd that you'd eat a little piece of skin off a dead man    .

    This is actually what Catholics believe. They also believe the wine is actually his blood. Not metaphorically, literally. The mad feckers:D


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  • #37
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    When I was maybe 6 or 7, I thought that cats were female dogs:o


  • #38
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Lorelli! wrote: »
    I remember saying to her "why do people bother wasting their money on cigarettes when they can just smoke sticks?"
    .

    Perfectly valid question I reckon!


  • #39
    server down
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭server down


    buckwheat wrote: »
    This is actually what Catholics believe. They also believe the wine is actually his blood. Not metaphorically, literally. The mad feckers:D

    You guys are so edgy.

    (And it’s a lot more complex than literally.)


  • #40
    tringle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 868 ✭✭✭tringle


    maccored wrote: »
    i used to think tiny people lived in the radio


    We got a clock radio and I was thought that if you put the clock back an hour you would get the radio programme from that hour too.


  • #41
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Perfectly valid question I reckon!

    I was thinking that too but I don't think I meant it in that way :)


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  • #42
    Salvation Tambourine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Salvation Tambourine


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    My dad convinced me that Donabate (on the other side there) was England.


  • #43
    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    We had an old record player years ago, with 2 separate speakers. My brother told me that if I turned the speakers upside down, the music would play backwards. So we tried it, I turned them upside down and it was still the same, he said "it needs a few seconds to start playing backwards". So as I'm standing there staring at the speakers, he proceeds to to turn the record back the way on the turntable. I didn't see him do this of course, and was absolutely amazed at the song going backwards.
    How innocent.


  • #44
    Aye Bosun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭Aye Bosun


    When I was small I used to think that the little nameplate on the side of a funeral hearse beside the coffin was the name of the person who passed away and I was really happy my family name was not Smith, they seemed to be dying ALL the time.

    I was about 16 or 17 before I realised it was the name of the local funeral home.


  • #45
    Stone Deaf 4evr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr


    For years I believed that falling down the stairs would result in instant death. Obviously bought on by the countless tv shows and films where someone would meet their doom by falling 8 feet.


  • #46
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Babies came out of the belly.


    And me old man had me believing in this magical place called Smartie land where everything was made from Smarties - and he's take me there some day if I was 'good'.

    To be fair, he was pretty.gullible too. One afternoon he and were comparing watches and who's had the more accurate time.

    I decided to settle it by informing him that I would call the speaking clock.....

    Came back from the hall way to tell him (smugly) that his was 3 mins fast.

    "Lying Shiite, I never heard you asking it anything" is how he replied.


  • #47
    LadyMacBeth_
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    Rick Shaw wrote: »
    Babies came out of the belly.


    That reminds me, I thought that a man and a woman knelt down to pray to god together and then the woman would have a big belly and be pregnant with a baby that would come out of it.

    @suicide_circus, I was also confused when I was first contemplating gay sex and assumed that they must just rub their willies together, I think my sister laughed at me and then I said something like ''well they hardly put it in each other's bums'' and then she laughed even harder, the penny dropped :pac:


  • #48
    Oasis1974
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    Some real porkies been thrown about here I swear :)


  • #49
    siblers
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    I thought that if you spoke too much you would run out of some type of "word fuel" and you would no longer be able to speak

    If you didn't dry your hands, your nails would fall off


  • #50
    brainfreeze
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    server down wrote: »
    That cats were female and dogs male.



    Edit: But it's not as strange as you think, lots of children have this misconception. Even in cartoons most of the time dogs are male, cats are female. Except if the cat is the star of the show, then it's usually male.

    Bizarrely, 80% of domesticated cats are female. So most cat owners pick female cats.

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


  • #51
    Roger_007
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    LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »
    That reminds me, I thought that a man and a woman knelt down to pray to god together and then the woman would have a big belly and be pregnant with a baby that would come out of it.

    @suicide_circus, I was also confused when I was first contemplating gay sex and assumed that they must just rub their willies together, I think my sister laughed at me and then I said something like ''well they hardly put it in each other's bums'' and then she laughed even harder, the penny dropped :pac:

    I used to think that babies came from a special 'hospital' that was really a factory for making babies. When someone came home from this 'hospital' with a new baby, they would talk about the baby being 7 or 8 pounds, I thought that's what they paid for it. When my mother told me that I was 'only 6 pounds', I thought that she must have got me in a sale.


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  • #52
    Aglomerado
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    siblers wrote: »
    I thought that if you spoke too much you would run out of some type of "word fuel" and you would no longer be able to speak
    I wish that were true of some people! :D


  • #53
    Creative83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭Creative83


    I thought that by pouring out two half full glasses of milk it turned into chocolate like the old dairy milk ads :o


  • #54
    LirW
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    As a kid I thought it would be so easy to have peace if people would get rid of money and instead share everything with each other and trade goods for other goods.

    Well, my granny had a laugh...


  • #55
    danganabu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,277 ✭✭✭danganabu


    King George VI wrote: »
    I used to think Camogie was underwater hockey for women. My father told me that as a joke when I asked him what it was. Naturally you believe what an adult tells you until someone tells you otherwise. I found out the truth when I was 17.

    I think this confession may belong in another less complimentary thread, 7 fcukin teen :rolleyes:


  • #56
    kg703
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    Lorelli! wrote: »

    Also near where I grew up, there are these 8 lovely little cottages in a half circle. My parents told me that there was one for each of the 7 dwarfs and the other for Snow White.

    This has to be Raheny? I was told nearly the exact same thing! The dwarfs lived there :D
    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Ooh, that reminds me. I heard about people 'smoking grass' so I pulled a clump of grass from the garden, rolled it in copybook paper, stuck it with sellotape and lit 'er up.

    Nearly chocked to death! :eek:

    Yep - this one too but I think I was 13 so not even that young. And smoked matches in the school toilets. Sigh

    I'm sure I believed many mad things but I know my brother and sister (much older) told me our Dad was a flea in the circus before I was born..... :pac:


  • #57
    buckwheat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭buckwheat


    server down wrote: »
    You guys are so edgy.

    (And it’s a lot more complex than literally.)

    You forgot the standard "damn this kid is cool" but edgy's ok.


  • #58
    dinjo99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭dinjo99


    Up until the age of 9 or 10 I thought a person's skin colour was determined by where he/she lived. I thought it was to do with sun tans.
    I was sure that if a black man from Africa came to live in Ireland he would become white in a few months and that if I moved to Africa I would soon be as black as Muhamad Ali.


  • #59
    weldoninhio
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    tringle wrote: »
    We got a clock radio and I was thought that if you put the clock back an hour you would get the radio programme from that hour too.

    I thought it you turned off the telly, the show you were watching would stop too. Happened a few times when I had to turn it off during cartoons etc and when we got back from wherever we were I was outraged that someone had been watching tv in my absence and made me miss my cartoons.


  • #60
    Victor
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    mariaalice wrote: »
    That Dublin city and Dublin county were the same thing and despite living near Dublin I remember being absolutely amazed to discover there were farms and rural areas in Dublin.

    Just as a bit of social history my father know someone who farmed in Blackrock right up to the 1970s
    There's still a farm in Drumcondra. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/128904782
    Nokotan wrote: »
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=436747
    My dad convinced me that Donabate (on the other side there) was England.

    No, that's where the trains go home (according to my then 2-3 year old niece).


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  • #61
    Big Nasty
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    Victor wrote: »
    There's still a farm in Drumcondra. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/128904782

    Sheep farm in the middle of Ballymount Ind Estate too. :eek:


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