Silly thoughts you had as an innocent child

SusieBlue · 21-12-2017 03:52PM

I had no concept of age at all, when I was about 7 we did a project in school about our parents, where we had to list facts about them.
When I brought mine home to show them, it said "My mam is 14 years old and my dad is 15 years old".
I obviously thought teenagers were ancient when I was estimating how old my parents were, and went with my best guess.

CiboC · 21-12-2017 04:19PM

For a considerable period of my primary school years I was baffled by references to Lord Herus in mass.

We learnt lots about God, Jesus, The Holy Spirit, Mary, but...... nothing ever about Lord Herus? Who was he? What did he do? Why were you never told about him? Not a word during religious classes in school even though they referred to him all the time in mass?

Eventually I twigged it.....

Big Nasty · 21-12-2017 04:24PM

CiboC wrote: »

For a considerable period of my primary school years I was baffled by references to Lord Herus in mass.

We learnt lots about God, Jesus, The Holy Spirit, Mary, but...... nothing ever about Lord Herus? Who was he? What did he do? Why were you never told about him? Not a word during religious classes in school even though they referred to him all the time in mass?

Eventually I twigged it.....

Any relation to Lord Graciously? :pac:

LadyMacBeth_ · 21-12-2017 04:29PM

CiboC wrote: »

For a considerable period of my primary school years I was baffled by references to Lord Herus in mass.

We learnt lots about God, Jesus, The Holy Spirit, Mary, but...... nothing ever about Lord Herus? Who was he? What did he do? Why were you never told about him? Not a word during religious classes in school even though they referred to him all the time in mass?

Eventually I twigged it.....

Similarly I was always confused about ''deliver us from evil'' because I just thought about deliver and evil and to me as a child it made it sound like ''deliver us to evil'' and I was thinking to myself that I didn't want that to happen or to ask for it to happen.

stinkle · 21-12-2017 05:08PM

I thought everyone died by being shot.

That the death notices in the paper featured the names of everyone who had ever died and I couldn't understand why my Grandad's name wasn't in the paper (I must have thought it explained why my granny was so obsessed with the death notices!)

That when you were dead a plane brought the coffin up and you were sort of pushed out into heaven.

Im sure I had cheery misconceptions too, but those ones stand out

rainbowdrop · 23-12-2017 02:28AM

danganabu wrote: »

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

I was 16 when I found out unicorns weren't real. Like, obviously I knew they couldn't fly (I wasn't THAT retarded), but I never knew they were a mythical creature. Morto for myself!

You know TUC biscuits? Like the cheese cracker things? When I was about 4/5 years old, the coal miners strikes were going on in England, and my Dad told me that 'TUC' stood for Trade Union Cookies, and that the government invented them to feed the striking miners, and that was all they were allowed to eat on the picket lines. If they gave in, they could have proper food again. Believed it was the truth for years and years.

I thought my Dad single- handedly built the Humber Bridge over in England, because he worked as a labourer on it when it was being built in the late 70s. For those that don't know it, it's almost a mile and a half long, and for years it was one of the largest single span suspension bridges in the world. Dunno how I imagined he built it by himself.

I was a bit thick when I was younger........

molly09 · 23-12-2017 02:45AM

I thought I would be married and have children by 30..............that happily ever after would happen for me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Hermy · 23-12-2017 10:53AM

I wasn't born - I was adopted!

One_Of_Shanks · 23-12-2017 10:56AM

I was full sure Liverpool would eventually win the league. Now I'm old and have grey hairs and I'm still waiting

sydthebeat · 23-12-2017 11:00AM

I used to think, in my childhood innocent, that the exhausts from cars used to push them along the road... Cos you'd see the smoke coming out on cold days and then the car would drive on after it comes out..

amtc · 23-12-2017 11:06AM

my dad told me when I was small that you had to tune into a car to learn to drive. it had to learn your mind and if it didn't it wouldn't pick your instructions. So when he flicked the indicators I couldn't see it and he'd tell me it was because he was on the same wavelength as the car.

my dad also (years ago you could dial 17 and the phone would ring) told me he was selling my mammy in the Evening Press. The phone would ring and he'd reply it wasn't enough

My dad also put grains of rice in my bed and told me they were toenails.

There was also when he told my grandmother that my mother was a secret drinker and put wine bottles in my mam's coats, saying that she in denial.

i think i need therapy!

DrumSteve · 23-12-2017 11:09AM

I thought when people died their souls became part of the clouds. And they stayed up there looking down on us.

galvo_clare · 23-12-2017 11:11AM

Thought a fireman’s job was to go around setting fire to things. Cool job!

LynnGrace · 23-12-2017 11:18AM

stinkle wrote: »

I thought everyone died by being shot.

That the death notices in the paper featured the names of everyone who had ever died and I couldn't understand why my Grandad's name wasn't in the paper (I must have thought it explained why my granny was so obsessed with the death notices!)

That when you were dead a plane brought the coffin up and you were sort of pushed out into heaven.

Im sure I had cheery misconceptions too, but those ones stand out

Aww, I love that!

fineso.mom · 23-12-2017 11:23AM

I went to a wedding when I was very small and for years after I thought that a woman gets married by walking up the aisle and picking one of the men in suits in the front pew, whichever one she liked best. For years and years I thought that's how it was done and hoped I'd be lucky and have loads of nice guys to choose from.
I also used to think that I'd be really tall by the time I got to 6th class,like adult size nearly but every year the 6th class kids seemed to be shorter and shorter. I'd say I was in 5th class when I finally figured out what perception is.

valoren · 23-12-2017 11:46AM

I thought my insides were hollowed out and I could only pee or poo until the food and drink I'd eastern finally reached past my Mickey and my arse.

LarryGraham · 23-12-2017 12:24PM

That condoms' sole purpose was to keep your willy warm in the winter.

Archeron · 23-12-2017 12:57PM

That Jaws would quite happily live under my bed in a terraced house in North Dublin, and only putting the landing light on would make him go away.

That people on TV could see you the same as you could see them. I used to hide behind an armchair so they couldn't see me.

That beams of light coming through the clouds were escalators bringing dead people to heaven

ger vallely · 23-12-2017 01:09PM

I used to think that if you didn't have a thought you would drop down dead! I didn't realise thinking this was a thought. I'm pretty sure this came from one of the original Star Trek episodes, some race were able to wipe people's thoughts and that killed them. Freaked me out for years.

Donald Trump · 23-12-2017 02:03PM

LarryGraham wrote: »

That condoms' sole purpose was to keep your willy warm in the winter.

Is that what Br. Murphy told you?

Sure children are feckin' spoiled these days. Back in the day the brothers wouldn't wear 'em.

donegaLroad · 23-12-2017 03:18PM

I remember the time that two boys from Dublin managed to stow away on a flight to New York, after having made their way to London via the ferry to Holyhead. They were 10 and 13 years old at the time.. when it made the headlines, a brother of mine and a few of his friends at school were determined to do the same thing except they would travel to Russia. He was around 10 at the time, so he figured if these guys can do it then so can we.

Peatys · 23-12-2017 03:20PM

Americans were the goodies.

monkeysnapper · 23-12-2017 03:29PM

I remember getting seriously angry at my sisters and mum that they kept stealing my glass gems I'd got from freezer , I'd hide them in a leather bag way under my bed.

I remember thinking , they must be watching me hid them and I'd hide them in other places .

The house was ruined by me .

Ineedaname · 23-12-2017 03:30PM

I remember watching my parents wedding video with mam and being really upset because I wasn’t in it.

I told them they obviously didn’t care about me since they didn’t bring me.

Their wedding was almost a year before I was born

Lolita77 · 23-12-2017 03:42PM

I'm Dutch and when I was young we got cable tv with many music channels. They always had competitions on or you could request songs that you had to dial in for. They always said that you had to ask 'bill payers permission

I didn't know anyone with that name and thought it was highly unfair that I could never participate!

Ash.J.Williams · 23-12-2017 03:50PM

BBC to a child named Ronnie O'Sullivan: "how big do you want to be in this sport?"
Young Ronnie :"about 6ft2"

bottlebrush · 23-12-2017 04:09PM

I have three siblings younger than me. I never knew when my mother was pregnant, for all three of them she went into labour during the night and was gone the next morning when me and my other sister got up. We didn't know where babies came from but used wonder why my mother used to get this mad urge in the middle of the night to go get another child. We thought there were rows and rows of babies in the hospital and my mother went in to pick one out. We used also wonder how we all looked like one another and thought that as soon as the new baby arrived home it decided which of the rest of us it wanted to most look like!

MonkieSocks · 23-12-2017 05:19PM

When I was young I thought Earwigs actually lived in your ears - You can imagine how terrified I was of Cockroaches...:eek:

Lorelli! · 23-12-2017 05:29PM

MonkieSocks wrote: »

When I was young I thought Earwigs actually lived in your ears

I thought something like that as well.

Reminds me of when i was about 6, my friend's aunt sent her down loads of old debs and bridesmaid dresses so we could play dressup with them. Her mam kept them in a box in the shed so we were playing in the garden one day and put a dress on over our clothes to play.

Next of all we realised there were loads of earwigs crawling in the dresses. We were screaming and couldn't get the dresses off quick enough. We never put them on again after that.

Duffman K · 23-12-2017 06:27PM

I would here my parents and others talking about the yanks, didn't have a clue what a yank was , sounded like some sort of creature that would visit people.

Silly thoughts you had as an innocent child

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