Stupid things you thought as a child, what was the stupidest thing you thought?

zaadee · 06-08-2007 02:56PM #1

Well, my friend and I were having a conversation the other day & somehow it lead to all the weird/crazy and stupid things we done as a child.

When i was young, i was really scared of the dark..espescially times when i needed to go toilet at night. I use to think that a witch would come out and grab my ass.

What stupid things did you guys think??

Dragan · 06-08-2007 03:00PM

That when i walked i turned the world rather than moving along the face of it.

I was only 5.

Owen · 06-08-2007 03:02PM

I was convinced that the energy in a batter left both the positive and negative terminals of a battery, and generated electricity by colliding against each other. Boy did I feel like an idiot when I discovered the truth!

Jigsaw · 06-08-2007 03:03PM

Because of old black and white films I used to think that the real world used to be black and white until one day it became colour.

I subsequently found out that this was not the case.

abelard · 06-08-2007 03:05PM

Jigsaw wrote:

Because of old black and white films I used to think that the real world used to be black and white until one day it became colour.

I subsequently found out that this was not the case.

Exactly what I was going to post

smithy1981 · 06-08-2007 03:05PM

I used to think that turning the steering wheel made the car move. The faster you did it the faster the car went.

Extreme-LoopZ · 06-08-2007 03:06PM

When people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would say "a river"

I think that's very poetic for a 4 year old!;)

Rowley Birkin QC · 06-08-2007 03:09PM

I used to think that the readybrek man would jump out of the box if my mam made me said breakfast porridge. Still a little dissapointed really.

rororoyourboat · 06-08-2007 03:09PM

i remember being shocked to my core on learning that my mother's name was not "Mammy".

Ruu_Old · 06-08-2007 03:13PM

That me (and other children) were born under cabbages. :eek:

mikemac · 06-08-2007 03:15PM

You often hear about court cases on TV, and they say Mr. Justice Mahan or Mr. Justice Carney for example.
I thought you couldn’t be a judge unless your first name was Justice.

Also, we had to read as Gaelige in school and if you made no mistakes you got a gold star sticker.
If you ever watch Nuacht, they separate the scrolling text with stars. So I thought the presenter must be realy good at Irish as they weren’t making any mistakes.

06-08-2007 03:17PM

Jigsaw wrote:

Because of old black and white films I used to think that the real world used to be black and white until one day it became colour.

I subsequently found out that this was not the case.

Same

Bubs101 · 06-08-2007 03:18PM

Aged 7 I said sex was gay because it was with girls.

Oh the shame

Love2love · 06-08-2007 03:19PM

The news was always on in my house and when they would say they found a body, I use to think that it was just a torso with no arms or legs.I don't know why!

captainautumn · 06-08-2007 03:26PM

I used to think that there were only two countries in the world, Ireland and England, as these were the only two countries shown on the weather forecast maps at the time.

From watching Grand Prix racing on the tele, I was sure that if any car veered off the road and on to grass it was sure to burst into flames. Boy was I scared when Daddy lit a cigarette whilst driving!!!

After watching a western and seeing the credits roll I was sure that the........................that joined the actor the character played represented the amount of bullets that the character fired in the film.

bluto63 · 06-08-2007 03:26PM

That when people died in movies, they died in real life

Arathorn · 06-08-2007 03:30PM

When I heard that wearing a condom stops a woman getting pregnant in the school yard, I assumed it was some kind of chain a man wore around his neck :eek:

Wertz · 06-08-2007 03:32PM

Up until about the age of 7 or 8 I had a theory that only the parts of the world around me that I could see/hear/feel/sense existed and that everywhere else was kind of suspended when I wasn't there to witness it (sort of like the "if a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?" philosophical thing)....things like phones and TV shot some holes in my thesis on that one, but I held onto the idea for as long as I could plausibly deny the truth...

JIZZLORD · 06-08-2007 04:00PM

i thought bbc was irish and was confused with all the english accents and such,
the logic was that it was bbc northern ireland i was watching

Smellyirishman · 06-08-2007 04:06PM

That there was a big dude up in the sky controlling all of our lives.

I thought Dublin and Ireland were the same thing.

Anto McC · 06-08-2007 04:07PM

My cousin always used to say that if you feed bread with butter on it to pigeons,they turn into seagulls.

Earthhorse · 06-08-2007 04:07PM

Jigsaw wrote:

Because of old black and white films I used to think that the real world used to be black and white until one day it became colour.

I subsequently found out that this was not the case.

This, and that people on TV paid to be on TV so they could be famous and this was how the channels made their money.

06-08-2007 04:12PM

Dragan wrote:

That when i walked i turned the world rather than moving along the face of it.

I was only 5.

Wow- you were a very deep 5 year old!

I used to believe that I my Dad bought me in the local shop for a pound. I was a cute baby for sale on the shelf and he didn't like leaving me there on my own. He brought me home and my Mom was mad at him because the pound she had given him was to buy milk

My Dad was always a great storyteller.

Mushy · 06-08-2007 04:15PM

I used to think that if I somehow broke the tv screen, I'd be in the same place as to where the people were reading the news, as in right beside them. Oh the disappointment of ever watching tv now!

blah · 06-08-2007 04:17PM

I also believed that the world was B+W before 1960, although I always imagined the world of cavemen or dinosaurs in colour.

My Dad told me that when someone got killed in a movie it wasn't blood, it was just tomato ketchup, so I believed that was exactly what they used. He also told me that the priest was literally God. Reminds me of this guy.

I also assumed that because my uncle and cousin lived with my grandmother (my uncle's mother) that my grandmother must be my cousin's mother (ew).

I believed that when I was going up the stairs, the devil would burst in the door and shoot me in the back, that's why I always needed to get up to the landing as fast as possible.

Mr. CooL ICE · 06-08-2007 04:18PM

smithy1981 wrote:

I used to think that turning the steering wheel made the car move. The faster you did it the faster the car went.

Join the club!

I used to think that houses grew in the ground just like trees (i was 4)

I also thought that condoms were for pissing into, cos i couldn't find another reason where one would put it on oneself in that place (i was about 9 - shameful).

AlmightyCushion · 06-08-2007 04:21PM

LordChessington wrote:

I also thought that condoms were for pissing into, cos i couldn't find another reason where one would put it on oneself in that place (i was about 9 - shameful).

Reminds me of that episode of south park.

blah · 06-08-2007 04:22PM

smithy1981 wrote:

I used to think that turning the steering wheel made the car move. The faster you did it the faster the car went.

How many of us were allowed to drive the car at the beach, sitting on our dads' laps and proceeded to try and turn the steering wheel left and right?

Baby4 · 06-08-2007 04:29PM

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OctavarIan · 06-08-2007 04:29PM

blah wrote:

I believed that when I was going up the stairs, the devil would burst in the door and shoot me in the back, that's why I always needed to get up to the landing as fast as possible.

Hahaha, I had something similar. When going upstairs at night if the lights were off downstairs I'd sprint up as fast as I could or else a crocodile would grab my legs!

Later this became a fear of looking at windows in the dark in case I saw Holy Mary looking in at me.

When the lights in my room were out and I'd be returning from the loo, I'd practically do a long jump across my room into my bed in case something grabbed me from the floor.

Also I had to check under the toilet seat for Black Widow spiders before I sat on it (that became an annoying habit, even after I was told that it couldn't happen because they didn't live in Ireland)

[edit]I also thought that my toys had feelings, and I always felt so much guilt whenever I broke any or whenever they were moved up to attic.

blah · 06-08-2007 04:33PM

Oh yeah, for some strange reason I thought that my arse was the front of my trousers :rolleyes:

Stupid things you thought as a child, what was the stupidest thing you thought?

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