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

branners69 · 06-08-2007 11:58PM

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.

I just said to the wife today after watching an old Abbott & Costello film that I thought the world used to be black and white!

Good to know I am not the only one

WindSock · 07-08-2007 12:02AM

I too thought demons were chasing me when it was dark behind me.

I asked 'in the black and white days, what colour was jam'?

I thought all the conflict in the Gaza strip was about Gazza's football jersey.

I used to have an irrational fear of three wheeled street cleaning vehicles

I thought the proper way to play scalectrix was to bang the floor repeatedly with my hand, coz thats what the kids in the ad did.

And don't get me started on the 'read it yourself' books.

fonpokno · 07-08-2007 12:04AM

i used to think because all the funeral cars had like masseys and fanagans propped up beside the coffin that the masseys and the fanagans were just really unlucky families cos they were always dying... took years for me to figure it out! also was completely shocked when i found out mam's name wasnt mam!

also thought that all the music videos on mtv were live and that the bands were just super talented at like changing clothes really quickly or somethin! god i was a stupid child!

Malteaser! · 07-08-2007 12:05AM

fonpokno wrote:

i used to think because all the funeral cars had like masseys and fanagans propped up beside the coffin that the masseys and the fanagans were just really unlucky families cos they were always dying... took years for me to figure it out!

I also thought that the plaque was the name of the person, | didn't even notice that the same names kept appearing!!

ctc_celtic · 07-08-2007 12:09AM

we lived at number 54 **** street, i just thought it was a lucky coincident that our address was 54 and we lived at 54. i thought everybody who lived on the street put 54 on their address.

greyed · 07-08-2007 01:21AM

Thought Anne Doyle was the virgin mary.

Fizman · 07-08-2007 01:36AM

As a kid I first thought (once i found out that sperm makes babies and they are in your testicles) that in having sex to make babies involved the man putting both his balls inside the woman (i'm deadly serious). Thankfully i was informed otherwise before ever having a sexual encounter.

tolosenc · 07-08-2007 01:55AM

When my parent's friend from Sri Lanka visited when I was 3, I asked my mum: "Did his mummy forget to put on his sun cream?".

When I went to my cousin's first communion I was about 4 and hated it. Then my dad turns around and says: "And just think, X's second communion is tomorrow!". I ran out of the church screaming.

Stamping on the ground made earthquakes in Japan.

That my dad's facial hair was a type of fungal infection.

The_Minister · 07-08-2007 02:11AM

lil'one wrote:

I used to think that someday i'd catch up in age to my big sister:)

I had the same age-catching-up thing too.
I also believed that cartoon characters were people in costumes.

EDIT: Also had some weird ideas about sex.

emeraldstar · 07-08-2007 02:12AM

I used to think that if you used permanent dye on your hair, it was dyed forever and ever and ever and ever. The realisation of my error didn't come about until secondary school :O

eggplantman · 07-08-2007 02:13AM

I thought wrestling was real

Nailz · 07-08-2007 02:18AM

When I was about 4, I used to think that me father when he was finish with the newspaper, he left it out for ferries to come along and change the writing to go with the news!

Haha, very stupid huh?

Peared · 07-08-2007 04:35AM

sezermango wrote:

i remeber when i was a kid seeing t.v ads for "its dangerous to drink and drive". i got really scared and when i saw my dad having a 7up while stopped at traffic lights, i started crying and thinking we were going to crash:(

That is too cute

Jesus Wept · 07-08-2007 05:09AM

emeraldstar wrote:

I used to think that if you used permanent dye on your hair, it was dyed forever and ever and ever and ever. The realisation of my error didn't come about until secondary school :O

hmmm, I think I still think that? lol, whats the reality? Why on earth is it called pernament if it's just for 'x number of washes?'

I used to think that babies just happened, that a man and woman would be married and would randomly be with child and have a random number of children based on how many times this random occurance happened...

Also, as my good parents convinced me that babies came from a womans tummy, I took them on their word, I was much surprised and embarrassed when told otherwise in the playground.

Unfortunately, some misinformation was floating around the playground that babies came out of a womans bum. :eek:

o1s1n · 07-08-2007 05:55AM

The-Rigger wrote:

hmmm, I think I still think that? lol, whats the reality? Why on earth is it called pernament if it's just for 'x number of washes?'

That was a joke, right???

It is permanent. Hair grows from the root. You trim the ends. Over time, cutting out the dyed hair. Would be why you constantly hear women going on about their roots showing every few months.

I'm also another one who thought my tongue would turn black if I lied. Damn convincing adults

Jesus Wept · 07-08-2007 06:02AM

o1s1n wrote:

That was a joke, right???

It is permanent. Hair grows from the root. You trim the ends. Over time, cutting out the dyed hair. Would be why you constantly hear women going on about their roots showing every few months.

I'm also another one who thought my tongue would turn black if I lied. Damn convincing adults

lol, I was told that when I lied, black spots appeared (non permanent at least!) on my tongue.

JungleBunny · 07-08-2007 09:12AM

I used to think that programs on TV were acted out by small little people inside the telly and if you stopped watching something at night, that the next morning it would continue from that very exact spot.

I also used to think that my Barbie's hair would grow back if I cut it

smcelhinney · 07-08-2007 10:14AM

used to go for dinner most Sundays to Kealys of Cloghran (the naaaarrth county doobliners will know that one..) anyhow, there was this button on the side of the wall, which we were told would BLOW UP the place, if we pressed it. Sure-fire way of getting your kids to keep their hands at their sides ("Aaaah, you nearly touched it..!!! No, I didnt..!!!")..

Subsequently to find out it was for calling the waiter. But not until many years later.

Mrs_Doyle · 07-08-2007 10:29AM

I haven't read this whole thread, so this may have been said before, but I thought that Ladies 'pooed' out babies, and also, I was fairly certain that 30mins of sex equaled to one baby, and 1hour of sex equaled twins.

watna · 07-08-2007 10:31AM

I thought that in Police Acadmeny (a childhood favourite) that when the girls goes under the desk while the commandant is making his speech that she was tickling him and that's why he had trouble getting his words out and he was making funny noises. I didn't realise otherwise until i watched it again when i was 16 and I realised she was giving him some oral lovin!

One Cold Hand · 07-08-2007 10:34AM

When I was very young I assumed that Borris Becker and Steffi Graff were married, just because they were German and played tennis.

Deadalus · 07-08-2007 10:40AM

I thought speed bumps where there to set off any bombs you may have in your car so you couldn't get the bombs past border patrol. Thats what happens when you grow up in Dundalk I guess.

Duggy747 · 07-08-2007 10:46AM

I used to think the world was black & white back in the day, never understanding who invented colour (mad genius)

I thought the Care Bears actually did live up in the clouds causing me to build an intergallatic blue-proton laser weapon designed to eradicate them out of Lego(I didn't like the idea that they could see me). I eventually learned that they were indeed cartoon characters but not before I fired the weapon into the sky. The whole global warming thing is possibly my fault, considering I did vaporise a hole in the ozone layer.

In the ol' episodes of Home & Away when an episode finished at a dramatic moment it would just freeze frame. I always thought the actors would litteraly freeze / stand still until the camera faded to the credits. Dunno where I ever got that fúckin' idea?

red_ice · 07-08-2007 10:49AM

boreds wrote:

I thought the proper way to play scalectrix was to bang the floor repeatedly with my hand, coz thats what the kids in the ad did.

ROFL!

I always thought that the only part of the world that existed was the parts that i saw though my eyes and when i was in an aeroplane looking down at mountains and green area, it was god/world creator being lazy and not putting the effort. Also, when i was in the aeroplane it was the loading screen for a new land. It took 3 hours because people had to be trained in how to look/act spanish or what not.

i used to think i could fly if i jumped off a wall with an umbrella

I used to think the world revolved around me.. now i know it does ^^

challengemaster · 07-08-2007 10:51AM

watna wrote:

I thought that in Police Acadmeny (a childhood favourite) that when the girls goes under the desk while the commandant is making his speech that she was tickling him and that's why he had trouble getting his words out and he was making funny noises. I didn't realise otherwise until i watched it again when i was 16 and I realised she was giving him some oral lovin!

what? :eek: NOES!! MY INNOCENCE*!! let me unsee it

*may not have been existant:D

jebuz · 07-08-2007 11:35AM

i thought those "business as usual" signs read "banshee's as usual", i think because around the time someone scared me sh!tless about banshee's cos we found some animal bones outside our house and it was all i thought about, it was ok once i could read properly

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 07-08-2007 11:38AM

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.

Heh heh I thought this too when I was a kid. Thank Fcuk I wasnt the only one!

tensecyclist · 07-08-2007 11:44AM

That life goes on and on like you're born then you die and will born again...:rolleyes:

Wacker · 07-08-2007 12:10PM

I remember I was shocked when I was five and a kid in my class told me about an episode of the Thundercats that he'd seen the previous day. It was the same one that I saw! His TV showed the same stuff as mine!

smurfbaby · 07-08-2007 12:17PM

When I used to hear my mam talking about people who were 'expecting' (pregnant) I thought that to have a baby you just have to expect to have one and hey presto!

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

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