childhood misconceptions

The Dudette · 17-03-2008 12:42AM

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 · 17-03-2008 01:06AM

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 · 17-03-2008 01:08AM

That it was normal to have webbed toes.

floydmoon1 · 17-03-2008 01:18AM

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 · 17-03-2008 01:21AM

Exit wrote: »

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

Me too!:)

bleg · 17-03-2008 02:38AM

that women became pregnant just by eating loads and loads

bronte · 17-03-2008 03:04AM

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.
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I also thought this

unreggd · 17-03-2008 03:16AM

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

Genghiz Cohen · 17-03-2008 03:38AM

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

WoollyRedHat · 18-03-2008 12:36AM

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 · 18-03-2008 12:57AM

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 · 18-03-2008 12:58AM

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 · 18-03-2008 01:04AM

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 · 18-03-2008 01:07AM

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 · 18-03-2008 01:13AM

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

conical · 18-03-2008 01:15AM

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 · 18-03-2008 10:32AM

i thought jesus was from ireland

i thought tigers were female lions

buckieburd · 18-03-2008 12:40PM

I thought Albinos came from Albania....

Wazdakka · 18-03-2008 01:13PM

I was about 12 until I realised that girls farted.

*adele* · 18-03-2008 01:42PM

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-

hoppo254 · 18-03-2008 01:48PM

My friend thought when girls hit puberty they grew a penis

Mully · 18-03-2008 02:05PM

When I'd hear it on the news, I thought 'Guerrilla Warfare' involved well armed apes !!

Dirty Dave · 18-03-2008 02:18PM

I thought that the canned laughter tracks on sitcoms was the sound of other people in other houses laughing. I used to try to talk to them.

mental07 · 18-03-2008 02:26PM

I used to think 'Dublin' was my cousins' house. Because 'going to Dublin' meant visiting my cousins. Also, there were some radio competitions which only allowed callers from outside Dublin to participate. I used to think that 'outside Dublin' meant outside the front door of.....you've guessed it, my cousins' house!

faceman · 18-03-2008 02:29PM

i used to think that fire trucks drove around starting fires randomly and fire men would then have to go put it out.

I also thought Jesus was irish.

The older ads for dunnes stores in the 80's - i used to think the jingle said Dunnes Stores Bitsy Burgers (instead of Dunnes Stories with St. Bernard)

Steve · 18-03-2008 08:50PM

That you had a black mark on your tongue when you told a lie and only yore ma could see it.:mad:

gogo · 18-03-2008 09:00PM

Also though jesus was irish,
Earwigs like ears, and if they get into your ear they would chew a bit of brain that attached to your ear and you would die, still never sleep with my head above the blankets with either ear exposed because of this.

That money might just someday might grow in tree's. Though it must have done at one stage for everyone to know that it dosen't anymore. I used to look at trees in a very peculiar way.

fizzynicenice · 19-03-2008 12:20AM

When my cousin was about 5 she had this habit of bitting and eating her fingernails. My Auntie told her ito stop doing it or she'd get really fat, a few weeks later they got on the bus and a pregnant woman sat down opposite them and my cousin shakes her finger at her and goes "oooooohhooo I know what you've been up to!!!!" whopper!!!!

Also I was like 15 before I got the joke about newspapers being black white and red/read all over, oh the shame

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