Things you used to think when you were younger.

Deus Ex Machina · 13-10-2010 12:11AM

holystungun9 wrote: »

Aaah, little Timmy, glad to know you are keeping well. It's a small world after all.

Ah, Father O'Haire, I didn't know you were on Boards.

Doc · 13-10-2010 12:24AM

Have you ever seen a puddle with a bit of oil in it like this?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atwoodn/907320052/in/set-72157601021801190/
Well that’s where I thought rainbows came from when I was a kid.:rolleyes:

Overature · 13-10-2010 12:28AM

i used to think that people in the olden days saw everything in black and white, after watching loads of WW2 stuff on discovery

Rocky_Dennis · 13-10-2010 12:30AM

I used to think santa was real, how stupid of me

Ciano35 · 13-10-2010 12:40AM

I always wondered why the frisbee kept getting bigger, and then it hit me.

we'llallhavetea_old · 13-10-2010 12:40AM

i spent years thinking my dad was a criminal because he said he served his time as a butcher

saywhatyousee · 13-10-2010 12:40AM

sesna wrote: »

I used to think "the government" was one man.

it probaly is;)

Red Hand · 13-10-2010 12:42AM

There was a shooting in the North this one time. When the news was over and the weather was on the screen with the map of Ireland, I thought that Lough Neagh was the symbol for the location where guy that had been shot.

Jennyfer · 13-10-2010 12:59AM

We used to have a caravan down in Wexford and every morning you'd hear birds running up and down on the roof. Being a caravan and about 6am it sounded really loud and my Dad used to say "Did you hear that bird again in his feckin welly boots?" and for years I actually used to think it literally was a bird wearing wellies..always had an image of a magpie in black shiny wellies. I was terrified whenever I heard it

ringadingding · 13-10-2010 01:23AM

Used to think that the fumes from a car exhaust was what made it move.

Used to think White dog poo was from White dogs

Used to think being 1/2 English 1/2 Irish meant I was born on the ferry, and done a speech about it in school

Dreams aloud · 13-10-2010 01:30AM

I used to think my parents knew nothing

Mark Twain
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

scientific1982 · 13-10-2010 01:30AM

Sanjuro wrote: »

My parents took myself and my sister to the Canary Islands when we were kids. I was about 7, my sister 5. While at the resort, my parents told me about this band of thieves that lived in the hills surrounding the resort. They told me of how the thieves used to rob the rich, evil mayor, and give the money to the poor. Real Robin Hood characters. The leader of this band of thieves was Rodrigo The Bandito. One night we were in a bar and my da called me over. He pointed out this Spanish dude and told me 'you see that man? That's Rodrigo the Bandito.' My jaw hit the ground. I was in awe. And then, to my shock and delight, my parents introduced me to Rodrigo The Bandito. There's even a photo of him shaking my hand.

About 12 years later, I was talking to my mam about that holiday. And I say to her 'remember that Rodrigo fella? The thief you and da introduced me to in that bar. What was the deal with him again? Was he ever caught?' My mam looked at me. 'He was a random builder your father and I asked to pretend to be Rodrigo. There was no Rodrigo.' It was like the day I found out Santa didn't exist all over again. Santa having been proven false the previous Christmas. I was 19.

I wasnt even going to read that because im lazy and have the attention span of a midge, but im glad I did. My auld fella used to tell me **** like that too and id never question it until years later.

abouttobebanned · 13-10-2010 01:31AM

I thought rape was the same as stab. I guess I was right in a way.

scientific1982 · 13-10-2010 01:33AM

scientific1982 wrote: »

I wasnt even going to read that because im lazy and have the attention span of a midge, but im glad I did. My auld fella used to tell me **** like that too and id never question it until years later.

I used to think that people on the tv could see me.

scientific1982 · 13-10-2010 01:36AM

stupidusername wrote: »

I used to think babys came our the womans bum in fairness I didn't know there was so much stuff going on down there!

I used to think they came out of a womans tits when I was very young. I wasnt going to post it because even though its AH its beyond dumb.

Mackman · 13-10-2010 01:39AM

I used to think that they had different pigs in frankfurt, and thats where frankfurters came from

thebullkf · 13-10-2010 01:42AM

i remember reading a HardyBoys story years ago..or the Famous Five maybe... chasing smugglers in the catacombs... i used to think they were like dungeons,full of cats,combing their hair....

i got better.

eventually.

orourkeda · 13-10-2010 01:43AM

I used to think that good things come to those who wait.

Jeweliette · 13-10-2010 02:49AM

When I was 3 my cousin and best friend of the same age had to go to hospital to have a tooth removed under general anesthetic. We were both very taken with cowboys at the time & loved wearing cowboys hats and sherrifs badges etc. To allay any fears he might have about hospital his parents told him that he was going to hospital to be measured for cowboys holsters on the request of the king of all the cowboys who liked his style and was calling him up to the force.

He fully believed it and so did I. It made perfect sense that there'd be a special cowboy initiation in the hospital.

I can fully remember the day he went to get it done & him coming back the next day with holsters and a set of guns. I was brimming with pride at the idea that my cousin was now a fully fledged cowboy. It didn't occur to either of us to question it for some years.

Napper Hawkins · 13-10-2010 03:14AM

I used to think that I was surrounded by cowards, scumbags and idiots.

Then I realised I was right and got the **** out.:p

digme · 13-10-2010 03:26AM

girls pissed out their ass

SoulTrader · 13-10-2010 03:39AM

My parents started taking me to Mass when I was four years old. It was about a year later when I realised that a priest said Mass - I thought it was the walls of the Church that were talking. I had never seen the priest before, attentive kid that I was.

Balfie · 13-10-2010 03:54AM

when we first got a telephone, the old telecom eireann ones, that if I rang 666 it would ring the Australian Police, sat for hours trying to do it, cause I seen 666 all over the place,

Johnny Bitte · 13-10-2010 08:59AM

Use to think that life was fair, good people never did bad things and the government wanted to help!

Ms. Captain M · 13-10-2010 09:03AM

I thought there were men down the sink catching the water, used to push bits of bread and ham down the plug hole to them.

LenaClaire · 13-10-2010 09:36AM

I used to think that cats and dogs were the same species and that cats were all the girls and dogs were all the boys

bodun · 13-10-2010 09:46AM

scientific1982 wrote: »

I used to think that people on the tv could see me.

They can, especially when you are fapping!!!

enda1 · 13-10-2010 09:55AM

FoxT wrote: »

Thought for ages it was 'De Iron Throat' ...

- FoxT

Its actually the Ear, Nose & Throat!

Ush1 · 13-10-2010 09:55AM

I thought the bulbs in the streetlights were Sparkler ice pops. Often tried to climb them but to no avail.

VW 1 · 13-10-2010 10:02AM

My younger sister used to be dead silent any time there was something recording on the video recorder. Never said a word and would leave the room if she really had to say something.

Turns out an older cousin told her if you speak while a tape is recording it comes out on the tape, she kept quiet for years!!

Things you used to think when you were younger.

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