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Things you thought when you were younger

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭Fbjm


    Until I was five, I thought my parents were born as adults :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭daaave


    i thought girls were the devil and would never be caught dead around them-convinced i was destined to become a priest.

    20years later i'm surrounded by my OH +3 daughters.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36 Crumbs87


    I used to think there was a group of people sitting around a table whose job it was to name everything. I thought they placed an object on the table and all discussed what it should be called then let people know.

    I also believed that three of the four Alanis Morissette's in the video for Ironic were robots...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭Happyzebra


    Crumbs87 wrote: »
    I used to think there was a group of people sitting around a table whose job it was to name everything. I thought they placed an object on the table and all discussed what it should be called then let people know.

    I also believed that three of the four Alanis Morissette's in the video for Ironic were robots...

    Omg i used to think that too! I thought that people built everything in the world and then sat around (in my primary school yard cause that was the final thing they built) and named everything.

    I also thought that if you didn't trim the hair on your arms they would eventually reach the sky! I still remember the conversation I had about it with my friend in junior infants!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,814 ✭✭✭Nemanja91


    I thought that if you weren't asleep 11 that a women would come and kidnap me.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    When you died you went to live in space with God.
    My mother's way of explaining where Granny had gone.:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Fozzydog3


    Cringing as I type this but

    I used to think women pissed out of their bums :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    Fozzydog3 wrote: »
    Cringing as I type this but

    I used to think women pissed out of their bums :(

    It gets even worse, I thought that was were babies came from..

    I used to tell people if you order chips for breakfast in England you get Corn Flakes instead, It happened me and I believed it for ages.

    I thought the Earth and all people, history only started in 0 A.D.

    All my favourite musicians and actors were black so I used to think they were almost super human, I was devastated to learn in time about the slavery.

    I used to think that when my parents were young the world had no colour and was black and white.

    And even more stupid was me thinking Waterford was only 9 miles from Dublin so I used to tell my neighbour that if she drove the 30 miles to W'ford and then the 9 onto Dublin she would save herself 60 miles.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    I thought that Mark Hamill was replaced by his twin brother in the later Star Wars films, after a car crash.

    He has no twin brother and I have no idea where I got that from.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    This is a nice thread. I used to think cheese grew out of the ground like vegetables, after seeing Edam cheese when I was about 4. I thought it grew in balls and then you cut it into segments, lol. Also I thought rice was chopped up spaghetti!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 545 ✭✭✭CageWager


    i used to think hangovers werent that bad


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 84 ✭✭cityhunter


    I wanna grow faster...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I thought Gerry Adams name was Sinn Fein.

    If you put your ear to the pavement you could hear the Devil. (You could hear thundering noises from nearby trucks on the road).

    I thought that you might just be able to fly if you formed your coat into a rudimentary wing on a really stormy day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭Kanoe


    I used to think gay people were born that way


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    charlemont wrote: »
    I used to think that when my parents were young the world had no colour and was black and white.

    Yesss. I used to think that too. I also thought babies grew in womens tits.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    i thought the newreaders might be able to see you the same way you can see them

    Yep. Thought that too. I was a dumb kid.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    I used to believe that Saddam Hussein was a real and present danger to the people of Ireland.

    Parents of young children in 2011: don't subject your children to tales of the murdering, disfiguring, or seriously debilitating attacks on thousands of people by way of introducing your young'uns to current affairs....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    doovdela wrote: »
    I thought fairies and the boogie man existed!
    they do david norris and sean gallagher


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    I thought i coulda had class, i coulda been a contender, i coulda been someone, instead of a bum, which is what i am, lets face it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭Optimalprimerib


    Teachers thought I was dyslexic because I spelled fox xof. I wasn't, I just felt sorry for x not starting any words


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    a few ones i remember:p i used to think you got way taller on your birthday. like say im 6 years old night before my bday and im 7 the next day straight away that morning id go measure myself and expected to be a few inches taller:p

    i thiught sex was kissing naked under the covers:p


    I thought that it was mandatory that one had to be married by a certain age.
    and i thought women became pregnant immediately after they got married no matter what. i thought the babies came out by the doctors slicing open the womans stomach like head of pumpkin and then taking the baby out then stitching her up again..eww.

    i used to think that when it rains god was sad.and when it was sunny god was smiling.

    i thought my parents bankaccounts had endless amount of money. i also thought 1 million euro wasnt very much money seeing as lots of houses for sale were like 6/7 million euro.

    When I was a kid I used to believe that you were safe from the monsters in the dark as long as you were hiding under the blankets.

    i also thought that it was possible for me to go down the drain in my bathtub and i would always close it up with a washcloth, etc.

    I thought chocolate milk came from brown or black cows.

    i used to think if you planted money i money tree would grow and i couldnt understand why nobody else did it.

    thought id have nightvision if i ate lots of carrots, and thought id be muscly if i ate lots of veg and milk:P

    and last one i thought my mum gave birth to my dog as he was around before me :P
    thats all i can think of.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    i liked this thread dont let it die!its really funny and interesting hearing what other people thought as kids:D


  • Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    When i was ten i thought being thirteen was gettin on a bit.And at twenty you were really past it or you'd lost it....Weird things happened to yur body hairs and tings.Horrible changes happened around twenty,yukkkkk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36 jene


    Flincher wrote: »

    I also remember in Dublin zoo asking my dad a certain guerilla was a figther guerilla like on the news. Evidently I misunderstood the concept of guerilla warfare.

    I also believed this! i couldnt understand why all the gorillas were killing people and wondered how they kept getting guns!

    plus i had no concept of time or history eveything that had ever happend in the world was happening now you just had to travel to see it. I think i believed Italy was still being ruled by the Romans til i was around 12.

    other things i believed, Walnuts were dried rat brains (my brother told me so) and that there was a secret room filled with treasure inbetween the walls of our house.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭ICANN


    When Mary McAleese was running for presidency I was small and kept hearing her talking about 'building bridges'. A few months after she became president I asked my mam why she built any bridges around Cork yet.

    I also thought that if I stood behind the telly that I'd be on the actual screen so I used to dance behind the television thinking that the whole nation was watching me.

    Finally for now I believed that there were teeny tiny people belting out tunes inside the radio and that's where the music came from.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭MadameGascar


    I thought human beings were called 'human beans', & that when babies were ready to be born they would just explode out their mothers belly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭30txsbzmcu2k9w


    I thought you would get AIDS if you the blood of anyone else mixed with yours. :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭tiger55


    One time a took my shirt when it was dark and i got some static, and i thought the light bulb was leaking electricity lol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Remember MacGuyver, there was a story going around for years that the actor was killed in an explosion while filming. I was saddened :(
    I told that story to many people, fully believed it

    In school we used to get stars if our Irish writing was correct
    If you watch Nuacht the text is divided with stars, wow those newsreaders get everything right. I was impressed :cool:


    Finally, watch the news or even read AH and it'll Judge LaFoy or Judge Carney and so on
    I thought you were not allowed be a judge if your name was not judge


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭merengueca


    Like someone else I believed the devil lived in the mirror - if you looked in the mirror at midnight you would see the devil instead of your reflection :eek:

    Thought Santa only knew the way to my Granny's house and not our own house - thats why we went to visit Granny every Christmas

    That anyone who died in a film died in real life. I knew they were actors, just thought they got paid a load of money (like £100) in advance, had a real blast then turned up to face John Wayne and get killed.

    Also because the sun was yellow if I said it was my favourite colour it would be sunny more.


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