Stupid things you thought as a kid.

battleaxe88 · 05-01-2012 05:18PM #1

Probably been done before, but here's mine.

When I was about 12/13 I used to think people going "cold turkey" meant that they had to eat lots of cold turkey!

Felt like a right plonker when my friend had to explain what it really was!

Please tell me I wasn't the only oneto think that!!!

Kiera · 05-01-2012 05:21PM

Everything i thought as a kid was stupid. My parents used to get a great kick out of making up wrong facts and making me believe them

Oranage2 · 05-01-2012 05:22PM

I thought woman only had periods once a year - Wrong I was

Sacksian · 05-01-2012 05:23PM

I thought the Equator was an imaginary lion.

Immaculate Pasta · 05-01-2012 05:23PM

My Dad used to tell me the ice cream van was in fact the fish van. I believed it for years. I never understood why so many children used to chase after the fish van with such delight

tayto lover · 05-01-2012 05:24PM

I used to think that my tongue turned black if I told a lie.
Lying gits.

battleaxe88 · 05-01-2012 05:25PM

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

My Dad used to tell me the ice cream van was in fact the fish van. I believed it for years. I never understood why so many children used to chase after the fish van with such delight

That made me actually lol!!! Gas

JupiterKid · 05-01-2012 05:25PM

That all adults were intelligent and wise. How wrong I was!

djk1000 · 05-01-2012 05:27PM

I thought the third world was another planet for a while.

dyer · 05-01-2012 05:28PM

i swallowed a pip once while eating an apple and was terrified that a tree was going to start growing inside me!

kfallon · 05-01-2012 05:30PM

When I was really young I used to think for a while that people on the TV could see me :rolleyes:

Sunnyisland · 05-01-2012 05:32PM

Thought jcb,s and the like were monsters and would eat you, terrified of them I was.

Paparazzo · 05-01-2012 05:33PM

My mate thought if you punch a woman in the tits you killed her

Captain Darling · 05-01-2012 05:34PM

My father told me there were nuclear missiles in Moneenageisha School in Galway City. I took it hook line and sinker.

Capt_cack · 05-01-2012 05:34PM

Thought really famous people turned to stone when they died.
That's where all the statues came from.

Sunnyisland · 05-01-2012 05:34PM

Also when on the news about Guerrillas fighting and shooting down airplanes, I thought it was planet of the apes for real, (This was early 1960,s)

mikemac1 · 05-01-2012 05:35PM

Justice Flood, Justice Carney, Justice LaFoy
I thought you couldn't be a judge unless your first name was Justice
While I may have been wrong as a kid I don't think this was a stupid assumption

In school we'd do Irish homework and you'd get stars if you did well
Then I'd see Nuacht at home and the scrolling text is full of stars. I thought there was a director watching and testing and grading them

I was in awe, these newsreaders are just superb at Irish and never make mistakes, check out all the stars

DiscoBiscuits · 05-01-2012 05:37PM

When i was 5 i thought if you swing your arms around in big circles in opposite directions while running it makes you go faster!!

whitewave · 05-01-2012 05:38PM

that boys have a penis and girls have a 'china'

Hesh's Umpire · 05-01-2012 05:38PM

I thought if I swallowed chewing gum my guts would stick together.
I thought it would be only a matter of time before Laois would win an All-Ireland.

JupiterKid · 05-01-2012 05:39PM

kfallon wrote: »

When I was really young I used to think for a while that people on the TV could see me :rolleyes:

Yeah, I thought that too when I was a small kid. I remember protesting to my mum about having to change out of my PJs in front of Sesame Street on the telly because they could see me!

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 05-01-2012 05:40PM

I was geographically aware as a child. At least I thought I was. I presumed Athlone to be the 2nd biggest town in Ireland, lagging only behind Dublin, and just in front of Ballinasloe.

kfallon · 05-01-2012 05:41PM

JupiterKid wrote: »

Yeah, I thought that too when I was a small kid. I remember protesting to my mum about having to change out of my PJs in front of Sesame Street on the telly because they could see me!

That's it exactly

Tho I think I didn't want to get changed in front of Aonghus Mcanally and the 'Anything Goes' studio audience :P

IamtheWalrus · 05-01-2012 05:42PM

That my life would turn out fantastic.

Sacksian · 05-01-2012 05:43PM

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Please, please explain this more.

Not much more to it. I thought the Equator was an imaginary lion (that looked like Aslan) which lived equidistant from the North and South poles.

candy-gal1 · 05-01-2012 05:43PM

used to think that the programmes stopped for everyone when the tv was turned off, so if i was watching something and then my parents said we had to go out or whatever, then i thought when i got home later that day, the exact moment in whatever i was watching on tv would still be there when i turned it on again

also, i used to think that my dads car was the only one that could carry people in it, dont ask me why i thought that, so when i saw other cars on the road driving beside us, i just thought they were robots/little toy cars with their own mind

i thought that when i entered a competition, on kids tv or comics etc, that it was guaranteed to win, once you sent it into them

CamperMan · 05-01-2012 05:44PM

7 years old, I was stabbed in the leg with a pair of scissors, I didn't drink anything for days because I thought it would come out of the hole in the leg... you know, like in the old cartoons

Sacksian · 05-01-2012 05:45PM

At some point, having seen a fair amount of old films and photographs, I also thought that people lived in black & white in the past.

force eleven · 05-01-2012 05:46PM

I used to believe guerilla warfare was something to do with apes and monkeys fighting each other.

Edit. Seems I wasn't the only one

Dubchild · 05-01-2012 05:46PM

I thought if i was a bold cheeky girl to my parents that santa would pass by our house and give my presents to a good kid down the road. It's amazing how ok it is for adults to lie to you for years and then when the truth comes out no one expects you to be gutted. NO Santa :eek: :cool:

Big Nasty · 05-01-2012 05:46PM

'If your hand is as big as your face you have cancer' - I believed that for all of two seconds after I was told it.

Ouuuuuccchhh! :mad:

Stupid things you thought as a kid.

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