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People Are Cracking Up At These 35 Nonsensical Beliefs These Twitter Users Had As Kids
Childhood could be seen as one of the most adorable periods of a person’s life. The time when children start to ask and learn various things about the world is very important. And usually, it brings a lot of fun to adults who try to explain and share their knowledge as best as possible. I guess we all remember times when we struggled to understand certain matters. Having this in mind, Twitter user @ExileGrimm asked people what was the dumbest belief they had when they were kids. The tweet got more than 93k likes and almost 7k retweets.
Image credits: fklv (Obsolete hipster)
The Twitter user started the thread by sharing her own belief that birds grew from bird seeds and that she even managed to prove this to be right. In the comments, people also shared their own beliefs that they soon understood to be nonsense. Even though these thoughts were false assumptions, now they make thousands of people laugh and think of their own funny childhood stories.
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#1
Kanga9ine 4 years ago
Completely logical. Cheerios however, when planted, regrettably don't produce donuts.
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Bee / she/her 4 years ago
How dare you reveal his secret identity? Just between the two of us, my dad is his associate!
Shadow_TheArtistDemon 4 years ago
What a coincidence! My parents also work with him!
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lisa thomas 4 years ago
That is one of the sweetest things I have ever heard!! Precious memories!
Swastik Kanwar 4 years ago
Between the bored panda community (My dad stats in regular contact with Santa
#3
Dark Pearl 4 years ago
My aunt has peas in her garden and my mum has to practically tear me away from them when they aren't yet ripe.
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Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
My sister and I would shell the fresh peas my mom bought. We ate them all, raw. Still the best things ever.
Lillukka79 4 years ago
I love peas, fresh or frozen. Propably eaten 10 liters of them this summer.
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
I like to eat peas straight from the pod that we grew in the garden. Delish
#4
Bee / she/her 4 years ago
I thought people who spoke English were just faking it and everyone's native language was Ukrainian.
Nicki 4 years ago (edited)
When I was like 10 years I wanted to marry someone from a really obscure place (to the average American), like Latvia, so that they could teach our kids and me a non-common language for the US and it would be like we had our own secret codes. 🤣🤣🤣
MagicalUnicorn 4 years ago
i grew up believing all people learned at least 2 other languages just to function in this world. how ignorant i was :D
Daria B 4 years ago
That would be so handy, though. But school alone is not enough. You really need to be immersed into a multilingual environment. I grew up like that, so I'm fluent in 4 languages, but I had the pleasure of meeting various people from all over the worlds, and, hearing their stories really opened my eyes about the various situations and points of views.
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Robert T 4 years ago
I still believe that the Danes only speak Danish when they know someone is watching. Their English is so good that they simply can't not be using it all the time!
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
Those poor bastards are just too small of a country to have a big movie industry in Danish and watch too much Hollywood stuff in the original.
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Skulduggery Pheasant 4 years ago
I thought that English was the proper, default language. That the English word for something (tree, for instance), was the proper word for it and that the word in other languages wasn't correct. I was (and am) a strange child.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
I'm afraid there are some adults who think that.
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Muff_Fluff 4 years ago
I thought people translated stuff from English into another language before they said it, and back to English after they heard it. Never occurred to me that people actually thought in Spanish, French, Mandarin… etc.
#5
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
The blood may not show but if it has to be laundered chances are that it's got blood on it.
Load More Replies... MauKini 4 years ago
I thought the black market was a normal market with black stalls that sold weapons and drugs.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Me too! I thought it looked like a street market and was only set up at night and in dark alleyways and the sellers only had one tiny light each.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Guilty of this one as well. My parents had a good laugh, then explained the phrase, and to this day, if I find a coin in the washer, etc., I say, "Uh-oh, I was money laundering!"
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Clay Harvey-Hodges 4 years ago
I actually love this. What a fantastic children's book this story would make!
New Prometheus 4 years ago
To actially think that something is a thing and to play with imagination are not the same thing...
#7
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Pretty sure all mazes that are made correctly only have one way to escape... unless there's some kind of joke or reference here that I'm completely missing
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Bob Belcher 4 years ago
I thought if it was raining, it was raining everywhere. It wasn't until I was on a road trip from TX to FL on I-10 that I discovered this wasn't true.
CalicoKitty 4 years ago
Clearly when all the grownups told us to walk and not run, they were just jealous.
VersaceDreams 4 years ago
There are literally multiple copies of my house...welcome to suburban cookie-cutter America !
Powercat 4 years ago
Wanna hear something real sad? I thought that adults didn’t play. My parents never played with me as a child, not once. So it never crossed my mind to ask my parents or any other adult to play with me. When I got older and kids asked me to play with them I thought it was super weird because when I was a kid, playing with adults was never an option. Took me a while to realize I was the one who was raised differently.
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 4 years ago
This second one absolutely fascinates me. I can't even comprehend thinking that it was more logical to have multiple copies of the exact same house with the exact same stuff in the exact same place, than to have multiple roads. Genuinely I'm amazed by this absolute out of the box thinking and would love to interview this person!!
Skulduggery Pheasant 4 years ago
TBH, my house isn't even big enough for there to be multiple ways to get somewhere.
Isabel Frost 4 years ago
Wait the second (multiple routes) one happens to cats too, idk what it's called but basically if there's more than one way to get to a room, they automatically assume there's more than one of that room.
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Miss Cris 4 years ago
You were a child. The problem is adults who vote and are believing this :(
Earl Grey 4 years ago
I remember that well. The slogan to sell it was “A rising tide lifts all boats.” It has been thoroughly debunked.
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Sky Render 4 years ago
Crap like this is why separation of church and state needs to be bi-directional. Not bringing religion into politics is important, but so is not bringing politics into religion.
John Baker 4 years ago
There are a lot of people old enough to know better who believe that crap.
John Baker 4 years ago
Ayuso, "trickle-down" economics has *never* worked. Ever. Tax cuts for the rich benefit only the rich.
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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago (edited)
Maybe that was one of those "if you give me all your money, I'll let it trickle down so you all can have more jobs! Look, my Rolex created jobs for all those watchmakers! Praise be the Lord! "-type of pastors?
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glowworm2 4 years ago
My father actually told me what Roxanne was actually about when I was young, but I didn't know what a prostitute was at the time.
GirlFriday 4 years ago (edited)
Fun story - My great aunt used to run a house of prostitution, and as a youngster, I would hear the adults talking in another room about how her "running whores" out of her carpet store. I asked my cousin what a whore was and she told me that it was a woman who wore pajamas and high heels and said hi to men. As a result, I pictured all of these women racing around a track in little cotton nightgowns like I had and heels like my mom wore to church and every time they passed a man on the track, they would shout "Hi!"
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Cheri Aline Sydney 4 years ago
When I was around five, we took a family trip to a big city... we were farm folks... I saw a lady crossing the brige and proudly proclaimed that I wanted to be a streetwalker when I grow up... I was so surprised with the looks on my parents faces while asking me why I would say such a thing... I was enlightened about pedestrians... My hubby and I visited that city together and I was still chuckling about it 30 years later... In fact, I am still chuckling about it 65 years later....
Improperplays 4 years ago
Sorry to ask but what is a streetwalker? Im a dumb person, lmao
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Ivana 4 years ago
Reminds me of Lola, I think I was 13 and singing along to it (it has been a long time favorite song) when the lyrics suddenly clicked in my head. "Well, I'm not dumb but I can't understand why she walked like a woman but talked like a man. Oh my Lola" You think I would have caught on sooner since towards the end they sing "I'm not the world's most masculine man but I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola."
glowworm2 4 years ago
I actually figured that one out myself as a kid around that age. Asked dad if Lola was a drag queen. I was right.
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Stephanie IV 4 years ago
Every breath you take is still considered a love song here, because virtually nobody understands the lyrics.
Al Christensen 4 years ago
I guess he missed the "You don't have to sell your body to the night" part.
Travis Roth 4 years ago
I thought Pink Floyd was a black dude in a pink zoot suit with a wide brimmed fedora hat.
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Ayuso 4 years ago
Cruelty is not "not-eating chocolate cakes" You depreciate so much the words that you cannot nominate the truth
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Kanga9ine 4 years ago
My dad always asked who wanted ice cream and would come out licking a spoonful of chocolate ice cream and tell us all we had was liver ice cream. Could have used some of those onions with it.
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Trond Øien 4 years ago
In Norwegian the direct translation to english of our word for that particular crime would be Drunkdriving. Fyllekjøring. More precise in a way :)
Load More Replies... GirlFriday 4 years ago
My parents had a friend named Roger and Roger would tell people he didn't drink. I thought this meant that Roger never drank any liquids at all. My parents had him and his wife over for dinner and Roger took a sip of iced tea and I yelled "STOP, YOU DON'T DRINK!"
Sammi Danni 4 years ago
i did this to my mom after we left mcds one day when i was 3.5. I screamed at her and told her she was a bad mom for drinking and driving, and she had to pull over to explain to me lol
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Estelle Winwoode 4 years ago (edited)
When I was little a whole bunch of people tried to get me to believe in that guy too! But at around the same time they wanted me to believe that a fairy took my lost baby teeth from under the pillow or out of a glass of water and left money instead, and they wanted me to believe SOMETHING (a magic rabbit?) left easter eggs hidden around the place, and also that a fat bearded man in a red suit broke into the house once a year to leave presents for children. The man in the sky was meant to be scary, but it was clearly just another made up character. And there was nothing to show for it like there was for the other characters. I decided against all of them.
Estelle Winwoode 4 years ago (edited)
Maria Schneider, I didn't need science to see through the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus. Really, this is what happened: all these guys were presented to me at around the same time - it was not possible for me to believe that they were real. Do you still believe in the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny? Did you need science to help you decide? No, you didn't. Science isn't necessary to see that these characters are all just ideas.
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Phils 4 years ago
Too bad. The Bible talks about a guy who healed people, took care of the poor, fought against those in power that oppressed the marginalized, called out those that made religion severe and meaningless, and talked constantly about a God that loves people. Not sure what you have against those attributes. I think we need more of that in this world.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
You mean a god that created horrors like cancer in little children, ebola or the current pandemic? That condones a corrupt chuch that has been violent and criminal for centuries? ... That god does not exist but if he did he shouldnt be worshiped
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Wouldiwas Shookspeared 4 years ago
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
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MrOwlAteMyMetalWorm. 4 years ago (edited)
When I was a kid I thought God sent angels down earth to give kids to parents ,like my mom would be sleeping one day and next day morning she notice she had kid in her stomach but my question was how did God know who were married who were not?I didn't know unmarried people could have kids.I thought God was the Real Spy.Lol,I nevered asked my Mom.
Estelle Winwoode 4 years ago
Hey, I thought the same thing! Since I was told that god made us and sent babies to mothers, but only to MARRIED mothers (as far as I knew then), then how did god know when women were married? I guessed that god must be keeping track of the paperwork when a wedding happened. I wasn't very impressed by the idea of officework in heaven.
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anarkzie 4 years ago
Even though this is probably meant as a joke, I did actually believe this up until the age of about 12 or 13. I really felt a loss when It dawned on me that it was not the case.
Goth Nurse 4 years ago
This also can be, and mostly is, true. This is how kids learn about Christianity. This is how I was taught, but fortunately I started to think for myself and came to my senses - I'm very much atheist now.
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First Name Last Name 4 years ago
I believed that people would refrain from making judgments on concepts until they had studied them enough to fully understand them. I thought that is what intelligence was. Most of these comments sound like movie reviews by people who never saw the movie.
Estelle Winwoode 4 years ago (edited)
Children of 4 or 5 years don't make judgements on religion - or on any subject - after studying them enough to fully understand them. And what have religion and intelligence got to do with each other, anyway? Is religious understanding only for the intelligent, in your view?
Load More Replies... Kanga9ine 4 years ago
At 5, my mom and brother and I flew to California to join dad, who had been transferred. After mistaking the Grand Canyon for a snake, I asked her when we were going to see God. I figured we were in his back yard or neighborhood and we'd see him out mowing the lawn or washing his car.
Trond Øien 4 years ago
If it turns out that there is such a thing as a man in the sky. He really sucks at hiring. Imo a big percentage of his ground crew sucks.
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Johnny Rodriguez 4 years ago
Understandable. 1 is the smallest-100 is the largest. It's a unit of measurement that children can relate to..
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Lindsey Judd-Bruder 4 years ago (edited)
My son said this once, when he was little. He fell asleep in our room, and my husband (his daddy) carried him to bed. The next morning he woke up and came running to me, utterly awestruck, saying, "Mama! Mama! Our house is magic! I fell asleep in your room, and it put me back in MY bed!!" LOL ah the innocence of children.
Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey 4 years ago
i always wondered what kids thought when this happened...
Floof_the_Pom 4 years ago
same with falling asleep in the car and waking up in bed. teleportation man
Sagtiya Sieelan 4 years ago
I thought this too until my mom told me that dad carried me to the bed..lol!
#15
Improperplays 4 years ago
Mine aswell, i cant write well for the life of me!
Load More Replies... The Redhead 4 years ago
In 4th grade ( around '90/'91) we were in the computer lab and our teacher had her screen on the projector so we could see what she was doing. First she said put in your password well all I saw was the asterisk and I thought that's dumb now we all know her password. Then she hit enter and said "now we're connected to the computer at the local library; I thought who cares it's not doing anything.
Stephanie IV 4 years ago
I believed handwriting was a matter of voluntarily infusing completely arbitrary squiggles with meaning. Like magic. That’s it. I thought being able to write was magic.
Robert Robi Z 4 years ago
Oh, when I was a small child before I learned how to write, I pretended to write by just scribbling such lines on paper. The interesting thing, I knew perfectly well what I 'wrote' and could 'read' it, word after word, and repeat it as many times you want
Lindsey Judd-Bruder 4 years ago
That's what I used to think cursive was. Just a bunch of connected loops, lol.
Anita Pickle 4 years ago
I wrote like as a little kid and thought I was an author of great stories! I would even read them to people.
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BetterBitterButter 4 years ago
My brother used to believe that men gave birth to male babies and women gave birth to female babies.
Suzi Gauthier 4 years ago
Kind of true, or least half a baby. I told my daughter when she was 5 that she already has all of her eggs to make babies in her tummy. She did seem impressed. But then every time her stomach hurt even a little, she'd say, "My babies are hurting me!"
SpongeGarPatar 4 years ago
Partly it is. But the timing is not "random"; sex has to happen.
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Biljana Malesevic 4 years ago
I also thought the same. Once I cried when I accidentally saw childbirth on tv and it was so horrifying to me as a child. I was literally crying "I don't want that! Ever!" and my aunt heard me and told me I really don't have to if I don't want to. That made me think.
Jace 4 years ago
It is a pretty awful process for humans. And there are more than enough humans, so you absolutely don’t need to have your own. You could also adopt, if you really wanted to raise a child.
Load More Replies... Stephanie IV 4 years ago
I thought women could will babies into themselves and decided to have a baby at four.
Amanda Reicha 4 years ago
Me too! I thought that one was just going to come out when I was an adult. I remember playing with my doll in a mud puddle while I was crying about not wanting a baby (I was around 6, so my mom was pregnant with my sister). Still don't have kids and still don't want any ;p
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Robert T 4 years ago
Well there is definitely some miserable git that turns them all to red when he sees me coming.
Estelle Winwoode 4 years ago
Well, when my son was in infants school I went with the kids as a helper on an excursion. We went by tram then walked through a quiet part of the city to our destination. I was guiding the long string of children across a road while watching the walk-sign. It was green, then it started flashing red, about to say Stop Walking - but we were only halfway across. I looked at the kids to stop them going onto the road, then looked back at the walk-sign. It was now green again! It stayed green until all the kids were off the road, which was much longer than any walk-sign I've seen before or since. Every crossing we took after that magically stayed green until all the kids had crossed. Someone WAS watching.
Tabitha Feliciano 4 years ago
Similar to this but I believed there were tiny men INSIDE the traffic lights deciding when to change them!
Prilsy 4 years ago
Oh me too! Just posted this when I saw your comment. Only I thought it was a very thin guy, like the science assistant in the muppets
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Neil Bidle 4 years ago
Partly true in a way, many modern lights have pressure sensors that change the lights (or activate filter lights) based on traffic. Some also have sensors that change the light to red if it detects a speeding vehicle
Robert T 4 years ago
Pretty sure ours are electromagnatic as they put loops of wire into the tarmac at intervals in front of the lights. But they either extend the time the light is on green if there is a queue or make the lights change quicker if it detects a vehicle waiting in the other direction. They are a pain as they usually start to change before the last vehicle gets through the lights.
Load More Replies... Dawn Woolley 4 years ago
These days there is, after a fashion. My son works in the traffic department of our city, and they have cameras at all the major intersections. If there's a big event where they expect a huge volume of traffic, or an accident that's causing cars to build up, they can change the traffic lights to help keep it flowing.
Mo Poppins 4 years ago
There IS someone doing this...just not constantly, and not everywhere. I do remember watching some show where they showed the central command center that controlled the city's (or county's?) traffic signals, and they were able to shorten or lengthen the duration of each light color manually.
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Stephanie Did It 4 years ago
I thought that long haired dogs and cats were girls and short haired ones were boys.
MagicalUnicorn 4 years ago
i had same belief till i was about 5 :D my mom struggled to explain me word 'bitch' :D
debrina blackmoon 4 years ago (edited)
"Peeerryyy!" Daughters watch it still as adults lol!
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debrina blackmoon 4 years ago
Well, that one in A Bug's Life insisted the same.
Load More Replies... Suzi Gauthier 4 years ago
I didn't but I usually call cats "she" & dogs "he" if I don't know their name or gender.
Tobias the Tiger 4 years ago
Weirdly, I've lived with three people who had a dog and cat, and in all three of those cases the dog was female and the cat was male.
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Al Christensen 4 years ago
It bothers me when parents give a child a name that sounds cute for infants and children but immature for adults. I sometimes suggest, "Put 'President' at the beginning of the name. How how appropriate does that combination sound?"
Carlos Sanchez 4 years ago
Like naming kids as Disney animal anthropomorphic characters? Would be hilarious to see some president named "Donald"! :,D
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Natalia Shoemark 4 years ago
My husband's name is Graeme.... can't even imagine naming ur baby that!
Fact Perils 4 years ago
I guess it's because certain names were popular during different time periods, so you associate different names with different ages.
Fact Perils 4 years ago
Other names are timeless though, like Jack or Thomas. But for example Barbara is a grandma, not a 2 year old in my mind.
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Curry on... 4 years ago
One of my kids asked me if the world was black and white when I was a kid after watching an old Andy Griffith rerun.
Suzi Gauthier 4 years ago
My niece saw a black & white show once & asked why they were all gray.
yellowphantom 4 years ago
My oldest son thought the color period was brought about by winning world war II because old war documentaries were about the only black and white films he ever saw.
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debrina blackmoon 4 years ago (edited)
Kindly fuuck off and refill/get your meds(hopeless as are you?); it's highly doubtful that you know how to do either, shitiot bitchweed.
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Guido Pisano 4 years ago
I am italian but when I speak/write in english I think in english I do not translate from italian...
jjdubs W 4 years ago
That's because you must be pretty fluent in English!
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PeachPossum 4 years ago
When a person is still learning a foreign language, they must translate the foreign words into their native language. Once the person begins to become fluent, they start to think in the foreign language when speaking the foreign language. The first time that happens it can be disconcerting. I remember sitting in German class listening to our teacher speak in German and understanding every word she said without having to translate anything into English. I was so startled, I lost the moment and afterwards she sounded like she was talking gibberish. LOL
Equine_Ravenclaw_Directioner 4 years ago
I'm bilingual and really many people ask me what Language I think on.
BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago
I thought other languages were different kinds of code, and if you could figure out the key, you could translate them back into English.
Carrie DeHaven 4 years ago
In a sense, that's true. All languages are codes we have trained to understand.
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I thought every language sounded like English to the people speaking it, but sounded different to people not speaking it.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I'm guilty of this. I have to start in English and translate about half the time. It's a serious energy drain. I need to practice harder, but with Covid... i barely have mental energy to surf the web.
Biljana Malesevic 4 years ago
I thought every language but my native was just gibberish and I was amazed how my parents knew in which language was any movie.
BookCrazyTeen 4 years ago (edited)
I thought something like that too! I would wonder why they (people that spoke another language) couldn’t understand English, I thought that it was just automatically translated in their head 🤦♀️
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Charlie the Lesbian 4 years ago
I thought that same thing...lol that's not a common idiotic child thought?
Unnamed Hooman 4 years ago
I thought that too, but as in the person killing the cereal. “TELL ME WHERE THE MONEY IS” *dips cornflakes in milk for 5 seconds* “TELL MEEEEE”
debrina blackmoon 4 years ago (edited)
Wow-fucktard shitpie. Go play in traffic slowly after gulping a handful of diphenhydramine.
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HoneyBun Arts 4 years ago
I always thought when a woman threw up she was pregnant immediately after. This was thought when i was 6 or 7. Every time i threw up after that i sobbed. 🤷🏻♀️
Soni Borah 4 years ago (edited)
Thank God I was not the only one 😁... And I had motion sickness so it was kinda frequent
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M O'Connell 4 years ago
There have been numerous cases of parents teaching their children this. The result is they don't kiss their peers, they f**k them... pregnancy. Major parenting backfire.
Miss Cris 4 years ago
A friend of mine told me that to get pregnant we had to drink champagne in a bathtube. I could understand some soap operas then.
Karen Lawyer 4 years ago
So that's why you can't get pregnant in a hot tub! /s lol
Load More Replies... Deal _Anneal 4 years ago
This is exactly what i thought and they would have a full make out session and there's a baby formed in the women's tummy (if it was only that easy)
Bettie-Jean Neal 4 years ago
I thought the exact same thing. And at my aunt's wedding, when I was 4, I clearly remember whispering to my grandmother that I wasn't kissing my husband at my wedding because I didn't want a baby. I'm 50 and still don't have kids. Best decision ever.
Carmen Sandiego 4 years ago
I just thought that they get married and then the woman gets pregnant at some random time. Then I found an (age- appropriate) encyclopedia.
I' Gomez & Morticia's kid 4 years ago
After my first kiss for several years, I thought I was pregnant:/
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Solidhog 4 years ago
When I heard the term "Great depression" the first time I thought it was because evrybody was really unhappy with how things were going. They never explained it here in the UK fully in history lessons. They just said "and at that time America was going through the great depression."
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
I'm curious, what do other countries learn about The Great Depression? Didn't England get affected as well?
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Bob Belcher 4 years ago
Starting next school year, all high school students are required to take 2 econ classes and 1 basic finance class in Texas. It's about time. I've been saying it's needed since I was in highs school. I remember being laughed at because I took a financial math class which most burn outs took because it was considered easy basic math while everyone else was taking Algebra 2, Trig, and Calculus. I don't recall the last time I had to figure out the Arc of an object shot at 90mph with a degree of 15. But I know o use financial math almost daily.
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 4 years ago
I said to my Nana everyone must have been happy between the world wars. She said no that was the depression. So what was i supposed to think. It's ok, I know now
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Charlene Kowalski 4 years ago
When I was little, my dad used to mock threaten our dog with, "If you don't behave I'll take you to the dog pound". In my mind I heard dog pond. I used to think that was where they drowned bad dogs.
Robert Robi Z 4 years ago
I hated it when they taught us at school some things but never explained the actual meaning to that. We just learned how to reproduce the facts and terms without knowing what they meant. It especially was like that in history and geography. Later in life I finally came to understand the real meanings. And in some cases found out that some teachers actually pronounced the terms wrong.
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renee brack 4 years ago
Same. And that a sperm was the size of a teaspoon and passed from the groom to the bride. Didn't think about more kids. Must have heaps more teaspoons. In the "kitchen drawer".
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PeachPossum 4 years ago
You and me both. I have a lot of deaf and hard of hearing relatives on my father's side. I myself am hard of hearing and require subtitles. One day my boyfriend and I were watching a movie. Both of our cats jumped on the TV stand, one sitting on each side, blocking the view. I complained I couldn't see the captions with the cats sitting there. My boyfriend said, "Read between the lions."
Load More Replies... Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
French class would be so easy if I had subtitles in my head.
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Telmo Belo 4 years ago
That, I believe, was a massive coincidence. Mostly because the rest of the world would use 11/9
Alexandru Bucur 4 years ago
It wasn't, it was specifically chosen BECAUSE Americans would render the date as 9/11 which makes it look like "911". Like most ideological terrorists, Al-Qaeda also chose the dates of their attacks very carefully - for example, the 1998 Kenyan embassy bombings happened on August 7, which was eight years to the day that American troops were sent to Saudi Arabia.
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Johnny Rodriguez 4 years ago
When Homer Simpson was 'Poochie', he asked Itchy&Scratchy's voice actor if the cartoon will be broadcast live and I think this is d'ohtally cute..
Amy Pattie 4 years ago
I feel like there’s been this generation that made fun of the 9/11 assumption, as if somehow being slightly older and remembering a time before that event made you more intelligent. I really hope we grow out of that.
Floof_the_Pom 4 years ago
wait dead serious here... 911 the number wasn't named after 9/11? i'm about to be a junior in high school...
That One Weirdo 4 years ago
It was about two months ago I reckon when I realized they are the same number and thought that was spooky
Al Christensen 4 years ago
When there was a wedding in a movie or on TV I thought the actors were actually getting married, because they said "I do" and the priest/minister/whomever pronounced them man and wife. They had said the magic words. Odd how I understood the concept of actors but not the concept of pretending to marry.
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Robert Robi Z 4 years ago
I thought North was the ceiling, South was the floor, East was the classroom door, West was the windows. I was confused with East and West in another classroom. North and South were not the problems. My parents were the ones who taught me what it is about, not the teacher.
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
I remember it this way, the right side of my head is the only one that has headaches
Scott Rackley 4 years ago
Yeah, the hand trick is how I learned. Oddly being left-handed didn't register.
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#31
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
Bruh I get you may like chips, but lying to a child for that unhealthy s**t? Really?!
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
Okay I know u like your chips but lying to a child? For junk food?
Kimberley Gayle Thomas 4 years ago
My Mom tried to keep the Pringles to herself, but my brother & I weren't fooled. Even my cat Biscuit at the time wanted dibs. She would lick the salt off before eating the entire piece.
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StrangeLittleThing 4 years ago
I used to think when there was a young version of a person on a program or movie then it was actually a video of the actor when they were a kid
Jonathan 4 years ago
Like the Spice Girls video for Mama had us all thinking those little girls were actually the Spice Girls!
Load More Replies... Katy McMouse 4 years ago
I grew up watching old movies that played every Sunday on PBS. In one of the movies (I think it was "Captians Courageous"), the main character loses his leg (or arm) in a sailing accident. I asked my dad how they did this and he told me that the actor had to have his arm cut off in real life. For YEARS I believed this and if I saw a limb-less character in a modern movie, I used to think " Damn. They really must've needed this job." Then I learned about green screens and other such things and was seriously pissed that my own father did this to me😖.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
I love all those dads in these comments messing with their kids. I'd totally do that - no, in fact, I WILL do that to my nephew once he's old enough. Only where it won't scare or scar him for life, of course ;-)
Load More Replies... Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
I thought they used the same actor as they are young and wait for them to grow up and continue the movie
#33
Andrew Gibb 4 years ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that his name is Mike
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kasa alex 4 years ago
When I was young I thought I should have been able to fly. My parents are from New Zealand, and I was born there but grew up in Australia. People from NZ are called 'kiwis', same name as the well-known flightless bird, the kiwi. I thought that if kiwis (the bird) could fly, then kiwis (the people) would have also been able to fly, and always felt slightly jibbed since I was the only one of my siblings born in NZ - imagine if I could fly and they couldn't! (Because they weren't really 'kiwis')
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
I hope you found out the easy way, if so I hope it was just a finger
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Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
Look back on it as a win for you, you knew of Bin Laden, Iraq and the UN and had an idea of foreign affairs, all at age nine. Plus you now know that what your teacher did was cruel and inappropriate.
Tam illo 4 years ago
So true, I'm not sure how many nine year old children new about this. The class probably just laughed because the teacher presented it as a "funny mistake"
Load More Replies... Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Meanwhile I had a teacher who insisted that Apollo 11, the one that went to the moon, was actually Apollo 2 and the 11 were actually II or the Roman numeral for 2.
renee brack 4 years ago
I love your assignment and the way you made sense of the world. Pretty awful teacher response. Cruel even.
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Stephanie Did It 4 years ago
Like when Elmer Fudd stuck the rifle barrel into the hole and it curled up out of the hole behind him!
Craig Reynolds 4 years ago
I can top that! Jumping off the roof with an umbrella doesn't work. A cape won't let you fly. Sticking something metal into an electrical socket will not make you light up like a lightbulb, it will just knock you on your *ss. Not sure how I made it to adulthood.
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MTE 4 years ago
When I was young, I thought that if I behaved good, treat others with respect and kindness, be honest and law-abiding, that would automatically mean that I would have a good, happy life, and got treated back the same way. No such luck.
Shelby P 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah, kinda like how I thought as an adult I wouldn't never be bullied again because adults know better and behave properly... little did I know...
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Heather Evans 4 years ago (edited)
My friend told me that when she was little she did know there were muscles, bones and organs in her body. She thought it was all poop the whole way through. She told me this like 20 years ago and I can NOT forget this. I just picture her adorable little self completely unbothered by the idea that she's a poop balloon
Paradise 4 years ago
Yeah, many preschoolers (hopefully friend wasnt older) think this. I remember thinking my entire butt was for poop.
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Francesca Annoni 4 years ago
When I was 5 they told me that paper was made with trees.. I thought for about 2 years that they accurately choosed trees with white wood and no defects, and cut very very thin slice of wood to make paper sheets, until my teacher explained the entire process at school..
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Though that is precisely the process for making wood veneer, so you can just shift that knowledge.
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Evgeniya Khon 4 years ago
I tried to hatch a fish egg by putting it in warm water and waiting patiently. It was smoked caviar.
Ivana 4 years ago
You guys ever watch Pretty Woman? It was my absolute favorite movie when I was 5. There is a part where Julia Roberts pulls out some condoms and they are all different colors, she asks Richard Gere which one he wants and I though she was offering him lollipops. I remember this huge fight cause my aunt walked in and me and my cousins were watching it because you know I owned that VHS and she put me in time out after screaming at me that they don't allow things like that in her home. I put up quite the fight, there was nothing inappropriate about Pretty Woman and I believed my aunt to be nuts. Still feel that way to this day. I didn't realize the movie was about a prostitute until I was around 13. That movie has solidified my belief that kids can watch rated R movies because they don't know what is going on, and when they are old enough to know what is going on, then they are also old enough to watch it. Just my opinion.
Dodo 4 years ago
I watched so many movies as a kid that I didn't understand. Watching them as a teen/adult and realising all the innuendo and inappropriate stuff... embarrassing.
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Kamila Podolak 4 years ago
When I was a kid, probably from age 6 to 13? I thought that every female finds females attractive. Then I got familiar with the term "lesbian" :D
Casey McAlister 4 years ago
I was growing up in a non-religious area, so I thought that religion was some ancient thing nobody believed in anymore. When I was 11, I experienced a cultural shock when my roommate in a summer camp turned out to be a Christian who prayed every evening.
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
That does sound like a shock. I used to think my family and people at church were the only Catholics. Imagine my surprise when my classmate Seth started praying before lunch...
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Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Thanks to my sister I thought you had to be 7 or older to drink 7up 🤦♀️
RatherLoopy 4 years ago
When I was little (60-odd years ago), I took the expression "there's a first time for everything" just a bit too literally and lived in terror of the first time I would break a leg or an arm, have a heart attack, drown in the neighborhood pool, etc., etc..
MTE 4 years ago
When I was young, I thought that if I behaved good, treat others with respect and kindness, be honest and law-abiding, that would automatically mean that I would have a good, happy life, and got treated back the same way. No such luck.
Shelby P 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah, kinda like how I thought as an adult I wouldn't never be bullied again because adults know better and behave properly... little did I know...
Load More Replies... Heather Evans 4 years ago (edited)
My friend told me that when she was little she did know there were muscles, bones and organs in her body. She thought it was all poop the whole way through. She told me this like 20 years ago and I can NOT forget this. I just picture her adorable little self completely unbothered by the idea that she's a poop balloon
Paradise 4 years ago
Yeah, many preschoolers (hopefully friend wasnt older) think this. I remember thinking my entire butt was for poop.
Load More Replies... Francesca Annoni 4 years ago
When I was 5 they told me that paper was made with trees.. I thought for about 2 years that they accurately choosed trees with white wood and no defects, and cut very very thin slice of wood to make paper sheets, until my teacher explained the entire process at school..
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Though that is precisely the process for making wood veneer, so you can just shift that knowledge.
Load More Replies... Evgeniya Khon 4 years ago
I tried to hatch a fish egg by putting it in warm water and waiting patiently. It was smoked caviar.
Ivana 4 years ago
You guys ever watch Pretty Woman? It was my absolute favorite movie when I was 5. There is a part where Julia Roberts pulls out some condoms and they are all different colors, she asks Richard Gere which one he wants and I though she was offering him lollipops. I remember this huge fight cause my aunt walked in and me and my cousins were watching it because you know I owned that VHS and she put me in time out after screaming at me that they don't allow things like that in her home. I put up quite the fight, there was nothing inappropriate about Pretty Woman and I believed my aunt to be nuts. Still feel that way to this day. I didn't realize the movie was about a prostitute until I was around 13. That movie has solidified my belief that kids can watch rated R movies because they don't know what is going on, and when they are old enough to know what is going on, then they are also old enough to watch it. Just my opinion.
Dodo 4 years ago
I watched so many movies as a kid that I didn't understand. Watching them as a teen/adult and realising all the innuendo and inappropriate stuff... embarrassing.
Load More Replies... Kamila Podolak 4 years ago
When I was a kid, probably from age 6 to 13? I thought that every female finds females attractive. Then I got familiar with the term "lesbian" :D
Casey McAlister 4 years ago
I was growing up in a non-religious area, so I thought that religion was some ancient thing nobody believed in anymore. When I was 11, I experienced a cultural shock when my roommate in a summer camp turned out to be a Christian who prayed every evening.
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
That does sound like a shock. I used to think my family and people at church were the only Catholics. Imagine my surprise when my classmate Seth started praying before lunch...
Load More Replies... Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Thanks to my sister I thought you had to be 7 or older to drink 7up 🤦♀️
RatherLoopy 4 years ago
When I was little (60-odd years ago), I took the expression "there's a first time for everything" just a bit too literally and lived in terror of the first time I would break a leg or an arm, have a heart attack, drown in the neighborhood pool, etc., etc..
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