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As children, we tend to believe a variety of things, from nonsense ideas to respectable concepts. And more often than not, those beliefs are based on some form of teaching, like something our parents told us not to do lest something bad happen. As adults, we know certain things as a given; it came with the worldly experience over the years. But for children, anything that's not in their immediate sphere of expertise (assuming they have any) will likely be considered as the unknown, and kids then look up to others to fill in the blanks or come up with original ideas why things are the way they are. A Twitter user by the name of @Kristen_Arnett decided to delve a bit deeper into the topic, asking people on Twitter what are some of the beliefs they had as children.

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angelleconant Report

Earl Grey
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That reads like something a standup comic would say in a nightclub.

Sheila Stamey
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I want to know how and when it was cleared up for you!

Another Fool on the Hill
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm kind of interested, how this would be tested if true...

P.A.B.
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My family wasn’t very religious, but I always believed that a “higher power” existed. I didn’t know much about God, but knew He was “up there” and I thought that He and his “assistants” were in the ceiling and would open a sliding panel to see what I was doing.

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    amieenoelle Report

    JennyBee
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My sister told me the thunder was god and the angels bowling, the lightning was them taking pics and the rain was them playing in a pool lol

    denzoren
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My parents told me that it was God rearranging his furniture.

    Debbie
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I told my children when they were growing up thunder was God shifting furniture and lighting was him using a torch ,

    Philly Bob Squires
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My Dad said it was the angels bowling... and the rain was Mother Nature washing her face.

    Curry on...
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I told my kids it was God playing drums. That actually worked.

    Maddy_BobaTea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    SAME! but i was told it was god bowling ^w^

    It’s just common sense
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    According to Hindu mythology, the thunder and lightning are produced when gods are fighting.

    Rose
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not very original, but I told my young son thunder was the angels bowling. We sat and listened to the storm a few minutes and after a massive crack of lightening he says "Wow! That was a strike!" That summer, he'd still climb into bed with me when it stormed, but we'd lay there and count strikes and gutter balls. 💕

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    "What’s something extremely bizarre you believed as a very young child?" was the question that kickstarted it all. Kristen Arnett wanted to know what, if any, believable theories users had as children—"believable" meaning not something about fairytales or zombies, but grounded in reality, with tangible reasoning behind it.

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    wordwhirler Report

    Morgan Deatherage
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me to though i thought i was the only one i felt so dumb when i found out i was wrong

    Mere Cat
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Glad I'm not the only one who thought this! I got really confused when a woman sang in the radio and my mom told she died long ago. Then it hit me...

    Beeps
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I could never understand how they managed to sing perfectly in tune, but very quietly when the song fades at the end. Kept trying it out myself a bunch of times, but when I did it, it just came out as whispers.

    Equine_Ravenclaw_Directioner
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me toooo! I thought they all lived in a giant house and had to sing their song three times a day and of they died you could never listen to that song again...

    Kateryna
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought all of the bells and announcements were played on the piano by the principal

    Demongrrrrl
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same here. And I thought commercial breaks were when they rotated bands in and out of rooms.

    Dark Pearl
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    JESUS ME TOO. My heart wept when my mum corrected me.

    Karl Baxter
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to think that if I looked at a vinyl record with a powerful enough microscope I would see tiny musical instruments in the grooves

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    #4

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    linguangst Report

    Mary Rose Kent
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where would the fish come from? The little ceiling sprinklers?

    Iso
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    so like, where's the fish?

    hi myself
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Last time I was at school, this actually happened. A kid pulled it, and we all thought that it was real, so we all evacuated, none of the teachers knew what was happening, the fire department came, and then we found out that it was all a false alarm. We all stood out quiet in a line for an hour, in freezing cold weather. Some of the kids in younger grades got to go on the playground, which made it WAY harder.

    Aleksei
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why is it always the little kids that always live in luxury?

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    Cole Israel
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    believe or not i pulled the fire alarm once also

    Mark Kelly
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't they teach kids that at that age? They do here in C.anada

    backatya
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and then you get in big trouble

    Rose
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How very boring! 😁

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    #5

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    7kindsofmind Report

    Your_local_introvert
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always thought that when people kissed, they were already married/dating in "real life".

    Prideless
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought that when people kissed in movies they weren’t actually kissing, I thought that it was the angle of which they shot the scene that made it look like they were kissing....

    BlockDog02
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought you got pregnant by kissing, so....xD Yeah, in my childhood I would DEFINITELY need the actors to have a thin pane of glass...

    Confused Flamingo
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought that people stood some space apart facing each other and the camera angle made it look like they kissed 😭😭

    Mac
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh my goodness I used to think something similar. Like a thin piece of plastic film that was just big enough to cover like their mouth and nose.

    Kathakdancer
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought they were wearing masks on their face so they didn’t have to touch. I also thought that the scenes when the actor is young were filmed by the same actor the movie just waited for them to grow up.

    Isabel Frost
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My friend taught me about a trick where one person cups the other person's face and puts their thumb against their lips, so it looks like they're kissing but in reality they're kissing their thumb.

    Al Christensen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When there was a wedding scene I thought the actors were actually getting married.

    Demongrrrrl
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My sister and I called kissing scenes "licky face". "They're doing licky face again."

    Mary Rose Kent
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My family used the more traditional “mushy” or the all-time classic “eww, gross!”

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    Daniel O'Neal
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a big power plant in our area with those immense cooling towers, and I thought the same about it.

    Faith Nicole
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For me it was the power plant that produced the clouds, or any type of businesses that had huge chimneys like in the picture. I thought they all came together and said on this day you make them & on this day we make them and so on....🤦‍♀️

    Jane Alexander
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So that's where they're made. Clouds are what the mountains use for blankets when they sleep. I know this because of Don Reynolds s 'Blue Mountain Waltz'

    shado
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    from the look of that white building, she could have told you they made milk there too

    ravn
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh"

    JitkaBlitka
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    same here, we have big power plant with cooling towers near the city

    A Head
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have 100% told my children this as we drive past a power plant, or whatever. Don't know if they ever believed it, but it a family thing now. "Cloud factory!"

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    Of course, even when they are reality-based, those beliefs still don't quite make sense to an adult because they have fundamental knowledge of the world. We know that clouds are naturally occurring, not made of fabric. We also understand certain intricacies of biology that might seem alien as a child. Basically, while grounded, the beliefs are leaning towards naiveté and inexperience, rather than ingenuity or fantasy.

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    #7

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    nifty_gal Report

    imagae
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Predisposed to a life of crime 😂

    Jane Alexander
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our neighbor always had her soda even in the car. Her kids had a fit about it because "Don't drink and drive"

    Dave
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Such drivers cause more accidents than aggressive drivers and should not be allowed to drive.

    EQXL
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Assuming more people believe this....this would explain A LOT!

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    annav8307 Report

    Pezor Zass
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i thought they were fart mufflers

    Wes Nishi
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was little, I thought periods were when women would pee blue. Because that's what you saw on commercials 🤦

    Emille May
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I actually thought girls menstruate all the time (even during pregnancy and senior age) bec whenever I open my mom's cabinet, her pads were there so I assumed she used it everyday. I thought that once I reach a certain age, I'll be bleeding down there for life

    Tobias the Tiger
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought that you only got it once in your life, and I was very disappointed to learn otherwise.

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    Brendan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If that were the case, I'd wear them too!

    BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Okay this is the most hilarious thing I've seen yet on this list. I can't stop laughing lol!

    Sarah Provost
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a kid we invaded the teacher's bathroom. None of us had ever seen one of them before. We decided they were to put in your shoes, because teachers were on their feet all day.

    mm65851
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WHen my daughter was 4, I received a free sample of scented panty liners, the ones with adhesive, in the mail. I told my daughter they were drawer fresheners and forgot about it. Next day each of her dresser drawers had one neatly stuck to the bottom...

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    #9

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    RLSWrites Report

    JennyBee
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    lol that would be kinda cool but they would be arguing all the way down the aisle

    Commander Rex
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “You’re wearing the wrong sui-“ “SCREW OFF CAROL I WEAR WHAT I WANT” “THIS IS WHY WE COULDNT HAVE A MARRIAGE STEVE” “I HATE YOU!”

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    real._.izuku
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That would keep a lot of couples from divorcing because of sheer embarrassment

    ToxiCity
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    [plays 'Here Comes the Bride' in reverse]

    Earl Grey
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    By the time a couple files for divorce, they have already done that a thousand times in their heads.

    Iso
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and put your weeding outfit back to front as well!

    glowworm2
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So it WASN’T just me!🤣

    Luis Hernandez Dauajare
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My little brother once asked if the "other groom" (the best man) was a spare if they got divorced...

    Doggo Froggo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is making me think of Red Dwarf .....

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    The thread wasn't meant to make fun of anyone, far from it. The answers people gave highlighted the difference in thinking, with children tending to take things quite literally, but still using their limited understanding and experiences to form a worldview that makes sense. It's the first steps towards greater understanding, and the more inquisitive a child is, the faster they understand the world they live in.

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    elenawonders Report

    imagae
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. My little brother thought the world was black & white when our parents were children.

    Stephanie AAALEEEE
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lol. Calvin and Hobbes nostalgia, anyone?

    Debrina Blackmoon
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have dreamt in b&w and sepia for some strange, unknown reason.

    Luthor
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My daughter (24) recently confessed to me that she thought things were really grainy when I grew up because of the quality of my 1970/80 photographs.

    B00ts 2.0
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    when i was 5 i asked my mom what it was like to only see in black, white and grey lmao

    Mary Haynes
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think of my parents and grandparents world as black and white

    L.j. Bus
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’ve had a longterm argument with my parents about the TARDIS (Doctor Who) being blue or not. They kept on arguing it was red back then. I even checked with the Whovian Community (fanbase for DW) since they are older than me so maybe I dídn’t have all the facts. They still wouldn’t believe me. Until I found a picture of all different TARDIS’ses through the years and they recognized one and I was like look these thousand images, it’s blue. It still took them a while to realize that the TARDIS has always been a blue Brittish police box and never a red phone booth lol. Oh my, the wonders of conception. Proof we never miss what isn’t known. And also proof that what we think it is, isn’t always right 😂😂

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    Among Us
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought the mom and dad would kiss after they got married and the saliva or soemthing would create a baby.

    N G
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep, that's basically what happens

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    Agnes Jekyll
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you're doing IVF--that's kind of how it is.

    qwerty
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought it was like: "Hey, wanna have a baby?" "Yeah" and then it happened.

    Physo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just sign right there ma'am.

    Ean Hudnall
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i thought your parents went to heaven and told god how to make the baby out of arms and legs like a puzzle then when babys didn't have an arm or something he was out of parts lol

    Dylan(He/Them)
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was little I thought that you could get pregnant out of sheer will. You just get pregnant out of nowhere. My moms body knew my dads DNA because he was married to her. And then a star was born

    Emille May
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For the longest time, I believed my parents when they said that I came out of my dad. That he just went to poop but instead of s**t, a baby had fallen into the toilet sink so they had to fish me out

    Physo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to think they had to cut open your stomach to get the baby out.

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    XetraSherpa Report

    Xylle Flora
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was six I made up a movie where parallel universes existed and the way to get to them was through mirrors

    Maddy_BobaTea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you mean "alice through the looking glass?"

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    CrispyPlop
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can anyone actually prove this wrong tho lol?

    HooowlAtTheMoon
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to be mad at my reflection for blocking me because I wanted to go into the mirror but she kept getting in the way. Obviously she got mad at me too lol

    Yvette Desmarais
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I loved to pretend that there was another world behind the mirror. Usually a nicer, magical world.

    Shaun Coleman
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They actually made a movie about that. It was called Doppelgänger and released in 1969 by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson (British). Outside of Europe it was called "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelg%C3%A4nger_(1969_film)

    imagae
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This isn’t true..?

    Equine_Ravenclaw_Directioner
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My brain just filled up with too many thoughts and I kind of zoned out for a while...

    B00ts 2.0
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i thought the reason you could go to the mirror universe is because your reflection stops you

    Cassie
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believed that there was a world on the other side of the mirror and they were watching me, so I really hated that there was a mirror in the bathroom. I also thought the newscasters on TV were watching me, I guess because they look into the camera, and sometimes I would get dressed while watching news on TV in the morning (like if there was snow) and I would scream at the newscasters for watching me get dressed.

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    ashleyaustrew Report

    Lauren Caswell
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought you got shot in front of a firing squad! And that prosecuted meant executed, so I found the "trespassers will be prosecuted" signs quite scary

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    Mark Lennon
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You're close: the term came from Henry Ford's practice of placing the wooden desks of his terminated executives outside and lighting then on fire.

    Ben Moss
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ha. Reminds me of the horror I felt when I heard my friend had been “grounded”

    Philly Bob Squires
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's OK... I thought when you "ran for office" that two or 3 people had a "race" where the first one there won.

    frangee
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought it meant they fired you through a cannon to get you out of the building, and sacked was where they put you in a sack and throw you out.

    Laura Mende (Human)
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought you will be put in a cannon and fired away like they do in circus in TV! The Human Cannonball!

    Equine_Ravenclaw_Directioner
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought getting kicked outta school meant they hang you out of the window and then literally kick your ass out of the school...

    Lucy Skinner
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My friend told me that he got grounded, and that it meant his parents actually buried him alive.

    vita ariztegui
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    actually, in medieval times, they lit FIRED your house to get our of their feud

    Lightningstar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought they threw you in a fireplace

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    #14

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    OfficialMaggieL Report

    Lucy Skinner
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So it wasn’t just my parents...

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    xingcat Report

    ARandomPerson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my teenage brother still has a hard time with escalators XD

    fuggnuggins
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, seeing videos of some of the rare and unfortunate accidents involving escalators, it remains quite reasonable to retain a life-long caution of those large, indiscriminate pieces of mindless machinery.

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    Jaclyn
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm 30 and I still have a healthy fear of escalators.

    KT
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    escalators still freak me out. When I was a kid i was at the bay and someones fingernail got sucked into the hand rail somehow....there was so much blood its terrified me for life of them

    Brooklyn Costley
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i have a fine time going up, but down? ask my grandma

    Ashley Conover
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believe you could get atuck and it would pull you in and rip you apart.

    Luthor
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My daughter still laughs at me about how I approach the escalator... "Fear and respect the escalator" is a mantra I live by.

    Jonathan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You watch your feet at the last step because if the screws aren't ighteed enough on the floor plate, it drops inwards and you get ground into the mechanism and more than likely killed. It isn't a pleasant death, videos exist of people basically being eaten by a machine.

    WholesomeArmyweeb
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ha same. I also thought that the steps would drag you into the mall/store dungeon Don’t ask xD

    Aileen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember seeing an episode of Pink Panther where this actually happened and it scared me tbh.

    Craig Reynolds
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Clearly, you have not seen the escalator incidents in China. I suggest you search Youtube for vindication videos.

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    SabraMBoyd Report

    Phoebe Bean
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That´s a beautiful concept (though I cannot envision Stephen King like this ... LOL)

    glowworm2
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s because Stephen King summons his from deep down below.

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    BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe I could be more motivated to write longer if I dressed like that.

    Bow, I’m a Slytherin
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m dressing like that and seeing what happens. Wish me luck.

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    #17

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    mkramer Report

    Czilla_13
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    pretty smart child logic

    fuggnuggins
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    4 years ago

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    How do people keep coming to the conclusion that barely coherent minds mashing unrelated concepts together like "2 and fish equals my back is another person" is smart? It's certainly not smart. It's barely even creative. It's a throwback to the primitive beliefs that we used to operate on. That's all. It's the opposite of smart. It's a necessary period in development of intelligence, and it may become a mind that is smart, but the last thing that it can be honestly called at that moment is smart. It's not even logic. It's anti-smart un-logic.

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    Rebekah
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ohhhh, man. I haven't thought about Linda on Sesame Street for years.

    glowworm2
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    4 years ago

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    Judging by the poster’s last name, they must have eventually realized that the real reason was because their family was Jewish.

    Tiari
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why? Kramer is a (not particularly Jewish) German name, deriving from a medieval occupation (traveling merchant).

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    #18

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    dlwfriedel Report

    Princess Toadstool
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was a CGI short film about a boy that turned into a watermelon after he ate one. Don’t search it up.

    Benjamin Fowler
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i once walked up to a pregnant woman and asked why she ate the watermelon seeds.

    Janoel Murrey
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you summed me up perfectly

    Aamna Shah
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's exactly what I believed myself. I am not from an English speaking country so as a child I never made the connection that Tom can't be a female cat because Tom is a male name. Even Jerry was female in my mind. My mind was blown when I realized they were a male cat and mouse.

    Inkblot Butterfly
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same, my dad now has my little brother believing it

    Pilot Chick
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My parents told me both of these as a child

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    #19

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    kellybergin Report

    Robert Bailey
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did she take the long way home?

    Tobias the Tiger
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought my dad did voice work, since he could do a pretty good impression of some fictional characters (notably Zazu from "The Lion King").

    Sam Cook
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dad actually was on TV for a time, and I've heard my brother actually be on the radio.

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She was until they fired her because she didn't sing that well

    Nyneva Kyte
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought the neighbours were on the radio because they had an instrument in their basement

    EQXL
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whenever my dad sang a long with the radio and he'd sing the wrong words he'd shout at the radio they were singing it wrong 😁

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    #20

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    ilanaslightly Report

    Rae Reyn
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my youngest had a good two years where he wanted to be a firetruck when he grows up. Not a fire fighter, the truck.

    Yort
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not to get all political, but that’s why I don’t think we should put a whole lot of stock into the gender identities of children. A kid wants to grow up to be a dishwasher appliance, or fire truck, or goat, don’t listen to the labels of a 5 year old wearing a skirt.

    Sky Fails314
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I told my pre-k teacher that I wanted to be a mushroom when I grow up once

    B00ts 2.0
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my 3 y/o cousin passionately claims she wants to and will be an elephant when she growls up lmfaooooo

    A
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wanted to be either a poptart or a couch...so yeah, oh and a turtle...good times back then...

    Hannah Edwards
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My daughter wanted to be a princess or a fire engine.

    Philly Bob Squires
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once turned my dishwasher into a snowplow... I gave her a shovel. And that's when the fight started...

    Skylar Thompson
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When my uncle was three, he wanted to be a police *car*

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    #21

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    abigailStev Report

    imagae
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It does not surprise me that this child grew up to become a Dr.

    RiaDeCatterpillar
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My cousin does this too. it is much cuter that way.

    Rose
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I could never remember how many lines an "E" had. I knew they went from the top all the way down to the bottom of the vertical line, so there were always extra and usually a different number of them. "F" was the same way, but the line had to stop halfway down the vertical line.

    Nicole ElyseAgain
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I did that too. Totally didn't understand why that was "wrong."

    Prideless
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    4 years ago

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    So Many words That my Restarted mind Don’t understand Cant Comprehend-

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    #22

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    EmilyPopek Report

    imagae
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You are adorable!

    Tangee Wilson
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They taught us in kids church that if you are real quiet, you could hear Jesus calling your name. From 7 years old until probably early teens I was terrified of a disembodied voice whispering my name.

    Anna Repp
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As an atheist, I really wish there WAS a tiny Jesus inside some so-called Christians' hearts. So he could climb out and kick them in the balls every time they do horrible things in the name of Christianity.

    noralin
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, some people who claim to be christians are actually far from it.

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    Luis Hernandez Dauajare
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was raised a Catholic. Once got send home from Sunday school because the teacher told us the Serpent had tempted Eve, and I called her a liar because snakes can't speak...

    noralin
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Snakes can't speak in our world today but in the beginning in the garden of Eden they were able to.

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    Carole Reid
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bored Panda hid so many comments on this one.

    Sam Cook
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought something like that, too. My dad's a pastor, and I used to take a lot of what he said too literally. I still take him seriously, but I've definitely learned not to be too much like Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory.

    DC
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... it's actually sad what weird things are put into a harmless child's mind by religion... Can't we, finally, as a species, grow up and accept reality for what it is, for what we find it out to be, instead of making up stories meant to make us praise violent asshole gods who need to be tamed into good mood, just to allow us to remain alive? We have enough stuff to do in reality. F**k religion, all of them.

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    #23

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    IxnayCrabwinkle Report

    Kay blue
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just one of the many reasons why sharks are pretty cool creatures.

    Diane Knight
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believed that you received 3 names along your life. A pretty little girl name, then a grown up 'mommy' like name, then an old fart name. I knew no girl with the name Betty or Arlene or laura. My grandma's generation had names like Bertha and Clara, or Evelyn. Nor could I imagine a tiny baby being called Bertha.

    Faith Nicole
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wish they would regrow in adulthood, my mouth needs to teeth

    Craig Reynolds
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me too. It's a biological unfairness if you ask me.

    Mira Kappagoda
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to think that you would also lose your adult teeth and false teeth would grow in after :/

    cursed--alien
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still feel ripped off about that.

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would you want to go through the ordeal again and again?

    Salty Old Woman
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You wanna go through that some more??

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    #24

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    library_loser Report

    TheRandomBorger
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm going to make a horror movie about that

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    #25

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    restless_reader Report

    Torin Fuqua37589
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is a story for another day sweetie

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He meant that making color photos wasn't invented yet

    Šimon Špaček
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh, dad jokes... never good but also always funny.

    Irene Carlyle
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    good for you!! i wonder what his response was..

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    #26

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    maseykills Report

    Diane Knight
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought pedestrian was a religion as the first time I saw that word was in front of a church school. I thought how would you know if the person was a Catholic, Presbyterian, or a Protestant? Seemed like the name of a religion.

    Mary Haynes
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me too, I went to Catholic school, my girlfriend went to public school!

    Michael Afton
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to think private and public schools were the same

    shado
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    at 10yrs old I was convinced the 3-spooks (father, son and that ghostly apparition) were serious perverts ... was told over and over how they watched everyone 24/7 and saw everything everyone did, but I couldn't understand why they didn't do anything to stop several kids I hung around with from being sexually abused

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    #27

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    andrealgeary Report

    Brandi VanSteenwyk
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All the better to keep you from tasting them. Unfortunately I wasn't scared to taste them and ended up hanging over the commode with my mom forcing me to vomit.

    Terry S.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought they were special edition edamame and ended up with MY mom shoving her fingers down my throat

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    Rebekah
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is such a Grandpa thing to do.

    Sophia Graubart
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    IS THAT WHAT THEY ARE CALLED? I never knew I lowkey thought of them as dried banana peels. I grew out of that but never knew what they were called. Also whenever I swam or something and a muscle rippled I always thought it was as if one of them was going through me, that was the comparison I made

    Наталија Мојсин
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Those are seeds and when you take them out and peel them you get something that looks like green coffee bean. When we were kids we would peel them because they are see through inside a pretend we had long nails. Good days

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    Silre
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anything grandpa says is gospel

    Diana Pahule
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah I was under the impression this was supposed to be things you dreamed up on your own. I see a lot of people being misled by adults.

    Celtic Pirate Queen
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I moved to San Diego 8 years ago & to be honest - they freak me out too!

    Inkblot Butterfly
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    AGHHH THS REMINDS ME OF THAT TIME WHERE ME AND MY FRIENDS FOUND THESE AND WE DIDNT KNOW WHAT THEY WERE AND WE USED IT FOR THE SECRET BASE I MADE OOF I GOT SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SCARED AFTER I FOUND OUT

    Ryan Deschanel
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    4 years ago

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    Don't trust old people. They are liars, and they are evil.

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    #28

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    gabbklein Report

    RiaDeCatterpillar
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is what i would probably think as well tbh. and i would find out that it was an actual band when i complemented them and embarrassed myself.

    ChickyChicky
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In high school a goth kid gave me a Black Flag tape and said it was his band. He thought I was too dumb to know who Henry Rollins was. He (the goth kid) was pretty skinny. I said "wow, how'd you get your neck so skinny then." He didn't think I was funny. But I did.

    Al Christensen
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was a fairly good teenage garage band that played the dances when I was in high school. They had been around a while when another band on the other side of the country, with the same name, hit the big time. When I heard them on the radio I thought it was our local band.

    Masen Silas
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My friend said Slim Shady was good and I said yea! But I like Eminem better... not knowing theyre the same person, id just heard someone mention him. lol

    TTorrest Author
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a very similar story for the first time I heard Pearl Jam. LOL

    James Schmurr
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If the other guy took credit, would it be proof that the world truly is a vampire?

    juice
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the dude's garage band didn't make it, but Smashing Pumpkins was a pretty popular rock band in the 90s. Gabrielle (the poster) assumed Smashing Pumpkins was the dude's garage band, but it wasn't.

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    #29

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    megangalbraith Report

    Brandi VanSteenwyk
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just can't imagine an adult telling a child this. Especially considering the difficulty that potty training can be. Now, an older sibling convincing the younger ones that a snake lives in the potty... THAT is feasible.

    Madison Sweeney
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean if you're in Australia though

    Luthor
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Australia we call that practical advice.

    Scarlett knudson
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My brother thought that a killer whale would come up the toilet and eat him and that a yeti would kill him if he opened the fridge so thanks to my dad for telling my brother these thing so I can share the,

    totinos pizza rolls
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    omg i thought there was a monster at the end of the pipes that would send the you-know-whats to the dumpster or something.

    Tame panda
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Snakes don't live in them but sometimes enter through pipes and attack

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    #30

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    svershbow Report

    J. F.
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, doesn't take all night to make a baby - but it takes that long if it's done for fun

    Doggo Froggo
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Weeeellll..... it can do if you like

    Ben Steinberg
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It does...if you include the 8 hours and 50 minutes of begging and pleading... /s

    Philly Bob Squires
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought my girlfriend had 61 boyfriends before me. She always called me her "sixty-second lover."

    John Montgomery
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is what Star Trek Voyager taught.

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    #31

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    gabbklein Report

    Phoebe Bean
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... because Gandalf was not there shouting "You shall not pass!"

    Lorelei
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now you’re speaking the nerd language!

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    Your_local_introvert
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought the "no outlet" signs meant that there were no outlets in the houses along the road, so as a result, there was no electricity.

    Plane Lover
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought that the do not enter sign meant that you weren’t supposed to write anything in the white space between the ‘Do Not’ and the ‘Enter’.

    Anne Mitchell
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In correct grammar they should read "Do Not Overtake." Passing is what you do to someone/thing that is coming towards you.

    Matt Storm
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Omg SAME. I wondered why the signs were there if everyone was just going to break the law all the time!

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    #32

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    margo_herre Report

    M O'Connell
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Though to be fair, Roadrunners are not blue, nor are they 6-feet tall.

    glowworm2
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nor do they go "Beep! Beep!" and a coyote could easily outrun one without using a rocket from Acme.

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    renee brack
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me too re: roadrunners. Was so excited to go to Phoenix Arizona (I'm Australian) cos I love the cartoon. Had a couple of cocktails waiting at the back door of a house I was visiting. Kids yelled out 'he's here!' I saw this skinny, bedraggled weird dystopic version of a sad chicken and said, 'is that it?' So disappointed I had another cocktail to cheer up. No coyote either. Nearly choked when I saw a tumbleweed. Turns out they're real - not just props in Hollywood westerns.

    Dodo
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think I believed that about the roadrunner for way too long. In my defence, my country doesn't have them...

    glowworm2
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What about Tasmanian devils?

    RiaDeCatterpillar
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    YES! When i learned that reindeers existed. I was honestly shocked.

    Jenna Howe
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought most of the flowers I saw in illustrations were imaginary. Like, embroidery patterns with forget-me-nots and wisteria and cornflowers. I grew up in a desert.

    Susan Egan
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Real Roadrunners were a big disappointment.

    WholesomeArmyweeb
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My sister, who no longer believes in Santa Claus, still sometimes forgets that reindeer are real so…

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    #33

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    tashakaminsky Report

    Brandi VanSteenwyk
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I might just have to try that one when kissing the booboo doesn't work.

    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kissing the boo-boo ALWAYS works. Well, at least anyone who’s not in a coma.

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    Scott Johnson
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Grapes are pain killers. They just have to be fermented first.

    Craig Reynolds
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They really are! You just have to turn them into wine first...

    Carrie Roettger
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was really little and would get hurt, my dad would tell me ""if it isn't bleeding it can't hurt. Worked for a few years.

    jleitner
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An all-natural, organic placebo. Of course it worked. That's science!!!

    CrunChewy McSandybutt
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mother just promised to give me something to cry about.

    Ryan Deschanel
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    4 years ago

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    Those are terrible parents.

    juice
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if the parents try to substitute grapes when actual pain killers are needed, then yes. but i think the person meant the parents convinced them grapes would help relieve small things, like getting a scratch. it's the same idea as "kissing a boo-boo to make it feel better".

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    #34

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    hottestsingles Report

    Brandi VanSteenwyk
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Bear Milk".... LMAO!! I found myself picturing a mountain man trying to milk a bear.

    Stephanie IV
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A famous brand of condensed milk in Germany is „Bärenmarke“ - and that’s Bear-brand. Literally. It’s the dairy‘s name. Maybe your parents were German liars.

    Thomas Turnbull
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just listen to this song about bear farmers https://youtu.be/yJQw77NdIb8

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah it's easy to milk a bear, LIARS!

    #35

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    babefromtoyland Report

    leia's emotional cupcake
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wish I had thought this...*thinks of a moon made of honey*

    Lorelei
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    NO.THE MOON IS MADE OF CHEESE.NOT honey.

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    WholesomeArmyweeb
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did you know that in Ancient Greece, newly weds would sit under the full moon and share a cup of honey? That’s where honeymoons came from

    Seabeast
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a sticky situation there.

    ARandomPerson
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    4 years ago

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    im just imagining licking a thicc moon made of honey...

    Tiny3000
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    downvoted 4 putting this cursed picture into my mind

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    #36

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    SusanBernfield Report

    Your_local_introvert
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For a second I thought this post was about MINORS as in underage people, not MINERS as in coal miners lol.

    Rachel Connot
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think she's saying she didn't know the difference between a "minor' and a 'miner'

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    A Head
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cigarette machines...that's a memory. I remember that most of them had a button to dispense matches if you bought a pack, which most people didn't do. Every time we'd go to a restaurant, I'd go to the bathroom just so I could find the cig machine and hit that button and get a pack of matches. Yes, I did burn some things as a child, why do you ask?

    Ben Steinberg
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, the smoke plays havoc on their canary

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    SarahThyre Report

    Your_local_introvert
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I found out that the Easter Bunny wasn't real at seven, same with the tooth fairy, but I still held on the the ideal that Santa was real until nine or ten.

    Piet Puk
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait till you hear about god.

    Solidhog
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WHAT! The Easter Bunny is not real? You tell me now! So I have wasted the last 52 years?

    Nicky
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought that the giant outdoor bucket above KFC actually contained chicken.

    ARandomPerson
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i just like to pretend that santa is real even tho i dont believe that santa is real

    Rebekah
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I found out about Santa, Easter Bunny, tooth fairy, all at the same time, when I was three. Because 3YO me was hiding in my big sisters closet, that I was NEVER supposed to play in, when my mom told her.

    Craig Reynolds
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hell yeah! I want that FREE chocolate as long as I could get it...

    DC
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is a bit shocking! I honestly didn't believe anyone believed in either of them were real at all ... and this was pretty common. I never met a single child actually believing in any of those, even whenI myself was a child.

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You mean after the Easter Bunny was killed in that tragic hunting accident?

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    cthulhunicorn Report

    imagae
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lying ass philanthropists.

    Lathari
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be honest, it feels like there's some overlap.

    SoozeeQ
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hi Mary Rose, the original poster was on Reddit, so didn't see your question. The icon is a Pink-Necked Green Pigeon. http://www.wild-facts.com/2013/pink-necked-green-pigeon/

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    #39

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    houseofhuerta Report

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why couldn't it mean he didn't like what a fist looked like?

    Erika Nichols
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know about thatbut he did braid a whip to beat the moneychangers in the temple.

    Damon Tripodi
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hmm Religion, always for the win...

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    rhiannonmairi Report

    JennyBee
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    what was their response? I must know lmao

    Lindsey Judd-Bruder
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My husband says this (jokingly). He'll say "My left nose itches", instead of his left nostril LOL.

    Rose
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's silly. You should keep him!

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    Torin Fuqua37589
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2grRyvwb4WI

    #42

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    praythenhustle Report

    M O'Connell
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Were you one of those kids who's mind was BLOWN when they encountered the same show on two different TVs at the same time?

    mummy pig
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought the laughing sound with comedy programs are from the people whose watching the program through the tv from their homes. So I always laugh extra harder so they could hear my laughter too

    cah
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I listened to my dads music when I was young, I would lay by the speakers thinking someone was In there making music

    Tiger Pearl
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When my kids were still young I took them to see Yo Gabba Gabba live, mainly for my son. My daughter is a few years older, and when it showed them stepping out of the tv at the beginning, her mind was blown. After it was over she kept saying, I didn’t know they could come out of the TV! !!!

    Riverina
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Mike Teevee

    Thomas Turnbull
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was 5 I used to think you could put your hand in the back of the TV and grab the food that was on the screen but as I am still alive I never tried it.

    #43

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    DaModocus Report

    #44

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    YelenaK17 Report

    Brandi VanSteenwyk
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ahhh.... Sneaky trick to prevent the mishandling of the thermometer and thus, protecting the dangerous mercury from being played with.

    Thomas Turnbull
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Someone tried to stir my hot tea with a mercury thermometer and it burst lucky I saw it or I could have been drinking broken glass and Mercury

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    Kathy Puls
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When my son was a toddler he bit off the end of a thermometer and sucked out the mercury. According to poison control there wasn't enough mercury to be harmful, but that was about 30 years ago.

    Nigel Rodgers
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mercury in a thermometer is not that dangerous. It's just hard to dispose safely.

    ARandomPerson
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    mmm lemme drink the mercury its colorful

    #45

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    lauxvega Report

    MELISSA KELLY
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For whatever reason I thought squirrels ran traffic lights

    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can see that—they seemingly can run anywhere and everywhere

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    The Canvas Lamb
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A store we used to go to had a blinking sign. I thought that someone's job in the store was to flip a switch on and off or pull a plug and put it back in over and over. I thought that was a terrible waste of time for that person.

    Hannah Edwards
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was little I used to think that tramps switched on street lights by pulling a rope in a room they were allowed to sleep in, but they had to hold the rope all night to keep the lights on.

    Alpine of the IceWings
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i thought that the little balls on powerlines where homes for the hamsters that ran along the wires fixing problems.

    Debrina Blackmoon
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, I hope those tiny traffic light operators get plenty of breaks and well paid!

    Malek Basata
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i thought that it switches light after cars pass not opposite

    Malek Basata
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    because drivers dont know how to drive where i live

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    pisa_lisa Report

    JennyBee
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oh my its rainin- OH MY GOD THE CAR IS SHRINKING

    Beth Arriaga
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one hurts my heart. My sister announced 'the trees have leaves!!' As we drove home after she got her glasses. My mom cried for days because my sister couldn't see and my mom didn't know.

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    #47

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    audreylhanson Report

    The Canvas Lamb
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One time, I woke at dawn and looked out the window to see the mountains covered in big cumulus clouds. The sun hadn't hit them yet so they were dark blue. I thought the mountains had grown overnight and this was a normal thing for them to do. Later in the day, though, when I saw them their normal size, I realized what had really happened.

    #48

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    Yap617 Report

    Morgan Deatherage
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wait thats not true? ive thought that for years wow i feel dumb now

    Yort
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hiccups are just your diaphragm (basically a thing that helps your lungs work) spasming.

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    Ria C.
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like to call then grow-em-ups. Specifically when any of the smaller people around me or puppies would get them they usually got hungry and went through a growth spurt. Now yes as adults we still get then but not in the same way.

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    TauZaman Report

    Stephanie Did It
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, if you ever tasted one you'd agree! Voice of experience,.one fell in my iced tea. HORRIBLE.

    #50

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    pedantic_grue Report

    Paul Budhram
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i mean sounds like adults-- some of them

    Yort
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There’s no proof that isn’t true.

    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a friend who is one of the most rational people I know, yet he believes that Sasquatch is real.