“What’s Something You Were Told As A Child By Adults That You Now Realize Is A Complete Lie?” (30 Answers)

My parents always told me this, and look where I am now. Several centuries old and renting the top several floors of an old tower because I can't afford to buy the castle I always wanted. It's not my fault people won't hire vampires!

Pretty sure this is a Milton Jones joke.

One of the worst lies adults tell children, and they're still doing it with more enthusiasm. Putting my mind to it will never, ever make me a singer.

Well that escalated rather quickly.

I punched a bully in the stomach when he decided to try that s**t on my private time, outsider of school. He got in my face, I said nothing, just punched him and walked away. He stood there making gasping noises bent over, and I didn't look back. He never bothered me again. He was a coward. But there was a psycho who would physicslly attack me in school, I'd never have laid a finger on that unstable MFer, he would have snapped and beaten me bloody. I have no doubt about that. He was unhinged. So for fighting back I'd say choose very carefully: Is it just for show for others so they'll feel cool, or does that person just want a punching bag? If the latter; you'd better make damn sure that's a fight you're litterally going to win, or else be careful. Some people are a******s, and some are just dangerous. The unhinged one later became a drug addict and I'm sure there was something messed up going on in his life, but that's never an excuse. He's one of the few people I've never felt sorry for. I wish him unwell.

My mom was "they just want to be friends but don't know how" ssurreee

The best thing you can do to a bully is look at their family history, and just roast them in front of a big crowd. Edit: spelling error

The QB then vowed revenge for their losing season. So every day for the last month of school, he told me he was going to kick my @ss on the last day of school. On the last day, I took off my sock, and dropped a big bottle of elmers glue in it. Then I put it in my back pocket. I beat the QB out the door, and when he emerged, I had that glue bottle at full swing. Caught him in the left side of the jaw, breaking it. He spent the whole summer with his jaw wired shut, and unable to eat anything but carnation instant breakfast and scrambled eggs. He lost weight and was unable to work out. So he lost is starting position on the team. They had another bad year the next school year, and I got the reputation as a "sneaky bastard" that won't fight fair. How is a 200 LB guy beating up on an 85 LB guy fair? but after that, the bullies left me alone.

As soon as you realise that this is a 'pattern' in their behaviour you should make a scene by screaming at them, and a quick jab to the throat works wonders in changing perspectives

This one is extremely toxic. I hate it when ppl say this. It implies that if you don't exceed our excel it's your own fault. No Patricia, life can be extremely unfair. ( Same with ppl being terminal ill, then what? They didn't work hard enough!?)

If that were true, the people (the poor) who work 3 jobs just to survive would be millionaires.

2cqbr06-63...890f96.jpg

Hard work will make someone else rich. You? You'll be darn lucky if you ever have enough money to buy a home or retire.

Hard work will get you where you want IF you work for yourself and NOT someone else.

Almost 71 and I still haven't gotten life figured out, for the most part.

55 and the only sign I see is to tell me this is as fast as I can go and not get a ticket.

58 here. I have no idea what's going on most days.

So do I, and I'm 62!

My mom still thinks she knows everything. You can't convince her otherwise. I could tell her the sky is blue and all about photosynthesis and she'd disagree with me along with a hairbrained explanation she drummed up in her head.

I doubt you can say that about every religion. I bet you only know Christianity, maybe had rudimentary contact with islam and looked a little at Judaism and then decided to apply your limited knowledge based on negative interactions to everything religious. Even those parts you don't know about. When talking about religion in general, people should be aware that less than 20% pf the world population are actually non-religious. And no, they're not limited to just one country, they're spread all over the world with only North Korea being 100% religion free and a big chunk of non-religious people living in China where being openly religious is outlawed. So if all religious people were as horrible as such people want to believe, they wouldn't even be able to post stuff like that on the internet. But luckily for all of us religious extremism is limited to a small minority. But we all need to be cautious about them and stop them taking control. All extremists are dangerous, religious or not.