Ridiculous Things You Believed As A Kid

[Bill Bumface]

I thought Canadians didn't have accents. Ours was the proper way of speaking English, everyone else, even the English, were talking funny.

I also thought that Audis were special edition cars introduced for the 88 Olympics. I think I noticed my first one around that time, so it just had to be.

[CubicleGeek]

Originally Posted by Nufy

If you ate an apple, pear, any type of fruit seed...a tree would start growing in your stomach.

My parents told me it would sprout on my head, those effing liars!

[Muta]

I used to think the Earth spun so incredibly fast, we just didn't notice it.

Also, that watching TV would give you square eyes. Now that you think about it, that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, especially if you wanted to wear nerdy glasses in order to match the geometry.

[ernie]

I once believed Paul McCartney & Wings were better than the Beatles....

[return to the red]

I used to believe my dad could kick your dad's ass

God I hope my son believes that too

[undercoverbrother]

I thought the birth control pill was inserted prior to sex.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Muta

I used to think the Earth spun so incredibly fast, we just didn't notice it.

How fast is the earth moving?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...-the-earth-mov

Questions about how fast the earth--or anything, for that matter--is moving are incomplete unless they also ask, "Compared to what?"

Consider the movement of the earth's surface with respect to the planet's center. The earth rotates once every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09053 seconds, called the sidereal period, and its circumference is roughly 40,075 kilometers. Thus, the surface of the earth at the equator moves at a speed of 460 meters per second--or roughly 1,000 miles per hour.

As schoolchildren, we learn that the earth is moving about our sun in a very nearly circular orbit. It covers this route at a speed of nearly 30 kilometers per second, or 67,000 miles per hour. In addition, our solar system--Earth and all--whirls around the center of our galaxy at some 220 kilometers per second, or 490,000 miles per hour. As we consider increasingly large size scales, the speeds involved become absolutely huge!

[Buff]

Still waiting for JiriHrdina to chime in with his story...

[Muta]

Originally Posted by troutman

How fast is the earth moving?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...-the-earth-mov

Questions about how fast the earth--or anything, for that matter--is moving are incomplete unless they also ask, "Compared to what?"

Consider the movement of the earth's surface with respect to the planet's center. The earth rotates once every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09053 seconds, called the sidereal period, and its circumference is roughly 40,075 kilometers. Thus, the surface of the earth at the equator moves at a speed of 460 meters per second--or roughly 1,000 miles per hour.

As schoolchildren, we learn that the earth is moving about our sun in a very nearly circular orbit. It covers this route at a speed of nearly 30 kilometers per second, or 67,000 miles per hour. In addition, our solar system--Earth and all--whirls around the center of our galaxy at some 220 kilometers per second, or 490,000 miles per hour. As we consider increasingly large size scales, the speeds involved become absolutely huge!

I used to think, for whatever reason, that the Earth didn't rotate once every 24 hours, but more like once every 100th of a second...

[corporatejay]

I can make these weird noises with my mouth by blowing air out of the side of my cheeks. I used to think this would come in handy to communicate with aliens.

[CaptainCrunch]

If you have sex with a girl standing up she can't get pregnant

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

If you have sex with a girl standing up she can't get pregnant

but that's true as long as you are the only one standing.

[Ark2]

When I was a kid (first or second grade I think) there was a poster in my school that said "Mike Harris (the Ontario premier at the time) cuts kids". I didn't know who he was at the time, but I thought that he literally cut children.

[Knalus]

I used to think that the earth's spin was what caused gravity like swinging a bucket of water.

I once had a big argument with the librarian in grade 1 that the stars must be the coldest things in the universe, because they were past the orbit of Pluto, and because each planet further out was colder than the previous one, well it made sense.

[WilsonFourTwo]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

So . . . . I'm fine on that front now, although I could probably take her now, 40 some years later.

Cowperson

The rematch has all the makings of a great (albeit strange) charity event......

But this time, wear a cup.

[Dion]

At 4 years old my mother took us 3 kids shopping one cold winter day. We went to 3 different shopping centres and all of them had a Santa. On the way home we asked my mom how Santa could be in 3 different locations at once? She could never come up with a satisfactory answer and thus our belief in Santa ened that cold winter day.

[Bunk]

For a little while as a kid I used to have this weird conception that San Francisco was some sort of gay colony. That all homosexual people lived in San Francisco and that only gay people lived in San Francisco.

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate

I was, like, didn't we just have a thread like this? Turns out it was 2008.
http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=55553
*very messed up sense of time*

I thought this thread sounded familiar...

[polak]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

If you have sex with a girl standing up she can't get pregnant

I thought it was if she was on top? It's just gravity.

[GoinAllTheWay]

My brother had me convinced that when ships crossed the oceans, they would send divers down to the bottom to collect coal along the way. I felt so bad for those divers having to swim to catch up with the ships with bags full of coal.