Things you used to believe as a kid

[NSFL]

Originally Posted by Torture

I skipped GOPH the other day to cram for marketing....did the man explain that toilets actually don't swirl the other way in the southern hemisphere!?

I'm with Dan02...I always thought that was true..


I also believed that if you swallowed a seed a tree would grow, except in your stomach.

He did indeed explain it. I think most of the class pretty much went, "really?!"

Originally Posted by Dan02

Heres one source i read about the non-reversed toilets

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/coriolis.html

I am thinking this is such a common misconception it deserves it's own thread! If you asked me 2 days ago i would said sure it was on the Simpsons it must be true.

Yeah, I pretty much believed a lot of stuff just because it was on the Simpsons

Originally Posted by Locke

This thread should be titled: "Things your parents said to screw with your head."

Or things your family tells you to screw with you. Older siblings are evil. They were put on this planet for one thing and one thing only, to tell you lies and make you cry.

[simmer2]

My parents went to a lot of Flames games when I was younger, and I'd always listen to the game on the radio before I went to bed. I got really confused whenever Peter Maher said "Vernon makes a bad save" because he said it a lot. How could you make a bad save? Why are you judging him Peter Maher? Anyways, I eventually realized he was saying pad save, but for a few years there I thought Vernon made a lot of bad saves.

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by ken0042

I used to think in the old days the world was black and white, because old TV shows and movies were black and white.

I didn't think that, but in a similar vain I thought people in the 1930's and earlier did everything really fast. I didn't realize it was the frame rate causing it I just thought everyone worked really hard because it was the depression and they were tougher back in those days.

[Azure]

I used to believe that when a song was played on the radio....it was always live.

[pope04]

I thought I was the only person in the world that could see air. You see, even as a kid, I could see "floaters."

Does anybody remember the Police Expos they used to have? Where in malls or other common areas they'd set up a smashed up car or two, a few mutilated mannequins and a few gallons of fake blood?

Yeah. I used to think they were real people.

I haven't seen one of those for over thirty-five years.

[Locke]

I remember my dad ordered chinese food fairly frequently and then one time he ordered those huge noodles. I have no idea what they're called.

I asked him what they were and he told me they were dead cooked worms.

I refuse to eat those to this day.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

I could never understand why the city of Calgary hated Hakan Loob so much--and I felt bad for him every time they "booed" him.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by pope04

I thought I was the only person in the world that could see air. You see, even as a kid, I could see "floaters."

Does anybody remember the Police Expos they used to have? Where in malls or other common areas they'd set up a smashed up car or two, a few mutilated mannequins and a few gallons of fake blood?

Yeah. I used to think they were real people.

I haven't seen one of those for over thirty-five years.

I remember those expos and all. They always spooked me as i figured someone actually died in those vehicles.

[jammies]

I used to think that there was a secret underground city accessible via doors downtown (like the one south of the Palliser where the road goes under the train tracks), and that if you were in the know you could get a key and go live down there.

I also thought that if you let a girl touch you, you had to be her boyfriend from then on.

[604flames]

Another hockey-related one,

Took me til I was well into my teens to realize a stay-at-home defenseman wasn't a guy who never went on road trips.

[Sainters7]

This wasn't so much me, but my buddy when we were kids was convinced the NHL was staged, ala WWF. I remember him being absolutely furious when the Oilers came back on the Flames in game 7 of the '91 DSF after trailing 3-0 in the 1st period, to win in OT. He felt the writers had let the Oilers win enough times. Pretty hilarious in hindsight(actually even back then I thought it was dumb)

[Flames_18_22_12]

When the weather man said there were "flurries" outside, I begged my mom to take me to get his autograph.

[Sparks]

I thought Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant was about our Electric Avenue.

[simonsays]

When my sister had to get her appendix removed, my mom told me "it was, like, a little organ on your intestine". So I seriously thought it was shaped like a piano. When I was told how it got inflamed, and could've ruptured or burst, the only thing that came to mind was the Daffy Duck/Donald Duck piano duel, bashing away at their pianos.

I also thought when you ate food, it just filled up in your body. Kids had food up to their knees, teenagers to their waist, and adults up to their chests or higher.

[prarieboy]

I used to think I could dig to China. I thought eveyone did when they were young until I went to India and asked them when they were kids if they thought they could dig to North America.

They thought I was crazy.

[Kidder]

I thought that if you touched pink insulation you itched forever.

Every time the weather turned wonky (a common occurence in Calgary) I thought Armageddon was upon us.

For the longest time I thought 'orgy' was short slang for 'orgasm'. Surprisingly, those words are pretty much interchangable in most situations. It wasn't until grade 9 that a friend realized I had no idea what I was talking about.

[LIP MAN]

That hoverboards were real. Anyone remember that kid in school who said he had a hoverboard from Back to the Future 2? If ur old enough you know him!

[WesternCanadaKing]

Originally Posted by Burninator

When I heard other people speaking foreign languages I assumed they translated it in their head to English. Seemed unnecessary to me.

I used to believe this too! I always wondered why they didn't just speak English.

For some reason I always thought that the term 'homeless' meant people who refused to leave their homes.

[jar_e]

I thought when you'd see commercials about air time with cell phones and such that it was referring to the amount of time you'd get to talk on your cell when you were in an airplane...

Needless to say when I was 13, wanted a cell, and told my parents I don't need any air time because I never fly I was laughed and pointed at...

[Cowperson]

I used to think that if I laid very still in the grass on a windless day, staring at the clouds, holding my breath, that I could probably hear molecules colliding.

Cowperson