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Title: Things you believed in when you were a kid!
Post by: mar77a on March 15, 2008, 08:44:26 pm
Share them; they're usually pretty funny. I'll start:

- If you went into traffic circles (roundabouts?) you had to stay there, circling, until you run out of gas. Don't ask :<
- If you hit the gas together with brake at the same time, the car exploded.

I probably have more, contrary to expectation I don't really remember them right now. Will post later if they come back.
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Post by: Liman on March 15, 2008, 08:46:43 pm
I used to believe that my grandmother (who is turkish) lived on the moon. So whenever we went on a plane to go to Turkey I thought it was there we were going.

A confused 2 year old :(
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Post by: Ozfrox on March 15, 2008, 08:48:24 pm
When we traveled by airplane to an other country, i used to believe that the country was above us, in the sky >.<
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Post by: Dark Angel on March 15, 2008, 08:53:45 pm
Haha, I used to believe that I had an extra set of eyeballs (hint-being a guy). A friend had also convinced me that all babies were born male and if the parents wanted a girl then the doctor just pushed everything back into the body.  :crazy:
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Post by: HL on March 15, 2008, 08:55:47 pm
GW6 launching.
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Post by: Shepperd on March 15, 2008, 08:56:56 pm
snata claus
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Post by: Vyse on March 15, 2008, 09:04:58 pm
I thought little gnomes ran the stoplights.
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Post by: blood hell on March 15, 2008, 09:06:02 pm
i had no idea what a vagina looked like so I just assumed the skin kind of went inward just like an ass crack, but it still confused me how it was possible for girls to pee
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Post by: Roman on March 15, 2008, 09:16:47 pm
i had no idea what a vagina looked like so I just assumed the skin kind of went inward just like an ass crack, but it still confused me how it was possible for girls to pee

oh yeah i used to think they peed out their butts

oh me!!  :fogetbackflip:
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Post by: 4Dsheep on March 15, 2008, 09:18:46 pm
love

I also used to believe in Sinterklaas. I even pulled off thinking the two rather different people playing him (one dutch, one belgian) were the same person (namely Sinterklaas, damnit), despite very obvious discrepancies like where he lives, what his horse is called, how many people he employs, and whether he visits the dutch Sesame Street or not.

I also also used to think gnomes were just a myth. Now I know better!
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Post by: tuxedo marx on March 15, 2008, 09:20:15 pm
Girls never fart or have a poo, so they must not have arseholes. (I still believe this.)
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Post by: alucard on March 15, 2008, 09:20:51 pm
I thought "whacking off" was that you literally slapped your cock with your hand/object.
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Post by: Sarah on March 15, 2008, 09:22:59 pm
i used to think foreskin was a flap overtop of the penile hole that was FLIPPED UP for urination.


like a doggy door.
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Post by: hobo2 on March 15, 2008, 09:23:40 pm
As a child, I believed cartoons were not drawn but actually consisted of people in really convincing costumes or puppets.
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Post by: ThugTears666 on March 15, 2008, 09:45:57 pm
I used to believe different countries lived on different planets, like I thought the American Indians lived on Mars and Africians lived on the sun.

racist


Also I still have no idea where girls pee from, I asked my girlfriend this once but still havent figured it out.
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Post by: Kaworu on March 15, 2008, 09:48:56 pm
As a child I used to think the Nazis still run Germany, England controlled the world, americans all talked like john wayne and Tails had a mad crush on Sonic.
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Post by: Feldschlacht IV on March 15, 2008, 09:50:33 pm
I used to believe that mothers pooped out their babies when giving birth instead of...actually giving birth.
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Post by: Carrion Crow on March 15, 2008, 09:51:44 pm
When I grow up I wanna be a train
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Post by: tuxedo marx on March 15, 2008, 09:52:54 pm
Quote
like I thought the American Indians lived on Mars

(http://www.gamingw.net/pubaccess/50022/225px-Martians.png) ?
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Post by: ThugTears666 on March 15, 2008, 09:56:23 pm
Tails had a mad crush on Sonic.

This is kinda true in my opinion.
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Post by: Vellfire on March 15, 2008, 09:56:48 pm
I used to think my chihuahua could fly and would throw her a lot because I was convinced she could just fly!  I was like 3 or 4.



I blame my parents for knowing this about me and still leaving me alone with that dog.
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Post by: Mince Wobley on March 15, 2008, 10:56:08 pm
I used to think priests were omniscient
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Post by: GirlBones on March 15, 2008, 11:23:14 pm
i used to think that "home plate/fourth base" was getting married.
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Post by: Cheshire Cat on March 15, 2008, 11:29:22 pm
Oher than christianity, i was a fairly well informed child really.

Santa, i guess.
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Post by: esp on March 16, 2008, 12:26:45 am
I was always told;

don't pick your nose, or your head will collapse in on itself

i never put a finger up there ever again
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Post by: Fire Mage on March 16, 2008, 12:29:59 am
-jerking off would reduce your dick size
-mountain dew kills sperm
-santa claus
-easter bunny
-monsters
-masturbating was gay (idk when i was young my best friend said this A LOT but how wrong he was)
-christianity


lots of other stuff.
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Post by: Dale Gobbler on March 16, 2008, 12:35:03 am
-That Six Flags was really just a hop, skip, and jump away.
-That there was always something\somebody watching me (The Truman Show).
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Post by: Mama Luigi on March 16, 2008, 01:05:01 am
I'm surprised I didn't see this topic raped with CHRSTIANTITY LOL.

As a child I believed in all those mythical creatures like Santa Clause, Easter Bunny, etc etc rainbows.
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Post by: Mince Wobley on March 16, 2008, 01:14:43 am
As a child I believed in ... rainbows.

Me too now I don't believe in them anymore. They are compulsive liars.
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Post by: jamie on March 16, 2008, 01:15:42 am
my dad used to go out and night and move the gnomes he kept in the garden around so i thought they came alive at night.

also my dad used to take me to a supermarket and whenever i asked for something off the shelf he said that someone had licked it so i wouldn't want it.

my dad also used to pretend that there was a race of giant biscuits which lived in the wild and whenever we went on a long drive he would make a big show about trying to avoid running over the body of a dead biscuit on the road.

these are a few of the excellent things my dad used to make us believe.
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Post by: Pasty on March 16, 2008, 01:33:53 am
-masturbation is gay.  think about it...you're toching your dick, lol
-I used to believe I had a third testicle when I was like eight (this is not a joke)
-My dad said he wanted to collect Iraqi ears and store them in formaldehyde while he was walking me up to a parent-teacher conference.  I still can't believe it to this day because what he said was that reprehensible.  If it was a joke, it was stupid as shit.
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Post by: Ragnar on March 16, 2008, 01:57:27 am
- God

- I used to think I WASN'T circumsized because I didn't know what it entailed and I didn't remember anything being done to my dick that hurt A LOT and I sort of thought the dickhead was supposed to come off - I mean it just LOOKS like it's supposed to come off it doesn't match the whole rest of the penis

- I thought pasta was made of cheese or some other kind of dairy because you put cheese on it and the only form of grain I'd known so far in my life was like LOAF OF BREAD

- I might've thought if you stayed up until midnight you could FEEL the day change, but that might've been some movie - or maybe like, if you didn't go to sleep at all it would just never get light again

- Well anytime I fell asleep as a kid I would MAGICALLY end up in my bed if I wasn't already. So I thought maybe life worked like an RPG that way

- I thought everybody's schlong was so big :naughty:
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Post by: Strangeluv on March 16, 2008, 02:21:45 am
(number) in brackets suggests when I probably stopped believing.

- Grover and Big Bird were real and not puppets. (5)

- That babies came from eating 'Baby Food' until the mother's belly got big and somehow the baby would be shat out. (8)

- God. (15)

- That every Hollywood celebrity lived in my country and that all the shows on local television were being produced here. When I found out this was wrong, I was like awww :(​  (7)

- Santa Claus (9)

- Tooth Fairy (9?)

- There was even a slight chance that my dog could talk (7)
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Post by: XxSylverxX on March 16, 2008, 04:33:25 am
tail was a dogs penis.
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Post by: bonermobile on March 16, 2008, 04:50:23 am
i can only thing of one thing besides santa/easter bunny/etc

i had no idea what a vagina looked like so I just assumed the skin kind of went inward just like an ass crack, but it still confused me how it was possible for girls to pee
kinda like this but i used to think they hired someone to karate chop it in
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Post by: Doktormartini on March 16, 2008, 06:37:03 am
Santa
God
Other things like Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy...etc
That a Ghostbuster was an actual profession (I wanted to become one)

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Post by: Ghost_Aspergers on March 16, 2008, 06:40:21 am
As a child I used to believe that drug users where horrible, evil people that should be removed from society.
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Post by: Strangeluv on March 16, 2008, 06:43:32 am
You hear that GirlBones, that is what children probably think about you
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Post by: `~congresman Ron paul~~ on March 16, 2008, 06:57:21 am
i thought the blinkers button on the dashboard controlled the ejection seats.
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Post by: Grin Tree on March 16, 2008, 07:04:34 am
I used to laugh ridiculously hard as a kid, to the point where my jugular veins would show up visibly on my neck.  My mom used to tell me that if I kept laughing that they would burst and I'd bleed to death.  I wouldn't be surprised if that's why I try to control my laughs now, 'cause the thought of that happening scared the living buttcock out of me.

I also had some misconceptions surrounding female genitalia, too, but I can't remember.
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Post by: ThugTears666 on March 16, 2008, 07:16:18 am
I used to laugh ridiculously hard as a kid, to the point where my jugular veins would show up visibly on my neck.  My mom used to tell me that if I kept laughing that they would burst and I'd bleed to death.  I wouldn't be surprised if that's why I try to control my laughs now, 'cause the thought of that happening scared the living buttcock out of me.



that bitch, if you are happy YOU ARE GOING TO DIE SON :shh:
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Post by: Keith Stones on March 16, 2008, 07:22:37 am
- teachers lived at school
- I could control clouds
- computers could think and talk to me but my computer wasn't good enough
- I could bring back the dinosaurs


Also, I grew up going to church but somehow never really got it hammered into my head to believe in god. I just kind of went along with it (and opened my eyes during grace; I'm such a rebel!)
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Post by: Grin Tree on March 16, 2008, 07:30:10 am

that bitch, if you are happy YOU ARE GOING TO DIE SON :shh:

Well, it wasn't because I was being obnoxious and she wanted me to suffer, I was just made fun of a lot because of it.  Of course, I didn't know that back then.  I just believed it to be genuine concern for my LIFE.
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Post by: Sludgelord on March 16, 2008, 07:54:58 am
When I was little, I had an English beagle named Ulysses that I thought was a human trapped in a dog's body. I thought that somehow he had been transformed into a dog, so I always fed him people food because I thought it would help him regain his memories.
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Post by: dada on March 16, 2008, 08:13:04 am
I used to laugh ridiculously hard as a kid, to the point where my jugular veins would show up visibly on my neck.  My mom used to tell me that if I kept laughing that they would burst and I'd bleed to death.
I've always wondered why people think it's a good idea to scare children into believing things like that.
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Post by: ThugTears666 on March 16, 2008, 08:39:54 am
Also I just remembered, you know those kids shows where the hosts talk to the kids watching tv (like blues clues or whatever). Yeah well I remember as I got older I thought there was a camera in the tv so they were talking to me, so I started getting smart or I would purposely sing the wrong words and be like "hah how do you like that!".


When I got my first cd (SPACE JAM HELL YEAH) heaps of the songs said FEAT. cause they featured another artist, well I thought Feat. must be like the best musician ever cause he seemed to be on so many songs and with everyone!
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Post by: Mongoloid on March 16, 2008, 08:53:54 am
When I got my first cd (SPACE JAM HELL YEAH) heaps of the songs said FEAT. cause they featured another artist, well I thought Feat. must be like the best musician ever cause he seemed to be on so many songs and with everyone!

Haha, this is true for me too. Also, Space Jam was also my first cd.

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Post by: ThugTears666 on March 16, 2008, 08:58:47 am
Haha, this is true for me too. Also, Space Jam was also my first cd.




Haha awesome, I listened to it so much. I wouldn't be suprised if I still kinda knew the songs by heart.
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Post by: Pasty on March 16, 2008, 10:44:10 am
- my science teacher said that if someone held a sneeze in their lungs would pop (to this day I still don't know if this is true or not)
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Post by: Ruthless X on March 16, 2008, 10:55:13 am
Haha, this is true for me too. Also, Space Jam was also my first cd.



OMFG LOL

Me too  :fogetcool:
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Post by: dada on March 16, 2008, 11:30:23 am
- my science teacher said that if someone held a sneeze in their lungs would pop (to this day I still don't know if this is true or not)
It isn't.
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Post by: Rapstyle on March 16, 2008, 12:34:06 pm
Santa Claus,XD.
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Post by: Death Gulp on March 16, 2008, 12:51:51 pm
-Kind of like the gnome controlling traffic lights, i thought there was a guy in a room under the road with a camera just pressing a button every so often to change the lights. i remember thinking how did he get into the room.

-I used to think that stuff that would go into drains would go into hell or something, and they were impossible to get back.

-Sex was just sleeping in the same bed as someone
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Post by: Cheshire Cat on March 16, 2008, 01:11:27 pm
Now i think i used to believe that when you got a bit older you went to sleep as a child one day then woke up the next day as an adult.

This stems entirely from the 'one day all this will be yours' bit in The Lion King.
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Post by: AdderallApocalypse on March 16, 2008, 03:47:52 pm
-God
-Easter Bunny/Santa Clause/Etcetera
-Ghosts/Spirits(I actually stopped believing in spirits and ghosts not too long ago.)
-That I could see atoms with my naked eye if I looked hard enough.
-That our universe was just a very small part of a very, very huge human being.
-I used to believe a lot of strange stuff, but for some reason it won't come to me now.
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Post by: Dale Gobbler on March 16, 2008, 04:40:03 pm
I use to think that no matter what happened to me, everything would work itself out in the end.

Oh wait, I still think that. :(
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Post by: Warlin on March 16, 2008, 05:30:17 pm
I used to believe the monsters in my closet couldn't hurt me if I hid under my blanket.
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Post by: Sludgelord on March 16, 2008, 05:46:44 pm
I thought that the devil lived underground so I would flip off the ground sometimes.
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Post by: kermit the toad on March 16, 2008, 05:50:32 pm
I used to believe:

* Someone, somewhere, was capable of reading my thoughts, so I tried not to think about things I wanted to keep secret, in case this imaginary psychic person turned out to be someone I knew. (Weird, I know.)
* Babies grew inside of a woman's stomach (it seems logical when you look at a pregnant woman, especially when people tell little kids that the baby is in the woman's "tummy").
* Before I knew about sex, I thought that women just magically got pregnant when a man and woman "really loved each other." I guess I thought that if you thought about wanting a baby, you'd suddenly be pregnant. I don't really remember the details of this childhood belief, but it was something like that.
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Post by: Sarah on March 16, 2008, 06:19:43 pm
I used to believe:

* Someone, somewhere, was capable of reading my thoughts, so I tried not to think about things I wanted to keep secret, in case this imaginary psychic person turned out to be someone I knew. (Weird, I know.)
ahaha i thought this too!

i also used to think all kids looked like me (when I was like 3 or 4 I think) and I was surprised to find that they DIDN'T.

I think maybe that was caused be the episode of Bobby's World where everyone looks like Bobby though.
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Post by: Ohlichris on March 16, 2008, 06:36:38 pm
- I used to believe that once you reached 10 years of age, you were an adult. I thought every adult was 10 years old.

- I used to believe that limbs could grow back.
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Post by: ase on March 16, 2008, 08:37:49 pm
"GW will never be hacked as long as ramirez is administrator"

I was so young and immature.....
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Post by: Kaworu on March 16, 2008, 08:39:46 pm
I also believed GW was safe, now I don't know what to believe ;_;
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Post by: Frankie on March 16, 2008, 09:06:22 pm
Santa, God, Easter bunny, Petzi
I thought limbs could grow back. When I was told limbs couldn't grow back at all, I panicked: I bled a lot back then (I had nosebleeds like almost every day) and I thought we started life with a finite amount of blood and could eventually, over the years, lose all of it. So I panicked and thought I was gonna die of too frequent nosebleeds.
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Post by: tuxedo marx on March 16, 2008, 09:12:52 pm
I used to believe the monsters in my closet couldn't hurt me if I hid under my blanket.
did you find out otherwise? is that why you have no limbs?
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Post by: Drevean on March 16, 2008, 09:23:05 pm
Santa
God
Other things like Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy...etc
That a Ghostbuster was an actual profession (I wanted to become one)



This is pretty much my list to the t.

My mother once dropped me off at a new day-care and when she came back I had a name tag on my shirt that said "hello my name is Egon "

I seriously thought I was Egon for the longest time.  Then I got the first NES and became Mario...
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Post by: Vellfire on March 16, 2008, 09:28:53 pm
When I was like...5, my best friend told me that if I didn't pray before I went to bed, I would die in my sleep and go to hell.  I didn't BELIEVE her exactly, but there was still this part of me that kind of thought "oh shit I could die" when I was going to sleep sometimes.  Her mom was insane and I'm convinced she almost let me drown as a child in their pool because I refused to pray before I went to bed.
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Post by: AdderallApocalypse on March 16, 2008, 09:40:15 pm
Sorry to hear that, Velfarre. People who say/do stuff like that are incredibly stupid. Also, praying is completely worthless.
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Post by: Drevean on March 16, 2008, 09:45:28 pm
Also, praying is completely worthless.

I'm a complete athiest, but sometimes I "pray" just to do it... it's rare.  But anyways, it makes me feel good sometimes... it's really strange.  Am I screwed up or something?  I don't think it's worthless...
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Post by: Vellfire on March 16, 2008, 09:48:35 pm
The worst part about it (besides the drowning thing) was that she was such a little girl telling me I was going to hell, and that is just sad.

And I'm an atheist but I do see a worth in praying.  I never did it myself, because obviously I don't believe in it, but it has sort of a placebo effect for some people and, especially during hard times, whatever gets them through is fine by me.
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Post by: AdderallApocalypse on March 16, 2008, 10:18:38 pm
Yeah, that is right. Praying has sort of a placebo effect. In reality, it is worthless. However, if it makes one feel better then there is nothing wrong with that.
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Post by: Ragnar on March 16, 2008, 10:19:01 pm
When I got my first cd (SPACE JAM HELL YEAH) heaps of the songs said FEAT. cause they featured another artist, well I thought Feat. must be like the best musician ever cause he seemed to be on so many songs and with everyone!

I didn't know about FEAT back then (I probably would've thought it was quite a "feat" that they made the song :/)

But I do remember back when wrestling was really big a lot of the wrestlers were listed as coming from "parts unknown". I thought this was a real place were all the cool wrestlers came from, although I didn't hear at as parts unknown, I thought it was some weird French/Cajun word like PARSOUNON
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Post by: Mama Luigi on March 16, 2008, 11:55:06 pm
-That I could see atoms with my naked eye if I looked hard enough.
Haha I actually thought this as well. I eventually realized it's just that our eyes aren't perfect and they create this sort of grainy look to everything!
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Post by: cowardknower on March 17, 2008, 12:26:35 am
i believed that demons from hell were going to come get me while i was sleeping so i would hide under my blanket (just like the other guy in this thread)

i thought girls had dicks too (thus people saying SEX IS WHEN THE BOY TAKES HIS THING AND PUTS IT IN HTE GIRLS THING was very confusing--- led to a lot of confusing mental imagery.  I remember drawing a picture of a naked girl (hahahahaha) on the playground and some kid being like HEY WHAT ARE YOU DRAWING and me being like NO NO and him looking and saying NO!  GIRLS DONT HAVE THAT!  and im like oh... what do they have?  (i was ver young and idk if this was even really like SEXUAL THOUGHTS even))

i believed jesus etc also!  easy answer!
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Post by: Vellfire on March 17, 2008, 12:37:05 am
Couch that reminds me of one time I drew a dog and drew its penis but at the time I thought those things were the dog's belly button so I didn't know why that was weird!
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Post by: cowardknower on March 17, 2008, 12:54:24 am
i wonder if that kid remembers that incident.  hmm.
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Post by: Trujin on March 17, 2008, 01:47:44 am
I used to believe in Sinterklaas and that babies werd born from the anus (this is really stupid if you take in considerartion that I teach biology nowdays -_-).

Speaking of that I can easily come up with some nice replies to these quotes:

- my science teacher said that if someone held a sneeze in their lungs would pop (to this day I still don't know if this is true or not)
This is not true. What is true though, is that your tube of eustachius (the tube that connects your ear to your nose cavity) could get infected. If you hold a sneeze the air will go to places which it can easily acces. If you have a nose infection you could turn up with an ear infection afterwards. If the jerms acces your tube of eustachius they can infect your middle ear.

-That I could see atoms with my naked eye if I looked hard enough.

If you are talking about the weird stuff you see in front of you, moving along your eyes when you are tired I can explain this for you. I always thought it were bacteria on my eyeball. When the subject came up in class, my teacher told me that it were large proteins. So yes, at some level we have some microscopic view.

If you are talking about the hazy moving stuff you see when you are tired, I can tell you that I'm experiencing it at the moment too. It's pretty cool, but according to my information just a good indication for us to get a nice nap :p.
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Post by: Doktormartini on March 17, 2008, 02:09:47 am
Oh yeah that stupid thing your parents would say where if you hold a stupid face position long enough your face would get stuck like that forever.
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Post by: Dale Gobbler on March 17, 2008, 02:24:37 am
Oh yeah, I see those things floating around in my eyes every now and then. And by every now and then, I mean like a couple of times a week. Is that bad? :O
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Post by: Dy on March 17, 2008, 07:45:00 am
I used to believe babies just came out of a womans stomach, that nothing opened or closed they just appeared if the woman groaned hard enough.
I also used to believe that the bogeyman was your own personal bodyguard at night, and that all of the ones in the cities were evil, but mine protected me. The ones out in the country and stuff were good.
Also, every song played on the radio was a live performance in the studio.
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Post by: The Dude on March 17, 2008, 08:27:12 am
There was this little plot of unused land behind my backyard, and my sister, a neighbour and myself would go back there on magical adventures. With my vivid imagination, I swear that place was a real african savana.
Believed in Santa Claus until I found out who buys the gifts, and that's about all I remember of my childhood. Most of it is locked in a vault in this damn grey matter.
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Post by: Warped655 on March 17, 2008, 08:50:57 am
-I used to think that the yoke in eggs was actually some sort of cheese.
-I thought tornadoes were skeletons driving hot rods... completely random... I can't think of why I thought this.
-I thought girls peed out the butt.
-I thought flies could talk when they were in peril. "HELP ME! HELP ME!" (I mis-learned this from a Bill Nye the science guy skit I think)
-I though that we had already found aliens and I read a book about babies and thought the a picture of a Human baby in a mothers womb was actually a picture of a translucent alien egg.
-Santa, East bunny, Tooth Fairy, Bogeyman
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Post by: goat on March 17, 2008, 04:57:08 pm
I used to think muscular men weren't normally hairy because it just fell off from the muscles, and circumcision meant cutting the head of the penis off.
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Post by: Kaworu on March 17, 2008, 05:18:16 pm
I thougth circumscision was cutting it off. The whole shebang.
Yes, I thought jews had no dick. like they had balls and a stump.
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Post by: HappyCloud on March 17, 2008, 05:21:05 pm
That a Ghostbuster was an actual profession (I wanted to become one)

i hear that nowadays you can get a degree for that in the mail
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Post by: goat on March 17, 2008, 05:25:44 pm
I thougth circumscision was cutting it off. The whole shebang.
Yes, I thought jews had no dick. like they had balls and a stump.

My belief stemmed from in elementary school when me and a friend were peeing on a wall during recess and I noticed his penis looked different than mine. His was uncircumcised, but he just told me "thats cause circumcised penises looked different", so I thought for the longest time that my penis was uncircumcised (which it wasn't).

What let me to believe that they actually cut the tip of the penis off was what I previously mentioned, plus a scene from "men in tights" where Mel Brooks says "nip the tip" and he puts a carrot in a mini guillotine and does so.
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Post by: crone_lover720 on March 17, 2008, 06:40:58 pm
wait so your friend was missing the head of his penis?



uh, I never really believed any of this weird shit. I have a twin sister so I was never confused about females, and I dunno about the rest? I always knew about babies etc from the time I was able to comprehend it, my parents never lied about it. the weirdest thing I ever believed was that there were aliens or gremlins or something living inside moon craters. this was from a part of this old film I saw on TV when I was a kid, and since it was black and white and so was the real moon footage, I thought the moon men were real too.

also easter bunny, santa, normal stuff
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Post by: Cho on March 17, 2008, 07:03:12 pm
I used to believe the monsters in my closet couldn't hurt me if I hid under my blanket.

I used to believe that as long as I had enough covers (blankets) over me, if someone broke into my house and tried to stab me they would protect me because the knife wouldn't go all the way through and I would have enough time to get away. Apparently I was a very morbid child.

I used to believe that when you put a video tape in the VCR, it would call up people at a remote location and tell them to play the movie on your TV (I'm pretty sure they didn't offer On-Demand back in the early 1990s??) I thought this because sometimes tapes would have the sound of a phone dialing at the beginning. They also used to have a thing called "tracking" which you young'uns don't remember, but it was used to clarify the picture on the tape. I thought it meant they were tracking the signal, like a satellite dish.
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Post by: AdderallApocalypse on March 17, 2008, 07:32:12 pm
Oh yeah, I see those things floating around in my eyes every now and then. And by every now and then, I mean like a couple of times a week. Is that bad? :O
Yeah, I see that too. I never knew what it was so I guess that is where my belief stemmed from. Thanks Trujin!
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Post by: Vellfire on March 17, 2008, 08:11:46 pm
The next time you guys are at an eye doctor you should mention it.  I know when I have to fill out paperwork before my eye doctor appointments they ask you about that, so even if it probably isn't a problem (I think it depends on how often you see them and how severe it is) it would be good to have that checked out.  I think it's pretty normal to have that every now and then, so you probably don't need to IMMEDIATELY GO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT or anything but the next time you're there you might bring it up.
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Post by: Alec on March 17, 2008, 08:51:10 pm
floaters are just bits of dust and other particles floating around in that goo inside your eye. they're nothing to worry about but here's a wikipedia link in case you're still scared:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floaters

EDIT: I can't remember weird things I used to believe, except that I thought that home video cameras automatically sent the video live to tv studios and while you were on camera people all over the world were watching you.

My sister thought you aged backwards.
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Post by: kentona on March 17, 2008, 09:42:33 pm
(approx. age in parentheses - it's a good idea!)


God (8)
Santa (10)
Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy/etc... (8-ish)
That life had any meaning (23)
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Post by: Cheesy Doritos on March 18, 2008, 02:16:23 am
my dad used to go out and night and move the gnomes he kept in the garden around so i thought they came alive at night.

also my dad used to take me to a supermarket and whenever i asked for something off the shelf he said that someone had licked it so i wouldn't want it.

my dad also used to pretend that there was a race of giant biscuits which lived in the wild and whenever we went on a long drive he would make a big show about trying to avoid running over the body of a dead biscuit on the road.

these are a few of the excellent things my dad used to make us believe.

Man that is awesome! Anymore stuff?

I used to believe Sherlock Holmes was real, and some cars had no drivers and were moved along the road by giant magnets under ground. I still don't rememby why...

Also when I become a dad my kids will be believing in the craziest shit ever.
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Post by: Xeno|Soft on March 21, 2008, 05:37:24 am
You know how there is Washington DC and Washington? I always thought the captial was in Washington..and I always asked myself WHY.
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Post by: Grin Tree on March 21, 2008, 06:35:11 am
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I thought that the devil lived underground so I would flip off the ground sometimes.

Hahaha, I did this.  I used to justify the obscene hand gesture by using that as an excuse, too. 
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Post by: Wash Cycle on March 21, 2008, 05:56:13 pm
You know how there is Washington DC and Washington? I always thought the captial was in Washington..and I always asked myself WHY.
haha yeah I used to think the US flag was the Ohio flag and that Ohio was special because we had the nations flag

this was when I was like 6 or 7 during the 1996 presidential race
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Post by: Stadsport on March 21, 2008, 06:08:49 pm
Sugar Smacks are spider eggs.
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Post by: bible_basher on March 21, 2008, 11:35:42 pm
the smaller your dick, the better
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Post by: Alec on March 21, 2008, 11:38:27 pm
the smaller your dick, the better

I must know your reasoning.
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Post by: Alexander Morou on March 23, 2008, 11:45:31 pm
I don't ever remember believing in Santa Clause.  I remember at daycare when I was four (1986) they were trying to pass off us hiding our heads for a little while while the 'easter bunny' hid things in the yard outside.  I think I vaguely remember some badly dressed idiot in a suit.  I never believed in such stupidity again.  They had me going for a few minutes there.

Let's see.  I think later in 1986 I thought that the stork was really where children came from, because that's all the older cartoons I watched portrayed as the truth behind children.  I don't recall when I stopped believing this, but it wasn't long after.  I think the main reason I believed this little lie was I didn't start seeing my mother until I was about seven years old (1989) because my parents divorced when I was two and a half (I vaguely remember hearing them fight, I was two so I don't really remember what was said, just remember that it gave off unpleasant vibes).

I think part of the reason I was duped into believing older people are nice was my grandmother.  She's been defined by everyone I know as a very generous person.  I found out later it was just her.  I respect my elders to this day because of her influence.
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Post by: chanicakes on March 24, 2008, 04:43:53 pm
I used to think critters would come out of the toilet and try to eat me, also thought that when my mom was pregnant with my older sister me and my brother were in her legs waiting for our turn to be born.

The strangest (not saying that those aren't strange enough already) thing I used to think when I was a kid was that everything in my dreams were real and actually happening, though I sleep walked few times when I was little something just seemed to resonate with me and my dreams making me think so.
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Post by: UPRC on March 24, 2008, 04:46:48 pm
I believed some interesting things.. I was a pretty gullible child.

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Post by: YummyDrumsticks on March 24, 2008, 05:08:30 pm
 I believe people made babies by lying next to each other nude.
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Post by: UPRC on March 24, 2008, 05:09:51 pm
I believe people made babies by lying next to each other nude.

Haha, me too. I certainly did not think that it would involve anything COMPLICATED LIKE SEX.
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Post by: chanicakes on March 24, 2008, 05:28:25 pm
I didn't know what the street numbers mean't when I was a kid, like downtown and stuff
ex: 1603 5th ave SW. Means 16th streeet and 5th ave sw.

I thought that they were each a seperate building and I was in awe in wonder how there could be hundreds of them in one square block (yeah that seems naive, but I seriously didn't understand at all)
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Post by: Ragnar on March 24, 2008, 05:44:06 pm
Man it's kind of disturbing that people thought girls had penises - unless it was a real long time ago

I mean at some point for me it was established that girls /don't/ have what guys have - but I knew there was something there too because how else are you going to take a whiz

so I think what I thought was like guys have got this TUBE and girls are just like if a guy lost their schlong whatever kind of thing they'd have left to pee out of
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Post by: AznChipmunk on March 25, 2008, 02:06:32 am
I used to believe that if I ate watermelon seeds, watermelons would grow inside my stomach.


To this very day I don't like watermelons that much.
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Post by: Pulits on March 25, 2008, 04:49:35 am
I used to believe in the chupacabras.
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Post by: skyrider on March 25, 2008, 07:43:06 am
I thought I was going to be a rock star. I was so right.

- if you ate boogers, bugs grew in your stomache and crawled out your mouth.
- if you at watermelon seeds, watermelons grew in your stomache.
- Santa
- Easter Bunny
- POTS OF GOLD!!
- Tooth Fairy
- superstitious tales and all that mumbojumbo "BLOODY MARY!!"
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Post by: Little Wing Guy on March 26, 2008, 02:34:45 pm
I was the youngest child so, whatever my siblings said I believed was true...

-If you sneeze with your opens open, you explode!
-A right of way on the road is the side of road your house is
-You could crap out your organs if you stain too hard
-I could fly if I jumped high enough
-If the wind changed direction while you're pulling a face, you'll be stuck with that face forever
-That I was a rabbit
-Your house number is the age you'll be when you die
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Post by: AdderallApocalypse on March 26, 2008, 08:26:18 pm
Oh yeah, in regards to food crumbs I remember something that I used to believe. I thought when you left the food around, that the food actually turned to roaches, ants, etc.
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Post by: Ragnar on March 27, 2008, 11:23:57 pm
I used to believe that if I ate watermelon seeds, watermelons would grow inside my stomach.

That was an episode of Rugrats
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Post by: RPGer on March 28, 2008, 10:31:06 pm
 :shocking:

...
Santa... doesn`t... exist...?

-I also used to believe my father was a vampire =P Scariest nights of my life.

-I used to believe women had penisses too. Imagine my reaction when I first played "I`ll show mine if you show yours".

-Michel Jackson was a women.
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Post by: Kaworu on March 28, 2008, 10:33:47 pm
I used to believe that fish come from the earth. I was somewhat a dense child, I didnt realise they come from heavy deglaciated comets, passing through the nagaso belt, just one mile above the o-zone layer. I mean it's pretty obvious when you think about it. The deglaciated ice fass through the earth, embedded with the charged negative reactions from the nagaso belt, fusing the bio-mantle into living organisms, which then happily fall into water such as oceans or lakes.
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Post by: Tigress on March 30, 2008, 06:10:05 am
The first time I swallowed a watermelon seed, my cousins told me it would grow into a plant inside of me, and vines would grow out of my ears. Then when they try to cut it off, it will be really painful. I immediately started bawling. And they eventually told me they were kidding.