I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.
That America was good and a positive force in the world
Let me guess, you think Russia are the good guys? 😂
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Adults act mature and rationally
The Wizard of Oz didn’t help things either.
That’s a good one! Do you have any idea how you came to believe that? An offhand comment from a parent?
Humans are good
Some have to be.
Santa, Easter bunny, tooth fairy, god, etc
Queen of England
I was a towhead, which means I was born blonde and it turned to brown as I got older. When I first started noticing my hair turning darker, I asked my mom why and she told me it was because I ate too much peanut butter. I stopped eating it for about a week until I decided that I loved peanut butter more than being a blonde.
Hello, fellow towhead!
Thing is, while in every picture of me of a child I’m shockingly blonde, and every picture of me as a teen and thereafter I’m brown, I have no memory of the actual change, and no pictures where I’m in-between. Does it happen quickly? Did it hurt so badly that I’ve suppressed the memory‽
I have a few old photos were my hair looks basically striped. You can see it well when the hair is worn in a ponytail.
It’s a warlock curse, cast on you as you sleep one night.
Wow didn’t know there was a name for it. That’s happening for many or most Germans.
I live in Ontario and Quebec was undergoing a referendum to leave Canada when I was a kid. I asked my Dad if Canada would still be the second biggest country if Quebec left.
He was impressed by the insightful question, but in reality I thought Quebec was just the tiny town where my Grandma lived.
Other than organized religion, you mean?
Probably that cops are benevolent keepers of the peace and that putting humans in cages decreases crime.
Yeah i used to believe that cops are here to protect us (working people). Then growing up I learned that if you don’t have the money or power, never deal with cops (other than license and registration shit). I understand why my late grandma forbade all her kids to marry cops.
that’s kind of true - if you put the right humans in cages
Nope. Even in a hypothetical world where all the ones guilty of a sufficiently severe crime and ONLY those go to prison, that doesn’t make the world a safer place with less crime.
Punishment and the fear of same isn’t anywhere near as powerful a motivator to stop breaking the law or deterrent as they’ve been telling you.
If it was, the US would be by far the safest with the least crime of all Western countries in stead of closer to the opposite.
what about locking up all the rich people and redistributing their wealth?
I’m wholeheartedly in favor of the latter, but the former wouldn’t help.
I thought there was a massive tape inside the radio, that had the radio station on, and that it was big enough that it didn’t need to be changed out.
That Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler were the same person.
American propaganda is a hell of a drug. Now they do the same with Putin.
“Putler” springs to mind
There was a brief moment where I thought video games had to program every possible combination of pixels so it could react appropriately to what I was doing at any given time in a game. I had no idea how things rendered. I didn’t know they were individual sprites that animated separately. Thought it was all just one big thing and they had to draw every single possibility with nothing dynamic going on.
Then I played Wolfenstein 3D on PC and realized how impossible that would be in 3D. Funnily enough, those little pocket games they had in the 80s and 90s like Game & Watch kinda were doing exactly what I thought every game was doing, but they were much simpler games for a reason.
I remember thinking the same exact thing!
I used to think all food for adults were called Sad Meals, as opposed to Happy Meals (like at McDonald’s).
I thought some wild stuff as a child that feels more fantastical than strictly dumb. Like I thought everyone was psychic except me and could hear my thoughts. I thought time worked differently depending on who I talked with. I thought the earth was both flat or round depending on where you were standing. I’d often get dreams and reality confused too. For some reason I thought dogs were people who had been cursed into becoming pets, probably because of me seeing the donkeys from Pinocchio. I thought half of people were robots fueled by pieces of the sun they’d pluck out of the sky.
This one is common, but I thought water simply phased through your body if you touched it. There was an episode of Bill Nye where he mentions that water “goes through your hand” and says it just like that. So I thought water simply phased through hands.
I think I was just abused as a kid and neglected
I thought the world used to be black and white and turned to color sometimes in the early 60’s. Ironically that’s about the same time color TV came into prominence.
I was so confused over how answering machines worked, but I don’t remember the specifics anymore! I think what confused me was, how and especially where the messages would be stored. As in, can my neighbours call the number of my answering machine (if we had had one) and then listen to the messages that were left for us?
