Stupid stuff you believed as a kid
 

- I was told that head medication had to go down to your toes and then to your head to take effect. I doubt it works like this but I believed them then.

- I believed that if you wore a tuxedo, you would be considered famous.

- I believed that kissing created babies. For some reason I thought they would share spit and then a baby would form in the belly.

You mean that's not true? :(

I thought that "cow tipping" was slang for doing drugs. When I found out it was literally tipping cows, it felt like Christmas morning.

I thought it was showing monetary appreciation for a cow performing their job well.

i used to think that when someone died, their body was deflated to a point where it could be folded up like a towel, which was put in a cardboard box, and then they were buried.

i also used to think that the water tower a block away from my school was the CN Tower, because it looked to me like the tallest building on the planet.

I used to wonder why they couldn't just wait till everyone --- everyone --- in the IRA met in that one shed they always met in to plan their bombings and then drop a bomb on them! Simple solution!

I also always wondered when the USS Enterprise was ever going to get to that planet Boldlego they kept mentioning in the credits --- "To boldly go where no man has gone before!" Sure Kirk, when you gonna get there?

I was a stupid child, something I thankfully did not fully grow out of.

:o:Up until age 22 I thought cat milk (from the store in the carton) was made by mamma cats hooked up to sucking machines (one sucker per nipple).
Until age 15 I believed dogs got pregnant by ejaculate that seeps through the female's back into her belly where then puppies form.:o:
:laughing::laughing::laughing:

Cat milk?

^Yes it is a treat for any age kitty(ies) and the most common brand I've seen is in a purple carton. . . It is actually made of whey protein powder I believe, although they say not to feed them cow's milk, but goat's milk instead for easier digestion.

I can't say you were an unreasonable kid for believing that something named cat milk, specifically for cats, was actually cat milk... Most of us would probably have drawn the same conclusion.

You don't cross into stupid kid beliefs territory until you believe pee is what impregnates a woman.

Are you saying it doesn't?!

Technically, it could. Assuming you had just rubbed one out prior to peeing in a girl. There's always that chance. So I would advise against such activities. Only pee in girls after you've first had a piss.

I'll follow this advice moving forward.

Whenever I would watch a movie or TV show where a character would ask for a scotch I used to think it tasted like butterscotch.

That thought came crashing down one particular night when I was 13 :(

http://img.dooyoo.co.uk/GB_EN/orig/0/1/4/1/0/141068.jpg

Note to any cat owners: most cats are lactose intolerant, so water is far better for them.

Holy fucking shit, I THOUGHT THE EXACT SAME THING! And like you, it was around the age of 12 or 13 when it all came crashing down for me. I was at my aunt's wedding and asked my uncle if I could try some of his scotch. Maybe that's why, even as an adult, I prefer bourbon.

Feeling better :o:

:yeah:

Let's see a couple minor things I believed:
I asked my dad (about age 9) why the Sun gets dark sometimes. (shifting clouds)
He was having a conversation with my mom and said right after, "Because the grass is dry."
I left the room feeling newly... informed... :laughing:

Until LAST year. ..
Horses and cows lived 40 - 50 yrs and not 20 max.

I used to think that, since married couples generally have the same last names, I'd have to marry my brother.

I always told my then best friend that I couldn't marry him because I had to marry my brother.

:laughing:

After seeing a circus bear walk, I believed humans evolved from bears instead of monkeys.

Legit thought that swallowing a watermelon seed would make a watermelon grow in ones' stomach. Although, for some inexplicable reason, I also associated the horror with Jack and the Beanstalk, and pictured this immense vine shooting out of my mouth into the heavens, where giants apparently lived.

I swallowed a watermelon seed at school once. The hysterical bathroom standoff with my first grade teacher was not my finest moment.

Lots more stupid things here > Stupid Things You Thought When You Were A Kid

Oh! I almost forgot. One REALLY bizarre thing I thought as a child was that I could converse with God - but ONLY if I was in my closet with the door closed. I have no idea where that thought came from, I don't know of anything on TV that led me to believe that...just some weird, weird, weird thing I decided was true. I also thought you could tell Santa Claus what you wanted for Christmas doing the same thing.

Holy crap your dad was young wasn't he?? :eek: :rofl:

Did you go to confession? I can see how that would have placed the idea in your mind, kneeling in the confessional telling the priest about your sins, would have seemed almost like talking to The Big Guy...

I believed all cats were girls and all dogs were boys.

If you held a model globe and tilted it around a bit, tiny little people fell off.

That the reconstructions on Crimewatch were the actual crime taking place and why didn't they catch them instead of filming them.

After seeing one of the early Superman films, I used to think if you believed 100% that you could fly, you could fly. I used to sometimes close my eyes and say to myself; ''you can fly'' then have a run up and try to fly off. It never worked.

Not so much stuff I believed but Burning Down wanted to know how I know what it's like to lick a battery which I guess I assumed was common knowledge so thought I'd put out an informal survey.

Have you ever put your tongue across the terminals of a 9V battery?

http://elephantbatteries.com/images/...ll-Battery.jpg

I did that today to see if it still had juice. It doesn't hurt, and has a very definitive taste. Needless to say, my stud finder was faulty.

Of course!

Forgive my off topic remark here, but I am compelled to point out that people didn't evolve from monkeys. Humans, monkeys and apes share a common ancestor.

BTW a 9 volt battery is actually six AAAA batteries in an encasement. Take one apart sometime....

No, I never went to confession until high school when my family started going to an Episcopal church.

I can see the possibility of seeing confession on TV or something, or hearing someone talking about it, and making that association, though, even if I'd never personally had the experience.

I had that thought when I was a kid, how was I to know that?

edit: Before this turns into the Scopes Trial... I remember as a kid when people talked about evolution it was almost always said that man evolved from monkeys they never mentioned a specific species that was common to both humans, monkeys and apes etc. (interestingly enough even you said "common ancestor" and didn't mention a specific species). Why do people do this? Some of these species lived millions and millions of years ago. Maybe it's for a lack of a better word.

i'm on this guy's ignore list. could someone ask him to provide a link to so i can read about this? or provide me a link themselves? please?

Not sure if you're joking or not, but here's a diagram on the off chance that you aren't:

http://www.nicerweb.com/bio1151b/Loc...ePhylogeny.jpg

I once thought that if I inserted my guitar into my 8-Track player, I'd be a better guitar player. It didn't fit, but man that was some good Peyote.

This is a candidate

I used to be confused by the concept of people driving on the left side of the road in other countries because if they all drove on the left side and kept the right side empty, how was it that they didn't crash?

well, i wasn't joking. admittedly i was quite drunk when i wrote that though. it seems obvious when i look at that diagram, but for some reason i wasn't able to imagine that when i was reading his comment.:banghead:

It's not so much that it hurts, but it is uncomfortable. I could never do it for more than a few seconds. And I always thought it tasted like copper.