Topic: Youthful misconceptions

[Buck Pete]

I didn't realize women farted until I was about 17.  Mom said ladies never farted, so I believed her.

Rob. Care to comment?

[tubby]

Rob. Care to comment?

[ToneLa]

Bump

why bump this if you have nothing to say?

[jambutty]

why bump this if you have nothing to say?

Coz there's great re-reads and new people deserve a shout. 

Burrifuneed another from me, I'll confess to pounding Teddy for not talking to me when I knew damn well he could.

[afc tukrish]

why bump this if you have nothing to say?

bumped on a youthful misconception of the value of bumping old threads...

[I've been a good boy]

I used to think the world was actually black and white in the 1800's and prior.

[So… Howard Philips]

I used to think that they had different coloured buses at night after seeing a Corporation bus at Dovecote under the street lights for the first time.

Looking back through the thread good to see Andy Hunter and Pyramids mentioned.

And he last posted 5 years ago.

[AndyInVA]

I never understood in war movies why people lay down on the ground when being bombed from the air.

Surely they had less chance of being hit by a bomb if they just stood up rather than laying down. Less surface area to hit.

[redbyrdz]

I thought the world would naturally become a better place, because that's what everybody wants, right?

[west_london_red]

Babies were born through a woman’s belly button

Mince pies had mince meat in them

Everyone has fish fingers as part of a fry up (this is a common thing with Asian families)

[Ray K]

Mince pies had mince meat in them

Yep, me too. That's why I never had them at Christmas.

[Ghost Town]

I'll confess to pounding Teddy for not talking to me when I knew damn well he could.

A toyboy eh?

[rob1966]

Rob. Care to comment?

My Ma told me the same. She only met my wife a couple of times before she died, so she never got to experience the wind farm I married

[rob1966]

I used to think the world was actually black and white in the 1800's and prior.

I did too, I didn't see a colour telly until the early 1970's

[kellan]

I have a real tendency to put my hood up. It's just one of those things that I've always done and half the time it's not even a conscious move. I had, more than once, caught my parents laughing at me for this, and when I finally asked them what the deal was they explained how pretty much all of my childhood passed with me having a very literal belief in 'if the wind changes, your face will stay like that'. Apparently I wouldn't leave the house without my hood up, pulled over my face to keep the wind off it.

[ChaChaMooMoo]

Good thread and one for the memories.

I used to think that if I had watermelon (with the seeds), a watermelon plant will grow out of my stomach.

Same for bubblegum, except that it will get stuck in the stomach.

I used to get angry at my brother for doing the "clicking" on the ball point pen as I was led to believe that there was a finite amount of "clicks" before the ink ran out.