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Funny stuff you used to believe as a little boy
07-18-2016, 10:42 PM
I used to believe that this guy would protect me against the likes of King Kong Bundy and The Iron Sheik.
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Funny stuff you used to believe as a little boy
07-18-2016, 10:52 PM
1. That always being classy and kind to other people would always result in their reciprocating that behavior to me.
2. Most girls were innately good people and any bad behavior by a female was due to acting out because of a guy disrespecting her.
3. Socialism worked.
4. Until I was 16 I didn't know I was circumcised. I was on my school's soccer team and in the communal shower out of my peripheral vision I see a weird looking dong. Breaking locker room etiquette I look right at it then look the owner in the eye and ask him "What the fuck is wrong with your dick, man?" Other dude: "Yours is different because you're circumcised, you idiot. Mine is the way it's supposed to be." Whoops.
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Funny stuff you used to believe as a little boy
07-19-2016, 06:09 AM
Not so much funny but something this thread made me think of... That adults, and in particular the media, were honest.
I always understood the concept of fiction and fantasy. I cannot remember a time when I wasn't aware that cartoons were drawings, that actors were acting, that costumes were costumes and special effects were (dodgy 70s and 80s) special effects.
But when something was presented as fact, such as a documentary, I took it as gospel. It's on TV with a serious man voice over, it must be true.
The result being that documentaries about UFOs and ghosts, and books about "unexplained mysteries" that I read when I was quite young filled me with absolute terror. Paralysing, heart racing, screaming fear that most people probably never experience in their lifetimes. Years of not being able to get to sleep, certain that any night I could be abducted or haunted.
Not once did someone just say "It's all bullshit."
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Funny stuff you used to believe as a little boy
07-19-2016, 10:56 AM
I trusted that adults knew what they were doing until fourth grade when I found out:
- How many times over the world could be blown up with nuclear weapons.
- What we do with garbage.
- The meaning of the word V.I.P.
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Funny stuff you used to believe as a little boy
07-19-2016, 06:21 PM
For a while there, I thought I could actually see air currents when the lights were off.
Later on in primary school, I wasn't convinced that this waking life was not a dream in the womb. Sort of like a dress rehearsal.
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Funny stuff you used to believe as a little boy
07-19-2016, 08:23 PM
I thought Vlade Divac's first name rhymed with "Blade." What a badass name that would be.
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Funny stuff you used to believe as a little boy
07-19-2016, 11:01 PM
That chocolate milk came from brown cows.
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Funny stuff you used to believe as a little boy
07-20-2016, 05:54 PM
That Obama would enact change that I could believe in.
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Funny stuff you used to believe as a little boy
07-20-2016, 06:21 PM
I was fascinated by constellations as a boy. Somewhere along the line I read the story of Orion's demise by Scorpio. I was deathly frightened Scorpio would sting me during the night if he was prominent in the sky. Asked my Dad to check all the time.
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Funny stuff you used to believe as a little boy
07-20-2016, 06:39 PM
I used to believe that Gay men rubbed willies together,face to face and that's all they did.
The term "bummer" was just confusing. And still is........
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Funny stuff you used to believe as a little boy
07-20-2016, 11:16 PM
When I was a kid I thought nice guys finish first. Joke was on me
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Funny stuff you used to believe as a little boy
07-21-2016, 03:26 PM
I used to think the only people who spoke my native language were the people in my hometown.
Used to also think money grows on trees and time moves too slow.
“As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.” - Donald J. Trump
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Funny stuff you used to believe as a little boy
07-21-2016, 04:08 PM
I used to think you had to marry a girl who.had the same last name.