Stupid Things you believed as a kid...

[PeterJB]

I used to believe that if you peeled an orange and listened really carefully you could hear the orange screaming.

You've made me not want to peel oranges now!

 

[Lucas]

Santa.
The Three Wise Men.
Easter Bunny.
Tooth Fairy.
God.
Monsters in the dark. Having my dad grab my feet once in the middle of the night didn't help much.

Pretty much common. Now for the icing on the cake stupid belief:

I used to believe Argentina was the world. As such, the world was shaped as Argentina. What was Earth, then? Beats me.

 

[Neal]

When I was a kid I used to think you could eat as much as you wanted without getting fat.

 

[W3H5]

When I was a kid I used to think you could eat as much as you wanted without getting fat.

I'm living proof that that isn't a phoney belief. You were right about some people.

 

[Encyclopedia]

I'm living proof that that isn't a phoney belief. You were right about some people.

It depends on how much you want doesn't it.

 

[Pagey279]

In football when someone scored, and a player kicked the ball back into the net in celebration...i used to think this counted as two goals
I was 6 at the time

 

[Neal]

I'm living proof that that isn't a phoney belief. You were right about some people.

Give it 5 years I looked like you at 25....with less hair.

 

[Pyle_PMG]

Santa.
Easter Bunny.
Tooth Fairy.
That parents have eyes in the back of their heads.

Same.

 

[spunwicked]

I'm living proof that that isn't a phoney belief. You were right about some people.

Neal has a very good point there. I ate what I wanted with no second thoughts and it made no difference. Then I hit 28. And no matter what I do I can't shift the beast.

 

[Encyclopedia]

It's all about calories in/out.

 

[Ibonibo]

^not really as shem i could eat pure butter and not gain a pound.

(It has a lot to do with when you were young as only during your youth your body develops fat cells)

 

[Encyclopedia]

Fat doesn't make you fat though. Calories is the thing. More calories in than out = gaining weigth, opposite = opposite.

Simplified but still the main thing.

 

[Neal]

It's all about calories in/out.

It's not! You don't start putting on weight until your hollow legs fill with fat sludge which takes a good few years plus when you turn 30 the beer fairies leave your tummy and stop holding your gut in. That's what my mum told me anyway.

 

[Pyle_PMG]

I'm living proof that that isn't a phoney belief. You were right about some people.

Same. I have a super-high metabolism.

 

[Neal]

Same. I have a super-high metabolism.

You're 16, you have to run around in the shower to get wet!

 

[Pyle_PMG]

You're 16, you have to run around in the shower to get wet!

I don't get it.

 

[Encyclopedia]

It's not! You don't start putting on weight until your hollow legs fill with fat sludge which takes a good few years plus when you turn 30 the beer fairies leave your tummy and stop holding your gut in. That's what my mum told me anyway.

Oh so that's how it works! 👍

Same. I have a super-high metabolism.

Me too....or so I thought until I started counting my calories. Turned out I ate very little, much to my, and people around me's surprise. It's hard to look at your food intake objectively if you don't know how much calories different foods contain.

There are many things that can skew ones view of how much one eats. Appetite for example.

Anyway...I'm getting way too serious and off-topic for this thread now.

 

[E28]

If you say 'Gullible' slowly it sounds like 'Orange Juice'. When someone says it to me I just say 'Orange Juice' slowly.

 

[Pyle_PMG]

If you say 'Gullible' slowly it sounds like 'Orange Juice'.

! I used to think Nintendo was Intendo, and Sega was Gweegwa (it sounded like that on the intro of the Sonic game I had).

 

[theotherspongey]

I once planted a potato chip into the ground hoping it would grow a potato chip tree...

 

[Alex.]

Me and a couple of friends honestly believed it was possible to become a super-saiyan, and that one day we would save the world from aliens and monsters. We literally put hours into trying to boost our own power levels.

 

[mattythedog]

I used to think the broccoli was a tree and that they picked them with an axe. To be so young, and so innocent.

 

[axletramp]

Me and a couple of friends honestly believed it was possible to become a super-saiyan, and that one day we would save the world from aliens and monsters. We literally put hours into trying to boost our own power levels.

Perhaps he is and just keeps it a secret from you. It's not personal, I don't think he's allowed to tell anyone.

 

[Liquid]

Speaking of DBZ, when I watched the episode where Gohan teaches Videl to fly, I was following his instructions and fell off the sofa attempting to levitate.

 

[Brend]

👍 I used to try and turn Super Saiyan with my friend.

 

[E28]

That my friends dad was a werewolf.
That cars can go at an unlimited speed if you have an infinitely long straight road.

 

[Brend]

They just keep on goin...and goin...and goin.

 

[Liquid]

I used to think that I could put thoughts into people's minds. Like, if I thought about someone, and I then thought of something for them to think, they would be thinking that.

Re: This whole thread. Isn't it amazing how a childlike mind thinks?

 

[Brend]

Re: This whole thread. Isn't it amazing how a childlike mind thinks?

It is! Even more so when you consider the amount of similar experiences we've all had!

I used to think that If I got my car out of the map on Gran Turismo I could race around the literal playstation with the camera somehow managing to show this. This was one I thought would be possible If I tried hard enough to squeeze through the gaps in the fences.

 

[Slash]

Oh so that's how it works! 👍



Me too....or so I thought until I started counting my calories. Turned out I ate very little, much to my, and people around me's surprise. It's hard to look at your food intake objectively if you don't know how much calories different foods contain.

There are many things that can skew ones view of how much one eats. Appetite for example.

Anyway...I'm getting way too serious and off-topic for this thread now.

I have a super high metabolism as well. I can load up until the point where I'm so full I keel over in pain and still don't gain any weight.