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What funny thing did you think as a child?

2101 sats \ 32 comments \ @ek 30 Jun 2023 meta

I think we all had funny thoughts as childs that we never challenged and just assumed are true.

For example, I used to believe that traffic lights are controlled by people underground.

So when at night the traffic lights went out, they went home.

I also believed that everything costs the same everywhere. For example, if something costs €1 here, I thought it costs $1 in the US. I thought some countries are just considered poor because of the exchange rates. So if I go to a country where €1 gives me 1000 of their local currency, I can just buy 1000x the things there.

What were your funny thoughts as little innocent children exploring and thinking about the world?

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529 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 30 Jun 2023

I thought you were killed if you were fired from a job. Literally thrown in a fire. Thank god that’s not true lol

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek OP 30 Jun 2023

Ah lol that reminded me that I thought that people actually died in movies but they had doctors on set to immediately reanimate them after the scene was shot

498 sats \ 3 replies \ @orthwyrm 30 Jun 2023

I somehow figured that by exposing myself to small amounts of electrical charge I'd develop psychic powers. I spent a day licking 9V batteries and zapping my finger on the gas stove igniter.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 30 Jun 2023

This is absolutely wonderful

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @purpurato 30 Jun 2023

And it worked?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 30 Jun 2023

Y... yeah...

399 sats \ 1 reply \ @9ener1c 30 Jun 2023

I couldn’t tell the difference between celebrities on TV and adults in my community. I basically thought everyone was kinda famous, except me, my family, and immediate neighbors.

Like WTF 😂

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @l0k18 30 Jun 2023

Reality Distortion Field...

467 sats \ 0 replies \ @BBitcoinUSA 30 Jun 2023

I remember thinking one time while on a road trip that every other car I saw on the highway was going to the exact same destination that I was

314 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 30 Jun 2023

My dad would basically only play old classic rock or metal on the radio, and had me fully convinced that he knew every song that's ever existed, as if the radio was all music was.

I just thought it was so cool someone could know every song in history lol

318 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 30 Jun 2023

You’ll get struck by lightning if holding metal cutlery during a thunderstorm…while inside

385 sats \ 0 replies \ @purpurato 30 Jun 2023

I thought sex was done by just standing straight very close together. I'm still amazed how it's actually done.

269 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 30 Jun 2023

When I would lie down in bed for sleeping, sideways with my head on the pillow, I would think that my heartbeat that I heard in the ear were steps of a big dinosaur coming to get me but first he had to go all around the world so I was safe

266 sats \ 0 replies \ @stefano 30 Jun 2023

When I was a child and spent for the first time a single note of 5$ (they were actually Italian Liras) for an ice-cream worth 1$, I felt richer and excited in getting a change made by several notes summing up to 4$...several notes against one single was definitely better for me... : )

265 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 30 Jun 2023

If you die in a dream you die in real life

265 sats \ 0 replies \ @pillar 30 Jun 2023

I remember perfectly having a discussion with a fellow 4 years old classmate about how things looked smaller when they are far away.

"See, that tree is much bigger than my thumb, but if I extend my arm and stick my thumb out like this, the tree is hiding behind it!"

220 sats \ 0 replies \ @designsats 30 Jun 2023

I asked mommy why cant she just get more money from ATM when she told me something is too expansive.

In my mind ATM was infinite money machine :D

178 sats \ 0 replies \ @ladyluck 30 Jun 2023

I thought why can't I understand what babies are saying? I should learn their language so I can have secret conversations!

106 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 18 Aug

Don’t laugh, but when I was a child, I refused to go on the second level of double decker buses. I was scared that the bus would topple. Similarly, I didn’t dare to use overhead bridges, for fear that they would collapse.

104 sats \ 0 replies \ @robbabuona 2 Jul 2023

I thought man shooted in a movie were people who wanted to be really killed. So they die for real in a movie.

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @CoSatoshi 1 Jul 2023

I know this says 'as a child' but for me, basically everything I believed before I was 30 turns out to have been false:

government is good for you
the liberals are the tolerant/accepting ones
conservatives are not
science is always right
you must have a college degree to succeed
having kids is cancer
sleeping around is great
the world is going to end due to climate change
adults are in charge of the world
alcohol is great
cigarettes are great
the talking man on TV is always right, and knows everything
if it says so on the box, it must be true
my parents know what they're talking about
America is the 'free-est' nation in the world

plenty more I just don't wanna bore anyone...

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @CheezeGrater 2 Jul 2023

Science is a way of finding truth, the people who do it badly and claim "science says so" fuck it up for the rest of us.

22 sats \ 0 replies \ @PlebeiusG 1 Jul 2023

That god existed and I could have a personal relationship with “him.”

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @DeltaClimbs 1 Jul 2023

I thought "all computer systems could be hacked" meant bitcoin must eventually fail when I heard about it in 2011 when I was technically still a child. That's the only thing I recall thinking.

As they say, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, drink deep or drink not from the Pierian Spring.

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @sudonaka 30 Jun 2023

What is with the psychological profiling happening on SN recently?

21 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek OP 30 Jun 2023

psychological profiling?

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @sudonaka 30 Jun 2023

Take a look at the front page- all polls and personal questions. What kind of data are you looking for?