Silly misconceptions you had as a kid...

[caputo9]

i always wondered how i was ever going to keep in the lanes on the road

[TC200six]

I once thought "C'mon" (short for come on) was referring to "Semen"

As for the drink driving one, I thought it was an offense to just drive holding the beer bottle in your hand (before I knew anything about B.A.C.)

[FrogInASock]

I was born in 1970. I can laugh about it now, but growing up in the 1980's at the height of the Cold War (pre Gorbachev, glasnost and perestroika) I was utterly convinced that I would not see my 25th birthday, that we would all perish in the forthcoming nuclear war between Amerika (deliberate spelling) and the USSR. Mind you, I made absolutely no preperations to "bug out" except for getting a fair deal of fitness due to cycling - where the blazes was I gonna cycle to if the war came??

One night we had the start of a big thunderstorm. I would have been about 14 and there was a huge CRASH of thunder. Duck and cover, under the blankets! The Russians are coming!

I now read Survivlaist blogs and websites and are quite amazed that some people (mainly Yanks) still think that the world will end and how they are hoarding weeks and weeks worth of food, an arsenal of guns and ammunition, and regularly practise getting away from civilisation FAST.

[Stattic]

i used to think our big doberman who guarded my dads panel shop was a guard dog and our cat was just a regular dog

[1LOUDXFUTE]

Originally Posted by Stattic

i used to think our big doberman who guarded my dads panel shop was a guard dog and our cat was just a regular dog

[Teflon Turbo]

yea i was alittle scared of the nuclear war thingy too was born in 71, but i was on the russians side after watching firefox

[Fairlane]

Thought the world was black and white in the olden days (pretty common one)

That england ruled the world and that the British empire still existed, and that they would save us from the Chinese

Boxy Volvos were really cool. I wanted a Volvo 940

Beyond 2000 and all those shows, I thought we would all be driving whizz bang hover cars by now

When my family owned a Commodore and a few Toyota's i was convinced that Ford owners were evil 2nd class citizens. On the same level who used Optus instead of Telecom, or shopped at Coles in stead of Woolworths.

Oh yeah when the computer crashed, I acutally though it had performed an 'illegal' operation

[Chopped]

Thinking my parents would make 60 ! :

[Fled74]

Originally Posted by FrogInASock

(SNIP) ...some people (mainly Yanks) still think that the world will end and how they are hoarding weeks and weeks worth of food, an arsenal of guns and ammunition, and regularly practise getting away from civilisation FAST.

Those survival skills may yet come in handy if there's a zombie apocalypse.

[gtfpv]

i used to think i could make a motorbike go faster if i worked out a way to turn the throttle on the handle around 3 times. i'll re phrase that if i could increase the throttle travel on a motorbike handle . but turning it around 3 times it would be the fastest thing on the planet .

[gtfpv]

i used to think women liked sex , then i got married and found out its only to make a baby,

[marquis 78]

When I was about 6 years old, I'd heard about the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I could actually visualize it with all the shimmering gold etc. Anyway oneday it had been raining and when the rain finished, I'd seen the rainbow. So off I went to find the gold. I'd never walked so far in my life and I constanly wondered why the rainbow kept moving hahaha.

[Mr Hardware]

i was convinced that Ford owners were evil 2nd class citizens. On the same level who used Optus instead of Telecom, or shopped at Coles in stead of Woolworths.

Same here.

[marquis 78]

Now more are coming to me. I thought you married women you loved so I asked my mother to marry me.

I thought if the plane crashes, all you have to do is jump up and you will live haha.

I called girls parts the same word as what boys had, cause I thought that they peed too.

I thought girls were evil cause they were the ones trying to make me kiss them etc. I think I'm still right!

I wondered where is the ham in my hamburger?

[TICK4D]

When i was little i used to hear about the army's being ambushed by geurilla's and actually thought that there were gorilla's (the animals) with machine guns and rocket launchers holding up the army.

[gtfpv]

i used to think that farting produced a brown bubble the busts, similar to blowing a bubble with bubble gum . a friend proved me wrong one day.

[Barry_v]

I thought this prohibited the use of boomerangs.

[homegrown]

When I was little used to think you could get a switch for your supercharger. Thanks to Mad Max and My Sience Project.
Used to think nothing could beat a V8 in a race and Elvis was still alive.

[flappist]

Originally Posted by homegrown

Used to think nothing could beat a V8 in a race and Elvis was still alive.

Don't feel bad, that just means you are a potential Falcon GT owner.........

[TUF_302]

Originally Posted by homegrown

Used to think nothing could beat a V8 in a race and Elvis was still alive.

I still think he is alive lol!

[Peuty]

Originally Posted by Laser '81

As for the drink driving one, I thought it was an offense to just drive holding the beer bottle in your hand (before I knew anything about B.A.C.)

If it's open, then yes, it is illegal.

[TC200six]

Originally Posted by homegrown

Used to think nothing could beat a V8 in a race

Surprisingly there are owners of GTs who still believe that, until they get burnt off at the lights by a F6 of course. There's a mate of my father who went back to the dealer to get some headlight protectors for his new FG and he saw someone who owned a new GT who came in asking if they could install a turbo onto his GT because he got burnt off at the lights by a G6E Turbo!

When I was young, I thought the more cylinders - the faster the car. A 6 cylinder was reasonably fast, an 8 cylinder was very fast, a 10 cylinder car was faster again, a V12 or V16 could almost reach the speed of light.

[XR8GRL]

Originally Posted by gtfpv

i used to think women liked sex , then i got married and found out its only to make a baby,

Maybe your not doing it right.

[au11futura]

i always felt sorry for kids that their mum and dad had split up and always thought mine would never split up.......................................was i wrong......................

[InTrail]

First time I rode a mate's 2 stroke peewee farm bike, he warned me to be careful as it had a very narrow powerband. He had me wondering why he didn't just get a new one that was wider.

[flappist]

Originally Posted by Peuty

If it's open, then yes, it is illegal.

Depends on which state you are in....

[wagnman]

When i was a kid I was adamant that mag wheels were actually called FLASH wheels LOL!

good on ya dad.

[cheek]

when i used to see the sticker "for sale 8888 8888" i used to think wow thats a kool phone number i wish we had it :P i thought that till i was about 12 haha

[falconboy]

Obviously from seeing how it looked on TV, I used to think that if you took your clothes off and just kissed a girl while you were both naked, you'd have a baby. Thank god I was wrong or I would have had a baby with the girl next door when I was 8. :(

[homegrown]

Originally Posted by falconboy

Obviously from seeing how it looked on TV, I used to think that if you took your clothes off and just kissed a girl while you were both naked, you'd have a baby. Thank god I was wrong or I would have had a baby with the girl next door when I was 8. :(

You must have watched the same "Goodies" TV episode that I watched.