Silly misconceptions you had as a kid...

[Peuty]

Originally Posted by go_ford

I thought there was actually a pot of gold at the bottom of a rainbow

There isn't??

[gz1]

Originally Posted by TUF_302

I used to think any car with stripes was a GT Falcon lol!

and

Originally Posted by Peuty

I used to think that if a car had dual exhausts that it was a really really fast car

Trouble is that many grown-ups still do.

[prydey]

yeah they work at FPV.

[Charliewool]

I used to think that my old man actually went riding goats with an apron on every Monday night, and also wonder how come he was so ****ed when he arrived home!

[ogtrip]

Drop Bears!!!!...... I hate my cousins.

My stupid neighbour convinced me a chocolate tree exists. Where you pick chocolate right off it.

[Cobra]

I used to think that when mum pushed the choke in on old escort that it's actually choked the little man behind the dash and made him work harder. It didn't help when I watched Looney Tunes and saw the same thing happen to Daffy Duck!

[Cobra]

Originally Posted by tempest

I used to think my small country town was all of Australia beleive it or not!!! I remember watching the weather on the news, seeing the map of Au and thinking it was my home town :

Quite humourous now I look back on it

Yeah Adelaide is a small country town!

[Debzilla_108]

i convinced my then 5-6 year old sister red onion tasted like watermelon LOL i was in lots of trouble when she went balling her eyes out to mum because she took a bite.

[Cobra]

Originally Posted by krt10

howd you work out it wasnt true. trial and error?

Trial and error indeed! After thinking he shot blanks for 3 years he went with his missus to get tested. They they gave him the little container and the mag he supplied them a urine sample instead. When they told him "Nah dude, you've got to cum in there not " he' was like "SAY WHAT!?"

You figure out the rest...

[henry_ford]

Thats funny cause my name is john and my other half is called Eva.
chuckle

[uranium_death]

My street name is a "Parade"
When I asked my old man what the name of our street is, he is "<street name> Parade".
I asked, "Can we go there?"

Rationale behind that was the "Parade" tag. Thought there was a party going down.

[The Yeti]

I convinced my son that we were getting a special limited time only deal at the Chicken shop where if you brought a chook they gave you 2 drumsticks instead of 1 this went on for months so much so when ever we went to get a chook it was always do they still have the deal, it wasnt till we went to my sisters and she pulled a chook out of the oven and he piped up about the deal that the gig was up

[vztrt]

Use to think Fords were rubbish and Holdens were great......stupid kid.

[xr8chick]

The Tooth Fairy.

[StAndArdAU]

i used to think i had the perfect family where everyone loves each other......then my parents got divorced and my bro went off the rails.

still, at least I am perfect!

[Dezza]

Originally Posted by TUF_302

I used to think any car with stripes was a GT Falcon lol!

Yep same. Also anytime I saw an old Falcon, I instantly thought it was a V8.

Also when we went to the pub for a counter meal, Dad told us that there was a man with a big stick who would hide behind the curtains, and bash kids if they got loud and disruptive. Well, it worked!

[Booka]

Originally Posted by ogtrip

Drop Bears!!!!...... I hate my cousins.

BAHAHHAAA mates for the us and canada still belive they exist and that we ride Kangaroos to school and work

[aye you]

Originally Posted by Booka

BAHAHHAAA mates for the us and canada still belive they exist and that we ride Kangaroos to school and work

haha, we managed to convince a danish mate of ours that their real

[snappy]

Originally Posted by Falcon_Phill

When people mentioned the 'old days', I always thought things back then were in black and white. Seriously.

Haha same here though i asked my old man how long it took to paint the world.

have a couple others two . I used to grind my teeth and was told i need a mouth guard and thought it was like a man with a sword.

Aslo if i ate multi grain bread i would turn in to superman like the ad on the telly. so i just keeped eating heaps

[Ladiesman217]

I used to think that the Moon was made of cheese and was green on the inside. That's what the old man used to tell me so naturally I believed it. - Also used to believe that shopping trolleys carried AIDS and I was sooo scared of them!

[Zed7fiddy]

I remember thinking (way back int he days of VHS and people wouldnt rewind them) that the videos would keepplaying in their cases on the shelf in the video shop, because everytime we hired my favourtie movie (read: Mask or He-Man) it would always be half way through the movie

[bingoTE50]

In the employment section I always saw ads for bodybuilders growing up!!
I thought I better get to the gym . Keep fit and get a job , how good was that...

I also believe when I was about four yrs old that little monkeys were used in traffic lights to change the signals, that what my parents told me..

[SeXC]

+1 for dad knowing everything.

I was so disappointed the first time i beat him at chess...... i was 10

[outback_chick]

haha..... I have so many of these....but I was brought up on alot of old wives tales.... like ... if you eat crusts it makes you hair curly so I never ate them...and that I could see better in the dark if I ate my carrots..thats why rabbits eat carrots so much... and if you pull that face and the wind changes you stay like that forever... and if you saw santa claus at christmas time christmas would disappear forever...and I believed IN santa.... til about 10yrs old... and if you sucked on your dummy all day long your teeth would be crooked...(they dont say anything these days about sucking on other items or objects:P)

I believed in magic tricks until I learnt them myself...
I thought I was the best at playing all these games when I was younger because I would always win..little did I think they let me win...
When my babysitter plaited my hair she used to say if I guessed right I would win a bag of lollies.... so I used to sit there and count while she plaited but then she would match my number and pretend I was right.. GRRR I thought I was so clever...

That people were true and honest....(biggest misconception of all)

[Daymoe]

I still believe in the crusts thingo, (I don't eat my crusts when i have toast lol). Mum asked me the other day why I don't eat them and I replied that it'll make my hair curly haha.

[Danny]

I used to think if you hugged a guy you'd get Aids, and also if I put toast in the VCR player, it would show toast on the screen....

[Full Noise]

When I was little, I remember thinking that people who were in their twenties were old and if you were in your thirties, you were really really old.

Originally Posted by Falcon_Phill

When people mentioned the 'old days', I always thought things back then were in black and white. Seriously.

Me too. I always thought of the olden days as black and white.

[paule11]

Back in the black and white tv days they used to have musicals and cowboy movies on all the time. I thought that all girls were really nice when you wanted agirlfriend you sang a song and then you got the girl and lived happily ever after

[outback_chick]

Originally Posted by Danny

also if I put toast in the VCR player, it would show toast on the screen....

DID YOU TRY IT