Silly misconceptions you had as a kid...

[Phyber]

Originally Posted by blueoval

I always ask after doing an SBD, "do you smell something burning?". More often then not, they smell the wrath and the nearly dry reach...........haha hmmmmm Thats disgusting :P

BWAAAAAAAAAhahahahahahahahaha

Oh man that's hilarious. I'm a skilled exponent of SBD's myself, I'll have to start asking this question to the lads at work...

[blueoval]

Originally Posted by Phyber

BWAAAAAAAAAhahahahahahahahaha

Oh man that's hilarious. I'm a skilled exponent of SBD's myself, I'll have to start asking this question to the lads at work...

hahahaha. Yeah man its gold. You need to ask the question about 10 seconds after u do it, and walk up to the unsuspecting party when asking so the the smell wafts with u.

An alternate question to ask is "Do u smell petrol?". Say this with a serious face and act concerned. More often than not, your unsuspecting victim will be sniffing like a hound for signs of fuel so much that when he/she breaths in they will gag on your bowel breath.

muwahahahahaha.......Oh man, look at me, Im speaking feral online. I have tonnes more suggestions so I better stop. Plus Im getting off topic. Sorry peeps :S

[Zed7fiddy]

Oh i also remember when we lived in Vanuatu mum and dad would have the video camera out at any available oppertunity, and we would alway have to say hi to granma and grandad (obviously they are sendign the vids back) but i beleived that grandma and grandad were actually inside the camera!!

[Psi-Pop]

I always thought that the signs that read "Cyclists use left shoulder" actually meant they had to peddle with their shoulder.

Also that going anywhere in a car when there was traffic was a race, and if anybody passed mum or dad they must have been cheating.

[uranium_death]

I also questioned whether poo tasted like chocolate.

Thankfully, I never taste-tested.

One of my friends did though.

[1LOUDXFUTE]

Originally Posted by uranium_death

I also questioned whether poo tasted like chocolate.

Thankfully, I never taste-tested.

One of my friends did though.

what happened?

[Fev]

he ate poop most probably

[1LOUDXFUTE]

yeah but that would have been hilarious

like the time i convinced my little cousin that sheep manure was chocolate, and that the roses like chocolate as much as we do

[uranium_death]

Originally Posted by 1LOUDXFUTE

what happened?

His mother caught him. Nothing much more. He wasn't very old.

[TC200six]

I used to think the part of the song called "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" that went "Well I'm hers (I'm hers), she's mine (she's mine)" really went "Well I'm hurt (I'm hurt), **** man (**** man)"

[redtoad236]

I thought holding a girls hand would give you warts. God knows i guess it comes back to not knowing a lot about girls or women. Still dont but i am not alone there.

[Phyber]

Only now you know the warts really CAN come from a girl...but not from her hands!

I used to think flies tasted like caramel. Good school bus trick that one.

[XRSIKS]

When i was a kid, i was told that if you pet kittens too much, the mother would eat them...........

Maybe that was my mum's cruel way to stop me and my siblings from harassing the kittens :P

[chevypower]

Originally Posted by ayeyew

Another thing i used to think:

If you were in an airplane and looked down on the countries, they would all have the name of the country and main cities in writing on the land (like u were looking at a map), lol

lol that reminded me of Family Guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVCxlc6oUHg

[Mickxr8]

LOL. when i was a kid if i was watching tv and we had to go out i thought if

i unplugged the tv when we got home i,d plug it back in and the same show
would still be on ( never worked though ! ).

also convinced the neighbours twin sisters that the music on cassette tapes
was played by little people inside it. one day one of them dropped one and ran
out of our house screaming MUMMY I,VE KILLED THEM

[JOHNNOSF6]

Originally Posted by [Tonko]

2 words.... Girl Germs...

This ones true, its called herpes :togo:

[OLDFORDNUT]

Originally Posted by xr8 utey

i used to ask my mum how old she was......and the answer always was 21 so naturally i believed her!
and the same goes for the "you'll stay like that if the wind changes"

hahaha yeah i was about 11 before i realised my mum was 21 every birthday so could not be that this particular year.
Well up until i was about 20 i actually beleived AUSTRALIA was a free country

[XC_Lizzard]

Originally Posted by bingoTE50

There was a special breed of cows that had shorter legs on one side so they could walk around on hills ..

How could you believe that. Everybody knows it was a special breed of Sheep!

[AndrewR_AUII]

Used to confuse Semolina and Salmonella as a kid...
parents wondered why I didn't like it...

[uranium_death]

Having a family of four males and only Mum, I also thought girls had balls and a dong.

Wasn't it a big wake up call when I found out the truth...that some really do! :P (j/k)

[Fled74]

When I was a kid:
I believed that the more aerials/antennas a vehicle had, the faster it went.

I believed that only rich people drove cabriolets (we called 'em "convertibles" in those days).

I believed that eating spinach gave you super-strength (damn Popeye!).

I believed that catching frogs with your bare hands would give you warts.

I believed that whenever we couldn't catch any fish at the local pond, it was because they'd all been eaten by sharks.

[outside]

when i was young i was told if you wear socks to bed they will deform your feet.

many a cold toe for me in winter, still cannt wear them in bed

[Windsor220]

My dad once told me that if all the engines went dead in a plane it could still fly. Most likely to reassure me but i belived him for years.

I thought if you ripped the handbrake up in a car while it was driving it would just stop instantly and flip over.

I thought "drink and drive" meant everything like water. I asked my parents if you were allowed to eat and drive.

[homegrown]

I used to think drink driving meant drinking in general too. I never understood about the effects of alcohol when I was that little but when my grandpa was driving me home he swung his head right back and guzzled away at a 2L bottle of coke and I thought "Oh, thats why you can't drink and drive. You cant see the road."

[schnoods]

I used to think that if you swallowed watermelon seeds, they'd grow in you stomach, i was convinced it'd happened to me as i was always portly!

[Wally]

Originally Posted by homegrown

I used to think drink driving meant drinking in general too. I never understood about the effects of alcohol when I was that little but when my grandpa was driving me home he swung his head right back and guzzled away at a 2L bottle of coke and I thought "Oh, thats why you can't drink and drive. You cant see the road."

That brings back memories. My son's primary school class had a visit from the coppers to explain the evils of drink and drugs. At the end of the talk, the one asked the class if they knew anyone who was a drink driver. Guess who's son shot his hand up and dobbed his dad in. It took a bit of time to convince him that drinking a can of coke while on a drive, isn't what they were on about. Explaining to the the stoney faced at parent's night was a little more difficult.

[TC200six]

I thought if you ever got into trouble by the police meant you went to jail. I think that was from my parents using scare tactics on me... It worked.

[flappist]

Originally Posted by Windsor220

My dad once told me that if all the engines went dead in a plane it could still fly. Most likely to reassure me but i belived him for years.

Well he was telling you the truth, it is called gliding and it is how you fly to a safe place and land after engine failure.

[Windsor220]

Originally Posted by flappist

Well he was telling you the truth, it is called gliding and it is how you fly to a safe place and land after engine failure.

I know that it will glide down and not drop like a stone but I thought he meant it just stayed up no worries :

[Teflon Turbo]

thought for sure we were gonna have laser guns in the year 2000