dumb shit you thought as a kid - General

I used to think that batteries held a bolt of electricity inside them that got weaker as they wore down. I also thought that gyroscopes never stopped spinning because I had never seen one stop in all the tv shows and movies I've seen them in. I actually came up with an idea to use them to generate infinite electricity.

I used to think my ballsack held my piss, but it never emptied after I was done, so I always thought it'd just be full of piss my entire life. Still worried.

I thought that Donald Trump wasn't a real person because every time I asked my parents who he was I was told he was a "TV personality" and I didn't exactly know what that meant.

I tried to go to Lego Island. Packed food, water, toys, and even wrote a letter to my parents telling them where we'd gone. I was [I]unbelievably[/I] disappointed when I couldn't stick my head through the monitor.

I thought babies came out of belly buttons

I thought that when we were born we burst out of our mothers stomach like in alien.

can this thread also be a thread for dumb shit we [I]did[/I] as a kid? otherwise, when i was little my kindergarten teacher held a little box in the classroom and told all of us that if anyone bullied them they could just go up to that box and say who it was and she said that she could hear what that kid said because she had superpowers. i believed her and everyone else did. and then i saw people actually whispering into that box :v:

[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;50085673]Also I thought I could get lucky and enter in random credit card information any buy something with it. I had no concept that I could really fuck someone up if the .0001% came through and it worked.[/QUOTE] On this topic, you got lucky. I've held onto this screenshot on my own HDD for ages because it's [I]eternal gold[/I]. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/B8efZHQ.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE=Rocko's;50085935]I thought Jurassic Park was real, and thought the movie was a documentary of how it failed. Sorta wish it was true to this day :v:[/QUOTE] Relevant anecdote in a bullshit comedy podcast I listen to at [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DIUR4Q17-A?t=2701"]45:02-46:42[/URL]: [video=youtube;6DIUR4Q17-A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DIUR4Q17-A[/video]

when i first played gran turismo for the ps1, i tried unlocking the corvette but it would not let me, my mother then told me that i needed money to unlock it. so i went to their bedroom, took a 10 dollar bill and put it in the ps1.

As a kid, I used to believe that black people turned into white people when they grew up, and white people turned into black people when they grew up. I was scared and sad that I would eventually become a black guy as I got older, because the color brown reminded me of crap, and I thought black people were ugly. I also used to be pretty racist (i wasn't obvious about it tho)

When I was super young, I used to think no matter how many times I dipped a french fry or a chicken nugget into some ketchup, the ketchup would never run out. It wasn't until I was around 8 that I had an instance of running out of ketchup dip on my plate and I was really confused. :v:

[QUOTE=Hanso;50079809]Because of how honey looked in Pooh, I thought it tasted like melted cheese.[/QUOTE] I was not the only one? Thank you.

[QUOTE=derpybone;50098256]when i first played gran turismo for the ps1, i tried unlocking the corvette but it would not let me, my mother then told me that i needed money to unlock it. so i went to their bedroom, took a 10 dollar bill and put it in the ps1.[/QUOTE] These days that'd be the correct course of action

When I was little I thought I would fly to the moon if I farted really loud next to the gas heater, instead I managed to fart so hard and loudly that it scared my dog and the poor old boy farted himself and got even more scared and then he ran into our garden and spent rest of the day gnawing a bone.

When I was very young, I once saw my older brother get out of map in Tomb Raider 3's London level and fall into an infinite hall-of-mirrors glitch. For the next 2 or 3 years I thought there was some kind of quantum singularity pit smack dab in the middle of London.

I literally thought eating this bitter root from a bitter plant made me trip balls. I would go exploring these wild space worlds where there was none. I was probably just off my knockers.