Funny misconceptions you had as a kid

[quote name='Rich']They didn't, but network news was ran by, and supported by, liberals and those interested in indoctrinating America with libeal propaganda.[/QUOTE]

Not the crap my parents watched unfortunately.
 
Oh man, just remembered another good one.

I was a big fan of Beavis and Butthead as a child, even though I realize now that I didn't truly "get" some of the jokes. For instance, when they talked of "morning wood," I thought they meant your whole body feeling stiff when you wake up. Anyhoo, I was at my grandparent's house, and I come downstairs for breakfast. Everyone asks how I slept, and I say, "Really good, I have morning wood though..." as I start stretching my arms. I was 6 I believe. I still get hell for that from my grandfather.
 
[quote name='Ledhed']Oh man, just remembered another good one.

I was a big fan of Beavis and Butthead as a child, even though I realize now that I didn't truly "get" some of the jokes. For instance, when they talked of "morning wood," I thought they meant your whole body feeling stiff when you wake up. Anyhoo, I was at my grandparent's house, and I come downstairs for breakfast. Everyone asks how I slept, and I say, "Really good, I have morning wood though..." as I start stretching my arms. I was 6 I believe. I still get hell for that from my grandfather.[/QUOTE]

:rofl: so that's why my parents never let me watch B&B as a kid.

I got french kissed playing spin the bottle when I was young and was so grossed out I decided that the guy I married was just going to have to live with the fact that he couldn't ever do that to me, lol...thankfully, I lightened up later in life...
 
[quote name='Lizard Axe']I used to think that woman would just magically get pregnant after they got married. Just like that.[/QUOTE]

A similar thought of mine when I was young also. I knew that women produced children, but I wondered how they got traits from their father. *feels stupid*
 
[quote name='daphatty']I thought boys also got their periods...

It's ok if you want to laugh. My family sure got a kick out of that. :D[/QUOTE]

They do, in a sense. They don't go through the bleeding and egg rolling, but there's definitely a male emotional cycle every few weeks.
 
[quote name='Lizard Axe']I used to think that woman would just magically get pregnant after they got married. Just like that.[/QUOTE]
Now they magically get pregnant before they get married.
 
A few things funny things I remember:

I thought that since girls had to "sit down to pee" they only had one, er, "hole". Haha.

I used to pronounce the word CONSOLE (in terms of a game system) like KUN-SOUL and my mom would always yell at me. I still pronounced it that way until like my freshman year of college, lol. :D

I used to think that TV shows were different in every state. Point in case, I thought The Simpsons was based in Springfield, Illinois. So when I went to Washington DC in 8th grade and saw an episode on TV, I was in shock. I'm pretty sure I yelled out "Whoah! They play The Simpsons on TV here!? But its based in IL!" and like everyone laughed at me......hahaha.... :lol:
 
I thought that babies came from that goose thing, then I tohught women just got pregnant by their self.... but now I know that the goose thing was true.
 
I thought hamburger came from horses.

I also thought that if you were not completely covered at night when you went to sleep, that a witch would come and take whatever you has exposed. i.e. arm, leg etc. everything but the your head. thanks to my sister!!
 
I thought there were people in my TV

I thought EVERY TV show was live and how one person could be on at the same time on two different channels

I thought girls had penises and wondered if babies came out of the front or the back

I thought "stupid" was a bad word

o and I thought that you could have a baby at just any time, like my mom was joking with me when I was younger that she could just have a baby while she was on the can, so I was afraid of a baby popping out when I pooped.
 
I thought the telephone operator was called "The Octopus" (I think there was a cartoon that had a character like that).

I thought "wind chill factor" was "windshield factor," and was the temperature of your car windshield.

I was raised by hippies, so I was exposed to all the facts about sex early on (stupid hippies!), but I worried that I wouldn't have gone through puberty by the time I was having sex, so I figured I could just pee inside the woman and she wouldn't know the difference.

I thought the Washington Redskins were based in Washington state. I couldn't understand why I couldn't find the state of New England on the map.
 
aha adam reminded me that I once saw an episode of the simpsons where smithers said something about feeling up a woman, so I thought it was just barely touching your penis to the woman's part and pissing ahaha. and I also thought that was how you got a woman pregnant in 6th grade after the health video.
 
[quote name='Renegade_Zero']aha adam reminded me that I once saw an episode of the simpsons where smithers said something about feeling up a woman, so I thought it was just barely touching your penis to the woman's part and pissing ahaha. and I also thought that was how you got a woman pregnant in 6th grade after the health video.[/QUOTE]
:puke:
 
[quote name='defender']I thought girls could get pregnant from oral.
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Sadly enough one my friends (a girl no less) thought this too.........
 
I used to think when you got older, your urine turned blue and you forgot to flush more. My mother cleaned the toilet with something else, but my great uncle and my grandmother both used one of the blue bricks in the tank.

I remember thinking it was cool, though - I had my own version of 'yellow and blue make green'.
 
I was never impressed with all the stories about Jesus walking on water as a kid. Oneday I tried it myself. I got a pair of those orange floatie things ya see kids put around their arms when they can't swim. I took those and put em around my ankles and I walked on water.

Worked wonderfully for about two steps then I flipped over hit my head on the side of the pool and found myself upside down underwater. It's surprisingly hard to do a setup underwater when ya just took a cement shot to the head. I was a little more impressed with the story after that.

Ok so its more of a funny story then a misconception. Go figure.
 
Oh yeah I remember as a kid (film before a live studio audience), always thinking, don't these people ever have to take a piss. I'd always be like I got to go pee, these ppl ar live why don't they have to go pee? I thought acting meant you had to have some supernatural power of bladder control.
 
I use to think actors were the real people they portrayed. For example i thought the guy who played Richie Valens in La Bamba(lou diamond phillips) was actually richie valens. When i saw him on another show i was like, "but he's dead". I called my mom over to show her and she just laughed at me and explained that they are just actors.
 
Not necessarily my own misconception:

If anyone's watch the NBC series Blossom, you'll remember that during the opening sequence of the show had the actors moving around and suddenly changing clothes in the next frame. I tricked my sister (4 yrs old at the time) into thinking that the actors changed really fast as she had no concept of a 'taped' show and everytime she would watch she'd be wearing a regular shirt and shorts and have an extra set of clothing to time herself against the actors. She somehow could never catch up to them until she grew up and figured it out. Took her about 2 years to do. Oh, how I laughed at her as she tried to change in front of the TV just to beat Blossom.
 
[quote name='jaykrue']Not necessarily my own misconception:

If anyone's watch the NBC series Blossom, you'll remember that during the opening sequence of the show had the actors moving around and suddenly changing clothes in the next frame. I tricked my sister (4 yrs old at the time) into thinking that the actors changed really fast as she had no concept of a 'taped' show and everytime she would watch she'd be wearing a regular shirt and shorts and have an extra set of clothing to time herself against the actors. She somehow could never catch up to them until she grew up and figured it out. Took her about 2 years to do. Oh, how I laughed at her as she tried to change in front of the TV just to beat Blossom.[/QUOTE]

Pervert. ;)
 
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When I was young my sister used to tell me that blood is blue when its in the body but when air touches it, it turns red.

I didnt get the concept of change. I always wondered why the cashier gave money back to people after they buy something.

This one i realized i thought was real when i was younger, after talking to one of my little cousins recently....that your grade school teacher is all-knowing.

That actors were actually the person they played on tv. Like John Stamos was actually Uncle Jessie in real life.
 
When i was a kid i used to wonder about conversations, i never really had any in my childhood, and i admired how my mom, and great grandmother would talk for an hour while i sat on the floor playing contra
 
I used to think that the WWF superstars really had super powers, like Kane could really make fire come out of his fingers, and that other wrestler could spray blood out of his mouth.. (and thought that the storyline was real, like Undertaker was really Kane's brother, came from the dead, and etc.). I used to think it was real too until I learned it wasn't, which was when I first went to middle school, and some kid told me that its fake. Come to think of it, I seriously thought magic was a real thing.

My sillest one was that I thought videos about history were really taken back during the ancient history time period, and the models at the museum were of animals being preserved or frozen for us to see. I thought most computer generated stuff was real..
 
[quote name='bobo2k4']When I was young my sister used to tell me that blood is blue when its in the body but when air touches it, it turns red.[/QUOTE]

Don't make fun of me, but I still thought this to this day, LOL. So is it true or not true?
 
[quote name='bobo2k4']When I was young my sister used to tell me that blood is blue when its in the body but when air touches it, it turns red.

I didnt get the concept of change. I always wondered why the cashier gave money back to people after they buy something.

This one i realized i thought was real when i was younger, after talking to one of my little cousins recently....that your grade school teacher is all-knowing.

That actors were actually the person they played on tv. Like John Stamos was actually Uncle Jessie in real life.[/QUOTE]

Ah yes, I always thought I wanted to be a cashier when I grew up because they had so much money.
 
Sorry in advance for the nature, but i know some of you will laugh

Sadly enough, i didn't know the details about 'sex' until i was in 9th grade (in 11th now)...yes...i know....it's soo sad...I used to think it was just like...cuddling naked in bed...

Second didn't necessarily know like...anatomy of the opposite sex (i'm a guy) until like..7th grade....(Was in and out of hopsital/school from 4th-7th grade)
 
I tohught they charge you more tax if you buy things in small groups.

Like if you bought 2 items together it would be cheaper.
 
When I was a kid back in Hong Kong, my dad bought something called a 'VCR'. I never seen one before and didnt know what it does. My dad told me that the buttons on the remote can tell the VCR to pause, fast forward, and rewind the images on the TV. I thought that I could do that to live TV, until later I found out I couldn't, and wished that someday this can be done.

Thank you TiVo.
 
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