what is something you thought was true but just isn't?
this is going off a few posts i saw on reddit
someone said they thought mick jagger’s actual last name was mcjagger, and everyone just called him by his last name.
i lol’ed on that one.
here’s one from me.
what’s that device you use to get water out of your basement? no, it’s not a sub pump like i thought it was. it’s a sump pump! i learned it was sump pump probably about six months ago.
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I remember finding out well after I got into Jimi Hendrix that he was actually dead. I must’ve been 13 or 14.
I’m pretty sure I posted about this before, but when I was 7 I heard the song Barracuda and asked some other 7 year old who it was and they told me it was Elvis Presley. I held on to that mistaken belief until I was about 15 or 16 I think.
I’m also pretty sure that at some point I actually believed that people were probably fundamentally good and kind. Hard to pinpoint when exactly I realized that wasn’t the case, but it’s hard to believe I was ever that young and/or naive.
I used to think James Taylor and Carly Simon had a relationship similar to Ike and Tina Turner. I wouldn’t listen to James Taylor for years because I thought he beat up Carly Simon, and my mother is a big Carly Simon fan.
I also thought that in the old days, people really thought the world was flat. I announced this to my history class in college once and was almost kicked out of the department. No one ever told me that people didn’t really think that!
But… people still do think the world is flat?
John said:I remember finding out well after I got into Jimi Hendrix that he was actually dead. I must’ve been 13 or 14.
Translation: Hutch was into Hendrix when he was in the womb. Also, as soon as he turned 15, he knew EVERYTHING!
Nah, that’s not true. I believed in God when I was 15.
After kindergarten at a white academy in Mississippi (if you see ‘academy’ in the south, it’s a school they made up in the 70s to avoid integration), I started public school when we moved to Louisiana.
One day I was in line at the cafeteria when I was about to pick out a milk box the kid next to me explained how it worked. White kids were supposed to drink white milk to remain white. Chocolate milk was for the black kids, and no one really understood homosexuality at the time, so strawberry milk was allegedly for Indians.
This belief persisted until at least the 3rd grade, and partially explains why we never had Nestle’s Quik at my house growing up.
Oh, the south. What a fun, racist place.
When I was a little kid, I used to think that sausage, pepperoni, really any kind of meat that can be bought that is shaped like a tube…I thought it grew on a vine like a cucumber. They looked the same and I couldn’t think of any animals that were shaped like packaged meat.
For the longest time I thought the parents in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation were divorced…Always confused me when they showed them in bed together.
Matthew said:For the longest time I thought the parents in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation were divorced…Always confused me when they showed them in bed together.
how and why could you even think that??
I have no idea. I think at one point they joke about it during the movie and it just stuck.
Wow Matthew, for a little while when I was really young, I thought Chevy Chase was my dad. We always watched National Lampoon’s Vacation before we went on our actual vacation and I just thought they were the same person.
And John, I don’t think people think the world is flat now. I do think people think that in the old days people really thought the world was flat. My mother probably thinks that Columbus’ friends thought the world was flat.
http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm
There are, and were, people who believe the earth was flat.
And, for the record, people did think the world was flat “in the old days” — so long as “the old days” is defined as “pre-socratic times.” All those greek dudes figured it out and the information spread pretty quickly from that point forward.
Why didn’t that information spread to me sometime between first grade and my junior year of college? And I can’t look at the flat earth society site because it is way too romantic of an idea that the earth is flat and I just might fall for it.
And when I say old days, I meant summer 1492. So wrong! I am still embarrassed at my 20 year old self.
one time when i was young, I asked my grandmom where oxygen came from, and she replied “there’s just enough of it, that nobody worries about it.” So until science class, that’s where i thought it came from.
this led me to periodically hold my breath, to conversve oxygen, just in case and also so someone else could breathe it.
a.) when I was little, my brother and I played the “what does that cloud look like?” game and he pointed out one that looked like Garfield. Like a month later, I looked up and said, “Where’s the Garfield one?” I didn’t understand that clouds move.
b.) my sister used to believe that women got big pregnant bellies by eating watermelon seeds.
the next two are funny because my siblings were over the age of 25. And 5 and 7 years old than I am. It was fun telling them they were dumb.
c.) to use a scanner, my sister thought you had to scan in the ITEMS rather than pictures of the items.
d.) my brother went to move my mom’s minivan and upon his return said, “Wow, that starter button Mom has on her key is pretty cool.” It was the flashlight button on her key holder he had been pushing, not some magic anti-theft device.
I thought Mandy was a Russian adopted baby. Turns out she’s “just” a Jersey adopted baby, but I’m not letting go of the Russian thing.