[Funny] Things I used to believe...
- Thread starter Dave
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I was wondering when this would get posted. Surprised it took this long.
This was a popular belief up to the early 1900s! It was why many women got away with lesbian relationships, actually. It was thought women had no sexual desire so living with a female friend was seen as being innocent because women didn't get aroused or orgasm like men did and, even if they could, it was believed that the penis was needed for sex.
It wasn't unheard of for even women who thought themselves straight to have sexual experiences with other women because their men thought they were broken or depraved if they liked it.
Still, you must have been hanging out with some cute and innocent chicks, Pez! All we ever talked about from high school on was sex in my group!
I was deliberately trying to avoid "easy" political commentary in this thread. Still am.
--Patrick
figmentPez
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Well, I got sick starting at 15, so this limited my contact with people for a lot of my life. During high school most of my social interaction was done at church youth group, not exactly a setting where young women feel free to openly discuss their interest in sex. Add to that my goody-two-shoes reputation, and there were a lot of things I didn't hear about directly from people.
I used to believe that you used conditioner before shampoo I'm 32 and only learned that was wrong like 6 months ago
Well my hair was wet when I used it. I just did it in the wrong order
No one ever sits you down and tells you how to use shampoo. If you're not paying attention as a kid, you're shit out of luck.
I have done it myself, on purpose. Curly haired people do weird things to tame the beast.
There is instructions on the bottles...
Hey, don't look at us, we just use Nederlands to refer to people from Nederland.. Thank your English ancestors for this confusion.
For me though, the reverse is also true: up until somewhere in my late teens, I used to think that the coastal areas (California, New York and Florida to be precise) and the rest (I just referred to it as the midlands) were about the same size, and that everyone from the midlands was a redneck in some form or another. The stereotyping in movies and shows had a pretty big hand in it..
I suddenly have an urge to climb up a telephone pole and stick a big autobot faction sticker on a canister of mineral oil.
I'm not gonna act on it, but it would make a good reddit pic.
--Patrick
Yeah, we don't need another terrorism scare because "weird symbols" were showing up all over town.
figmentPez
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The Oval office is on the ground floor in the West Wing too. I thought it was in the back of the rotunda on the second floor![DOUBLEPOST=1412558625,1412558370][/DOUBLEPOST]When I was little, I thought that keeping your jacket unzipped on a breezy day would keep you warmer than keeping it zipped up.
I had a weird illogical reason why I thought this, but I was 10 years old and watched too much TMNT.
I used to believe that:
- chewing gum would not digest and block the system.
- crossing my eyes would make them stay that way permanently
- breaking a mirror brought bad luck -- luck in general
- chewing gum would not digest and block the system.
- crossing my eyes would make them stay that way permanently
- breaking a mirror brought bad luck -- luck in general
It is if you cut yourself picking up the pieces.
GasBandit
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When I was 5, I believed:
1) There was a certain telephone pole outside (but still in view of) the playground at my kindergarten that, when stared at intently, would let me communicate telepathically with my grandparents. I have NO idea what gave me this idea.
2) That "Putting on the Ritz" was about the crackers. To this day, I wonder why Nabisco hasn't licensed it and done an ad campaign with the song. It's a no-brainer!
1) There was a certain telephone pole outside (but still in view of) the playground at my kindergarten that, when stared at intently, would let me communicate telepathically with my grandparents. I have NO idea what gave me this idea.
2) That "Putting on the Ritz" was about the crackers. To this day, I wonder why Nabisco hasn't licensed it and done an ad campaign with the song. It's a no-brainer!
I used to believe that every place in the world developed the same. That america had castles like europe in the middle age and sometimes between the middle age and today people in europe lived in wild west towns. It confused me why people went from stone to wood buildings and the enviroment were so different. I assumed that some kind of cataclysm happend. Than I went to school and learned the history of the world.
I was really young, maybe 5 years old and this was before the release of any of this games. We got our first pc when i was 16
Cajungal
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I thought grandparents were just random old people that you were assigned when I was 4-5. So when I swore I'd never have children and my parents asked me if I ever wanted to be a grandma like MiMi, I said, "sure but I can just pick out some other kids to be my grandchildren."
When I found out it didn't work that way I drew up plans for an orphanage next door to an assisted living home so no one would have to be lonely.
When I found out it didn't work that way I drew up plans for an orphanage next door to an assisted living home so no one would have to be lonely.
That's adorable.
If we were a collectivist culture, we wouldn't need either
