When i was a child, i believed autopilot really worked like in the movie Airplane, that it was an inflatable dummy.
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Not me but really funny - when my mom was little she thought white people weren’t real. She thought they were made up for tv
When adults said things like “In this day and age, nobody says please and thankyou any more”, I misinterpreted “this day and age” as “The Stayan Age”, which was our current age, which obviously followed on from Bronze Age, Iron Age etc.
That adults had it figured out.
That average people actually care about anything but themselves.
That there is justice in the world.
That hiding candy (or other things people wanted) was a universal property of grandmothers.
English is not my first language, but I had heard the expression “search all nooks and crannies”, but thought the last word was grannies - cranny is an unusual word.
Now,my own grandmother was in the habit of hiding candy for us to find. I thought the expression existed because all grannies hid things. Search all nooks and grannies!
That we have cables instead of veins inside.
That before I was born cars had the exhaust pipe on the front (in fact I used to draw cars that way).
At some point I also believed that we were born as monkeys and we evolved as we grew up.
Most humans have good ethics and beliefs. The more I grow, the more I’m disappointed in our society.
Pretty common belief among stupid 7-year-olds, I think; humans couldn’t see colour up to the mid-60s.
I believed this. You are the first person I’ve ever heard whose had this same belief.
The ‘H’ signs to indicate a hospital was indicating there was a helicopter pad.
There’s a highway that formed a loop around the city where I grew up and we used it pretty regularly, but mostly only the western half (since we lived on the west side of town). My parents explained the concept to me that it had “belt” in its name because it circled around the city like a belt goes around a person. This idea intrigued me and I eventually asked my parents if someday we could drive all the way around it. My dad seemed kind of surprised but said we could sometime. I got excited and started planning for things we would need, like a tent and food, since it would obviously take a long time.
The highway’s only about 25 miles/40 kilometers long.
ahh the old 405
I remember my Dad teaching me about highway numbers back when I was a kid, so I know that the 4 means it’s part of a loop, being odd means it runs mostly N/S, and being a low number means it’s on the west side of the US.
The Dewey Decimal System is still a mystery to me, though…
I believe if the first digit is even in the 3 digit highway number, it connects, if it’s odd then it doesn’t. There’s a cool video about it by cgp grey and a whole Wikipedia on it
you got it; the 405 is the beltway around 3 big west coast cities; Seattle, Portland and LA.
My grandmother told me England was not part of the European continent. I got an answer wrong on a test because of that. She refused admit she was wrong even after I showed her in my text book.
England is not a part of the Eurasian continent nor a part of Continental Europe. It’s on the Isle of Great Britain, which is an island, not a continent. She refused to admit she was wrong because she was right and your textbook was wrong.
It is right there in the Eurasia map on the link you shared, and on the list of Eurasian territories, so OP was correct.
The thing is that “continental Europe” is not the same as the continent of Europe, which does include the islands. Mainland Europe is a less ambiguous name.
That cats and dogs were the same animal, the cats were the girls and the dogs were the boys
That tv programming would pause when I turned the TV off.
Premises:
- My family watches the news for [weather] and [ye local murder].
- My friend says: his dad says: “the news lies.”
- Parents are trustworthy, and cops can’t lie to the news.
Conclusion:
They lie about the WEATHER!?
They frequently do! Like when they report on catastrophic flooding by finding a stopped up drain and standing in it ankle deep and shouting about how awful it is as cars drive by behind them on the slightly wet roads.
that my grandparents remembered middle ages or even the dinosaurs
I thought Salvatia must be the poorest country in the world if even their army has to go around begging for money.
