• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

Stupid things you thought when you were younger

Status
Not open for further replies.
demon said:
until highschool?
Click to expand...

yeah man. High school. That's when cliques started form - and I think that's what did it. In elementary school half my mates were Asian, and I never considered them different than myself.
 
I thought on long road trips that the blinker was used every few miles to recharge the vehicle somehow. I thought my dad had to do this or the car would break down not to just simply change lanes.

Also on these long road trips, being the only car going one direction on the highway was a bad thing because we were driving towards a town with zombies. Everyone driving the other direction was escaping the zombies.
 
When I was young I thought that life as we know it is but a Star Trek holodeck and was waiting for the simulation to end.
 
I thought girls pee'd out of their butt. :lol

When hit high school I finally smartened up.
 
as a young kid i thought that babies were made in big cooking pots and whenever someone would refer to me being "made" by my parents i pictured them in chefs hats stirring ingredients into a big pot to make me.

i also thought that the only difference between real people and cartoon people were the black ink outlines.

oh, and i thought that everything on the radio was being done live. the commercials, the songs playing....everything. and i'd hear the same song or commercial in an hour and think, "man, they must be tired of playing that song".

i also thought that magnets made a funny noise when you got close to them because i saw a clip on sesame street with kids using magnets and when they used it it made a distinct noise/jingle. i remember leaving with my mom to go shopping and telling my sister, "if you hear *insert magnet noise* then look around, it's a magnet and i want one".

one more. i thought that the car knew how to get home. i thought that my dad was following the turn signal arrow instead of him clicking it to signal that he was going to turn.

ah, sweet ignorance.
 
I thought that since dragons lived in Tokyo and that He-Man killed dragons that He-Man lived in Japan and hunted dragons in Tokyo.

My girlfriend thinks there are cute, but again, this is NeoGAF dude, so...
1) I thought every town was on it's own planet and you traveled to other planets when you went from town to town
2) I thought a town name was it's first name and the state was it's last name.
 
I used to believe eating seeds would grow trees inside you.

Also, up until I was 14, I believed sex was when a man would urinate into a woman's vagina.

I also thought if you wrote the name of a film on a tape, it would become that film. I think I had six tapes with "star wars' written on them and it baffled me why none of them worked.
 
This is a great thread.

Mine:

I thought that tv after the Johnny Carson show was only really scary shows or static - both of which I was petrified of (and fought very hard to try and fall asleep before this time for that reason). I thought this was particularly bad on Sunday night when the "fun" tv ended at about 8pm. Looking back I see why I thought this - with 3-4 channels, it sort of was this way.

For all of you young folks with the Pokemon misconceptions... and probably have never known anything less than 60 channels of cable - not me - I am old.

Another one... I thought that all videogames were basically perfect and without room for criticism of any kind. Case in point I saw no issue with E.T. for Atari 2600. And still don't although I have never really gone back to play it.
 
I used to think that highway expansion joints on bridges where like slot car tracks to keep you from driving off the bridge (for some reason at the time allot of expansion joints ran parallel to the road).
 
michaeld said:
When I was real young I thought the world used to be in black and white due to old tv shows.
Click to expand...
This is brought up alot. I wonder if kids in the future will think anything before the 2010s was low-def :lol
 
boutrosinit said:
Also, up until I was 14, I believed sex was when a man would urinate into a woman's vagina.
Click to expand...
What, were you home schooled? There's a little thing we had called Health Class that cleared up any confusion for me when I was 11.

Also, I hope you didn't find out during sex.

Edit:
skybaby said:
This is brought up alot. I wonder if kids in the future will think anything before the 2010s was low-def.
Click to expand...
Awesome.
 
skybaby said:
This is brought up alot. I wonder if kids in the future will think anything before the 2010s was low-def :lol
Click to expand...
They won't. Did you ever think that the world in the 1960s was in grainy 35mm?

High def is a great thing, but it isn't so revolutionary that the majority of people, especially children, will care about the difference. People acting like the difference is akin to the colour to black and white transition or even the VHS to DVD transition really shouldn't. Much like the difference between 128kbps sampled MP3s to uncompressed audio, it really isn't going to make any real difference outside of two groups: tech heads like us and people who swallow any marketing hype fed to them.

But, I digress...

Someone mentioned thinking that cars had an internal navigation system because the turning signal seemed to know the way home. I thought that too. I used to think that when you used the turning signal, you were asking the navigation machine for directions.
 
jaypah said:
one more. i thought that the car knew how to get home. i thought that my dad was following the turn signal arrow instead of him clicking it to signal that he was going to turn.
Click to expand...

Some good foresight on your part.
 
That sugar caused hyperactivity or "made you hyper."

I thought this forever until my freshman year in college until I had psychology 101. Teacher was actually pretty good.

Sugar is just a carb and nothing more. Doesn't cause you to be hyper in the least. You have to look at the situation for the child being hyper. They are KIDS. It has nothing to do with them eating the candy, they are just really excited. Everyone blames birthday cake on the kids being hyper. No its that they are at a BIRTHDAY party lol.
 
The evil adults in my family told this to all the kids to keep them in line. They told us that if we behaved bad, a naked gold man called el cuco would come out under our beds or closets and take us away. Damn my dominican parents:lol
 
jehuty said:
The evil adults in my family told this to all the kids to keep them in line. They told us that if we behaved bad, a naked gold man called el cuco would come out under our beds or closets and take us away. Damn my dominican parents:lol
Click to expand...
Holy shit that's creepy :lol

Also I don't really get how anyone would think the world was in black and white a long time ago just because of the crappy pictures. I guess I just didn't think too much about it :lol
 
TAJ said:
This reminds me of an episode of an anthology horror series. I thought it was from Alfred Hitchcock Presents but I can't find the episode. Anyway, every time the main character looks into a mirror, he sees someone behind him coming to kill him. Each time he sees it again, the vision picks up exactly where it left off last time he looked away.
Click to expand...

I think you are referring to an episode of the Spielberg produced "Amazing Stories" called "Mirror, Mirror." Directed by Martin Scorcese.
 
I used to think game creators were unbeatable at their own games. That is false.

Kid 1: haha you can't beat me! I'm too good!
Kid 2: Whatever you're not that great, dude.
Kid 1: hahaha NO ONE CAN BEAT ME!
Kid 2: What about the people who created the game? You can't beat them!
Kid 1: ...

Surely I am not the only person who was caught up in similar conversations time and time again.
 
Oh, another one. I thought the Sega Genesis sucked.

ahh, console fanboyism, how I miss thee.
 
I didn't realize that different styles of facial hair were a choice; I thought, for instance, a man who has a mustache could only have a mustache, a man who was clean shaven couldn't have any facial hair, etc. I still remember hoping I'd get a beard!

I also remember some other kids thought that the number of testicles you have determines how many kids you'll have. Apparently, they never thought it was odd that they all had two. Imagine if it were true, though, and you were going to have ten kids :O
 
Dali said:
I used to think dogs were the male and cats were the female of the same species.
Click to expand...
Same here, like lots of people. I guess the fact that dogs are usually bigger made them look butch while cats were smaller making them feminine. Both walked on four legs, had long tails, etc.
boutrosinit said:
I believed sex was when a man would urinate into a woman's vagina.
Click to expand...
Ugh, I thought the exact same thing. I even made the stupid mistake of asking other school kids if it was true.

For a long time I never understood why girls bikes had lower cross bars while guy bikes didn't. It make no sense. I mean, girls can't rack their balls so why punish the guys who can? Only when I was older did I realize the lower cross bar had nothing to do with genitalia but had to do with the fact that girls wear dresses. :lol
 
Green Shinobi said:
How did GAF let this post slide? :lol

Come on. Even if it's not tag-worthy, it's the most pedophilic post I've read in awhile.
Click to expand...
It takes a real pedo to interpret the OP as pedo.
 
I wanted a icecream scooper that could shoot icecream. I think I got it from some cartoon. You know those scoopers who have a button to press to push the icecream out? Only with alot more speed and force. I wanted that damn thing for years. 5 to 7 or something

I just wanted a icecream war...
 
I thought babies came out of the butt, and I thought that pregnant women couldn't poop, because if they did the kid would shoot out into the toilet and get flushed.
 
When I was younger, I thought (as in really believed that):


- People actually really got shot dead in movies.

- Every single television show was broadcasted live.

- Babies came out of the belly.

- Everything I saw on tv actually really happened. E.g. I thought the A-Team was real and that somehow the camera crew paid the team so that they could film the whole thing.


And some more totally stupid things which I can not remember at the moment.
 
CajoleJuice said:
That I was going to be successful in life.
Click to expand...
Life comes at you fast, huh?

I used to think that when driving over bridges, you drove over the humps of the bridge and not the actual road. I also thought people went into "acoma" and not "a coma".
 
I loved Michael Jackson when I was little (still do), and used to listen to Bad all the time. I was endlessly impressed with how he could sing with many voices at once AND simultaneously do his woo-hoos and weird little sounds. I tried to emulate him, but could only do one voice at a time myself. In my mind, all recorded songs were recorded with all voices and instruments, from beginning to end, in just one continuous take. It took a looong time before I found out about mixing.
 
I use to sleep with the lights on up until 10-- I was terrified of the dark thinking freddy kruger actually existed. I wished I never saw those movies when I was a kid.. it messed me up for a long time.
 
In Wayne's World, Wayne wrote on cue cards to insult his guest. One of them says "he blows goats, I have proof". Well I'm a little boy and I don't fully understand this line. I imagine him sneezing, and a goat pops out of his mouth. Or something. I dunno, but I do remember mentioning this joke to my parents and not realizing at all what I was actually saying.
 
when I was 13, after my first own handjob, I cleaned all up with a towel. Scared as shit about my parents-my mom- finding out, I opened a window and threw the towel full of sperm into the dumpster


memories
 
I thought to make babies a man must piss on a womans vagina :lol
Think someone in my class told me that.

When i was 4 or 5 i was concerned that having a boner could be a disease. So i showed it my mother and asked if that is normal.

Oh and im also one of the guys who thought the world was black and white in the past.
 
"Whats to Understand? You get a Boner, Slap her titties around some, Then stick it inside her and Pee"

As an 8-year old, I thought a prostitute was some kind of doctor.
 
I just remembered 2 more

When I was about 8 I guess, my sister and I thought we could dig a hole through her bedroom wall and into the neighbor's house. (I grew up in a rowhouse). I got a butterknife no less, and went to work. it was a small hole, but pretty deep. At one point I couldn't dig any further and my sister and I were convinced we had hit a peice of the neighbor's "Furniture" and it was blocking my progress. In hindsite, it was probably cinderblock or something.

I don't remember what we were planning to do once we got through however.


When I was 10 or 11 I watched a " Murder/Suspense" movie where in the beginning, the daughter kills her mother and her mother's boyfriend with a hammer. I don't remember the name of it, but I remember "Mel" from that TV show "alice" was in it. Anyway, later that night, while I was trying to fall asleep, I was afraid my father was going to come and kill me with a hammer. Don't know why, as he never laid a hand on me, ever.
 
Anasui Kishibe said:
when I was 13, after my first own handjob, I cleaned all up with a towel. Scared as shit about my parents-my mom- finding out, I opened a window and threw the towel full of sperm into the dumpster


memories
Click to expand...
77805423.gif
 
"...A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, ENO MENO PEE, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z..."



I knew my alphabet and all, but when singing the damn alphabet song, I would sing it that way.

Another one was SUMINABITCH.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

When you redeem a code for xbox
18
375
uncreativename replied
Top 5 things you bought this year.
14
628
analog_future replied
Be happy you were born in our time
2 3
108
2K
jason10mm replied
Do you notice that when you are more grateful, you complain less?
11
606
Pagusas replied
What is the first cartoon or tv series you can remember when you were young
2 3
138
3K
Player Respawn replied
Top Bottom