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Subject: Dumb stuff you thought of as a child?

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I thought I could be a firetruck.
You obviously didn't try hard enough.
Firetruck University wouldn't accept me.

  • 01.06.2013 10:58 AM PDT

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I thought elevators magically teleport to a different room once those doors closed.

  • 01.06.2013 11:10 AM PDT

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Posted by: Bookshelf
I thought I could see through my hand.


THIS OH MY GOD THIS. I stared at my hand for hours trying to figure it out...


lmfao, same thing here.

  • 01.06.2013 11:11 AM PDT

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Posted by: abbbjqqr
I thought I could dig to China


You can, the only problem is this little ball of magma in the middle of the earth...

And gravity.


Gravity would actually help you.

  • 01.06.2013 11:12 AM PDT

Marley: next time try to be a little for inconspicuous.
John: What do you mean?
Marley: John, we grow lots of gear, right?
John: Yeah loads...
Marley: So try not to come back with a wasted girl and a packet of fertilizer!

I thought toys played with each other while i was gone, hence why they all seemed to be in different places to where i left them. It never occurred to me that my baby sister could be involved.

I thought the olden times were in black and white because black dye and white dye were the cheapest dyes you could buy and everyone was really poor back then. Somehow it never occurred to me that people couldn't possibly have painted every single tree and blade of grass.

I thought elevators were liable to break and zip down the shaft, killing everyone inside, at a seconds notice

I imagined that people of all professions randomly walked the streets during daytime like they did in picture books. Patrolling officers of the law did nothing to break this illusion.

Adults could always be trusted to do the most logical and morally responsible thing to do and do it perfectly every time, mistakes and greed were just things children did.

  • 01.06.2013 11:14 AM PDT

I thought then when you watched movies on the tv or a video, the actors were speaking right then.

  • 01.06.2013 11:15 AM PDT

I thought that you would change genders half way through your life; My older brother probably told me that. I also thought that the hair/fur on stuffed animals (beanie babies, toys, etc.) grew longer.

  • 01.06.2013 11:26 AM PDT

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
- Dr. Seuss

-If you ate too much food would pile up and start coming out of your mouth.
-Cars were made of plastic

  • 01.06.2013 11:26 AM PDT

I thought boogers were made of dead worms

  • 01.06.2013 11:27 AM PDT

It's Pokémon, not Pokemon!

Women can get pregnant just by being kissed.
Back in the 1940~'s, I thought the world was black and white.
Not brushing teeth would turn you into a vampire.


There are much more, but I can't remember them.

  • 01.06.2013 11:34 AM PDT

hi

I thought that people could only die of old age on there birthday.

  • 01.06.2013 11:35 AM PDT

A competitive players main goal is to win.
A casuals main goal is to have fun regardless of whether that results in a win or loss.
It has nothing to do with individual skill or knowledge, it has to do with the reason you play.


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Posted by: abbbjqqr
I thought I could dig to China

This.

  • 01.06.2013 11:40 AM PDT

I thought when the credits in a movie or TV show came on, as they scrolled upwards, i thought they were getting printed out of the TV. I'd run up and try to find where they went.

Also, for a short time in my life... i thought everyone had a plant thingy that would shrivel up and die if we didnt drink water, and thats how people died.

Yup, i was a -blam!- up child.

  • 01.06.2013 11:41 AM PDT

Just remember that no matter how terrible you feel, or how much you want to let go, there are people who care about you and love you.

That the NPCs on Super Smash Brothers were somehow controlled by somebody really far away.

  • 01.06.2013 11:44 AM PDT

I called everyone he including girls
I thought Heaven was on the clouds
I always called yesterday tommarrow

  • 01.06.2013 11:45 AM PDT
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Babies came out of the belly button.

And programmers for games had to account for every single outcome in games. Ever. When I later learned about programming, it made me realize how ridiculous that sounds.

[Edited on 01.06.2013 11:49 AM PST]

  • 01.06.2013 11:47 AM PDT

It's Pokémon, not Pokemon!

Ah, I remember another one:

The face you have as a kid is the SAME EXACT face you'll have as an adult.

  • 01.06.2013 11:48 AM PDT

I though video game AI's were actual players.

  • 01.06.2013 11:55 AM PDT

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The world was actually in black and white until they invented color, and...
...yeah, no, that's all I have right now.

  • 01.06.2013 11:57 AM PDT


Posted by: BF117HALO
-Babies came out of the butt.
-The world used to be in black and white.
-Africa has no electricity.
-If you jumped on top of a book you would go inside it, like in Blues Clues.


Those where the days... I used to love Blue's Clues.

  • 01.06.2013 12:02 PM PDT

I used to think that people could live forever if they were careful enough.

I used to think that babies emerged from the belly button of their mothers.

I used to think that pregnancies were just something that occurred at random.

I used to think that chocolate milk came from a chocolate cow.

I used to think that all people on the internet had common sense.

[Edited on 01.06.2013 12:05 PM PST]

  • 01.06.2013 12:04 PM PDT

So you went to the trouble of clicking on my profile, either to send a group invite or hate message, or to check my Halo stats and call me a BK. I like Peanut Butter Waffles.

There was this big church my family drove by sometimes and I thought it was where people went to Heaven.

  • 01.06.2013 12:05 PM PDT

I used to be indecisive, but now i'm not sure.

There was once a time when I believed I was the only conscious human and the people I was surrounded by were not real.

[Edited on 01.06.2013 12:20 PM PST]

  • 01.06.2013 12:08 PM PDT

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I honestly thought that people with brown eyes could only see with a limited view, like their peripherals were blacked out.
I think you were on to something.
My eyesight is terrible and unless you shine a light into my eyes, they will appear as if they are pure black.
I only saw my actual eye color for the first time over the summer when I pointed a flashlight at my eye.

  • 01.06.2013 1:32 PM PDT

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I thought conception was done via french kissing.

  • 01.06.2013 1:33 PM PDT