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 I have heard that kids used to think ‘olden times’ were black & white, because all old films were before the introduction of colour. Like, it’s only in the last 80? years that people see in colour…
It makes me giggle when modern movies use b&w to depict pre 21st century, or even ‘flashbacks’ are b&w
Honestly I have to remind myself of this myself. Yes, these are images of events in (say) 1938. No, things weren’t actually black and white in 1938, people saw colors the same way, with the same sharpness, they do in 2024, it’s just photographic technology that has improved since then.
New York city was the size of the whole state. Like the entire thing looked like manhattan.
That the Empire State Building is a restaurant named Empire Steak Building.
Me ordering the ribeye.
Wait… wait… [chewing] he’s got a point
Surely there’s a chain of restaurants or butcher shops in New York called Empire Steak, right?
that you’re supposed to show a middle finger as if you were showing it to yourself
When my daughter was about 1.5 she would wave like that, waving so she could see her hand correctly.
Not long after that she’d dismiss people she didn’t want to deal with with a little blown kiss and a wave. So at the doctor’s office they had two nurses come in to give her some shots and she kept doing the little kiss and wave and they went “aww she’s blowing kisses” and my wife said “no she’s actually trying to dismiss you”
That a bon fire was a “bomb” fire and therefore, very loud and very dangerous.
For anyone wondering
bonfire (n.)
https://www.etymonline.com/word/bonfire#etymonline_v_15587
late 14c., bonfir, banefire, “a fire in which bones are burned;” see bone (n.) + fire (n.). The original specific sense became obsolete and was forgotten by 18c. The general sense of “large open-air fire from any material for public amusement or celebration” is by mid-16c. and that of “large fire for any purpose” from 17c. also from late 14c.
I used to call it a “bomb fire” too lol.
I thought our eyes worked by projecting some kind of energy beam that scanned objects, like how Superman’s X-ray vision is sometimes drawn.
Thank you for sharing that. It was a lot of fun to read through. At the end I was like, wait how did I end up on this wiki?
Da na da na da na da na Bat Eyes!
One of my brothers was friends with a pair of twins named Eric and Ryan, but I thought that they were a single entity that somehow had two bodies known as American Ryan
Russ and Oli Gark must have a hard time fitting in
I was always phlegmy and coughing as a kid so I became convinced I had diphtheria and would die soon, and thought it would be terrible to let my parents know this sad fact. Turns out it was because 1980s parenting meant smoking anywhere and everywhere at all times and cigarette smoke makes me ill.
Wow. When I started doing theatre in 1983 smoking was becoming evil. Restaurants were required to have nonsmoking sections. The drama instructor quit and was a militant anti-smoker.
Yes there was starting to be some pushback and health education, but most people still smoked at home, and literally everywhere in the home. Your child’s bedroom was fair game. It’s a terrible thing to be in the car in the winter with the windows rolled up and your parent chain smoking away until your eyes swell shut. I know an older nurse who used to work at the pediatric hospital, and she would follow the pediatrician on rounds with an ashtray as he rounded on these children, trying desperately to keep the ashes off the children.
In the 80s when i was a child there were billboards with PSAs saying don’t drink and drive. I’d promptly scold my parents if i caught them taking a sip from their soft drink after hitting the McDonald’s drive through.
“Drink” is such a weird word in how it has both a general and specific meaning, but no other word for the general meaning is commonly used.
“Drink your milk! No drinking until you’re 21!”
you’re milk
No; you are!
I fixed it lol
There’s a park in Brasilia that has a “little rocket”. I refused to enter it when I was something like 4yo, because “What if it launches while I’m inside?”
We had one of those in Southern California and we would go up in it to smoke weed in college. Good times.
Well, yall did take off…
I used to think those coins in the fountain at the mall were just money people wanted to get rid of. One day, little me tried getting away with a skirt full of coins and got in trouble.
I mean, to be fair, a coin on the ground is fair game, and they don’t make these “unspoken rules” clear enough, so I couldn’t imagine a coin in a fountain not being free to just pick up.
I thought that I’d die of cancer because that’s my zodiac sign and nobody could convince me otherwise.
My parents didn’t specifically tell me if Santa Clause was real or make-believe. They wanted me to come to my own conclusion, I guess. My dad is a rationalist person, and my mom’s from a culture that doesn’t traditionally celebrate Christmas.
So what I believed was that the appearance of presents on Christmas was an unsolved mystery, and Santa Clause was just a hypothesis to explain it.
I suspected the real explanation probably involved the tree working as an antenna for some kind of cosmic energy that triggered the appearance of presents. Perhaps in ancient and more superstitious times they discovered this phenomenon by accident and continued to put up the tree ever since.
As a 53 year old man I’m going to START believing this. It’s awesome.
When I was a kid my dad would often pull up the NORAD Santa tracker on Christmas Eve, and that combined with seeing the film War Games at way too young of an age had me believing in Santa for much longer than I should have because “why else would the federal government devote so much money to tracking him?” I think it was specifically seeing the exact same animation of him being welcomed into a country by a pair of fighter jets for the third year in a row that finally killed that line of reasoning (because obviously the NORAD Santa tracker site is shot with television cameras or something)
Kid logic is wild
Santa Claus cargo cult
Christmas tree as extraterrestrial cargo cult ritual. Holy shit that’s brilliant.
that it’s possible to enter tv if we break its screen
This sounded like it led to an expensive life lesson.
It didn’t , thank god
That we would live in peace
