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or at least only logical to children.
Just had a discussion with my girlfriend about the stupid things we thought as kids. Thought I'd share some of the ones from my childhood, which to me at the time made sense, but clearly were way off.
Food
I had my lunches at school, school food.. yuck. Of course every child thinks that, so my school's way of making us eat was by guilt-ing us into it. They tell us things like, we should eat all our food because we're lucky to have it, some children in the world are starving and can't eat.
My solution : Well if I don't eat... they can have it. Just bag up those mashed potatoes and send them off, I'm clearly not starving, I learnt to share early on I have 2 younger brothers after all, it's ok I'll take a hit for the team. Just doing my bit by not finishing off this plate of stew..
Clearly.. not the right solution. My heart was in the right place though. Alas operation "End world hungry" would not be solved by my 5 year old brain wave.
Christmas
Now I'm sure I wasn't the only one. but did anyone else feel like on christmas eve when it was 1am-2am that because Santa hadn't arrived yet was because you were still awake, and infact you were the one wholly responsible for holding Christmas up. Making everyone wait even longer to get to play with their toys. Talk about pressure, not only now having to deal with the excitement of Christmas, but also it's your responsibility to get to sleep so everyone can enjoy Christmas quicker.
Having not yet discovered time doesn't actually pass quicker when your asleep, you just think it does.. I feel this is probably fairly common among other kids too.. either that or I was just an idiot.
TV
This isn't logic, but more of childlike ignorance. I was a child of the 80's. I never watched the A-Team however. My older cousin loved it death. People often asked me, "what do you mean you never watched the A-Team as a child?" as if it was some kind of right of passage.
At my aunties one day, I asked her what the A-Team was. She told me it was about Vietnam Veterans, helping people, doing missions, etc etc. Problem was.. to a 5/6 yr old. Veteran, and Veterinarian sound pretty much the same thing. So I honestly couldn't see what was so good about a bunch of "Vets" doing missions. Sounded pretty stupid to me. So I never watched it. Quick we must rescue this..... cat!
Only ones I can think off the top of my head. Feel free to add any that you think of, that as a child made perfect sense to you, but actually made no sense at all.
 
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Haha, I have a good one.
How women get pregnant
Okey, so I was an innocent kid who had no idea about sex and human reproduction process. One day I wondered how women get pregnant ? Well, I knew that couple kisses and when people get married they exchange kiss. So you get pregnant by kissing !?!, I thought. No way, I saw actors kiss in movies all the time and they don't get pregnant. So, as a logical kid I was, I concluded that on the day of marriage, a guy releases a special fluid that some how capable of impregnate a woman. Ahh, I miss the day of innocent and ignorant.
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crap, I hit quote instead of edit. Could mod delete this. sorry 
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Why should I build a second barracks? I already have one.
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On July 24 2011 22:15 writer22816 wrote:
Why should I build a second barracks? I already have one.
haha yeah.. sounds familiar. Playing AoE1 building units from one of each type of building. Hotkeys.. pfff I have a mouse!
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Haha, I love things like this.
I used to think that sidewalk tiles were actually cubes. They're 3 feet wide, 3 feet long, so naturally they must also be 3 feet deep.
I used to be pretty convinced that yellow was the brightest color. I don't remember why, but I do remember trying to explain it to my mum once. Something about the yellow crayon was "brighter" than the white one, (but honestly who ever used a white crayon? )
The bushes in our back yard were magical. A frisbee or a ball would get lost in them, and we'd find it a few days later in the bushes on the opposite side of the yard. Magical teleporter bushes.
I thought pineapples grew on trees like regular apples.
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I thought food melted in your stomach because of heat. It really confused me, because I didn't understand how for example bread could melt in heat. The confusion was caused because of the everyday finnish language. Instead of saying that acid dissolves something you say that it melts something. Even the digestive system literally translates into food melting system.
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We used to have arguments in elementary school about what the largest number was. Was it 1 million? 1 billion? 1 trillion? 1 zillion?
Then someone mentioned 1 Googol (10^100)
Then someone mentioned 1 Googolplexian (10^Googol)
Finally we agreed in the end that "the numbers keep on going". 
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My little bro used to play WoW (rogue ofc) and he argued that backstab was useless because mobs were always in front of him
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On July 24 2011 22:55 writer22816 wrote:We used to have arguments in elementary school about what the largest number was. Was it 1 million? 1 billion? 1 trillion? 1 zillion? Then someone mentioned 1 Googol (10^100) Then someone mentioned 1 Googolplexian (10^Googol) Finally we agreed in the end that "the numbers keep on going".
We had the same kind of debate in pre-school, and I remember being the only one who accepted the idea that they could be going on forever. Someone said it stopped at one hundred and was really convinced, even if we reminded him of thousands and millions.
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I used to love puppet shows as a kid, and I had my first computer when I was 4 (1994!), an Intel 80486.
When I played games on it, I thought thousands of little micro-people were inside the computer monitor holding tiny signs of different colors, all working together to produce an image for me to see.
Ahhh the good times.
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You know on the highways where they have the giant lightposts with the 8-10 lightbulbs arranged in a circle? I used to think those were hotels and they just looked small because they were so high in the air. That was the reason why some of the (burnt out lights) weren't on: because that room wasn't occupied that night.
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I was actually thinking about this just the other day.
My dad is a truck driver, and when I was younger I used to go on trips with him all the time. One trip we went to Boise. In my mind, I thought it was going to be a city of all boys (Boy see). To my dismay, when we got there, there were women.
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School food is awesome. I would still eat school lunch everyday if I could.
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I meticulously removed seeds from watermelons I was eating because of the fear that they would start growing in my stomach D=.
I also thought men gave birth, not women. You figure out my logic from there....
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Turn with my mouse? Then how will I be able to click rend?
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On July 24 2011 22:37 Haemonculus wrote:
I thought pineapples grew on trees like regular apples.
What.
They don't do that?
You're a smart guy, I only just discovered that. At 17 years of age. MAN I'm thick.
Anyways, I believed: cats didn't like it when you stroked their tails because your fingers were sticky; stuffed toys watch you when you sleep, especially the evil barbie; adults had to fall asleep together to fall in love, and strawberries popped up from the ground spontaneously.
Yeah.
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I used to think all people were nice.
*Sigh*
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+ Show Spoiler +On July 25 2011 02:49 Dalguno wrote:
To my dismay, when we got there, there were women. Not many times in life when this happens.
On topic:
I used to be convinced that while I was asleep robbers would come and shoot me, or the roof would collapse on me and kill me, or both.
On a brighter note, me and my friends used to pretend to be pokemon in a pokemon day care up until like 2nd grade. We went on such epic adventures. I thought this was a perfectly legit concept.
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When i was in elementary school i heard about euthanasia and though it was "youth in Asia". I was terribly confused as to why everyone hated on Asian youths -_-
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