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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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My food solution for food I didn't want to eat in elementary school was to stuff it into my pockets, and then when I got out onto the playground I would dump it out in the dirt.
True story, they eventually started checking my pockets. So then I started having to stuff it into my empty milk carton.
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The first time a hurricane hit I thought it was my fault for being bad.
Pretty awesome ego.
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I thought a zillion was a real number...
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Honestly, the school should just donate unused food to a shelter or something. The ball park stadium where I work sometimes gets all the food that isn't sold at the end of the night, wraps it up, and takes it to a local homeless shelter. I took it over there once, and wow, seeing their faces light up was something else.
I used to think that the reason that weather channels knew the weather was because they controlled it, but I was under the impression that the Weather Channel was the center of it all.
Also, I used to think I'd be invincible by taking like 3000 of those vitamin tablets, specifically the tasty Flinstones ones. I figured, if one tablet is good for you, many more at a time was. Luckily, my mom knew of my antics and made sure I didn't overdo it (I then learned some vitamins you shouldn't take too many of at a time).
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I used to wonder how cars still had lights during a power outage.
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In preschool some kid who didn't like me told me if i showed up to school the next day he was going to bring his pet dragon to eat me.
i begged my parents to let me stay home the next day
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In trying to explain how the hell the world/sun/rest of universe worked, I thought really hard, and figured that the universe is a sphere which contains the earth, which doesn't move, and the sun/moon which move around the earth, and that the sun gives light and the moon sucks it all away.
Here is a diagram showing how it works, note that the sun is happy and smiling, and the moon has evil eyebrows and sharp teeth. This was when I was 4.
+ Show Spoiler +
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On July 25 2011 14:05 dlcofls21 wrote:In trying to explain how the hell the world/sun/rest of universe worked, I thought really hard, and figured that the universe is a sphere which contains the earth, which doesn't move, and the sun/moon which move around the earth, and that the sun gives light and the moon sucks it all away. Here is a diagram showing how it works, note that the sun is happy and smiling, and the moon has evil eyebrows and sharp teeth. This was when I was 4. + Show Spoiler +
Thats joke..as a kid I wondered the same thing and the best I came up with was that construction workers built the earth. I kid you not. I had no theory for the stars or the moon though.
Cute drawing btw.
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When I was a kid I used to think there was someone in the ATM machine.
Off topic: My dad thinks like a kid sometimes btw. He watches me play games occasionally. Once I was playing DOTA, and I was running from another hero.
So he asks me "why are you running from something smaller than yourself?"
Another time I was playing God of War. He asked me "won't he get cold wearing so little?"
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When I was at school, when it was time for lunch, we were sat at these large wooden tables that seated about twenty. No one was allowed to leave the table until everyone had finished, as per the teacher's judgement. I was never the fastest eater so I was always the last one at the table and people started egging me on to hurry up so they could go and play.
When I was much younger in my nursery/primary school, apparently I would hide the meals I didn't like in my cheeks, like some kind of hamster. I'd eat my pudding happily with these little pouches of meat in the corners, and would then go to the toilet afterwards and spit it all out before hometime.
I also remember trying to trick a kid I didn't like that I was a raptor in disguise and would eat him if he continued to annoy me. He told a teacher, but he got in trouble for making up stories since I was such a nice lad I couldn't possible have said such things.
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When I was a young I used to believe in God 
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When I was in grade 2 sexual education became a part of the school curriculum. We were taught all about menstruation, intercourse, pregnancy, and birth (albeit from a responsible Catholic perspective - the biology was still all there).
Even though I knew about intercourse, my brain took a couple more years to make the conceptual connection between intercourse and sex. I used to watch Red Shoe Diaries late at night on TV (9pm on a Friday, wow), and even then I thought sex was making out naked and rubbing against each other under the sheets. I masturbated, and I still didn't see the connection for a while.
When I went grocery shopping in NY with my mom I used to make the distinction between different shades of Black people. I'd refer to them as Black or Brown, based on how dark their skin was.
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It seems weird, but I don't remember having that many AH-HA! moments as a kid... probably because my own reasoning wasn't so firmly ingrained--though I did have my share of misconceptions.
I used to not understand why people didn't know where North or any given direction was at a location because when I learned about the cardinal directions North was always drawn in a certain way (up).
I used to not be able to tell the difference between a computer and a computer monitor.
Figuring out how to play StarCraft properly was also a huge leap for me... even at age 13 or so I still refused to use hotkeys, thinking that since I could spend resources quickly enough (not really) with just mouse, I didn't need hotkeys. Box and Go baby... Mouse-only was so stuck in my head that I probably didn't even discover a-move until a year after I started learning hotkeys.
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On July 25 2011 21:10 Maliris wrote:When I was a young I used to believe in God
Shamefully, i believed that shit well into adulthood
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I used to believe all food was stored in the bellybutton, and it had some sort of shrinking mechanism so that it could all fit there. It made sense to me because pregnant women eat a lot, and also sometimes have large belly buttons. Also, the larger kids in my school had "outies".
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I saw santa but when I entered the room he climbed out through the window. True story 
edit: no joke. My mom slept in the room next door and my Dad next to that room and both were asleep in their beds. I checked my brother's room. He hit me with a pillow for catching him playing video games lol.
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