Stupid things you believed when you were a child

[Richey Edwards]

What genuinely stupid or ridiculous things did you believe when you were a child?

I'm not talking about Santa, the tooth fairy or your uncle Jock who you thought was your uncle but actually wasn't. I'm talking bizarre, strange and ludicrous.

 

1) That when a football team loses, the manager shoots one of the players dead. Someone told me this when I was about six and I believed it. I'm an Ayr United fan so if this was true we would never have any players.

2) That Budapest was a Buddhist holiday in which Buddha would come and be a pest. Turns out it was actually a Hungarian city. Who knew?

3) That the Romans came from Romania and not Rome.

4) That while watching World Cup 98 as an 8 year old that I would get to see Scotland at lots more tournaments in my lifetime. I'm 27 now and still waiting.

[ayrmad]

^^^green bus to school

[sjc]

I believed my Dad when he said touching an electric fence wouldn't hurt.

[Cerberus]

My mum told me if I ate too much of the ice in my juice then bits of my mouth would break off.

[Tartan Dave]

The pipes at Sloy power station were waterslides. 

[Audaces Fortuna Juvat]

My sister told me that if I ate too many peas I would pee green.

I tried and failed.

Still, there's always next week..........

[Cardinal Richelieu]

• The world used to be in black and white (obviously basing this on old films and newsreels)
• When someone was killed in a film, they died in real life
• When you bought a new house and moved, the people whose house you moved into always moved into your old house

[MONKMAN]

That Tony was a real person.

[Eednud]

That if you swallowed chewing gum it would stick your insides together and that Rab Ha ate the biled ham ra'.

[Rugster]

I used to try and breathe at the same time as my mum because I thought it meant I would die at the same time as her and I didn't want to be without her. I was about 16  4 at the time though.

[Northboy]

Up until the age of 6 I lived in quite a remote area and had never been to a 'proper' football match. We only had a black and white television and without the benefit of colour I thought that top level football was played on tarmac!

[TheProgressiveLiberal]

I believed that your eyes could pop like a bubble if they were poked.

 

[cowden0]

I thought the sound of the studio audience was people at home laughing. I used to laugh as loud as I could to try and hear myself on TV.

I know that a lot of young, along with many not so young kids, believed Craig Whyte had untold millions to throw at a dying football club.

[Shandon Par]

My big brother (about 12 years older than me) did a very convincing alien/zombie impression and would terrify me when left to look after me. He'd be like the Terminator, slowly walking after me, threatening to kill me and saying that he was not my big brother and that he was an alien here to kill me. It would carry on for whole afternoons. Terrified me. 

[Alert Mongoose]

That away goals actually counted as double. So if you won 0-2 the actual score was 0-4.

[Richey Edwards]

I just remembered that I used to think "moving house" meant actually moving your house and that there was a big massive truck that would tow your whole house to a new location.

[Scosha]

That those gooey alien baby things could actually make another baby if you put 2 of them in the same box 

[Blackbirdonthewire]

That dogs and cats were the same species. Dogs boys and cats girls, they got married and their children were either dogs (boys) or cats (girls). I also thought a dog's tail was its penis. 

[Shandon Par]

My daughter didn't believe in police dogs. She thought grown ups were at it when they mentioned police dogs (with particular reference to the Lethal Bizzle song "Police on My Back", where he mentions being pursued by police dogs). Even showing her pictures online didn't convince her that there were dogs who worked for the police. 

[ArabGaz]

When the Undertaker first appeared on the wrestling scene with Paul Bearer in the early 90's, I used to believe his opponents were dead when they were carted away in body bags. I could never understand why people would risk fighting him.