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Things you used to think and now can't quite believe you did

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treaclesoda · 07/05/2014 09:56

I saw a seagull flying and it suddenly occurred to me that when I was little, I thought there were two different types of seagulls. Ones with legs, and ones without. Naturally the ones with legs had no choice but to fly all the time Grin

I was a pretty bright child, I can't imagine why I thought that.

Please tell me someone else out there thought the same?

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JustAboutAdeqeuate · 07/05/2014 11:11

I used to get horribly confused by all the talk of fighting over the Gaza strip. This was around the time Gazza still played football, whilst wearing his team's strip... Blush

MissHobart · 07/05/2014 11:06

Yes yes to the guerrilla warfare! I just used to nod my head as if I understood that it was normal for gorillas to be fighting to protect the rainforest! Grin

EasterSundaySimmons · 07/05/2014 10:53

As a small child there were news stories about Guerrilla warfare.

I actually thought that they had trained gorilla's to use machine guns and was most upset!

I think I got confused with Planet of the apes and the news stories!

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treaclesoda · 07/05/2014 10:52

kinky my elderly dad was a child dfuring the war. He'd been told that germs give you the cold/sore throat/flu and he couldn't grasp how these wee tiny things that were so small you couldn't see them were able to fly planes and drop bombs on the UK.

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LadyMacmuffintop · 07/05/2014 10:50

I used to worry a lot that either God or Father Christmas must not be real because how could there be two omniscient beings? But if they both were real were they at war or in cahoots? A lot of angst every christmas over that one. Dinosaurs somehow came into the mix as possible fantasy creatures re: God. Of course now I know that dinosaurs and father christmas are real it's solved all my problems.

RubberBulletKisses · 07/05/2014 10:45

Of course unicorns are real.

Things you used to think and now can't quite believe you did
kinkymouse · 07/05/2014 10:44

When I was small I must of been taking in the news on TV by osmosis and there was a mention of "jeans" causing cancer.

My DM tried for years to get me into C&A jeans, and eventually gave up telling everyone I was just a girly girl when in reality I was saving myself from a horrible disease. I was quite a bit older when it clicked that they meant genes.

BuilderMammy · 07/05/2014 10:38

I thought wolves were fictional until embarassingly recently. I thought wolves were to dogs what unicorns are to horses.
You think unicorns are fictional?!

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ghostmous3 · 07/05/2014 10:06

I used to believe there was a man that sits insides cash machines and pushes cash through the slot when you ask for it.

i believed that until i was 21. I have a degree and everything.

EmmanuelWoganberry · 07/05/2014 10:04

I thought wolves were fictional until embarassingly recently. I thought wolves were to dogs what unicorns are to horses.

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treaclesoda · 07/05/2014 10:02

that should have said that the ones without legs had to fly all the time.

The ones with legs could of course stop and have a bit of stand on their legs. Grin

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GooseyLoosey · 07/05/2014 10:00

Can't help with the seagulls, but when I was about 4 one of my goldfish died. My mother told me it had gone on its hols whilst she desperately searched for a similar one. I was about 30 when it struck me that that couldn't possibly be true. I am a city lawyer so one would have thought that I was fairly level headed and pretty bright, but apparently I am a gullible idiot.