Dumb things you used to believe as a kid

x3 it seems to be just a song about breakup, really. Here's the lyrics.

When I first heard of Scientology as a kid, I concluded it was about science (it's right there in the name !) and therefore must be good.

I thought I was the only person in the world who didn't like ice cream.

You are.

I assumed that, in Harry Potter, the other Founders (and, by extent, their descendents) had similar powers to Salazar Slytherin's (and his descendents') Parseltongue. I assumed Gryffindor's descendents could talk to lions, Ravenclaw's to eagles, and Hufflepuff's to badgers.

What good is the ability to talk to badgers?

Depends on what badgers you're friends with.

Just imagine. A wizard or witch with an army of loyal African honey badgers. Terrifying.

What if your opponent casts a blizzard or rain of fire-type spell?

Honey badger don't care.

Even if it's on fire?

Those things shrug off arrows and some gunshots. Fire will just make them angrier.

I didn't get that the Richter Scale was logarithmic so I thought that say a 8.0 earthquake was only twice as big as a 4.0.

I thought in an atom the protons are red, the neutrons blue, and the electrons yellow. I probably saw it depicted like that in a book somewhere.

Maybe they are...

Well, the quarks are "red", "green" and "blue".

It took me a long time (I think until age 14 or 15) to figure out that the claw on a claw hammer is for pulling out nails. I used to think it was just there to make the tool look menacing and macho.

It took me a similar amount of time to learn that a claw hammer was a normal hammer.

Oh, yeah, it took me even longer to figure out that it had a name.

I somehow understood what hermaphrodites were before I understood sexuality, so for a time I thought "bisexual" meant the same thing as "hermaphrodite".

On the "darker" interpretations of songs sub-topic: When I heard "Tears In Heaven" as a kid, I generally got the point that it was about the idea of getting to visit a loved one again after their death, but had a very different interpretation of one particular lyric: When Eric Clapton said he couldn't stay because "I know I don't belong here in heaven", he most likely just meant that he had to return to earth... But at the time, I somehow concluded the narrator didn't belong in heaven because he knew he was going to hell. Keep in mind I also had no idea it was autobiographical, so I wasn't thinking of Clapton himself thinking he would go to hell.

edited 17th Jul '15 9:50:15 AM by MikeK

I don't remember if I've mentioned this before, but I used to think people just stoppes having sex after they first get married/have kids el oh ellll

I thought people only had sex to have a baby. When my dad told me otherwise I didn't believe him!

I thought sonic the hedgehog was my boyfriend, and also never knew what a Mary sue was leading to my sonic fan character as Sonic's new girlfriend back in the day nevertheless I grew out of it. It's plain stupid to ship a Mary sue with a canon character.

I didn't know that fanfiction can't be published, leading me to write a shitty The Simpsons Fix Fic involving a complete self-insert.

I used to think that your lungs were blue, your liver was purple and your kidneys were green. Why? That's the colours they were in this kid's game I had. Then again, we used to make the skeleton in that game wear the liver as a hat, play the lung bagpipes, have kidney ears and have his heart dance on his hand, so maybe we were just weird