One time when I was 4 or so, I took all my VHS tapes out of their cases, lined them up in a circle, and sat in the middle of the circle while eating Swiss Rolls.
Also, my VHS of Cinderella had the case so damaged it wouldn't close properly, this is probably because when I was a toddler I would carry it around and even cuddle it like a stuffed animal (as shown in a photo, I have no memory of this) I think I would do this with other tapes as well, there exists a photo of toddler me in my room and there is a VHS of Babe in the background.
"COCONUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM!"Kinda doubles as "dumb stuff you believed as a kid", but I thought that "changing the world" meant literally imagining the world being something else.
And so I had a phase where I'd pretend that myself and everyone else in my life were in the setting appropriate to whatever hyperfixation I had at the time - Warrior Cats and Pokémon were two I distinctly remember roleplaying with my friend, but I think I also imagined that I (and everyone else in my life) were dinosaurs, and I distinctly remember imagining that we were tadpoles and frogs as well.
Regarding the "tadpoles and frogs" thing, I'd imagine other kids and I as tadpoles, and adults as frogs. My dad was pretty willing to encourage my imagination - I remember one day we were going to see a movie as a group, and so my dad said something like "There'll be 3 tadpoles and 2 frogs there".
It was kinda cute, but definitely a good look into just how weird a kid's imagination can be, haha.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.I wanted to start a collection because all the cool kids collected something, so I started collecting those metal clips used to hold bread bags together. Lost interest very quickly. I also collected Airsoft pellets that I found everywhere, I called them "Bibis marbles".
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Edited by Hqami on Aug 18th 2023 at 7:34:53 PM
Stop playing rimshots this isn't funnyThere's a whole reddit community dedicated to collecting bread clips and it's amusing how seriously they take such a niche hobby, it's made me consider picking it up.
That reminds me, as a kid I collected bottlecaps. Not the cool metal bottlecaps with logos on them from soda bottles, but solid color plastic bottlecaps, like from milk jugs. I kept them in a big plastic piggy bank. I don't remember what made me want to start doing that.
Edited by arimothereindeer on Aug 20th 2023 at 2:33:55 PM
Reindeer in the direction of reindeerOne time I prayed to God to forgive me for watching The Simpsons.
During kindergarten nap time when I couldn't sleep, I pretended my hand was a superhero called "the three-legged hand".
One time me and my sister read a toy catalog and she told me to "worship" (get on my knees and repeately bow) some of the cooler toys.
Edited by Hqami on Aug 20th 2023 at 9:17:01 PM
Stop playing rimshots this isn't funnyI tormented my mother by hiding from her on purpose when we were out together on public places.
Edited by Kiobi20 on Aug 20th 2023 at 9:41:24 AM
When I was like, 11, I was mad at my mom enforcing a time limit on computers (it was actually automated on the machine itself, mind you), so I ended up "venting" by writing theoretical passwords (which I never used, and you shouldn't use either) that were swearing at the time limit. The funny part is that my mom got upset at me writing down "God damn" and so I "censored" it to "sucky damn"
"It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times?"- Whenever I ate Weetabix, I would stir it into mush and call it porridge.
- I claimed that you could identify the gender of a car by the shape of it's headlights.
- Before going to the cinema to see a film, I would read the plot summary on Wikipedia and essentially spoil the whole thing for myself.
When I was like 8 my favorite Wikipedia pages were something like "list of toys" "list of torture methods" and "list of The Simpsons episodes"
Stop playing rimshots this isn't funnyMy favorite Wikipedia pages when I was a kid (maybe 11 or 12 because that's when we first got internet) were lists of various animals portrayed in fiction (e.g. cats, dogs, monkeys)
Oh, and I used to enjoy vandalizing Wikipedia pages for fun. I am extremely ashamed of this phase.
"COCONUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM!"I also had (and to this day still have) an obsession with Wikipedia, as well as other wikis (e.g. Fandom Wikis). WikiHow was - and still is - another one I can get on a Wiki Walk with.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.Me three. I turned Wikipedia pages of naughty anime into blank slates in the name of justice. To no surprise, I was banned.
Edited by ChicoTheParakeet on Aug 22nd 2023 at 11:04:24 AM
When I was possibly 8, I ended up "twisting" Ferb Latin.....but all I did with it was make relatively tame stuff like "urp-berb" and "art-ferb", before getting mad when my father used it for worse cases of Toilet Humor. The interesting thing is, I did imagine actual swears being done with Ferb Latin, like "astard-berb", but I wisely chose not to say any of them (even if what I imagined would only net a PG by the BBFC).
"It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times?"When I was a small child, I wrote a song that I would sing to annoy my family. Here's a rough translation of the lyrics:
Pig bunny
Pig bunny
Mushroom slide
Tree stump's poop
Cabbage's poop
The broom has a smelly butt
(Repeat endlessly)
Also, at one point me and my sister liked singing random songs except we replaced every noun with our family members' names.
Edited by Hqami on Aug 24th 2023 at 4:58:40 PM
Stop playing rimshots this isn't funnyThis reminds me of a story my mother told. I can't remember this, but apparently when I was three, I'd sing a song that went, "I'm a little troll. I'm a little troll, whose name is—" and then I'd spell my name and then for some reason say, "spells 'mama'!". According to her, claiming the letters of my name spelt "Mama" was an "old joke" of mine at that age.
For every low there is a high.I remember that one time at a pool party I attended when I was younger, there was a kid who was running around while singing a song that went "I know a song that'll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves! I know a song that'll get on your nerves, and this is how it goes!" over and over until his mom told him to knock it off. He replied, "See, I told you it'd get on your nerves!"
I thought it was so funny that I ran around singing it too, except I misheard him and started singing "I know a song that'll get on your legs" instead. Somehow that made total sense to me.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.Another one: One time I wrote a fake love letter to my sister from a boy I made up named Krilas Love.
Also when I lost on a mobile game or otherwise did something stupid on my Ipod Touch, I would lick its screen because I knew it didn't like it. And one time I intentionally changed the language to Chinese because no idea, and I didn't know how to change it back so it was stuck that way for a while.
Stop playing rimshots this isn't funnyThere was a period of time when I was 5 where I was obsessed with the song "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas". There was a video on YouTube with the song and I'd listen to it all the time... regardless of whether or not it was close to Christmas.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.As a kid, there was a point where I must've watched DuckTales the Movie like three times in one day. Another time years later, we ordered every showing ever for Madeline 1998 in one day too and I was watching it one time after another. Haha. Usually I wait a sleep cycle before watching a whole movie again now. Haha.
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Reminds me of when my favorite Christmas song was this one called "Fyysisesti hauskaa joulua" which is about wishing merry Christmas to various body parts. I even drew a Chirstmas card for someone with pictures of bones and organs in Santa hats.
When I was about 13-14, I was hanging out with my grandma at a Christmas party while showing her some memes and other funny jokes I had saved on my laptop.
At one point I showed her a screenshot of that one Tumblr post that said something like: "When I was a kid, I used to think that Jesus was a chicken strip, because there was a Christmas song that described him as "tender and mild". You know what else is tender and mild? A chicken strip."
She, ah... did not find it as funny as I did. She sat there in silent disgust for a few minutes or so before she completely forgot about the incident.
I'm still not really sure why I showed her that picture in particular, but it brings to mind another similar story of mine from about 8 years prior: "That's not a nice picture. Get rid of it!"
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.When I was five, I would feel guilty very easily, to the point that being told I did something wrong made me cry. I also hated people leaving.
It got to the point where I developed an aversion just for the words "sorry" (because I associated it with being told to apologise; i.e. being told I'd done something wrong) and "goodbye", even out-of-context.
For every low there is a high.

When I was probably about 5 or 6, one of my friends and I watched an episode of Phineas and Ferb that had a moment where Doofenshmirtz got a trash can stuck on his head and stumbled around for a while before finally falling off his balcony. We thought it was so funny that we had the brilliant idea to try it ourselves (along with his younger sister)... with predictable results.
Luckily, we at least had the foresight to not try doing this on the edge of the balcony, but on the edge of a bed, so it could've gone way worse!
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.