I thought if food was "fat-free" it meant you could eat as of it much as you want without getting fat.
Edited by Bootlebat on Jan 3rd 2023 at 5:51:42 AM
I just remembered this one.
For a while when I was a kid, for some reason I thought that Evil Is Sexy and Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains were exclusive to anime.
Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!Additionally, for some reason, I use to think that Chicago was located in Michigan. Maybe because they both contain the syllable "chi"?
Currently Reading: N/AI remember thinking that "Barenaked Ladies" was a really scandalous name for a band, and went quite some time taking the band's name at face value. Then I learned that all of the members are male and are appropriately-dressed (though apparently, they did record one song an album naked for a period of time). Anyway, they're one of my favorite bands now.
Also, I finally realized a day before my 18th birthday that in the Christmas song "Santa Baby", she's asking for checks, not the cereal Chex. To be fair, it's a Christmas song I can hardly stand.
And two from my parents:
My mom thought that cartoons were live-action, but someone put a filter over the camera to make them look like drawings. I asked what she thought when obviously unrealistic stuff (e.g. Funny Animal characters) happened in cartoons, and she didn't know.
My dad also claimed that when he was a kid and had to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, he'd cover his ears after flushing the toilet. He thought that somehow that'd prevent his parents from hearing.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.When I was younger, I thought that dodo
was made of the long-extinct bird of the same name.
When I was eight, there was a giant spaceship-shaped thing at my local playground. It looked a lot like it was designed for kids to play on, but it had "Don't touch" signs on it, so I thought that meant it was a real spaceship. In my defence, my mother would play along.
For every low there is a high.I mistook Home Alone 1 for a horror movie because of the screaming Kevin poster.
Edited by ArgoTheBlank on Jan 15th 2023 at 10:03:02 AM
I used to be think that Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja was made by Disney Television Animation. I felt so defeated when I learned the truth.
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To be fair, it would be if it weren't for the Amusing Injuries.
I saw someone in a cartoon use an eraser to "erase someone's face" and I was scared that someone would erase my face in real life.
Inconsistently active.This one was prompted by Cibryll's latest post in the "Things you didn't know until very recently..." thread. When I was a kid, thanks to the computer games I liked to play when I was a kid, I thought that "decimate" was a fancier word for killing one's enemies.
Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!A looooooong time ago, I thought that Television was invented before Film. Yeah...
Currently Reading: N/AWhen we first got our cat, I was worried that if I touched his nipples, milk would spurt out. My mother had to tell me that male cats can't make milk.
For every low there is a high.When I was a little kid, I was told the definition of the word “arbitrary,” a word I learned from Calvin and Hobbes.
Thanks to a combination of a bad explanation (I was simply told that “it could mean anything”) and me being Literal-Minded, I took it to mean that I could actually replace any adjective with the word.
This actually once got me in trouble at school when we were making letters for a specific teacher’s birthday. We had to describe them in one adjective, and I couldn’t think of anything since I barely knew them, so I wrote down “arbitrary.”
He/they | Mostly here on my free daysWhen I was 6, I used to confuse a room fitted with gambling machines for a kids' arcade.
Thankfully, I did not play those gambling machines.
Working on Sandbox.The Amazing Race TV Tropes Edition.I used to think all Muslims were right-handed by default because it's strongly recommended to do a lot of things with the right hand (like eating and drinking, for instance). In turn, I thought all non-Muslims were lefties, for some reason.
Finding a left-handed classmate in an Islamic school finally helped me let go of that.
Edited by BlackFaithStar on Feb 10th 2023 at 1:11:41 AM
When you're alone I'm reaching out to let you know that you're far from strangers, like the saviorWhen I was younger and before I got got properly into the show, I made the common mistake of assuming that Avatar: The Last Airbender was a legitimate Anime. You can go ahead and let me drown now.
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In the song "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood, I had a slight Mondegreen where I heard "And I won't forget the men who died" as "And I won't forget the man who died." This caused kid!me to believe that there was one particular soldier who fought in one of our country's wars who was somehow more important than all the others.
I also thought that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington DC literally contained only one soldier, and that he was the "man" in the song.
Very good kitty