Crazy Stuff You Used To Believe As A Kid

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  1. gentlesenior

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    Don't go ruining Rudolph the Red nose Reindeer for me. Next you're going to say Santa Claus doesn't exist. Jotun entrails, I think not.
     
  2. guerillabedlam

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    Did you gloss over the part where she said Santa Claus was Odin?
     
  3. gentlesenior

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    I saw that but Santa lives in the N. Pole with the missus and some elves, Odin does not.
     
  4. TrumpCards

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    I was naive enough to believe that cops weren’t assholes and took their jobs seriously.
     
  5. unfocusedanakin

    unfocusedanakin The Archaic Revival Lifetime Supporter

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    I've had good and bad experiences with them. But the bad was lying in a police report and getting very mad in court when my attorney pointed this out. I got a wrongful arrest settlement from it. This lead to the cop saying I should "watch my back when I'm in the car" outside the court. Sure enough I was pulled over several times in the following months always for "not signaling" or something vague. No doubt I was flagged in the system somehow. Cops are a gang and they protect their own like any gang.
     
  6. Driftwood Gypsy

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    I totally thought driving into a "dead end" would kill you. So when I was little I'd start SCREAMING when my mom turned into a dead end.
     
  7. guerillabedlam

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    To be fair, most other traffic signs are to be taken literally.

    Now that you mention it, I don't think I've seen a "dead end" sign here for a few years. I think it's been replaced by "No outlet" here.
     
  8. SouthPaw

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    When I was little I thought water passed through me and washed my insides when I took a bath.
     
  9. Irminsul

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    My dad told me once of I killed a snake my reflection would stay in its eyes so that all the other snakes could come and find me. I said well what I hit it with a shovel and I break it's eyes into a million pieces? Well then there'd be a million reflections of you for a million snakes to come and get you.

    Lol.
     
  10. FreshDacre

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    I stayed home from school, pretending to be sick, I thought that I would be able to invent some kind of helicopter machine out of a paper bag, and then I would go and fly over my school whilst they were having recess, and laugh at everyone because they had to be there, and I was flying and they weren't.
     
  11. Lady Shadow

    Lady Shadow Art is But a Shadow of the Divine Perfection

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    I thought that God would be mad if I masturbated. It didn't help that every time I masturbated as a teen something bad always happened. Probably just shitty luck.
     
  12. themnax

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    that adults had the slightest idea what they were talking about either
     
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    well the red nose part does make some sense, but that was a much later disney add on.
    the image called santa (which is also female for saint, which is another odd thing) sure looks like kropotkin,
    and that fits the timing of political cartoonsit nast's 'santa' (and makes sense that he would have known about and based it on).

    spirits of course, don't require physical form, and most people where i grew up, did not have fireplaces and chimneys.

    odin, well, midwinter doesn't sound like the best time for giants and raging battles, and i suspect, more cultures that celebrate midwinter's eve, are into feasting and peace.
     
  14. Irminsul

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    Santa became red and white because he was commercialised by Coca Cola. I did make a huge post about this some time ago adding pictures, depiction, mythology and all relevance. I'll have to find it someday.
     
  15. Libbygrable87

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    I used to think my parents names were really just Mom and Dad. I was shocked that they had really names. I thought the world was square when I was five. I cried when I heard it was round because I thought I would fall off the earth. I used to think I could fit down the toilet when I was five as well.
     
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