Things You Completely Didn't Understand As a Child

[Luth4Cy]

Why nobody was more concerned when Russia invaded a U.S. state.

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

Angie your Friday topic threads rock too bad I work Friday's I have to wait till evening to read it.

 

[CyOps]

In grade school we did some volunteer trash pick up along the roads by the school. One of the kids found some porn that was thrown in the ditch. Before it was confiscated we saw a picture of a woman with a schlong.

I guess I still don't completely understand that.

 

[Trice]

I also used to occasionally call my little brothers dildos (can I say that on Cyclone Fanatic?) without realizing what they were.

 

[MeanDean]

See Angie, I told you it would devolve into 90% sexual talk...

I thought of another one. I was about 6 and I developed a rash on my arm. I thought at first it was mosquito bites and as it got worse someone, possibly my grandmother, identified it as poison ivy. Being so young my idea of poison was if you got poison you died. So I was convinced I was going to die; and was somewhat surprised by how little concern there was for me on my last days.

 

[Angie]

Angie your Friday topic threads rock too bad I work Friday's I have to wait till evening to read it.

The credit for this one should all go to MeanDean! I'm so glad he PMed me with an idea, I had nothing for today.

I hope your work flies today!

 

[djcubby]

Mincemeat Pie.

My family used to make this around the holidays from time to time and I was always disgusted by it because I thought there was actual meat in the pie. Needless to say, I've still never tried it.

 

[Cycl1]

Mincemeat Pie.

My family used to make this around the holidays from time to time and I was always disgusted by it because I thought there was actual meat in the pie. Needless to say, I've still never tried it.

there isnt meat in the pie????

 

[MeanDean]

Mincemeat Pie.

My family used to make this around the holidays from time to time and I was always disgusted by it because I thought there was actual meat in the pie. Needless to say, I've still never tried it.

Haha. I think someone convinced my younger brother that "hamburgers" had boogers in them. He wouldn't eat hamburgers for a long time after that.

 

[JRE1975]

It took me way too long to figure out the significance of the number 69

 

[CyOps]

there isnt meat in the pie????

Spinoff thread. "Things you completely don't understand as an adult"

 

[mywayorcyway]

If by "not completely understand" you mean "have no f***ing clue", then I have one that sticks out to me. We had a lot of helicopters fly over our farm, it was the reserves in training, also known as "weekend warriors". At one point my Dad told me they were on training missions and were preparing for real battles. Which to me meant they would pepper me with aircraft fire is they didn't identify me as a friendly. So I hid in the ditch for five years if I happened to be outside when they flew over.

 

[cyhiphopp]

When I first started learning cuss words and a young lad the first big ones I learned were the S word and the F word. For a long time I didn't even know what they meant, just that they were bad. Eventually I learned from friends what they meant but for a while I had them mixed up and would use them incorrectly.

 

[mywayorcyway]

If by "not completely understand" you mean "have no f***ing clue", then I have one that sticks out to me. We had a lot of helicopters fly over our farm, it was the reserves in training, also known as "weekend warriors". At one point my Dad told me they were on training missions and were preparing for real battles. Which to me meant they would pepper me with aircraft fire is they didn't identify me as a friendly. So I hid in the ditch for five years if I happened to be outside when they flew over.

I guess that should read "for five years, I hid in the ditch if I happened to be outside when they flew over".

I didn't actually hide in a ditch for five years. I'm not THAT stupid.

 

[Cycl1]

Spinoff thread. "Things you completely don't understand as an adult"

was going to ask, "well wtf is in it then?" but realized i should just google it so i dont get one of those "let me google that for you" responses. Looks like it used to contain meat, and sometimes still does.

 

[Daserop]

When I was really young and we would travel for the holidays, I would always wait for an area of blackness. I thought the map of the USA was a photo taken from space and black lines were painted on the earth to show state borders.

 

[CyOps]

was going to ask, "well wtf is in it then?" but realized i should just google it so i dont get one of those "let me google that for you" responses. Looks like it used to contain meat, and sometimes still does.

Thanks. Now I know too.

 

[dtlantz]

I was around five or six when Ken Burns' Civil War series came out on PBS. I remember seeing all the black and white photos and asking my dad when color was invented. SMH.

 

[cyrevkah]

I was pretty little and my older brother convinced me that if he put salt in my iced drink the ice would stick to my teeth forever. I didn't understand that ice melted yet :sad:

 

[CLONECONES]

Spinoff thread. "Things you completely don't understand as an adult"

every single magic trick on "Penn & Teller: Fool Us"