Dumbest Thing You Believed

[LarryISU]

I was about 30 when I learned that not everybody has tinnitus. I always just assumed everyone hears tones in their head.

 

[RING4CY]

That I would have to use stop drop and roll on a daily basis.

 

[cytor]

The reason why people dont know how to drive drunk, is because they don't LEARN how to drive drunk.

 

[ISUalways]

That my future wife wouldn’t cheat on me!
Ugh

 

[AuH2O]

All the fire, brimstone and retribution hallucinations from the Book of Revelations. Scared the snot out of me when I was a kid. My first contact with Mean Jesus. He was so nice in the first part of the NT.

There was a show on network tv some random night in the early or mid-90s called Ancient Prophecies. Talked about Nostradamus, Revelations and stuff like that, basically suggesting end times were near. I was anxious and a little depressed for a few days after that.

 

[psycln11]

That Santa came to the mall for a full month right before Christmas.

 

[geewago]

A bird is easy to catch if you put salt on his tail

Water moccasins don't bite under water

A skunk cant spray if you lift his rear legs off the ground

Warts come from touching frogs

Stripes on tennis shoes make you run faster

 

[dahliaclone]

Getting your right ear pierced meant you were 100% gay, but getting just the left ear pierced meant you were straight. You spent three hours in front of the mirror at Claire’s intensely studying anatomy like your entire future depended on it. (Spoiler: It didn't matter, I still ended up with frost tipped hair and received my membership card ten years later).

 

[demoncore1031]

All the fire, brimstone and retribution hallucinations from the Book of Revelations. Scared the snot out of me when I was a kid. My first contact with Mean Jesus. He was so nice in the first part of the NT.

Yep, they scare ya into their cult before you're old enough to know better.

 

[NorthCyd]

I’ve gotta believe things changed when they went from cast iron tubs to fiberglass.

Water is a conductor of electricity, assuming you aren't running it through a whole house RO system or something. What the pipes or tub are made of doesn't matter much.

 

[gonzojlz]

That god would send me to hell if I masturbated but saying 50 Hail Mary's made it all better.

You will go blind if you masturbate too much.

That's like saying your feet will fall off if you walk too much.

 

[NWICY]

I heard at one point as a young kid that "college was like a job" and was convinced that people got paid an income to go to college.

There used to be a big red helmet in the Jack Trice parking lot in like B5 or C5 to put cans in, probably for some student org or the Cyclone Club or something, but I thought it was to help raise funds to pay for the Iowa State football players salaries as college students. So my friends and I would go around the lots and pick up cans to put in that helmet thing so the football players could make a living.

And here we are your dreams became reality

 

[wenkeej]

As a byproduct of being a kid in SE Iowa in the 80s...

The Hawkeyes are the good guys and the Cyclones are the bad guys.

 

[dafarmer]

That public service was what politics was all about

 

[CYedUp]

If you pee in the pool, there’s a chemical that turns the water bright red around you.

People in black-and-white photos saw the world in black and white.

 

[brokenloginagain]

that lance armstrong wasn't on drugs.

 

[jcisuclones]

And here we are your dreams became reality

You sure can't blame 8 year old me for us being behind the curve NIL wise now when I was out there grinding! I was just ahead of the times!

 

[PrimeCy]

It's funny going through these how many I also heard as a kid and forgot about.

 

[cydsho]

I have a friend who still thinks college football is better because the "kids play for the love of the game". He is an SEC fan.

 

[Clone5]

Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were just on a little Creatine.