What are the daftest things you believed when you were young?
23 March 2006, 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Habgood
And that NL would put an end to sleaze - i must have been naive
That makes you about 14?
....Another thing i was told when we went on car journeys as kids was if we misbehaved my dad would pull the ejector handle and we would be ejected.Only later did i find out what the handbrake lever really did...
23 March 2006, 10:16 AM
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That the letters/word "NO" and arrow on the Harrow gasometer were telling pilots "No, it's not Heathrow, don't land here", coz one pilot landed at Northolt and couldn't take off again. (and I think they had to take the wings off the plane and take it down the motorway to Heathrow on a lorry or summat).
How was I to know it stood for NOrtholt?
I was about 7.
How was I to know it stood for NOrtholt?
I was about 7.
23 March 2006, 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Habgood
When you saw on the news that Guerillas had attacked such and such - well i thought they mean't Gorillas!
Erm, yes, I used to think that as well.
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23 March 2006, 11:30 AM
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I believed eating cauliflower would make me bionic as my mum told me it would in order for me to eat it.
As a kid I hated it but stomached it as one day I thought I would be able to fight crime and fly and stuff (yes stuff)...
These days I love the anti-carconogenic greenery so I guess long term it worked...
PS - I'm not actually bionic - perhaps the cauliflower I ate wasnt genetically modified enough back in the 1970's
As a kid I hated it but stomached it as one day I thought I would be able to fight crime and fly and stuff (yes stuff)...
These days I love the anti-carconogenic greenery so I guess long term it worked...
PS - I'm not actually bionic - perhaps the cauliflower I ate wasnt genetically modified enough back in the 1970's
23 March 2006, 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by wheelwright
That the Impreza was the fast thing on the road !!
When my dad used to record from vinyl to cassette I used to think that rather than simply making a copy, he was actually turning the 12" slab of vinyl INTO a small cassette tape.
23 March 2006, 01:01 PM
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I used to work with a really intelligent woman who started laughing when shown some pictures another friend took whilst diving...
She was in fits of laughter over piccies showing an Octopus.
Us: "What's so funny?"
Her: "Someone did a good job on this photoshopping."
Us: "???"
Her: "Well, octopuses aren't real, are they!"
Us: "W T F !?!?!?!?!?!???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!"
She honestly thought an octopus was a fictitional creature. Eight legs and squirts ink? Oh, please...
Suffice to say she was thereafter referred to as "Octopussy"
She was in fits of laughter over piccies showing an Octopus.
Us: "What's so funny?"
Her: "Someone did a good job on this photoshopping."
Us: "???"
Her: "Well, octopuses aren't real, are they!"
Us: "W T F !?!?!?!?!?!???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!"
She honestly thought an octopus was a fictitional creature. Eight legs and squirts ink? Oh, please...
Suffice to say she was thereafter referred to as "Octopussy"
23 March 2006, 02:16 PM
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I thought for years that Andy Pandy was a girl.
I was shocked when I found out.
Well no blokes dressed like that were I came from!
I was shocked when I found out.
Well no blokes dressed like that were I came from!
23 March 2006, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by paulr
Only later did i find out what the handbrake lever really did...
the smell of burning goes away when you push it down
23 March 2006, 06:23 PM
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"A man is helping police with their inquiries"
I honestly thought some bloke had wandered into the local station and offered to do a bit of filing, maybe some typing and make them a coffee to help the investigation on its way.....
I honestly thought some bloke had wandered into the local station and offered to do a bit of filing, maybe some typing and make them a coffee to help the investigation on its way.....
23 March 2006, 07:49 PM
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My sister, as a toddler, decided to rub my dad's shaving cream all over herself while in the bath. When he came in and saw her he said "don't do that, it'll make you grow hair like on daddy's face". Well, she didn't stop screaming for at least an hour, nothing we could say would convince her she wasn't going to turn into a mini bigfoot.
24 March 2006, 03:22 PM
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my mum once told me that if i was bad the binmen would take me away, so the next time the binmen came round i ran into the house and locked the door and hid and wouldn't let my mum back in again until they had went away.
BTW don't step on the cracks on the pavement cus the witches will get you :eek
BTW don't step on the cracks on the pavement cus the witches will get you :eek
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