If you need urgent support, call 999 or go to your nearest A&E. To contact our Crisis Messenger (open 24/7) text THEMIX to 85258.
Read the community guidelines before posting ✨
Options
When i was a kid.....
Former Member
Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
in General Chat
.... i used to believe
If you unscrewed your belly button your bum would fall off
If you ate a pip a tree/plant would grow in your stomach
People who died in films, tv etc were actually crminals who were sentenced to death so they put them in a film where their character got killed to make use of them
and my mate Richard believed that when the TV repair man came to fix the telly, it was to clear out all the bodies that had piled up inside.
and if you ate salt on lettuce you had a heart attack
so, anymore ?
If you unscrewed your belly button your bum would fall off
If you ate a pip a tree/plant would grow in your stomach
People who died in films, tv etc were actually crminals who were sentenced to death so they put them in a film where their character got killed to make use of them
and my mate Richard believed that when the TV repair man came to fix the telly, it was to clear out all the bodies that had piled up inside.
and if you ate salt on lettuce you had a heart attack
so, anymore ?
0
Comments
That raisins were dead flies with the wings pulled off (I still hate raisins to this day)
I didn't understand why we had to re wash dishes after the dogs had licked them clean - I mean they looked clean :P
I also thought there were little pixies inside traffic lights controlling them because I couldn't understand how they knew when to change
My grandparents convinced me of this, and it's why we were never allowed to watch programmes with guns etc in them. In reality it was because of my Grandads's PTSD following WW2, but I love how they dealt with that...
Also that real life used to be in black and white and that's why there was black and white films. I can still remember my mum explaining to me that I wasnt
That teachers lived in school.
I was always firmly convinced that if my Dad was more than 5 minutes late in picking me up then it must mean he was either dead or didn't love me anymore.
Magical times
That eating bread crusts would make your hair curly (thanks Grandma...!)
That children were born children and adults were born as adults. I used to find it hard imagining everyone was a baby once!
It's true. Celm's baby was 8stone 8oz
Every country had its own language
Every country had its own god, and they were all floating above their countries, limited by invisible walls around the country. I particularly imagined the Christian God and Allah chatting from either side of the "wall" between Greece and Turkey.
People I wasn't around were frozen in time (what would be the point of moving if I'm not there?)
Giants are actually women who were pregnant and waited too long to give birth, so they grew enough that a full-grown person could fit inside them.
i'll never live that down
my brother convinced me that there was a headless horseman at a certain point in the alley way so i ran past it each time
my godfather convinced me that the woman that lived in the big house near his was part cat, with massive claws and all that. we always used to run past the house 'just in case'
mum and father christmas were related cos they had the same handwriting.
Also that the seeds in tomatoes were actually spiders eggs but i still ate them anyway
My Nan had a "stick" in the cupboard under the stairs, for when we were naughty. I never ever saw it because I was consequently well behaved. Wasn't until she died that I found out it never existed.
We had a house like that near us... it was up a cul-de-sac with loads of trees and there was word that an old man lived there and he would snatch kids and you'd never be seen from again! We moved out of the area before I ever plucked up courage to go up that road alone!