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Strange things you once believed were true.
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Is it use to believe or used to believe? I never can seem to remember which is right.
I was once convinced that the Prime Minister had cancelled all birthdays in the month of August. I was devastated. It was made worse when I ran to my mum in tears for help and she went along with it, saying "it's OK, you might get one next year."
When I was little I thought NASA had an anti-gravity room.
I once met an adult who believed that. Try as I might, I could not convince him otherwise.
My brother told me about a guy who believed that junk yards had special magnets that only picked up specific kinds of metals. One for copper, one for aluminum etc.
Is it use to believe or used to believe? I never can seem to remember which is right.
this is the place to ask.
Is it use to believe or used to believe? I never can seem to remember which is right.
it's used to believe. if you want a simple way to remember, the phrase is past tense, so think used and not use. just a way to remind you but when in doubt, use neither. you could say, "i no longer believe this to be true." or something to that effect. it's what i do when i'm not sure how to spell certain words and have no access to a spell check.
You must've had a very scary and disturbing childhood
Not really, it is merely what seemed logical at the time.
(What a coincidence! We both have quotes from popular dystopian novels! What are the chances‽)
There are some great ones on here, guess I should contribute after reading them. I don't remember everything, I know there was more, but here is what I remember now:
1. If you stand in front of a microwave while it's on you get brain cancer (I ran to shove a friend out of the way once!)
2. If you swallowed gum it would stay in you for years
3. If you swallowed a seed it would grow in you unless you went to the bathroom quickly enough
4. If you came up to a Stop sign you had to wait there until someone came up and pulled the sign out. This only happened the first time I ever read Stop, then it was explained to me and I felt dumb.
5. There might be a little monster in the toilet, so you had to check before you sat down (what movie is this at the end of??? Tons of little monsters running around, I think maybe at a circus or something, guy goes into a trailer at the end).
and to end it on a sad note . . .
6. If I loved my cat enough, when she died her ghost would come visit me to say good-bye before it went on to a happy afterlife.
1. If you stand in front of a microwave while it's on you get brain cancer (I ran to shove a friend out of the way once!
)2. If you swallowed gum it would stay in you for years
3. If you swallowed a seed it would grow in you unless you went to the bathroom quickly enough
4. If you came up to a Stop sign you had to wait there until someone came up and pulled the sign out. This only happened the first time I ever read Stop, then it was explained to me and I felt dumb.
5. There might be a little monster in the toilet, so you had to check before you sat down (what movie is this at the end of??? Tons of little monsters running around, I think maybe at a circus or something, guy goes into a trailer at the end).
and to end it on a sad note . . .
6. If I loved my cat enough, when she died her ghost would come visit me to say good-bye before it went on to a happy afterlife.
I remember thinking that if you listened to one of those Old-Time Wooden cased radios, you would hear radio shows from the past.
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I grew up in a small town in North Western Ontario -- Sioux Lookout. When I was a kid I had a theory worked out in my head that as one travelled further and further from Sioux Lookout that the towns would get bigger and bigger. It seemed logical to me and it was scientifically proven as we travelled to my Grand Mother's each Christmas in Winnipeg.
Sioux Lookout -- 3000 people
Dryden -- 6000
Kenora -- 10000
Winnipeg -- 750000
Then we travelled to Brandon, Manitoba one year which was further than Winnipeg yet smaller and my theory came crashing down around me.
I remeber being so certain that it must be true. Sioux Lookout was the armpit of the universe and I was comfortable with that sense of order.
darren
Sioux Lookout -- 3000 people
Dryden -- 6000
Kenora -- 10000
Winnipeg -- 750000
Then we travelled to Brandon, Manitoba one year which was further than Winnipeg yet smaller and my theory came crashing down around me.
I remeber being so certain that it must be true. Sioux Lookout was the armpit of the universe and I was comfortable with that sense of order.
darren
I used to think something similar. My dad has a 1964 T-Bird, and I thought that if you listened to the radio in it you would hear old radio shows.I remember thinking that if you listened to one of those Old-Time Wooden cased radios, you would hear radio shows from the past.
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When I was little my brother convinced me that when my family moved to California from Illinois they came by covered wagon.
Thats from my reall ydisturbing childhood
dystopia FTW
Would you happen to know why that is? I have seen it both ways. Thank you for expanding my knowledge.
In a clause actually on-topic, I also heard the "gum thing" throughout my childhood.
1. If you stand in front of a microwave while it's on you get brain cancer (I ran to shove a friend out of the way once!
My older brother told my sisters and I that, and my sisters believed that until they were about 17 (not kidding), and I still believed it until about two years ago. I still don't stand in front of a microwave.
Our display from our Gateway had the number 1776 on the front of it, and I thought that it meant it was made in 1776.
The Hotel Del Coronado owned Dell Computer.
Women would get pregnant once they truly loved their man, or if God just decided that she was ready to get pregnant. I remember watching a story on the news about teenage pregnancies with my sister who was 17 when I was 8, and I told her that that won't happen to her. She got so mad.
Women had penises and testicles that they would urinate out of. I eventually learned the concept of coitus, but that their penis was called a vagina. A man would expell his semen, and the woman's skin would absorb it, and would develop a child in their stomach.
^^ Yeah, I know, those last two are very disturbing, but I was a little kid-- what do you expect?
Up until a year ago, I used to believe that a geostationary satellite could be placed above any spot on earth, rather than just over the equator. The penny dropped one day when I was aligning a satellite dish.
Check, and check! lol I remember thinking that till I was about 5 or 6.
I also thought back then that;
- If you had a splinter, it would grow into a branch if you left it in there.
- If my brother and I were going on a long journey, we would try our best to fall asleep so that the Flash
, would pick up our car and get us to our destination in only 5 minutes.I never believed in Santa though. The Flash, yes. Santa, no... Hmmm... lol
I used to believe that MR posters were normal, until reading some of the posts in this thread!
And here is, in relatively logical order, a summary of the thread thus far
Chewing gum clogging your stomach, plants growing in stomachs from eating seeds, rabbits on moon, moon made of cheese, gravity or lack thereof, Santa vs The Flash vs Superman vs God, Camelot under a school, vagina = bajingo = kiwi, alien babies, pregnant from kissing, pregnant from ejaculating on stomach and seeping in, pregnant from man peeing on a woman, girls laughing too hard and peeing, flushing on a plane and hitting people below, people in TVs and radios made the broadcasts, old radios = old broadcasts, and on and on and on
And here is, in relatively logical order, a summary of the thread thus far
Chewing gum clogging your stomach, plants growing in stomachs from eating seeds, rabbits on moon, moon made of cheese, gravity or lack thereof, Santa vs The Flash vs Superman vs God, Camelot under a school, vagina = bajingo = kiwi, alien babies, pregnant from kissing, pregnant from ejaculating on stomach and seeping in, pregnant from man peeing on a woman, girls laughing too hard and peeing, flushing on a plane and hitting people below, people in TVs and radios made the broadcasts, old radios = old broadcasts, and on and on and on
That King Arthur's castle Camelot was buried under my school
..and Merlin's cave is under King's X station. True!
heyyyyy,, i am in that quote, and yes i am glad, at one point in my life i had enough creativity to explain what was going on in the world. It's just not the same anymore...
When I was little my brother convinced me that when my family moved to California from Illinois they came by covered wagon.
that's awesome! reminds me of the game oregon trail.
Why, thank you.
I will be signing autograohs in a bar near you (by 'near you' I mean a bar in Shinjuku in Tokyo)
Something I once believed to be true:
mice were responsible for the holes in cheese and people would still buy the cheese because mice luv cheese therefore the cheese with holes must be good 'cause mice ate it!
Wow all of these are great, keep em coming everyone! I can't really remember a few but when I do I'll post here, haha.
1. When I was a kid, I used to believe that I could run much faster at night than during daytime.
2. Also, I used to think that summer break was a year long in grade 1. It felt that way. The more I aged the more I felt "they" were making summer break shorter and shorter each year. I despised "them".
Edit: Here's another one I absolutely have to share: One of my friend's ex believes (note verb's tense) that islands are floating on water and are held in place by bridges or else they would float downstream. She was about 25 years old when she shared this with him.
She also didn't like sci-fi movies because she didn't believe all that was shown in those movies. O_O
2. Also, I used to think that summer break was a year long in grade 1. It felt that way. The more I aged the more I felt "they" were making summer break shorter and shorter each year. I despised "them".
Edit: Here's another one I absolutely have to share: One of my friend's ex believes (note verb's tense) that islands are floating on water and are held in place by bridges or else they would float downstream. She was about 25 years old when she shared this with him.
She also didn't like sci-fi movies because she didn't believe all that was shown in those movies. O_O