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When i was a child, i believed autopilot really worked like in the movie Airplane, that it was an inflatable dummy.

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[โ€“] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

That tv programming would pause when I turned the TV off.

That all adults are smokers.

Two that come to mind:

People would say that's an "old timey" car or something and I thought that was a brand name.

I thought the people who had really tall spiky mohawks had hair that just grew like that.

Freddy Krueger was two people. I thought it was like Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. I thought it was Dr. Krueger and Freddy was the monster he created. When I saw the movie I was like where's his creator, the one that brought him to life?

[โ€“] threeduck@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My dad has this long running bit, that if I needed his help on something, he needed to go to the shop to get a "round tuit". I remember asking what store he had to go to, and how much it cost, and being annoyed at how he hadn't gotten a round tuit yet.

He must have thought I was really committed to the bit.

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[โ€“] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 1 week ago

rice turned water into soil

[โ€“] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

Cthulhu is a Hindu god

[โ€“] pixelscript@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

I thought the glyph for "heated seat" in cars depicted a raised fist with the pinkie finger extended rather than a chair with heat waves eminating from it.

The Tea at the Treedome episode of SpongeBob SquarePants further convinced me I was seeing it correctly, and I since knew it as "the fancy button". In some regard, I wasn't entirely wrong.

"When in doubt, pinkie out!"

[โ€“] DeaDvey@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That all television, even live action, was just made by someone who could draw really fast.

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[โ€“] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 1 week ago

That life would be better as an adult.

[โ€“] chottomatte@lemdro.id 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

that if we break tv's screen , tv charecters can get out of it and we can enter tv

[โ€“] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This sounded like it led to an expensive life lesson.

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[โ€“] pkill@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

that you're supposed to show a middle finger as if you were showing it to yourself

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[โ€“] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I used to greet clothing store mannequins and thought that people who didn't were very rude.

[โ€“] A_Filthy_Weeaboo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought babyback ribs were from ACTUAL Babies

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[โ€“] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

That we would live in peace

[โ€“] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

That we had to pay our employer to get a job.

[โ€“] recentSloth43@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I used to think a car direction indicator was a GPS guiding system, and not manually operated.

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