Most mind numbingly stupid thing you believed?

[Sgt Doom]

When I were younger I thought that babies came from the poo hole...

This, and I believed it to be the active site of sexual intercourse.

 

[TankCopter]

My dad used to tell me he'd gone to visit the Queen whenever he came home from work and I asked where he'd gone. I now know you can't drive from the East Kimberley to London and back.

I also used to imagine you had cans of soft drink and whole sandwiches floating around in your stomach, even though you chewed stuff up.

 

[thenoticeableshadow]

hmmm i actually cant think of one.....


although my friend told me as a child he learnt his history from one of the command and conquer games. hes that does mean he believed people actually had time travel and all the other stuff that happens in the earlier games of the series

EDIT: I JUST REMEMBER THE BEST ONE EVER. i thought i was a robot. no seriously, i honestly
believed i was a robot, as in terminator style robot.it was only for a few day because i realized how stupid it was but i still believed it.

 

[Kiju]

That Hewlett Packard actually had a good customer-support base.

And they do! ...to an extent. ._.

Freakin' East-Indians...speak clear English dammit! -.-

 

[scrambledeggs]

I used to think 'giving head' was... yeah.

Lets not go there.

Pressurespot.

 

[thenoticeableshadow]

I can't think of anyting that I believed right now, but once I did convince my friend that there was an animal named "Drop Bears" Then hide up in tree's and jump down on people, crush their skulls and then eat all their brains.

And the only way to repel them is to pour urine over yourself.

my 2nd grade teacher told us about drop bears except without the urine part still didn't like camping that year

 

[ethaninja]

When I was about 5 or 6: That Duke Nukem lived in a pipe that ran underneath my house.

 

[Kelbear]

When I was in elementary school, I thought that the penis is supposed to go into the bellybutton.

How was I supposed to know where the vagina was?!

 

[Beefcakes]

Loving the comments on drop bears, tis quite hilarious
Anyway, when I was in primary school, I thought because I couldn't find my pulse, I was not human
I thought I was from Mars
...
I'm not weird at all >.>

 

[Red Bomb]

The only thing I can think of right now is if you ate a seed from an apple, melon etc it would grow into the fruit inside your stomach.
But apart from that I was usually the child that broke other kids delusions by telling them otherwise (aka the truth).

 

[narutorules44]

when i was 5 my friend said ants were taking over the world

 

[bluemistake2]

In 6th grade, I was also convinced for a while that I had AIDS, HIV, and herpes (at the same time!) and was going to die because I had a bit of a runny nose. Obviously that is a definitive sign of AIDS! God, no one understands!

i do NOT want to know what you do with your nose if you thought u had that from a runny nose...
OT: when i was a kid i believed i was peter pan, weird huh?

 

[SaunaKalja]

At one point I thought all condoms are green and that they are somehow applied to the female genitalia.

 

[Galletea]

When I was 4 my dad shaved off his beard for the first time. I was terrified, and when my grandmother got me calmed down, she told me that the wind had stolen his beard and blown it into the garden. So I went looking in the garden, and I never found it.

 

[Farson89]

*runs in* In before God! [sub]hope I made it in time...[/sub]

Also I used to believe that babies were delivered by cutting the stomach open down the middle and removing the baby, then sewing it back it.

Ha, I used to think that too.

 

[Gabanuka]

I thought rinos and hippos were different genders of the same species, they were called Rinopopidosses. I kid you no.

 

[James Hueick]

I once believed that masturbating too much could make you a-sexual.

 

[Spacelord]

When I was about 5 or 6: That Duke Nukem lived in a pipe that ran underneath my house.

That's fucking badass.

 

[lukeyk]

I thought that my local pond had a giant shark in it and it was that which was eating all the baby ducks.

And when the foxes started making all the weird noises ( Which is actually them having errr intercourse) Was when they were fighting all the hedgehogs and other animals in my garden.

Took me a long time to figure that they were both wrong.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

I can't think of anyting that I believed right now, but once I did convince my friend that there was an animal named "Drop Bears" Then hide up in tree's and jump down on people, crush their skulls and then eat all their brains.

And the only way to repel them is to pour urine over yourself.

You mean kinda like this?

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Drop_bear

"A drop bear (or dropbear) is a non-existent Australian marsupial. Drop bears are commonly said to be unusually large, vicious, carnivorous koalas that inhabit treetops and attack their prey by dropping onto their heads from above. They are an example of local lore intended to frighten and confuse outsiders and amuse locals, similar to the jackalope, hoop snake, wild haggis or a snipe hunt.

It is often suggested that doing ridiculous things like having forks in the hair or Vegemite
Vegemite or toothpaste spread behind the ears will deter the creatures."

Surprisingly many people fall for stuff like that. Just be convincing enough and you make almost anyone believe almost anything.

I was once on a tour with a bunch of Japanese tourists and we saw a Koala in a tree, at that moment a 12-year-old kid ran, screaming "DROP BEAR!" It was the single most awesome day of my life.