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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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[–] 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!"

[–] 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.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 week ago

…i thought little people lived in my parents’ radio and television who put on shows for us…

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[–] 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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[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 7 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.

[–] braxy29@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

my stepdad had a round tuit. you can buy them!

[–] 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.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

That we would live in peace

[–] recentSloth43@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] A_Filthy_Weeaboo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought babyback ribs were from ACTUAL Babies

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[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I thought 'tomorrow' was a day of the week. So when my mom would say we'd go somewhere 'tomorrow' I'd ask her every day if it was tomorrow yet, and she'd say no, and I'd keep waiting.

In kindergarden, when one kid was about to hit another, the other kid would say "if you hit me, you have to pay the health insurance!". None of us had any idea what that could mean, and I have no idea where that idea came from, but it worked, because to us, that sounded bad.

Some of my class mates thought that wrestling was real, and a few of them thought there was a place in the US where it was legally possible to kill a man during a wrestling match. They were quite offended when I told them how ridiculous that notion sounded to me.

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