Ridiculous Things You Believed As A Kid

[KevanG]

When I was a kid I believed that if you had a job with power or authority that you were responsible and mature enough to handle it. That changed fairly quickly.

 

[Teelie]

I didn't say it didn't happen, I said the cause of it isn't that. A lot of people drink cold water or other drinks with their food and they never get that problem. At best a cold drink might slow digestion, not stop it and it certainly won't hospitalize you.

In fact outside a lot of "does it cause cancer?" (no) claims, and other ******** about it "diluting digestive juices" (again, it doesn't) I can't find much on it harming digestion. The closest answer I can find is this:

So in the case of a 16-ounce glass of ice water, your body must raise the temperature of 473.18 grams of water from zero to 37 degrees C. In doing so, your body burns 17,508 calories. But that's calories with a little "c." Your body only burns 17.5 Calories, and in the grand scheme of a 2,000-Calorie diet, that 17.5 isn't very significant.

Discovery Health

Does drinking water during or after a meal disturb digestion?
Answer
from Michael F. Picco, M.D.

There's no concern that water will dilute the digestive juices or interfere with digestion. In fact, drinking water during or after a meal actually aids digestion. Water and other liquids help break down food so that your body can absorb the nutrients. Water also softens stools, which helps prevent constipation.

Looking for other ways to promote good digestion? Focus on a healthy lifestyle. Eat plenty of fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Maintain a healthy weight. Include physical activity in your daily routine.

Mayo Clinic

 

[Lord]

He said it has to do with circunstance, he often drank cold water after meals, but at that time there were other factos that must have made the accident happen. If that wasn't the cause then why would doctors say it was?

 

[Teelie]

If it was circumstance related to another condition, that's something else entirely. I've drank ice-cold drinks for a long time with food (as has almost everyone else I've known) and it's never hospitalized me. The liquid begins heating up the moment it enters your mouth and down your throat. By the time it hits your stomach it is already warming up and is no longer ice-cold.

In that case I don't know what happened. I'm not a doctor and even if I were I wouldn't speculate on a cause without more details. There are only a few ways to really harm yourself with water besides drowning in it and one is drinking it in excess to the point you are suffering hypnotremia or water intoxication, neither of which matter the temperature of the water.

 

[LEGO Spidey]

When I was a kid, I used to believe that...

...since my grandmother had a brother, his wife had to be my grandfather's sister (she wasn't), because obviously everyone only married each other's siblings.

...death really was a consequence of the original sin after reading a Jehovah's Witnesses brochure, so I became convinced that my stepfather, a plumber/electrician, could take an old refrigerator and wire it up into a time machine for me to go back in time and stop Adam from eating the apple, and that way no one would ever have to die again.

...I would be young and carefree forever.

 

[Siby]

I just thought of one.

I believed that if you swallowed a fruit seed a tree would grow in your belly.

 

[Teelie]

There was actually a reported case of a tree starting to grow in a man's lung once. That has since been disproven although a sweet pea initially did sprout in a man's lung. Such incidents are highly unusual of course.

 

[Donnie Darko]

I believed that when you farted, a visible bubble would come out of your butt and burst. I was so disappointed when I watched myself fart in the mirror.

 

[Lord]

I believed that when you farted, a visible bubble would come out of your butt and burst. I was so disappointed when I watched myself fart in the mirror.

 

[redhawk23]

I was really disappointed to discover that Gushers did not in fact turn your head into giant fruit.

 

[BATZARRO WWD]

I saw a special news report on babies that are born missing like half their brain. Somehow I came to the conclusion those newborn babies were able and willing to "get me".

Later in life, I thought the sound of buses on the streets below where alien spaceships, if only because I knew cars go "vroom" and not "psheeew". I also thought aliens were willing and able to get me. Thanks, Enquirer!

Oh, and I thought swallowed gum stayed in your body forever, lining up the walls of your stomach.

 

[Teelie]

I remember being told that myth about the gum, only it was supposed to stay in your stomach for like 7 years instead of forever. I would have thought it preferable you swallow the gum out than spitting which is considered rude in most places.

 

[Steyin]

When we were little my grandfather told my sister and I that he lost his hair during war when he was taking cover in a trench and a bullet grazed his head.

My sister, who is now 25, only realized this to be untrue a few years ago

 

[Black Narcissus]

I was told Anthony Hopkins was a great actor.

How gullible was I.

 

[Lord]

I thought that during World War I the USA had really been trying to create a super soldier serum, and because a fake documentary on the special king kong edition i though that during the early 20th century a giant gorila had really been captured.

 

[JOlsen]

Bubble Yum Bubble Gum was made of spider eggs!

 

[Grommers]

I used to think Litter bugs were real.


That if you didn't get your garbage in the bins, any that you left would eventually grow legs, etc., much like a centipede.


I remember being disgusted walking through the metropolis's of the world, and always keeping an eye open for one of them, ready to kill it at a moment's notice.


I was actually kind of disappointed when I finally realized it's not true.




The other is that whole in the middle of a pool, I thought sharks could come out there, like many others, so I was always scared playing Marko polo in the pool for this reason as they could come at any moment and I'd be pwned.

 

[Mace Dolex]

I actually thought in the near future like Blade Runner and Back To The Future that we'd have flying cars by now.

 

[Teelie]

People are still thinking we'll have flying cars in the near future. Maybe in a century or two but not at this rate.

 

[Enriquespy]

I didn't understood the efects of alcohol, I believed that alcoholic beverages where dangerous while driving because they made foam that migth make the steering wheel slippery.

That was because of a poorly made public announcement.

 

[TheIrishAvenger]

I wondered if the world was actually black and white back when cameras were that way back then.

 

[Green Goblin]

I wondered if the world was actually black and white back when cameras were that way back then.

Yes! FINALY, someone who thought the same!

 

[Green Goblin]

I thought that people lived on the moon and had cities there. That's why it light up.

 

[dodong27]

When I was 8, I literally looked up in the night sky hoping to see any Star Wars spaceships. When I saw stars, I got really excited... lol!

 

[dodong27]

Yes! FINALY, someone who thought the same!

I thought the same too!!!