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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There was a park near my house where often cops would sit to catch speeders. Driving past one day, I didn’t see a cop and I told my parents I was surprised by this. My folks told me that they were there, just undercover. I asked where, and they pointed to a woman walking a dog and they told me it was an undercover speed dog. For years I’d point out suspected speed dogs when we’d drive places. I am not a smart man.
Actors are dying… for real.
I used to think that there was a country called Cyclopedia, that was full of all kinds of fascinating things. I had a book all about it called “In Cyclopedia”.
I thought propeller planes worked by spinning so fast that they temporarily moved the gravity out of the way so the plane could fly.
That God exists
Not me but really funny - when my mom was little she thought white people weren’t real. She thought they were made up for tv
When adults said things like “In this day and age, nobody says please and thankyou any more”, I misinterpreted “this day and age” as “The Stayan Age”, which was our current age, which obviously followed on from Bronze Age, Iron Age etc.
That adults had it figured out.
That average people actually care about anything but themselves.
That there is justice in the world.
That hiding candy (or other things people wanted) was a universal property of grandmothers.
English is not my first language, but I had heard the expression “search all nooks and crannies”, but thought the last word was grannies - cranny is an unusual word.
Now,my own grandmother was in the habit of hiding candy for us to find. I thought the expression existed because all grannies hid things. Search all nooks and grannies!
I now have the hilarious image in my head of a toddler giving their granny a pat down (image of one in case the term isn’t familiar to everyone), thanks! 😂
Most humans have good ethics and beliefs. The more I grow, the more I’m disappointed in our society.
That we have cables instead of veins inside.
That before I was born cars had the exhaust pipe on the front (in fact I used to draw cars that way).
At some point I also believed that we were born as monkeys and we evolved as we grew up.
E: replied to wrong person, oops! 😂
The ‘H’ signs to indicate a hospital was indicating there was a helicopter pad.
Pretty common belief among stupid 7-year-olds, I think; humans couldn’t see colour up to the mid-60s.
I believed this. You are the first person I’ve ever heard whose had this same belief.
My grandmother told me England was not part of the European continent. I got an answer wrong on a test because of that. She refused admit she was wrong even after I showed her in my text book.
England is not a part of the Eurasian continent nor a part of Continental Europe. It’s on the Isle of Great Britain, which is an island, not a continent. She refused to admit she was wrong because she was right and your textbook was wrong.
Common reference maps all include The British Isles in with Europe, as well as Iceland.
The wikipedia page on Europe also includes them as part of the continent.
It is right there on the Eurasia map at the link you shared, and on the list of Eurasian territories, so OP was correct.
The thing is that “continental Europe” is not the same as the continent of Europe, which does include the islands. Mainland Europe is a less ambiguous name.
Yep, it’s part of the continent.
Also the Islands section of that page says this:
The largest Eurasian islands by area are Borneo, Sumatra, Honshu, Great Britain, Sulawesi, Java, Luzon, Iceland, Mindanao, Ireland, Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Sri Lanka.
(Emphasis mine.)
That cats and dogs were the same animal, the cats were the girls and the dogs were the boys
