@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 month agoWhat's the funniest belief you had when you were a child ?message-square167fedilinkarrow-up1200arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1198arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the funniest belief you had when you were a child ?@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 month agomessage-square167fedilinkfile-text
When i was a child, i believed autopilot really worked like in the movie Airplane, that it was an inflatable dummy.
minus-squareBananaPeallinkfedilinkEnglish50•1 month agoThat encountering quick sand in real life was a real possibility every day. Bonus: My kid doesn’t believe that Santa is magical, he just has really advanced technology.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink14•edit-21 month agoClarke’s third law. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Quicksand thing is fucking stupid though.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•1 month agoEvery kid from the 80s & 90s was taught* to believe that, so I don’t blame you. &nsbp; *By movies & books & games and shit, not by teachers. Well, maybe some teachers…
That encountering quick sand in real life was a real possibility every day.
Bonus: My kid doesn’t believe that Santa is magical, he just has really advanced technology.
Clarke’s third law. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Quicksand thing is fucking stupid though.
Every kid from the 80s & 90s was taught* to believe that, so I don’t blame you.
&nsbp;
*By movies & books & games and shit, not by teachers. Well, maybe some teachers…