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LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask@piefed.socialEnglish · 13 days ago

What's a silly thing you believed as a child?

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What's a silly thing you believed as a child?

LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask@piefed.socialEnglish · 13 days ago
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  • miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    That clowns always looked like a clown. I should spot them out and about, doing groceries and stuff. Like, just the Dad would be a clown. Or, where are the baby clowns; teen clowns, etc?

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    It wasn’t that silly because it was actually a damn good analogy, but:

    When I was 4? 6? IDR, my mum taught me that there were “little dragons” in our blood, chomping on everything not belonging to the body. It was her way to explain the immune system, based on a simplified version of how macrophages work.

    I’m almost 40 and the picture of little dragons running in the blood still inhabits my mind.

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      From now on I’m referring to my wife’s malfunctioning immune cells as her Insane Blood Dragons

      • tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        hold on i need to form a metal band rq

        • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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          Imagine Blood Dragons!

    • LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zoneOP
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      God I wish that was true! I can see them now chomping away

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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      Killer T cells be like: 🐲

  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
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    That there was justice for all.

    • PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works
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      I mean, there definitely was. I had it on vinyl

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    that the government has my best interest at heart and that democracies act in the interest of the people

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    That there is a physical barrier dividing the atmosphere and space in two and preventing air from escaping

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      Did you assume that rockets just bashed through it, and it re-formed like ice on a pond?

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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    That other people thought the way I did and would make the effort to understand me.

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    That the cooling towers from power plants were cloud factories.

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      I mean, they kinda are cloud factories.

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      Oh man, my uncle told me that!

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  • PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works
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    That the future portrayed in the 80s was the future I was heading to

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      I 'unno, I feel like films like Robocop, Total Recall, and the later Demolition Man got a lot of it right. Big indomitable corpos were frequent villains in pop culture of that era.

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    I had this weird belief, assumption, whatever, that salt and pepper were anti-particles, and if you could mix them together in just the right way, they would cancel each other out and taste like nothing.

    So, multiple times when we as a family went out to eat, I would finish my food and then while all the adults were talking, I would take out a napkin and put salt and pepper on it. And then, because they don’t blend together, I would use a little bit of water, like trying to get exactly the right ratio to make the pepper disappear the way the salt did.

    I was a born alchemist.

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    Trees were unable to grow to more than 10 feet tall. I clearly had no sense of what 10 feet actually looked like.

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    That men had one more rib than women. Im an atheist now.

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      Some kid in my highschool health class, “isn’t it true that men have 1 more rib than women?”

      Teacher, “uhhh no.”

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    That if I stayed up till 3am, I would see knights coming out of the fort on the hill. Thanks dad!

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    If I inhaled over a dead creature, I would steal its soul and it couldn’t go to its heaven. (Sounds like a psycho, grew up heavy southern Baptist)

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    I thought it was possible to die from messing up your breathing in/breathing out ratio too much.

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      Is it not possible?

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        I mean … yes. If the ratio of your breathing in to breathing out is too far away from 1:1 for a relatively short period of time, you will die.

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