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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 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!"

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Freddy Krueger was two people. I thought it was like Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. I thought it was Dr. Krueger and Freddy was the monster he created. When I saw the movie I was like where's his creator, the one that brought him to life?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Cthulhu is a Hindu god

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I used to greet clothing store mannequins and thought that people who didn't were very rude.

[โ€“] [email protected] 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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[โ€“] [email protected] 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

That we would live in peace

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought babyback ribs were from ACTUAL Babies

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 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.

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