I once actually thought that when movies and shows were developing, I thought that they were being made within the year of their release date. I didn’t know that these projects were sometimes done in advance or took years to make.
That when ‘Commercial Breaks’ happened during shows, I thought they meant that the actors needed a break before resuming. Not realizing that episodes are already made and commercials just interrupt things to just sell you shit.
When I learned food and drinks were energy for your body, I actually thought that when I got sleepy or tired, I just needed to drink or eat something. Not realizing that it wouldn’t have mattered.
I thought credit/debit cards had infinite money. Not sure how that idea didn’t lead to me doing incredibly stupid things.
I somehow also thought my parents got groceries for free because I didn’t see them giving physical paper money to the cashier. Or I confusingly also thought they were stealing or something, and the cashier just let them.
I thought hard work would be enough to make a living.
In fairness to yourself, it used to be.
But they’re not being entrepreneurs! /s
Along those lines…my dad worked hanging drywall in new houses. I went to work with him many times. He busted his ass all day, sweating and covered in gypsum dust, blazing heat with hardly any ventilation, to bring home little pay.
On one of the rides in to work with him it occurred to me that if pay were decided by level of effort, he would be rich. Guys that wear ties to work and sit in air conditioned offices with their pencils and pens…they were living the easy life and making much more than their worth as I saw it.
Honestly that naivety hasn’t fully left me in adulthood. I have more appreciation for many office jobs, but the people who put their bodies on the line for work in shitty conditions are not paid nearly enough by and large. It’s a fucking criminal arrangement.
I do both sides of this at my work, both office and do real work. I keep telling the guys who don’t do the office part that they are the ones that should earn the most. Most of them are old and just think they are fine as is sadly. This mentality is sad imo.
I wonder where I would be if my work ethic didn’t get raped for all its worth.
At one point in time, it was. Now it’s the opposite.
Did depend on what race you were mind you.
Everybody forgets this. The time when “a single income could provide housing, transportation, and collage for a family of four” only existed for white men. Thinking this was universal is just lefty false nostalgia nauseatingly similar to MAGA.
It’d also depend heaviliy on the country too
Or it’s your American defaultism showing.
No, everyone forgets the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
lefty false nostalgia
I don’t know anyone left leaning who thinks that
You can, just not at the same company. You just have to hop jobs as soon as you get experience.
That adults were intelligent
that adults knew what they were doing, and knew the stuff they were so loudly talking about. Was I naive.
I suspect that the louder a person talks, the more likely they are clueless about the topic.
Was also a big revelation to me that effectively arguing a point is a separate skill form actual knowledge and wisdom. The truth doesn’t care what you do, know, think, or how you talk about it.
The sad thing is that people don’t even argue points. I wish people who lacked knowledge and wisdom would argue. Instead, they just rebroadcast whatever propaganda they were fed most recently, untroubled by anything like critical thinking or introspection, and mostly unchallenged by their peers.
“Are you here for the 5 or 15 minutes argument?”
.montepython
I generally agree, but I just have pressing personal experiences where I prefer they don’t argue. Aside from arguing not fitting well into a chilling context, there are friends who are in cults, or were brought up with the weirdest shit and lack critical thinking skills, or have mental health issues where it would crash their world, there isn’t much point arguing. Nobody changes their minds and it’s just stressful mental masturbation. Better to set boundaries, respect each other and argue or give resources if both parties are willing. Again, this is about a specific context and my experience; you folx do you :)
There’s a Calvin and Hobbes strip about this. I think it’s the run where their house was broken into and Hobbes was missing. Calvin came to the same realization and I remember it really sticking with me as a kid.
Even as a kid I knew the adults were full of shit. Like, “why are you bullshitting me? Do you think I’m dumb?”
Obviously kids weren’t supposed to have critical thinking skills, and that was my problem, apparently. It sure got me into a lot of trouble…
Two big realizations I came to embarrassingly late in my youth.
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Adults are fallible and sometimes I know better.
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I can change the world around me to suit my preference if I just make it known.
I listened to the same 5 CDs over and over for years because I never thought to ask my mom to take me to buy music.
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I still have this internalised. I sort of assume that everyone around me knows what theyre doing and what theyre talking about.
Not a belief, but a confusion: I didn’t understand how maps with a “you are here” marker knew where you were. 😅
This particularly confused me because in cartoons they always animated the damn sign like it was Google Maps
This is cute and I got a big kick out of it.
That hamburgers were called “handburgers” because you hold them with your hand when you eat.
In fairness, this would be both a more accurate and more German style name.
Is it too late to change it?
I thought that fire inheritly pushes things, and that all you needed to do to make a rocket, was to take a sizable flame, like a campfire or something, flip it upside down so that the flame pointed down instead of up somehow, and attach it to the bottom of something.
This is amazing. I love the idea that a bon fire big enough could change the earth’s orbit.
I mean, it’s kinda true. A rocket just makes fire which expands and pushes whatever it burns out to make it go fast. You got the fire, the fire pushes things away from whatever you’re burning and the rest is just optimisation.
If you manage to make a helium balloon that floats in the air, attach a burning log fire to the bottom of it and enclose it in a way that the air intake is on the top and outlet is on the bottom you’ve made an engine that you just need to aim with a ballast weight.
Still wrong, but you were onto something.
Its upside down you know. The rocket engine fires upwards and what you see is after it pushes back, Newton’s First Law and all that (equal and opposite reaction).
If it pushed down, it wouldn’t work in space cos there’s nothing for it to push against.
Well in theory with a big enough campfire it would work. So you weren’t entirely wrong.
Some Outer Wilds vibes here…
Yours made me chuckle
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Cops are good
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Hard work pays off
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I might own a home someday
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The government isn’t out to get anyone
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People are inherently good
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Drugs are bad
Agree.
Also “crime doesn’t pay”, “you shouldn’t lie” and “we’re a monogamous society and you shouldn’t cheat in a committed long-term relationship.”
Tbh I still kinda believe in the latter, despite knowing it’s a childish fantasy.
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That the future would be better.
I lived in the greatest country in the world and everyone was so jealous of us.
Well that was true for some of us in the past…
That the world is fair, that here’s good and evil, but no shades of grey.
That people in power do it for the good of the people
Big oof
Thousands of us when we were born, all probably thought the same thing.
And then we grew up, to see how ugly the world is and has been.
I thought the ribbon cables inside PCs was where memory was stored. I remember at like age 6 watching my older sister upgrade the RAM of our family computer (a 486 machine I think) and seeing all the mess of ribbon cables in the inside and I assumed that was memory. I guess because it reminded me of the tape inside a cassette?
I remember upgrading to a brand new 486, mind you ;)
I remember upgrading from a Commodore Vic-20, with 3.5 KB of RAM, to a Commodore 64 with 64 KB. I was already in university at the time.
Hit the turbo button and go from a measly 30Mhz speed to the insane levels of 33Mhz.
For the younger Gen and the non computer savvy: Yeah. We went from 1 cpu core that would go like 30Mhz in the early 90s, to having 12 cpu cores running at around 5,000Mhz now. All while getting way, way, easier to build a PC from parts.
- If a lawyer’s client tells them they did it then the lawyer should just turn them in.
- After watching cars commuting in opposite directions, which seemed pointless to me, I thought everyone should just trade jobs so they live where they work.
- I thought girls had ballsacks without the shaft.
- I thought you could make a car that didn’t need gasoline by attaching a magnet to the back and then attaching another magnet with an arm so they repel each other. Imagine my disappointment when I built a prototype and it didn’t work.
I thought girls had ballsacks without the shaft.
Eric Cartman, is that you? There was an episode where he tried to kick a girl in the balls. It did not work.
After watching cars commuting in opposite directions, which seemed pointless to me, I thought everyone should just trade jobs so they live where they work.
Unironically has some truth to it. As someone who feels strongly about minimizing my commute, I am baffled about how many people I have known who have long commutes for no significant reason.
Rarely there will be a reason like “My kids have a better school here”, but often after digging a little I find out someone is actually paying higher rent and commuting 45m+ to a lower rent area because moving is a hassle or some similar motivation. I knew a guy who commuted 3 hours one way in Alaska because he liked having a big yard. Like, when do you see it? You get home and immediately sleep.
Absolutely crazy to me. Never more than 30 minutes again unless I truly have no choice.
I thought you could make a car that didn’t need gasoline by attaching a magnet to the back and then attaching another magnet with an arm so they repel each other. Imagine my disappointment when I built a prototype and it didn’t work.
A perpetual motion machine! I love it!
i do wonder why more people don’t just live where they work, spending and hour or 2 every day just shuffling inbetween work and home never made sense to me.
is it just an affordability thing? if some real estate mogul wasnt a rent-seeking piece of shit and just built a business around building/selling as many quality homes/apartments as possible for a decent profit (instead of maximized extraction at every level, as it is now) wouldn’t more people chose to live closer to work?
I would choose to work closer to where I live, not the other way around unless the only available job was hours away. That said, there are jobs closer to home than my current job, but I think they kinda suck.
Okay so in our case it’s very California-specific. We managed to buy a house (hooray!) after the housing crash. Because of the way California handles property taxes, we will never move unless we decide to leave California for good. If we take a job that is not close to us, too bad, we’re factoring commute into the offer, because we can’t move. My husband seriously considered a job that would require either a 1.5 hour drive or train ride because the money was amazing but ended up taking a much lower-paying WFH job, and the commute was a huge factor.
magnet to the back and then attaching another magnet with an arm so they repel each other
You just invented the Maglev xD
Justice, mercy, duty, that sort of thing.
One of those things is not like the others.
Its a line that death says in the Discworld book The Hogfather
All right," said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.”
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
“Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—”
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
“So we can believe the big ones?”
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
“They’re not the same at all!”
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
“Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—”
MY POINT EXACTLY
I miss Terry.
I got two for ya:
- When people got injured in movies, such as having a body part chopped off, they found someone who was already missing that body part, surgically reattached a new body part, and then chopped it off for real. Decapitations were played by people on death row.
- When you flush the toilet at night, a scary clown will come out and get you, unless you quickly run and hide under the covers. In my defense, my uncle thought it was funny to tell this to my sisters and me so that we’d scream and cry and run at night while my parents were trying to sleep.
When people got injured in movies, such as having a body part chopped off, they found someone who was already missing that body part, surgically reattached a new body part, and then chopped it off for real.
If I remember the commentary correctly, for the black knight scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, they actually had an actor with one leg in the suit performing once the knight lost a leg, then when he’s on the ground with no legs, they dug a hole to hide the actor’s existing leg. The voiceover is of course seperately recorded and not by the actors in the suit
I believed number 1 as well! I took it even further because I didn’t understand “acting” fully. I thought it was actually that to be a “doctor actor”, you basically just trained to be both and then they followed you around with a camera while you actually did all of those things. So everyone in a show/movie was actually their profession or something close to it.
Deaths were different for me tho. I thought that as an actor, you decided when you died by taking said part. So it was up to each actor to choose the best death scene for themselves because it would be the only one they got. Better actors got offered better deaths while lesser actors only got to die as henchmen and whatnot. There was a whole life insurance/payout idea that played into all of this. But basically I thought actors fought for the prestige of dying on camera in the coolest ways possible.
I didn’t think that they fought for death scenes, but yes. I had a similar thought. Essentially, they were gonna be killed by the Justice system and had to pick how they’d die.
I had similar thoughts to your first point, but I didn’t understand “acting.” So I just thought that a movie doctor was just a doctor who was hired for the movie. When my parents explained that “they’re just pretending,” I understood that not every doctor wanted to be in a movie, so some people had to pretend to fill in the gaps.
Yeah, I basically assumed that if you died as a henchman or something, you had a really bad agent or people just didn’t like you. Only the A-list actors got to have their big moment dying. But I did believe that the payout was enough to take care of your surviving family, which is why people did it. Kinda some weird ass hunger games type idea way before the books ever existed lol
Henchmen who got shot were like a special class of stunt double in my mind. They were paid to get shot and then have surgery and recover just to do it again in another movie. I did think they had a limit to how many “lethal” stunts they could do before they had to retire or go out on one last insane stunt.
I always wanted to be an actor so I could be a sci-fi actor and get to go to space. I thought those were the luckiest people.
I thought shows were actually filmed in the places where they take place
Same! That’s why I wanted to be a sci-fi actor 😂
Oh, and time skips were real! When you saw a flashback or something, that was actually filmed years ago and then they waited until the actors got older and filmed the rest. I assumed there were crazy logistical hurdles to get this to work but it was all real.
Imagine how long it would have taken to film This Is Us
Your uncle is a legend.
