When i was a child, i believed autopilot really worked like in the movie Airplane, that it was an inflatable dummy.
I thought propeller planes worked by spinning so fast that they temporarily moved the gravity out of the way so the plane could fly.
Someone needs to make this into an ms paint drawing.
that if we break tv’s screen , tv charecters can get out of it and we can enter tv
This sounded like it led to an expensive life lesson.
It didn’t , thank god
In the 80s when i was a child there were billboards with PSAs saying don’t drink and drive. I’d promptly scold my parents if i caught them taking a sip from their soft drink after hitting the McDonald’s drive through.
“Drink” is such a weird word in how it has both a general and specific meaning, but no other word for the general meaning is commonly used.
“Drink your milk! No drinking until you’re 21!”
you’re milk
No; you are!
I fixed it lol
Most humans have good ethics and beliefs. The more I grow, the more I’m disappointed in our society.
This is why everytime we wanna do it we really mean it because it’s a huge sacrifice /s /jk
The semaphore homunculus lived in the stop lights at intersections.
In my Superman onesie (w/ cape), I could fly, but was never brave enough to launch from a high enough step on the stairs. I knew I was flying, but…
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.
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…
Clarke’s third law. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Quicksand thing is fucking stupid though.
I thought Salvatia must be the poorest country in the world if even their army has to go around begging for money.
That is such a funny mental image.
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.
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.)
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.
First of all, Europe isn’t even a continent. “Europe” is a politico-cultural concept, not a geological or biogeographic one.
Okay, then the “politico-cultural concept” and common usage of the name “Europe” is of it being one of the major continents, regardless of if it’s on its own tectonic plate or not. It clearly includes the British Isles.
That is an outdated and frankly Western chauvinist usage. Europe and Asia are both on the Eurasian continent.
You can’t move those goalposts like that.
I thought that the Michelin tire company was headquartered in Michigan, USA and not France. In my defense, most of the US auto industry is based in Michigan, and they sound similar.
Also: I will never accept the “fact” that the Michelin Man is named “Bibendum”
I used to greet clothing store mannequins and thought that people who didn’t were very rude.
Two that come to mind:
People would say that’s an “old timey” car or something and I thought that was a brand name.
I thought the people who had really tall spiky mohawks had hair that just grew like that.
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!
Love it.
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! 😂
Unnecessary, I gave my grandma an ocular pat down the moment she walked in.
The ‘H’ signs to indicate a hospital was indicating there was a helicopter pad.
