What's the craziest thing you were told by your friends as a child?

My 16 year old nephew told me he can't date a girl he likes who is 15 because it's pedophilia if she is not in the same year/grade as you. She's 1 grade below him.

Kids are cooked these days.

My friend told me there was a ghoul who lived in a tree in my neighborhood. He took me there to see it. In the tree, I saw a crazy looking hairy beast, sneaking around behind the branches... It kept saying "Hosssssssssss" menacingly.

Turned out to be his best friend in a gorilla costume. I was only 6. That shit fucked me up.

My example was a friend told me you get computer viruses if you use disks that were dropped on the ground outside. His logic was he was told you get sick if you eat stuff off the ground. Sickness is caused by viruses. Computers can get viruses. Computers “eat” floppy disks. So if you put a dirty floppy into a computer you will make it sick by giving it a virus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

Hiro Protagonist is a freelance hacker and pizza delivery driver for the Mafia. He meets Y.T. (short for Yours Truly), a young skateboard Kourier (courier), who refers to herself in the third person, during a failed attempt to make a delivery on time. Y.T. completes the delivery on his behalf, and they strike up a partnership, gathering intel and selling it to the CIC.

Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven, who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file, which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world. Hiro meets his ex-girlfriend Juanita Marquez, who gives him a database containing a large amount of research compiled by her associate, Lagos. This research posits connections between the virus, ancient Sumerian culture, and the legend of the Tower of Babel. Juanita advises him to be careful and disappears.

Thats hilarious.

I seriously believed BC stood for before Christ until like a year ago. I'm embarrassed for that. Brainwashing is powerful.

Also I think a kid told me the GBA sp can't play GBC games. Well guess what I tried it the other day and it CAN.

That sex is when you pee on eachother. Which like. That can be involved for some folks if thats your cup of tea but its hardly the definitional component 😅

I’m remembering the “argument” I had with my daughter when she was six about how I thought it was implausible she could get away with wearing someone else’s skin, WHAT ABOUT THE EYE LIDS?? you can’t make that work!!!

One kid put on his dad's respirator and said it was a gas mask. Then he turned on an air compressor and said it was emitting poison gas and told me I would die over night.

I was told there is a tree in London that goes all the way to moon. I can see which fairy tale my 9 year old friend still believed now, but 7 year old me believed it for whole summer.

That's why we only insert floppies into computers in a sleeve, a bit like a disk condom. And hard disks work better anyway

I had a friend who swore that eating bananas gives you cancer.