I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.
I was a towhead, which means I was born blonde and it turned to brown as I got older. When I first started noticing my hair turning darker, I asked my mom why and she told me it was because I ate too much peanut butter. I stopped eating it for about a week until I decided that I loved peanut butter more than being a blonde.
Wow didn’t know there was a name for it. That’s happening for many or most Germans.
Hello, fellow towhead!
Thing is, while in every picture of me of a child I’m shockingly blonde, and every picture of me as a teen and thereafter I’m brown, I have no memory of the actual change, and no pictures where I’m in-between. Does it happen quickly? Did it hurt so badly that I’ve suppressed the memory‽
I have a few old photos were my hair looks basically striped. You can see it well when the hair is worn in a ponytail.
I remember thinking that women gave birth to girls and men gave birth to boys, and being really worried because I (as a guy) didn’t want to give birth.
Slightly related: all dogs are bots and all cats are girls
all dogs are bots
That’s birds.
I remember asking my dad if the Earth ever got heavier besides when meteors landed and babies were born.
I couldn’t comprehend that babies were made out of food. I thought they just came from nothing.
couldn’t comprehend that babies were made out of food
They … arent made out of food …
Their mass is derived from matter ingested by the mother.
I mean, we’re all made of star stuff, but in the local sense, mothers can turn the food they eat into babies.
Ah that’s what you meant. I thought sperms got confused as food
“More evidence we need better sex ed! People don’t know where babies come from!”
PS: sperm is made of food.
Welp.
So many things…
I didn’t understand how lie detectors were supposed to work so I thought you could hook someone up and ask something like “does god exist” and you’d be able to get answers to all of life’s big mysteries.
I thought there was a left and right sock
I thought wolverines were mythical creatures
I thought if I tried hard enough I could somehow become older than my older brother like it was just a title or something
Thanks to DARE any time I saw a skittle with the S missing I thought it was drugs even in a newly opened package
I could go on…
You can buy socks that have a left and right, but most don’t.
For example for sport and hiking. Those have support structures that need to work differently for the side they are worn on.
I thought that cars are only able to drive on the street and was baffled when we saw an offroad rally on the TV
When I was a kid and McDonald’s started to became a thing here I was scared that Ronald McDonald would be at the restaurant. When I was invited to a birthday party and the parents wanted to take us to McDonald’s I refused to go inside and the dad had to wait with me on the parking lot until my parents picked me up. I also figured that he could potentially be at Burger King, so I never went there either.
Was Wendy less intimidating?
Wendy is a horse magazin for kids :D
If you were cold then you would catch a cold.
You had to wait an hour after eating because if you swam after eating then you would sink.
Carrots will allow me to see in the dark if I eat enough of them.
If you did a bad thing then the universe would make a bad thing happen to you.
If you dropped food on the ground and picked it up quick enough it didn’t have germs.
Believing in karma isn’t bad, though. If it helps being a better person, then why not.
Other than organized religion, you mean?
Probably that cops are benevolent keepers of the peace and that putting humans in cages decreases crime.
that’s kind of true - if you put the right humans in cages
Nope. Even in a hypothetical world where all the ones guilty of a sufficiently severe crime and ONLY those go to prison, that doesn’t make the world a safer place with less crime.
Punishment and the fear of same isn’t anywhere near as powerful a motivator to stop breaking the law or deterrent as they’ve been telling you.
If it was, the US would be by far the safest with the least crime of all Western countries in stead of closer to the opposite.
what about locking up all the rich people and redistributing their wealth?
I thought that cars were powered by the jet propulsion coming from the exhaust pipe.
How did you think reverse worked?
Sucking in air. It definitely makes sense when you’re a kid lol
That women are attracted to nice guys.
It’s 97% untrue.
Not saying they are attracted to jerks either - in fact my overwhelming impression is that women despise those too (some exceptions exist of course).
Just saying that however equality has come, and should still come, attraction exists at a lower level. And at that level, someone who can hold their own, push their way through and be kind about it, will always attract more women than the “nice guy”.
Before you react - I’ve been together with my wife 17 years, we have four kids and I’m not some kind of player.
Just stating that I was brought up to believe women always prefer nice guys. And in retrospect I can see that I was brought up by a well meaning parents (mother, my dad was in the navy so away a lot) who tried their best to make me “not an asshole”. They succeeded. But I wish my dad at some point had sat me down to tell me a few home truths about how the biology of attraction works.
What is a “nice guy” in your opinion? Because this sounds like bs.
The other guy wisely decided not to comment, but as they say, fools rush in. This is a tough topic to navigate, because the “nice guy” label now mostly applies to those self-proclaimed Nice Guys™ who act entitled and turn nasty when women turn them down.
I have had the same experience that OP had. I thought, based on what adults told me, that the proper way was to follow that other infamous dating advice, to “be yourself,” live my life, treat everybody with basic respect and kindness, and that would be enough: Of all the women I fancied, I would meet one who fancied me back, and we’d start a relationship. It’s not an unreasonable idea, and to be fair, it happened that way for me once, which lent credence to the idea.
I believe that’s what OP meant when he said “women are attracted to nice guys.” That’s certainly the message I got as a young man, and it was wrong.
This sounds like people are bummed out that they need to put in effort and aren’t just cherished and loved for simply existing in the relationship. But that is true for everyone, not just for men.
I actually think it’s just a relatively new concept for straight men because in the past (and that’s still in our culture) women needed a man. And therefore it was enough to exist as a guy and not be a jerk to “get” a woman.
I think the issue is that that’s literally what we’re told by well-meaning parents and authority figures: “Just be yourself,” or “just be confident.” It’s also the cultural message that we get about how we’re supposed to treat our partners.
I also think these are platitudes. In reality, no one is allowed to be “just themselves”. But changing yourself to be more likeable (especially in social situations) is such a conflicted topic.
At least in western cultures agreeableness has a bad reputation and is not encouraged in boys, imho. As a girl you are raised to be agreeable and it is called “nice”. I believe men and women have a different understanding what that means because of how we are raised differently.
In my experience some men seem to think nice means basically to avoid conflict and be especially generous (not necessary in a materialistic way, also offering help etc.).
While for women it means to be sensible to your partners feelings and plan accordingly.
These are two notoriously incompatible modi operandi: a “yes man” who hides or doesn’t reflect on his feelings and wishes. And an increasingly controlling woman, constantly guessing and overinterpreting what their partner could possibly “really” be thinking.
A lot of women would rather choose a partner who is less work. Even when that means he isn’t as generous. Therefore “just be yourself / confident” has a grain of truth in it. Just not in the way people might think. Another truth I had to grow quite old for to understand.
The problem is that “women are attracted to nice guys” implies that “being nice” itself is “enough” to be attractive. Guys get this idea that all they have to bring to the table is “I’m not a jerk” and the ladies will fall into their laps. The problem is, the jerk down the road is in better shape, has interesting hobbies, and/or has a real, dependable job. Being “nice” is like having two slices of bread and saying you have a sandwich. If you don’t put anything between the bread slices, everyone’s going to opt to order the burrito instead because it’s got an actual filling.
Glad you said it, so I don’t have to. The harsh truth that straight men need to hear is that for most of us, nobody will ever love us for who we are. We’re nothing but mammals, and mating is a competition.
Why do you think that is different for women?
That sun and moon switch places during day and night. Like in a cartoon.
Everyone in the whole world is the world champion of something. Could be something normal like running, or jumping, but it could also be something really niche like solving the Rubik’s cube with your tongue while being under water with your hands tied behind your back. You just need to find what you’re really good at and that might be your thing.
Technically the truth. For everything there is a human who is the best at it. Although they might not know it.
Adults act mature and rationally
In Germany they put up mobil speed control and radio stations warn you about that. In German them doing this is called “blitzen” which is the same word as lightning. As a child I thought they were warning very precisely where lightning strikes were happening.
My mom told us that microwaves are bad for our health due to radiation. I did not want a microwave in my own apartment until I was 20 and my GF just got one.
To be fair, this one is true… Its just that they are also designed to protect you from stray microwaves lol
They’re bad in that they’d cook you with enough intensity, but we don’t know of other side-effects. Microwaves are not comparable to ionizing radiation like X-rays, gamma rays or ultraviolet light, which can genuinely damage your DNA.
