- Most outrageous / unbelievable lies
- Most offensive / dangerous lies
- Most “adult meant it as genuine advice but it’s laughably out of touch” lies
- Lies you wish you still believed
- Lies you took as truth and didn’t question it until you were way too old
- Cigarette butts aren’t litter
- You’re supposed to leave all your garbage in your seat at the movie theatre.
Roundup is safe
BC stands for before Christ (I guess some people still say this but I think its more religious people that do)
Democrats are evil
Humans can’t destroy earth because god made that imposisble
Seeing a pattern ?
Humans can’t destroy earth because god made that imposisble
TBF, I think my 9th-grade social studies teacher had the right of it; “We cannot destroy Earth. Earth has survived at least 5 extinction-level events. And it’s still here, full of life. We will destroy our environment until it’s unlivable for us. Humans will be long gone. And new flora and fauna will replace us. But the Earth will be fine, it’s just a big hunk of solids, liquids, and gases.”
Seeing a pattern ?
lemme guess, gawd loves us all so much be created a place called hell to torture the vast majority of us forever if we dont love him back?
Indeed.
What do you think bc stands for
My mom told me the crust was the part of the bread with the most nutrients.
I grew up with a conservative father who regularly listened to Rush Limbaugh (may he never rest at all). So yeah. All of… That.
Oddly enough I took a lot of the lies to heart. Like how the government should stay out of people’s private lives, like what/how they worship and who they love, which was my gateway out of that kind of thinking. Went to college, traveled abroad, and now I’m just about as radically far left as you can get without circling back around.
Like how the government should stay out of people’s private lives, like what/how they worship and who they love…
For me, this is the top comment because I was also taught that the government should stay out of people’s private lives (what/how they worship, who they love, etc), and I still hold these ideals dear to my heart. What still fucks w/ me to this day is that I was also taught that it was one particular party who represents these ideals, and it took me until well into my twenties to figure out that that was the lie!
The other part of the lie is how hypocritically inconsistent the ideas are applied as well.
Government should stay out of our private relationships! Unless you’re both the same sex.
Government should let us live how we want! Unless you’re trans.
Government shouldn’t interfere with religious liberty! Unless you’re Muslim.
You apparently only get to exercise personal liberty if you fit their narrow view of how they think it should be done.
Unless you’re a profit-generating enterprise I guess, then you can do whatever the fuck you want as long as the shareholders are happy. And we better not let big scary government interfere with that.
Oh yeah, it’s a real mind bender when the blinders come off. Then you spend a while deconstructing and then eventually you realize your crap opinions weren’t really yours to begin with and you learn to forgive yourself… And to do better.
Go vote everyone! Early voting has started and it’s literally the least you can do!
We were learning Roman numerals in elementary school and the teacher made us work out the current year.
I was the first one to correctly work out “MCMXCVIII” only to be quite smugly told by the teacher that you can just do “IIMM”. It took more than a decade until I learned that he was full of shit and my answer was the only correct one.
In Germany you can, but in France you have to do XIX-C-IV*XX+XIIX /s
“You won’t always have a calculator in your pocket.”
Out of all the wrong things I was taught in school… A calculator is probably the least complex thing I have in my pocket at all times.
However, understanding basic math, up to algebra and trigonometry is extremely useful on a daily, if not at least weekly basis.
Similarly–
“You’re going to have to write everything in cursive so it’s important that you learn it”
And it was literally never required in school or life after that.
This one is funny for me. I write almost exclusively in cursive, with a fountain pen, and for a while I drove a stick-shift car and wore a mechanical analog watch.
I do/did those things because I appreciate the extra attention that it takes to do/use them. I think there is a certain fulfillment that you get from doing everyday things in an older or archaic way.
I also think that schools and education for children should be about fostering an innate sense of curiosity and self-impovement/fulfillment. In that light, I think schools should teach some of those outdated, more cultural topics, for the same reason that we teach poetry, or literature. I don’t think we should be grading kids on it though, or failing them because they can’t read an analog clock.
You don’t use cursive when you write checks?
checks… hah found the dinosaur… /s i’m in my 50’s
I have a checkbook; I write one a year for a service that is a pain in the butt about check-by-mail only. While i do use cursive for that, there’s absolutely no reason to.
Check washers didn’t just make slight changes to your checks (000/100) and cash them, they used the right solvents and removed all the ink except for the signature and made them out for as much as they wanted.
Your signature doesn’t even need to be cursive.
I was being silly and sardonic. I still use checks, but I know it is waaaay outside the norm and anachronistic.
So many.
But also a lot of truths I had to learn the hard way (and being ASD exacerbated this).
Crime does pay. Especially if you’re rich. (Wish: no it should not fucking pay)
No. You don’t have to share. Nobody makes an adult share their car with some rando who shows up to the family bbq like we make kids share their toys with some kid showing up. (No, don’t compare this to taxes, that’s shallow and devoid of nuance)
IMO people are not inherently good. They’re not inherently bad, either. They are often shortsighted, apathetic, and self-serving.
I wish that all the fictional lovely futures we’d imagined when I was a kid were real. Clean cities. Flying cars. Clean power. Space stations. Amazing medical care. The ability for everyone to choose a nice life and what to do with it. We’re getting the opposite.
Worst lie currently: “checks and balances in the US government keep anyone from getting too much control.”
There are a lot more. They’re easier to remember when confronted with them.
IMO people are not inherently good. They’re not inherently bad, either. They are often shortsighted, apathetic, and self-serving.
I had this conversation with a conservative acquaintance of mine. It went on for hours. He needed there to be good vs bad in his worldview and everyone needed to be at least on a sliding scale good to bad. Everything needed to be they’re not bad they just …
The thing about humans
Most humans just are. Neither good nor bad, probably on average more good than has as its a requirement for out social way of life to exist in the first place, but yeah; most people just want to make it to the end of the day without too much bullshit.
A lot of the bullshit we have to deal with on a daily basis is caused bybhowbthe world had been setup now by narcissists over the past few hundred years. Its whybwe allow rich people to just get richer without limit. Its why we have poverty, and from there hundreds, of not thousands of problems come.
Want humanity to start behaving better? Implement wealth caps world wide. I firmly believe that over time, that will end all of humanities’ problems
I recall a Bible radio show about the “are people good or evil naturally” pushing really hard on the "all humans evil and need god (and also moneys plz fo church just a widdle).
I don’t think its a “naturally” one way or the other. You see how sweet kids are and non racist they are until some asshole parent or otherwise trains them to be bigots. Then some kids are just uncontrollable. Its random.
“Penguins are mammals” said to me as an offhand comment by a friend’s older brother. I didn’t question it till embarrassingly late in life.
“It’s ok we (white people) took the land from the Indians because we make better use of it, and can sustain a much larger population on it.” Said by my teacher to the third grade class.
“You’ll become more conservative as you get older” heard this one quite a bit from people who didn’t wanna face facts about the world.
“Global warming is a myth” oh if only that were true. We’re so fucked
See first answer. Seriously, they’re obviously birds!
“You’ll become more conservative as you get older” heard this one quite a bit from people who didn’t wanna face facts about the world.
Probably also lead poisoning
“It’s ok we (white people) took the land from the Indians because we make better use of it, and can sustain a much larger population on it.”
Liberal use of the term “sustain.”
Lol isn’t it just?
Not a lie in that I think this was the truth for them (because me and my siblings are awesome), but: “having kids is amazing.”
Mine are teenagers and I feel horrible saying it but it’s still hard for me to be a parent the same way my parents were. I’m not nearly as patient. I don’t think I’ve slept well for over a decade. My sex life with my partner is non-existent for quite a while. I feel like all I do is work, serve, and sleep.
Maybe it’ll get better. I’m not having a good time, though. Neither are neurotypical. I don’t know if I am either, the more I read about it. Poooooo
But all my friends tell me it’s awesome to have kids while they all have struggling finances and marriages! Because it’s for the kids!
There are plenty of families where it’s working out great.
It’s a waste of money and a bs poster for what your life should be. F kids.
Please don’t F kids
Yeha we were all kids at same point so don’t say f kids. Instead F the societal expectation of parenthood/natalism. My main reason is that there’s already too many ppl on this Earth and parenthood is hard, very hard with no return policy
I know I was a kid dumbass but fuck children in general I can’t stand being fucking near them. I wish I wasn’t born. Fucking hate living. So hop the fuck off white knight. I don’t care how hard it is. The military was hard and I don’t fucking bring that up for my bad behavior I stay home. Also fuck pedophiles for the asshole who told me not to f kids.
My problem is that I want kids.
Except, I know it’s stupid. The insurmountable student loan debt that’s currently a yoke around my neck is half of what it would cost to raise my ideal two children to just 18 years old. Climate change is going to destroy our way of life in the next 30 years, I’d be bringing them into a world on the brink of collapse. Society will break down when famine/disease start going unchecked, this is what I want them to experience? All so, what? I can have a little buddy that looks up to me and thinks I’m great for a few years? All so I can get my little kodak moments in between miserable days filled with screaming, crying, no sleep, stress, financial hardship, troubled marriage, and no sex?
And here I am, suffering from major chronic depression/anxiety… Would I even be a good steward of these children? I know I’d like to think of myself as just a baby away from switching into “Dad mode,” but would it be enough? Would I be waking up early to get my kids breakfast and lunch together, or would I fall deep into depression and get up at 2PM like I’ve been doing? Will I even have the energy enough to play with my kids after work? What about building that tree-house, and doing school projects? What about after-school sports and parties and everything else? I am barely holding myself together, am I really going to be able to switch my whole personality like a light switch into becoming the kind of Dad these kids would need?
I would be trapping myself into a job I hate forever, just to have these children, which would also make retirement a fever dream.
So why the hell do I still want them? I just wish my head and my heart could be on the same page for this, and they are just not.
Mom told me that dragonflies would sew my mouth shut.
Was afraid of them until I was at least 6 or so…“You’ll become more conservative as you get older.”
I have consistently grown more and more leftist as I’ve grown older. Rent goes up faster than taxes. [redacted] your landlord.
You and me both. Plus I suffered a horrendous enough TBI that I should anecdotally love Trump and his diet nazis.
Fuck that noise. Mutual aid and DSA getting a seriously foothold in American politics is a good first step.
Rent goes up faster than taxes.
And isn’t it fun when rent goes up even when the mortgage does not? And especially when the mortgage is fully paid off?
I was also told that about conservatism. Actually understanding conservatism and capitalism - and how fascism is essentially the corporate state - has bodily yeeted me so far left that I’m two shakes away from being an anachro-communist.
Heard this one a lot, guess they figured everyone would go the fuck you got mine attitude of the boomers, not realizing that you can’t onboard the youth while maintaining full unmasked racism and marginalizing the value of the same youths perspectives. Another one is “you’ll understand when you’re older” which to the surprise of no one thing he “when you’re older” part never matures in discussions with these types.
Yeah my beliefs have grown more nuanced as I left my early-mid 20s, but it’s a pretty far left form of nuanced. Meanwhile as a teenager I was downright centrist on a lot of issues and conservative as often as I was liberal/left. I didn’t stop believing in capitalism until college
“[redacted] your landlord.” Hey, some people manage to pay their rent this way
Is this “Conservative” as in the political affiliation though, or “moderate/cautious”? I think one thing is that current “Conservatives” are anything but
“Conservative” as in hating taxes and loving capitalism
I heard this one too. Maybe it used to be more true than now?
Science has shown that how easily you become wealthy determines how likely you are to shift conservative.
Boomers - in America and Canada, at least - grew up into adulthood during the most expansive period of the middle class in human history. There has never before been a time where someone with an 8th grade education could find high-paying employment and become moderately wealthy off of it with just a few basic financial techniques. It really was stupidly easy to live a comfortable middle-class life. Show salesmen and VCR salesmen could do this without any serious financial stresses.
So yeah. While some resisted the shift right, many did not. They climbed the ladder, and upon reaching the top they pulled the ladder up after themselves and told the younger generations, “fuck you, I’ve got mine”.
It’s probably true on average. As you get older, chances are some of the things you fought for when you were younger are now the new normal, and further change is something you’re more skeptical about.
But definitely not something that’s going to apply to every individual, plus when the world is mostly regressing as it is right now, the whole effect should disappear.
I still don’t have square eyes even though I was sitting in front of screens my whole life.
Also “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger“ is really bad advice.
I am with you, I think ppl think to literally with that saying and also use it too much… It is dismissive of them if someone tells them about their shity situation and they try to encourage them with “what doesn’t kill you…”. It also only works for some or takes a lot of time and effort and help for it to make them stronger, I think you should only use it in a jokingly way and nothing else.
“You’re just having a brother fight. You and your brother are going to grow up to be best friends.”
No, my autistic brother with FASD who was my rapist, and is a kleptomaniac, sociopath, pathological liar, and borderline pedophile… will never be my friend in adulthood.
Oh…wow
My parents heartily believed in honesty. Even regarding mythological figures, they basically said “some people believe in them, some don’t” and tried to provide context for me to decide myself whether to believe. My kid hasn’t brought this up much but when they do I try to emulate the same behavior.
However, when I was in second grade, my teacher told me there is no such thing as negative numbers. Looking back on it, she was trying to teach remainders. She asked what you would get if you took seven pencils away from five pencils. She intended to say you can’t have negative two pencils, which I acknowledge, but that and some other stuff she said and did disillusioned me with public education for a long time.
This is so stupid of that teacher. Because what is debt, if not a negative number? You use $1,400,000 from a bank to get into an entry-level, 50-75yo shitbox of a home in an old neighbourhood which missed gentrification, and what does the bank have on your balance? A negative number that you have to fill back in.
You have a $1.4m home? Dang.
That’s what “starter homes” go for in my region. In CAD, but still.
Looking up the exchange rate, that’s between 3-4x my already rather lavish home, which I’m very grateful to occupy and terrified of losing. Canadians must be doing well. Good for y’all!
Canadians must be doing well.
No, we aren’t. We are just suffering from regulatory capture and really, really wealthy home builders that buy up local politicians like they’re penny stocks.
We desperately need to import the Vienna Model, but then those brainwashed by Cold War era shite will start screaming “communism!!1!”
My mom told me and my sister, when we were young enough to believe it, that the Ice cream man was just a nice man who drove around playing music for people.
