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[-] obinice@lemmy.world 2 points 44 minutes ago

You can accomplish anything if you put your mind to it and try hard enough.

[-] simon574@feddit.org 7 points 11 hours ago

I always thought cigarettes contain tar, as in the substance asphalt on the road is made from. It always felt weird to me, why would they put it in the cigarettes but I figured maybe they need it so the tobacco doesn't fall out or something.

[-] portifornia@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Wait, they don't contain tar?

[-] androogee@midwest.social 12 points 10 hours ago

In the same way that they don't contain ash. The tar and ash are produced by combustion.

[-] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

That the Mormon god was totally real

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

Ass cheeks were shit tanks.

[-] androogee@midwest.social 5 points 10 hours ago

Daaaaamn gurl swing them big ole shit tanks!

[-] Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 12 hours ago

Trees make wind because whenever there was wind, they moved.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago

That god(s) exist(s).

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago

That my family cared about me and supported me.

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[-] eightpix@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

That my parents knew what they were doing, made good choices, and were reasonable people.

No, no, ... and no.

That I'd grow up to eat candy, collect baseball cards, play video games, and read comic books.

No (type II diabetes runs in my family), no (wtf is a baseball card anyway), no (video games were replaced with homework permanently), and — well, actually — yes.

I love a good comic book, graphic novel, and/or animated series.

[-] geogle@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

I'm in my 50s and playing plenty of videogames... There's a path forward

[-] eightpix@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Does the work you do, if you still work for a living, follow you home? And, if you have children, are any of them still in need of your assistance for feeding, bathing, and/or toileting?

I'm really looking forward to being in my mid-50s. My youngest will be approaching 10. By then, I should be able to reintroduce video games to my life at that point.

[-] geogle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

My work never ends and always demands more. I've just learned to shut it off and ignore it nights and weekends unless I have an ever critical deadline. Yes my child is an early tween and pretty self sufficient...that and a tough opponent in Super SmashBros. I'm in a pretty happy place

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 6 points 16 hours ago

When I was six years old or so, my sister called me a "cosweb" and told me it was the worst thing ever. I completely believed her for a long time.

[-] billbasher@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

The crust on bread had more nutrients than the center. My dad didn’t want to cut my crusts off lol.

My uncle always swapped the words breast and best so my cousin mixes them up sometimes to this day. He said ‘breast friend’ at his brother’s wedding

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 18 hours ago

That enough hot water bath could work just as well as sunbathing for getting a tan. Hey, both things can burn your skin, it's perfectly logical!

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 20 points 22 hours ago

I thought that if you swallowed your gum, it would stay in your stomach forever, so you had to make sure to never do it because eventually there would be no room for food anymore.

Also, old CRT TVs had this static electricity sort of fuzzy feeling on the screen, and if you ran your hand over it, it would dissipate. I thought that by doing that, you were absorbing the TVs power and if you did it too much, it would eventually stop working.

Lastly, I believed with all my heart that all the pets you ever owned were waiting for you in heaven and it made me mad when my (very devout Catholic) grandma told me that pets and animals don't have souls and so they didn't go to heaven. I said if that was true then I didn't want to go to heaven! I'm atheist now, so I don't even believe that anyone goes to heaven, but if anyone deserves to go, it's all the kitties, puppies, and various rodentia I've loved in my life.

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[-] goober@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

We found a dead baby bird. Was told most animal babies don't live to adulthood. Knew people were animals so it was likely me and most of my friends would be dead by 21

[-] faultyproboscus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago

I mean, that would have been true up until very recently in history.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

If you happen to find a dead bird in particular, please don't pick it up. They have mites on their feathers (skin?) that will absolutely jump on you and absolutely fuck up your skin. You can literally jump in the shower once the itching starts, and you will be in for something like localized poison ivy where those little microscopic (probably not, but they were so tiny I couldn't see them) assholes were, or at least wherever they bit you.

I would generally caution against actually touching anything that is dead. Too many pathogens, nasty bacteria, and potential touch contracted illnesses.

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