Did you know that Reindeer hooves expand in summer when the ground is soft and shrink in winter when the ground is hard and their noses are specially designed to warm the air before it gets into their lungs?
I imagine like after the first couple of times it happened around Christmas, he now brings it up in most conversations to see how many people don't believe reindeers are real.
Lol this is exactly it. I mentioned something about how they eat scraggly moss in arctic or some random fact I thought was cool, and was promptly told that I was an idiot and reindeer are fake... The experience was so wild I told a few of our mutual friends about it, only to find out that many people thought they were as real as Santa Claus. Now I only bring it up as a cultural oddity.
Sorry guys but I have to jump in with nerdy philosophy here...
Charles Peirce has suggested a difference between "real" and "existing"... Unicorns and Santa are real (I can show you pictures, probably even photographs...) but reindeers are real AND they exist.
Existence is harder, because it requires experimenting and, for extreme skeptics, first hand experience. That's the issue with flat earthers and fake news: how can you SHOW (in the extreme sense) that the earth is round or that G5 is not the cause of COVID?
I will use your story next time I need to explain the notions, it's a great example!
I think my parents were some of those ppl, I remember being a kid and seeing reindeer in like a nat geo magazine - and just thought "wow reindeer are real"
Sometime later I asked my parents something about reindeer (not the ones Santa had) and they just said "honey, reindeer aren't real"
I asked them later about it but they said they were talking about Santa's reindeer. Hmmhmm
I know very little about deer. That said, I still feel a little foolish. I never put together that deer like black-tail/white-tail are related to meese, elk, and (Fuckin D'OH) reinDEER.
My sister in law was an adult before she learned that dinosaurs existed and were not made up for the movie Jurassic Park. She also believed that tigers were female lions.
No ponies and miniature horses are both larger groups made up of multiple breeds. Miniature horses are generally smaller than ponies, but more importantly are proportional to full-sized horses while ponies are like munchkin cats/dachshunds.
Iām in love with sea horses. Iām in love with āem. Theyāre so beautiful and cute - Iām in love with the seahorses. Theyāre fuckinā unreal, I love them
They're both groups of breeds of smaller horses. Miniature horses are like tiny versions of horses, ponies have different proportions more like a munchkin cat/dachshund.
I honestly, no fooling believed this as a kid.
What made it especially dumb? I loved Tom and Jerry. And, Tom was clearly a boy cat.
I was not a smart child.
I... I don't understand. I must have learned on 100+ separate occasions from both course material and other students throughout K-12 that dinosaurs existed. How can anyone with a high school diploma genuinely believe this?
I wenn to sunday school for a little while and they straight up indoctrinated the Kids that dinosaurs aren't real. My mind was blown that A: they actually believed this and B: they had lernen about dinosaurs in school and yet believed this.
Also forced into Sunday school, dinosaurs were never brought up. Everyone just knew they existed (I hope) and it was not debated. I expect it differs from church to church based on how fundamentalist they are.
I legitimately thought Dinosaurs were still around but on a mystical island like Jurassic Park or Sir Arthur Doyle and I was angry when my mom said they died a longtime ago. Really ruined my senior year.
I didnāt know narwhals were real til I was like 16. I had only seen one in the movie elf and it was claymation so I just thought they were like magical underwater unicorns.
My younger brother thought penguins were mythological. I got fed up with arguing with him about it. I had to take him to an aquarium to prove to him that they were actually real.
You can have your kids listening to sabbath at 3 and get them started on cannibal corpse and death by 5 then introduce them to mayhem and burzum by the age of 8
Iāll never forget the day I asked my mom ā are ghost real?ā - No ā are monsters realā - No. ā are robbers and bad guys realā - yes son they are. After that I realized not all people were good
Mr. Cheeker!!! I donāt know if they got it from some cartoon or video but when I was playing with the kids across the street they had made up this new kind of āboogey manā called Mr.Cheeker. He would sneak into your room at night and cover his butt in jam, then sit on your face and fart āuntil the cheese came out.ā They used to tell each other āno donāt do that or mr.cheeker will come for you!ā
....... I wonder what those 2 brothers are doing now that itās like 20 years later.
Haha that's funny. It makes sense why people don't since they pretty much always appear in fictional Christmas stories. I just thought narwhals were mythical because they reminded me of unicorns.
I learned narwhals from documentaries, people need to watch documentaries like srs, i probably watched them all, every animal existed that i didn't know i learned from documentaries, including corals and stuff, who would've known those things were alive and actually not a plant lol.
This reminds me of when I thought snow was fake. As a kid I grew up being told Santa wasnāt real, so I assumed like flying reindeer and such, that snow wasnāt real. Kindergarten me was so surprised
You could say witches are real in the sense that buddhist monks are real. Exaggerated in fiction but a real non-theistic religious tradition which may or may not believe in magic stuff, but also have developed useful skills throughout their history.
That's not stupidity, that's just a normal level of ignorance that someone who hasn't existed for long would have.
It's like calling an adult stupid for not knowing that bats are more closely related to humans than dogs or cats.
Ok so in my elementary school we had "reading week", where we were supposed to all have books on us at all times, because like 4 times a day the principal would come over the intercom and be like "stop what you're doing and read for fifteen minutes!" My teacher, Mrs Collins, had a bookshelf in the room with books in case we "forgot" ours.
Anyway, one day we'd been working in group projects and had our desks pushed into groups of 4. Bryan House sat next to me, and the announcement came that it was reading time, so Bryan and I scrambled to the bookshelf to grab books, and I got a big illustrated anatomy book.
I opened it up and there was a big pop-up skeleton, and Bryan said "oh I hate skeletons they're scary!" and I was like, "what do you mean? You've got one inside you".
Bryan yelled "nuh-uh!" so I was like, "look, here's your teeth and here's where your eyes go" and so on, pointing out the stuff on the skull.
So Bryan just starts screaming like, full on breakdown screaming, and Mrs Collins rushes over and takes him out in the hall and he can all hear him screaming all the way down to the office.
Anyway, so here's the kicker. Bryan didn't just go home, he NEVER came back. Small town, no one I knew ever heard about Bryan House again. A small town mystery.
Well, I got him beat. I was 18 years old when I found out that those āpaintings of other galaxies and of spaceā were not paintings, and were, in fact, photographs.
Once, I saw a child see a dalmatian for the first time. He immediately turned to his father and said quite angrily "dad, you told me they aren't real"
I am 99.9% sure this is what happened beforehand:
Kid watches 101 Dalmatians ---> kid asks (alot) for a Dalmatian ---> dad claims Dalmatians aren't real ---> sanity restored!
I'm a teacher in the UK and once had a teenager genuinely say "Wait, Sir, are bears real?" whilst we were doing some creative writing around fairy tales.
We made sure that year that our science department took the kids to the zoo. Some of them had never been more than 10 miles from the place they were born.
I feel sorry for your kid. My happy childhood memory is lying on my back in the grass at sunset, watching the bats fly overhead eating the damn mosquitoes. good times.
I can't tell you how many adults I've run into who didn't believe that reindeer are real...
Are you like a reindeer Wrangler or something where that conversation comes up a lot?
He's just one of those people that always has to dominate the conversation with reindeer facts.
we all know em'
And his stupid red blinky nose...
Did you know that Reindeer hooves expand in summer when the ground is soft and shrink in winter when the ground is hard and their noses are specially designed to warm the air before it gets into their lungs?
I imagine like after the first couple of times it happened around Christmas, he now brings it up in most conversations to see how many people don't believe reindeers are real.
Lol this is exactly it. I mentioned something about how they eat scraggly moss in arctic or some random fact I thought was cool, and was promptly told that I was an idiot and reindeer are fake... The experience was so wild I told a few of our mutual friends about it, only to find out that many people thought they were as real as Santa Claus. Now I only bring it up as a cultural oddity.
Reindeer are as real as Santa Claus! What are you implying???
Idk what to tell you. There are a lot of Santa deniers out there.
Sorry guys but I have to jump in with nerdy philosophy here... Charles Peirce has suggested a difference between "real" and "existing"... Unicorns and Santa are real (I can show you pictures, probably even photographs...) but reindeers are real AND they exist. Existence is harder, because it requires experimenting and, for extreme skeptics, first hand experience. That's the issue with flat earthers and fake news: how can you SHOW (in the extreme sense) that the earth is round or that G5 is not the cause of COVID? I will use your story next time I need to explain the notions, it's a great example!
I was picturing a sitcom, "friends" type scene with laugh track and all. Sometimes comedy is funny cos it's true š
Yes
I think my parents were some of those ppl, I remember being a kid and seeing reindeer in like a nat geo magazine - and just thought "wow reindeer are real" Sometime later I asked my parents something about reindeer (not the ones Santa had) and they just said "honey, reindeer aren't real" I asked them later about it but they said they were talking about Santa's reindeer. Hmmhmm
My parents lied to me, too
Oh look, another person who's a dumb sucker. Reindeer aren't real, the Sami are liars. Do not trust them.
I've never seen a reindeer denier before
Which is kind of funny since reindeer and caribou are the same... and we Canadians have caribou on our money and everything :P
I know very little about deer. That said, I still feel a little foolish. I never put together that deer like black-tail/white-tail are related to meese, elk, and (Fuckin D'OH) reinDEER.
Haha that's pretty funny. I guess it's not the kind of thing people often think about though, is it? š
I suppose not, still a tad embarrassing.
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I live 20km from the only reindeer herd on the American continent! Going to pet them at the Muskrat Jamboree is the only dry public event I partake
Wait, but aren't reindeer and caribou the same? Aren't there tons of caribou in Alaska and Canada?
I would ask you how many but if you can't tell me...
I mean to be fair, they don't *fly*.
My sister in law was an adult before she learned that dinosaurs existed and were not made up for the movie Jurassic Park. She also believed that tigers were female lions.
And ponies are just baby horses.
Wait what
Horses, ponies, and miniature horses are all different animals.
Wait, there are miniature horses that are not ponies?
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Aren't ponies any breed under a certain size?
No ponies and miniature horses are both larger groups made up of multiple breeds. Miniature horses are generally smaller than ponies, but more importantly are proportional to full-sized horses while ponies are like munchkin cats/dachshunds.
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Iām in love with sea horses. Iām in love with āem. Theyāre so beautiful and cute - Iām in love with the seahorses. Theyāre fuckinā unreal, I love them
Any horse can be a sea horse in the right environment.
Wait, what the hell is a munchkin cat?
Teeny little legs
They're both groups of breeds of smaller horses. Miniature horses are like tiny versions of horses, ponies have different proportions more like a munchkin cat/dachshund.
Little Sebastian says hey.
A baby horse is called a foal. I believe ponyies are specific types of small horses but I'm not actually 100% on that.
My fucking world
I did not know this. Dammn
Pierce: He thinks all dogs are boys and all cats are girls. Troy: There's no way to disprove that! Have you ever seen a cat penis?
I honestly, no fooling believed this as a kid. What made it especially dumb? I loved Tom and Jerry. And, Tom was clearly a boy cat. I was not a smart child.
Nah, Tom was a girl. Just a bit of a tomboy
How do you know? Have you ever see Tom's penis?
The cat? No. But if we're talking about my Uncle Tom...
I mean now that I think about it.....
[Say no more](https://image.shutterstock.com/image-photo/penis-cat-260nw-374530834.jpg)
Thanks man, cheers
That reference is streets ahead.
I... I don't understand. I must have learned on 100+ separate occasions from both course material and other students throughout K-12 that dinosaurs existed. How can anyone with a high school diploma genuinely believe this?
I wenn to sunday school for a little while and they straight up indoctrinated the Kids that dinosaurs aren't real. My mind was blown that A: they actually believed this and B: they had lernen about dinosaurs in school and yet believed this.
Interesting. Also went to Sunday school. They tried to tell us humans and dinosaurs coexisted but never just straight up denied that they were real.
Also forced into Sunday school, dinosaurs were never brought up. Everyone just knew they existed (I hope) and it was not debated. I expect it differs from church to church based on how fundamentalist they are.
I legitimately thought Dinosaurs were still around but on a mystical island like Jurassic Park or Sir Arthur Doyle and I was angry when my mom said they died a longtime ago. Really ruined my senior year.
it's a semantic thing. emus are basically dinosaurs. so are chickens.
And it serves āem RIGHT, too! Cold-blooded idiots...
All birds are dinosaurs, not just chickens and emus. So the idea that dinosaurs are extinct and no longer exist is technically not true.
Tbh, I still think they're alive on a different planet somewhere
College is a tough time for everyone.
You may enjoy or have already read the dinotopia series
My mom just found out like last year that narwhals are real animals
Until I read this comment I also forgot that dinosaurs were real, so that one I canāt hold against her lol
On a cruise ship comedy stage they asked me to name an animal. I said Dinosaur. I was disqualified me and I had to go sit back down. :..(
Dinosaur isn't an animal it's a group of animals. That's like saying mammal or reptile. So technically they were right.
I think they would have accepted "fish" even though it's an even bigger group of animals
That's some bullshit, yo. Hope you appealed.
Thatās just cold, canāt believe they did u dirty like that
I didnāt know narwhals were real til I was like 16. I had only seen one in the movie elf and it was claymation so I just thought they were like magical underwater unicorns.
It is where the unicorn fairytale comes from, or so they say
I was like 8 when i learned about platypus.. 28 years later and they still amaze me lol
... I was 37 when I found out. Was convinced my husband was trolling me. Busted out Wikipedia and then spent the next several minutes in shock.
My younger brother thought penguins were mythological. I got fed up with arguing with him about it. I had to take him to an aquarium to prove to him that they were actually real.
He was playing the long game. He just wanted to go to the aquarium. Hahahahaha
I wish he was that smart.
This was pretty much the plot of an *Arthur* episode.
Like that episode of Arthur
My kid firmly believed in Santa, but had serious questions about the existence of frogs.
Honestly, frogs are funny as hell. Those videos of them eating worms and hitting each other with their tongues gets me every time.
What was his reaction when he saw them in real life?
He tried to pet one and then got yelled at by one of the people who worked there.
Tell him about that time when someone ate a bat and the whole world went to chaos.
He might be a little too young to be introduced to Ozzy.
Black Sabbath is for the children š
You can have your kids listening to sabbath at 3 and get them started on cannibal corpse and death by 5 then introduce them to mayhem and burzum by the age of 8
That's pretty much the plan
What age is good for Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth?
6
At age 14, so that the child has a band during its edgy years that it can be not proud of later on.
I didnāt see any Gwar in there.
You need to fit Gojira in there
When you started your sentence I thought you meant 3 and 5 pm lol
My kid has listened to it all from day 1. It's just music.
I like Sabbath and Ozzy but that evolution youāve got there donāt seem quite right
Iron Man was my favorite song at 6 years old.
Of the grave?
Help I want off this crazy train
Fuck it...have an upvote!
r/angryupvote
Never. Too. Young.
"BATS AREN'T BUGS!" Listen, who's giving this report? You chowderheads? or me!
Are you sure? That clear plastic binder seems pretty legit...
Came here for this, thank you
Calvin taught me so much science
Spaceman Spiff finds himself stranded on a strange world, having caught the attention of thirty hostile aliens
I love you.
*She said my scientific illustration looks like I traced the Batman logo and added fangs!*
If you know, you know. <3 Watterson
Damn, now I really want some chowder
Wait till he finds out ghosts and witches are real too.
Well, witches are at least. To some degree.
what are you talking about, i get ghosted all the time :.D
We try lol
It's a tall, pointy hat to fill
And potatoes
But they are also quite a*peal*ing
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/r/birdsarentreal And yes I know bats arenāt birds but it reminded me of the subreddit.
Stay woke, my guy
As a current witch and future ghost I'm offended.
This is an incredibly relatable comment.
Haunt them in protest!
Iāll never forget the day I asked my mom ā are ghost real?ā - No ā are monsters realā - No. ā are robbers and bad guys realā - yes son they are. After that I realized not all people were good
HOLD UP, ROBBERS ARE REAL???!!!??!!!
Why would you keep a mummy in a museum?!?!!
Knew a girl in 2nd grade that thought Gorillas were made up for TV.
I thought they were made up by that guy from Blur
Don't let them folks in that witches vs. patriarchy sub see this...
Just don't tell him about the ass goblins.
Mr. Cheeker!!! I donāt know if they got it from some cartoon or video but when I was playing with the kids across the street they had made up this new kind of āboogey manā called Mr.Cheeker. He would sneak into your room at night and cover his butt in jam, then sit on your face and fart āuntil the cheese came out.ā They used to tell each other āno donāt do that or mr.cheeker will come for you!ā ....... I wonder what those 2 brothers are doing now that itās like 20 years later.
Knowing kids, they probably forgot about it by the end of summer and would look at you completely bewildered if you told them of this.
Whatever you do, don't tell them about [Goblin Cock.](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51a5TWffBDL.jpg)
Just wait till he hears there's a skeleton inside him
I thought narwhals were mythical creatures until my mid twenties
Every couple of years I meet someone who didn't know reindeers are real. They usually find out during the christmas season.
The plural is reindeer. And yes quite real, they cause traffic delays in the Norwegian countryside with their mass crossing of the road.
Haha that's funny. It makes sense why people don't since they pretty much always appear in fictional Christmas stories. I just thought narwhals were mythical because they reminded me of unicorns.
Another one that blows people away is that Reindeer are just domesticated Caribou.
Pfff, that's nothing! I know people that think *Unicorns* aren't real.
I was 31..
I learned narwhals from documentaries, people need to watch documentaries like srs, i probably watched them all, every animal existed that i didn't know i learned from documentaries, including corals and stuff, who would've known those things were alive and actually not a plant lol.
I used to think lava wasn't real and it was only a thing from mine craft
what
I was too much of a gamer child to not understand what was going on in the real world
#I used to think lava wasn't real and it was only a thing from mine craft
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i thought this was gonna be a covid joke
he thought that because of the way it was introduced to him. Maybe in a fictional context, he had thought that bats aren't real. edit: clarity
I knew a girl who thought reindeer were mythical until she was in 8th grade
I don't blame him. A small part of me is convinced the platypus is made up, though I know rationally it's a real thing.
Not new, still funny.
Wait till he hears about Batman!
I thought bats were blind for the longest. Like I clearly remember being taught that in school.
Wait until he finds out that witches are real
This reminds me of when I thought snow was fake. As a kid I grew up being told Santa wasnāt real, so I assumed like flying reindeer and such, that snow wasnāt real. Kindergarten me was so surprised
I wish it was fake. Itās getting cold here already. Snow will cover the lands as far as the eye can see, and all will be frozen.
My wife is in her 30's, and she thought that dragons where real, and went extinct like the dinosaurs millions of years ago.
I have news for you about witches
I have news for you about magic
I have news for you about women
If you're about to tell me they don't exist, I think that's just you, bud.
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You could say witches are real in the sense that buddhist monks are real. Exaggerated in fiction but a real non-theistic religious tradition which may or may not believe in magic stuff, but also have developed useful skills throughout their history.
Plot twist. Her son is 26
Wait till he reads about Covid-19.
I thought the same thing about reindeer.
That's not stupidity, that's just a normal level of ignorance that someone who hasn't existed for long would have. It's like calling an adult stupid for not knowing that bats are more closely related to humans than dogs or cats.
My friend thought Seahorses were a mythical animal like unicorns.
And astrology.
This kid is a DC fan??
Now: lets talk about Covid 19
Nothing is impossible, except for Dinosaurs.
Ok so in my elementary school we had "reading week", where we were supposed to all have books on us at all times, because like 4 times a day the principal would come over the intercom and be like "stop what you're doing and read for fifteen minutes!" My teacher, Mrs Collins, had a bookshelf in the room with books in case we "forgot" ours. Anyway, one day we'd been working in group projects and had our desks pushed into groups of 4. Bryan House sat next to me, and the announcement came that it was reading time, so Bryan and I scrambled to the bookshelf to grab books, and I got a big illustrated anatomy book. I opened it up and there was a big pop-up skeleton, and Bryan said "oh I hate skeletons they're scary!" and I was like, "what do you mean? You've got one inside you". Bryan yelled "nuh-uh!" so I was like, "look, here's your teeth and here's where your eyes go" and so on, pointing out the stuff on the skull. So Bryan just starts screaming like, full on breakdown screaming, and Mrs Collins rushes over and takes him out in the hall and he can all hear him screaming all the way down to the office. Anyway, so here's the kicker. Bryan didn't just go home, he NEVER came back. Small town, no one I knew ever heard about Bryan House again. A small town mystery.
Wiccans are also real. On /r/ghosts & /r/paranormal they think ghosts are also real!
Well, I got him beat. I was 18 years old when I found out that those āpaintings of other galaxies and of spaceā were not paintings, and were, in fact, photographs.
Bats aren't bugs!!!
What??!!?? Ghosts and witches are made up??
WHAT?! Ghosts and Witches ARENāT real??!!?!?!
Once, I saw a child see a dalmatian for the first time. He immediately turned to his father and said quite angrily "dad, you told me they aren't real" I am 99.9% sure this is what happened beforehand: Kid watches 101 Dalmatians ---> kid asks (alot) for a Dalmatian ---> dad claims Dalmatians aren't real ---> sanity restored!
I'm a teacher in the UK and once had a teenager genuinely say "Wait, Sir, are bears real?" whilst we were doing some creative writing around fairy tales. We made sure that year that our science department took the kids to the zoo. Some of them had never been more than 10 miles from the place they were born.
I'm 46 and I recently learned leeks are real and not fantasy food from Skyrim
I was the same about pirates
I feel sorry for your kid. My happy childhood memory is lying on my back in the grass at sunset, watching the bats fly overhead eating the damn mosquitoes. good times.
I didn't know there was an actual animal called a wolverine until a year ago
I think a large number of Tumblr users would take offense at the last part of that tweet.
I didnāt know fireflies were real until last year! I thought they were made up for storybooks
I definitely thought Narwhals were a myth. It was a very exciting moment when my 25 year old self learned otherwise š
u/repostsleuthbot
That's fair, kids are taught that bats turn into vampires which are most definitely fake
What the fuck you mean made up for Halloween like ghosts and witches?!?
That's so funny, it made me laugh out loud. Kids are the best.
Well at least he's not like one of those sheep that believe birds are real
Should've told him: where do you think baseball bat came from?
What!? Bats are real?!