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So like, what absolutely ridiculous thing did you take to be fact when you were a kid? (self.askuk)

submitted 7 months ago by Oneeightnine to c/askuk

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As a small child I was absolutely convinced that people in the olden days lived their day to day lives in black and white, and that they walked slightly faster than we did today (assuming a frame rate thing?).

I'm gonna put this one down to my understanding of how TV worked as a ten year old. Everything before colour TV was black and white... therefore everything was black and white. Makes perfect sense.

What about you?

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[–] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

As a small child I was absolutely convinced that people in the olden days lived their day to day lives in black and white, and that they walked slightly faster than we did today (assuming a frame rate thing?).

Oh shit... for me, it was "sepia tones" because I would see photos on the walls of my grandparents' houses and most of them were sepia toned.

"Actors on TV, weren't acting like somebody else when they were on a show. They were just themselves but reading lines from a script." Its weird that I remember understanding that the actors were not actually in a war zone or that a house on a TV show was just a set, but it took me a long time to figure out that an actor might behave like somebody else when playing a character. Doubly weird that I don't remember applying this consistently because I would never think that an actor playing a "bad guy" was actually a bad person but I absolutely would think that an actor playing a "good guy" would behave that way in their real life.