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What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] focusforte@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought that during commercial breaks the characters in the show I was watching were still doing things and I was missing it because the commercials were not pausing the show in the background but playing over top of it.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think there's some truth to that - I think sometimes films (movies) were cut a bit too fit the ads in. Or maybe that's just my yet-to-be-busted childhood myth!

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

On network television movies were often edited for content and length. So in a way you were right.

[–] constantokra@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I asked my mom why there were commercials and she said 'so the actors could get paid'. I thought it was pretty rude of them to make everybody wait around watching commercials when they could just hang around for a couple minutes after the show was done to get their money. Like, I thought they were literally counting out the money into their hands during the commercials.