body functions
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When I was 10 I thought Sperm came from your urine. A friend and I both believed this to be true. Then one night he called me and said "I've got sperm! I'm a man now" I asked what he meant...and he told me that he had urinated and saw them swimming around in the toilet. So for the next few days I bent down to closely inspect the toilet for little swimmers after I urinated. Sadly I never saw any...My frustration caused me to finally ask my dad about it. He simply laughed and said "Sperm doesn't come from your pee" without any further explanation.
I figured it out eventually...
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My mother used to say that if went to sleep without eating first, we would eat our fingers. My sister and I every morning we used to check our hands.
I was told in my freshman year of high school that it was not possible to have an erection and also urinate. For quite a while I was very proud of my penis size, knowing full well that if I was able to pee... it wasn't at its full length.
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My mother used to call going pee - having to 'tinkle', and going poo,
having to make a 'bm'. Now I work for IBM and it always make me
laugh when I say it. Thanks Mom!
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One day I passed gas and my daughter was right there (she was 3 at the time). I told her it was a low flying duck and to this day everytime she lets one go she says, "daddy I have a duck in my pants." Funny.
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As a child I somehow came to the conclusion that it was impossible to pee and poo at the same time. Twenty-five years later, I still occasionally catch myself squeezing both out at once just to prove that I can.
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Mother told me that if I slept with my socks on I would wake up with cow hooves. I still won't sleep with socks on.
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Because my older sister sat down when she peed, I assumed that females eliminated all waste (pee AND poo) from their anus. I held this belief even though--at 13--a diagram of the female body in my health ed class had something on it called the "urethra." It still didn't register. (My female friends finally straightened me out one night during a "pressing matters" chat session, after laughing until they--quite fittingly--almost peed their pants.) I was 18!!!
i used to believe that the faster you go to sleep, the faster you wake up for the next day. So one day I couldn't sleep and I was really worried that everybody was gonna be days ahead of me.
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When I was in elementary school one of my guy friends told me that guys were the only ones who had stinky farts, and that girl farts smelled like perfume. I felt abnormal for a long time because mine usually did stink.
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When I was fairly young; about seven or thereabouts, I wanted so desperately to be a super-hero that I convinced myself that I could "see" heat, and that since no one else mentioned this amazing feat, I alone possessed this ability. I would run around telling people "Don't touch that, it's hot--I CAN TELL!" Turns out it was just steam, and everyone was just humouring me. Go figure.
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my mom used to tell us that if we went to bed hungry the devil would pull our legs. So we always made sure we ate something.
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if I threw up hard enough, my entire stomach would come out of my mouth and hang there by the esophagus. Then the Dr. would have to stick it back down my throat! (result:lifelong fear of vomiting!)
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When i was young i went to a baby sitter that had a daughter the same age as me. She used to tell me that biting and pinching cause cancer. For several years after i feared all that dared pinch or bite me.
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I used to think that dreams were events that really happened, I just couldn't remember them when I was awake.
I used to believe…
This is not mine, but my neice, who at around 10 years old was telling my sister and I how happy she was it was summer cause that meant she didn't have to poop. Guess she thought you only did that in school! We were rolling in laughter!
i used to believe that there was a whole village of tiny people living inside of people. they carried the food around, moved the blood (they also caused heahaches w/ their tiny hammers) and when i went to sleep, they went to sleep and so on. one day i saw a skeleton that was marked with little numbers and that convinced me i was right and they wrote those numbers on the bones from the inside!
I used to believe…
Because boys go #1 standing up while girls sit down, this must mean that boys don't ever have to go #2 since you have to sit down to do it. This mis-belief was cleared up when I walked in on my dad doing #2 after he had neglected to lock the bathroom door.
I used to believe…
my grampa told me me when i was little that when you fart sitting down you have to lean a little to let it out or else it would sneak up your butt crack and blow your belt off. he also said that if you fart in church you have to sniff it all up before everyone else smells it.
I used to believe…
when I was five years old I thought that when you became an adult you stopped breathing. this was because I could see my own chest going up and down when I breathed- but I couldn't see any of the grownups chests move at all. guess I was too short.
