pick of the bunch
I used to believe…
that bunnies came out of belly buttons
voting
how the scores work
Every belief on the site carries a score out of five, and every one of those scores was set by people reading it. There is no editor deciding what is good.
Under each belief you will find its score and two small buttons. Press ▲ if you think a belief deserves better than it is getting, or ▼ if you think it is over-rated. Each press moves the score a little, so it takes a lot of people to move a belief very far.
Scores are what decide the best beliefs, and the best-scoring ones on any page get written out by hand rather than typed. So voting genuinely changes what the site looks like.
You can vote as often as you like. We have never policed it, and twenty-four years in, it has not been a problem.
Here are the ten most recent, if you would like somewhere to start:
I used to believe a spider monster was in my basement
I used to believe that little men (or women) slept & went to work in every traffic light
I was told as a child that pickles were made from cucumbers. I had only seen big cucumbers like in the grocery store, so I assumed the pickling process shrunk them down and made them bumpy!
pick of the bunch
I used to believe that the world map only took up half the globe and that there were even more countries on the other side
I used to think watching a movie in the theatre was watching it being filmed live like watching a play, but once you bought it on dvd is when it became a recording
I used to believe when there was a tsunami I could to put myself in a pool to save me
I used to believe it was illegal to not recite the pledge at school.
For a long time through the TV Guide I thought the Tim Allen sitcom, "Home Improvement." was an actual home improvement show.
As a kid, I thought ice came out the ice farm. Yes like Minecraft.