- Most outrageous / unbelievable lies
- Most offensive / dangerous lies
- Most “adult meant it as genuine advice but it’s laughably out of touch” lies
- Lies you wish you still believed
- Lies you took as truth and didn’t question it until you were way too old
That if I walked into a lab and didn’t leave when asked I’d get a job
“You’ll become more conservative as you get older.”
I have consistently grown more and more leftist as I’ve grown older. Rent goes up faster than taxes. [redacted] your landlord.
Heard this one a lot, guess they figured everyone would go the fuck you got mine attitude of the boomers, not realizing that you can’t onboard the youth while maintaining full unmasked racism and marginalizing the value of the same youths perspectives. Another one is “you’ll understand when you’re older” which to the surprise of no one thing he “when you’re older” part never matures in discussions with these types.
Rent goes up faster than taxes.
And isn’t it fun when rent goes up even when the mortgage does not? And especially when the mortgage is fully paid off?
I was also told that about conservatism. Actually understanding conservatism and capitalism - and how fascism is essentially the corporate state - has bodily yeeted me so far left that I’m two shakes away from being an anachro-communist.
You and me both. Plus I suffered a horrendous enough TBI that I should anecdotally love Trump and his diet nazis.
Fuck that noise. Mutual aid and DSA getting a seriously foothold in American politics is a good first step.
Yeah my beliefs have grown more nuanced as I left my early-mid 20s, but it’s a pretty far left form of nuanced. Meanwhile as a teenager I was downright centrist on a lot of issues and conservative as often as I was liberal/left. I didn’t stop believing in capitalism until college
“[redacted] your landlord.” Hey, some people manage to pay their rent this way
Is this “Conservative” as in the political affiliation though, or “moderate/cautious”? I think one thing is that current “Conservatives” are anything but
“Conservative” as in hating taxes and loving capitalism
I heard this one too. Maybe it used to be more true than now?
Science has shown that how easily you become wealthy determines how likely you are to shift conservative.
Boomers - in America and Canada, at least - grew up into adulthood during the most expansive period of the middle class in human history. There has never before been a time where someone with an 8th grade education could find high-paying employment and become moderately wealthy off of it with just a few basic financial techniques. It really was stupidly easy to live a comfortable middle-class life. Show salesmen and VCR salesmen could do this without any serious financial stresses.
So yeah. While some resisted the shift right, many did not. They climbed the ladder, and upon reaching the top they pulled the ladder up after themselves and told the younger generations, “fuck you, I’ve got mine”.
It’s probably true on average. As you get older, chances are some of the things you fought for when you were younger are now the new normal, and further change is something you’re more skeptical about.
But definitely not something that’s going to apply to every individual, plus when the world is mostly regressing as it is right now, the whole effect should disappear.
We were learning Roman numerals in elementary school and the teacher made us work out the current year.
I was the first one to correctly work out “MCMXCVIII” only to be quite smugly told by the teacher that you can just do “IIMM”. It took more than a decade until I learned that he was full of shit and my answer was the only correct one.
In Germany you can, but in France you have to do XIX-C-IV*XX+XIIX /s
“Penguins are mammals” said to me as an offhand comment by a friend’s older brother. I didn’t question it till embarrassingly late in life.
“It’s ok we (white people) took the land from the Indians because we make better use of it, and can sustain a much larger population on it.” Said by my teacher to the third grade class.
“You’ll become more conservative as you get older” heard this one quite a bit from people who didn’t wanna face facts about the world.
“Global warming is a myth” oh if only that were true. We’re so fucked
See first answer. Seriously, they’re obviously birds!
“You’ll become more conservative as you get older” heard this one quite a bit from people who didn’t wanna face facts about the world.
Probably also lead poisoning
“It’s ok we (white people) took the land from the Indians because we make better use of it, and can sustain a much larger population on it.”
Liberal use of the term “sustain.”
Lol isn’t it just?
I grew up with a conservative father who regularly listened to Rush Limbaugh (may he never rest at all). So yeah. All of… That.
Oddly enough I took a lot of the lies to heart. Like how the government should stay out of people’s private lives, like what/how they worship and who they love, which was my gateway out of that kind of thinking. Went to college, traveled abroad, and now I’m just about as radically far left as you can get without circling back around.
Like how the government should stay out of people’s private lives, like what/how they worship and who they love…
For me, this is the top comment because I was also taught that the government should stay out of people’s private lives (what/how they worship, who they love, etc), and I still hold these ideals dear to my heart. What still fucks w/ me to this day is that I was also taught that it was one particular party who represents these ideals, and it took me until well into my twenties to figure out that that was the lie!
The other part of the lie is how hypocritically inconsistent the ideas are applied as well.
Government should stay out of our private relationships! Unless you’re both the same sex.
Government should let us live how we want! Unless you’re trans.
Government shouldn’t interfere with religious liberty! Unless you’re Muslim.
You apparently only get to exercise personal liberty if you fit their narrow view of how they think it should be done.
Unless you’re a profit-generating enterprise I guess, then you can do whatever the fuck you want as long as the shareholders are happy. And we better not let big scary government interfere with that.
Oh yeah, it’s a real mind bender when the blinders come off. Then you spend a while deconstructing and then eventually you realize your crap opinions weren’t really yours to begin with and you learn to forgive yourself… And to do better.
Go vote everyone! Early voting has started and it’s literally the least you can do!
Roundup is safe
BC stands for before Christ (I guess some people still say this but I think its more religious people that do)
Democrats are evil
Humans can’t destroy earth because god made that imposisble
Seeing a pattern ?
Humans can’t destroy earth because god made that imposisble
TBF, I think my 9th-grade social studies teacher had the right of it; “We cannot destroy Earth. Earth has survived at least 5 extinction-level events. And it’s still here, full of life. We will destroy our environment until it’s unlivable for us. Humans will be long gone. And new flora and fauna will replace us. But the Earth will be fine, it’s just a big hunk of solids, liquids, and gases.”
Seeing a pattern ?
lemme guess, gawd loves us all so much be created a place called hell to torture the vast majority of us forever if we dont love him back?
My mom told me the crust was the part of the bread with the most nutrients.
Not a lie in that I think this was the truth for them (because me and my siblings are awesome), but: “having kids is amazing.”
Mine are teenagers and I feel horrible saying it but it’s still hard for me to be a parent the same way my parents were. I’m not nearly as patient. I don’t think I’ve slept well for over a decade. My sex life with my partner is non-existent for quite a while. I feel like all I do is work, serve, and sleep.
Maybe it’ll get better. I’m not having a good time, though. Neither are neurotypical. I don’t know if I am either, the more I read about it. Poooooo
But all my friends tell me it’s awesome to have kids while they all have struggling finances and marriages! Because it’s for the kids!
There are plenty of families where it’s working out great.
It’s a waste of money and a bs poster for what your life should be. F kids.
Please don’t F kids
Yeha we were all kids at same point so don’t say f kids. Instead F the societal expectation of parenthood/natalism. My main reason is that there’s already too many ppl on this Earth and parenthood is hard, very hard with no return policy
I know I was a kid dumbass but fuck children in general I can’t stand being fucking near them. I wish I wasn’t born. Fucking hate living. So hop the fuck off white knight. I don’t care how hard it is. The military was hard and I don’t fucking bring that up for my bad behavior I stay home. Also fuck pedophiles for the asshole who told me not to f kids.
My problem is that I want kids.
Except, I know it’s stupid. The insurmountable student loan debt that’s currently a yoke around my neck is half of what it would cost to raise my ideal two children to just 18 years old. Climate change is going to destroy our way of life in the next 30 years, I’d be bringing them into a world on the brink of collapse. Society will break down when famine/disease start going unchecked, this is what I want them to experience? All so, what? I can have a little buddy that looks up to me and thinks I’m great for a few years? All so I can get my little kodak moments in between miserable days filled with screaming, crying, no sleep, stress, financial hardship, troubled marriage, and no sex?
And here I am, suffering from major chronic depression/anxiety… Would I even be a good steward of these children? I know I’d like to think of myself as just a baby away from switching into “Dad mode,” but would it be enough? Would I be waking up early to get my kids breakfast and lunch together, or would I fall deep into depression and get up at 2PM like I’ve been doing? Will I even have the energy enough to play with my kids after work? What about building that tree-house, and doing school projects? What about after-school sports and parties and everything else? I am barely holding myself together, am I really going to be able to switch my whole personality like a light switch into becoming the kind of Dad these kids would need?
I would be trapping myself into a job I hate forever, just to have these children, which would also make retirement a fever dream.
So why the hell do I still want them? I just wish my head and my heart could be on the same page for this, and they are just not.
So many.
But also a lot of truths I had to learn the hard way (and being ASD exacerbated this).
Crime does pay. Especially if you’re rich. (Wish: no it should not fucking pay)
No. You don’t have to share. Nobody makes an adult share their car with some rando who shows up to the family bbq like we make kids share their toys with some kid showing up. (No, don’t compare this to taxes, that’s shallow and devoid of nuance)
IMO people are not inherently good. They’re not inherently bad, either. They are often shortsighted, apathetic, and self-serving.
I wish that all the fictional lovely futures we’d imagined when I was a kid were real. Clean cities. Flying cars. Clean power. Space stations. Amazing medical care. The ability for everyone to choose a nice life and what to do with it. We’re getting the opposite.
Worst lie currently: “checks and balances in the US government keep anyone from getting too much control.”
There are a lot more. They’re easier to remember when confronted with them.
The thing about humans
Most humans just are. Neither good nor bad, probably on average more good than has as its a requirement for out social way of life to exist in the first place, but yeah; most people just want to make it to the end of the day without too much bullshit.
A lot of the bullshit we have to deal with on a daily basis is caused bybhowbthe world had been setup now by narcissists over the past few hundred years. Its whybwe allow rich people to just get richer without limit. Its why we have poverty, and from there hundreds, of not thousands of problems come.
Want humanity to start behaving better? Implement wealth caps world wide. I firmly believe that over time, that will end all of humanities’ problems
IMO people are not inherently good. They’re not inherently bad, either. They are often shortsighted, apathetic, and self-serving.
I had this conversation with a conservative acquaintance of mine. It went on for hours. He needed there to be good vs bad in his worldview and everyone needed to be at least on a sliding scale good to bad. Everything needed to be they’re not bad they just …
I recall a Bible radio show about the “are people good or evil naturally” pushing really hard on the "all humans evil and need god (and also moneys plz fo church just a widdle).
I don’t think its a “naturally” one way or the other. You see how sweet kids are and non racist they are until some asshole parent or otherwise trains them to be bigots. Then some kids are just uncontrollable. Its random.
“I will love you no matter what”
That changed real fuckin fast when i came out as trans
Sorry that happened, mate. One of our older kids is gay. Our 16 year old is non-binary. I don’t give a shit as long as they are able to thrive without assholes standing in their way. They are always welcome in my home along with any partners they find happiness with. I’m sorry I can’t be that for every child who lost the people who were supposed to have their back no matter what.
Big hugs friend …
Just an apropos of nothing …
I’ve had two friends tell me how they’re sick of this woke shit. I said, I hear more whining about woke shit than any woke shit so you’re gonna have to be specific. He said, “Chris’ kid thinks he’s trans now, like he’s too young what the fuck is that?”
I was like, “I’ve never met Chris’ kid and it seems you think they’re doing it for attention but what if they are <trans>…?”
It’s like … trans people got their own shit that they’re going through and some of my friends act like it’s their problem somehow.
The claims of “doing it for attention” are so silly to me. I can think of so many easier ways to get attention
Also, like… so what if they are? Maybe it really is “just a phase” or whatever the fuck else someone wants to dismissively ascribe any behavior to.
Does that really mean the kid is any less deserving of the attention, connection, and understanding ear they are clearly crying out for? Is ignoring, shunning, or otherwise socially punishing them really the best way to address it?
Like you said, there are much easier ways to get attention. If someone is willing to claim to be trans just for the attention, then they are in serious need of a better support structure in their lives. Giving them shit for it isn’t going to help anything.
So sorry the love they had for you was conditional :(
I still have to have that conversation with my parents. It’s nerve-wracking!! I need to just rip that bandaid off and be done with it.
Right up there with “you can ask us anything”. Well they certainly didn’t expect neurodiverse questions there.
But to be fair the statement also doesn’t include that there have to be good answers.
Yea same here, my mother told me that she will never be able to come to terms with my #decision
Ironic, since these parents are choosing to be terrible people filled with hate.
Now that I think about it, this is surely almost always a lie? I doubt many people will keep loving someone once they find out they’re a serial killer, pedophile, or worse, a conservative.
Disapproving of someone’s choices and actions doesn’t mean you don’t love them anymore. In fact that’s why it hurts more when someone you love does something truly heinous. It’s often hard to just suddenly let go when it’s your child, sibling, etc.
serial killer, pedophile, or worse, a conservative.
We can still love each and every one of them, and tell them so during visiting hours. Especially the conservative, as I suspect they quickly become some bubba’s bitch.
I was always careful never to tell my child I would love them no matter what.
If they came out as trans (or any lbgt+) I would still love them.
If they became a maniac killer I wouldn’t.
I’d still love my kid if they became a maniac killer. I would feel so guilty as the parent. I would dedicate my life to anonymously making the victims’ lives better. I wouldnt protect the kid from legal justice. I would turn them in myself the moment I knew. But I would still love them. Because if I don’t love my kid as a maniac killer, who would? I’m not saying it would be easy.
I love my kid unconditionally. At least I believe I do. I can say lots of things.
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Getting rid of toxic people is first step towards a happier life. You’ll sooner or later find like minded people.
At least my father never made that promise. But yeah it’s amazing how many parents have such a ridiculous condition on their love
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I hope you’ve got people who love you for you in your life, now.
“You won’t always have a calculator in your pocket.”
Out of all the wrong things I was taught in school… A calculator is probably the least complex thing I have in my pocket at all times.
However, understanding basic math, up to algebra and trigonometry is extremely useful on a daily, if not at least weekly basis.
Similarly–
“You’re going to have to write everything in cursive so it’s important that you learn it”
And it was literally never required in school or life after that.
This one is funny for me. I write almost exclusively in cursive, with a fountain pen, and for a while I drove a stick-shift car and wore a mechanical analog watch.
I do/did those things because I appreciate the extra attention that it takes to do/use them. I think there is a certain fulfillment that you get from doing everyday things in an older or archaic way.
I also think that schools and education for children should be about fostering an innate sense of curiosity and self-impovement/fulfillment. In that light, I think schools should teach some of those outdated, more cultural topics, for the same reason that we teach poetry, or literature. I don’t think we should be grading kids on it though, or failing them because they can’t read an analog clock.
You don’t use cursive when you write checks?
checks… hah found the dinosaur… /s i’m in my 50’s
I have a checkbook; I write one a year for a service that is a pain in the butt about check-by-mail only. While i do use cursive for that, there’s absolutely no reason to.
Check washers didn’t just make slight changes to your checks (000/100) and cash them, they used the right solvents and removed all the ink except for the signature and made them out for as much as they wanted.
Your signature doesn’t even need to be cursive.
I was being silly and sardonic. I still use checks, but I know it is waaaay outside the norm and anachronistic.
- Cigarette butts aren’t litter
- You’re supposed to leave all your garbage in your seat at the movie theatre.
“You’re just having a brother fight. You and your brother are going to grow up to be best friends.”
No, my autistic brother with FASD who was my rapist, and is a kleptomaniac, sociopath, pathological liar, and borderline pedophile… will never be my friend in adulthood.
Oh…wow
I was little and going through that “ask an unending stream of questions to figure out how the world works / determine the limits of your parent’s patience” phase. At one point during this my mother, who had up until this point used this as an opportunity to teach me how to research things and overall handled it with grace, began to hit her limit. And so one fine morning when I had perkily jammed myself underneath the toilet in a way that startled the living daylights out of her when she came in and I asked how toilets worked, she said in great exasperation “toilet gnomes, and you shouldn’t be down there bothering them”. This of course made perfect sense to me - someone had to crew the little boat, and humans would never fit in there.
I maintain to this day that it was an act of class solidarity that I shouldn’t be mocked for when, several days later, she found me pooping in the yard because I “didn’t want the gnomes to work too hard”.
Garden gnomes: “The fuck is this shit?”
“The fuck? Is this shit?” FTFY
“The fuck, is this shit?”
“The fuck is this, shit?”
“The, fuck is this, shit?” - Christopher Walken Gnome
The, fuck, is, this, shit? -William SHATner Gnome
Fuck; shit, this is. – Yoda Gnome
“The fuck.”
[smile]
“Is this shit.”
- Katie Zacharia Gnome
Trade schools are for those who couldn’t make it into college.
I would have absolutely gone into welding if I had been told the honest truth about what the trades can earn.
Better live in a country where welders qualify for early retirement then, as the welders I’ve known have all developed issues with their eyesight, often starting in their late 20s or early 30s. Yes there’s a mask and every professional welder uses it because they know just how quickly they’d fuck up their eyes otherwise, but even then you’re still staring at a spark for a significant portion of your workday.
Health-wise, it’s one of the worse trades to get into because of that. Financially, of course… that’s probably part of why it pays so well.
Weirdly nurses too we’re super high risk for musculoskletal injuries that can really add up over the years. Even if you use 100% prefect lift mechanics every time you logroll or transfer a patient, or help them stand up, the patient often doesn’t know proper lift mechanics and will do wild shit like use the back of your neck as a grab handle. Even in psych where our patients are mostly ambulatory it can be even worse because my patients are more likely to intend to injure me.
A lot of welding also releases some really nasty fumes. I wouldn’t be surprised if the fumes are also a contributor to eye issues, not to mention Welder’s lung being named after the profession
In Germany we have the following system:
- Lehrling (Apprentice. Just learning)
- Geselle (Done with learning. But still fresh. Done after 3 years)
- Meister (Can be considered as a bachelor. Authorized to employ Gesellen and may instruct Lehrlinge until the finals)
And Meister can make bank in the current climate.
Remember who connects your toilet or your lamps legally and what you can do without either.I read that as “connect your toilet to your lamps” and I thought, ah, yes, a Home Assistant user.
Similar story - binmen. Teachers warning you that’ll be you if you dont try hard and get good grades.
Id fucking love to be a binman, way better hours, pay and perks than any other job ive ever worked.
and it’s entirely possible you would have washed out as a traders person and never earned that.
very few people make bank in the trades, most make a OK living, but trades have massive drawbacks too.
this whole ‘we need people in the trades, it pays so well’ is a lot of bullshit, just like ‘everyone has to learn to code’
all it mean is they want more competition in the field to drive wages down.
I’ve noticed that when people talk about not needing a college degree, they always mention welding. I’ve personally never met a welder, but it seems they’re the gold standard of blue collar work. Why is that?
I’ve been a welder. It’s a big field with lots of variety. It all mostly sucks. Super hard on the body. Lots of bad fumes and dust.
If you’re actually looking to get into it, learn to weld pipe. Best pay and job opportunities.
Lots of bad fumes and dust.
Can’t recall where I saw it, but I have run across a welding helmet that doubled as a respirator for exactly those conditions. Looked kinda like a full-face respirator only with a permanent clear plastic front and a welding mask that was in front of that and could be flipped up. Capable of working with beards, positive-pressure so no shroud needed over the nose and mouth that would otherwise muffle the voice.
Now granted: stupidly expensive. But the filter was on the helmet, not on the back or the waist (no hoses to get in the way). And it had a normal power-tool battery slot with adapters for the common ones like Milwaukee or Bosch.
The best set up I came across was a pump that mounted on your waist, it pumped in filtered air and kept a positive pressure under the mask. I snaked the tube up under my leathers between my shoulders. Wasn’t too cumbersome.
I’ve seen the one you’re talking about. I thought it was too much weight to be carrying on my neck all day.
But unless you’re prepared to go full hazmat you’re getting exposed to foul air.
Welding is like sewing. Any old mug can darn a sock… but to repair a historically important high quality silk sock to such a high standard that the repair is invisible to the naked eye takes an elite level of crafts(wo)manship that very few would ever attain. Not a perfect analogy but close enough…
I understand that welding takes skill. But I’m more wondering why I’ve personally talked to several parents/grandparents with kids about to graduate highschool with poor grades - and nearly everyone of those people has said that college isn’t the right choice for their kid, so they’re going to go into the trades and become a welder.
So far, none of the kids I’m referring to have actually become a welder. Are those family members saying their kid is going to become a welder because of the skill involved at the highest level of the craft? Is welding the blue collar equivalent of becoming an artist?
My childhood friend became a welder. But my suspicion is that it’s a skilled trade that doesn’t sound gross (plumbing) or super dangerous (electrician). Everyone knows we need welders, they understand what they do too. All this makes it the perfect thing to assume your kid is going to do when they decide not to go to college. Actually going to trade school and apprenticing on the other hand…
Yeah, I think not sounding gross or dangerous is part of it - combined with the skill level. Personally, my in-laws encouraged my nephew not to go to college, but instead to become a welder - or an electrician as a backup plan.
He did neither and now works for the city cleaning sewers. It’s a needed job and pays ok, but no one ever says “you don’t need to go to college, you can clean a sewer.” It’s always “you can be a welder.”
Because the argument is bullshit, and most tradespeople are going to struggle, but that doesn’t let people romanticize the past and divide the present.
And it’s hard on the body and the culture is super toxic just like the materials and environments you may be subjected to.
The only reason I mentioned welding, is I did some welding and plasma cutting in college and actually enjoyed it. I would have gone into the specialty welding like pipe or something like that for the higher wages.
One of my friends switched her career over to welding and she loves it! Never too late!