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.
I thought black and what television was black and white because history happened in black and white. I suppose that means life in colour happened after the invention of colour tv
Tangentially related… The creation of the blue LED was so revolutionary, and took so much effort and science to make, that the guy who discovered how to make blue LEDs got a nobel prize.
I used to think Parkinson’s disease was named after TV chat show host Michael Parkinson.
I know you were probably just confusing it with Lou Gehrig’s disease, but this absolutely cracked me up.
I think it was just because Michael Parkinson was a prominent figure in the UK when I was a kid in the early 2000s, and Muhammad Ali was also the most prominent figure who had Parkinson’s disease.
And seeing as Michael Parkinson conducted some famous interviews with Ali in the 70s and 80s, I assumed he must have caught Parkinson’s from him. 😂
I thought CEOs worked super hard
Some do. CEO’s of small(ish) companies who are maybe also a founder of that company, are often personally and emotionally invested enough to actually want to work hard. CEO of my company is always running and calling and stressing and working late.
Granted, that is after they kicked out the greybeards who were just there because they invested some money years ago and were acting like the kind of CEO you were describing.
Yeah I’m an anticapitalist & socialist, and I have worked with hard working CEOs in small companies. The issue is that their relationship to capital is different, not that all of them are terrible lazy people or something.
They worked like any other worker, but when the company sold for 10 million dollars, they got a few million dollars, some unseen investors that I literally never met got the majority of it, and I (along with the other workers) got scraps, literally nothing for most of us, and small bonuses for other workers. The CEO didn’t put forward any of their own money, and in the end they were essentially the head of marketing getting compensated equivalent to what we made in a lifetime of working in a single day.
We don’t need a class of leeches siphoning away the vast majority of the value of our labor. Even if everyone can dream of being a leech themselves, it’s not good for the vast majority of people.
There was a coca cola plant in my hometown. When we were kids, my dad used to tell us that the huge water tanks that were painted as coke and sprite cans actually contained soda and I always imagined diving in them. Obviously he was just fucking with us, but I actually believed it for a while.
I thought cats were female and dogs were male. Can you tell I didn’t have pets growing up?
I know a disturbingly high number of adults over 40 that refer to every dog as he/him and every cat as she/her no matter how many thousands of times they are corrected on it.
