• 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
  • MintyFresh@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    “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!

    • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world
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      38 minutes ago

      “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

    • curious_dolphin@feddit.org
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      “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.”