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Ever thought that you could get flushed down the loo? That girls wee out their bottoms? Or that bumming means two men rubbing their bums together? Tell us about your childhood misconceptions. Thanks to Joefish for the suggestion.

(I helped save b3ta! rob, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 15:21)
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For a long time, I believed...
... that everything disappeared as soon as it was out of my eyeline / earshot. I basically considered myself the centre of the universe and the rest of you to be mere figments of my imagination.

I'm still not wholey convinved I wasn't right...
(ScousersPet, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 11:38, 12 replies)
Bertrand Russell once received a letter from a lady
which said "I for one am a solipsist, and I'm surprised that there aren't more people out there with the same views".

This is my only funny solipsism anecdote.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 11:41, closed)
I had no idea...
... there wa sa philosophy behind this, I just thought I was self-centred.
(ScousersPet, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 12:42, closed)
You might also
be psychopathic.
(username failed moderation, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 13:41, closed)
Or just thick.

(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 14:35, closed)
I think Monster Munch is probably closer to the truth...

(ScousersPet, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 13:33, closed)
You should read a book called "On Having No Head"
It's pretty well exactly this argument, from a Zen point of view.

Everything exists inside your head. Or doesn't, as the case may be.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 11:41, closed)
Where did you come from?

(I helped save b3ta! P-MONKE We're all fucked, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 12:18, closed)
Are you still amazed
when people playing peekaboo with you materialize out of nowhere?
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 12:19, closed)
Ha!
My sister used to believe the same kind of thing except she thought that we all turned in to robots or ghosts when we were out of her sight. She still seems to believe she is the center of the universe and she's now in her forties.
(Booce, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 12:30, closed)

www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2277
(I helped save b3ta! Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 13:38, closed)
Haha!
Excellent.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 14:58, closed)
Clearly you were
oh shi...
(I helped save b3ta! shk is always cool and calm, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 15:22, closed)

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