Lies we tell children: How believable are they?

In this thread, we create polls for things we tell children and judge how believable the lore around their concepts are.

Santa Claus

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  • 1 (the slightest thought about any of it and it all falls apart)

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Easter Bunny

  • 10 (Irrefutable solid narrative)
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  • 1 (the slightest thought about any of it and it all falls apart)

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Tooth Fairy

  • 10 (Irrefutable solid narrative)
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  • 1 (the slightest thought about any of it and it all falls apart)

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Krampus

  • 10 (Irrefutable solid narrative)
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  • 1 (the slightest thought about any of it and it all falls apart)

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Sinterklaas

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  • 1 (the slightest thought about any of it and it all falls apart)

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Trickle down economics

  • 10 (Irrefutable solid narrative)
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Boogeyman

  • 10 (Irrefutable solid narrative)
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  • 1 (the slightest thought about any of it and it all falls apart)

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Cupid

  • 10 (Irrefutable solid narrative)
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  • 1 (the slightest thought about any of it and it all falls apart)

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Sandman

  • 10 (Irrefutable solid narrative)
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  • 1 (the slightest thought about any of it and it all falls apart)

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Monster under bed

  • 10 (Irrefutable solid narrative)
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  • 1 (the slightest thought about any of it and it all falls apart)

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Jack Frost

  • 10 (Irrefutable solid narrative)
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  • 1 (the slightest thought about any of it and it all falls apart)

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Father Time

  • 10 (Irrefutable solid narrative)
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  • 1 (the slightest thought about any of it and it all falls apart)

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Mother Nature

  • 10 (Irrefutable solid narrative)
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  • 1 (the slightest thought about any of it and it all falls apart)

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Anything that involves a lot of travel is a one for me

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The problem I have with Santa and Christmas lore is that I don’t really know what the story is.

Wishlist of presents to Santa. Ok.

Elves in the workshop. Magical and lovely but outdated and slightly implausible, but ok.

Santa delivering with the flying reindeer and sleigh. Again there are serious logistical issues, but ok. Let’s run with it.

But hang on a minute. If the elves are making presents and Santa’s delivering. Why do all these presents round the tree say they come from mummy and daddy, or whoever else (with some of them being given directly, rather than any pretence of Santa being involved)?

Quite like the simplicity of the tooth fairy thing.

You’re all cynical bastards. I BELIEVE!

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Eh? Your santa delivered gifts are noted as coming from the parents? We have a demarcation - santa gets one big gift and fills the stocking, the rest are wrapped from the family.

In fact, it shows how wild my childhood was - All my gifts came from Santa, and I never once asked why my parents didn’t get me a gift for Christmas. In my head I rationalised it as “there must be a cut off where you don’t get presents from santa anymore, and then you’re an adult”.

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Yep. No presents labelled as being from Santa here.

(Miiight have done one or two token presents ‘From Santa’ when they were one or two years old.)

Have we fucked it?

Haha, well, I don’t think so.

The main issue is that Santa doesn’t have a canon, so you are free to make it up as you go along.

For example; our kids get a gift on Christmas eve to open - it is always brand new christmas jammies to wear to bed that night. This is dropped off by our Elf on the Shelf on the last day.

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