#50

When I was 12 or so I was convinced I could get our computer on to the internet if I persevered fiddling round with Windows and all the free software it came with for long enough. I knew that everyone I knew who had the internet had signed up and paid for it, but look, all the icons are RIGHT THERE, surely it must be possible.

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#51

The onset of puberty does crazy things to a young mans mind. ā€œmustā€¦getā€¦porn!!!ā€

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#52

Inspired by the Ready Brek advert, surely:

#53

Probably a bit earlier than that. (Iā€™m well old :cry:)

#54

I do remember my little boy aged about 5 trying to put a bit of card that had a picture of ben 10 on into the back of his DS saying ā€œplease work! please work!ā€ thinking it would make a ben 10 game appear.

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#55

Was convinced for a long time that my dad had given the Queen a lift, in retrospect it was my great grandma and I just wasnā€™t very good at distinguishing between old ladies.

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#56

When people talked about their feelings I had it in my head that feelings might be like another organ, a little bag of something like rice pudding,

#57

My dad always used to say to me ā€œYouā€™re my favorite daughterā€ and then Iā€™d say ā€œBut Iā€™m your only daughter!ā€ and heā€™d say "No I have Mel C, Geri, Victoria, Mel B and Emma"
I might have believed that for a short period of time.

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#58

firmly believed that the person who played the Hulk also played David Banner in the 70ā€™s Incredible Hulk seriers.

#59

Thanks, would have also accepted ā€œdoes anybody love anybody anyway?ā€ :smiley:

#60

I almost went down that road but then changed due to the audience I was addressing :thumbsup:

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#61

i remember asking my dad at what age did i get to choose my ā€˜adult nameā€™, because i hated my name, and his name is Neal and I thought there is no way there was ever a small child called Neal because that would just be weird

(wanted to change my name to Jason or Zach obvs)

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#62

My step dad always wheels out this story about how I asked himā€¦

a) If I fired a gun and there was nothing in the way would it go all the way round the world and hit me in the back of the head
b) If I was on a boat and jumped really really high would I land further back on the boat from where I jumped

ā€¦the point of the wheeling out being ā€œdonā€™t kids say stupid thingsā€ but I still contend these are good questions and he is just still ashamed that he couldnā€™t answer them.

#64

he just laughed at me and then used it against me for the next 27 years

#66

The answer to the first question is ā€œnoā€. No matter how big the gun, and no matter what type of bullet youā€™re using, all bullets start to slow down once fired.

Second question, though - probably!

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#67

yeah I know

#68

Alright, Lou or Andy from Little Britain.

God, I hate that show.

#70

power rangers innit

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#71

They are good questions. Contrary to what @ninetyeightytwo says the answer to the first one is definitely ā€œpossibly, it depends on how fast you fire itā€. Even with air resistance there is a theoretical velocity that would make it do exactly that. Pretty fast though.

As for the second one I think the answer is ā€œYesā€, but Iā€™m not confident about it. If it is then the answer is yes however high you jump.

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#73

this has reminded me - whenever kids in school talked about getting their playstation chipped down the market so they could play pirated/copied games - I thought this involved taking a hammer or other implement and chipping/removing bits off the console

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