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[–] Geek_King@lemmy.world 141 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

When I was little, my mom dropped me and her friends kid off at a church for arts and crafts, I was 5. We we given toilet paper rolls, pipe cleaner, glue, and some other stuff to make butterflies. I studiously started making mine, I got the wings, the antenna and asked what I was supposed to use for the legs. A full grown ass women look me right in the eye and said "Butterflies don't have legs".

I had seen butterflies land on flowers and latch on with legs, I was so confused how an adult wouldn't know that.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

I'm curious how that person thought that butterflies rested.... Or did they just continually flap their tiny little wings until they died?

But, I mean, you were at a church....

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

When Jim Morrison wrote People Are Strange, he actually meant People Are Stupid.

I remember asking my teacher why you could see the moon during the day and my teacher told me you couldn't.

This too left me very confused, because I had seen the moon that very morning from the school yard.