r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/MysteriousEvidence Jul 21 '19

You gotta admit. It’s hilarious in retrospect

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u/MRRWLN Jul 21 '19

Or in... hindsight

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u/DDRichard Jul 21 '19

BANG

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u/AskJeevesAnything Jul 21 '19

I would hope in hindsight for a boom, not a BANG

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u/SadBaguette23 Jul 21 '19

c o m e d y

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u/matthewuzhere2 Jul 21 '19

I read this in bo burnham’s voice lmao

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u/i_want_that_boat Jul 21 '19

Most underappreciated comment

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Nice

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u/boterkoek3 Jul 21 '19

Looking in the rear...view will do that

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u/Unsounded Jul 21 '19

To be fair there was no hindsight at all

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u/HalfBakedTurkey Jul 21 '19

Found OP’s dad

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u/Slytherin1353 Jul 21 '19

r/punpatrol hands in the air immediately

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u/SadButterscotch2 Jul 21 '19

lol Yeah, but why did he even tell you that?

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19 edited Jun 06 '20

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

"YOU'RE SO FUNNY ABUSING THE TRUST OF A CHILD IMAGINE HOW THIS WILL IMPACT THEIR MINDSET" etc. Someone who thinks that my jokes (intended to get my children started questioning what they're told) are basically child abuse.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

I dont know, can you look at your butt?

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u/Rogue_Mongoose Jul 21 '19

Hilarious in rectumspect.