Jaiden: Well would you look at that, the first video i'm posting in 2017. In a year we
can look back at this video and say, "We
had no idea what we had coming". So
another year has passed which means we're all
one year older which means we're growing
as people which- ah-.. Yeah this is a stretch I
didn't have a transition as a youngster I
was prone to believing people pretty
much unconditionally
as with most children. I just had too
much trust for my own good, like, "Oh
would anyone have any reason to lie to
me,
the world is full of nothing but nice
people and purity!", of course I've grown out
of that mentality and am a lot more
cautious. But for a while people could
just tell me things and I'd just believe
them.
I got thinking about all the ridiculous
things people put in my head that I
stored as fact, and I decided to make a
list of the craziest ones, and also just
letting you know I was, like, younger than
7 in all of these stories. Don't worry
I didn't just find out these things
aren't true like a couple months ago or
anything. When I was in first grade for
some reason my mom told me aluminum foil
is poison and if I ever bit I'd die. A bit
strange but I think I know the idea
behind it...?
Apparently biting foil can induce a
"""galvanic shock"""
Basically if the oil comes in contact
with braces, metal fillings, something
like that the medals will react with
each other and create a little electric
shock. But all I knew as a kid was
Teeth > contact with aluminum foil > Death. And I was
petrified
I didn't even have braces or anything
metal in my mouth at the time so nothing
what even happened if I tried it. I also
remember going to school the next day
and telling my friend, "Did you know that
if you bite aluminum foil you'll die?" And she
goes I think, "I've bit foil before
and I was like "how are you not dead?" Grasshoppers spit acid in
your shoes
This one probably needs explaining to
I was at recess with some friends and we
are running around in the grass
without our shoes on. When we went back to put
them on there was a little grasshopper
sitting at the bottom of my right shoe.
"Guys look, a cute little grasshopper is
wearing my shoe!" And one of my friends
goes, "Oh my god, grasshoppers spit acid!
Get it out!" And then we all start panicking
at the fact that there was a death grasshopper
in my shoe.
I looked up like she could have thought
that and it actually is a fact that
grasshoppers can spit a brown liquid to
protect themselves from predators
it's called tobacco juice and even
though it's slightly acidic
the worst you really can do is stain your
clothes. It's pretty much harmless but
oohooho dude, no, I had the image in my head of
some Breaking Bad hydrofluoric acid
dissolved through everything it touches
kinda mean. Also just saying I didn't
mean the drug acid even though that
could be equally terrifying.
Speaking of staining clothes I was at
lunch one day with the rest of my class
and one boy took out a bag of
pomegranate seeds his mom packed for him in
his lunch. A lot of us hadn't seen them
before because it's a bit of an exotic
fruit. So it cost of attention and we are
all asking a bunch of questions about
them.
The boy said, "Did you know pomegranate
seeds can stain your clothes and it'll
never come out?!?"
*GASP* Woah! That must be one powerful fruit!
It never comes out? Never ever forever?
Not even with the power of *BILLY MAYS WALKS IN* OXICLEAN
LAUNDRY STAIN REMOVER IT GETS
THE TOUGH STAINS O U T and then we watched the
kitty to bag a pomegranate seeds sittin
sideways at the seats on the space next
to him because he didn't want to spill
'em on himself.
Looking back it was definitely just his
mom exaggerating because she didn't want to have
to deal with stains and laundry. A slight
parenting trick if I do say so myself.
It's weird to think she's out there
somewhere and she doesn't even realize
she accidentally taught me that lesson too.
This was actually kind of common to
believe and I think a lot of people have
been passing this myth around for a long
time. Sitting too close to the TV is bad
for your eyes. I did research on this one
as well and even though it might seem
like it could be true
there's apparently no actual evidence
that sitting in front of the TV is
damaging to your eyes. but 'ol little 'ol
Jaiden believed it and you know what I did
with that information? Stand directly in
front of the TV.
Yeah, for some reason when I was younger
I really, really wanted glasses
I don't know where that came from, I just
liked the look of glasses and wanted
them. So when no one was looking I would go up
to the TV screen and stare at it. Like
one inch away from my face.
"this will get me glasses" but it didn't
work, obviously. I actually have really good eyesight.
Maybe standing too close to the TV
will improve your vision. But yeah I'm
glad my eyesight sabotage plan didn't
work because having glasses just seems
like a hassle and inconvenience. Tip of the hat
hat to anyone out there with glasses or
annoyed by them. Wish you the best; we
people without those things forget how
good we have it.
This was a bit related because it's
about eyeballs again. If you try to use
your eyes to look back into your head
at your brain, they'll get stuck and you'll be
blind forever. It's a bit of a spin-off
of the other eyeball myth of, "If you
cross your eyes too much, they'll get
stuck like that!" I never believed that
one, but I believed this brain one.
A friend told me once that if you tried to
look at the back of your head with your
eyes, you might be able to see your brain
and we spent the whole day trying to do it.
Then when I went home I asked my mom
about it and she said, "Don't do that,
they'll get stuck." *T R A U M A* I think I believe it so
quickly because if you try it does kinda
hurt your eyes a bit because they're
not really supposed to be able to look
back into your head like that. And I
thought that was like your body saying
"Don't push it!"
"This is a warning!" And even to this day
their "rotation limit"
I don't know how else to say it. I know it's not
of my mind (which I'll never be able to
see). And finally the most ridiculous
thing I believed so I don't know how
this happened
no one told me this I don't understand
where I went wrong here, but somehow I
ended up confusing the disease "Tetanus"
with AIDS
didn't even know what AIDS was. And yes I
am considered a PG-channel for the most
part so if you're a youngster watching
and you don't know what AIDS is, your
parents will explain it more in a few years.
It's a disease that you don't need to
worry about the time being. Only adults
So, yeah, I thought tetanus was called "aids".
The disease that you can get from an
infected cut was called AIDS to me. And
the worst thing about it is this one
time someone accidentally cut themselves
on a rusty shovel and I have the memory
of saying "Careful, you could get AIDS!"
*cracking up* What, why?!?
How did this happen to me?!? I don't
understand what went wrong and how do I
mix those two things up but whatever I
know the difference now and that's all
that matters. But I do sometimes mix up
saying Tetanus and Tetris. "Careful, you
could get Tetris" *tetris music plays* I ended up learning a
debunked a bunch of lies, I'm going to
tell you a truth I found out recently
Real quick since this is the end-card.
So a friend asked me what's the purpose of
pink lemonade. And I was like good
question! So I looked it up and i'm not
talking about the lemonade from
strawberries or any fruit to change the
color. Classic pink lemonade.
so apparently pink lemonade originated
because a long time ago way back in the
day there's a concession guy selling
lemonade at the circus and he ran out of
water and he had to hurry and find some
more and there is no river stream nearby
and he found that a performer had just
watched their red tights in some water
which turned pink, so used that pink water
to make more lemonade and just told
people it was a special "Strawberry type
lemonade" and he sold a bunch more
lemonade, the image of dirty circus tights
water might pop into your mind.
Sorry.