“it takes a village to raise a child”. Men, what is something you learned from movies, TV, or someone else instead of your parents or family members?

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1. Pretty much everything I really know.
   Sports, Knowledge.

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   My parents added a shitload of critical thinking and asking pinpoint questions that helped me get there

2. “We don’t need to bury him… the buzzard gotta eat the same as the worms do” The outlaw Josie Wells

3. Literally everything? My parents taught me very little. My dad was a half step away from being a absent father.

   For example: I never got any sort of sex talk from anybody(school or parent). I looked up sex on Wikipedia.

4. A specific thing? I learned that every car has a little arrow next to the fuel symbol to show you which side the gas cap is on from a comedian.

5. EVERYTHING!! I came from a broken family and raised by my grandmother. She did EVERYTHING for me, don’t get me wrong. But TV was my sitter, my friend, my teacher. Shows like The Walton’s, Little House on Prairie, and old sitcoms Leave it to Beaver, Father knows best ect. taught me right from wrong, not to lie, steal, or cheat. I guess they did a good job, I’ve never been in trouble with the law. As a young man I set goals professionally and exceeded them. Guess I did OK for a TV baby!!!

6. Sex.

7. How to change a tire.

8. You can continue running through air as long as you don’t look down. That’s when gravity sets in

9. “I ain’t got time to bleed!”

   “Coffee is for closers ONLY”

   “Get busy living or get busy dying”

   “But…these go to 11”

10. Eat more pussy.

11. I learned english through movies. Tho, I learned the basics through reading but I pretty much start, if not fluent, to become good at it after watching too many movies.

12. Many adults don’t know what’s going on and are more incompetent than led on

13. The biggest one would be on TV shows where a kid would make a mistake and not get punished for it, it was simply a “You made a mistake, what did you learn, here’s how to do better next time.”

    As a kid I got punished for every mistake all the time and just assumed everyone else did too.

14. Pretty much everything after age 7, which is when they got divorced. My mom ended up too busy plus she was never the wisest owl in the barn, either. My dad devolved into weirder and weirder areas of life with less and less moral fiber. I learned some good critical thinking both directly from them but also in spite of them, largely from the school I went to where in fourth grade it was directly taught.

    After that I learned things either from friends, TV, or, for the most important things, fantasy and sci-fi novels. Honor and respect, emotional health, creativity both in speculative and problem solving ways, duty, etc.

15. How to start a fire with magnify glass

16. Sprinkles are for winners.