What stupid thing did you believe?

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For a long time, I honestly believed money laundering was literally washing money in a washing machine and I wondered why it was so bad

When I was a child, I though guerilla warfare was fighting between groups of gorillas.

Same tbh..

Also thought Cold War meant fighting during cold weather

I thought a traffic jam was because a lorry carrying jam has spilled and all the cars were literally 'stuck' in the jam.

When I was younger, I wanted to be a garbage truck worker. Because I thought they only worked one day a week as that was the only day I saw them

Please bare with me at this stupidity. My only defence is exhaustion from having a baby and toddler.

Palm oil from palms of hands of gorillas. Not palm trees.

I used to think the money from a cashpoint was free

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

Please bare with me at this stupidity. My only defence is exhaustion from having a baby and toddler.

Palm oil from palms of hands of gorillas. Not palm trees.

When I was little I asked my dad what the Queen's actual job was. He told me she was the voice in lifts, you know the "doors opening" voice. Yeah I believed that far longer than I'd care to admit 😂

When my DS was small he thought that wildcat strikes were actual wild cats and to get money you just went to the bank. I love it when children say this stuff.

When I was little I used to think that men who worked in sweet /newspaper shops must be very respectable because it said on the outside of all those shops 'News Gents'

I was a kid when the channel tunnel was being built.

I honestly envisaged it to be a big pipe sat on the floor of the English channel.

I didn’t realise the World Trade centre was two buildings. I was very confused when I saw on the news the lane going into the second tower (no excuse for that, I was 21).

YY to cold war - called that because Russia is cold.

I used to think that when a baby was born the doctor tied a knot in the umbilical cord and whether you had an innie or outie was a result of how good they were at tying knots!

I thought that every time I saw a To Let sign out and about they were trying to say Toilet.

@Itsmemaggie

I used to think that when a baby was born the doctor tied a knot in the umbilical cord and whether you had an innie or outie was a result of how good they were at tying knots!

Yeah…. I believed that for a stupidly long time only learned it wasn’t about two years ago

When I was about 7 the teacher told us in assembly that we mustn't swing on the doors leading to the toilets as you could get your finger trapped in between the door and the frame (nowadays they have a rubber shield thing to stop that).

She said that there had bee a girl once who did swing on the door, and whose finger did get trapped, and they had to pick the finger up and take her to hospital to have it sewn back on. And when they got there, they found out that they had picked up THE WRONG FINGER, that was another child's finger that had got broken off years before, so the teachers had to come back to the school and look again for her missing finger.

We completely believed it.

I thought guerrilla warfare was trained apes with machine guns as a child.

Agree with others about the channel tunnel being a big pipe in the water, I thought you might be able to see the fish!

When my DS was about 3, and he asked me why daddy had to go out to work every day, I explained that daddy needed to work to earn money, so we could buy our food and clothes and, ocasionally, toys.

A few weeks later we were visiting my sister, who during a little chat with DS asked him "what does your daddy do at work, do you know what work he does?", to which DS confidently replied, "yes, I do. He presses a button and money comes out." if only!

I thought that during the world wars people were out fighting their neighbours (possibly with swords)

I thought reindeers were mythical.

In the song Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand, when they talked about a "cross hare (hair?)", I thought they were referring to an angry rabbit 🤣. Not even joking, embarrassingly.

This one is actually really embarrassing. When I was just out of university, (so a full grown woman with a degree), in the mid-noughties, I took up yoga. One of the teachers was telling me about her travels in India and how she had met a guru there who could "create so much lightness in his body that he could actually levitate". I went into my shiny new office job the next day and told my no nonsense legal type workers all about it and one of them very gently said "are you sure that isn't bollocks"? I was convinced until that point and just thought it was a very interesting fact. I am sure some people believe in levitation, but I am not particularly religious and I just said it as if it was an interesting piece of trivia. Scientific fact.

Why was it called the Cold War? Until about 2 minutes ago I thought it was because Russia was cold...

I also thought unicorns were real for ages, because, frankly, as mythical creatures, a horse with a horn is pretty fucking tame. Clearly Pegasus was a myth - a flying horse? Come on. But a horse with a horn seems pretty plausible to me!

My mum told me not to play with my belly button, as if you unscrewed your legs would fall off. I was very tempted to try but was scared to, just in case she was right.
Guerrilla warfare, yep, real gorillas.
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@Moonflower12

Why was it called the Cold War? Until about 2 minutes ago I thought it was because Russia was cold...

Lol, I did this at GCSE history. I think it's because there wasn't really fighting between the two main countries?