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What stupid things have you believed/said/assumed before finding out to your embarrassment you were wrong?

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CookieRookie · 27/08/2011 13:38

Could do with a laugh today

Here's mine...

1 - I thought a filet mignon was something presented on fire, you know with brandy or something...a flamin yon Blush

2 - I thought rollmops where called roll 'em ups because they're rolled up but I was kind of right with that one.

Not hilarious, though dh did laugh at me til he was nearly sick, but I'm hoping some of you have much better, more embarrassing ones.

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AlpiniAddict · 27/08/2011 22:13

Euphemia I haven't got a clue,chopsticks made from cherry wood maybe?! God knows wtf he was thinking pmsl Grin
Then again,this is from the man who thought that if you put your finger inside your belly button it goes inside your body,and that if you massage your temples for more than 20 seconds you'll die (I used to have great fun doing it to wind him up Grin )

Velvetbee · 27/08/2011 22:13

Tallulah, I'm fairly sure knee CAPS do grow later just like teeth. Though their little leggies still bend without obviously.

thisisyesterday · 27/08/2011 22:12

i wonder what rest bite involves.... hmmm

breathedeeply · 27/08/2011 22:11

I came across a report from a newly-qualified social worker that repeatedly recommended 'rest bite' care for an elderly man.

MotherJack · 27/08/2011 22:11

I went on a hen night in Whitby - quite a few years ago now. The morning after the drunken night before we were all looking in a joke shop window and a few of the group suggested going in it, at which point I exclaimed "We can't!". The collective group spun and stared at me with a "why?" at which point I authoritatively stated "because you are not allowed to leave a joke shop unless you buy something".

It was at that very second, at a whole 23 years old that I realised I had been indoctrinated into this belief by my parents in their (very successful) attempt to keep me out of joke shops.

I still can't quite believe they managed to do that to me.

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thisisyesterday · 27/08/2011 22:10

hahaha heaven.... what was going through your mind when the church talked of sending missionaries out lol

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ILovePonyo · 27/08/2011 22:09

Clots! Thats what I thought they were called (when I was about 9, honestly)

HeavensNetIsWide · 27/08/2011 22:07

Had an epiphany in church last week - I've always thought missionaries and mercenaries were the same thing Blush. I couldn't work out why church would be collecting donations to support mercenaries/missionaries in east Africa Shock

I also just had to look up the orient express, I always assumed it was the same as the trans-siberian railway (which DOES go to china!)

AlpiniAddict · 27/08/2011 22:07

My H thought that the Katy Perry song went:

I kissed a girl and I liked it,the taste of her cherry chopsticks

It took me ages to convince him it's chapstick.

I've also got friends who insist that 'You've Got The Love' goes

Sometimes it seems the Lord is just too rough

I googled it but they still don't believe me Grin

Tee2072 · 27/08/2011 22:07

Well, TIY, what else would you use to cover your pillars?! Wink

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thisisyesterday · 27/08/2011 22:02

there was a sign outside a shop i saw once advertising "pillar cases"

Longtime · 27/08/2011 22:02

I am crying with laughter at some of these, especially the water polo and decapitated's dh! faverolles, crime investigation department.

I have to admit to not having heard of ligers or tigons before and that when I was young (very young though), I though cats were female and dogs were male. Apparently dh thought the same.

Most English speakers pronounce lingerie incorrectly even when they think they are pronouncing it correctly. Mind you, I'm thinking of it as a French word.

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tallulah · 27/08/2011 22:01

DD1 was 21 when DD2 was born. The first time she saw her she exclaimed "she has knees!". She thought they grew later, like teeth.

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Onemorning · 27/08/2011 21:58

I used to pronounce 'pharmaceutical' as pharmacuticle. For years. I still do, occasionally.

I genuinely thought Gok Wan was straight, but camp, until he went on the F word and told Gordon Ramsay he liked penis too much to be straight. Blush

Playingwithbuses · 27/08/2011 21:57

i love it when people advertise 3 birth caravans, is that for triplets

BalloonSlayer · 27/08/2011 21:51

Someone on our freecycle tonight is offering a "Chester Draws."

faverolles · 27/08/2011 21:46

Until quite recently, I thought CID stood for copper in disguise.
I still don't know what it stands for.

aliceliddell · 27/08/2011 21:44

A friend told me that his friend said at the end of 'Gone with the Wind' - "Funny name for a romantic hero, Reg Butler"

RhinestoneCowgirl · 27/08/2011 21:39

That Kiefer Sutherland was in fact called Keith O'Sullivan (because what sort of name is Keifer anyway??)

Also confused Roger Daltry and Timothy Dalton...

ziptoes · 27/08/2011 21:36

In primary school a boy asked me in front of the whole class if I was a virgin. I answered "of course not" thinking that virgins were ladies who wore blue dresses and rode around on donkeys at Xmas.

ho hum

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