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Things you used to think and now can't quite believe you did

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treaclesoda · 07/05/2014 09:56

I saw a seagull flying and it suddenly occurred to me that when I was little, I thought there were two different types of seagulls. Ones with legs, and ones without. Naturally the ones with legs had no choice but to fly all the time Grin

I was a pretty bright child, I can't imagine why I thought that.

Please tell me someone else out there thought the same?

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BreconBeBuggered · 07/05/2014 15:18

I always thought newsreaders were godlike wise men who knew everything. I also thought they were really kind of shitty for sitting behind a desk yakking away when they could have been out there stopping the bad stuff happening instead.

RabbitPies · 07/05/2014 15:18

I love these threads. They make me feel almost normal.

I'm howling at wolves being fictional. Had you never seen a photo of a wolf before, or one on television,Emmanuel? Grin

MissHobart · 07/05/2014 15:15

that bloody woman - it does on the Discworld! Wink

whatadrama · 07/05/2014 15:13

When i was a child my Dad used to refer to what i thought was a close friend called "matey",

I spent hours of my childhood wondering why we never got to meet this frequently mentioned chap called matey because sometimes he was hilariously funny, other times he was an annoying git, he gave good advice, he gave bad advice, he wound my Dad up, he was a good bloke and sometimes a bad bloke Confused

It took until i was an adult to realise that "matey' is a general term for random people my Dad had met Blush

CogitoErgoSometimes · 07/05/2014 15:11

Our family never travelled and I'd never met anyone foreign so I thought 'French' was an interesting but essentially pointless exercise they just taught you at school like 'Algebra'... I didn't think anyone actually spoke it.

walsalllinguist · 07/05/2014 15:10

that chihuahua was pronounced chee hugher hugher. Blush

weatherall · 07/05/2014 15:10

I used to think part time was park time and that it had something to do with the car park.

I used to say pacific instead of specific and artic instead of arctic.

I thought that your money in the bank was kept in a little box with just your money in it.

I didn't know what the other meaning of pussy was until the other girls had got a good laugh out of me!

Didn't realise raisins were grapes or prunes were plums.

I didn't think most people had sex until they were about 21 or older.

MrsWolowitz · 07/05/2014 15:09

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HumphreyCobbler · 07/05/2014 15:07

I used to think there were two different cities in the US called Los Angeles and Ellay.

I read on here once that someone else thought the same thing. I am not alone!

Peanut15 · 07/05/2014 15:05

That a utility room was where the knitting happens as I called it the little knitty room for years!!

doorbellringer · 07/05/2014 15:02

*real not easy!! Pfffft

doorbellringer · 07/05/2014 15:02

That Auchtermuchty wasn't a real place. Up until a couple of years ago - I'm 33 Blush
When I saw a road sign for it I blurted out "oh that's a easy place I thought it was just a funny saying" dh nearly crashed the car laughing and I tried to pretend I was joking!

Blithereens · 07/05/2014 15:01

Honey ones are real obviously! And feminist ones Grin

HoneyDragon · 07/05/2014 14:56

Blithereens Hmm What do you mean dragon aren't real, hmmmn?

ThatBloodyWoman · 07/05/2014 14:54

That treacle came from mines.

LadyMacmuffintop · 07/05/2014 14:52

Blondie I used to think the same about people who went my church. I thought they were all there to trick me into saying I believed & when I did they would all have a good laugh at my expense. Bit cynical for a child! Or possibly some type of narcissistic personality disorder where I could genuinely suspect half a village would go out of their way to just trick me!!

GertBySea · 07/05/2014 11:29

I used to think that "unarmed combat" meant fighting without using your arms. So that would have been people fighting like that knight on Monty Python.

NoArmaniNoPunani · 07/05/2014 11:28

I thought a cunt was a baby horse until I was into my teens

Blondiebrownie · 07/05/2014 11:27

I used to believe everyone around me were actors and that I was the only one who was actually 'living life'.

Much like 'The Truman Show'.

My DM still laughs about some of the things that I had done to try to catch her out Grin

Blithereens · 07/05/2014 11:24

Think I sang, 'what's that coming over the hill, is it a boxcar? Is it a boxcar?' for ages Blush

Cadastre · 07/05/2014 11:24

OMG cecinestpasunepipe ... that's fecking hilarious

ThinkIveBeenHacked · 07/05/2014 11:23

I used to think the song lyrics were "Popdom Beach, im in trouble deep" Blush

Nummer · 07/05/2014 11:23

I used to think that petrol stations were built on top of oilfields. Makes sense if you ask me.

Blithereens · 07/05/2014 11:20

I regularly have to chant to myself, 'narwhals are real, unicorns aren't, dinosaurs are real, dragons aren't, seahorses are real, winged horses aren't.'

(Big dragons I mean. Can get little ones obv.)

cecinestpasunepipe · 07/05/2014 11:18

A child of the fifties, I had a similar mix-up between gets and Germans. More recently, (last week), I discovered the bookmakers Paddy Power was not a sort of Black Power, but for the Irish.Shock

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