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True fact about yourself that no one believes

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Kernobhead · 15/05/2019 20:14

When I was at university (5 yr course with a year in industry, so 4 yrs of teaching) I never missed a single lecture, seminar, lab or tutorial. If it was on the timetable I was there. We had large contact hours (engineering degree, so about 25 hrs per week) so was quite a lot to fit in.

I’ve told this to a few people over the years when the topic comes up in conversation. No one has ever believed me, and it’s not something I can prove or disprove either way!

Anything you have done in the past that no one believes and you have no way of proving?

OP posts:
Cider4Caro · 20/05/2019 05:53

Blueglassesframes
Thanks for the explanation. My mum's A +, my dad's B-. I'm B +. Your right as I did get the letter from one and positive from other. Glad I didn't get rhesus neg from my dad though!

BetterEatCheese · 20/05/2019 06:06

Not me but my mum - she was the first woman to wear trousers at work on the shop floor at Tesco.

ThatCurlyGirl · 20/05/2019 07:13

@BetterEatCheese

Not me but my mum - she was the first woman to wear trousers at work on the shop floor at Tesco.

LOVE this - go CheeseMum! Women like her paved the way for others, including my aggressive campaign (including badges - I meant business) to be allowed to wear skirt OR trousers at my all girls school. We won :)

Jacopone · 20/05/2019 07:19

I don’t have headaches and have never had one in my life. It usually comes up when somebody is asking for a painkiller and is surprised to find I’m not in the habit of carrying them as I don’t need them. (all other aches I will suffer though- backache/muscle etc).
People cannot believe that.

dangermousing1929 · 20/05/2019 07:31

That I've dated/been in a relationship with:

a guy who was a Lord and was at Kate and Will's wedding

2 professional rugby players (one at international level)

A BBC producer and bafta award winner

2 guys in the film industry (on screen)

An Olympian (competed in Rio)

And once met a director in a bar and the next night he took me as his guest to a very well known awards show

BlueGlassesFrames · 20/05/2019 08:00

Cider4Caro
Don't forget though, you're a carrier for negative even if you don't have negative blood yourself.

Cassandrainthenight · 20/05/2019 09:44

doubleshotespresso you mean of sleep?? Since when and how do you survive?

BetterEatCheese · 20/05/2019 13:36

@ThatCurlyGirl
It was ridiculous as it wasn't even a customer facing role so no reason whatsoever for justifying it (which is what they tried to say, store image etc which is so wrong on so many levels!) - she was stacking shelves on a night shift.

Very proud of her!

BetterEatCheese · 20/05/2019 13:39

Thought of one! I can't scream. Never have been able to. I do a man shout if scared. I don't think it's that odd but people used to always get me to prove it

deste · 20/05/2019 14:33

That I am on tv about 6 times a day. It’s usually on at prime time yet hardly anyone mentions it which I’m really glad about. Ive never ever seen an episode of Friends or Game of Thrones, never smoked or taken drugs either.

canveyisland · 20/05/2019 15:17

Weatherperson deste?

I have never worn leggings.

LizzyA123 · 20/05/2019 16:26

Re blood grouping, It’s not that unusual to have a different group to your parents, it all depends on the alleles inherited from each parent and their expression. O is a recessive so if you are blood group O you can only be be OO. If you are group B you can be BB, or BO, Group A is AA or AO and AB can only be AB. Rh+ and Rh- are inherited independently of ABO. Rh+ is dominant so someone withRh+ could be Rh+/Rh+ or Rh+/Rh-. An Rh- person could only be Rh-/Rh-, hence the different possibilities.

Leelawadee · 20/05/2019 16:29

Are you one of those canoeists in formation or wheelchair sports team (no idea which sport) or the mountain rescue people who come on those BBC idents, deste?

CabbageHippy · 20/05/2019 16:40

@floraloctopus - Skomer ?

DesperadoDan · 20/05/2019 16:47

I can play the piano very well. Nobody believed me until I brought an old upright from the local hospice furniture shop. I had it retuned and happily plonk away a couple of times a week, good job I live detached Grin

BertrandRussell · 20/05/2019 16:54

There are a lot of things that puzzle me on this thread. If somebody told me they could play the piano it wouldn’t cross my mind not to believe them. Is it usual not to believe what people tell you?

CabbageHippy · 20/05/2019 17:03

I can't burb

DesperadoDan · 20/05/2019 17:14

@BertrandRussell I have no idea why people don’t believe me, maybe because I don’t look like people’s idea of a piano player.
Learnt from the age of 5 until I left school.
Tried to get DD interested but she wanted to play drums which she now does very well. When she learnt we lived in a semi Blush

fizzysci · 20/05/2019 17:36

Heron no you'd be wrong as only my children have loved me i've never been loved by a partner or my parents.

Leelawadee · 20/05/2019 17:59

There are a lot of things that puzzle me on this thread. If somebody told me they could play the piano it wouldn’t cross my mind not to believe them. Is it usual not to believe what people tell you?

Yes. I'm equally puzzled by claims that people wouldn't believe someone had gone out with a rugby player or an actor or an aristocrat who'd been at a royal wedding I mean, someone has to go out with them, right? or why someone wouldn't believe someone's mother broke the skirt-only Tesco rule. I mean, you'd just say 'Good for your mother', wouldn't you?

Maybe everyone on the thread hangs out with incredibly skeptical people. Or they're compulsive liars about everything else, so no one ever believes them about anything?

BertrandRussell · 20/05/2019 18:10

Actually I think mine is pretty unbelievable- the never having seen the 9/11 video one. And people have not believed me.

WickedGoodDoge · 20/05/2019 18:14

Maybe everyone on the thread hangs out with incredibly skeptical people. Or they're compulsive liars about everything else, so no one ever believes them about anything?

I think people aren’t really answering it as “no one believes* but more as a “wow, I’ve known you for ages but would have never guessed that of you!” At least that’s how I’ve answered it. Grin My example was performing at Carnegie Hall when I was 17. From ages 6-20 pretty much all I did was play the violin. Hours and hours every day. I only attended high school about half time as our orchestra was constantly on tour- around the US, Caribbean, Europe etc- in places as diverse as Radio City Music Hall to under martial law Poland in the 1980s.

Then one day I just stopped and haven’t picked it up again (well, maybe once every couple of years when I think I ought to start again but somehow never do). Now there are people I have known for 20 + years who don’t know about this because it’s not something that generally comes up. On the rare occasion when I do mention it, I do get utter surprise. Not really disbelief, but genuine surprise.

Degustibusnonestdisputandem1 · 20/05/2019 19:20

I'm Australian, and a descendant of a female first fleeter (convict), I'm one degree of separation away from Rupert Murdoch 😑😑😑, under my maiden name, I was on the same page of the university of Cambridge phone directory as Stephen Hawking...

Whattheduck · 20/05/2019 20:01

I’ve never had a KFC and neither has my dd who’s 14 (which her friends find hard to believe)

HoppityChicken · 20/05/2019 20:07

I've never been to Nandos or Subway - total disbelief from a room full of younger co-workers today.