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

@GreyCarpet

When I was 5 or 6, I misread the sign Boots The Dispensing Chemist as the Disappearing chemist. I was absolutely amazed by it because I thought it meant it was like the Land at the top of The Faraway Tree and Boots wouldn't always be there.

I did too!!

I was a child during the tail end of the Northern Irish "troubles". I was incredibly confused by the entire situation because I thought that the people who were described as "Unionists" were the people who wanted to see a United Ireland!

I also did not understand what on earth Kwait and Iraq and Saddam Hussein had to do with the game of golf!

*Kuwait!!

@Soubriquet

I’m not blind at all but if no one is around, I use the little knob thing under the box. I like feeling it turn

I never even knew that was there.

@husbandcallsmepickle

I thought red wine was from purple grapes and white wine was from green grapes.

Google says that it is. Red from red/black grapes and white from green.

DH was from a family of brothers, and although they all discussed sex, they didn't know a thing about periods. When I first discussed it with him, he said he knew girls had bleeding once a month - but he thought they sat on the loo when it started, and it all gushed out, then that was it - over! He was quite shocked when I told him it lasted for days.....

@BillyJoe111

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.

My Dad was an engineer constructing the channel tunnel. The idea that it could even be done was mind blowing to me. I got him to explain it several times and still could tell you nothing.

When it was declared by DM that 'the sweets have arrived' and a massive van turned up, that (maybe just maybe) she had ordered a load of sweets.

Disappointed when I learned it was a new sofa suite.

@BillyJoe111

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 thought the channel tunnel was going to be like an aquarium and was so disappointed when it was all dark!!

I realise now that a window to the bottom of the English Channel is not a view anyone wants to see.

@husbandcallsmepickle

I thought red wine was from purple grapes and white wine was from green grapes.

Is this not true then

@MydogWillow

Thought chewing gum would stick your insides together if you swallowed it.

Friend always told her kids it was a legal requirement to go to the dentist twice a year. They believed it well into adulthood.

Oh that's genius about the dentist.

Rofl. Especially the sanitary 'bath towel'.

I actually thought that having a baby meant that your parents went to a ' baby hospital ' and bought a baby.
They simply went up to the counter where a nice nurse would be stood and all the babies would be in shoe boxes on a shelf behind her for your parents to choose from.........
I was seriously 10 years old before I learned the truth.

I never understood why shops were open during the week - I thought everyone would be at work or school monday to friday And another gorilla/guerilla here... And "heavy plant crossing" confused me for a while

It's a child I thought the teams in University Challenge were actually seated in two tier rows one on top of the other. I was lots of years old when I found out it was the camera splitting the screen. 🤣

@WartyToad

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

Phew, not just me then

I'm glad we all had the same childhood in thinking that the channel tunnel was an aquarium/pipe under the sea🤣🤣🤣

@Wrennie24

It's a child I thought the teams in University Challenge were actually seated in two tier rows one on top of the other. I was lots of years old when I found out it was the camera splitting the screen. 🤣

Wtaf?

@Wrennie24

It's a child I thought the teams in University Challenge were actually seated in two tier rows one on top of the other. I was lots of years old when I found out it was the camera splitting the screen. 🤣

I'm over 70 and, thanks to you Wrennie, I have just found out about the split screen.

@Wrennie24

It's a child I thought the teams in University Challenge were actually seated in two tier rows one on top of the other. I was lots of years old when I found out it was the camera splitting the screen. 🤣

Just the same. I find it discombobulating to see them side by side like it's unnatural 😅

I once asked my mum what happened to the cord after you have the baby, she went on about cord clamping and having to keep it clean until it falls off etc and I was like "I know all that 🙄 I mean what happens to my end?"

I'd thought the placenta broke down into blood and came out like a period so I couldn't fingers out how the cord came away, did the midwives just cut it as close to the vagina as they could and it would come away with the blood at some point?

My mum was horrified at my lack of knowledge and had to explain how you gave birth to the placenta and that's what people meant when they talked about "the after birth"

Thank god she cleared it up for me as I was 23 years old and 41 weeks pregnant! So it could have been a very embarrassing conversation in the hospital.

To be fair to you @Warrickdaviesasplates it wasn't until I was writing my birth notes (fat lot of use) that I realised you chose how the placenta came out (wait or injection) I thought it just came out with the baby, and that the after-birth was just another way of saying you stayed in the delivery suite until your bed was ready.

Not me but many kids I work with have told me they think teachers live at school. Also when I talked about 'my job' they asked what it is. They think I just hang out at school all the time cos I live there/love bossing kids about.

@Wrennie24

It's a child I thought the teams in University Challenge were actually seated in two tier rows one on top of the other. I was lots of years old when I found out it was the camera splitting the screen. 🤣

Yes, me too.

@MintyGreenDream

When I was little I used to be surprised at all the swearing on the turkeys in the freezer aisle.Ready basted.

Lol, thanks for that, really made me laugh!