What stupid thing did you believe?

[Soubriquet]

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

I have thought lots of these in the past but I thought the umbilical cord one was true. I told my own daughter the other day. Am off to google now 😀

@Myusernameisnotmyusernameno

God I got it the minute that posted 😆😆

Sorry! Yes I thought (as an 8 year old) that the war was called the "golf war" not the "Gulf war" and couldn't for the life of me work out why!

I did not understand about mortgages as a teenager. So when someone said a person paid say , £100,000 for a house , I wondered how they could manage to save all that cash .

carrots make you see better in the dark

@Soubriquet I had a very similar conversation with DH recently.. he didn't believe me that Washington State and Washington DC were on opposite cases and was making fun of my lack of geography skills. I felt rather validated when I showed him the map.

When I was a teenager watching football on TV I genuinely thought the fans switched seats at half time to be behind the relevant goal. Not that just the goal keeper changed goals.

@husbandcallsmepickle

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

@husbandcallsmepickle what?! I still think that. 😬

Surely this is true though right?

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

Whoa, back up.

What?

Is that not true??

Navy seals - I thought they trained actually seals, a bit like dogs.

Visiting DP's family in Hong Kong in the early '80's, I saw the news saying that as an economy measure, hot and cold water would only be available on alternate days and ... failed to notice the 1st April date.

I'd had four or five days of cold or boiling hot showers before apologising over breakfast when I had got muddled up and used the wrong one.

I think they thought I was joking ....

@Rosesareyellow

Navy seals - I thought they trained actually seals, a bit like dogs.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_marine_mammal

Apparently they do...

My Dad told me that if I gave the hedgehogs in the garden milk to drink, it made their legs grow really long and they would topple over. I believed that for years.

@Rosesareyellow

Navy seals - I thought they trained actually seals, a bit like dogs.

I thought the same. I had funny ideas about 'SeaKing' things too.

Pufferfish! Blew my mind that they puffed up with water and not air

Only found out when I saw a video a few years ago of a puffer fish out of water expelling water and deflating

Anyone remember the advert about 'the ring of confidence' using Colgate toothpaste? ( probably in the sixties I was about 6) I overheard my neighbour telling my mum about how her son had a ring around his neck. I failed to hear the end of the story about the fact it was a ring of spots. I told all my friends that it was true if you used Colgate you could get the ring of confidence yourself. I believed this for a long long time!

I’m from NI and was born in the 70’s. I grew up hearing on the news that such and such a thing and happened and the “IRA had admitted responsibility”. I used to think that was jolly nice of them. Took a few years to learn otherwise.

I remember being being a teenager and being very confused by 'soliciting' being against the law but there being branches of solicitors all over the town centre.
I was also quire confused between Protestants and prostitutes. I was a strange child.....

My dad explained to me that rice multiplied in size. I thought he meant that a grain of rice would split into two, and so on, and so on. I tested this theory by boiling one grain of rice in a pan and watching over it for 15 minutes.

@halandpeeno

I remember being being a teenager and being very confused by 'soliciting' being against the law but there being branches of solicitors all over the town centre. I was also quire confused between Protestants and prostitutes. I was a strange child.....

This has reminded me of a school friend who, on a careers day when we did mock interviews for practice. She loftily told the very nice man who had volunteered his time that she was 'thinking of going in to soliciting'

He very kindly told her that probably wasn't what she meant

@Soubriquet

Pufferfish! Blew my mind that they puffed up with water and not air

Only found out when I saw a video a few years ago of a puffer fish out of water expelling water and deflating

Sorry what now?! Water? Not air! Well I bloody never knew that.

@husbandcallsmepickle

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

Um isn't it????

@husbandcallsmepickle

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

It isn't? In my defence I Can't stand wine so rarely drink it

It's also only just dawned on me that it's not Bee -troot, but beet-root.

I thought Free House meant just that, a free house. Couldn’t understand why we didn’t take one as they looked bigger and nicer than ours