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

Mayonnaise was made from dolphins. I was disgusted by it, genuinely baffled why people ate it. I used to call it dolphin juice. Until one day my friend questioned why I called it that and when I mentioned harming the dolphins she was baffled. I had a half hour debate with her and my dad about it because I didn’t believe them

I also thought that gammon (the meat) was some sort of bird, called The Gammon.

Mayonnaise was made from dolphins.

I can't unread this

You've just won the thread.

I always thought that toddlers were the only ones who wrote on walls 🤣@AlCalavicci

@sweetpea1532 I don't chalk on floors or write on walls then cover it with paper .

I am a good girl

@SometimesRavenSometimesParrot

I grew up catholic and the tabernacle at the back of church was covered with a cloth and roughly bird cage shaped, so I assumed there was a Holy Canary in it and we’d learn about it during confirmation or something. I was about 10 before I found out.

In my defence, it wouldn’t be the strangest thing you find in Catholicism.

My son asked my mum at Mass what was in there and my mum replied Jesus lives inside there. My son replied " he must be really small".

This thread has been ace!

Grew up abroad in the '60's, there were lots of things, especially branded goods, which we 'couldn't get here'.

It would have been helpful, though, if my father had not just agreed with me, when I suggested that 'elbow grease' was one of those things.

Now, looking at the picture in the Brownie Handbook, it's obviously not an advert, as I had supposed it was. Sigh.