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

I know Jason Manford has done this in his routine so maybe it's just a manc thing we were all lead to believe but I was honestly brought up thinking the ice cream van only played his music when it had run out of ice cream.
Our local one used to do snacks and single fags too, so the queue of people was easily explained away by my parents.

Adopted friend 'found under a bush' - school age me belived for too long, I am stupid

I thought if I sucked my thumb it would melt.

When I was young, I found an antique map of London and thought (for years!) that SLINGTON was the original name of Islington (the letter i had faded).

@husbandcallsmepickle

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

Um...isn't it?

@husbandcallsmepickle
You mean that isn’t how they make wine?

The channel tunnel is in the seabed for those wondering, I thought the same for a good long time

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.

@ErrolTheDragon

I though cats eyes in the road each had a little light, and was astounded at the clever way they lit up as you drove towards them and turned off once you'd passed by.

I also thought this until DP told me about 4 years ago. He had a giggle. I refused to admit he was right. Still won't 😏

My dad told me the Indiana Jones films were a documentry which I believed until I was 9ish. When I called him out on it he said they were based on true stories of his adventures which I again believed for a good few years.

I thought iron railings were racks of weaponry used during wars - the combatants helped themselves.

I thought that when you went to bed at night the weather was put "on hold" until you got up in the morning.

My husband was 46 years old when he discovered 'Class A' cherries were in fact glacé cherries

About three years ago, I found out that narwhals are real and not mythical.

I am 50

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

Um . . .

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

Generally speaking it is - although to be scrupulous, the colour comes from the grape skins.

Champagne can be made from white grapes or red grapes (blanc de blanc, or blanc de noir)

Not me but ds..

Believed the hazard warning red light in the car was an ejector button for dc who didn't behave while I was driving!!
At 20 he fessed up!

I remember pointing at the church in our town and asking what it was. My mum told me it was the Church of England church. I thought we were sooo lucky to have THE church of England in our little town.

As a child I also genuinely thought that the world used to be black and white and colour was only invented in the 50's.

@waybill

When I was a child, I though guerilla warfare was fighting between groups of gorillas.

Same here🙊

I thought Joolsl Holland’s Hootenanny (awful New Years Eve programme my husband likes) was broadcast live. It’s actually filmed in October or something.

When I was 10 a boy in my class told us he’d been a blue baby. I thought it meant he’d actually been blue like a cartoon character, and then years later thought he must have had blue blood ‘like royalty’. Yes, I was a big girl of 13 and hadn’t even questioned that the queens blood might not actually be blue.

Probably not surprising that my daughters thought that going through the tunnel to France on holiday was going to be like going to an amazing aquarium, bedknobs and broomsticks style.

Yep, I thought the train went over the Forth bridge up and down like a rollercoaster. I was very disappointed the first time I got to go on it.

For a long, long time I assumed that as well as there being the Forth Road Bridge there was also a First, Second and Third Road Bridge.

DH thought that the dark side of the moon didn't get any sunlight until well into his 40s when I explained that all of the moon gets approximately the same amount of sunlight and 'dark' was used in the old-fashioned sense of unseen or unknown so it referred to the side that faced away from the Earth.

When I was little I spent a long time picking out the little brown bits in recycled toilet paper. My mum eventually got fed up and asked what all the little bits were in the bin.
Yes I really thought it was “recycled toilet paper” with little bits of dried poo.
Of course it became family history to be re-told ALL THE TIME

@Itsmemaggie

I used to think that when a baby was born the doctor tied a knot in the umbilical cord and whether you had an innie or outie was a result of how good they were at tying knots!

I definitely don't still think this

Oh, and the last time that I mentioned on MN that the dark side of the moon gets sunlight someone posted to tell me that I was completely stupid and should be embarrassed of myself because of course the dark side of the moon didn't get any sunlight. It was a big rant and amused me greatly. All she/he had to do was Google it.