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 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).

I didn't really know what it was! Don't think I'd ever heard of it. I was 20.

When I was little I used to think you lived till 100 and then born again as someone else lol.

@Mummy2Babba

I only found out a couple of years ago that carpets don't actually grow. I thought that when beds and furniture left marks on carpets that the carpet had grown around it and I honestly only found out this actually isn't the case a couple of years ago. I'm 25 btw 🙃

Oh come on, pull the other one!

[quote Moonflower12]@StopThrowingCitrusFruitFFS

Thank you! And well done [/quote]
Why thank you! I'm unreasonably smug. Taking my victories where I can get them

@husbandcallsmepickle

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

Is this not true 🙈

When I was kid remember my mum saying if you picked your nose and the wind changed you'd be stuck like that for life 😂 believed her into my teens ... never picked my nose again .

Once, in my mid 20s, I was out with my friend and her young children. When an ice cream van went past, they asked if they could have one. Their mum said no. Cue lots of "But whhhyyy..." from the children. I told them that the music meant that they'd run out of ice cream. My friend later said something along the lines of "Thanks for that, I forgot my mum used to tell me that one!"
It had not occurred to me until then that my parents had been bullshitting me. I'd been imparting knowledge in good faith to those children.

Oh, and my dad also told me that he was a pirate. I believed this for longer than could really be considered acceptable. We did not live anywhere near the sea, or even near a fairly substantial river. He bought a pirate's hat as "proof", and I remember taking it into school for show and tell several times through late primary.

I remember taking a class of five year olds to a carol service at the local church. The minister said to them solemnly that they were entering Jesus's house. As we passed the toilet, one little boy whispered reverently "That must be where Jesus does a wee!"

When ' cash back' first came in shops. I used to think. Wow mum/ dad have paid with their card and the person has given then cash too!

I used to think that when you went in the channel tunnel it would be like a really long aquarium tunnel and you would be able to see all the fish and marine life. Needless to say I was sorely disappointed!

At the start of The A Team when the voiceover said they escaped to the Los Angeles underground I thought it meant they were living in caves.

I always wanted to know who who Bill Posters was and what he had done wrong, because there were signs in loads of different places and lots of different towns saying "Bill posters will be prosecuted".

I am such an idiot.

That the banks can just print more money, I still don't get why they can't if a country is struggling I'm 26 as well 🤦‍♀️ no excuse

When I first started work years and years ago I thought tax was just a loan from people working to the government and you got it all back (I had heard my dad saying he had 'tax back' one year)..I was ever so disappointed when I got zilch back!

@husbandcallsmepickle

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

Is this not the case!?!

Back in the 70s (and probably for far longer) sanitary pads were called 'feminine towels' and the advertising always had flowers and butterflies etc in the corner of the advert.

I literally thought they were very feminine bath towels, so when I sent off for a free sample at aged 10 I was very confused to receive one sanitary pad.

I thought maybe it was just a very compressed towel so sort of tore it apart expecting it to spring open as an actual towel. I just ended up with bits of cotton wool all over my bedroom floor.

I was too embarrassed to tell anyone

Older than I care to admit when I found out Schweppes is not pronounced 'scoochweppers'

That I'd fall deeply in love, get married and live happily ever after.

@MydogWillow I'm not sure exactly how you are pronouncing Port - aka - bin and so whether my embarrassment over this mispronunciation is shared. As a literate 40 year old I told someone to turn left by Port - ahka - bin (long a phoneme) and have never really recovered from the shame.
The weird thing is that I knew of the firm Portakabin but never associated the two.

See also the attractive climbing plant with bright berries - Cotton Easter...

husbandcallsmepickle

I thought red wine was from purple grapes and white wine was from green grapes.
.......
Is it not?

When a women was pregnant a couple had to keep having sex for the baby to keep growing.

@Mummy2Babba

I only found out a couple of years ago that carpets don't actually grow. I thought that when beds and furniture left marks on carpets that the carpet had grown around it and I honestly only found out this actually isn't the case a couple of years ago. I'm 25 btw 🙃

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My aunt and uncle had a dog and kept a sack of dog biscuits in a cupboard. My uncle told me if I ate any, I would bark. I didn't.

@SweatyBetty20

I was struggling to undo a bolt and a family member suggested using a pair of mole grips. “What have mole catching gloves got to do with undoing this?” I scoffed at him. I was 30.

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