What dumb thing has taken you forever to realise?

[muchalover]

Nights in white satin song was playing in the car today. A favourite song of mine so I was singing along and it dawned on me that the word is "nights," not "knights".

Whole song makes much more sense now 😳

I had a similar issue with "Toyota, the car in front" but it's a Nissan I'm behind (or other car brand).

And in the film Winnie the Pooh where the gopher says "I'm not in the book" and I thought it was the phone book😬 for decades!

I promise I'm intelligent.

Spinn8ng classes - i genuinly thought they were just twirling around in circles.
God knows why they called sitting on stationary bicycles spinning!

I was a voracious reader of Greek myths when younger, but had never heard the names of the characters spoken out loud. I think it was a University challenge I was watching and thinking "oh brilliant.my subject" and then not recognising any of the names that tipped me off.
It took me ten years at the school I worked at to realise that N was north block, C was central and S was south.

I did used to think it was pronounced as spelt, even watching Bugs Bunny battle "Yosemitty" Sam didn't correct me, I thought he was being all yee haw and American.

It's one of the things that keeps the class system alive and kicking in this country @Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride.So few people now have access to classical education & it's usually via grammar schools or because their parents have paid for private schooling. But only recognising a word or name by sight is a good sign that means a person is a reader or intellectually curious, so don't worry about it!

When I first heard about spin classes, I thought it was some kind of gym class where people twirled around like whirling dervishes.

OMG- So did I. I heard 'spin class' and had images of people in a hall spinning about like the photo! 😆

ME!!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣

same..surely it's exercise bikes, how does 'spinning' work..

Another one here who thought it was Knights not nights