Things you assumed and were astonished to find out you were completely wrong

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For example: The Elgin Marbles. Heard these mentioned from time to time over the years. Always pictured marbles; kids’ marbles. Then I heard they were something to do with Greece and I’ve always thought Elgin was there. Got it all completely wrong

Gah! I see someone got before me!

Sorry again, I meant to quote these posts.

I assumed my toaster setting had some sort of “magic eye” that could see the colour of your toast. I was so disillusioned that it’s just a timer.

When I was a child, I fully believed the moon was made of cheese (I saw this in wallace and gromit, and my dad jokingly told me it was real.) I only realised when I got in my teens.😂

This thread has cracked me up - especially the elusive Flintoff cricketing twins!

As a younger reader I decided that Roald Dahl had misspelled his own name so I corrected it on all my books to Ronald Dahly which made much more sense to me. He'll always be Ron Daly in my head.

As an aside, interesting that so many PP think Billericay sounds like an Irish place name, as an Irish person it doesn't sound Irish to me at all. Funny how our minds work...

@ilovepixie

Eyes = aye/yes > the vote counts in agreement with a proposed referendum

neigh = naye/no > the votes against the proposed referendum

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This is somehow very pleasing to me, as an idea, though!

When I was a child I heard the well-known Christmas carol as 'Good King Wences last looked out….' as in, the last time he looked out on the Feast of Stephen. I’d never seen it written down.

This all became horribly apparent when a sadistic teacher made us read a passage from a book aloud in class that included the carol, and she picked me to sing the lines. Not only was it agony to have to sing in front of everyone (I was cripplingly shy), but she then proceeded to rip me a new one for getting it wrong, without explaining exactly what I’d got wrong, and making me sing it over and over, which I kept doing, wrongly, and getting more and more upset.

I still nurse the psychological scars to this day.

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That ponies are not juvenile horses.

This reminded me of a recent Gogglebox as where the posh bloke pronounced Mange Tout as Man-get-out, I can't resist calling them that (to myself) now!

Rotherhithe isn't in Scotland!

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I have just laughed myself onto a coughing fit. What an excellent riposte!

Clouds crashing into each other to make thunder and the teacher thinking seahorses were mad up have been particular highlights in a marvellous and funny thread.

@Eyesopenwideawake

Noooooo! Ponies are not small horses, the same way as zebras are not stripy horses!!!

Yeah they really are!

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In that case, our Welsh sheep have shorter legs on one side then! 😂

When I first came across the term ‘local anaesthetic’, I thought it meant an anaesthetic that was manufactured in and was unique to the locality of the hospital, so a patient in Manchester would have one made in Manchester while a Birmingham patient would have a different one made in Birmingham.

This reminded me of a relative who used to call people he thought were fawning up to people (to get in their good books), 'fornicators' 🤭
He refused to believe what it really meant until it featured in the film 'Cabaret'!

Oh I thought this too.
I felt like a right twat when I found out.

The other way around.

Cardinals of the church wear red. When Europeans moved to North America, they named the red bird they saw after the Catholic clergy.

I definitely thought that dishwashers filled up with water and if you opened it during the cycle, a tsunami of water would come flooding out like the blood coming out of the lift in The Shining.

Well yes, technically. But pony breeds and horse breeds are very, very different.

To be fair, I believe that Margaret Thatcher thought she was the Queen as well🤣🤣

I was in my 40s when I found out that batteries produced electric. I thought it was a special type of "battery power" and that electricity only came from sockets 😳