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

It would have been an excellent riposte if she had read the posts properly!

What???? I just had to get my calendar out and count it - mind blown 😂

Tbf this is a pretty common mistake, the Internet is full of memes about it!
I was trying to tell someone this, forgot (what I’d just learned were) the actual words and kept saying’trombolese? How do you not know the ‘trombolese’ song?’ (Was out and drunk at the time😅😅😅)

well yes, but the thought was there

Me too! And it’s all because of that advert.

In my early 30’s I was invited to a hen weekend at one. It was February and I was packing for the weekend and my DH questioned why I was packing as though I was going for a break in the sun. I explained to him that we would be under the dome all weekend in tropical temperatures so only needed bikinis and summer clothes. Thank goodness he corrected me once he’d stopped laughing.

That’s so horrible.

😂😂😂

I thought up until very recently that Germany was land locked. I am not normally this stupid.

I have found my people. I'm sitting here going, Are they not? Really? Is it not? I thought that too! 😂

I thought until not that long ago that the reason we had winter was that the Earth just moved further away from the sun and came in closer to the sun in summer - I had no idea we were tilted on our axis.

I also thought that gravity was like a big magnet in the centre of the Earth that pulled us in.

Well thank you, thank you very much!

To be fair I was a very imaginative child and hyperlexic (later turned out this was missed sign of autism and adhd). I read a lot, alone and above my age level. I was also raised in a very religious, superstitious home so the idea of a "cursed book" made perfect sense to me. I watched the news a lot from an early age, again alone, and at some point the Doomsday Clock must have been featured so at the age of 5/6 I'd developed this very odd idea and associated it with the "Doomsday" Domesday Book which then wasn't covered at school until Year 8, non-native parents who knew little of English History and no internet access allowed it to go on far longer than it should have...

I was used to reading beyond my vocab/knowledge and learned that meanings can be inferred, word roots especially in Latin can help you figure out meanings too etc and whilst I was often correct in assumption, I was also sometimes way off base. I'd obviously heard Domesday but assumed Doom's Day and made up my own little story which became my "truth". I often got pronunciation wrong - including "assuage" which didn't get corrected until my early 20s! As, who uses that in a sentence these days?!

My IQ is unusually high. Imagination, as is the case with my bizarre backstory of the estranged "Flintoff Twins" and assumptions about The Ashes (until I was 18!)...still going strong. My common sense...less so. Gullibility, absolutely shocking.

And, being autistic, I'm not proud of my daft assumptions - I'm genuinely ashamed and would only share them on MN!

I also, naively thought the poster berating us for being so stupid was joking due to their username...but I guess they are serious? Or being deliberately provocative on an otherwise lighthearted thread!

It used to be real meat - the spices were a way of disguising meat that was on the turn.
No idea when that practice stopped.

As a teacher, in their first Nativity performance a little boy was fed up of being a king with a boring present after the gold so he flung his gift at Joseph and said ‘Frank sent this’. Me any my TA were in fits of giggles.

I thought this too!!!

Have you got a cold? ( You sound a bit bunged up!)

It's "en route" not on root.

Nope, life’s a buttered dream.

No that’s a myth- the spices were far more costly than the meat, so they wouldn’t be used on bad meat. This is comprehensively debunked in the latest History Rage podcast. Also not true is that beer was drunk because the water was unclean

https://www.historyrage.com/episodes/episode/964d3acc/the-spice-of-lies-the-truth-behind-medieval-spices-and-spoiled-meat-with-tom-ntinas

I always knew they were two different people, and which one was which, UNTIL I watched The Big Short and thought it was Ryan Reynolds in it. Half way through I looked something up on IMDB about the film only to discover it was Ryan Gosling all the long. Complete headfuck, I couldn’t get my head round it for the rest of the movie, he kept kind of morphing between the two in front of my very eyes 😂

@PyongyangKipperbang knows that, she's spelling it phonetically @PerfectStorm00! To highlight the differences in pronounciation.

This song took over a thread on misheard lyrics (I think), a little while ago!
So many people thinking it was 'got his trampoline', I can't unheard it now when the song is played! (Though may replace with 'trombolyse'!)
(For those who want to know: Turns out the lyrics is 'strong belief'!)

But The Full Monty was not set in Scotland.......

Sticking with the religious theme, my paternal grandad was called Harold, and I had a schoolfriend called Evelyn.
When I was in primary school and had to go to Mass, (we were Catholics), we had to chant all sorts of holy stuff including the Lord's Prayer.
I thought the prayer was singling me out as someone special, as in beginning with "Our Father who art in heaven, Harold be thy name", and, at the end, "Deliver us from Evelyn", amen.

I did too........and I am.....

So how do you pronounce en route? On root, or something else?