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

[Cattery]

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

I always thought Taylor Swift was singing about Starbucks Lovers and the "blank space" where she writes the name was the Starbucks cup!

That x files was just fiction then begin reading conspiracy books and omkg

Nope. It's the FAQ on the Walkers site where they confirm cheese and onion have always been blue and it's never been any different.

Before walkers took over it was Golden Wonder or Smiths crisps who made crisps. They always had salt and vinegar in blue and cheese and onion in yellow and green packets. I think it was walkers that changed it

He did have very poor eyesight.

Huh! Well to be fair I must have been about 4 or 5. My parents perhaps just swapped brands 😄 But I’m 100% right that hula hoops are the way I said.

10/10 on your general knowledge
0/10 on your empathy and wisdom

Have you actually heard her sing? I mean, thinking Dusty Springfield was black would be understandable, but Adele?? It's like listening to a loaf of Kingsmill Soft White trying to sing.

A plane going over has just reminded me.

When I was little and went on my first flight we took off in grey cloudy weather. After we'd been flying for a bit the sky was blue and the sun was shining. I was so surprised at how quickly the weather had changed. I'd always believed that clouds went all the way up into the sky.

This has always confused me, especially as some people seem to think the North begins at Watford, and some at the Watford Gap.

I first heard it when I was really young. I thought it meant a local recipe, like a herbal medicine instead of the real one

I was sure of this too, but I'm wondering if I'm thinking of Golden Wonder, were they a more prevalent brand in the 1980s?
(And then walkers became the leading brand....?)

You sweet summer children who’ve never had the pleasure of an Ian Dury gig…

Billericay Dickie

I am very grateful to this thread for informing me about the exact placement of the instep on the top of the foot rather than underneath it. I am 74.

With the Watford thing it's because there are two towns called Watford.
Watford in Northamptonshire and Watford in Hertfordshire. I know someone that moved from Watford to Watford!

My ones are that I was told as a kid that Gerry Adams wasn't allowed to talk on TV because his voice was too sexy. This must've been a joke doing the rounds that I wasn't aware of as a kid as I saw the same scene on Derry Girls. When I first heard him talk I was quite disappointed with his perfectly normal voice.

The Christmas Carol I thought was 'good tidies we bring' as in you'd better tidy up before Christmas and the relatives come round.

I went to university here in Scotland in the early 80s and students from England moaned about not being able to get Walkers crisps.
When they did appear here I was confused with the green being salt and vinegar flavour.

My 'ayes,' clearly missed that!!
Damn glaucoma!

Hula hoops are.

I think it's because Walkers were only ever blue cheese and onion whereas others were green so people just assumed it

My sausage fingers were going faster than my brain, and I posted before checking!
Je suis un idiot

This is so funny!! I had the EXACT same image of Elgin marbles...but got laughed at by my friends when I brought it up!

I was convinced left and right were fixed points like east and west. It felt like if I turned around my left and right would be on the opposite sides.

I'm mixed handed and dyslexic so to an extent left and right made absolutely no sense to me, I still get it muddled if put on the spot but it does give me a sheepish grin when I cant get my head around it.

Ive only just realised that the "apple bottom" but means the bum of the trousers rather than the hemline.🤣 It's cos in that song they then talk about "boots with the fur", so I just thought the gems were apple bottomed - I guess like with rows of little apples 🍎 🍏 stitched across them. 🤣

Polo ponies are not young horses. They are a breed

Golden Wonder were a big crisps brand, and then they had a fire at one of their factories and never got their market share back.

I'm from the northeast so we had Tudor crisps, which were Dark Green = Pickled Onion, mid green = cheese and onion, blue for salt and vinegar.

There was a good documentary about crisps on Channel 4 recently https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-secret-world-of/on-demand/71484-002

Everything was bright and gay in the 20s, 30, and 40s!