to have only recently realised..

[TheQueenOfDiamonds]

What the phrase "birthday suit" means... Ffs!

I thought the smarties thing was because they had a letter on the top of each tube.

But your way makes more sense Bronze

Oh and u also thought tina turner was white until I was in my late teens!

afternoons

That was my thread I started about the flamin yon!

I was crying laughing at it. Will be keeping this one in watched threads too, they're always hilarious.

Oh SugarBatty.......really?!?! That really did make me laugh out loud!

SugarB

Thought gite was a place in France until I wa sabout 30 - then Raquel in Coronation Street asked Ken if they could 'go to gite' and everyone laughed..

Yes really! That game they play in the water shouldn't even be called polo at all! Its nothing like the one with horses.

I have often wondered why it is called water polo.....when its nothing like the game or the sweet!

I thought you were posh if you had a Saintropay tan (like the slebs all seemed to have)...until I saw a bottle labled St Tropez in Boots one day.

Until I recently read on here I thought that the channel went from England to France but through the sea

It never occurred to me that they'd actually did under the sea

I think I also learnt that Wombles do not come specifically from Wimbledon Common on that thread, too, cookie.

And I never knew why the liver birds was called that, I'm just checking but it is because they are from LIVERpool isn't it?

Thats what i always thought Sugar......lets see if someone comes up with something different :)

I hate to say this I I don't get the go to gite thing can someone explain it please

worried....a gite is a holiday home like a villa..... :)

Thanks lovemy. I really didn't even slightly know that

Haha this has made my day..I can't believe it's taken me 33 years to realise " only smarties have the answer!" clearly I'm not one of the smarties!

My dh recently at 37 1/2 years of age found out the Edinburgh is spelt like that and not edinborough..what a pair of numpties!

I used to think that Jim'll Fixit was his name. As in 'Jim'll' rather than Jim.

Same with Kris Akabusi, I thought he was called Chrih Zakabusi.

I blame the lack of Internet as a child

I never knew the Smarties thing! Every day is a learning day :)

I've only just worked out that if the loo roll sheets are not lining up, you take one and go round to meet the other and it matches up again.

When the Falklands were invaded by the Argentinians I thought how the holy hell have they managed to invade an Island just off the coast of Scotland............

Er fretting, you do realise that 'the Channel' is the water bit, not the tunnel, don't you?

(Not that I'm one to talk. The first time I cooked hard boiled eggs, I stood there watching the pan waiting for their shells to come off.)

i always thought the wombles were from wimbledon and were awfully common...

also, the old joke runs about the chap who went to his doctor and said his pills weren't working and was told that just because they were called analgesics, didn't mean they weren't taken by mouth.....

Still don't know what IPOAT is