to have only recently realised..

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

I thought that electric fences were plugged into big sheds. You know,. a massive great three pin plug..

Erm why didn't the tunnel builders get wet?!

Because it doesn't go through the water it goes through the ground under it.

I used to think that too Sugar, my logic is that I thought they built it in scuba diving outfits and then just syphoned the water out when they were done

@ scuba diving builders.

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That is seriously what I thought happened. My mum and ALL of my friends found/find it highly amusing they like to bring it up every now and again

I asked my mum why they hadn't asked Sherlock Holmes to help solve the Ripper Murders.

I used to think my dad had been in jail. For years we'd drive past this big building and he'd go 'oh that's where I served my time'.

I didn't want to dig any further so never asked until I met Dh. He was halfway through his apprenticeship and was talking about what he was going to do when he was out his time.

I told my mum and dad and they pissed themselves at the thought of me growing up thinking my dad had been in jail.

SPsFanjoSponsoredByFemFresh I thought Umbria was near Scotland.... :o

When I was younger I thought loin chops were LION chops!

DD always sings 'Santa, your burger's on fire' rather than sex is on fire. and you know the Santa bit fits far better

Guano 'Getting the sack' did originate in being given an actual sack. Skilled workman would always use their own tools. If the job ended they were given a bag to take their tools away with them.

Growning up thinking your Dad had been in prison and being too polite to mention it until you grow up...

That is one of the funniest, most English things I have ever read on here.

My Dad used to look at people feeling fragile on a Sunday morning, and say "too many late nights and drinking out of wet glasses".

I RELIGIOUSLY washed up and thoroughly dried my glass between drinks at parties until I was well into my twenties.

I felt like a prize numpty when the penny finally dropped.

The liver bird is the symbol of Liverpool - on the crest and on various buildings in the city. A cormorant (not to be mistaken for a pengiun).

Oh bollocks, just realised I got it wrong about the Wombles! I grew up thinking they were very common! And it was a previous thread like this when I realised they are actually from Wimbledon Common. Ignore my post this afternoon where I managed to make the same mistake again!

I only just realised a few days ago that the London 2012 logo actually says 2012 in a graffiti stylee! I had thought it was just a random shape

www.google.co.uk/search?q=london+2012+symbol&hl=en&client=safari&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=eos-UJvnCKPB0QWj24GwBg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=768&bih=928%23biv=i|0;d|UZmQsW9pbkPBAM:

I thought cattle grids were crossings specifically to help cows cross the road safely. I even told my children this!

I also made the mistake of watching a doubles tennis match and thinking the partners were opposite each other, not on the same side of the net.

Not all Wombles are from Wimbledon
There are French ones and American (Yellowstone park!) etc
Even the English ones didn't always live on Wimbledon common at one point try lived in Hyde park

what does drinking out of wet glasses mean? I've never heard that saying.

Thanks for pointing out the London 2012 logo, I only just noticed that too!

I watched the film Airplane when I was a child and there was a joke where a blow up doll appeared for the autopilot. For years I really believed that a doll appeared when a plane flew by autopilot...

Also laughing at this thread.

My DH thought until a year or so ago that the thing that was a bit of a let down was called a damp squid, not squib.

He argued that squid were indeed, usually damp.

I don't think he's alone on that one unexepected.
Though that being the case it would make the phrase a bit useless