to have only recently realised..

[TheQueenOfDiamonds]

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

Wombles are real??

I didn't know that you could untie a double bow by just pulling one end - I've been carefully untying my shoelaces all my life until I read a similar thread on here.... (And I'm still amazed every time I pull one end and it works!)

I'm another one who thought the Wombles were common. Until the age of about 7 I also thought that "common" meant "happy" - as the Wombles always seemed quite happy....

My dad used to say he was "going to see a man about a dog" when I was little and would mither him if he was going out... he got so fed up of me crying when he came home dogless that we actually did go out and get a dog!

Sorry I read your post about the Wombles wrong

Of course they're bloody real

erm...i still don't get the "letting sleeping dogs lie" thing - is it just don't wake up a sleeping dog incase it wakes up in a bad mood and bites you???

also didnt realise it wasn't a damp squid....and ditto to the thinking the autopilot was a blowup doll.....

In 1980s scotland, unemployment benefit was referred to as "brew money"..i thought people got this money from a brewery.....

(skulks away feeling v thick now!!)

As in there are real creatures called Wombles?? Not just people dressed up/characters?!

I have a feeling I am about to be

it's damp squib as in a firework that won't go off because it's too wet

Elenio sorry messing with you

Are wombles not furry little things from the tv about 30 years ago?

They were from books by elizabeth beresford first
The books were better

iheartmycat, let sleeping dogs lie means don't go looking for trouble, or disturbing things better left alone. It's the same idea as if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I also heart my cat. but I only spade my dog...

Thank God for that I was beginning to think they were actual animals!

Although someone once told me that a haggis was a real animal only found in Scotland, I actually believed them for about 3 seconds

I've told this under various names but it still makes me laugh so I'll tell it again.

My DH though that women all got their periods at the same time and that it was at the end of every month. So every woman ON THE PLANET had their periods at the same time EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Early days of being together and I had my period on something like the 12th of the month and he could not have been more shocked. Clearly I was some sort of oddity, a freak of nature! He did actually gasp in shock and pull this face.

I may have peed myself laughing at him as I explained. He was 34, for god's sake!

iheartmycat brew money= bureau (byoo-ro) money, comes from the Unemployment Bureau many years ago.

Many, many years ago....

I have lived in Scotland all my life and have always thought Dunkirk was here

This is hilarious!

I have thought MANY ridiculous things over the years, I'll have to think of them and come back. :o

Flamin' Yon.

That is the funniest thing I have heard in years.... Still giggling to myself....

OVO... that was is priceless!!!

My parents and I never had the birds and bees talk. Euphemisms were the order of the day.

I was mortified at the age of 13 when reciting a poem at school to call a vagina a vag-eena, instead of vagIna. The class rolled around laughing...

Damn those useless parents of mine and their lady-bits....

I always thought that the bits in peach melba yoghurts were carrot. (Back in the 70's, school dinners, they were rock hard crunchy orange bits, I assumed they were carrots).

I never bought them cos yuk memories, then dh bought yoghurts for a change, and the peach bits were soft and squishy, and only then did i realise they were peach all along. Not carrots.

I still can't shake the feeling, and never eat peach carrot yoghurt.

I also thought ravioli was called raggy - oli, due to the wiggly edges. I seem to remember being quite old (and with dh) when I got that enlightenment too.

my mum (single mum, v. hard working) was furious with me for telling my teachers she working in a pub. Her v. senior position office was next door to the Wheatsheaf.

I though Umbria was up north too.

I also thought that moth balls were actual balls made by moths, like a leftover cocoon or something but I never understood why they were meant to smell.

What DOES 'drinking out of wet glasses' mean? Just 'drinking glasses full of liquid' eg booze?

[slow]

I thought that there was such a thing as an 'Ansado', as in Daisy, Daisy, give me your Ansado! The penny finally dropped many years later that it was, in fact, give me your answer, do! I'm also not saying when I found out that Wales and Scotland were actual countries. I'm still not convinced that that's the case to be honest!

Raggy-oli is possibly the funniest thing I've ever heard. I really can't stop giggling...

"drinking out of wet glasses" means glasses full of booze, but I thought he meant they hadn't been dried up properly.

(Don't feel so thick now ).