Things that you've thought that were in fact absurd

[Pacificplaza]

Inspired by another current thread: what things have you thought to yourself, and accepted as true, which on telling someone else have quickly transpired to be completely ridiculous?

E.g: I always thought that when drinking a hot beverage, that the misty effect observed should you happen to glance down into the cup was your EYEBALLS getting STEAMED UP in the manner of a pair of glasses. When I casually mentioned this at work everyone kindly pointed out that I was just... seeing the steam.

My car is an old banger with no air con, just the air blower. For my entire life until my ExDP corrected me, I thought you had to 'run' the hot air until it turned from cold to hot eventually in the same way you do the tap. Rather than just turn it on once the car's warmed up. The hours I must have spent grimly tolerating a stream of freezing air in winter .

I'm not normally a simpleton by the way, I've got degrees and stuff and mostly manage to function.

So please tell me I'm not alone!

I thought that 'HAZCHEM' on the back of lorries meant 'Warning' in a foreign language........doh!

So the ladies were in the lavatory...

Someone I know (not me honest !) thought that your eyes would be nuked if you looked through the window of the microwave door as it was cooking food.

Wyf I thought it was "albeih", with a silent t - I was a fancy child!

What Is Hegemony then?
And didn't contact lenses used to be made of glass?

Bearlover Pegasus had wings. Not a Unicorn, so you were right. (If they were real)

I used to still do get confused about which bit of the airport I need. Surely if I've just got to the airport I'm an arrival and then I'm departing at the other end?

If I ever travel alone I'll write it down.

It's easy to remember. You need to figure out what you're doing on the plane :o

StealthPolarBear

Hegemony is like leadership or control over one group by another. In the 20th century the term was used by Antonio gramsci to suggest that leadership was cultural and involved manipulation through historical structures to control the proletariat (the idea that the bourgeoise were able to convince the proletariat that they either deserved to be proles or that they were best served by being in that position).

A modern example might be (not agreeing just using it as an example...) trans people arguing that they are under the hetero-normative hegemony.

@HerRoyalChocolateBunny. I know that now. (As of about 3 years ago). I was very surprised to find that out though

What?? WHAT?!! So I've been saying hyper bowl forever and everyone's been thinking I'm a thick twat and nobody has ever said anything!???

I only realised about 6 months ago that Peppa Pig & Percy Pig aren't the same thing. I always used to find it amazing that the cartoon series was so popular given it was based on a supermarket ownbrand sweet.

I thought the presenters of Blue Peter were called Blue (Lesley Judd) and Peter (Purves). John Noakes wasn't a 'presenter', he was just there to look after Shep and do the stunts.

(Blue as a name wasn't so far-out in my family as Bluey was my DGF's nickname for myDM.)

On a slightly divergent topic, our daughter's friend (ludicrously brainy, top marks in everything, witty, hard working, entertaining company, and a v good friend, ect ect) said at school one day, aged about thirteen, "Oh, a laptop - a LAPTOP! I've just realised, it's called a laptop because ... you have it on your lap!"

Before I could drive, assumed you had to remember to turn the brake light on every time you braked !
Plus I thought radishes grew in bunches!

I thought that the 'bygones' in 'let bygones be bygones' were an alien race.

I used to still do get confused about which bit of the airport I need. Surely if I've just got to the airport I'm an arrival and then I'm departing at the other end?

Yep!

My dad used to tell me he worked 'on the buses' ... I used to tell all my friends he was on the TV show and to look out for him.

I also used to think the words in a book didn't appear until you opened it.so woukd spend ages opening and closing books ..'trying to catch them out' 😂

Oh golly airport thing totally just sunk my belly!

When I was little the ice cream van used to come around twice, the first time would be right after school and then he'd come again about 7:30 ish, aka bed time. Of course I would be in my pjs just going to bed and would hear the tune and want an ice cream. My nana told us that the ice cream man only sold meat pies the second time around!

About 2 years ago I was stood in the nursery garden with the children that I work with when we heard the jingle of a random ice cream van. It was about 6pm and all the children wanted ice creams, I said 'no, no! He only sells rubbish meat pies at this time!' All of my colleagues looked at me like 'what are you on about!' They wouldn't believe me that 'in the evening,ice cream vans only sell meat pies? What!?'
After my shift I rang my mum to tell her about this major atrocity and all I could hear was hysterical laughter. My nana isn't with us anymore so her meat pie lie outlived her! Amazing!! I can't wait to use it on my children.

@EZA15 yes, the yellow flowers and the fluffy things are both dandelions at different stages. DH just didn't know there was any connection, and thought they were 2 completely separate flowers that just happened to have the same name.

I spent a whole football season thinking that Rio Ferdinand was a team 🙂

Missj that made me all weepy and laughy. Your Nana sounds brilliant.

LUCKY ESCAPE!!! all those colours on extinguishers - whos got time

Until the physics of it was explained to me recently, I was under the impression that the commonly used statement " muscle weighs more than fat" was true. I can explain why if required?