To have thought Mother Theresa was from biblical times?

[LittleMisslikestobebythesea]

When I was younger (not in my twenties oh no) I was convinced Mother Theresa was from biblical times until I saw her on the news.

I was absolutely convinced and one of my friends the same age as me thought the same!

Please tell me I’m not the only one who thought this

OP, I thought that too until about 5 years ago and I'm in my early 30's.

@Katkincake I thought the world turned colour while they were making The Wizard of Oz and that's why the beginning was in black and white. (Looking back I don't even think it was in black and white).

As a child I knew who gave me each of my presents from family or friends and quite frequently saw them being dropped off. However I still believed in Father Christmas. . I'm not sure what role I thought he played in Christmas!?

I used to think that Anne Boleyn was Amber Lynn

I worked with someone who was adamant Germany was landlocked.

I always read these threads with such an air of superiority, oh dear how silly you are, how could you not know that? Until, inevitably, I come to the one that makes me think, woah, what now? I’m not admitting which one this time but last time it was......
It’s Nights in white satin, not Knights in white satin. Which makes far more sense. I unquestioningly used to imagine Knights (who should be wearing metal armour if they are to be of any use, surely) frolicking around wearing floaty white satin whenever that song came on. Worse, I always mixed it up with Whiter shade of pale, so in my imagination said Knights were also cartwheeling across the floor.

I worked with someone who was adamant Germany was landlocked.

My partner once scoffed at me when I said Kent has a coastline. He knew better, half his family used to live there, he has an A level in geography, Mr Know It All. It was a pretty sweet moment to Google him wrong. Still not allowed to mention Kent to this day .

Edmund had he never heard of the White Cliffs of Dover? 😂

EvilDoctorBallerinaRoastDuck yes, I don’t think he realised it was in the same county! In all honesty, he seemed to have mixed up Surrey and Kent, as he was also convinced that Kent had no border with East Sussex. I should also note, this conversation happened after I arrived home from a trip to ES and had to stop off at Tunbridge Wells. He’s not usually such a pig-headed know it all, it was just one of those situations where he’d convinced himself he was right to the point of no return.

I just had to google a map of Germany, and at the age of..ahem...49...have discovered yes, indeed, it isn’t landlocked as I’d always thought.

😂

Too be fair, I always think Poland is landlocked, and always think it’s way further south east in Europe. I used to be confused as a youngster as to why Hitler travelled so far from Germany to invade a country...

Mission did Father Christmas not bring you a stocking?

We got presents off family and friends. FC brought a stocking and a 'big' present and then everyone else just gave us presents, either before Christmas to put under the tree, or when we next saw them after Christmas.

Mine is mega embarrassing.

I thought a man's knob got detached from his body before he put it in the woman for rudie stuff; and that he sort of held it in his hand and moved it about, then somehow reattached to himself after the filthy deed was done.

Don't ask me how I came to think that, or how I imagined it worked. I've no idea.

liz that sounds painful and gory!

Wait - it's not "paper view"?

Well there you go. I never knew that.

When I was a child I thought when you started your period if just poured out of you continually forever more.

Daily We had stockings but knew my parents did them and left them there for when we woke up. As I said I don't know what I thought Father Christmas actually did on Christmas Eve but I still rushed down to see if he'd eaten his mine pie and if Rudolph had eaten the carrot. I was clearly not very bright!

I was well into adulthood when I realised that "this little piggy went to the market" was not about shopping...

CynicalOleMe I didn't know until just now when I read your comment and then had to Google it!

cynical

Oh just remembered another classic from my partner, just after a midwife appointment with our first child.

Him ‘Why did you just lie to the MW?’

Me ‘What?! When?’

H ‘When she asked if you were doing pelvic floor exercises and you said yes.’

M ‘Sweetheart, what do you think PFE are?’

Turns out he thought they were some yoga/Pilates type stretches.

I was well into adulthood when I realised that "this little piggy went to the market" was not about shopping

Really?! I thought it was about the piggy going shopping! You learn something new every day don't you?!

at Rayleigh Otter.

Edmund DH would not have a clue. He might ask why I was waggling my eyebrows.

at This Little Piggy Went to Market!

I genuinely thought that Japan was the capital of China.

liz my DH thought sex happened through the belly button (as a child, our DC attest to him having learned how it actually works later on).

I remember seeing Madonna on the telly and the presenter saying she'd reinvented herself. From then on I thought that Madonna was literally a different person every few years, like a soap character or something. It wasn't until I mentioned it in my teens that my mum corrected me, probably laughing while she did.

DH also didn't realise all cows are female. That was a fun conversation that I've not let him forget.