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

Cybinical it was only last year, when doing it on my son, that I too realised, the piggy had not gone shopping! I'm 34.

When I was young we had a piano tuner who was either blind or partially sighted, and I got the idea that all piano tuners were blind and that you had to be blind to be one.

Even now, when the piano tuner pulls up in his car, there’s a small part of my brain thinking ‘You can’t be a piano tuner, you can see’!!

For ages I thought that "algebraic equations" was "algebra 'ec' equations", as if 'ec' was some sort of specialist term. I actually asked my maths teacher if you can do 'ec' equations in other types of mathematics apart from algebra. How he laughed!

Which user was it whose partner was saying how unfair the 00's was called the naughties? That made me chuckle.

I used to think that Peter Marshall from Thames TV in the 1970’s was God

I thought the teams in University Challenge were actually one on top of the other and often wondered how the team on the top got there because I couldn't see any stairs.

The university challenge comment reminds me of that episode of The Young Ones where they go on university challenge and start kicking the posh university team....I'm sure in that it was set up so they were above the posh team as they were stomping through the floor to get to them!

When my sister was young she thought you had to send your album back to the band every time they released a new single so they could write it on the back in tiny words 😂

Wow ... i just realised the truth aboit paper view ....I have a postgrad degree.

Also my friend (also postgrad) thought that ducks didnt have legs until 2 years ago. Logically i think she knew but she'd just never really realised/ thought about it.

I knew MT was modern day but I'm old so remember her on the news. Didn't she die at the same time as Diana?
I also thought that the University Challenge teams were on top of each other until I read about it on here the last time there was a similar thread.

And I haven't watched Jools Holland Hootenany since discovering it's filmed weeks before. I felt betrayed.

at the same time as Diana - to clarify I mean around the same time rather than actually at the same time.

Yes 1997 Redcrayons

I thought that when 'Ambulance' or 'Police' is written on the front of a vehicle backwards that it was an accident, and wondered why there were so many done wrong, and left that way.

Until LAST YEAR. DH takes the piss, massively. And deservedly.

i remember my dad explaining about tape recorders as I was furious that the radio had played a song by someone who was dead.....I must have been about five or six I suppose, and OBVIOUSLY it must have been someone in the radio station pretending to sing

Then he had to explain that each and every song was not played there and then by whoever

I presumed that radio shows were very busy places and lots of people must have to be very quiet while waiting their turn to sing.

I thought Elvis died from swallowing paracetamol with a fizzy drink like coke or Fanta. Someone had told me that "pills and drink" had contributed to his death. That's what I thought they mess the, and for years if I had to take medicine was careful only to swallow the tablet with water.

Piggy didn't go the market to shop?
Well, I am 32 and never knew this!

I also thought that about university challenge!

I thought there were real, live, tiny musicians in the music speakers of my local Indian restaurant up to about the age of 8.

I've only just learnt about Shaun the Sheep...

My Mum hated zoos and safari parks and we never really watched animal documentaries so I thought giraffes were just a cartoon animal until my late teens. DH is still mocking me for that.

I thought the pope was a group of 4 people.

Someone in primary school told me corned beef was made from dogs and even though I’ve known for years that it isn’t, I still can’t eat it

When I was a child, I heard people talking about the stayan age, and I though it was like the ice, bronze, or iron age but with plastic. I don't know how old I was when I realised that what they were saying was this day and age (maybe a young teen) but whenever my partner and I are talking about eco matters, watching documentaries, or reading books on the subject, invariably, the stayan age will be mentioned.

I also used to think that we were fumin' beans, on account of so many human beings seeming to be so angry all the time.

And that Abba were on a spaceship ride - not, on the stage tonight - in the song, Super Trouper. To me it made sense; after all, Super Troupers are like Stormtroopers, right? I was in my 40s before I found out that the song had nothing to do with spaceships. I still sing along to it as though it were.

VivaLeBeaver
I'm one of many who as a teenager/young adult thought the whole of Centre Parcs was covered by a giant glass dome, including the woods.

Wait... you're saying it's not? Well, there's a shattered dream, right there.

Zardu I was convinced that the lyrics to starships nothing’s gonna stop us was

Stanley’s gone forever

It’s
Standing strong forever

I will always sing my version

@LittleMiss

I like your version better, TBH!