Silly stuped things your younger self thought was true 🤪😳

[Justjackie]

I will go first...first job after leaving school..thought you paid tax then at end of year got it all back! I thought it was some kind of loan to the government 😳 heard mam and dad mention getting '-tax-back' over the years and thought that was what happened!

Cats and dogs were the same animal, dogs were boys and cats were girls

I thought sexism was outdated and there was equality inthE UK.

I was disillusioned by 19

Chesterfield was a county.

until I was about 28

"Drink driving" meant people drinking while they were actually driving, i.e. had a glass of red wine sitting on the dashboard.

"Pay-per-view" was "paper view"...thought you were buying a picture book version of the film/etc

That there was something incredibly special about being 17. Why else would it be in so many songs? It was quite a disappointment when I realised it just had an extra syllable.

Until very recently (University Challenge yesterday) I thought Strasbourg was in Germany.

It should be in Germany.

I still dont know the answer to this and am too embarrassed to ask in real life

If you put loads of spinach in a pan and it wilts to the size of a pea, is that still 1 portion of veg?

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

I thought sexism was outdated and there was equality inthE UK.

I was disillusioned by 19

This is pretty much what i was going to say.

I thought feminism was won, and therefore unnecessary.

I thought pornography was harmless.

It's kind of the opposite but at 41 my gf has just found out that narwhals are real.

@TheMarzipanDildo

Until very recently (University Challenge yesterday) I thought Strasbourg was in Germany.

It should be in Germany.

Where the fuck is it then?

@catinbootsx France. We were meant to go there this year.

Mine was that I thought when you were 40 you had all your teeth out and had dentures. That's what happened to my mum. Therefore it happened to everyone.

I thought rumble strips on the roads were for blind people to tell them to slow down... I thought this until i was 22

Glamorgan was in Scotland. It still trips me up, to be honest.

It just sounds Scottish to my ears.

That the world was my oyster and I could be anything/go anywhere/meet 'the special one. All lies!

I thought Devon was IN Cornwall. Until a few months ago. I’m nearly 50.

That tabby cats were girls. Tom and tabby - boy and girl.

And that the correct term for tabbies was tiger cats because of their stripes. I didn't know they also came in spotted varieties until I was an older child.

That true romantic life exists, and that when I grew up I'd fall in love, get married and live happily ever after. No idea why I believed that as my parents were divorced.
That I'd be a good Mum and would have lovely well behaved children.

Romantic love not life.

That no one would be daft enough to go to war over religion.

@LunaNorth

Glamorgan was in Scotland. It still trips me up, to be honest.

It just sounds Scottish to my ears.

I think this about Belfast.

Same here with Narwhals. I'm happy they're real

I remember being a little kid and being impressed that when you ordered flowers over the phone, they came out of the phone of whoever you sent them to.

@TheMarzipanDildo

Until very recently (University Challenge yesterday) I thought Strasbourg was in Germany.

It should be in Germany.

Same! Definitely sounds German

I used to think that Kirstie and Phil were married. I was so adamant about this, based on apparently nothing.

When I was little I used to think a second was a variable amount of time somewhere between three hours and never.

This was because whenever I asked my dad to help me or play he'd say 'just a second' and then disappear for goodness knows how long because he'd get distracted or caught up in something else.