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!

@BaggoMcoys

I never realised that INXS and In Excess were the same thing, one I'd seen written down and one I'd only heard

I'd never realised this until I read this post!

I also thought it was illegal to have the lights on inside a car while driving.

I don't understand the INXS one, how are they the same thing?

INXS is the just name of the band, it isn't used in any other context

I don't understand the INXS one, how are they the same thing?

INXS is the just name of the band, it isn't used in any other context

I'm assuming PPs thought they were 2 different bands :
In Excess and
Incs

@MeridasMum

I don't understand the INXS one, how are they the same thing?

INXS is the just name of the band, it isn't used in any other context

I'm assuming PPs thought they were 2 different bands :
In Excess and
Incs

Thank you, that makes sense I was trying to work out how they could be confused

I thought if men had a vasectomy then nothing would come out when they came.

@MeridasMum

I don't understand the INXS one, how are they the same thing?

INXS is the just name of the band, it isn't used in any other context

I'm assuming PPs thought they were 2 different bands :
In Excess and
Incs

But wouldn’t you notice that they had the same songs?

@fucknuckle

i thought that when my parents played tapes in the car, the radio DJ had to sit quietly in the dark until he was needed again. i felt very sorry for him.

i still don’t understand how fax machines work, it’s like some dark magic. i’m 48.

I used fax only a bit in a few jobs I did when young. Tbh I had no idea what I was doing or if those faxes ever went to the right person haha.

I probably have loads of my own, but one I overheard sticks with me:

I was once on a busy train behind two guys who had got chatting because they happened to be sat next to one another. They spent the hour or so making small talk which somehow amounted to one of them admitting he had always believed penguins to be the size of humans and couldn’t believe that they were small.

The other man, completely genuinely, yelped, hugged the first guy, and said he had believed the same thing as a kid and had never met anyone else who didn’t know the real size of penguins. Strangely heartwarming. I was glad they’d found one another.

Oh I also firmly believed that my parents had never been children and were born the exact age I remembered them from. And that they somehow switched to being able to see in colour from black and white at some point in their early lives (the 60s).

There was a funny video on FB with two friends sat discussing climate change for a podcast (I think). One of the chaps thought that wind turbines had a positive impact on the environment as they acted as massive fans to cool down the surface of the earth. He genuinely had no idea they helped to generate power. The look on his friend's face was priceless.

@1FootInTheRave

I didn't know that Jodrill Bank is a real place, I thought it was just cockny rhyming slang

Until last year. I was 38

Funny you should say that

I was a student there in the dark ages (pre internet and mobile phones)

It was well known not to pick any kind of dissertation topic supervised by a researcher at JodrellBank unless you were very keento do astrophysics. The Jodrell Bank lot were know to be virtually uncontactable outside of the few hours a well they held court back in the main campus department. And of course EVERYONE wanted a piece of them on those days.

Hence the saying.... don’t pick that Dissertation, it’s supervised bu Dr Smith and she’s a right Jodrell Banker...

That everybody was mean and scary.
The older I have grown, the more and more I am proven wrong ☺️

@mum2jakie

Up until very recently I thought Billericay was in Ireland

I thought it was in Spain...

I knew Timbuktu was a real place, but I only found out that Zanzibar was in my twenties, when somebody told me she's was going there for her honeymoon.

I think the non-moving sex misconception is because in the books you tend to see a cross section with the man in situ. I did know that movement was involved before I had sex, but I thought until I lost my virginity for a very long time that an erection pointed straight forwards, at 90 degrees to the man's body and was fixed at that angle.

I thought moles were a lot bigger than they are until I saw a dead one. More baby badger sized.

I was very surprised.

I thought that the Tories was shorthand for the Conservatory Party.
I still don't understand why they're called Tories!

Just my guess but is it not ConservaTories, dropping the y adding ies?

I thought that the Tories was shorthand for the Conservatory Party.
I still don't understand why they're called Tories!

I think it was the name of a predecessor party in the early 19th century. and they never totally gave up the old name. At about the same time, the Whigs changed their name to Liberals, and they did promptly discard the old name.

This suddenly reminds me that when I was quite small, there was a General Election, and my parents were so adamant that they wouldn't vote Conservative, that I thought the word Conservative was itself a negative word, and asked my dad why they used such a bad word for themselves! He said that it actually meant something good: wanting to conserve things. I also thought that the other parties didn't have great names: Labour sounded too much like hard work, and for some reason Liberal sounded to me like the name of a medicine!

Similar to a pp, i used to think that willies stuck out at 90 degrees when erect. I couldn't work out how a couple could position themselves...

Also never knew that men could wee sitting down until i worked with adults with disabilities as a carer... My boyfriend at the time thought that was hilarious. He thought women stuck sanitary pads/ liners on sticky side up onto their undercarriage .

That robins went to Africa for the summer and returned to the UK for the winter
Sorry dad !

Selkiebride

I thought if men had a vasectomy then nothing would come out when they came

EH WHAT ??!

Now my theory on The Tories has been debunked by the spelling Conservatives, rather tha Conservatories!

@NoProblem123

Selkiebride

I thought if men had a vasectomy then nothing would come out when they came

EH WHAT ??!

Did I stutter?

My six year old nephew thought that when someone moved house they would have to leave all the furniture and food behind and buy everything again from scratch again in the empty shell of a house.

We'd moved house and he was really worried about us and kept asking his parents if they should bring some food round for us

Wow, page 4 and nobody has mentioned Arkansas yet!

I thought that in books where it says two people 'exchanged looks' that each person sort of had to rearrange their expression to look like the other persons. So they were literally exchanging looks.