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!

@fucknuckle, @MangoM, regarding Maryland, our American friends have said it’s just a matter of accent. ‘MerryLund’ as they say, just rolls off their tongue in the East but other Americans will say variations such as Maaarylund, or Merry-land (Southern accent). This conversation was had at dinner with 6 Americans.

I had no idea, until adulthood really , about the dairy industry and a cow's calf being taken from her so that she can produce milk for humans. Kids are never, ever taught this and just accept that milk comes from cows (which it does, but you know what I mean).

Every day is a school day I didn't know how to pronounce Maryland either.

How daft!
American English usually has more logical spellings than UK English does.

@eatsleepread

I had no idea, until adulthood really , about the dairy industry and a cow's calf being taken from her so that she can produce milk for humans. Kids are never, ever taught this and just accept that milk comes from cows (which it does, but you know what I mean).

I think that is more an ethics question than anything else. And it'd deliberately hidden from the public at large.

When I found out about that I was really put off drinking milk throw in some pregnancy hormones too.
Then my FIL mentioned they'd been to some farm, and he quite categorically told me there were no calfs involved. The cows, calfs, milk thing had escaped him too.

@Chanjer

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

Is that you, Troy?

When I was very little i thought wees were ladies, and poos were gentlemen - I even have a memory of a cartoon poo in a top hat and tails and a wee with a parasol. I don’t know if it’s something I saw or imagined.

Looking back I have absolutely no clue where all that came from or what I had misunderstood to get to that conclusion.

What’s weirder is that I have been few memories of my childhood generally but this I remember very clearly. Maybe I need a psychiatrist 😬

Also that the eggs that you eat bear no relation to the eggs that turn into chicks, and that kidneys and tongue that you eat aren’t really kidneys or tongue. Also that the crusts of bread are more nutritious than the rest of bread.

I was clearly quite a gullible kid.

Woah, Strasbourg isn’t in Germany? Where the heck is it then?!

Yes @GinaJaffacake it’s pretty much everything except Mary Land!

I’ve just remembered a couple more - I used to think that you got pregnant by praying really hard for God to give you a child! I also just have no idea about geography. When I got into Durham and then looked at a map I was surprised by how far North it is! Looking at a map is always eye opening as well - a succession of “I didn’t know that was there”s.

I laughed very hard at “Olivia Newt” as well.

i think i was already pronouncing Maryland correctly - i’ve been marathoning 90 Day Fiancé and My 600lb Life so have heard a lot of city/state pronunciations that i wouldn’t have known!

i blew my sister’s mind the other week by telling her where your instep is. top
of the foot - who knew?!

SinkGirl
the crust is more nutritious

My brother informed me at the dinner table when I was about 9 what lamb was. My mother clipped him. Never ate it again. Why it didn't click before that I don't know.

@Ddot

SinkGirl the crust is more nutritious

It’s not. It contains more antioxidants because of the Maillard reaction but it can’t be more nutritious than the rest of the bread given that it is nothing more than bread that’s reached a higher temperature. It also, because of the higher temps the edge reaches contains acrylamide, and the more it cooks / burns, the higher the level. Acrylamide is associated with cancer development and is toxic to the brain and other bodily functions.

So no, it’s not more nutritious!

I also though that there was a place called Arkinsaw and had no idea it was actually Arkansas.

Also thought Americans eat something called baloney, but it’s actually Bologna. They just pronounce it weird.

@Justjackie my husband gets all his tax beck at the end of the year so not a complete myth. 👍

I've not rtft yet, will do that after.

I am a relatively intelligent person who's held responsible positions in the workplace and I wasn't even a child when I got this confused ...

When pausing tv on Sky came out and dh was talking about upgrading our box, I couldn't for the life of me work out how you could pause live tv. I asked how that worked with a football match and people pausing it in different houses every few minutes.

Dh sat me down and explained how it worked, I've never felt so dim in all my life and a bit sad that it wasn't magical at all.

[quote StanfordPines]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.

Be prepared to have you mind blown. All of you.

When was the fax machine invented? 1970s? Perhaps the 60s?

Nope. ‘43. 1843. Yes. That is not a typo. 1843.
I’m going to say that again. 1843.

www.ringcentral.com/us/en/blog/history-of-the-fax-machine/[/quote]
😳😳😳 I am well and truly mindblown!

SinkGirl
I thought crust was better, I googled and it says it does. So there 🤣🤣

@fucknuckle

i blew my sister’s mind the other week by telling her where your instep is. top of the foot - who knew?!

I did this to my DH the other day. He googled it, as he didn't believe me

@Onairjunkie

Someone in my family, who shall remain nameless, thought Dunkirk was in Scotland. Presumably somewhere near Falkirk.

I was today old when I found out Dunkirk is in France...

This isn't quite the same, but I remember my mum telling me that she couldn't understand why everyone went on about Gary Barlow and she didn't think he was that attractive.

I was 19 or so at the time and after a little debate it turned out she thought I was swooning over KEN Barlow 😂😂😂

My whole family though "pikachu" meant "squirrel" in Spanish for years.

We'd never heard of Pokemon, and went to a hotel kids' club in Spain where they had a pikachu outfit.

@LaBellina

That the generation of my grandparents had been the first humans to live on earth 🤣. I think I believed that when I was about 4.

I also believed in vampires for a long time and refused to sleep with an open bedroom window during the night as a young girl.
I’m still not sure if they really exist or not

I used to think this too! And sleep with my duvet shoved up under my chin... which is bloody annoying now I'm nearing menopause 🥵

@honeylulu

I also used to think that our local newsagent printed the papers and magazines to order at the back of the shop. My mum sent me one day when I was 7 or 8 to collect our (prepaid) papers and comics. I forgot to tell the chap that we had pre ordered and politely asked for a Daily Express, a Twinkle and a Tracy. He put the first two on the counter and said "sorry no Tracys left for sale". I just smiled politely and waited, thinking that he was waiting for the printer to run off a new one in the back room. I was there some time - he must have been very uncomfortable but suddenly twigged "oh you are from number 26, wait a minute" and went and got the pre-ordered Tracy from the back room, which unfortunately just fed my misapprehension.

It was many years later that I remembered that shop visit and realised with acute embarrassment what a pillock of a child I had been.

Whe. I was very little, I thought everyone always got change in a shop. When you paid for something, you’d get the thing you’d paid for and also some money.

In a newsagent with my dad once, he gave me 40p or whatever to buy a comic. Waited ages for my change and was really upset when my dad explained I wouldn’t be getting any.

“ kidneys and tongue that you eat aren’t really kidneys or tongue”

What are they??