Page 19 | Silly stuped things your younger self thought was true 🤪😳

Justjackie · 2021-03-30T07:29:03+00:00

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!

SionnachGlic · 04/04/2021 10:27

I thought Fairy Godmothers were real. My Aunt was my Godmother ...but I thought she (they...the fairies) had some magic that we just couldn't see...I was so upset to realise it wasn't true.

I also believed only stupid boys who knew no better were sexist...it was a huge shock to realise grown men can behave like apes, grown men who have wives, sisters, daughters of their own. Now that I think back to my late teens when I moved away to Uni, there were alot of leery lecherous adult men. I hope it is better for teenage girls now...

EBearhug · 04/04/2021 10:40

The Home Counties are the 9nes surrounding London.

ImAlrightThanx · 04/04/2021 11:36

I thought Ar Kansas and Ar Kan saw were two different states!
And how is Maryland pronounced?

I have some American friends who say it like Marry-Luhnnd (it's really hard to type out the way they say "Land")

Arkansas blew my mind when I realised how it was pronounced.

SnottyLottie · 04/04/2021 13:01

That stool softeners were too make hard bar stools (and the sort) more comfortable to sit on. It was only when I went into the pharmacy and saw stool softeners with the laxative that I realised what it was. I was embarrassingly in my twenties when I discovered the truth 😳

LudoBear · 04/04/2021 14:49

@SnottyLottie

That stool softeners were too make hard bar stools (and the sort) more comfortable to sit on. It was only when I went into the pharmacy and saw stool softeners with the laxative that I realised what it was. I was embarrassingly in my twenties when I discovered the truth 😳

This has got to be my favourite!

CeciledeVolanges · 04/04/2021 15:32

Thought of another! I discovered two years ago that Kelis's song "Milkshake" was actually not about a milkshake drink. I was saddened to realise that she wasn't actually boasting about her amazing milkshake-making skills...

LudoBear · 04/04/2021 16:00

@CeciledeVolanges

Thought of another! I discovered two years ago that Kelis's song "Milkshake" was actually not about a milkshake drink. I was saddened to realise that she wasn't actually boasting about her amazing milkshake-making skills...

Ummmmm what is it then? That song was a catchphrase on celeb catchphrase last night. It was woman handing a milkshake out and 5 boys running into a yard to get it..

SenecaFallsRedux · 04/04/2021 17:33

And how is Maryland pronounced?

Justkeeprollingalong · 04/04/2021 18:33

@Selkiebride don't feel bad, my husband thought this, and was very reluctant to go for a vasectomy until explained it to him. He was 38 and we had two children. 30 years on and he still only has a very sketchy idea of how his body works, let alone mine 🤦🏻‍♀️

Twobrews · 04/04/2021 20:59

I thought the channel tunnel was built along the sea bed like those walk through tunnels you get at sea life centres, I also thought you'd be able to drive through it.

ImAlrightThanx · 04/04/2021 21:49

@Twobrews

I thought the channel tunnel was built along the sea bed like those walk through tunnels you get at sea life centres, I also thought you'd be able to drive through it.

Me too! I asked my dad about leaks in the tunnel when I was a teenager and he explained it- drew a diagram and everything!

LyraShaeLilly · 04/04/2021 22:19

@Twobrews

@ImAlrightThanx

I thought this about the channel tunnel also, my Mum explained to me that we were going on a train that went underwater to France and I thought the train would have windows and you would be able to see the fish!!!! I was soo disappointed.

Zwellers · 05/04/2021 00:33

That bfpo was a country, possibly in africa somewere l I blame the back of armada books were it told you how much you had to pay to order the newest release in the UK, and then in bfpo.

BrassyLocks · 05/04/2021 00:44

@InMySpareTime

That Brussels sprouts grew on the ground like little baby cabbages. I'd only ever seen them in nets in the supermarket and when (at an embarrassingly advanced age) I saw a stalk of sprouts I was 😱

I've never seen a Brussel sprout plant or thought what it would look like until now! Thanks for saving me future embarrassment

MrsGogolsGumbo · 05/04/2021 04:32

That Carlisle was in Scotland - I'm Scottish till I was about 15-16

That the 90's sexual liberation of women and somewhat similarly the laddette movement was a real push forward for feminism, and not in anyway related to the patriarchy. Didn't click properly until my 30's.

My ExH thought Mexico was next to Spain because "they all speak Spanish" - in his 30's!

RhubarbFairy · 05/04/2021 10:12

Not me, but my mother. We were in New York when I was 15 and she was 38. We met some sailors in a diner and got chatting to them. My mother asked where they were from originally and where they were based. Answers were Florida and California.
My mother replied that it was nice that they were based just around the corner from home. The sailors just looked at her a bit

She refused to believe me that they are on opposite sides of the country as they didn't correct her. I had to show her on a map.

BrassyLocks · 05/04/2021 16:46

@MistressoftheDarkSide
"But Mum - THAT'S SPANDAU BALLET" and she looked at me and said, oh, I thought you were talking about some weird avant garde dance troupe that wasn't at all suitable.
I laughed so much I was crying when I read this last night. It was one of those very rare moments of complete hysterics. I felt great afterwards, so thanks for sharing this

1NeedPampering · 05/04/2021 18:22

I thought the camera sign by the side of main roads meant there was a viewpoint nearby!

GabsAlot · 05/04/2021 18:55

same as some other pp

i thought life was in black and white like films and one day everyone turned into colour

thought u missed one period when u were pregnant but it came back straight away-was onl when my mum was having my sister i worked it out

thought sherlock holmes was real and timbuktu was made up

BRB2021 · 07/04/2021 10:06

@FastFood
Since I knew that in Jesus' time there were no microphones, I thought that Jesus was screaming the words to people.
I have this vivid image of Jesus, in front of a church, showing a bucket and screaming "BUCKET" so people knew how to call it and so on for every single thing in the world.

Sorry - I am a slow reader wading through this hilarious thread slowly - but I think this is one of the few times I have actually laughed outload at a post. Jesus screaming "BUCKET" etc for every single thing

sueelleker · 07/04/2021 16:33

@Volcanoexplorer

I also thought Timbuktu was a made up place until I saw a question about it in a Geography exam at school and I finally realised it must real.

Me too, and I was in my 20's before I found out that Utter Pradesh is as well. It sounds so unlikely. Ha! That reminds me, I thought/imagined as a child that a shotgun wedding meant just that! The two fathers of the couple would stand behind and point rifles (not shotguns) and make sure the pair went through with it. I had overheard several conversations about neighbours or family members who "had to get married" or it was a "shotgun affair" To be fair, that's how it started. If a father found his daughter 'in the act' he'd stand with a shotgun pointed at the suitor until he married her. *i blew my sister’s mind the other week by telling her where your instep is. top of the foot - who knew?!* I know-I used to read self-defense tips where they suggested stamping on an attackers instep; I could never quite work out how.

MrsSiba · 07/04/2021 21:05

In a casino, I asked where they play Russian roulette. I was 19 🤪🥴🤦🏽‍♀️

ddl1 · 07/04/2021 21:33

In a casino, I asked where they play Russian roulette. I was 19

When I was small, I thought Russian roulette must be the name of some sort of fancy pudding!

MrsSiba · 07/04/2021 22:16

@ddl1

In a casino, I asked where they play Russian roulette. I was 19

When I was small, I thought Russian roulette must be the name of some sort of fancy pudding!

It does! Like a mini roulade, a roulette 🍰

AlbusSeverusMalfoy · 08/04/2021 14:04

Watching TOWIE the other day
One guy Joey says he's Vegan, except for chicken.
One of girls says 'no chicken is still meat'
Joey says 'no chicken is poultry not meat as it's got 2 legs not 4'
Girls says 'no chickens have 4 legs, don't they?'

They're in their 20s and I'm still tickled but their absolute stupidity