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!

@Onairjunkie

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

It's actually near Faversham! So I wondered why they needed lots of boats to get there until I realised there was one in France too (but I was still young, about 10, when a teacher informed us of this).

@TheMarzipanDildo

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

It should be in Germany.

Oh

Skellington, prick stick, earie wig.

Thanks mother!!

I thought life in the olden days’ was in black and white and life became colour somewhere around the late 1960s as this was when my Gran had coloured photographs from 😂

Chanjer your post is definitely up there in the top ten posts ever as far as I am concerned. Thanks for making my day. Laughed out loud.

@DogsAreShit

Yy Glamorgan and Dunkirk were in Scotland. Penrith was in Wales. Middlesbrough was in the Midlands. (Why the fuck else would it have the word "middle" in it?)

Hang on a minute, are you telling me Penrith isn't in Wales? 😱😱😱

I thought the whatsapp "turd" emoji was actually the face of a brown hen. Was a bit confused when people mentioned the turd emoji...

That Bolivia was next to Slovakia... rather than Brazil

@SVRT19674

I thought the whatsapp "turd" emoji was actually the face of a brown hen. Was a bit confused when people mentioned the turd emoji...

I can totally see that! My dd thought the slippery road sign was an armchair! Could see that one too once she said.

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

Rescuing 300 000 soldiers from Scotland???

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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."

Well, I used to think Bognor was in India. Sounds hindu to me...

Oh, and a certain person I know, close, thought that pee and babies came out of the same hole. Yep.

When I leaned out of my bedroom window at night and could see street lights I was convinced that it was lights reflecting off the sea.

I live around 30 miles from the nearest sea and never questioned why I couldn't see it during the day!

@RLJ1905

That when moving house, you literally moved your house.

That the moon followed me (cause I always thought it looked like it 😆)

That reminds me of waiting at a set of traffic lights with my very small DD in the back of the car. We were waiting next to an estate agent and I heard my daughter say to herself, “that’s strange, when you’ve bought a house from that shop how do you get it home?”.

That the taller you are, the more intelligent!

When the cashiers in shop offered you a cashback I assumed it was the shop giving people money and could never understand why my Mum sometimes said no

I thought hard water in the South was solid. Visited a relative in London and ran straight to the tap expecting the water to come out like ice and having to slice some off. Most disappointed that it was wet like at home!

@Cabinfever10

I was taken in by David Attenborough and the BBCs April fools programme about the drought in Italy and how poor the spaghetti crop (from the spaghetti trees) would be. For years I believed that spaghetti grew on trees 🤦‍♀️😳

Its a double whammy for you then as it wasn't David Attenborough but Richard Dimbleby who presented that news clip

I thought the outer hebrides weren't real - like a phrase to describe something as very far away.

I was 30 when i found out they were a real place

I thought the planets were in a straight line. We had a poster at school that showed them in distance from the sun and I thought they are actually laid out that way. When I think of the solar system now I still have to remind myself they aren't really like that

Up to my late teens I thought County Down and County Durham were the same place, ditto Walsall and Warsaw.

Walsall and Warsaw 🤣🤣

At 56 I've only just understood that Germany has a North Sea coast. In my head Germany only had a Baltic coast, and Denmark was adjacent to the Netherlands, instead of being separated from it by a chunk of Germany. I have read countless WW2 books and watched countless films, and yet somehow never managed to understand that it was possible to bomb Germany without having to fly over another country to get there. (Although for most of Germany the shortest route would mean flying over another country.)

@Tigerchips

Well, Strasbourg is on the border of Germany and the language spoken is German so it's not that wild or stupid that people might think it's German really.

They speak French there. But some people speak an Alsacien dialect which has Germanic influences, and there are a lot of German-sounding surnames pronounced with French accents.

@TheMarzipanDildo

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

It should be in Germany.

Where is it?

I'd have guessed Germany too.