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!

Well. Like an idiot I believed working hard at a job would help on the workplace. It turns out in a few environments it just singles you out for workplace bullying. Much like school. I've no idea why I thought UK adults would he have differently to UK kids. But I did learn.

When I was little I was watching a TV drama (to be continued next week) with my Dad. He told me that all the actors had to stay in that position until the next episode.... and I believed him. Used to worry what they did about eating and going to the toilet, for a whole week!! Believed that for ages.

At work once I had a YTS girl for a week and asked her to do some filing. Was looking for some paperwork and found she had filed correspondence from Argentina under Europe. She would not believe me it was in South America until I showed her a map. She had thought that The Falklands were off Europe and that was why we had the Falklands conflict.

@Lockdownbear

France, but not far from the German border.

As a child I thought Jesus moinlighted as an animal trainer, as well as being the son of God etc as I used to hear 'Jesus commanded a tortoise' in church, and not 'Jesus commanded and taught us'.

Or moonlighted, even.

When I was little I couldn’t work out how I only had a wee on the loo. How did my body know that I was on the toilet and therefore it was safe to wee?
I decided that it was because my fanjo had seen daylight. My reasoning was that the only time I took my knickers off in the day was to have a wee.
Even now if I take my knickers off I feel the urge to have a wee.

[quote Iamnotminterested]@Lockdownbear

France, but not far from the German border.

As a child I thought Jesus moinlighted as an animal trainer, as well as being the son of God etc as I used to hear 'Jesus commanded a tortoise' in church, and not 'Jesus commanded and taught us'. [/quote]
Well he did have a prairie tortoise. And where is Thames Station and why do we need god to make sure we don’t go?

I thought the Snake Pass was covered in slithery creatures, I kept my eyes closed all the way across as a child.
My brother used to wonder where Random was, the place they went to pick a winner 'at random'.
I never realised that INXS and In Excess were the same thing, one I'd seen written down and one I'd only heard.

As we approach Easter I used to wonder why a green hill needed a city wall, as in 'There is a green hill far away without a city wall'.

I used to think that Vienna was a country.

I also for too many years thought that Belarus was a planet. It sounds like it should be a planet. "We come in peace from the planet of Belarus"

I thought that if I spoke/ shouted into the volume/speaker (70' child) that they could hear me . Especially if it was hammer house of horrors

@iloveruby

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

A miliatry family were hoping for a posting to the Hebrides, they were very disappointed and when asked why he said they were going somewhere called He Brides, he's apparently not seen it written down before. My brother arrived late to our house in Germany, he'd been very confused on the Autobahn because Ausfahrt wasn't on the map and he thought they'd taken a wrong road! Another friend couldn't find her car but she remembered she'd parked in on Einbahnstrasse. Ausfahrt = exit Einbahnstrasse = one way street

@ConcernedAuntie

When I was little I was watching a TV drama (to be continued next week) with my Dad. He told me that all the actors had to stay in that position until the next episode.... and I believed him. Used to worry what they did about eating and going to the toilet, for a whole week!! Believed that for ages.

At work once I had a YTS girl for a week and asked her to do some filing. Was looking for some paperwork and found she had filed correspondence from Argentina under Europe. She would not believe me it was in South America until I showed her a map. She had thought that The Falklands were off Europe and that was why we had the Falklands conflict.

When I watched a football match on something like Match of the Day I thought that the players were very clever to be able to replicate what they done in the afternoon.

That Timbuktu was a fake place you referred to when saying somewhere far away and foreign. Like PP with the Outer Hebrides.

That Franks and Artra were a pair of composers.

Mind blown on Bolivia, had to Google that as I didn't believe you. I'd have guessed somewhere near Latvia. Also had to look up Middlesbrough and Penrith (I grew up in Wales but assumed it was there somewhere).

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

Isn't it one of those places where if you were born there you could be French or German and if your parents are French you are German

That snap, crackle and pop really did come out of the cereal
Disappointing was not the word when they never appeared

That seahorses were real. I thought they were mythical like unicorns. I found this out on a school trip to an aquarium..... I was the teacher.
Overhead on a train:
Where are you living now?
County Durham.
Oh I didn't know you'd moved to Ireland.
We were at Durham station.

@Tinkerbell456

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.

Reminds me of the BT adverts and Maureen Lipman wondering how they could roll up a fax to get it down the phone cable. My late MIL would never have a socket switched on with no plug in there because the electricity would leak out.

@callmeH Same. I used to feel so sorry for the poor wee city and its wall-less condition.

Oh my other great one was watching dancing competitions, gymnastics, ice skating etc thinking that you were disadvantaged if you weren't last on as everyone else could copy you.
Didn't occur to me for a while that they were routines which were practiced.

That Franks and Artra were a pair of composers

Oh that is my FAVOURITE ONE so far! Love it!

I thought as a child that clouds really were made of some kind of cotton wool and could be sat on. I suppose I was not alone in that one. I also thought that donkeys were just reject horses and had the bad luck to be born ugly. (I do not think donkeys are ugly now! They are beatiful!)

@HobnobbingAboutHobnobs

That you only had sex if you wanted a baby - I was most perplexed when we were taught about contraception at school 😂

I thought this! When couples were said to have a 'surprise' pregnancy, I thought they must have had sex in their sleep. I understood the mechanics of sex resulting in babies, but had no knowledge of recreational sex

I used to think that all baby's were accidental. I don't know why I thought that but I didn't understand "trying for a baby" I thought you just had sex sometimes and took your chances.

When you knew you didn't want more babies you just had to not have sex again.

I blame my catholic upbringing.

@StanfordPines

'Thames Station'

Brilliant 🤣🤣🤣

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

That teachers only existed in schools and not as actual humans!
Imagine my surprise when I saw my headteacher in Tesco.