To want to know something you wrongly believed was true all your life ?

[ChristineCagney11]

Posting to try and take our minds off bad things for a moment
I'm in my fifties someone on here posted about a "Party wall" a few weeks ago, I laughed because I thought they were mistaken, I have always thought the word for a wall between two properties was "Parting wall"
How did I not know ??
Also over the years when I've watched, usually men taking off the tops of beer bottles with their hands on US programmes.
I may or most definitely may have tried to do this myself not realising they have twisty tops in the US.
You ?

@JudgementalRaccoon - where are you from? (are you my brother?)

Regarding the pronunciation of the surname 'Waugh', I love Neil's 'quote' after saying the name on The Divine Comedy's 'The Booklovers'.

For most of the other writers, he says the name and then follows it with an actual quote of theirs or plausible quote you could imagine the writer or their character saying; whereas, for EW, he just says his name and then, basically, 'Fwooooaaaaarrrr!!!", but without the 'F'

From the tunnel portal it runs for 5.5 miles before it goes under the sea.

- here from 3:07.

I also refused to go to Center Parcs cos I thought it was all under a dome and it would be very sweaty and airless…😵‍💫
and I didn’t realise that the Channel Tunnel was under the earth, not just under water😵‍💫

The galaxy our solar system is in. 😁

Fairly sure the coconuts we see in the UK are just old coconuts.
Not the inner parts just quite old.
Either way this person needs a wee kick to the "shins"
Not advocating violence obviously
😎

Sorry, that was supposed to quote someone. Anyway I think this is what a poster meant by the milky way no being chocolate 😁

But the Milky Way is ALSO a chocolate. We all know where they got the idea for the name from, but it is a chocolate!

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll
Brilliant thankyou I'm a big fan of The Divine comedy

Her colleague is right.

Sorry, directed @ClaudiusTheGod . The word is pronounced Broosk.

DS2 once asked what a shmotor was. It took us ages until we heard the ad for Devonshire motors on the radio.

My mum was a primary school teacher and took her class to a school trip to the City museum. The facilitator who was showing them stuff said at the beginning, “So, we’ll start with an ice breaker”.

One of the boys in my mum’s class whispered to her “er…Miss - when do we get the ice, and what do we break it with?”

For years I thought it was hand gliding.

Nope. Hang gliding

To be fair; it makes SO much more sense to call it hand gliding - you’re holding on with your hands!

I could never get the line before David Bowie's "Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow". It sounded like Merrycast Orchard Brow....a small independent Somerset cider producer.

Whuuut ?? No way @Soubriquet
It's Hang gliding??!
My whole life has been built on lies

Oh dear god

I have only just seen this….thought it was a car and skid.

Plus, I do actually have an extra rib! My doctor diagnosed it

‘There’s a draft in here’ when a door was open, for years I thought people were saying giraffe 🦒

Yup! Hang gliding.

makes more sense to say hand gliding doesn’t it

I say it the same as you, but I wouldn't assume that was correct. It was only a few years ago that I found out how albeit is pronounced. Not how I said it, reader🙄

@Sarah13xx
Think people do sometimes say giraffe instead of draft or joke

I did know Australia and Turkey; but until right now I made just the same mistake about New Zealand.

So did I! In fact It always surprises me every time I see it at 4 o’clock?

Did they honestly used to show it that way in maps? I never knew that!