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

729 replies

ChristineCagney11 · 27/05/2022 10:42

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 ?

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lurchermummy · 27/05/2022 19:04

That glacé cherries were prounouned to rhyme with plaice. I even had an argument with a girl at school
about it.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 27/05/2022 19:09

Also capital cities:
Australia
New Zealand
Turkey

I only learned a couple of years ago that two countries in the world have no official capital city, one of them being Switzerland (even though Bern is treated as a de facto capital/main city). (The other is the tiny little South Pacific island nation of Nauru).

Isaidno22 · 27/05/2022 19:14

I called Swiss roll, swish roll and shepherds pie, shepherds pipe for many years.

That chickens have a separate vent that eggs come out of. I’ve also had to tell a lot of people that hens lay eggs without needing a cockerel.

Jconnais1chansonquivavsenerver · 27/05/2022 19:17

Noodlewave · 27/05/2022 10:47

"Another think coming"

That's CORRECT! If you think that's wrong, you've got another think coming!

NippyWoowoo · 27/05/2022 19:18

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 27/05/2022 17:22

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!

The point was that they PP did not, in fact, know this.

Jconnais1chansonquivavsenerver · 27/05/2022 19:19

lurchermummy · 27/05/2022 19:04

That glacé cherries were prounouned to rhyme with plaice. I even had an argument with a girl at school
about it.

Glacé cherries don't rhyme with plaice, whoever told you that was wrong. It's glasay.

IHateWasps · 27/05/2022 19:21

Glacé cherries don't rhyme with plaice, whoever told you that was wrong. It's glasay.

That's exactly what LurcherMummy was saying. That she incorrectly thought that they were pronounced like plaice.

Jconnais1chansonquivavsenerver · 27/05/2022 19:21

JustDanceAddict · 27/05/2022 16:41

I’m 😱 at Evelyn Waugh - always thought ‘he’ was a man (studied Decline & Fall) and have corrected people in this before!!

Not sure what you're referring to, as Evelyn Waugh was, indeed, a man?

Jconnais1chansonquivavsenerver · 27/05/2022 19:23

IHateWasps · 27/05/2022 19:21

Glacé cherries don't rhyme with plaice, whoever told you that was wrong. It's glasay.

That's exactly what LurcherMummy was saying. That she incorrectly thought that they were pronounced like plaice.

Oh, I'm sorry, I've really got this thread round to my neck, completely misunderstood.

NearlyHeadlessNick · 27/05/2022 19:23

Until I had my first child, I thought that post birth bleeding occurred because of the tearing/stitches, i.e. just little blobs here and there from a stitched wound.

I looked at maternity pads in the shop and thought "they're like mattresses! Why on earth would I need those?! I'll get regular sanitary towels. Just to be on the safe side, I'll get the night time ones".

Well. Oh boy was I in for a wake up call Blush

My sister came to my house the next day with a cheery "do you need anything?" "Maternity pads!"

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 27/05/2022 19:24

The point was that they PP did not, in fact, know this.

Which part did they not know - that it was part of the solar system, a chocolate bar or both/neither?! I'm confused!!!

IHateWasps · 27/05/2022 19:25

Oh, I'm sorry, I've really got this thread round to my neck, completely misunderstood.

It's easily done on a thread like this.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 27/05/2022 19:27

Not sure what you're referring to, as Evelyn Waugh was, indeed, a man?

But that's what we've been discussing through the thread. The famous writer Evelyn Waugh was indeed a man, but his wife was also called Evelyn Waugh and she (as wives tend to be) was a woman - so it isn't incorrect to say that EW was either a man or a woman!

Jconnais1chansonquivavsenerver · 27/05/2022 19:29

I'm sorry, please ignore me, I didn't read the whole thread before replying. I'll get my goat, going home now.

NippyWoowoo · 27/05/2022 19:29

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 27/05/2022 19:09

Also capital cities:
Australia
New Zealand
Turkey

I only learned a couple of years ago that two countries in the world have no official capital city, one of them being Switzerland (even though Bern is treated as a de facto capital/main city). (The other is the tiny little South Pacific island nation of Nauru).

Learn something everyday

IHateWasps · 27/05/2022 19:32

I'm sorry, please ignore me, I didn't read the whole thread before replying. I'll get my goat, going home now.

You're fine. You haven't done anything wrong. It can be a confusing thread.

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ChristineCagney11 · 27/05/2022 19:32

Isaidno22 · 27/05/2022 19:14

I called Swiss roll, swish roll and shepherds pie, shepherds pipe for many years.

That chickens have a separate vent that eggs come out of. I’ve also had to tell a lot of people that hens lay eggs without needing a cockerel.

@Isaidno22
Have had similar discussions re chickens.
"I've found an old egg worried it might have a baby chick in"
You don't have a Cockerel though??
No
Not the end of the conversation by any means.

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NippyWoowoo · 27/05/2022 19:38

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 27/05/2022 19:24

The point was that they PP did not, in fact, know this.

Which part did they not know - that it was part of the solar system, a chocolate bar or both/neither?! I'm confused!!!

Haha sorry, thought JUST that it was chocolate, not that it was part of the solar system. Yes it is chocolate as well, but I assume that every time OP heard mention of the Milky Way in school, thought they were referring to the chocolate 😂

IheartJKRowling · 27/05/2022 19:38

For 30 years I thought Madonna sang "level crossing" in the chorus of "Like a Prayer" instead of "let the choir sing". I thought she liked trains 😳.

I only found out the correct version when my daughter heard me singing and burst out laughing. I still prefer level crossing.

Carpediem15 · 27/05/2022 19:38

Until I read this I thought the road chippings sign was a hammer and chippings. I had to google it to find a picture and was a few seconds until I saw the image of the car. whoops.

ZarquonsSandals · 27/05/2022 19:42

LovelyQuiche · 27/05/2022 12:19

“Dance, then, wherever you may be
I am the Lord of the Dance Setee”

used to imagine an amazingly designed sofa

Almost the same here - as I child I thought it was 'darn settee'. I also believed 'darn' was a word said in place of a swearword, to express annoyance (e.g. "That darn cat from next door has stolen the chicken"). I was very confused as to why we sang this at Sunday School.

StageRage · 27/05/2022 19:44

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Ouch.

💐

dolphinsarentcommon · 27/05/2022 19:47

I was very confused with 'making ends meet'. I couldn't work out what ends would or should meet, so decided in my head it was ' making ends meat'. So to save money you only got to eat the scrappy bits at the end when the butcher had finished.

🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

925XX · 27/05/2022 19:48

"Good King Wenceslas LAST looked out.
😃

Riverlee · 27/05/2022 19:50

MatildaJayne · 27/05/2022 16:39

I can see the hammer. It’s bashing the ground and grit is flying up.

I’ve never seen that before, and will probably view it as a hammer now!