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 ?

😂😂😂

But no, no need to get your coat, you didn’t get anyone’s goat 😉

I add in ‘last’ as well.

At secondary school on the bus ride home at least a few times after the bus stopped and other kids exited there were excited whispers about x person getting off with y person.

I was confused why people were so invested in others getting off at a different bus stop than normal with a friend. Especially when, looking out the bus window the person named as getting off wasn't there.

I was in the last year of secondary school when i discovered that wasn't the kind of 'getting off with someone' they were talking about.

The bohemian rhapsody Queen wrong lyrics support group will be meet next Tuesday, anyone from the David Bowie group welcome to attend

Would somebody be kind enough to draw on the loose chippings sign to show me where the hammer is? I'm staring and staring but can only see it as the car and I'm intrigued 🤣

Definitely a hammer @ALittleBitAhAh

My parents used to tell me this.

Until a couple of days ago I thought it was illegal in this country to marry your cousin but apparently not.

Still don’t get how a plane can be a ‘near miss’ when it nearly hits another plane .. surely it’s just a miss otherwise a near miss is surely a hit

Thinking of George Elliot perhaps 🤔

I believed that it's illegal to drive with your internal lights on till I read this Mumsnet post😁

Honestly looked at your post for a moment thinking WTF before it sank in.
You are absolutely right 😯

Oh brava!

What??

"That Evelyn Waugh was a woman"

While the novelist of that name was a man, his first wife was also called Evelyn....

No, brusque is regional.

I think the misconception is that the dome was big enough to cover the entire park in the manner of a moon base. i.e. the people were riding bikes through woodland back to their cottage whilst never leaving the dome.

I remember a misleading tv advert which seemed to suggest that to me too but I was geeky enough to NEED to find out more about the size and engineering of the dome.

I was mildly disappointed, but also yeah that does make more sense...

I knew I wasn't the only one! Can't wait for DP to come in, it's worth staying awake to tell him. He made me feel like the biggest idiot.

I know a foreign guy who thought "toodleloo" was "to the loo" and that people who said that were giving too much information.

Oh, at school we had a charity buy-a-brick fundraiser and I thought Anon was a very generous person because they'd bought so many bricks. I thought that was their name.

@diddl
I say all-so and ah-mund

Colleague says olso (like with an o as in orange) and Al-mund (al as in gal).

I used to be convinced that the capital of Scotland is Glasgow. In my defense I'm sure I learnt it in school (in Germany). I used to smugly tell friends that "everyone thinks the capital of Scotland is Edinburgh but in reality it's actually Glasgow"...

When I was a wee girl we used to say "meet you in the park near the Warm Emorial"
I was there a few years later as a teenager and idly observing a pedestal with a soldier with a gun and lots of names engraved and I thought oh hang on a minute .....

yup I totally thought that too for a while.

Oh, and also "our father witch art in heaven" - I had this image of someone up in heaven drawing witches

I'm stupid too then

Me too!