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

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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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Maybebabyno2 · 27/05/2022 22:29

ChristineCagney11 · 27/05/2022 15:36

Oh and I've just remembered, when texting first became a thing, I was absolutely one of those people that thought LOL was lots of love.

My mum thought this. I was really ill and needed to go to hospital, my mum sent me a text saying "hope yoi feel better soon lol!'

Still makes me smile thinking about it.

HoobleDooble · 27/05/2022 22:30

I only recently discovered that the famous TV chef isn't called Jonty Rhodes.

Ameanstreakamilewide · 27/05/2022 22:38

theotherfossilsister · 27/05/2022 21:36

I though you'd die if you drank water from led pipes, like instant poisoning. Last year I arrived at a holiday cottage with a note saying it had led piping at one am and instantly went out alone to find drinking water in the dark wandering round for ages.

Later dp told me that what I did was probably far more dangerous than drinking led pipes water for one night as it's cumulative. I felt like a total moron.

It's 'lead' piping. As in the element lead, which is really toxic.

I didn't realise how toxic it was until my husband was removing old paint in London Underground stations and he had to have blood tests before and after the job was completed.

Who knew it was that bad??

Sennedd · 27/05/2022 22:41

I thought the sign P on the motorway meant there were toilets there 🤭. I only realised a few years ago that I was wrong!

ridemesideway · 27/05/2022 22:51

I thought several meant exactly seven.
I did think it was odd that we had double for two, triple for three and then nothing up until seven (several) but I was a teenager before I realised my mistake.

OohThatCat · 27/05/2022 22:56

For a long time up until my mid 20s I thought Stonehenge was in Scotland. Just seemed like a really Scottish thing to me!

DadDadDad · 27/05/2022 22:57

TeaStory · 27/05/2022 22:28

I’m amazed we’ve got to page 14 & no-one has said “Gibraltar isn’t an island!” yet.

It's either that, @TeaStory , or blow people's mind with the fact that Portsmouth is on an island separate from the British mainland.

concernedreracistelement · 27/05/2022 22:57

Of course the teams are on top of each other!

OliveHenry · 27/05/2022 23:01

I used to think that Cadbury Fudge bars were "full of peppery goodness."

DP still finds this hilarious!

DadDadDad · 27/05/2022 23:04

ALittleBitAhAh · 27/05/2022 20:12

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 🤣

@ALittleBitAhAh - like this? (sort of)

To want to know something you wrongly believed was true all your life ?
alltoomuchrightnow · 27/05/2022 23:13

The song about the drunken sailor..sung at junior school...
i always thought was ooh way the nutshell rises...

And Sinnerman was 'oh cinnamon where will you run to'

ALittleBitAhAh · 27/05/2022 23:14

DadDadDad · 27/05/2022 23:04

@ALittleBitAhAh - like this? (sort of)

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Ahaha, YES! Thank you, I see it now. Been bugging me all evening 🙈

alltoomuchrightnow · 27/05/2022 23:17

Whenever I hear I Knew You Were Waiting, I always hear a line that sounds something like, 'I woke this morning just a foreign mess'...
Yet when I google the lyrics I can't even make out what the correct line actually is....

Goldencarp · 27/05/2022 23:19

Rosehugger · 27/05/2022 11:59

I thought the Elgin marbles were perhaps a rather splendid version of the glass type. Until I went to the British Museum when I was about 20. Oh! Couldn't see what the fuss is about, myself 😆

I worked in an office right next door to the British Museum for years.

For the first 4 years I was there my boss constantly asked me had I been in there yet to see them until I gave in and went in one lunch time. I thought they were Glass marbles too just giant versions or something 😂

HibouMilou · 27/05/2022 23:22

As a young child I thought that a grave yard was a “gravy yard”. No-one had explained to me what a grave was, and I was very puzzled trying to work out what the connection with gravy was. I just accepted the place had a silly name for years.

ThurstonArmbrister · 27/05/2022 23:40

HoobleDooble · 27/05/2022 22:30

I only recently discovered that the famous TV chef isn't called Jonty Rhodes.

This has come up a couple of times now. The actual Jonty Rhodes played cricket for South Africa 20-odd years ago.

CarrieMoonbeams · 27/05/2022 23:43

OK, not all of my life, but I was at least in my mid-teens before I actually properly thought about this particular beauty:

If I saw something on the news about someone being "fined £100" or whatever, I believed that they were under some sort of police control/obligation until they'd managed to FIND that amount of money, from coins they picked up in the street ...! 🙄

Goldengoosey · 27/05/2022 23:48

This thread!

If birds don’t sleep in nests, where do they sleep then? I thought it was hand gliding (in fact I still do). I thought it was illegal to drive with interior lights on. My dad definitely told me that one.

Up until quite recently I did think the water changed colour to alert the life guard that you had peed in the pool! 😂

My friend only found out when she was about 40 that cheesecake had cheese in it. She thought it was just a good name 😂

Until I was about 15 I genuinely believed that your arms and legs were tied on at your belly button. That was my mum 😂

NippyWoowoo · 27/05/2022 23:48

This is my favourite story of wrongful information Grin

To want to know something you wrongly believed was true all your life ?
littlefoot20 · 27/05/2022 23:48

@Ticksallboxes WHAT?! 🤯 I’ve always worried about the pressure of the sea breaking the walls 🤦🏼‍♀️

CounsellorTroi · 28/05/2022 00:06

That hair and skin keep growing after you die. They don’t, but your skin becomes dehydrated and shrinks, so your hair and nails just look longer.

MissPeregrinesHome · 28/05/2022 00:14

Always say that to put something off and do it at a later date as to "post phone" it.

highlandcoo · 28/05/2022 00:17

NippyWooWoo I love that one Grin

Muminthewoods19 · 28/05/2022 00:17

I was told they had added a special dye...... Believed that until right now!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 28/05/2022 00:21

we sang this ALL the time in primary school, and I thought "the lord of the dance" what a great concept / name for God and that it was a super cheerful hymn. And then my dad told me that actually the lord of the dance was the devil and I believed him (up until today in fact).

That's not necessarily incorrect, actually. Sydney Carter, who wrote the song, stated that it was basically a mishmash (he didn't use that exact word!) of various religious/esoteric beliefs - loosely based on Jesus, Shiva and other faith figures. He also viewed Jesus as 'the piper', which is also a phrase used by some to refer to the Devil - a common belief in various sects/groups, who see them as two sides of the same coin. Carter himself was very surprised when many Christian churches adopted the song as he'd considered it would be too loose/heretical-leaning for them to accept it.