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 ?

For the PP wondering about the David Bowie lyric (sorry I cba to scroll back and find the quote!) it's "It's on America's tortured brow, that Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow". Though I liked the idea of Bowie singing about craft cider producers

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

I'm loving the idea that life guards have two extremely important roles: to act fast to prevent the tragic loss of the precious lives of struggling swimmers; and also to rumble/shame anybody who does a little wee wee in the water

Until last Sept I thought the lyrics to the Wham song were “wake me up before you go go, take me down to the Nile”.

I only found out the real words when in all seriousness I turned to my husband (at an anniversary party), whilst it was playing, & said I never understood those words, what do you mean, & I told him. My mind was blown when he told me it was “take me dancing tonight”.

My friend at secondary school used to sing Shania Twain's song, "That Don't Impress Me Much,". She told us she was so shocked by the lyrics, she had been singing "kiss your c#ck at night" rather than car. As teenage girls we found it hilarious

Yes but they are definitely not ALL twisty (none of the beer I drink has these) and you'll probably hurt yourself if you try to get a non-twisty one off with your hands. Or indeed your teeth. Don't do it.

That Melanie Sykes isn't Eric Sykes daughter 😳

Def brusk!

In the village school I worked in lots of people said chimley and fune-dral.
Several of the children sang blaa blaa black sheep.

I love this! 😁

But it’s more than a little bit annoying to suggest that anyone who doesn’t know this is somehow confused. No one care about his wife’s name. It’s very silly people tying and failing to make a point.

But it’s more than a little bit annoying to suggest that anyone who doesn’t know this is somehow confused. No one care about his wife’s name. It’s very silly people tying and failing to make a point.

I think you may have slightly missed the lighthearted and random tone of this great fact mining and sharing thread.

Besides, their friends and acquaintances apparently got confused, to the extent that they differentiated by calling them 'He-Evelyn' and 'She-Evelyn' - not 'Evelyn' and 'That woman married to Evelyn whose name no-one cares about'.

The majority of famous people in history who we hear about nowadays are men; maybe, just maybe, it might not do us any harm to acknowledge that many of them had wives and all of them had mothers, who also played a crucial, but undocumented, part in helping and enabling them to become who they were; and in many cases, surpassing them and their other fellow men in ability and creativity, but they lived in a time when women's contributions to society were ignored and belittled. That was then; should it really still be like that in 2022?

Two different pop groups

Inxs (pronounced something like inkses)
and
In Excess

That the spleen was purely metaphorical - like venting your spleen or Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris - rather than an actual organ you have in your body.

That Melanie Sykes isn't Eric Sykes daughter

What most people don't know is that Beyonce is actually Roy Castle's daughter, but she was adopted by Nick Knowles as a teenager and was down the register office like a shot to change her name.

<fun fact that may not technically be a fact>

Two different pop groups
Inxs (pronounced something like inkses)
and
In Excess

Yes, I assumed that too. They were the As-Soon-As-Possible Rocky of their time.

It definitely meant lots of love in my teen years.

Ha ha I know right?
😳
Wait..what ?

Name a tunnel that does?

This one really confuses me, all tunnels are tunneled through rock / stone / earth.

Well not the one at the Sealife centres, but all the ones with trains / roads.

@ImplementingTheDennisSystem

There are a lot of students with GCSE science who believe this. It's due to two things, one is the pictures in text books / exams has deoxygenated blood coloured blue.

The other is a misunderstanding of 'oxygenation', looking at your veins through skin they look blue but when you cut yourself the blood is red.

BTW your blood is always red because of the red blood cells, as it passes through the lungs it takes on oxygen and becomes a brighter colour. This is oxygenation

There is a medical procedure carried out in cath labs where the cardiologist takes samples of blood throughout the heart to measure oxygenation, when the blood syringes are layed out they look like a rainbow of various shades of red.

It's always hard to sing the real lyrics even when you do find out I find.
In the song (don't know if this is actually the title) "I really want to see you tonight"
The line is "I'm not talking 'bout moving in"
I will always sing forever
"I'm not talking 'bout the linen"

Aww nice memory
Yes think there was quite a lot of "hi love, just letting you know that the next door neighbour has died LOL" etc at that time.

I always thought the motoring guy on TV had a weird name - Tiffney Dell...

Oh! Me too, until a minute ago 😳

I thought turkeys had to wear little rubber gumboots (I think they are called wellies in the UK) to protect their little turkey feet against contracting a nasty disease that would ultimately lead to their suffering and death.

Tbf I got this idea from watching a very serious New Zealand farming tv programme, aged 7 that showcased a turkey farm with all these turkeys running around with their special little gumboots on. I didn’t know it was one of the April 1st ‘special editions’. My father finally told me when I was 15 that, indeed turkeys do not need to wear gumboots. I suspect he got a bit sick of me getting upset when I saw turkeys without their gumboots on.

I felt ripped off for years. How dare this very serious (and quite boring) farming programme tell me such porkies!!

Me too, probably because as kids we used to sing,
"Good King Wencelas last looked out of his bedroom window, silly bugger he fell out onto a red hot cinder".
You really need a Northern accent to make it ryhme though.

When you see people skydiving, I thought they shot upwards when pulling their parachute cord. This isn’t the case, the situation is the cameraman is descending at a faster rate, then the one pulling the cord.(learnt on QI).

@sashh *Name a tunnel that does?

This one really confuses me, all tunnels are tunneled through rock / stone / earth.*

Not quite true: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersed_tube

As I said upthread, there are two tunnels like this in the UK.