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 ?

ChristineCagney11 · Yesterday 20:31
TheFairyNamedMary
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
Honestly looked at your post for a moment thinking WTF before it sank in.
You are absolutely right 😯

Nearly hit, therefore a miss = near miss?

Blood is thicker than water has been shortened from and means the complete opposite of how this phrase is used:

The blood of
the covenant is thicker
than the water of the
womb.
Meaning: The family
you choose is stronger
than the one you're
born to.

@rollingmeadows

Have you heard of Goose fairs? These days they are just funfairs but original ones were for buying and selling geese and other birds.

The birds would be 'driven' ie someone would walk the journey driving them in front of them, they came from far and wide (the journey could take weeks) and their feet had to be protected on the journey by either painting with tar, or fitting boots.

So you were right that it did happen, just not recently.

penandpension.com/2018/12/12/turkeys-in-boots/

www.visitnorwich.co.uk/article/250000-turkeys-in-leather-boots/

There is a house fairly local that EVERYONE from around these parts knew as being Roger Moore's old house. It was common knowledge... Until he did an interview with a local paper a few years ago and said it was his first time coming here. Even the person interviewing him brought up that he used to live here and he had no idea what she was talking about 😂

@Riverlee
Same.. although I always wondered how they didn't hit the plane 🤔

I thought Indian Tonic Water was water bottled up from the Ganges. I used to wonder why people would drink that after seeing loads of stuff about bodies being in there etc.

I thought this well into adulthood 😂

Wtf water doesn't go blue I've held my bladder for nothing
The lights in car I thought was a thing too

@rollingmeadows
Absolutely right, I live on an old drovers route.
Also many people would walk maybe hundreds of miles with the animals then they would have money to perhaps get a boat back or some other travel. It was too expensive or sometimes not allowed to put the dogs on so the dogs would make the entire journey back by themselves.
On the outward "drove" the person would pay inn keepers to feed their dogs on the return journey that they would have to do all by themselves.

@sashh
Meant to tag you about drover post.

I always thought they were green on the trees then just got brown & hairy by the time they got over to our shops

Up until recently I thought one word was two. I read antithesis as anti-thesis. Like anti as in antichrist then thesis like with a PhD. I also sometimes used the word correctly when speaking, I just sort of thought anti-thesis was a word you didn't hear spoken often. Unfortunately I have spoken it a few times before I realised. I was never corrected just clicked one day.

I was in the last year of my bachelors (mature student) when I realised that "could/would/should of" is not correct English. It wasn't even lecturer's that corrected me, it was getting on the Internet and being mocked. I went to a Russel Group uni and got excellent marks in a written subject and yet this was never corrected on my essays (how??!?!).

@Gottoomuchgoingon
I'm off to Google always believed they are old coconuts

@FlippityFlapperty (love the name)
That woman was absolutely wrong
Brown hairy coconuts are just matured green ones.

I've only read the first part of this thread and am staggered that so many people didn't know the channel tunnel went under the seabed - did you not see any of the programmes about it, how they dug it from both ends and had to match up in the middle? It was really fascinating (OK, I'm a nerd) but seriously impressive engineering too!

Ha! I've only just found out that the swimming pool dye is a myth! An excellent one though - to try to prevent little cherubs from peeing in the pool.

And the interior lights in the car one too - I guess when we were kids my mum must have found the light being on too distracting, so that's why she told us we couldn't.

Good thread!

Blah blah black sheep will have me laughing forever
Pretty much how we used to say our prayers at school
"Our Lord as he is in heaven, blah de blah blah Amen"

It's also the correct way of saying the "30 days hath September" rhyme when you get to February

Oh no….this is going to be like an ear worm…now it’s point3d put I’m never going to be able to see the car again 😲

1000yellowdaisies they roost in the branches of trees apparently. As the OP says some do, like baby birds (only just realised this too) but I seriously thought that at the end of a long day, the birds went home and snuggled up for bed in their nests.

But it is still covered with concrete, it isn't just left on the bottom with no protection.

@Goggleb0x
Many years ago I had to do a bit of research when a blue tit nested in my post box at the end of my drive. I put an "Out of order" sign on it whilst mum was nesting.
Anyway they mostly leave the nest for good after they become a fledgling but sometimes visit for a while.
Swifts definitely come back and forth and check nests everywhere before they leave us in the UK. Nobody is left behind.

when little I had a fish, one day dm said it would be happier in DGP pond so had taken it there to live. For 10 years I used to go to the pond to say hello to said fish only to find out as an adult it had died and it was all a lie!

@mumonthehill
Aww Oh that absolutely made me tear up.

I know, but you said all tunnels are tunnelled through rock/stone/earth, I was pointing out that bit isn’t strictly true.

But do you know what Florence Nightingale’s husband was called, or Jane Austen‘s father? Because it’s really no different.