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 ?

ITS A LIGHT HEARTED THREAD!!!! 😆😜😅

It wasn't until I visited a pineapple plantation in my late teens that I realised that they don't grow on trees. I think that I had assumed they were some sort of apple from a tropical pine tree.

I reckon I would know what Jane Austen’s father was called if he had also been called Jane.

I always wondered how they managed to push the water out while they were building it...

Also almost everything else here, i believed too

😯
No wayyyy so they grow like melons/pumpkins ??
Wasn't there a song about a pineapple tree ??

I really want a Milky Way now!

and thank you to the pp who put the picture of loose chippings up, I really couldn’t see what everyone was taking about re the hammer.

my contribution is actually my daughters. Up until a couple of years ago (they’re mid and late teens now) they genuinely thought that bodies were buried underneath the benches that are dedicated to people. They thought they were like gravestones.

Yes and no.

There is an outer skin, and inside that a layer of stuff that becomes increasingly brown and hairy as the coconut ripens. So the fully ripe brown hairy coconut is still the inside part of a bigger shell that starts green and ends up yellow / brown, with a thick layer of hairy stuff (for doormats).

I was mid 40s until I realised when you saw a Lorry full of sheep that it wasn't just farmers 'moving them to a different farm'

My mum told me and I never put 2 and 2 together

No that was banana 😂

@EnjoyingTheSilence
Can't stop laughing at your daughters 😂 but I can absolutely see their logic.
I don't think I would have sat on them ever if I thought that.

No trees!

Really having a Father Ted Dougal moment.
"Okay one last time.."

@haggisaggis Oh God, I’m 53. I passed my test in 1988. Of course it’s not a hammer…I can’t believe I’ve thought that all this time 😂😂😂

I am in stitches🤣

@Lifeisbeautiful01
I thought it was a hammer too I'm a similar age, but as I thought pineapples grow on trees AND I grow stuff from the same family you can't use me as any comfort.

I thought parachute jumping and skydiving were two different things - like in parachute jumping you have a parachute, and in skydiving they just teach you how to land. I hadn't given it much thought but probably imagined a more complex version of bending your knees. Was at a party at uni, chatting to someone who had done a skydive when I realised.

I thought Papa Don't Preach by Madonna was about a girl who didn't want her Dad to become a vicar.

I thought towns that were twinned with each other had the same layout, like if a new estate was built in one, it had to be built in the other.

@Scuttlingherbert
Papa don't preach
😂

ITS A LIGHT HEARTED THREAD!!!! 😆😜😅

BUT THE COMMENT I WAS RESPONDING TO WASN’T!!!! 😆🤪🙄🤮

Lots of song words ones:
Madonna was singing about her 'Spanish lover boy' in La Isla Bonita
The Wombles of Wimbledon 'come on our wee', which actually sounds completely disgusting now I think about it
Agadoo, doo, doo, push my nap and shake the tree (whatever 'my nap' is)

Coffee all over my screen.

Same here! I wondered why people actually liked it as pepper and chocolate just seemed weird

@YouSoundLovely
I think I've just realised I thought pineapples grew on trees because of the Agadoo song
Oh..my.. God..

As a child, I was convinced Liverpool was near London because we often caught the train to Liverpool Street station in London.

My mum sometimes played a record of an old folk song about a boat that sailed from Belfast, past the Isle of Man then "sank in the waters of Liverpool Bay". I knew roughly where Belfast and the IOM were in relation to GB so I thought it was a bit odd but figured there must be a big wide canal from that part of the coast down to London that this boat sailed down!

I work in a pool and every now and then an adult customer will ask me if it’s true, so you’re not the only one who believed it.