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 ?

When I was young and I heard on the news that “a man is helping police with their enquiries” I thought a kind local man with some spare time had popped into his local police station to ask if they needed a hand!

The spleen is an actual organ 😬
(Admittedly one that we can live without)
Top left of your abdomen under your ribs

The line is "I'm not talking 'bout moving in"
I will always sing forever
"I'm not talking 'bout the linen"

But it soo sounds like they do sing 'the linen'. The phrasing of the song means the stress is on the syllable that you would emphasise when saying 'the LIN-en' but nobody ever says 'mo-VING in'.

It's one of those that, however often you listen, whatever the official lyrics are, you really cannot hear them singing anything else. Like when Frankie Valli so clearly sings "Give me a feckin' turnip" !

@CornishYarg
I won't rest now until I find out the song. Van Morrison or much older than that ?
Love folk songs love Ireland/N Ireland love sea stories.

Years ago I used to frequent the Bounty forum (a bit like Mumsnet but like AIBU on acid). There was one thread where a woman really wanted to know what an Awfer Nanny was because her late Mum always used to tell her she looked like an Awfer Nanny when she was messy!

ITS A LIGHT HEARTED THREAD!!!! 😆😜😅
BUT THE COMMENT I WAS RESPONDING TO WASN’T!!!! 😆🤪🙄🤮

I actually stated clearly that it was meant to be lighthearted in my comment, as your original comment sounded (to me) quite condescending and slightly aggressive, hence the second part of my reply.

@IJoinedJustForThisThread
Ha ha to be fair though the term is rather ambiguous.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll
Thankyou ! I've honestly tried to sing the correct lyrics but I can't. It's like a "She sells seashells" type thing going on in my tiny brain and I can't cope.
It will always be about the linen.

Oh another one, when I was about seven, my mum and dad said they were going out to look at “sweets” and I was being left in the care of my older siblings for the day. I BEGGED to go with them as I wanted to get some sweets from the shop too. They really tried to dissuade me but I wasn’t having any of it. I was rather miffed when we got to the shops and it was all sofas and chairs and it turned out they meant sofa suites 😡😆

My dad tricked me with the internal car light thing too because he didn’t want me reading in the car during late night car journeys. I was in such a panic when DH popped the light for me to find something in the glove box, “we can’t have the light on, the police will pull us over! TURN IT OFF!” He’s never let me live that one down!

I've not read the whole thread but surely I cannot be the only one who thought they said “later we’ll have some fucking pie” in Rocking Around the Christmas Tree? And when someone later revealed the it was ‘pumpkin pie’ I was convinced they were lying because by my logic “who on earth eats pumpkin pie at Christmas?” 🤣

@SnottyLottie
The support group for the internal lights group is on Sunday, we were all lied to.

When I was about 10 I had heard the word shagging and thought it was the same as kissing/snogging. I remember saying to my dad when there were two people kissing “Daddy look, there’s two people shagging in the street” 🤣🤣🤣

Regarding University Challenge, here’s a quote from Wikipedia:

In the final years of the original Bamber Gascoigne era, the studio set genuinely was double-decker, although the split-screen effect returned for the revived series and has been used ever since

This is quoted a lot but probably isn't true. Blood is thicker than water as a saying can be traced back about 1000 years, the other version has been used by some modern authors but cant be traced back past them.

I thought this too. In my case, I'd learnt the life cycle of some sort of fish (possibly salmon?), and I just sort of assumed that anything that laid eggs followed that pattern. Made sense to me. I can't remember how old I was when I found out, but I was definitely an adult.

Luckily I can remember the name of the ship in the song so I've just googled. It was The Ellen Vannin Tragegy by The Spinners and is about a real ship. Good work Mum, lovely cheery song to play around young kids!

*,Tragedy obviously, not Tragegy!

Ha ha I love this

I won't rest now until I find out the song. Van Morrison or much older than that? Love folk songs love Ireland/N Ireland love sea stories.

The Ellan Vannin Tragedy.

Written by Hughie Jones of The Spinners.

Reminds me of hearing that a rather dodgy neighbour was doing 'community service' - in fact as a sentence for some offence- and thinking what a generous person, giving up her free time to volunteer for the community!

That would be a step up from Mansplaining!

My mum also told me I looked like “Orpher Nanny” if I was wearing something ill fitting or untidy.. I was an adult before I figured out it was actually Orphan Annie! 😂

That blood is stronger than water.

When I was about 10 I had heard the word shagging and thought it was the same as kissing/snogging. I remember saying to my dad when there were two people kissing “Daddy look, there’s two people shagging in the street” 🤣🤣🤣

The exact opposite, I was quite shocked when I first heard a couple of songs from the late 1950s, with references to 'making love' actually in the title. One was even asking 'what would the teacher do if they knew we were making love all day'.

I was young-ish, but knew the modern understanding of 'making love'. I had no idea that, back than, it was just used to mean innocent kissing and cuddling and holding hands!

When I was young and I heard on the news that “a man is helping police with their enquiries” I thought a kind local man with some spare time had popped into his local police station to ask if they needed a hand!

I think I did, too. To be fair, it is a deliberately ambiguous statement, designed not to suggest any accusations of guilt prematurely.

I remember watching Crimewatch once as a child, when they showed a reconstruction of the particular crime which had involved the crooks using a car - then, of course, they asked viewers to phone in if they had any information that might help them to track down the criminals. I was so chuffed that I'd discovered a massive clue for them - the car number plate, as seen in the reconstruction.

My Dad had to gently inform me, when I was jumping up and down, urging him to phone in, that it probably wasn't the exact same car being used - and even if it was, the police and crew had probably already noticed the reg number when they were making the reconstruction