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 ?

@SpiderVersed
We are all waiting and we need to know..

Eh? The two we've been to were domes.

Not the whole place, just the leisure centre bit

😯

It must descend pretty rapidly then, feel like there’s not enough land for a slow gradual descent!

Never feels were going down either!

I hate to break it to you @ChristineCagney11 but we also have twist cap beer bottles in the UK.

I find it very hard to remember that the Caribbean islands are on the east coast of America not the west. I only found this out a few years ago and although I know it now, my default is always to think they are on the Pacific side. Again, if I had really thought about it I should have known, because Columbus.

That Ar-Kansas and Ar-kan-saw were two different states.

I thought the bodies in Pompeii were left in the streets where they fell when the eruption happened and that as you walked around Pompeii they’d still be there, petrified. Apparently what actually happened is that when it was excavated they found body-shaped cavities in blobs of lava and put concrete in them to make the casts of bodies you see today (in glass cases, not just strewn around the streets!) I went there recently, I now don’t know what to believe!

I also thought University Challenge teams were on top of each other, and until my mid twenties I thought ‘ubiquitous’ was pronounced ooh-be-kwish-us

The Young Ones did a brilliant skit on that where the team from Scumbag College dropped stuff down onto the posh team below.

and France.

Very similar thing @Caresha
Well, not a priest but even worse I remember telling people this person was dead even.
Decades later big surprise he was never dead in the first place ??

Sounds like IT crowd 😅

That eating cakes straight from the oven before they’ve cooled will give you a bad tummy. Only found out that was just my mum’s way of stopping us woofing down whatever she’d baked when I was telling DC why they couldn’t yet eat the cakes we’d made and DH overheard. He killed himself laughing 😂

Oh, OK - the dome would have to be like the one on the Simpsons Movie!!

Channel Tunnel for all those in doubt.

That table mountain and Mount Kilimanjaro were one and the same.

Two days ago, I realised that I may have been pronouncing the word “brusque” incorrectly all my life. I pronounced it “brusk” to rhyme with “husk”, but my colleague says “broosk”.

I also used to pronounce “gesture” with a hard “g”, as in “guest” 😊

I also worry I'm pronouncing also and almond wrong. I have a colleague who has the same accent as me but pronounces them very differently to how I do. I'm not particularly bothered about almond, it's not a word I use that frequently, but I'm not prepared to discover a word I use a few times a day is wrong too!

When I was a teenager my brother told me that Rick Astley was Max Bygraves son. I believed and told many people until my mid 30s when I spent ages in WH Smith trying to flick through any books that mentioned either of them to prove I was right. I wasn’t right and in fairness they do look alike! 😳

We all pronounce it like that.
Even if we are all wrong just roll your eyes at him/her

That Evelyn Waugh was a woman.

Haha I think that's from The IT Crowd!

That common people started ‘she came from Grays, she had a thirst for knowledge’ assuming she was from Essex.

only very recently I learned that it was Greece.

Your colleague is wrong.