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 ?

As a child I flew on a plane and was told off for pressing the service button all the time, the air hostess told me this was for emergencies only. I believed this until I was 26.

Oh me three!
Took me ages to realise they were singing "Cadbury goodness" instead!

And @YouSoundLovely - I used to put a comma in the Wombles song, so that it went "Wombles of Wimbledon, common are we" - I was in my 20s at least before I realised they were actually saying they were from Wimbledon Common...

Abba songs are an endless source of "misheard lyric" amusement - my favourite mistake was in One of Us - where it should be "and so I dealt you the blow, one of us had to go", I used to sing it as "and so I dealt you the blow, when the bus had to go". But that didn't compare with a friend who used to sing Chiquitita as "take your teeth out, you and I know..."

OliveHenry me too, "full of peppery goodness!!"

persephone19 yes, the PP knows this. Whole point of the thread is she's only recently found out

My OH's friend has the nickname Mini (OH says it's because he's short, but they've always called him it and it's fine). I told DD the other day that his real name is John and she couldn't believe all these years she'd been calling him by his nickname as if she was agreeing that he's short! She said "my whole life has been a lie" 🤣

Right arm was on the same side as your left leg Meaning left arm same side as right leg.. up until a mid teen I thought this was true

if it rained where I lived then it rained in the entire UK - duh - end of primary and my mum came home from work and asked us why we’d be playing out in the rain and we replied what rain!!!

That you got pregnant just be kissing.. not helped that I told my older sister this and she kissed her bf in front of me then walked off laughing and shortly afterwards fell pregnant!!!!!!

BBC has adverts… never noticed they don’t until late teens

They might have thought you were making a political statement, though!

Ah! Misread this entirely! Soz 😬

You must have seen the Bottom one!

I grew up with the words 'par-ME-SEE-an cheese' and 'tar-pau-LEE-an covers' because of my mum's strange pronunciation of Parmesan and tarpaulin.

I also had a young lad at school utterly convinced that 'mature' was pronounced like 'nature', because he'd only ever read the word, not heard it aloud.

Oh, and a friend who spent summer holidays in Kansas who thought that Arkansas was a different place to 'Arc Kansas' as she called it.

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

In Jane Austen’s Emma, on the way home in Mr Elton’s carriage, “he proceeded to make violent love to her…”

Poor shocked 16yo me initially thought he was raping her, which was NOT what I’d been led to expect from Austen.

Nope!
He merely proposed to her.
So I was with you, @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

I thought there was a football team called Hulkingston Rovers. I thought islands were attached to the bottom of the sea. My husband thought trees shed their leaves because the clocks went back. He went to Oxford University and I have an MA from a Russell Group uni and we’re still daft as brushes.

For a long time I thought the slippery road sign was a handbag sign. I had no idea why there needed to be a sign of a handbag. I think I was a teenager when I found out what it really was! It took me ages to not see it as handbag

I also believed women had one less rib! And thought the Wimbledon Wombles were common.

I thought 'estranged' meant lesbian, after reading Adrian Mole when I was very young.

Me too! Bit disappointed they're not tbh.

OMG me too, I still thought they were until you just said 🤣🤣

DS2 would kill me for this, he was so embarrassed, but he thought Socrates and Socrates (pronounced so-crates) were two different people. He'd read one and heard the other and didn't make the connection between the two philosophers.

When he was very little, about 3, he said, "Is that his real name? Reallly? Is he really called Cheesus Christ?" 😁

That woman was absolutely wrong Brown hairy coconuts are just matured green ones.

Related to this, I only recently found out that peppers are different colours due to their stages of maturity

Our youngest son is named Leon and is almost 20. About 6 months ago my mum revealed that she'd only just found out that it was a 'real' name. She thought dh and I had made it up.

I don't think I ever believed it was true, but after somebody told me that the 'men at work' sign (with a man sticking a shovel into a heap of rubble or whatever) actually meant 'very stormy' and he was actually battling with trying to put up his umbrella in the high winds, I can't see anything else now

Our youngest son is named Leon and is almost 20. About 6 months ago my mum revealed that she'd only just found out that it was a 'real' name. She thought dh and I had made it up.

Did she think you were just going for a yooneek riff on the name Noel by reversing it?

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

I was about 10 when I became aware of this song. I happily accepted that 'keeping my baby' meant that she wasn't going to ditch her boyfriend ('baby' being a term of endearment) aa per her father's wishes

I always thought it was “one foul swoop”… not one fell swoop 😂😂😂

Aren’t islands attached? I thought they were just the equivalent of big hills where a small part stuck out?

I was born to parents who were in 40s. Food was meat and two veg, rice was pudding only.. I'm sure you get idea. I was told from a very early age that curries were different colours because of dog breed. Yep really. So in my mid 20s I actually had a curry and found out this was a huge lie. Yes I'm really serious and I adore a sneaky tikka and rice!!