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 ?

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.

to be honest OP, it's amazing what men can use to take the tops off beer bottles, where need be. They can pretty much do it with their eyelashes.

Thank you. All my life I have believed this 🤦🏼‍♀️

Elbow Grease is a product nowadays

A family friend has only ever been known by her nickname. Every year my parents got a Christmas card from Rob and Maureen and had no idea who they were 😁 Eventually one year it came addressed from Rob and Maureen (‘Nickname’) - I think they’d finally twigged my parents had never sent them a card back!

She's not a Stranglers fan then 😁

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".

• *I also thought it was ‘When the bus had to go’! I thought she ditched him, then pissed off on a bus 😁

As a side note, if you haven’t heard Cher’s cover of ‘One of Us’, have a listen - it’s amazing.

On the subject of misheard advert songs (I also thought it was "peppery goodness") for ages I thought that Toblerone took "triangular robins" from triangular trees. I was quite disappointed to discover it was actually almonds.

Evelyn Waugh, the famous writer, WAS a man.

As a child we used to sing On Ilkley Moor Bar Tat at brownies - I thought it was on Milky Mow by Tat
My mother thought that Abba's Song Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (a man after Midnight) was a Ladder til Midnight

Unless she's filthy, mine does. I quite often hear a "slurp, slurp" and glance over to see her washing.

Before I learnt to drive, I thought you had to remember to switch the brake lights on every time you applied the rake 🤔😳

“ brake “ LOL

"thought the Channel tunnel went through the sea, not under the ground!"
You must have missed the news bulletin where the tunnelling machines met in the middle!

I used to think the song ‘poetry in motion’ was actually ‘oh a tree in motion’. I used to live near a factory call Hall & Pickles and I always thought it was Halls Pickles it wasn’t till I mentioned ‘the pickled onions factory’ to my DH and he laughed at me and put me right, that I knew

Are you thinking of The Untouchables? www.imdb.com/title/tt0106165/

I used to pronounce drawers as draw-ers, until my DH corrected me!

I recently discovered the word is longitude … not longdidtude
Mortified !!!

I thought it was 'Like a tree in motion'.

And that 'You and me endlessly' in 'Grooving' was 'You and me and Elsie'.

It is now! elbowgreasecleans.com/

My DP says 'Good King Wences' when talking about the song.
He's a musician, has played it in concerts and Carol Services for years. Obviously never looked at the title.

Until last week. Segue. Pronounced in the same way you'd say segway. I thought it meant gliding effortlessly as you were on a Segway (scooter).

Appreciate it's not a million miles off the actual definition but I'd always rather prided myself on my pretentious use of vocabulary. This has now stopped.

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

I used to mishear "three piece suite" as 3p sweet.

As for segue, I thought people were saying segway. It kind of works in context :)

I'm with your colleague there.

It doesn’t matter if the fruit on the tree is green or brown they still need the husk removed to reveal the the brown hairy coconut we see in supermarkets 😊