Page 22 | To want to know something you wrongly believed was true all your life ?

ChristineCagney11 · 2022-05-27T09:42:27+00:00

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 ?

GaiaWise · 28/05/2022 19:18

NearlyHeadlessNick · 27/05/2022 19:23

Until I had my first child, I thought that post birth bleeding occurred because of the tearing/stitches, i.e. just little blobs here and there from a stitched wound.

I looked at maternity pads in the shop and thought "they're like mattresses! Why on earth would I need those?! I'll get regular sanitary towels. Just to be on the safe side, I'll get the night time ones".

Well. Oh boy was I in for a wake up call

My sister came to my house the next day with a cheery "do you need anything?" "Maternity pads!"

Me too! I was mid thirties before I had my child, and as he was born by c section, I did not think there would be any bleeding. Plus I had no idea about post birth pain and contractions. People don’t seem to talk about this stuff!

ViciousChicken · 28/05/2022 19:18

givemushypeasachance · 27/05/2022 15:26

As a child I thought the symbol for the motorway was a monster or robot or something, I was probably of driving age when I eventually realised it was meant to be two roads going under a bridge. What has that got to do with motorways anyway!

When I started work, a colleague would put "TOIL" in her calendar sometimes and I thought she was joking about working hard. Didn't twig about 'time off in lieu' until someone explained where she was...

@givemushypeasachance oh my, I thought this was just me. I only saw a robot until I was well into my 30s. I though maybe because motorways were futuristic or something! 😳

sueelleker · 28/05/2022 19:23

rollingmeadows · 28/05/2022 04:51

I thought turkeys had to wear little rubber gumboots (I think they are called wellies in the UK) to protect their little turkey feet against contracting a nasty disease that would ultimately lead to their suffering and death.

Tbf I got this idea from watching a very serious New Zealand farming tv programme, aged 7 that showcased a turkey farm with all these turkeys running around with their special little gumboots on. I didn’t know it was one of the April 1st ‘special editions’. My father finally told me when I was 15 that, indeed turkeys do not need to wear gumboots. I suspect he got a bit sick of me getting upset when I saw turkeys without their gumboots on.

I felt ripped off for years. How dare this very serious (and quite boring) farming programme tell me such porkies!!

Haven't RFFT yet, but they used to dip geese's feet in tar before they drove them to market in London. Turkeys had leather boots. answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/196181.html

BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou · 28/05/2022 19:32

I assumed that breast milk came out of a single hole at the end of the nipple…… until I had first baby and my milk came in! I was amazed. 🤭

BigDayToday · 28/05/2022 19:37

BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou · 28/05/2022 19:32

I assumed that breast milk came out of a single hole at the end of the nipple…… until I had first baby and my milk came in! I was amazed. 🤭

It doesn't?! What happens then? (No kids here!)

Marylou62 · 28/05/2022 19:40

Onlyhuman123 · 27/05/2022 11:20

Not me...my DD (now 16) thought that 'lmnop' was a letter in itself; up until about the age of 8. This was because they used to sing a song of the alphabet and 'lmnop' was sung quicker than the other letters so she always thought it was one letter. god love her.

Hahahaha! All my kids thought if was yellowyellowpee...Ive never corrected them..(they're 32, 29 and 25..)

mumof2andstillsurviving · 28/05/2022 19:45

I thought this too! I was told it by my parents in the 79s/80s

StellakateT · 28/05/2022 20:00

I always thought that too! Still do 🙄

BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou · 28/05/2022 20:03

BigDayToday · 28/05/2022 19:37

It doesn't?! What happens then? (No kids here!)

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It comes out of multiple holes (all on the nipple) a bit like a shower head! One of my “holes” always shot off to the right and when DD pulled away for a breather (which she often did) DH often got hit in the face 😂

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 28/05/2022 20:04

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

It also sounds like 'see her genitals sway' rather than 'see her gentle sway' - which asks far more questions than it can answer.

ettabea · 28/05/2022 20:10

Some 40 years ago, Headmaster at my primary school held an assembly on the random subject of the evils of Nail-biting. He told us that worms would grow in the tummies of persistant offenders and nails would NEVER regrow.
I was a wide-eyed believer of these "facts" for many years, reciting them to nail-biting friends and family members.
Still remember it now, especially any time I'm a bit stressed and tempted to have a nibble on a nail!

HeyHeyer · 28/05/2022 20:12

BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou · 28/05/2022 20:03

It comes out of multiple holes (all on the nipple) a bit like a shower head! One of my “holes” always shot off to the right and when DD pulled away for a breather (which she often did) DH often got hit in the face 😂

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😂

I really did not know that! Every day's a school day.

Schmz · 28/05/2022 20:14

StageRage · 27/05/2022 11:17

Until recently I thought the teams on University Challenge were actually on top of each other.

What …. They aren’t ???
I thought it was like celebrity squares …

Learningstill · 28/05/2022 20:15

Boiledbeetle · 27/05/2022 14:46

I used to get confused about why Lucille left Kenny with 400 children and a drop in the sea? Like WTF is that about?

Kenny Rogers song quote: “You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field.”

That makes MUCH more sense!!!

That is priceless, had to sing it, tears now running down my cheeks. 😂

Tomasinabombadil · 28/05/2022 20:17

1000yellowdaisies · 27/05/2022 11:01

What?! The channel tunnel doesn't go through the water??

The engineering was spot on with the French and British drilling from each end and meeting in the middle under The Channel.😲

To want to know something you wrongly believed was true all your life ?

Cherrysoup · 28/05/2022 20:24

ReachedTheEndofCake · 27/05/2022 15:25

@Mummyneedsacoffee
Arkansas is definitely at State. It’s a city in Kansas also, but definitely more known as a state.

I think that’s wrong. Kansas is a city in Missouri-I highly recommend the restaurant in the square, great steak. Kansas obviously is also a state. Arkansas is a state.

faw2009 · 28/05/2022 20:24

My son always said "I beg your pardon" very fast, and we always wondered why he didn't just say pardon. He said he thought it was one whole word: ibegyourpardon

He and DH have just told me that I shouldn't say the last 't' in tarot.

Hummingbirdcake · 28/05/2022 20:26

‘Hand gliding’ when I was a kid. And I thought they just hung on to the bar - I didn’t realise they had a harness thing.

Julz1969 · 28/05/2022 20:34

ELBOW GREASE is a cleaning product you can buy, it saves on well elbow grease

Ostryga · 28/05/2022 20:40

That Dunkirk was in Scotland It wasn’t until I watched the Christopher Nolan film I realised. I swear I’m an intelligent human the rest of the time, no idea how I missed that.

Marylou62 · 28/05/2022 20:45

ettabea · 28/05/2022 20:10

Some 40 years ago, Headmaster at my primary school held an assembly on the random subject of the evils of Nail-biting. He told us that worms would grow in the tummies of persistant offenders and nails would NEVER regrow.
I was a wide-eyed believer of these "facts" for many years, reciting them to nail-biting friends and family members.
Still remember it now, especially any time I'm a bit stressed and tempted to have a nibble on a nail!

I was a terrible nail biter.. My DF told me that the nails protected the end of your fingers and if you bit them and they were too short and you banged them (the tips of your fingers) the bones would come out of the end through the skin! I truly believed this but couldn't stop the biting so was even more stressed examining the ends of my fingers obsessively.

Solonge · 28/05/2022 20:54

Yep….you can be….me too not long ago and requested to turn it off.

Ginlovingmumof4 · 28/05/2022 20:56

woofwoofbowwow · 27/05/2022 11:51

That Evelyn Waugh was a woman.

What?? But Evelyn is a girl’s name!

CounsellorTroi · 28/05/2022 21:00

Ginlovingmumof4 · 28/05/2022 20:56

What?? But Evelyn is a girl’s name!

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It’s both but has been far more common as a girl’s name over the last hundred years. Just like Hilary. St Hilary was a bloke.

diddl · 28/05/2022 21:03

Ginlovingmumof4 · 28/05/2022 20:56

What?? But Evelyn is a girl’s name!

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It can be either!