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 ?

Well what are they full of then?

Me too, I think it’s possibly because of Dunblane?!

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

I was in my 40s before I worked out what the actual lyrics were. I always sang it as "I'm not talking 'bout the living", but couldn't understand what that actually meant. One day I was listening to the radio and it just hit me what they were actually saying. I did feel better when I heard a radio announcer say it had taken him years to work it out too.

I’m in my 50s and always thought the glass section in a car you look out if was a window screen !!! In my 40s I discovered it’s a windscreen 😜still can’t get used to the name change ! I will ask my kids what they call it and see if I have created a new name

when I was about 20 I was in the park on a hot day with my best friend when an ice cream van arrived playing his jaunty tune. I suggested that we went to get one and she replied “I’d love one but he’s already playing his tune”. Turns out her dad had always said that if an ice cream van was playing a tune it was an alert that he’d run out of ice cream!!! 😆 when I told her the truth, she burst into tears at all the missed opportunities. We rang her dad who had forgotten all about this little fib - he nearly burst himself laughing. She didn’t speak to him for a month and they are usually very close!! 😄

My other half, ex cop, tells story of interviewing a witness, who is describing a suspect .
"What did he look like" says the cops?
'He's a Fricken' says the witness.
All the cops are.baffled for a while, he keeps repeating - A Fricken when asked for a description.

Turns out the guy is saying "African"

Wow !
So we're not alone then
The real line is very hard to sing

Aww that is sweet.

Yes but at least that's logical.
I used to think it was called a "Win- screen"

Cadbury goodness

Whereas the Waltons "Ma Walton" really is called Michael. That's why they put the word "Miss" in front of her name on the credits..."Miss Michael Learned"

@Thisisit2022
I didn't know that about Ma Walton, wow the "Miss" bit makes sense.
My Aunt was always known as Mrs husbands full name

Me too. I this is a common misconception.

Palm oil

Beverley
Vivian
I've had male colleagues with both those names.

I knew a male Hilary once.

Yes, and of course there's Hillary Benn.

The song "A boy named Sue" was written by Shel Silverstein (man) and came about after speaking to a male friend Jean about the frustrations of having what's thought of as a female name.
I didn't know that until a few minutes ago.

Africa by Toto

Until very recently I thought the words were 'there's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do' (not 'a hundred men or more').

@Calphurnia88
Oh I don't think any of us apart from the band are singing the correct words to "Africa"

The brown furry coconuts are the insides of a bigger smoother green case. Travelled in coconut countries and seen them on the trees, and watched them being cut open.

As a child I was mightily disappointed when travelling on an army boat from Singapore to UK, everyone on deck was thrilled to see the ‘White Horses’. I looked and looked but could only see waves, no horses anywhere.

I was brought to a different perspective and opinion when listening to a programme about the Live Aid song, specifically the line Do they Know it’s Christmas time at all, And how condescending it is, of course they would know it’s Christmas, a huge percentage of the people are Christians.

I never saw this before and once told I can’t see anything else. The delivery Company, FedEx , has a white arrow between the e and the x.

@Ineke
It's a very problematic song, for many reasons, one of the maybe lesser problems is that Africa is a massive continent made up of many different countries and and some of them definitely do have snow.
Was that a radio 4 program?