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

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ChristineCagney11 · 27/05/2022 10:42

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 ?

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Ineke · 29/05/2022 10:02

Yes it was!

Calphurnia88 · 29/05/2022 10:03

Ineke · 29/05/2022 09:40

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.

Never thought about it before but just sung the lyrics in my head and you're quite right... So problematic. 'Well tonight thank god its them instead of you' 😳

Alcemeg · 29/05/2022 10:06

Calphurnia88 · 29/05/2022 09:16

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').

I've always sung that too!

OneCup · 29/05/2022 10:18

On a similar theme to coconuts, walnuts are actually in a green 'casing' too. The brown shell is inside it.

WiseRobin · 29/05/2022 10:30

I’ve always said ‘another thing coming’ 😳it rolls off the tongue better 😆

oh and I’ve always pronounced brusque like brusk and not broosk!

Until recently I thought it was “mirror in the bathroom please don’t speak” to UB40’s hit!

WiseRobin · 29/05/2022 10:33

A work colleague always says ‘he’s passing the book’

SpiderinaWingMirror · 29/05/2022 10:35

When I had the joy of a running teams in call centre type environment I used to tape a sign up "County Durham is NOT in Northern Ireland!"

Elbo7 · 29/05/2022 10:45

StageRage · 27/05/2022 11:17

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

Oh yes me too, until very recently! I thought I was the only one!!

WiseRobin · 29/05/2022 10:45

@OliveHenry me too! “It’s full of peppery goodness and very small and neat” 😆

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ChristineCagney11 · 29/05/2022 10:59

I'm not promoting the brand or product but I had to look and it DOES sound like "peppery"

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ChiefWiggumsBoy · 29/05/2022 11:02

Calphurnia88 · 29/05/2022 10:03

Never thought about it before but just sung the lyrics in my head and you're quite right... So problematic. 'Well tonight thank god its them instead of you' 😳

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Yes but that line is supposed to be ironic. Not saying the whole song isn't very 'white saviour' but you can't pick out that one line!

the80sweregreat · 29/05/2022 11:07

The Carrefour sign for the French supermarket chain : I didn't realize it was a white C inside the red and the blue , I always thought it was two white fish heads ! You have to look at it closely to see the C.

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ChristineCagney11 · 29/05/2022 11:39

WiseRobin · 29/05/2022 10:30

I’ve always said ‘another thing coming’ 😳it rolls off the tongue better 😆

oh and I’ve always pronounced brusque like brusk and not broosk!

Until recently I thought it was “mirror in the bathroom please don’t speak” to UB40’s hit!

@WiseRobin
I'm never changing to "think" even if it does make more sense, let them come for us with torches.
Secondly I have been singing that UB40 lyric exactly the same way
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WalkingOnTheCracks · 29/05/2022 11:40

ChristineCagney11 · 27/05/2022 10:50

@Noodlewave
That's brilliant, I actually prefer it to the original.

That is the original.

"Another thing coming" dates later, which suggests that thing is an eggcorn of think. It probably originated in speech with the misapprehension of the "k" in think as being the "c" in coming, which leaves something that sounds suspiciously like "thing coming."

www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/usage-another-think-coming-or-another-thing-coming

OliveHenry · 29/05/2022 12:04

ineedsun · 28/05/2022 10:52

Same here! I wondered why people actually liked it as pepper and chocolate just seemed weird

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So glad it wasn't just me!

StarTwins · 29/05/2022 12:07

WiseRobin · 29/05/2022 10:30

I’ve always said ‘another thing coming’ 😳it rolls off the tongue better 😆

oh and I’ve always pronounced brusque like brusk and not broosk!

Until recently I thought it was “mirror in the bathroom please don’t speak” to UB40’s hit!

Isn’t Mirror in the Bathroom by The Beat?

Soubriquet · 29/05/2022 12:36

It makes total sense when you think about it, but when puffer fish inflate, it’s not with air.

It’s with water.

Mmpip · 29/05/2022 14:53

diddl · 27/05/2022 12:29

What do you think a tenderhook is though & why do you think it's better?

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'Elbow Grease' IS a product you can buy like 'Mr Muscle'.....(😃)

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 29/05/2022 15:09

I've known a few male Hilarys, and a male Vivian. I had an aunt Eveline, but knew that Evelyn Waugh was a man, and that John Wayne's name was Marion. Also in the "Anne of Green Gables" series, she named her last son Shirley.

I now live in Australia and there are an awful lot of names that could be male or female now - Hunter, Dakota, etc. (of course I can't bring them to mind now!!)

Mmpip · 29/05/2022 15:10

HenBob · 27/05/2022 15:18

@woofwoofbowwow

The name Waugh reminds me of a pronunciation problem I had - I couldn't work out how to say Waugh so I'm a meeting with someone called Waugh I asked if he pronounced it "Wow" or "Woah". He was like "...War" DUH!

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I'm from the North and we pronounce Waugh (Wof).....

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ChristineCagney11 · 29/05/2022 15:45

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 29/05/2022 15:09

I've known a few male Hilarys, and a male Vivian. I had an aunt Eveline, but knew that Evelyn Waugh was a man, and that John Wayne's name was Marion. Also in the "Anne of Green Gables" series, she named her last son Shirley.

I now live in Australia and there are an awful lot of names that could be male or female now - Hunter, Dakota, etc. (of course I can't bring them to mind now!!)

@ThumbWitchesAbroad
Probably the way forward to be honest

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ChristineCagney11 · 29/05/2022 15:49

Where did the rest of my post go to @ThumbWitchesAbroad @mn 🧐

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AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 29/05/2022 16:10

Ostryga · 28/05/2022 20:40

That Dunkirk was in Scotland Blush 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.

Dunkirk is in Kent! (grinning wildly here)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk,_Kent

And No Man's Land is in Cornwall.

i2-prod.cornwalllive.com/incoming/article4522025.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/0_GMP_DCM_160920NoMansLand_10JPG.jpg

EatAllDay · 29/05/2022 16:25

supersop60 · 28/05/2022 18:55

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.

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me too!!! Good King Wences
last looked out …
😁

OliveHenry · 29/05/2022 18:55

Choccyp1g · 28/05/2022 22:49

Well what are they full of then?

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Cadbury goodness, apparently 😂