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 ?

Justice for Chuggy! 🤣

I could definitely go for Vienetta gravy… Have you copyright that @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll?

My contribution - when I was little I thought all dogs were male and all cats were female and pets were essentially the same species.

same

I thought Sinn Fein was a man.

I thought it was the same thing as champagne when I was very young. (I was pretty hazy on what either of them were.)

When I was very young, I thought that Russian roulette was some sort of fancy pudding.

In the late 1940s my brother was warned not go near roads during the rush hour.

He heard it as Russian hour, and seriously thought that he ought not to go out at that time in case of cossacks.

This lives on in family legend; my children know about it, and I think my grandchildren do as well by now.

What?! It is Mars isn’t it?!!

When I was younger I misread to let signs and thought there's an awful lot of toilets around😬

its wind the bobbin up

@thing47 chilli and chocolate are good together though.

I only found out this year that Mexico is NOT in South America

That no-one needs a fine-tooth comb and it is, in fact, a fine-toothed comb (unless you do comb your teeth, in which case, crack on) 😁

and it definitely won't be a tooth-comb that you use. Except on the basis that it's like a curry-comb, and just means a toothbrush the same way a curry-comb is a horse-brush.

Or you might be a lemur. Wikipedia on "toothcomb" is very informative about dentition in "lemuriform primates (which includes lemurs and lorisoids), treeshrews, colugos, hyraxes, and some African antelopes"

When I was a child I loved reading…and Neil’s books in high esteem. When I was five or so, my mum introduced me one day to a friend of my mother and fathers. She later told me he was a bookmaker…I assumed he was the clever man that made the books I adored. I must have been 15 or so when I realised he took bets for horse races!

We have a local gift shop called Temptations.
My daughter used to think there was a line in the Lord's prayer that said "Lead us not into Temptations"!

There was a thread on here once where the woman was struggling with not enough space in her bins. Turns out she'd been leaving the cardboard boxes whole and not flattening them. She'd thought that they needed to be in good condition so that they could be reused and had no idea that they would be pulped.

It took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that ALL cardboard boxes are collapsible

I thought that too. I thought it was the whole point of it - doing outdoor things under cover in our chilly climate.

(In defence of Girafferaffle, and myself, I'm sure the advertising in the early days gave that impression.)

Want to hear something truly embarrassing?

For years, I though money laundering was literally washing money.

I had no idea it meant “washing” fake cash into real

@Soubriquet care to elaborate on what you think money laundering is now? Washing fake cash into real?!

It's real cash, obtained illegally.

I say washing, I mean it’s taking fake cash and being able to change in to real using illegal methods

It’s washing it. Hence it’s called laundering

That’s not what money laundering is. Money laundering is taking money made from illegal activities and putting it through systems to make it appear it was earned legitimately.

Well. There I go again proving my not so intelligence

Thanks @TeaStory that's what I was trying to get at!