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.
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I have an aunt called Lorraine. Until I was like 9 I honestly thought she was called 'the rain' always thought it was a strange choice of name 🙈🙈🙈

Also used to think 'cooked ham' was called crooked ham !

I used to think that a lion was male and tigers were female. I've always been a bit dim

Watching LGBTQ+ at the BBC at the moment and am reminded that I used to think that KD Lang's song Constant Craving was about pregnancy cravings. I was only about 9 when the song came out and there was a storyline in Neighbours where Paul's wife craved pickles and ice cream when pregnant.

I always wondered where the "gorillas" got their hands on weapons (Guerrilla warfare). I was far too old when I discovered the truth!!!!!!

Amazed by FedEx, never noticed before.

Africa came on the radio the other day and, in the interest of this thread, listened to the lyrics carefully. Still sounded like Mars to me!

I also thought this. And that "refugee" was an acronym. I think it was the "gee" at the end which confused me.

Africa came on the radio the other day and, in the interest of this thread, listened to the lyrics carefully. Still sounded like Mars to me!

Sometimes, I wonder if the artists deliberately do sing something different, for an in-joke (or as deniability to get it past the censors), but then insist that, "No, THESE are the correct lyrics" - even when you know what your own ears are hearing, as do all the other people who believe it to be that! Even if not on the original recording, I'll bet some of the ones with a better sense of humour alter it slightly in live concerts. A bit like Queen actually did officially in changing 'one vision' to 'fried chicken' right at the end!

In 'Lets Hang On' by The Four Seasons, I am absolutely convinced that Frankie sings "give me a feckin' turnip", even though it is 'claimed' to be 'a second turning'!

I also heard a song on the radio the other day by Ava Max apparently called 'Maybe You're The Problem'. I had to look up the lyrics to find that the line was actually 'And your short fuse, just like a time bomb' - but it sounded suspiciously like she sang 'tampon' rather than 'time bomb', both times, which made me do a double-take.

You are correct, alrho if your colleague is a northerner, their pronunciation could just be due to accent

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@Newmum110 here are a few more to blow your mind!

That's reminded me that when I started school around age 5 (olden days) I asked the girl next to me what her name was and she said 'Roof'.... and I remember being surprised people could be named after parts of buildings but smiled politely (Ruth).

Skim read the thread so this might be a repeat but when I was a kid I thought turf accountants actually sold rolls of turf & laid cricket pitches and bowling greens.

Apropos of coconuts, if you hire a car in The Seychelles, you have to sign an agreement not to park a hire car under a coconut tree. They're big buggers, can take a mirror off or really dent the roof!

@dancingmarshmallow
hahaha that’s brilliant 😂😂

Until aged 11 or 12 I thought the colour khaki was written 'car key' and would be the colour of a car key...which really confused me as it was a dull green..unlike keys I'd seen...

That Roy Schneider does not play Chief Brody in Jaws.
Roy Scheider does.

I used to think Sinn Fein was a person 😬

:)
”I used to think Sinn Fein was a person 😬”

I’m going back a few years now but my dad once told me that the German word for toilet was ‘shitenhousen’
i fucking believed him for years…

I heard the term guerilla warfare as a child on the news and for years i genuinely believed that certain countries had managed to train up armies of Gorillas to fight for them with guns and bombs etc..like some kind of cross between Planet of the Apes and Platoon.

Crosspost..just read the thread above. Glad i wasnt the only one 😆😆

I would say the same as you and I don't think we are wrong! 🤪

I didn't realise the Sisters of Mercy were an order of nuns.

Dd was just telling me about her friend who, at prom, was pissed as a tart! 😂it's made me chuckle all day.

Your dad wasn't far wrong, it's 'Sheisshaus' pronounced 'Shizehowss' (the two esses at the end are a weird symbol not on my keyboard). My mum spoke fluent German & we often referred to it as that in exaggerated Germanic accents.