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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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BellaTheDarkOverlord · 27/05/2022 11:55

@StageRage me too! I saw an episode which showed them at a distance beside each other and was mind blown. I always wondered how they got to the top panel, did they climb a staircase behind? 🤔

Ponoka7 · 27/05/2022 11:57

" I genuinely believed until long after I had passed my own driving test, that it was illegal to drive along with the internal lights on in the car"

That's something that our parents used to tell us so we'd have to stop reading, colouring in etc and just nap on long car journeys.

childofthecorn · 27/05/2022 11:57

Ticksallboxes · 27/05/2022 10:53

That's a revelation about the US beer bottles!

Until quite recently I (like many people apparently) thought the Channel tunnel went through the sea, not under the ground!

Say whaaaaat about the channel tunnel? I've never got it as scared of drowning!

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ChristineCagney11 · 27/05/2022 11:58

Herecomestreble1 · 27/05/2022 11:52

Haha I think that's from The IT Crowd!

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LOL It is @Herecomestreble1
As is "A damp squid"

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TokyoSushi · 27/05/2022 11:58

That dogs kept themselves completely clean and tidy in the same way that cats do. What a hideous surprise when we got our dog a few years ago!

Rosehugger · 27/05/2022 11:59

I thought the Elgin marbles were perhaps a rather splendid version of the glass type. Until I went to the British Museum when I was about 20. Oh! Couldn't see what the fuss is about, myself 😆

To want to know something you wrongly believed was true all your life ?
To want to know something you wrongly believed was true all your life ?
childofthecorn · 27/05/2022 12:00

When I got to uni, I was asked where I lived. I said the town name and they said where is it? And I actually had no idea or no reference points (beyond the county) in relation to nearest city etc. Mortifying

Bunty55 · 27/05/2022 12:00

I always thought 'mutton jeff' was a stew and ;elbow grease; was just that.

Cattenberg · 27/05/2022 12:01

Yay! Thank goodness for that 😀

BiscoffSundae · 27/05/2022 12:02

So embarrassing but I only found out bed bugs are a real thing as an adult, I thought they were just a made up thing like the bogeyman to scare children 🤦🏻 I got so paranoid for weeks after when I found out they are actually real.

Cattenberg · 27/05/2022 12:04

Oops, I meant to quote @ChristineCagney11 and @ClaudiusTheGod

SydneyCarton · 27/05/2022 12:06

@Rosehugger I was asked if I had seen the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum, and I replied that I hadn't, but I had seen the Parthenon Frieze..... This was in an interview at Cambridge to study Classics....😬

Redbluelellow · 27/05/2022 12:09

girafferaffle · 27/05/2022 11:07

Centre Parks not being in a dome. I really did think it was in a dome.

Same I genuinely believed that for years only found out a week before we went

FallopianTubeTrain · 27/05/2022 12:10

In the 80s when I was a child my mum and her friend used to go on a coach trip once a year to see the Blackpool illuminations. I was around 30 when I discovered that this was just a bunch of lights on the sea front and not a naturally occurring phenomenon like the northern lights.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 27/05/2022 12:13

That Evelyn Waugh was a woman.

You were correct all along, she was indeed a woman.

Confusingly, she was married to a writer, who was also called Evelyn (his first name was actually Arthur, but he was universally known as Evelyn', which was one of his middle names).

Aimee1987 · 27/05/2022 12:13

Coffeetree · 27/05/2022 11:09

When I was 45 my father told me that if you pee in a swimming pool, the water around you will turn blue. This is due to the chemical reaction of the urine's nitrogen and ammonia reacting with the chlorine.

When I was 45 I was talking about swimming with some friends and someone expressed worry about pee in the pool. I assured her no, you always know if someone has peed because you'll see the water turn blue around them.

Four decades. Well done Dad.

While the change of colour is untrue the classic 'swiming pool smell' that peole think is chloride is actually chloroamine. A by product of chlorine interaction with bodily fluids including but not limited to urine.

GrouchyKiwi · 27/05/2022 12:16

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 27/05/2022 12:13

That Evelyn Waugh was a woman.

You were correct all along, she was indeed a woman.

Confusingly, she was married to a writer, who was also called Evelyn (his first name was actually Arthur, but he was universally known as Evelyn', which was one of his middle names).

I was going to impart this wisdom too WeBuilt. It is one of my favourite things in life that their friends called them "She-Evelyn" and "He-Evelyn". Grin

MarianosOnHisWay · 27/05/2022 12:16

woofwoofbowwow · 27/05/2022 11:51

That Evelyn Waugh was a woman.

Evelyn Waugh’s wife was actually called Evelyn too. They were known as “He-velyn” and “She-velyn” 😁

MarianosOnHisWay · 27/05/2022 12:17

Argh cross post about the Evelyns!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 27/05/2022 12:17

A by product of chlorine interaction with bodily fluids including but not limited to urine.

Wasn't that effectively what Sunny Delight was? Grin

LovelyQuiche · 27/05/2022 12:19

“Dance, then, wherever you may be
I am the Lord of the Dance Setee”

used to imagine an amazingly designed sofa

SolvedEnglishComprehension · 27/05/2022 12:19

IdentityProtector · 27/05/2022 11:39

That eating cakes straight from the oven before they’ve cooled will give you a bad tummy. Only found out that was just my mum’s way of stopping us woofing down whatever she’d baked when I was telling DC why they couldn’t yet eat the cakes we’d made and DH overheard. He killed himself laughing 😂

I think this is one. @IdentityProtector

I'm fairly confident it should be Wolfing

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 27/05/2022 12:20

I was going to impart this wisdom too WeBuilt. It is one of my favourite things in life that their friends called them "She-Evelyn" and "He-Evelyn".

They were just being kind when they actually were with Mr & Mrs Waugh. In private, they referred to her as 'Evelyn' and him as 'Evelyn?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!' Grin

Irishfarmer · 27/05/2022 12:22

I was about 20 when I found out it was a windscreen, not a window-screen! (in a car)