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 ?

@LovelyQuiche
😂😂

I always thought 'mutton jeff' was a stew

😂😂😂

That elbow grease was a product you could buy, like Mr Muscle.

That it was "on tenderhooks" rather than "on tenterhooks". I used to imagine a fish impaled on a hook. Still think tenderhooks is better.

How are you saying them?

That the fields you drive past that have plastic over them , were where they grow plastic bags
It s used to warm the soil to germinate plants quicker

My son went to work in an office when he left school and said a few of his colleagues had gone to work for Pastures new and presumed it was another company lol

When I first went on the tunnel back in primary school I thought I would be able to see fish out of the windows. I had visions of turquoise water and tropical fish which are also unlikely in the channel!
I've also heard about the chlorine smell in swimming pools. The stronger the chlorine smell, the dirtier the pool.

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

When I was young, maybe 6/7 we were burgled. They stripped the whole house while we were on holiday.
a few weeks after I remember the police coming to the house to tell my dad they had caught the guy who did it.
a local Indian guy - this was 1989/1990.
until my mid twenties I thought we had been burgled by a native Indian- my imagination took me to the Indian in the cupboard tomahawk and all.
it wasn’t until a family gathering And my dads girlfriend who has paintings of native Americans on the wall - and I said to my dad doesn’t that bring back memories of been burgled?
he wasn’t understanding what I was meaning after explaining more he burst into laughter and told me that it was an Indian kid who worked out the local takeaway - my mum and dad who always got a curry every Friday told them they wouldn’t be there for next 2 weeks as going on holiday.

I still struggle now to picture anything but a native Indian carrying our sofa away.

(The guys robbing us told our inquisitive neighbours that we were moving and they had been sent to clear the house)

That's correct.
If you think X then you have another think coming = reconsider/think again/you're wrong.

If you think X then you have another thing coming = what thing?? Makes no sense.

Brilliant

I used to think my dad was talking about a 'George carriageway'. It wasn't until I was about 18 that I realised it was 'duel carriageway'

*dual!

That my Mum sent our dog away to live on a farm. I only twigged when I was watching an episode of Friends....

Some of these are just different regional pronounciations, I think (brusk/broosk, allmond/arrmond).

This dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/brusque shows that it pronounced “broosk” in U.K. English but “brusk” in US English.

I always say “broosk” I’ve never heard it pronounced “brusk”.

But even that one didn't enclose the entire site.

Laughing hard at some of these.

I too realised only fairly recently that it's "another think coming".
If you explain the "thing" version as "If you (wrongly) think X thing is going to happen, then you've got another thing (i.e. the thing that's actually going to happen) coming" it makes perfect sense IMO 😄

Years ago dh and I jumped in a London black cab and he asked the cabbie to take us to Piccalilli Circus! He had genuinely believed all his life that was its name.

It absolutely does make more sense @NoisyBrain (love and relate to the name)
Looking forward to using it here and there as a bait set out for people who are going to try and correct me.

I believed there was a Police Nessy in the Family Ness named Eliot Ness. I even have a completely false memory of seeing this character in the show.
I must have heard about the real life prohibition agent of that name, conflated it with the TV show and then imagined the rest.

@Cattenberg yes to the hard Gesture! I assume we must have read it to ourselves before using the word in conversation as kids? I still have to be really careful and think before I say it out loud as an adult.

Also I’ve never heard broosk, always brusk, and I’ve lived in many different parts of the uk.

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

A tiny part of me still believes this. I mean, I know it's not true, but I would never dare put it to the toast just in case...

I also thought Alsatians and German Shepherds were different breeds.
I think because in the village I grew up in there was a really fluffy long haired “Alsatian” and stated by his owner, and a shorter/stiffer coated “German Shepherd” referred to by theirs.

I found out they were the same breed only a few months ago 🙈