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 ?

Another one with the "elemenopee" letter.

DS in reception said, "Mummy I think we've learnt all the sounds now, except "elemenopee""

I spent most of my childhood thinking that Jaws was a similar film to Flipper, except that Flipper was a friendly dolphin and George was a friendly shark.

Also, a friend at primary school used to bang on about a film called, “The Pudgy Guys”. I made a fool of myself by pretending I’d seen it and when questioned, I said it was about two fat blokes. It was actually called “Poltergeist”.

@BurningBright oh I really hope “put it to the toast” wasn’t a typo and you think this is the saying?!

Sorry ReachedTheEndofCake, it was a typo. But under the circumstances I sort of wish it wasn't too! 😀

@MoodyTwo
Reminded me of an episode of Jam and Jerusalem years ago. Dawn french plays a character and she's asked in the countryside what the big bales wrapped in plastic are ? (They are haylage/ silage)
She answers "Those are cows fetuses... don't go near them or the mother will abandon them"

My DH didn't really believe lamb was lamb. He thought it was a word for part of the sheep!

I thought until recently that "in case" was one word. Like indeed, inside etc.

It’s raining, it’s pouring
The old man is snoring
He went to bed
With a bucket on his head
And didn’t get up in the morning

Pictured an old man in a rickety leaking cottage who’s put a bucket on his head to keep it dry while he sleeps and doesn‘t get up in the morning because he thinks it’s still dark out.

As opposed to:
And bumped his head

Which is pretty grim as it implies “went to bed, sustained a blow to the head and died later of his injuries” or something.

I discovered the discrepancy while belting out the song at circle time at a toddler group and realising everyone else was singing something else.

Oops.

There are 🤣😉

It took me well into my 30s to realise about this one.

Omg, until reading this post, I didn't know they are the same breed.
A friend has 2 large German Shepherds, and I'm afraid to bring my toddlers around them. Now that I know the dogs are actually alsatians, I'm even more nervous! (as a child, I remember hearing about Alsatian attacks on kids).

AIBU
To ask if anyone else couldn't get on the site for a while ?
Ah well back now.

No apology required, this is now one of my favourite facts and I will not tire of hearing it!

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

Me too

I thought the leader of al qaeda was “The Son of Bin Laden” I’d never seen it written down only heard on news or radio

Well well well - I never knew about 'another thing/k coming' always though it was thing.

Only ever heard/said brusque as brusk.
Say Almond as Arrrmond
And didn't know about the husband Evelyn.

This has been an amazing thread so far!!

Not all my life, but i didn't know Milky Way was not a chocolate until maybe my late 20s

Absolutely brilliant @Nanny2many
😆

I still tell my kids not to eat hot cake for fear of tummy ache - I feel robbed!

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

You can buy it now:

My middle child used to call it a Jewel CarriageWay and one day asked where all the jewels were!

I didn’t think that birds had sex until I was in my 20s. I thought that the females laid eggs and the males came by later and I guess just bird-wanked over them. When I was a kid my gran had hens and when I asked why no chicks was told that there would need to be a rooster nearby and as I had also at the same time seen a nature documentary where the male fish fish-wanked near the eggs the female fish left behind, I guess I just assumed it was a similar thing.

i learned I was wrong when I innocently asked a colleague why the one pigeon on the roof opposite kept trying to climb on the other pigeon’s back and my colleague was like “Erm… I think they might fancy each other if you get what I mean” and I said oh that’s cute they’re just playing around together and colleague said “poppy… they’re fucking”. And I was like 😳

The phrase 'it beggars belief'. I've always used 'it begs belief'. My version makes far more sense grammatically but I do know it's wrong.

@Chubarubrub and the other Chunnellers, you go down before you get on….those long steep ramps?