When the penny drops about dumb things that you should have known!

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For ages I thought there was a poster called Tia. I always used to think it was a bit weird that they would sign their name....not very anonymous. Now I realise it means thanks in advance.
I am 45.

I thought that Surbiton was a fictional place made up for the Good Life. Someone posted a thread about house hunting there last year and I clicked on it thinking it was a joke thread only to find that all the replies were quite serious and there wasn't a single mention of Margot anywhere.

I guess you're younger than me, but we used to break into some Acid House dance moves on trips to the chemistry cupboard.

I think I found that out on one of these threads a couple of years ago. was a lot older than you.

At the risk of sounding like a twat. This is pretty much the first thing I've read on one of these threads that I've not already known. Very interesting

My DH thought that all the stickers saying we use smart water in the area meant we had some newfangled amazing clean water. Until I pointed out it's a forensics thing that shows up on someone if they've tried to tamper with the thing the sticker is on. Pmsl at that one🤣😆🤣😆🤣

I remember as a child my dad loved a history documentary , especially anything war related. He told me about the nazis gassing people and putting people in ovens. In my mind this logically meant the nazis were cooking and eating the People. That they were cannibals. That's why all the people went missing. And it didn't help that my eldest half brother was in the army and stationed in Germany and came home and told us all about the amazing sausages and meat he had eaten there and how they eat so much meat they had to poo on a shelf and poke it with a stick to check for worms. And mum was always saying I was eating so much I must have worms.

This all led to me bursting out crying in school during history class, the first day of the WW2 topic, age 13. I was worried that my brother had joined the nazis and was eating people that were clearly infected with worms. This was in 1994

I only put 2 and 2 together last week about the Scream films, they are called Scream because the mask looks like the Scream painting.

What is it? About 20 years of those films and I only just realised 🤣

@Dindundundundeeer except it isn't true

I believe it stands for High Fidelity.

I recently learnt that HTH stands for "hope that helps".

I always thought users on Mumsnet were telling each other - generally after being annoyed at one another - to "hit the hay"

I did nearly come back and say that too. The Great Bear makes more sense, but I love the coincidence (and will now check both!)

This is exactly what I do. I thought that's how they all worked 🤔

I learned last week that telephone dialling codes were the first two letters of a place on old phones. Ignore the 01, and check it out! Occasionally if the code had already been used for somewhere else it would be the first and last letter.

This reminds me of the mistake people make with someone I know called Iain. People who have never seen or heard of the Scottish spelling of Iain call him Lain - they just think he hasn't used a capital letter to spell his name.

This little piggy had roast beef too... so I'm going to stick with 1st piggy had gone shopping...

I did this with "docuseries". In my head I pronounced it "dockqueserriz", like all run together, but stressing the "cue". Thought it was a very pretentious-sounding word Obviously now I know it's Docu-Series, as in Documentary Series.

Also, I have to really think hard to pronounce "Hermione" as Her-MY-on-ee, instead of HerMee-ownee. Same for Persephone - it's PerSEPHonee, not Percy-Phoney.

Someone here once said, very wisely, on a similar thread, that at least people who pronounce words wrong are likely well-read, as they can only have read it (and taken it in their minds as a word) rather than it just being told to them.

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About 20, I realized that Jesus wasn't a Mushroom - as I had said to the (uninvited) Vicar at my 'deathbed' the previous year. What I meant was a 'state of higher subconscience' which could be brought about by consuming 'magic [psilocybin]' mushrooms or some of the many other natural fungi and flora found around the world that has similar results.

Obvs I didn't die and laugh 40+ years later at what the poor vicar thought.

Inspired by the 'Rave' memories from PP, mine is from 1981.

French is probably derived from the Latin, septimana. Also semana in Spanish and Portuguese.

@PorridgeFace I’ve just learned this from you!

My kids are grown up now 😂

I really wish I had a time machine!

This is exactly what I do. I thought that's how they all worked 🤔

You can hang a door on either side.

Ha ha I thought the same too , poor vets how will they treat the animals if the vets are homeless.

I also still know all the words ( wrong side of 50 yrs ) but I get out of breath if I try to sing it while walking now

I absolutly snorted out laughing at this one...

Er.. Google Mary Mary and ring a ring of roses. Then check out the bird called enza.