Could do with a laugh today
Here's mine...
1 - I thought a filet mignon was something presented on fire, you know with brandy or something...a flamin yon 
2 - I thought rollmops where called roll 'em ups because they're rolled up but I was kind of right with that one.
Not hilarious, though dh did laugh at me til he was nearly sick, but I'm hoping some of you have much better, more embarrassing ones.
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What stupid things have you believed/said/assumed before finding out to your embarrassment you were wrong?
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CookieRookie · 27/08/2011 13:38
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BogStandardOldWoman ·
29/08/2013 18:01
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DaleyBump ·
30/07/2013 19:19
When I was wee and helping my mum do the shopping, she would ask me to get her, for example, "a couple of tomatoes". I didn't know what a couple meant, and she told me it was two. When she asked me for "a few carrots", I didn't know what a few was, so she told me three.
Up until I was 16, whenever I asked for a few of something and was given more than three I corrected them and told them that they had given me too many, I only wanted three
DumSpiroSpero ·
25/07/2013 18:11
Insisting to the bloke I fancied as he did his crossword that there was a mountain range called the urinals (Urals) was not one of my finer moments .
flummoxedlummox ·
02/06/2013 13:26
My own, very late contribution, a friend of mine thought Dún Laoghaire was pronounced Done le whore.
Another very clever friend refused to believe that gravid wasn't someone being serious.
Up until I was 5 or 6 I scanned crowds at pelican crossings as my mum said we couldn't cross until the green man came . I also used to cling tightly to the pipe on the wall next to the toilet at home as I was convinced I would be sucked down the loo if I didn't. 
amazingmumof6 ·
31/05/2013 21:54
I've just found out what tumbleweed meant when used online.
I thought it just meant "see you later/I'm off"
amazingmumof6 ·
31/05/2013 01:26
by far the most spectacular misunderstanding was when I was barely going out with my now DH.
I had only been in England for a few months, my English was poor. he mumbles a lot.
we went to a pub and I was shocked when he asked if I wanted penis!
I said no thank you and was really 
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he came back with our drinks and a bag of PEANUTS!
not long after this incident I was eating an apple and thought he might want a bite so I asked him if he wanted a nipple! ( I meant nibble)
Freudian or what? We've got 6 children!
amazingmumof6 ·
31/05/2013 01:14
DS3 thought it was minimetre instead of millimetre.
DS5 ( 3 years old), is convinced that a duck ssys "backpack"
DH didn't realiza that muscle, meat and flesh are all the same thing.
he used to think a tiger was s mummy lion
my grandad used to say that he was a carpenter (true) and gynaecologist ( lie). I had no reason to doubt him and never understood why people laughed.
that is until I went to the gynaecologists.
my other grandad told us that if we saw a horse nodding it's head while walking thst means he likes us (they all do)
it was only a few years ago that I realised that the round blue road sign with 1 white arrow is not made in versions of pointing to the left or right or ahead etc.
They make ONE sign and TURN it round so the arrow points in the correct direction. (very )
because of ankle details on socks only on outside ankle bone I used to think that ALL socks were right or left footed.
I have hundreds of these. ....
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26/05/2013 21:19
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