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What stupid things have you believed/said/assumed before finding out to your embarrassment you were wrong?

411 replies

CookieRookie · 27/08/2011 13:38

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 Blush

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.

OP posts:
alemci · 28/08/2011 16:17

also St john in Jane Eyre. was his name sinjohn. bit confused?

warmandwooly · 28/08/2011 16:51

ROFLGrin thanks for sharing. OK up until quite recently i hadnt thought that robins were around other than at Christmas time and mentioned the fact that they were around "not just att 9hristmas and WInter you know!".
Grin

Thumbwitch · 28/08/2011 16:56

alemci - I would have thought so, like Norman St.John Stevas.

missmiss · 28/08/2011 17:04

Yep, St John pronounced Sinjun.

Longtime · 28/08/2011 17:43

Not quite on thread but similar. My 22 year old ds has just asked me if I knew why breakfast was called breakfast. I was surprised he'd got to that age without realising :) . To be fair though, I obviously didn't tell him and he went to a French school until the age of nearly 16.

greencolorpack · 28/08/2011 17:54

I thought that the word Career meant a place where televisions were made, cos our black and white telly had "made in Korea" on it. So a grown-up talking about their career to my ears was talking about a big television factory where they worked.

RoyalWelsh · 28/08/2011 19:08

I am permanently ashamed of myself for that :) I also, when driving back from university on the way home for the first time, got to the M6, only to panic and have to text my mother to ask whether I needed to go North or South. I was going from Wales to London.

vividgingerchilli · 28/08/2011 19:39

Blush when I had just passed my driving test I was driving on the motorway for the very first time and wasn't sure I had enough petrol and was feeling very nervous. I found myself thinking that I'd better hurry up and get home before I ran out of petrol!!!

vividgingerchilli · 28/08/2011 19:42

CornishMade, I was told, when younger, that scampi was made from the tails of monk fish.

vividgingerchilli · 28/08/2011 19:44

I always confused the pronunciation of hyperbole when I was younger
hyper-bole
or hi-per-bo-lee

Carrotsandcelery · 28/08/2011 19:50

vivid I sat in on an English teacher's lesson and she pronounced it that way too. Twenty minutes later her class of 30 were pronouncing it like that as well. I was Blush for her.

AlfieandAnnieRose · 28/08/2011 19:54

I did not know Jesus was a Jew Blush

Tee2072 · 28/08/2011 19:56

What did you think he was?

AlfieandAnnieRose · 28/08/2011 20:07

Lol er never really thought about it! Was never mentioned in our religious classes at school either!

vividgingerchilli · 28/08/2011 20:09

carrots, thats a bad one! I was once in a geography lesson and the teacher came to ask me where Gibralter was on the map, she couldn't find it so I told her where it was and she still couldn't find it!

ImperialBlether · 28/08/2011 20:13

Carrots, which way did your teacher tell you to pronounce 'hyperbole'?

vividgingerchilli · 28/08/2011 20:16

hy-per-bo-lee

Carrotsandcelery · 28/08/2011 20:32

She pronounced it hyper bowl.

ImperialBlether · 28/08/2011 20:32

Yes, vivid, I knew it was pronounced like that, just wondered whether carrots' teacher was making them pronounce it the other way.

Carrotsandcelery · 28/08/2011 20:33

As far as I know it should be hy per bo lay as vivid says, allowing for different accents.

Carrotsandcelery · 28/08/2011 20:33

P.s. I am now a trained English teacher Grin

Indaba · 28/08/2011 20:42

As an 8 year old I told my parents after moving to new house...I was surprised that it it so windy here........."even though there are not so many trees".

LRDTheFeministDragon · 28/08/2011 20:43

pacific - my dad still thinks that about meat and muscle being different things - we try to explain it to him but he is adamant that muscle is the gristly bits only. He's a reasonably intelligent 61 year old man who's lived in close proximity to farms for over twenty years ...

onebigchocolatemess · 28/08/2011 20:47

balloonslayer love the 'chester draws' made me lol

And am also a bit disappointed aeroplanes don't have parachutes for all of us...

When I was a young Neighbours fan and Guy was in court for 'GBH' whenever they referred to 'grievous bodily harm' I assumed this was a person...

PacificDogwood · 28/08/2011 20:47

Much of the persecution of Jews over the centuries has been justified with 'well, they killed Jesus' which is wrong as it was the Roman wot did it, and even if it had been 'the Jews', they'd've killed one of their own, and anyway what kind of justification is that to go after a whole ethnic group??

Sorry to go all serious.

I thought the Outer Hebrides where somewhere in the Caribbean Blush until I moved to Scotland. In my defense, I am not British and did not grow up here. But still... Blush.