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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:
LadyClariceCannockMonty · 01/09/2011 15:46

Carrotsandcelery, I think I was more crushed and embarrassed than anything else ...

Grin
Longtime · 01/09/2011 19:54

LadyClarice, did you ask someone?

talkingnonsense · 01/09/2011 20:08

Oh thumbwitch, didn't someone on one of these types of thread once say they thought it was "I am the lord of the damn settee" ?

ThatsNotMyBabyBelly · 01/09/2011 20:52

I didn't realise that the drink NRG was Energy - I thought there was a drink called Nrg

Thumbwitch · 02/09/2011 01:20

talkingnonsense - they might have done, yes!
I thought for a moment it was Shabba's DS3, but have just looked back at the thread where it is mentioned and she says he used to sing "I am the Lord of God's settee" so possibly not.

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 02/09/2011 11:18

Longtime, thank God no, I think I cottoned on just in time not to ask!

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 02/09/2011 11:19

Grin Grin at 'I am the lord of the damn settee'.

In our house that's me. I ALWAYS sit on the comfiest sofa and stretch my legs out so I take up the whole of it. No one dares argue. But if guests who don't know the 'rules' sit on it, I'm too chicken gracious to tell them to feck off and will sit on the inferior one.

mumatron · 02/09/2011 13:21

'Lord of the damn setee' reminds me of something I had previously managed to block from my memory Blush

Jason Donovan sang a song called 'too many broken hearts' or somesuch and there's a line in it that goes 'I won't give up the fight for you'

I thought it was 'I won't give up the Pope for you' Confused no idea why!

Thumbwitch · 02/09/2011 22:07

Ah song lyrics - so many!
My two worst were:
Abba - "one of us" - where it says "So i dealt you the blow, one of us had to go" I truly believed it said "when the bus had to go".
Donna Lewis "I love you always forever" - not just me but also my friend - we both thought she was singing "you've got the most stumbling blue eyes" instead of unbelievable blue eyes. Had a bit of a drunken row about that one Blush

iklboo · 02/09/2011 22:43

Bee Gees 'How Deep Is Your Love' apparently does not say:
'when you come to me on a submarine'

Or

'When the auction let us bid'

(it's 'when you come to me on a summer breeze and 'when they all should let us be') Blush

NewShooz · 02/09/2011 23:04

Does anyone remember the big round black security cameras that Boots used to have on their ceilings? They used to move round in circles (obviously zooming in on people) and I used to think there was a very small bloke sat in there operating it Blush

Bigglewinkle · 18/09/2011 18:00

I've got a couple...
Mine was when I was 11, the school chaplain asked me what religion my sister and I were... I replied we're little heathens Blush
Cue a phone call to my mother and shortly afterwards a christening for both of us!! (CofE)

At Uni a vegetarian girl I knew was wearing a sheepskin coat. I used to make a point of asking veggies what their stance was on leather goods if I spotted them wearing any, because it used to annoy me when veggies came over all sanctimonious while wearing leather shoes, for example.
Turns out she thought sheepskin just came off thew animal a bit like a snake shedding old skin! We didn't take the mick much, oh no...

lesley33 · 18/09/2011 21:34

I found out that a friend thought you couldn't have a meal from a pre theatre menu unless you had actually bought tickets to go to the theatre. She was 50 at the time.

Proudnscary · 23/09/2011 15:24

I went to school with a girl called Jane Kelly for seven years. She was in my class and we were really friendly, and I always called her 'Jane Kelly'.

It wasn't until the upper sixth that she said to me 'You do know that Kelly is my surname don't you? It's not a double-barrelled first name'.

OMG I'm going red now!!! Blush

pixiestix · 23/09/2011 16:07

Oh, thought of another one - I thought that Phuket was pronounced Fuck-it until I was about 22. Blush

Maisiethemorningsidecat · 23/09/2011 16:22

I once wittered on and on like a complete wanker about the beautiful handmade Nava-Jo trinkets in some very arty American shop staffed by very right-on lentil weavers, much to my boyfriend's amusement.

I kept describing a problem that a company (whose contract I was bidding for) was experiencing as being the elephant on their shoulder.

MsWetherwax · 23/09/2011 22:20

Song lyrics....I was convinced for years that the song from the Commitments went "take me to the river, watch me drown".

"Wash me down" - obviously!

HeyNonnyNonnyMouse · 20/11/2011 18:44

I had a huge argument when I was about 17 because I was CONVINCED that tripe is a fish related to trout.

FairyArmadillo · 23/11/2011 00:35

I knew a young girl who thought Shakespeare In Love was written by Shakespeare. Went to see it at the cinema, loved it, and went on and on about how she never thought Shakespeare would be her cup of tea but this film had changed her mind. She kept talking, and it became apparent she thought the screenplay was written by Shakespeare himself. Just to check I asked, "So did Shakespeare actually write it this film?" and she, very seriously replied, "Yes." She was a bit of a mad tempered, moody cow who would have assumed she was being made a fool of, so no one corrected her.

QuacksForDoughnuts · 08/04/2012 18:17

I thought for ages that a rent boy was a young male who ran errands for a landlord. [bublush] Oh, and accidentally-on-purpose convinced myself that, in Rebel Without A Clue, Bonnie Tyler is singing 'take me where you're going, or maybe up the butt' instead of 'up above'...

donotoutplz · 09/04/2012 19:43

"Good Friday" comes from a time when "good" was synonymous with "holy"

it's also called "Holy Friday" and indeed some people do call it "Black Friday"

dollydoops · 11/04/2012 20:33

An ex of mine once described himself as looking like 'the eppy- tome of style'. I couldn't bring myself to correct him on either count.

TheRetroOwl · 17/04/2012 08:36

I used to think that the umbilical cord connected the belly buttons of the mum and baby. This was only rectified last year by my friends. Clearly, I'd been absent that day at school when this was explained! Now that I am pregnant, I'm just waiting for one of them to remember this and remind me of it...

Byeckerslike · 23/04/2012 08:06

I asked my parents on passing a sign maker shop when we were little 'what's a illuminated fack-i-ass?
The word, of course, was facias!

Also a friend of mine, which will out me completely if she reads these two stories together! Asked her DH when she was filling out a form, 'are we in europe?' (uk) Grin

cumbria81 · 26/04/2012 15:06

I used to think "Anon" was a very prolific poet, as a lot of the poems in my childhood anthology were written by him