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

[CookieRookie]

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.

[YossarianLives]

I thought the wheels on vehicles moved backwards and pushed the car forwards . A few years later I went on to receive a MSc in physics

[TaudrieTattoo]

Youngish Bag

We must have had the same dream

[CornishMade]

I thought until my mid-30s that Yosemite national park in the States was pronounced with two syllables, ie rhyming with 'hose might'. My bag. I had heard Yosemite spoken aloud but never linked it with the written word.

[MissTinaTeaspoon]

floss I thought that too! Right up until I read this thread Can someone explain what 'on aggregate' does mean then please?

And re. the elephants ride - a few months ago I took dd on some dodgems and wondered why ours wasn't moving - the attendant had to tell me to push the pedal

[BalloonSlayer]

I know that Buenos Aires is pronounced "Boyners Ar-rees" but I am terrified to try to say, because in my head I always pronounce it "Bew-nos Airs" and I think it'll come out like the latter.

[tabulahrasa]

Cornish I did the same with Arkansas, I'd seen Arkansas and heard Arkensaw - but didn't connect them at all.

Though I don't think thst's so silly, given that Arkansas shouldn't sound like Arkensaw.

[GeneralDisarray]

oo oo I thought the expression 'the whole kit and caboodle' was 'kitten caboodle' until I saw it written down recently...why would it be kitten??? Also my Ex DP thought unicorns existed in forests in Germany. I had to go on wikipedia go convince him otherwise

[breathedeeply]

As a child I thought that the Moody Blues song 'Nights in White Satin' was actually about knights. Only recently (when I saw the song title written down) did I realise my mistake.

[BalloonSlayer]

I didn't know Connecticut had the second c in it and smugly assumed someone had made a spelling mistake. Luckily I didn't say anything. [phew emoticon]

[Solopower]

Bwennoss Aye-res.

[soymama]

My DP and father of my child didn't know what a clitoris was AND thought that the baby and wee came out the same hole!!
Ps. He's 30

[CookieRookie]

ROFL at these

[CornishMade]

Everything Yosemite is pronounced Yo-sem-itty, four syllables. Anyone remember the cartoon Yosemite Sam?!

[5inthebed]

Water polo with horses Do they wear trunks?

Until I was a teenager, I thought American babies never cried, as they did not appear to do so in films/tv series.

[pinkgirlythoughts]

soymama, my DP thought the same, and when I said, "no, I have two holes, just like you do," he replied with "no, I don't!" and a shocked expression. Turns out he thought the wee and the semen came out of the same place too!

[Tee2072]

YO-sem-A-Tee

Yosemite

[Solopower]

Pink - they do!

[Tee2072]

Um, wee and semen do come out of the same hole, just from different tubes, in a penis.

[pinkgirlythoughts]

That's what I mean, lol, he thought it was all one tube, connecting bladder, testes, the whole lot, all together!

[Naoko]

Re: 'on aggregate' - a football score given as 'on aggregate' is a score for a match played over two legs, so that both teams get a home and an away match. Usually the scores of the two matches are added up to get the aggregate score to determine who wins. If that's a draw, and it's a knockout competition where someone must win, there's usually some form of weighting rule to determine who wins a tie, for example 'away goals count double' is a common one.

[MissTinaTeaspoon]

Thanks naoko

[treetrunkthighs]

at flamin' yon

Mine is dull, but I thought OMD were called in full 'A Kestral Manoeuvres in the Dark'. Quite what I thought the O stood for is anyone's guess.

[messymammy]

My sister thought that the events that happened at Pearl Harbour had actually happened in Waterford (we're in Dublin). When asked why she replied "well didn't the Germans bombs us in the war?" (yes, by mistake, and I don't think it was Germans in Pearl Harbour was it love?!)

Then I asked her why in the film (the only record of the events she had encountered) were all the accents American, not Irish? She thought it was because all actors and actresses are American, sure look at Tom and Nicole in Far and Away, they are American and they have shit Irish accents.

She was at least 15.
BTW, this has totally outed me to anyone who knows me irl, as I tell everyone the story :o