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

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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.

My H thought that the Katy Perry song went:

I kissed a girl and I liked it,the taste of her cherry chopsticks

It took me ages to convince him it's chapstick.

I've also got friends who insist that 'You've Got The Love' goes

Sometimes it seems the Lord is just too rough

I googled it but they still don't believe me

Had an epiphany in church last week - I've always thought missionaries and mercenaries were the same thing . I couldn't work out why church would be collecting donations to support mercenaries/missionaries in east Africa

I also just had to look up the orient express, I always assumed it was the same as the trans-siberian railway (which DOES go to china!)

Clots! Thats what I thought they were called (when I was about 9, honestly)

hahaha heaven.... what was going through your mind when the church talked of sending missionaries out lol

I went on a hen night in Whitby - quite a few years ago now. The morning after the drunken night before we were all looking in a joke shop window and a few of the group suggested going in it, at which point I exclaimed "We can't!". The collective group spun and stared at me with a "why?" at which point I authoritatively stated "because you are not allowed to leave a joke shop unless you buy something".

It was at that very second, at a whole 23 years old that I realised I had been indoctrinated into this belief by my parents in their (very successful) attempt to keep me out of joke shops.

I still can't quite believe they managed to do that to me.

I came across a report from a newly-qualified social worker that repeatedly recommended 'rest bite' care for an elderly man.

i wonder what rest bite involves.... hmmm

Tallulah, I'm fairly sure knee CAPS do grow later just like teeth. Though their little leggies still bend without obviously.

Euphemia I haven't got a clue,chopsticks made from cherry wood maybe?! God knows wtf he was thinking pmsl
Then again,this is from the man who thought that if you put your finger inside your belly button it goes inside your body,and that if you massage your temples for more than 20 seconds you'll die (I used to have great fun doing it to wind him up )

Oh that's good Euphemia, well makes me a bit better at least!

at 'rest bite' - has anyone pointed this out to her I wonder?

also the guerilla soldiers in S Africa. I thought they were gorillas

Oh, and my then 9 year old asked me about the 'gentleman's club' in our town. He said he'd seen a sign advertising laptop dancing, and he wondered whether they had specially strengthened laptops that didn't break when you danced on them.

my son used to insist on calling an elderly family friend called vernon, vermin!

Read 'sonofabitch' as sonar-far-bitch for years.

Also, DH phsl when I panicked that leaving a plug socket switched on with nothing plugged in would mean electricity would leak out

I've been legally allowed to drive a car for a goodly while. I thought until a few years ago that when you want to thank the driver behind, for letting you in, you quickly braked 3 times so as to get the flashing lights. In the car with my sister one day I did this and she was" WTF are you doing Tufty?". Explained in an 'I cannot believe this is what you thought!' voice about the hazzard lights.

Until about a year ago, I thought planes carried parachutes for every passenger

I thought a 'bomsy tit' was some sort of slang for a messy room. I was 40 (40!!!) before I realised it was 'a bomb has hit it". I told my elder sis, she hadnt realised either :)

DD2 calls lingerie 'linger here'. Maybe she's right :)

Hmmm I used to believe that a man (or woman) sat inside a cash machine and dispensed all the cash and pushed it through the slot.

I was TWENTY before the penny dropped

Arkansas!?!? Arkensaw?!?!?

Scampi are creatures, they're Dublin Bay prawns!

(Or so Rick Stein says ... is he lying to me again?)

Until quite recently, I was pretty sure Lichfield was somewhat oop north, near Berwick-upon-Tweed. No idea why. And I thought that Moscow was really, really cold with snow on the ground all year long ... I took the mickey out of this guy who said it was actually quite warm there in the summer compared with the UK and laughed at him in the middle of a party.

Turns out he was right, and as he grew up there he would kind of know! (and I married him so I am never allowed to forget it.)

I also thought jaywalking was an American word for street prostitution until very recently.

I do love a moan when 'modern' songs come on the radio.

"I just wanna make you sweat" by snoop dog. How revolting I said. Why on earth would anyone find that attractive, I continued.

My 16 year old son then pointed out that its the radio edit and they had changed the word from wet.

"Wet!" I exclaimed. What's he going to do? Hose you down? Has he got a water pistol?

And then the penny dropped.

Which wouldn't have been so bad if there wasn't four of my son's mates in the back seat of the car.

Up until yesterday I thought whether was spelt wether.
It looks right to me spelt wether & in my daily goings I type wether a lot.

Yesterday I typed an 11 page document that was spattered with wethers, I was very when my new boss took a red pen out to ^ a h all over the document.

I went back to my office to google it and he was right

I also thought it was a trombolish in that song so thankfully I have learned 2 new things this week!

hahahha keep