Ridiculous things you've only recently realised you've been wrong about your entire life

[Seasidedolly]

I genuinely thought if you pulled the reverse cord on ceiling fans, it would circulate warm air.

My friend thought the yellow average speed cameras on motorways were there to look for missing children.

I had another recent revelation but I can't remember it now

Near where I live there is a satellite station which is visible from a few miles away. Walking through our village I heard a toddler say to his Mum. Look Mummy thats where the spaceships park and get petrol. Mummy replied no thats a relic from the WW2 .

This is the Rosetta Stone en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone and the first paragraphy on that page is the reason the language course was named after it. Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts (with some minor differences among them), the stone provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

^^paragraph not paragraphy

I cannot believe how fucking rude some of you are. Seriously, did none of you make a mistake or are you just fundamentally smug and self satisfied?

Yes noodle we are all fucking thick. How wonderful it must be to know absolutely everything there is to know about everything.

Some people just really don't do light hearted, do they?

No they really don't.

Noodlenuts reported unashamedly.

Take you know EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING!

Not only rude but FUCKING ARROGANT!

I used to have a friend who knew everything about everything, she was known as 'the fucking Whybird' to her face

The thing is noodle you don't know that you don't know, you yourself might think you know but infact what you know is incorrect but you don't know this because, well because you just don't know. HTH

Suriname is NOT in Africa?????? What?

You know in "I vow to thee, my country" there is a bit that goes:

"And there's another country I've heard of long ago, most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know. We may not count her armies, we may not see her King, Her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering ..."?

It never made sense to me - if this other country was so great then why was its pride suffering so much?

To the poster who thought "time of in lieu" was "time off in Looe" - you've made my day!

I will now always think of Looe as a resort for those who've being doing more than their contracted hours and are now at last getting a bit of downtime.

I'm sure that there must be a Suriname in Africa too..... I've looked at maps of South America loads of times and have never spotted that country before. Am so glad it's not just me..

Noodle assume you knew all of this though of course

Bump - now that one I DO know - it's referencing heaven and is talking about the Christian doctrine of suffering for one's faith

Suriname is definitely in Africa - it just HAS to be.

(And Gibraltar is still an island - I won't hear any different )

Suriname is in South America, north of Brazil.
I've just found out that all spice is an actual spice and not a blend of spices like I thought. I've been using mixed spice instead for years!

I wonder if Suriname has echoes of Sudan and Namibia, making us feel it's African? But there it is north of Brazil, between Guyana and French Guiana.

That brings me to another source of confusion: Guyana and Guiana in America, but Equatorial Guinea and Guinea in Africa, then Papua New Guinea in Asia.

But guinea pigs come from South America...

Sugar21 I love how kids think. I can't believe his mean mummy didn't agree.

I'm owed 3 days in lieu. But I don't know where Looe is . But I am envisioning a haven of relaxation. With yoga classes and no children and expensive chocolate.

I used to think that buoys were for windsurfing on.

To all those worrying about the Opal Fruits, I was about 6 at the time!

Although it was only recently I realised how ridiculous it was - I was telling DP about the time I lost a man his job and halfway through telling the story it dawned on me that I was being stupid - I'd not really thought about it since I was little!

Talking about the Falklands and the conflicts. Am starting to think that probably the reason why it got so much support for Margaret thatcher sending troops is because people thought that the Argentinians where invading Scotland. My DP thought this. Some of his family and friends did too.