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

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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

"I only recently realised that the sizing of tights (S, M, L, etc) was the length rather than waist size. I always bought medium or large and ended up with them round my arse but now I buy small and suddenly I have no problems with them falling down!!

I thought it was a combination of 'fatness' and height. That's what the graphic on the back of the box indicated, i.e. if you have a big tummy and chunky waist but short legs you would buy medium, tall and thin still medium. But I might be wrong because I've got several pairs that fall down and I'm never sure if they're too big or too small.

I live in the Algarve and still get people talking about 'the island' so you're not alone fanjo

Our local milk farmer had a load of bigwigs down from Waitrose a while back and one of them actually asked if the second cow shed was for skimmed milk cows !!! Lol !!

The mole size thing is the fault of stage productions of Wind in the Willows, surely?

Toad, Mole, Badger, Ratty, weasels, other random woodland dwellers - all human sized

Such a great thread. I only just realised after reading an earlier post that my mother has lied to me about the end of a banana being poisonous. I am very wary of them! She also told me melted icecream is poisonous, that's probably not true either then is it?

My sister told me that Asian people have straight public hair and I had no reason to doubt her.

Until now...

I live in the Algarve and still get people talking about 'the island' so you're not alone fanjo
Who? Brits? Good god.

This is really bad.. But when I was younger, I genuinely thought you had to have sex whilst ON your period go get pregnant

Don't feel bad.

A colleague at work, with a biology training and a PhD thought it was 2 weeks after the end of the period, not from day one. She had been trying for a while when I clarified it for her...

I told my dd when she was little that unicorns were real but extinct forgot all about it she stormed in the livingroom and said you lied to me she was 16 ,

Yep Lweji - amazing isn't it?

I didn't twig til I was about 19 that the written word Chameleon was the same as actual Chameleon, I thought they were 2 different things and if I saw it written said sham-ee-lon.

I think a lot of blokes have no clue about the menstrual cycle. My sbexh had to have me explain to him how the pill worked (he thought it created some sort of seal to keep the eggs in the ovaries

Then when I was pregnant for first time with him Dr had to explain about date of conception actually being first day of last period (therefore not actual conception time) he was away with work at that time and was accusing me of cheating and trying to pass of resulting child as his!

And yes I should have ltb then!

I have never been on the pill because it would react with other medication soo when my dds went on it i had to google how it worked

Well, to be fair, the measurement of pregnancy duration is a bit confusing, given that the point of conception is at week 2 if you have a regular 4 week cycle. It seems to be more for the convenience of the medical profession, and the rest of us only get to grips with it when we are about to become parents.

It is fairly arbitrary. I have a very regular cycle (only sodding thing that's normal with mine!) But I know lots don't or they're regular but its 3 weeks or 5 weeks or whatever.

A girl I am very friendly with got pregnant and said "but we only did it at weekends!"

So what was her reasoning? That sperm only work on weekdays?

Thought it was 'bum' fight and not 'bun' fight.

Thanks, Mumsnet.

HAHAHAHA bum fight is utterly brilliant! I actually genuinely love it. The pictures in my mind are bouncy.

HA bumfight

I'm a bit late to the party, but haven't any Catholics quibbling about the immaculate conception ever recited "Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee"?

I only found out this year about pineapples and I'm still not entirely sure I believe it!

I am up for a bum fight!

:o

In the interest of the Mumsnet Knowledge Bank, I've just timed my toaster, It IS minutes! (Supermarket own-label toaster, nothing flash.)

Anybody wanna bumfight over it?

Is a bum fight done like a thumbwar ?

I thought the film Rocky Balboa was called that because it was set in the Spanish city of the same name, until DH reminded me that the city is actually called Bilbao and Balboa is his surname.