Stuff that used to confuse you as a child

The fact that the Sidney Myer music bowl is actually in Melbourne :|

:^0

Test matches. When were they going to stop having tests and have a real one?

time and clocks, when my mum told me it was ten past ten I thought it was twenty.

quarter and half past really melted my little mind.

Theory of relativity had me stumped until i was about 7.

Nuclear physics

changing of the seasons and the tides of the sea

I used to think Jesus was crucified in Sunderland (insert gag as appropriate)

I used to think a fish and chip shop was really a fish and chip chop!

I used to get confused between the footballer Maradonna and the singer Madonna :^0

apparently i used to think the old days were actually black and white.

vibrators

Signs that Said "To Let", I thought was a Toilet.

My son used to cry when we talked about a time before he was born. He had a hard time accepting a world without him in it.

I thought you had to pay to get into some pubs as others said 'Free House' on the sign.

Before I sussed metric/imperial I thought five foot eleven should be six foot one

Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE, QC (21 April 1923 16 January 2009) was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author.

I.E- Rumpole of The Bailey creator.

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^ bit surreal from Mully there :0

Girls. And they still do.

Alex-I posted to the wrong Fred :D

My uncle got a new car when I was about 8 or 9.

I asked my dad why he used to hold the steering wheel if it was automatic.

My dad used to acknowledge other road users by putting his hand up. I used to ask "do you know him/her dad? " to which his response was "Yes, that's (made up name)".

Had me going for years that one :D !!!! Boooom!

5 nights a week my old man used to tell me "he was going to see a man about a dog".
I never got a dog, and now realise he drank 200 pints a week.

I wondered why every race had a horse called bar in it. Thought he must be knackered

My dad used to talk about footballers 'kicking with both feet'. Spent 6 weeks trying to kick with both feet at the same time. Never quite mastered it

:^0

My dad thought he was an only child but I knew he had a big family cos' of all the uncles that called to see my mum when he was at work. ;)

cdog 24 Dec 11:49


I used to get confused between the footballer Maradonna and the singer Madonna

me too i used to get maradona mixed up with that **ing ,drugtaking little spick,oh no forget that.

I'd pay good money to see Diego do 'Like a virgin' live.

The word pianist used to make me laugh

Wind

How did that 'Magic Robot' toy work?

When I was 3ish I asked my dad why he had a hairy back. He told me it was because he wanted to be a carpet. I beleived him for a long time.

aged 3 and observing the recently flushed toilet I asked my dad if you got paid lots if you worked where the wees and the poos went. he said "no, the wages are cr4p"

i didn't get it.

Shopfitters on the side of a van read shoplifters to my liccle eyes

Big Charlie 24 Dec 13:34
How did that 'Magic Robot' toy work?

I still don't know! (You mean that brilliant magnetic quiz board game thing with the massive robot in the middle?)

My mother used to send me to the shop for a packet of S.T.'s, was about 12 when I found out what they were and refused to go after that.

Big Charlie 24 Dec 13:34
How did that 'Magic Robot' toy work?

I still don't know! (You mean that brilliant magnetic quiz board game thing with the massive robot in the middle?)

I**the wand on mine so it gave the wrong answers. Totally confused it

^ Nice one Perseus - humans'll always triumph over robots ;)

The voting system on 'Strictly' still baffles me now...

I thought Mcdonalds 'Drive Thru' was only open Thursdays

"Caretaker Manager". Could never understand why one minute he's sweeping the stands then he's picking the team.

Big Charlie 24 Dec 13:34
How did that 'Magic Robot' toy work?

Perseus 24 Dec 14:01
I still don't know! (You mean that brilliant magnetic quiz board game thing with the massive robot in the middle?)

I**the wand on mine so it gave the wrong answers. Totally confused it

I was about 10 back then, took mine apart, still none the wiser afterwards :(

when you asked people the time and they would say 'Five and twenty past one', I used to think how can it be both?

iwas 37 before i found out tongue,was actually a tongue.

Prepared - did you used to ask the time in the 1800s? ;)

Alex69 24 Dec 14:47


Prepared - did you used to ask the time in the 1800s?



He asked so he could set the timer on his oven.
He had four and twenty blackbirds baking in a pie.

:^0 TEN!

Alex69 24 Dec 14:47


Prepared - did you used to ask the time in the 1800s?

lol, yes mate, after asking the time I would then proceed home doing wheelies on my penny farthing

Good stuff mate! :D

what did those cobs that made the webs look like?

I used to think earwigs actually came out of your ear

I still say "five and twenty past". And I'm not that old!

never heard of anyone saying the time like that. apart from in German.

That's probably where it stems from Bill. A lot of my family are Danish, so maybe it just passed down the generations from them.

PM - if your relatives say it is "half five" do they actually mean it is 4:30? I think that was (is) the other odd thing about German time telling, that "halb funf" meant half an hour before 5, instead of half an hour after.

I had lots of uncle's when i was a kid when i grew up they all seamed to disappear i asked my mum about them she just smiled

No, Bill. For 5:30 we all just say "half past five."

But for 5:35 we would (sometimes) say "five and twenty to six."

I used to think the expression 'Doing a foreigner' literally meant 'Ripping off a foreigner during the weekend'

Up until I was about 8 I thought all Cats were female & Dogs were male and that they mated with each other!!

The offside rule in Subbuteo was very complicated

Pleaase believe me

long before Jasper Carrott said it

I really did used to think that the One Man and His Dog was the Old Grey Whistle Test

I used to think the new year started in Septemeber because that's when i went back to school.

crossdressers

Road signs that read "Get in lane". I always used to think to myself, "that lane's in trouble if his ma has put that message on a road sign"

Weird...

Being keen on astronomy, I was extremely miffed when I eventually found out that a Building Society in Chelmsford called the Planet Building Society had absolutely nothing at alll to do with building planets, because I used to wonder how they did that, and almost plucked up the courage to go in and ask them!

at school in sydney, nsw the teacher asked who has seen the southern cross. i assumed it was a big wooden cross that you could look at towards the horizon, very upset when i couldn't spot it.