Stupid things you used to think...

Used to think fish'n'chips described a type of chip, had a huge paddy when my mum put a dirty great bit of battered cod on my plate with me fish'n'chips (fishen chips?)

I didn`t know what a prostitute was at the time but had heard it off the news. It showed them walking the streets in the dark and my mum worked nights at a hospital.

clearly working double shifts

When a group came on the radio, e.g. the monkees, herman's hermits etc. I thought they were actually playing live in the studio, never realised they could play records on the radio... I was aged about 6yo at the time tbf 

just read patra's and squeeze's  examples - that has so made my day - I laughed out loud at those - thankyou very much!!!!

I used to think that each-way meant that you still won if your horse decided to turn round and go round the track the other way.

our barb thinks its Battersbys dogs home.

I thought Boy George was a woman

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I used to think that each-way meant that you still won if your horse decided to turn round and go round the track the other way.

I used to believe the horizon was ca 26 miles away, a popular misconception.

Yes but I thought it was 21 miles.

As Alan Davies said on QI, "it's always 21 miles isn't it?"

I wonder if the misconception comes from the fact that the English Channel is about 21 miles wide at its narrowest and you can see the coast of France from Dover

I think it's actually around 2-3 miles

Yes, it's about 2.8 miles

http://science.howstuffworks.com/question198.htm

Howdi
25 Mar 13 17:02   
I thought Boy George was a woman

So did I when video jukeboxes first came out. I was in a pub in the Hackney Road with some mates, who had spiked my orange juices with vodka, and took great delight in telling all and sundry in the working mens club that weekend that I said 'I love a tall bird. I'd give that a length of me beef lance.' 

I always thought 'seconds out' meant the break between rounds was over in boxing, the time had elapsed when it actually means 'cornermen, get out of the ring'.

U R not alone johnny... :-(

I always thought 'seconds out' meant the break between rounds was over in boxing

that pubic hairs were called cubic hairs

For years I thought that 'choir' wasn't pronounced 'quire', but 'chore'

'I always thought 'seconds out' meant the break between rounds was over in boxing'

I used to think that too..........until 5 minutes ago!

'I always thought 'seconds out' meant the break between rounds was over in boxing'

I used to think that too..........until 5 minutes ago!

ditto

That when Banarama sing 'I'm your Venus' they were actually singing something else which rhymes with Venus......

I used to think that men were always older than women and even though I was two years younger than my sister I would catch her up and overtake her.

I thought for many years that I was more expensive than my brother because I was 8lb when I was born and he was only 7 and a half.

"'I always thought 'seconds out' meant the break between rounds was over in boxing'

I used to think that too..........until 5 minutes ago! "

Me too!

I'm loving this thread.

Seconds Out

Signing in too

Loved Patras bookie story

my mate's mum thought the song we were into - Poetry In Motion (johnny tilotson )  was 'Up a tree in motion'  ha ha!!!!

For a long time, used to think the word 'condone' meant to disapprove of something when it actually means the opposite

The further South you went, the warmer it got. The arctic was at the top of the world, Britain somewhere in the middle, and the Sahara at the bottom.

Regards condone i thought the same about "loathe" sounds a bit like love, so thought it meant you really liked something.

For years I thought Griff Rhys Jones and Sophie Rhys Jones were brother and sister. Being an unusual surname I just assumed they must be related, and from there guessed they were brother and sister.

Sister in Law once asked where cat's eyes on the roads were plugged in.

I used to think that when a pub sign said FREE HOUSE   well you know the rest

While swimming recently the Mrs told me that when she was younger her dad used to put something in the water that turned it purple if anyone pi$$ed in it.  I hadn't the heart to set her right.

I used to think that if I was following a car that had a 'Princess on board' sign in the rear windscreen I was following a member of the Royal Family. Now I realise that I was just following a knob.

I use to think this was a cheerful song until today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTeFDHcCRR8

and that 'every breath you take' was a love song, and 'born in the USA' was a patriotic song.

actually to row in with that Badsworth, when I was on a hovercraft as a kid I thought the captain said "welcome aboard princess Anne"

I spent the whole journey casting my eyes around for HRH. On my return home it was pointed out he had probably said "welcome aboard the princess Anne"

I was convinced Rick Astley was black for about 2 weeks till he was on TOTP.


When I was about 10, there was a phone box with a pane kicked in and the shatterproof glass all in small bits. Me and my mate got a bucket and rushed back to grab it all convinced, with the law of averages and all that, that there must be a diamond in there somewhere.

When I was about 10, there was a phone box with a pane kicked in and the shatterproof glass all in small bits. Me and my mate got a bucket and rushed back to grab it all convinced, with the law of averages and all that, that there must be a diamond in there somewhere.

Somewhat bizarrely, a drunken Irishman convinced himself that I was Rick Astley in 1999ish. I tried to tell him that he was wrong, but it just made him even more sure that I was the SAW crooner. All in the Aussie backwater that is Coff's Harbour.

I used to think the Great Barrier Reef was beside the beach, off the east coast of Australia, & you could simply paddle out to it & view it

used to think that insurance was needed

That when the ice cream van rang his bell,it meant he'd run out of ice cream,thanks dad.

Used to think Sandown Park Racecourse was on The Isle of Wight

I used to think that my mate's older sister was my girlfriend when I was about 6 and she was about 15
she used to make a fuss over me rotten and say I was her boyfriend and all that....I couldnt understand it when she got engaged to somebody her own age.

Used to think that Bar was the worst horse ever, it seemed to run in almost every race and never get a mention.

As long ago as February, I used to think that in March we'd get some spring weather.

I used to think that when you lend someone some money they would pay you back eventually.

used to think there was only the one concorde plane. big dissapointment to find many were around

I was convinced Rick Astley was black for about 2 weeks till he was on TOTP.

I was the same with KC of sunshine band fame. In fact took me about 10 years to find out.

I thought amy winehouse was black judging by her voice, but i think i wasnt the only one.

Hearing news reports during the Vietnam war that American troops were fighting guerillas I imagined the likes of King Kong and Mighty Joe Young.

used to sing that song "emily and ivy " untill some one told me it was ebony and ivory ! just learned  on here that k.c and the sunshine band were not black !

From the age of about 7 i used to go to the bookies to do my dads bets on a Saturday. For a good few years i thought yankee was the name of a horse that he backed every week.

i used t think THE FACE was cool...and informed.now i know robert elms is a ****

just learned  on here that k.c and the sunshine band were not black !

For some reason I also thought Bill Withers was white until saw him sing on TOTP2 a few years back.

I thought Curtis Mayfield was white. That was a shock I can tell ya.

Its only KC who is white, the Sunshine Band are mainly black.
I also thought Bill Withers was white until about 5 minutes ago

near my house there is a bookies with a bus stop outside ,while waiting for a bus with my 8 and 10 year old son and daughter ,my daughter was looking through the window of the bookies and after a few minuets said to me " dad why are all those men buying bits of paper and then throwing them on the floor " says a lot really !

Superman I shows the course of Superman's life from his landing on Earth as a baby to the start of his superheroics at the age of 30.

I used to think they'd filmed the first bit when Christopher Reeve was a baby too, then waited for a few years, then filmed the next bit and so on over the course of three decades.

Now I come to relate the tale, I realise I was just being silly. I mean, how would they even have known he was going to be an actor?

dont give-up the day job.

Use to think gambling was for misfits and people who are too lazy to get a 'proper' job...

Used to think speaking frankly meant saying "know what I mean?" at the end of every sentence

I was also in the 'seconds out' club

Wotta fabulous thread!!

When I was 17 took my (younger) girlfriend to a pub in Coed-y-Paen* - her first, and reluctant, time.
She was astounded to find it full of 'normal' people.
Her deeply religious parents, who also allowed no TV, had told her only prostitutes and evil men went to 'those places'.

(*rush to google maps then lol)

Used to think Coed-y-Paen had no "normal people".

I used to think that MPs got jobs that they were suited to. 

Until they made the obese Diane Abboot the Shadow Health Minister.

Big shadow as well.

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While swimming recently the Mrs told me that when she was younger her dad used to put something in the water that turned it purple if anyone pi$$ed in it.  I hadn't the heart to set her right.

Absolutely brilliant UTC I've got one like that indoors too

Signing in for the seconds out club.

I always used to think how did they build dams with all that water in the way.

I used to believe in Father Christmas, God and the Tooth Fairy.

In the early 1960's my dad would watch the latest news reports on tv about the civil war in the Congo.  I was only 7/8 years old at the time and would be sitting in the corner of the room playing with my toys.  I could hear on the tv that Government troops had killed 40 guerrillas and I thought they were actually killing gorillas.

I used to think there was such a thing as

'normal people'

Think the 'football forum' finally broke


the camels back on that idea for me.

On Halloween as kids we went trick or treating but I thought it was 'trickle treating'. It was years later before I realised.

Watching ITV's Big Match on Sundays with my dad I was amazed how good  he was at predicting the score!! He didn't let on for a couple of seasons!

always thought old people had always been old

I thought when people said they were traveling up north it was because it was uphill all the way and down south was downhill all the way.Made perfect sense so it must be right.

I was grateful for Sam Fox in the Sun for her help in my difficult teenage years.Was barking up the wrong tree there.

I used to think that Rik Mayall was more deserving of respect than any of the other Young Ones actors as he shared the same name as his character

Why did my mates keep saying they got there  Leg-over,i was in bed with my first girlfriend......Putting one Leg-over just did't work......I gave up in the end.

It was a long time before I realised that people didn't just die of old age.

i used to think that there were seagulls, and seaboys

And at the amusement arcade went up to the 'Change Money' counter with tuppence and asked for a pound

I was told as a kid that the black and white cows made plain milk and the brown ones made chocolate milk.
Finally found out I'd been had when I was about 27.

When I was kid I was told that if I stood on one of those yellow stripes on an escalator I'd die.

It's amazing how things stick. I always think about it everytime I'm on one.

Always though that "the simple truth was always the best". Then I got sacked from my job...!!!

hectoratoratora     07 Sep 13 13:52 

I thought when people said they were traveling up north it was because it was uphill all the way and down south was downhill all the way.Made perfect sense so it must be right.


You mean it doesn't work like that?!

On a similar note to hector's and Tommy's, I used to wonder why people in the Southern Hemisphere didn't fall off.

I used to think the Top 30 which appeared on TOTP on a thursday evening was compiled by the DJs votes at a special meeting on a thursday afternoon.

I used to think that Lance Armstrong had won the Tour de France 7 times.

When the Mike Flowers version of 'Wonderwall' came out, I assumed that it was a re-release of the original and that the Oasis song was a cover

Use to think wrestling was not fixed.....stupid me!

I was very wary of electric ovens and thought you had to wear rubber gloves when handling steel pans .

I thought if you had a chronic pain, it really really hurt.

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I used to think that Lance Armstrong had won the Tour de France 7 times.

It turns out the clue was in the title.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Not-About-The-Bike/dp/0224060872

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When I was 9 I wrote to the council requesting planning permission (lived on greenbelt land) to build an underground air-raid shelter in my garden.  As well as the letter I also made "blueprints" which I printed out on my dot matrix.  A few weeks later I received a reply saying that permission was denied on the grounds that they don't want our current enemies to think we're planning for war.  In my late 20s I found out that the reply was fake.  My parents never posted my application.  They typed a letter, cut out the council logo from a real letter and glued it on and then photocopied it so the whole thing was seamless and looked real.

Bet you were shell shocked