Things you thought but later found out you were wrong

amcalester · 17-01-2009 4:24pm #1

ok as the title says post the things that you thought only to realise later that you were wrong.

Mine is as a kid i thought Zig and Zag were real and not puppets, my reasoning was that Zig and Zag had feet and puppets dont have feet.

Also a friend of mine always thought that a goat was a male sheep, he only realised the truth when he was in his late teens.

Anymore?

Bluefoam · 17-01-2009 4:31pm

I thought actors were paid to die in movies/TV - well in advance of when it was recorded...

Sam Vimes · 17-01-2009 4:34pm

kangaroo was supposed to mean i don't know in aborigine but stephen fry told me it doesn't. That QI show has shattered so many of the things i thought were true

Abi · 17-01-2009 4:34pm

This thread has serious potential. ;-)

Sharpshooter · 17-01-2009 4:35pm

I was a total mark as a Wrestling fan.:D
Then I found out, the outcome of a match was pre ordained.:(

TPD · 17-01-2009 4:37pm

A friend of mine thought David Bowie was a fictional character.

achtungbarry · 17-01-2009 4:38pm

New to AH and I can't believe I am saying this in my first post......

I used to think that the job of an ambulance driver was to to run people over and then bring them to the hospital......

Shacklebolt · 17-01-2009 4:40pm

TPD wrote: »

A friend of mine thought David Bowie was a fictional character.

Mine thought Sherlock Holmes was real. He also thought it was illegal to bring snakes into Ireland and doing so was punishable by death

Zillah · 17-01-2009 4:42pm

achtungbarry wrote: »

New to AH and I can't believe I am saying this in my first post......

I used to think that the job of an ambulance driver was to to run people over and then bring them to the hospital......

That is possibly the most brilliant thing I have ever read.

17-01-2009 4:43pm

I'm never wrong

GirlInterrupted · 17-01-2009 4:46pm

I thought Guerilla fighters were actual monkeys.

tba · 17-01-2009 4:47pm

I used to think a period was when a womans pee turned blue.

Davidius · 17-01-2009 4:48pm

I used to think there were only about 7 colours.

Then some idiots came along and invented about 36729176*10^234 more.

DanGerMus · 17-01-2009 4:50pm

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

I thought Guerilla fighters were actual monkeys.

LOL you're a silly. Me too though

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Abi · 17-01-2009 4:50pm

achtungbarry wrote: »

New to AH and I can't believe I am saying this in my first post......

I used to think that the job of an ambulance driver was to to run people over and then bring them to the hospital......

I cant believe it either. :-(

Start again ;-)

TPD · 17-01-2009 4:55pm

Actually my dad once told me a house coult fit inside a whale, and I thought for a while that all whales had houses inside them.

havana · 17-01-2009 4:57pm

I used to think when they spoke about bed shortages in hospitals they meant they actually didn't have enough beds. I couldn't understand why they just didn't go out and buy more.

GirlInterrupted · 17-01-2009 5:00pm

tba wrote: »

I used to think a period was when a womans pee turned blue.

Picasso had a blue period...

DanGerMus wrote: »

LOL you're a silly. Me too though .

I was only young!

sixteen or seventeen, tops.

Capt'n Midnight · 17-01-2009 5:02pm

Davidius wrote: »

I used to think there were only about 7 colours.

Then some idiots came along and invented about 36729176*10^234 more.

ah crap
if there are colours than red, green and blue I'm going to have to buy a new monitor and TV to see them

Sharpshooter · 17-01-2009 5:02pm

When I was little , I thought the stars only came out at night.:o

Peared · 17-01-2009 5:10pm

sharpshooterH wrote: »

When I was little , I thought the stars only came out at night.:o

Yeah. And..?

Photi · 17-01-2009 5:13pm

havana wrote: »

I used to think when they spoke about bed shortages in hospitals they meant they actually didn't have enough beds. I couldn't understand why they just didn't go out and buy more.

A part of me still thinks that.

I also used to believe that the entire world was in black and white for centuries until it turned to colour sometime during the nineteen sixties.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 17-01-2009 5:13pm

Up until recently I thought hamburgers were made out of ham

When I was little I used to think your calfs were made up of all the chewing gum you swallowed-don't know where the hell that came from

Joe Cool · 17-01-2009 5:20pm

When learning the letters in school, for some reason, I thought the
'L, M, N, O' section was one letter 'Elemeno'.

'...H, I, J, K, Elemeno, P...'

445279.ie · 17-01-2009 5:20pm

I thougt that if you opened your bellybutton, your bum would fall off :eek:

yet to be disproved though

sam34 · 17-01-2009 5:21pm

my dad used to tell me that the night men first landed on the moon he could see them waving down at earth and that he waved back....

i used to think that sex was just putting it in and leaving it there a while, i didnt know about the moving aspect of it....

GirlInterrupted · 17-01-2009 5:25pm

Joe Cool wrote: »

When learning the letters in school, for some reason, I thought the
'L, M, N, O' section was one letter 'Elemeno'.

'...H, I, J, K, Elemeno, P...'

I also thought the opening lines of the prayer went ''Our Father, who art in heaven, Harold be thy name...''

sam34 wrote: »

i used to think that sex was just putting it in and leaving it there a while, i didnt know about the moving aspect of it....

Thats true though.

sillymoo · 17-01-2009 5:26pm

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

Thats true though.

:eek:

sam34 · 17-01-2009 5:30pm

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

Thats true though.

i must be doing it wrong!
never got any complaints though

GirlInterrupted · 17-01-2009 5:32pm

sillymoo wrote: »

:eek:

I know.

sam34 wrote: »

i must be doing it wrong!
never got any complaints though

Wait til you start doing it right!:cool:

unreggd · 17-01-2009 5:32pm

Me and my friend used to think Euthenasia was a charity for kids from China !!!!!

Sharpshooter · 17-01-2009 5:39pm

sharpshooterH wrote: »

When I was little , I thought the stars only came out at night.:o

Peared wrote: »

Yeah. And..?

You really need an explanation?:eek:

Bluefoam · 17-01-2009 5:40pm

I used to think the signsin shops that said 'please pay here' actually read 'police play here' could never figure that one out

LorraineL · 17-01-2009 5:42pm

When i was a kid, i thought the green indicator arrows in the car showed you the way to go. Kinda sat-nav, before it was invented. :rolleyes:

galwayrush · 17-01-2009 5:43pm

I used to think that working hard made you rich.

sam34 · 17-01-2009 5:44pm

LorraineL wrote: »

When i was a kid, i thought the green indicator arrows in the car showed you the way to go. Kinda sat-nav, before it was invented. :rolleyes:

lol! so did i. i could never understand how the car knew the way we were going

kowloon · 17-01-2009 5:45pm

I used to think the motion of the Moon was remotely controlled from Earth.
Now after a visit to the conspiracies forum I know it is.

Victor · 17-01-2009 5:49pm

I'm not sure if I was slow about it or not, but I thought aliens (Cylons specificly) actually existed, until I was about 10 or 11.

Squishy* · 17-01-2009 5:52pm

I used to think that cherios were doughnut seeds...
You can imagine my disappointment when I tried to grow them.

iPlop · 17-01-2009 5:53pm

amcalester wrote: »

Mine is as a kid i thought Zig and Zag were real and not puppets, my reasoning was that Zig and Zag had feet and puppets dont have feet.

I thought zig and zag were real puppets ,but then found out there actually muppets:rolleyes:

df1985 · 17-01-2009 5:53pm

friend of mine used to think kildare was the 2nd biggest county.her reasoning was that it took so long to drive from leixlip to south kildare (before the motorways.) there was no talking to her, i even showed her maps pointing out glaway, mayo and other massive counties to which she replied: that map is wrong!

cotwold · 17-01-2009 5:55pm

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

I thought Guerilla fighters were actual monkeys.

So did I. I used to think they were trained gorilla's that fought in african wars.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 17-01-2009 6:00pm

cotwold wrote: »

So did I. I used to think they were trained gorilla's that fought in african wars.

My younger brother's teacher (who was slightly too much of an evil genius to have been left in charge of children) actually told the whole fourth class that when they asked him. When my dad explained to him what it actually meant he went "Well, somebody better tell Mr. Canavan that, coz he's convinced they're trained apes"

4zn76tysfajdxp · 17-01-2009 6:01pm

I used to think economists knew what they were talking about.

deadhead13 · 17-01-2009 6:09pm

As a kid, I was told that earwigs could crawl into your ear while you were sleeping and make you deaf. For years after I covered my ears before falling asleep.

drunkymonkey · 17-01-2009 6:11pm

i used to think that on a woman, her peehole, bumhole and vagina were all the same hole!

then i had sex and was truely shocked :eek:

qz · 17-01-2009 6:16pm

drunkymonkey wrote: »

i used to think that on a woman, her peehole, bumhole and vagina were all the same hole!

I thought I was the only one! :eek:

I used to think when you got sick you were just weeing from your mouth. Don't know how I thought that one.

I was also desperately disappointed when I was told the dinoasurs in Jurassic Park weren't actually real, I thought they recreated them like in the movie

UpCork · 17-01-2009 6:23pm

When I was small every night Mum used to say 'good night, don't let the bed bugs bite'. I was convinced that these bugs would come up the bed so I would insist on sleeping in the foetal position every night so that they wouldn't get near my feet.

Capt'n Midnight · 17-01-2009 6:33pm

Photi wrote: »

A part of me still thinks that.

I also used to believe that the entire world was in black and white for centuries until it turned to colour sometime during the nineteen sixties.

Calvin: How come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color film back then?
Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It's just that the world was black and white then. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
Calvin: But then why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way?
Dad: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.
Calvin: But... But how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't their paints have been shades of gray back then?
Dad: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the '30s.
Calvin: So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?
Dad: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?

copperfacegaz · 17-01-2009 6:52pm

when i was young i believed that if i swallowed chewing gum it would get wrapped around my heart and stay there !!!!

Acacia · 17-01-2009 6:56pm

I used to think that Jesus lived in the tabernacle ( or whatever you call it, where they keep the bread and wine) in the church. Like, he sat scrunched up in there, then magically turned into bread and wine when the priest opened the door. I also wondered why he wore a dress...:pac:

I also used to think if I didn't get out of the bath in time, I'd get sucked down the drain with the bath water.

There are lots more stupid things but I can't remember them all.

Things you thought but later found out you were wrong

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