Things you thought but later found out you were wrong

Sharpshooter · 17-01-2009 06:39PM

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 06:40PM

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 06:42PM

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 06:43PM

I used to think that working hard made you rich.

sam34 · 17-01-2009 06:44PM

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 06:45PM

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 06:49PM

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 06:52PM

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

iPlop · 17-01-2009 06:53PM

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 06:53PM

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 06:55PM

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 07:00PM

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 07:01PM

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

deadhead13 · 17-01-2009 07:09PM

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 07:11PM

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 07:16PM

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 07:23PM

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 07:33PM

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 07:52PM

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 07:56PM

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.

Davidius · 17-01-2009 07:59PM

The square root of -1 is not really imaginary.

It was all a lie!

Berty · 17-01-2009 08:19PM

I thought Santa was real and then I later found out my dad was drinking the stout and eating the cookie and put the carrot back in the fridge.

I was also cocerned about some winged creature stealing my teeth at night.

Im still unsure whether there is a monster in my wardrobe.

larrykinney · 17-01-2009 08:23PM

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

I thought Guerilla fighters were actual monkeys.

+1 (tee hee)

The primary school I went to was built shortly before I started school and every time we drove past it, my Mam told me they were building it especially for me.

We live kinda on the side of a valley and when my brother was small, he thought the other side was America

When I was small, my sisters friends brother told me they had a magic carpet and I believed it for years :rolleyes:

Just thought of the best one, my Dad was a farmer and we had pigs for a while. We only had sows (females) and my Dad would take them to a neighbouring farmer who had boars (males) so they would, y'know, make baby pigs. We would take them there in a trailer and leave them there for a few days,during which I believed they were 'on holidays'.....

It was only recently I copped what was going on (I'm 29)

galwayrush · 17-01-2009 08:23PM

Spanking the monkey stunts your growth , affects your eyesight and gives you hairy hands....................... Jury's out.:o

Shacklebolt · 17-01-2009 08:30PM

Acacia wrote: »

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:

My granny has a picture of him with the sacred heart... I asked why he was eating a muffin.

Speaking of daft things I said as a child I remember seeing a black man in Castlebar (in the mid 90s before there was much immigration into Ireland) and pointing at him and saying loudly 'Hes black!'. My mother was very embarassed.

deadhead13 · 17-01-2009 09:04PM

galwayrush wrote: »

Spanking the monkey stunts your growth , affects your eyesight and gives you hairy hands....................... Jury's out.:o

Well, I'm sure you've tested that theory to destruction by now.

DanGerMus · 17-01-2009 09:23PM

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

I thought Guerilla fighters were actual monkeys.

How silly of us. They're trained Apes. D'oh

again.

Here_Young_Wan · 17-01-2009 09:28PM

My Da told me if you told lies you got a black spot on your tounge and any time he thought I was "Fibbing" he told me to stick out my tounge and would say "Ah there is a black spot on it" to try and catch me out....I use to run up to the mirror to check but my Da says it fadded quickly. I was terrified of telling lies.

Gloom · 17-01-2009 09:32PM

Strange, strange flowers...

I believed all those stories about those "piss-in-beds" :rolleyes:
That the buttercup somehow knew I liked butter by the yellow glow under my chin!
That is was the time depending on the number of blows to blow off all those things on a dandelion.

I too, thought Guerilla warfare referred to monkeys so when we studied it in History, I was imagining Monkeys fighting in the Civil War...

Theresalwaysone · 17-01-2009 09:35PM

When I was real young, I though a male dog was a bastard, I can see why though. Female was a bitch, and bitch and bastard are both curse words that start with B so, therefore, a male dog must be a bastard.

Things you thought but later found out you were wrong

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