Assumptions you had for years... and later realised were wrong

20-04-2011 10:14PM

When I was really little I didn't understand the concept of aging, I though that I had been a baby and then one day my parents found me in the cot, suddenly the size of a 5 year old.

I'd hate to lower the tone of the conversation, but that said, there's quite a few guys out there who think girls pee out of their vagina.

previous user · 20-04-2011 10:15PM

snyper wrote: »

..i assumed men masturbate more than women.

WRONG!

I know a woman, she has the hand wore off her

She has a little hand like Jeremy Beadle

Really? thats new to me now.

Solnskaya · 20-04-2011 10:17PM

I always assumed FF and the two Brians were whankers, how silly of me.

Kevin Duffy · 20-04-2011 10:26PM

When I was a very young kid, I was mad for the heel of the sliced pan. Every time there was one to be opened, back in the days when they delivered bread to your door from a Butterkrust van, I rushed to be there first, thinking there was only one heel. I then had to "guess" which end it was at.
My success rate, needless to say, was 100%. I just thought I was brilliant at the guessing and since I'd no interest in a nearly gone sliced pan, no more heels for me I thought, I never went near one to discover that there was, in fact, another heel.
I think this may have gone on until I was about 8. I am doubly regretful at my youthful foolishness and the fact that for so long I could have had twice the number of heels I managed to bag.

pipelaser · 20-04-2011 10:30PM

My 35 Year old sister was talking about a dog that we used to have years ago, wondering whatever happened to him after he was sent to live on a farm in Switzerland...! (She also had to be told the truth about Santa before she went to Secondry school! Bless.)

I always thought that Richard E. Grant was Hughs older brother, I even thought they looked alike!

sunflower27 · 20-04-2011 10:32PM

As a kid I would listen to the news about guerilla warfare and always be trying to look in the trees for gorillas. Obviously I never saw one, but I would try and spot them regardless.

I thought if two parents worked, the family was 'loaded'.

df1985 · 20-04-2011 10:34PM

I thought an only child was actually referred to as a lonely child. I am one and used to tell everyone "im a lonely child".....cue sympathetic looks from teachers all through my childhood!!

Smcgie · 20-04-2011 10:34PM

I was at Belfast zoo when I was about 15 and demanded to see the unicorns.. I got the shock of my life when everyone around me laughed their asses off!

sunflower27 · 20-04-2011 10:37PM

Smcgie wrote: »

I was at Belfast zoo when I was about 15 and demanded to see the unicorns.. I got the shock of my life when everyone around me laughed their asses off!

Awwwwwww. 15 is a bit old though

Kevin Duffy · 20-04-2011 10:39PM

sunflower27 wrote: »

As a kid I would listen to the news about guerilla warfare and always be trying to look in the trees for gorillas.

This took me a while to figure out too. I was constantly asking why the gorillas were fighting and just thought they were the most aggressive, dangerous animals. I sometimes lost sleep 'cos I knew the gorillas had guns

tempura · 20-04-2011 10:41PM

df1985 wrote: »

I thought an only child was actually referred to as a lonely child. I am one and used to tell everyone "im a lonely child".....cue sympathetic looks from teachers all through my childhood!!

Aww, bless, i just wanna hug you now !

n.catenthusiast · 20-04-2011 10:42PM

pipelaser wrote: »

I always thought that Richard E. Grant was Hughs older brother, I even thought they looked alike!

Huh....had that assumption right up until reading your post!

Tubsandtiles · 20-04-2011 10:43PM

I was so in love with Harry Potter I'd wait at the door for the letter from Hogwarts

, sad but childhood is a great thing.

Smcgie · 20-04-2011 10:43PM

sunflower27 wrote: »

Awwwwwww. 15 is a bit old though

I no and I also told a fib on thread.. I was 16 I thought writing 16 would be too embarrassing so I wrote 15

Honest

Aldebaran · 20-04-2011 10:44PM

I don't have one of my own, but this reminds me of something very funny I read on another part of the internet:

When I was young my father said to me: "Knowledge is Power....Francis Bacon". I understood it as "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon".

For more than a decade I wondered over the meaning of the second part and what was the surreal linkage between the two? If I said the quote to someone, "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon" they nodded knowingly. Or someone might say, "Knowledge is power" and I'd finish the quote "France is Bacon" and they wouldn't look at me like I'd said something very odd but thoughtfully agree. I did ask a teacher what did "Knowledge is power, France is bacon" meant and got a full 10 minute explanation of the Knowledge is power bit but nothing on "France is bacon". When I prompted further explanation by saying "France is Bacon?" in a questioning tone I just got a "yes". At 12 I didn't have the confidence to press it further. I just accepted it as something I'd never understand.

It wasn't until years later I saw it written down that the penny dropped.

France is bacon

Teyla Emmagan · 20-04-2011 10:46PM

That "Tallaght" wasn't spelt "Tala". I remember being in the car one day with my Mam when I looked up at this sign for the new "Tallaght Shopping Centre" and I didn't know what the first word meant (that would be what is now called the "Square" to you young folk).

Learning to sound out words changed my life, so it did.

bonerm · 20-04-2011 10:46PM

Tubsandtiles wrote: »

I was so in love with Harry Potter I'd wait at the door for the letter from Hogwarts , sad but childhood is a great thing.

I guess you just weren't Hogwarts material. I got in and am doing my NEWT exams this summer.

Smcgie · 20-04-2011 10:48PM

Sam sparrows song - Black and gold.. I always thought he was singing "like a ghost.. Like a ghost" up until my housemates GF cracked up one day and asked me to sing the song right!

These truths will likely come back and haunt me

MIRMIR82 · 20-04-2011 10:50PM

Mr. Loverman wrote: »

I've always assumed* the parts of Dublin around Chapelizod were probably a bit of a kip because they're sort of in north west Dublin.

Well I just drove through that area tonight and it is absolutely lovely. Really I was amazed by its country village feel, and how its many fields and grass areas have somehow managed to avoid the wrath of the celtic tiger ridiculousness.

So to everyone who lives in this area, I apologise for my incorrect assumptions about your lovely home.

Have you ever had strong beliefs about something only to later realise you were totally wrong?

*If the word "assume" makes you think of "assume makes an ass out of you and me" you should be ashamed of yourself.

I used to think chapelizod was chapel-lizard:pac:

Degag · 20-04-2011 11:11PM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

When I was a very young kid, I was mad for the heel of the sliced pan. Every time there was one to be opened, back in the days when they delivered bread to your door from a Butterkrust van, I rushed to be there first, thinking there was only one heel. I then had to "guess" which end it was at.
My success rate, needless to say, was 100%. I just thought I was brilliant at the guessing and since I'd no interest in a nearly gone sliced pan, no more heels for me I thought, I never went near one to discover that there was, in fact, another heel.
I think this may have gone on until I was about 8. I am doubly regretful at my youthful foolishness and the fact that for so long I could have had twice the number of heels I managed to bag.

The Heel?? WTF!!!

It's called the crust ffs!

emer_b · 20-04-2011 11:14PM

I thought people in France all spoke English, just with a French accent!

Kevin Duffy · 20-04-2011 11:15PM

Degag wrote: »

The Heel?? WTF!!!

It's called the crust ffs!

G'way outta that. The crust is the edge of the slice, the heel is the slice at either end which is crust on one side and bread on the other. Another assumption revealed to be incorrect.

Urban Dicionary has the force of law in these matters I believe. Entries 1&2

mtnh · 20-04-2011 11:15PM

I used to think the Queen Mother was the reigning queen until she died! I thought the term Queen Mother was just something affectionate due to her age. lol

admiralofthefleet · 20-04-2011 11:17PM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

That "Tallaght" wasn't spelt "Tala". I remember being in the car one day with my Mam when I looked up at this sign for the new "Tallaght Shopping Centre" and I didn't know what the first word meant (that would be what is now called the "Square" to you young folk).

Learning to sound out words changed my life, so it did.

i thought it was pronounced tal-oct:o

Acoshla · 20-04-2011 11:24PM

My ex boyfriend used to think that if you lost a limb you were given a replacement that would fit you at the age you were when you lost said limb and that was the only one you got, so for example if you lost it when you were 2 you would forever have a fake arm the size of a two year old's.

This came out when we moved into a new college house, one of the other girl's in the house had a severe limp, we were wondering why it might be, I said maybe she had a fake leg and he said "Well it must've only happened recently then"......I sat thinking about that for about a minute, thinking maybe he had said something very clever, or something, and that I just couldn't figure it out, given that if it had happened in the last year or two she wouldn't be so "good" on it if you know what I mean. In the end I asked "....Why do you say that?"

He looked at me like I was the most stupid person in the world and said "BECAUSE, it's the exact same size as her other leg, so it must be recent or it'd be shorter"

He's such a tool.

Rubberlegs · 20-04-2011 11:25PM

Until I was well into adulthood, I assumed test tube babies stayed in a test tube till they were ready, then taken out and given to their Mammys:o

mike65 · 20-04-2011 11:26PM

That Lisbon was in Norn Iron.

Degag · 20-04-2011 11:29PM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

G'way outta that. The crust is the edge of the slice, the heel is the slice at either end which is crust on one side and bread on the other. Another assumption revealed to be incorrect.

Urban Dicionary has the force of law in these matters I believe. Entries 1&2

All that proves is that you are a redneck..... apparently.

JustAddWater · 20-04-2011 11:29PM

... That Michael Jackson was white

Kevin Duffy · 20-04-2011 11:32PM

Degag wrote: »

All that proves is that you are a redneck..... apparently.

No, it proves that unlike you, even rednecks know which bit of the bread is the heel

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