Hilarious misconceptions you or your friends had

I used to think a man impregnated a woman by using his penis to physically push the egg into the womb.

no fault > your fault

thought everything was my fault

France is bacon.

nice_very wrote: »

until I was 17 I thought phlegm was spelt flem

I forgive you.

That Aboriginals need a visa to come to Australia.

I used to think that people who died in films actually died and thought it must be difficult to find that many actors that wanted to die.

But the funniest was one my mother told me. My granny told my mum (when she must have been in infants) of a girl that wanted to be a nun. My mum started laughing at the though and said sure "how could someone become a nun?" Granny got it out of mum that mum had seen out the window of her school a nun graveyard with all of the crosses for them. Mum thought that this was a nun field and that they were growing out there!

Paddy Cow wrote: »

I still don't know what "once removed" means

Until NOW:

Bob and his father's first cousin, Sally, are first cousins once removed to each other. They are one generation removed from the common generational relationship between Bob's father (Bill) and Sally. - Wikipedia

I thought the old street light long bulbs were sparkler ice pops and I would try scale the street light to get to the icy delight, alas I was meant never to reach my everest....

Probably seven or eight years of age, discussing our limited knowledge of sex, as children tend to do, a mate proclaimed that you make a baby by flicking a little switch inside the women, like turning on a kettle. "So you could do it with your fingers?", "Yep", he proudly replied.
"So why would you use your willy and not your fingers?"
He didn't have an answer for that.

When local chinese takeaways first started popping up everywhere in the early 90's, we got it on a fairly regular basis, probably once a week. Fried rice was always my favourite part (still is tbh), and I remember telling them just to order me a fried rice, I didn't want anything else. "You can't just get a fried rice!" I was told. Tried it on two or three more occasions, only to be told the same thing, and from then on till I was about 17 assumed that the chinese wouldn't let you order a fried rice on its own...

I was also an older teenager before I realised the phrase wasn't "faired use". It never made sense to me growing up.

I learnt on boards about a month ago that the city of Washington isn't in the state of Washington. Blew my mind, and they say boards can't teach you anything.

In an arguement with friends about the existance of Santa;

Friend: He's not real. Nobody can travel the entire world in one night. On a flying reindeer.

Me: That's why there are different time zones!! Santa has an hour to do each zone. That's why the poor people in Africa get less than us too, because he starts to run out of toys. And reindeers don't fly - They run on those lines you see on the map. Duh!