Hilarious misconceptions you or your friends had

Whatsisname · 13-08-2012 05:23PM

Know a girl whose 19 now, I had to explain to her last year how Madrid wasn't actually in England...

some random drunk · 13-08-2012 06:19PM

Took a friend of mine to watch Ireland play a football match. She enjoyed the experience but later questioned me why there was no commentary. Turned out she'd only ever watched football on tv and genuinely thought that the commentary was provided by a guy at the stadium using the PA system. She's 30 btw.

Same girl was also disappointed that Dublin Zoo had no woolly mammoths and didn't realise they were extinct.

confuseddotcom · 13-08-2012 06:48PM

Had always thought in my teens and around then that car insurance was a once-in-a-lifetime payment that you'd never have to pay again after the first time ya paid it!!

:o I think at the time it seemed doomed that a person would never get insurance for less than 1,500 or so, so it kinda made sense to me in a way that you wouldn't have had to pay out that much money on a regular basis.

However I learned that that was not the case! Far from it! Insurance has to be paid every year but fortunately great deals and reduced prices can be got which can only be a good thing.

Wouldn't it be great though if it was only a once-in-a-lifetime payment!!!

Knex* · 13-08-2012 08:42PM

On the bus for a college pissup to Carlow last year we managed to convince one of the girls, not actually in my course thank God, that Carlow was in a different time zone. Yup, I shit you not.

She also asked me such questions as: Is Carlow near Kerry?

And as I started to realize her absolute ignorance in all things geographically related, and possibly more, I probed on a bit until questions such as, "So Dublin is in Carlow?", "Are Cork and Kerry in Leinster?" and "Is Munster in Leinster?" occurred.

I don't think anyone could believe some of the stuff she came out with after a while. We left her feeling rather embarrassed

wonton · 13-08-2012 08:45PM

I used to think the collection in mass went to poor people in africa for some reason.

BillyMitchel · 13-08-2012 09:03PM

Whatsisname wrote: »

Know a girl whose 19 now, I had to explain to her last year how Madrid wasn't actually in England...

I know a girl in her 20s who thought Asia was in and beside Italy!

NegativeCreep · 13-08-2012 09:05PM

I'm only after finding out now that it's "buck naked" and not "butt naked." How embarrassing

1ZRed · 13-08-2012 09:07PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I'm only after finding out now that it's "buck naked" and not "butt naked." How embarrassing

Until I read your post I still thought that!

Smh, the shame

some random drunk · 13-08-2012 09:08PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I'm only after finding out now that it's "buck naked" and not "butt naked." How embarrassing

I'm pretty sure both are perfectly acceptable terms. Wasn't there a General Butt Naked, who was similar to that Kony guy?

HalloweenJack · 13-08-2012 09:15PM

I used to think that black people were really just white people who had billions of freckles that joined together. I was convinced that if I stayed in the sun long enough, this would happen to me.

A few bad cases of sunburn taught me otherwise.

padd b1975 · 13-08-2012 09:18PM

I used to think Gay Byrne lived in the radio.

Big Nasty · 13-08-2012 09:22PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I'm only after finding out now that it's "buck naked" and not "butt naked." How embarrassing

1ZRed wrote: »

Until I read your post I still thought that!

Smh, the shame

I think you could be excused for thinking that Zed!

1ZRed · 13-08-2012 09:24PM

My sister used to think Brazil was in the EU. It was so funny, sure of course how could she know better?

It was last month and she's 20. She passed her summer geography exams though!

desertcircus · 13-08-2012 09:26PM

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

Ooh look at you with your aged wine for your guests
The first time I had wine was in a Chinese for my 18th birthday & it was an old flame that brought me.
We thought we were so grown up, eating out & drinking wine that wanted to make us wretch!

You had an "old flame" at eighteen? That's noir-film levels of sophistication...

IloveConverse · 13-08-2012 09:30PM

'Making end's meat.'

Making just enough dosh to buy cheap meat, that nobody else wants, (end of the day meat in other words), because you can't afford the standard stuff.

It was only a year ago that I realised that it's more like the ends of a rope.

#foolish

some random drunk · 13-08-2012 09:35PM

Until quite recently I thought the phrase was "for all intensive purposes".

1ZRed · 13-08-2012 09:35PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

I think you could be excused for thinking that Zed!

Lisha · 13-08-2012 09:41PM

I was 20 before I learned a pony is not a baby horse. I actually thought horses were born foals, then were ponies and finally horses.

I grew up in the country btw, still have not lived it down.

Made worse by the fact that it was my first employer post college who filled me in...

O-Deazy · 13-08-2012 09:46PM

some random drunk wrote: »

Until quite recently I thought the phrase was "for all intensive purposes".

It isn't?

Also, any boggers or culchies out there that could enlighten me whether its a 'dark' or 'dart' of turf? Cheers

usernamegoes · 13-08-2012 10:01PM

smallerthanyou wrote: »

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.

Interestingly, they wanted to call the state "Columbia", but weren't allowed because people might confuse it with the District of Columbia (DC) the didn't call DC, Washington then.

13-08-2012 10:09PM

some random drunk wrote: »

Took a friend of mine to watch Ireland play a football match. She enjoyed the experience but later questioned me why there was no commentary. Turned out she'd only ever watched football on tv and genuinely thought that the commentary was provided by a guy at the stadium using the PA system. She's 30 btw.

Same girl was also disappointed that Dublin Zoo had no woolly mammoths and didn't realise they were extinct.

Are you still dating either of these MENSA members?!

newmug · 13-08-2012 11:00PM

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

I used to think gay men had sex by the man with smaller penis inserting it into the meatus of the other man's penis.

Docking - Do an image search on google!

shopaholic01 · 13-08-2012 11:17PM

Omackeral wrote: »

Are you still dating either of these MENSA members?!

It was the same girl genius!

13-08-2012 11:53PM

shopaholic01 wrote: »

It was the same girl genius!

Oh Christ, so it was!!! I mean, he typed that clear as day but I just couldn't allow it to sink in I guess!

Not that I can talk, my ex once said to me (while looking at a calendar) ''Oh look, Good Friday falls on a Wednedsay this year''.

shopaholic01 · 13-08-2012 11:56PM

Omackeral wrote: »

Oh Christ, so it was!!! I mean, he typed that clear as day but I just couldn't allow it to sink in I guess!

Not that I can talk, my ex once said to me (while looking at a calendar) ''Oh look, Good Friday falls on a Wednedsay this year''.

We're all allowed the odd blond moment:P.

Pdfile · 14-08-2012 06:57AM

hardCopy wrote: »

And then he wees all over her

FYP

itsgrandlike · 14-08-2012 07:31AM

Im not sure if this was said as unfortunetly dont have time to read all the posts but when I was younger and i asked my mum where she was going, she would always tell me she was going to see a man about a dog.. I always thought a load of women stood around a circle with one man and a dog in the middle.. WTF!!

VEN · 14-08-2012 09:01AM

back in early primary school a small group of us thought the wild west still existed, so thats where we were going when we grew up.
the priests told us there was blood in that chalice and not wine, we believed it.

Newaglish · 14-08-2012 09:21AM

VEN wrote: »

the priests told us there was blood in that chalice and not wine, we believed it.

Can open, worms everywhere

fatherted1969 · 14-08-2012 09:30AM

When pay as you go phones first came out years ago my first thought was where would the slot for the coins be. Sadly i wasn't that young at the time

Hilarious misconceptions you or your friends had

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