Hilarious misconceptions you or your friends had

snowman707 · 14-08-2012 09:31AM

"post no bills" ...spend ages looking for the fecking letter box

"plant hire" ... why would people need to hire plants :eek:

A Romanian guy used be selling "Big Issues to help the unemployed" . couldn't figure out how big shoes would help the unemployed.

Big Nasty · 14-08-2012 09:40AM

Worked in an Irish pub in Belgium and we had this sign on our post box saying 'No Pub' in a red circle with a line going diagonally through it. Means no publicitie, i.e. no advertising / junk mail, etc. New lad came over to work with us and just couldn't grasp why a pub would have 'no pub' written on its postbox.

Diapason · 14-08-2012 09:50AM

newmug wrote: »

Docking - Do an image search on google!

I know I shouldn't, but I may have to... :eek:

kayotic18 · 14-08-2012 10:56AM

crazy cabbage wrote: »

I used to think that prostitutes and protestants were the same thing.

Thought that catholics had to sit on one side of the church and that 'prostitutes' sit on the other because we used to always sit on the right hand side of the church.

I used to thinking the IRA were vigilantes who were trying to fight the prostitutes. It made more sense that they were hardcore Christians, rather than two sides of Christians fighting over religion/heritage.

Miike · 14-08-2012 11:05AM

When younger, I thought Christmas was the last day of the year (Which I later found out was new years..) but while glaring at a calendar exclaimed to the whole family "WTF?... Christmas is on the 25th this year" - I'm still hearing about it to this day.

Whatsernamex33 · 14-08-2012 11:10AM

I used to think that dolphin friendly tuna, meant that it was safe for dolphins to eat too.

notsobusy · 14-08-2012 11:31AM

blue note wrote: »

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!

Omg I laughed so much when I read this!!!

I used to believe people when they told me you could dig down to Australia, many an afternoon I spent digging holes in the garden.

snowgal · 14-08-2012 12:01PM

Im not stupid I swear, BUT, the other day when Cian O'Connor won the medal for Ireland my husband was saying he was surprised that he was allowed back into the Olympics after the drugs thing the last time and I said,,,, 'but I dont understand why he bothered taking drugs, the horse does most the work and its not going to make him go any better'! duh duh duh, yes duh I know... just one of those moments where I wonder about myself. As soon as I said it I knew I was a dumbass

Plazaman · 14-08-2012 12:10PM

My older brother always terrified me on trips away by telling me that we had to duck down inside the car when going under a bridge or our heads would be chopped off. I'm still a bit OCD about that today and every now and again kiss the steering wheel when going under a low bridge.

mauzo · 14-08-2012 12:16PM

Plazaman wrote: »

My older brother always terrified me on trips away by telling me that we had to duck down inside the car when going under a bridge or our heads would be chopped off. I'm still a bit OCD about that today and every now and again kiss the steering wheel when going under a low bridge.

me too. My mum used to yell duck when we approached a bridge. To this day I slyly dip my head

Bigtoe107 · 14-08-2012 12:35PM

To my shame when I was a child I used to think a heart attack was an "Ant attack" i.e. the ants would crawl inside your body and begin eating you. I still have an irrational fear of ants to this day.

Northclare · 14-08-2012 12:48PM

I thought a rotten egg was a rockin egg,well that was my pronunciation of rotten egg,last one in is a rockin egg...

flyswatter · 14-08-2012 12:57PM

Used to think the term "seats" in elections was kind of like a game of musical chairs in endurance/patience (without the music ) E.g Politicians would all be seated and could lose their seat, like if say Mary Harney had to nip to the shop.

csi vegas · 14-08-2012 01:12PM

Not hilarious but we thought squashed chewing gum on the ground was still nice enough to eat...and so we did..."is yours nice?" "yeah, I can still get the taste!"

Also when the wood pigeons would hoot we were convinced it was the devil and we'd scream and run home and that would be it for the night.
We wouldn't come out again.
All those balmy 80's evenings ruined by a fúcking bird...

Dyr · 14-08-2012 01:14PM

gungun wrote: »

I used to think drink driving meant you can't drink a pint in the car because you can't see around the glass:o

back then it did.....

ViveLaVie · 14-08-2012 01:25PM

Lisha wrote: »

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...

Er... Wut?! Where do they come from so!?

Jammy Donut · 14-08-2012 01:50PM

73Cat wrote: »

Until I was well into my twenties I thought that test tube babies grew in the test tube for 9 months:o

I believed that until I red your post.

Canard · 14-08-2012 02:02PM

I thought if a woman loved a man she just magically got pregnant with his baby.

And me and my sister both thought for years that babies came out the ass, until my sister asked if the baby could come out with your sh*t :pac:

loalae · 14-08-2012 02:14PM

I thought that when people got married they'd have sex once if they wanted a baby and then continue to have babies every second year until they decided that they'd had enough.

iDave · 14-08-2012 02:15PM

My brother thought September 11th was 9/11 because lots of people in New York would of dialled 911 on their phone.

Hazys · 14-08-2012 02:30PM

Lisha wrote: »

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...

Just learned something new :eek::cool::D:rolleyes::o:(

Another farm related miscinception i used to have was that a Goat was a male sheep and sheep were female sheep.

Just like a Bull is a male cow and cow is a female cow.

Indubitable · 14-08-2012 02:30PM

speedboatchase wrote: »

I thought that Atheists worshipped the devil. Come to think of it, I'd say plenty of people also believe this

I grew up thinking it was Presbyterians that did.

gobnaitolunacy · 14-08-2012 03:28PM

loalae wrote: »

I thought that when people got married they'd have sex once if they wanted a baby and then continue to have babies every second year until they decided that they'd had enough.

We sort of did just that when we were all devout Catholics.

gobnaitolunacy · 14-08-2012 03:29PM

Indubitable wrote: »

I grew up thinking it was Presbyterians that did.

And we were told all Protestants were black

smcelhinney · 14-08-2012 03:48PM

flyswatter wrote: »

Used to think the term "seats" in elections was kind of like a game of musical chairs in endurance/patience (without the music ) E.g Politicians would all be seated and could lose their seat, like if say Mary Harney had to nip to the shop.

This is the way politics SHOULD work..

blahfckingblah · 14-08-2012 04:11PM

Indubitable wrote: »

I grew up thinking it was Presbyterians that did.

close enough

Dyr · 14-08-2012 04:20PM

OneOfThem Stumbled wrote: »

A common one is kids (myself included) thinking that percent is like a type of unit (like integer, real number or whatever), so might say 'that's 80 percent out of a hundred'

Were you furiously bullied in school?

Northclare · 14-08-2012 04:21PM

I thought when fish were jumping in rivers they were taking flies from mid air and not on top of the water or under the surface....

leggo · 14-08-2012 04:22PM

I was gutted to learn that Oz was actually short for Australia and not some magical land with wizards, witches, lions and tigers and bears (oh my...)

Also, we convinced a lad for ages that a blowjob was when a lad stuck it in a girl's ear. Then we'd get him to go up and ask girl's for a blowie. Thank fook nobody said yes, in hindsight.

Until I'd kissed a few girls, I thought a French kiss involved you sticking your tongue in her mouth, swirling it around a bit, then taking it out and letting her do the same. So I'd get into a little tongue war and batter their tongue down, then take mine out so we'd just awkwardly be kissing, open mouth, for a while. If any of my earliest kisses are reading, I do apologise for what must have been quite an unpleasant experience...

Dub Ste · 14-08-2012 04:37PM

A couple of things my brother told me when I was younger.

He said that if you killed a wasp,it sent out a distress signal to other wasps,and they would hunt you down and sting the hell out of you.

He also said that Asian ladies,erm,lady bits,went side to side,not up and down,if you know what I mean.

I know the 2nd one is ****e,still not sure about the 1st one though !!:D

Hilarious misconceptions you or your friends had

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