Silly things you’ve believed but weren’t

I remember telling people when I was little that French was just English spoken very fast and that German was English backwards. They smiled and backed away ;)
 
When very young I was scared of dying because I didn’t believe I could lie still enough.

I am now old and not scared of dying and have perfected the art of lying still.
 
An ex of mine believed for years that sheep had 2 legs longer than the other 2 so they could stand on hills. Her dad told her this when she was little and she believed it till she was 19.
 
Used to mishear the lyric "Yours are the sweetest eyes" in Your song by Elton John, believing he was singing "You're about the sweetest dice I've ever seen".

Also used to believe that everything was in black and white back in the day, due to seeing black and white films and photos.
 
An ex of mine thought all lads at urinals pulled their trousers and pants right down to their ankles. She had a cutesy painting of some kid doing this and assumed we all did this.

Same ex also thought that cheese savoury salad was healthy to eat straight from the pot with a spoon because there was "no fat in it".
 
I once had a conversation at work with a young lass who was telling me that her mum was having a nose job, I said oh they call that Rhinoplasty. She didn’t believe me so I showed her on the computer that it was correct. At this point I could not help myself, and mentioned a mutual colleague that had a false eye following a car accident many years ago that his operation was called Rhinoceri. Imagine my delight several months later when said colleague asked her how her mums nose realignment surgery had gone and during the conversation she proceded to ask him how long ago was it that he had had his Rhinoceri surgery 😂
 
I thought Paul Simon was Chevy Chase for years after seeing the 'You can call me Al' video.

Similarly a friend of mine thought Paul Weller had Bonos voice after seeing him singing his part on an appearance of Top of the Pops Band Aid Do they know it's Christmas rendition.
 
i was convinced and even argued when younger that "We don't have to take our clothes off" was sung by whitney houston not a gadgie called Jermaine Stewart.
 
When I was younger I used to believe that the difference in flight times whether travelling to New York or on the return leg was due to whether you were flying with the earths rotation or against it.
 
Brian Marwood said:
When I was younger I used to believe that the difference in flight times whether travelling to New York or on the return leg was due to whether you were flying with the earths rotation or against it.
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It would be quicker flying west if that were the case.

I did manage to see the sun set in London and New York in the same day once. By taking Concord.
 
Once persuaded by younger sister that the boat race was like the FA Cup, just Oxford and Cambridge got to the final every year. I used to think that Ken Wolstenhome's famous commentary was 'There's some fiddler on the pitch.....' :rolleyes:

Football wise believed I would never see the Boro at Wembley:giggle:
 
Parents have a lot of things to answer for. Going into adultHood. the list of things I thought would give me an upset tummy if I ate them raw was ridiculous.

Some of them like cooking apples I can see due to high acidity, others like cooking chocolate, I’m sure my mum was just trying to stop me eating her baking stash
 
My two fostwr children, both teenagers, still believe a haggis is a living creature, has four legs with two shorter that the other two so it can run round hills, (its natural habitat) and that people can go haggis hunting. I once pulled into the service station on the M74 near Dumfries and told the kids I was getting the hunting permits.
My daughter believed that the chimneys and stacks from ICI and BSC were actually cloud makers because of the steam emissions coming from them.
 
I once convinced my ex girlfriend that armadillos were a hoax and didn't really exist. Pretty sure that she still believes that. Same girl scoffed at me for pointing out her mistake when she referred to something as being 'a bit of a damp squid'. She just laughed at me and told me that I was being silly because 'squib' wasn't a real word as far as she was concerned. They employed her as an effin' schoolteacher. Tells you a lot about modern Britain really.
 
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