Silly things you’ve believed but weren’t

Jostler

Jostler

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Listened to Metallica for maybe 4 years and really like them, but I’ve only just realised tonight that James Hetfield isn’t Lars Ulrich.

Everyone talks about LU, and JH is front man so just presumed he was LU
 
Years ago, when I was a kid, I genuinely believed there were two branches of Woolworth's in Stockton. It took some Parental skill from both of them to finally persuade me that it was a big shop with two entrances in different places......

It all started from 'Why don't we try the other Woolworths??'..................'What other Woolworths??' :) :)
 
BoroinBuxton said:
Years ago, when I was a kid, I genuinely believed there were two branches of Woolworth's in Stockton. It took some Parental skill from both of them to finally persuade me that it was a big shop with two entrances in different places......

It all started from 'Why don't we try the other Woolworths??'..................'What other Woolworths??' :) :)
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:ROFLMAO:
 
Old man used to tell me whenever we drove past a farm that the hay bales that were wrapped up in black lining and stacked on top of each other, was actually black pudding.

Believed it for ages too.
 
On my big sister's say so, I was convinced that my Dad's car had a self-destruct button. As I've grown older, I've learned that it was the fog lights.

Football-wise, I spent my early years believing Luton Town were a major force in English football. They won the league cup and reached the FA cup semi final in the first year I followed football, and seemed to be on TV as much as anyone except Liverpool. Steve Foster was arguably as recognisable as any footballer in the country due to the headband.
 
My much elder brother used to make up utter b***ks when he didn't know the answer which I would then swallow as gospel.

Trooping the colour.

Me: "What's the colour?"
Him: "Green. In fact i think it's always green".
 
Someone I went to school with thought that clouds didn't move. It only looked that way because the earth was spinning around.

When asked why they 'appeared' to move in different directions on different days he just looked bemused.
 
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I couldn't get my head round 'one name'/nickname footballers. On not accepting that Spurs midfielder Nayim didn't have a first name, my Dad flippantly told me it was 'Bob'. So for a good while there I used to refer to him as Bob Nayim. During the same period I always wondered what Pele's first name was but assumed that, being from a foreign land, it was just one of those things that no one in England would ever find out.
 
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Frozen Horse said:
On my big sister's say so, I was convinced that my Dad's car had a self-destruct button. As I've grown older, I've learned that it was the fog lights.

Football-wise, I spent my early years believing Luton Town were a major force in English football. They won the league cup and reached the FA cup semi final in the first year I followed football, and seemed to be on TV as much as anyone except Liverpool. Steve Foster was arguably as recognisable as any footballer in the country due to the headband.
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Swap Luton for Spurs now.
 
Millbrook said:
Someone I went to school with thought that clouds didn't move. It only looked that way because the earth was spinning around.

When asked why they 'appeared' to move in different directions on different days he just looked bemused.
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I remember when I was at school overhearing 2 lasses in my class saying the same thing!
 
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