Hilarious misconceptions you or your friends had

Walkman

NegativeCreep wrote: »

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

Second thing learned :-D

paddyandy

I had loadza dem misconceptions and was a happier fool too.

Daniel S

Squ wrote: »

My niece is learning the alphbet..

Walks around the house;
................H, I, J, K, meno meno, P..............

Dumb kid, everyone knows it's "eh-low-men-o P"! :pac:

MarkHitide

Whenever someone on Boards. uses the expression "cnut' I immediately think of this sad guy-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_%28polar_bear%29

Not exactly a mis-conception, more of a recurring brain-fart.

newmug

Remember the Diceman? Sometimes he dressed up as a can of fanta or some other such crap. As kids, we used to run up behind him and kick the daylights out of it as hard as we could. Then, when he was on that ad for AIDS, I used to think I caught AIDS off him because I kicked him.

emzolita

Great thread, reminds me of one a few years ago when some guy used to think the Our Father was "howeya father who art in heaven, how do you know my name"
Lol, still remember that

CastorTroy

When I was a kid, I knew babies came from women, but I thought they came out of their breasts since they about the same shape as heads.

mauzo

emzolita wrote: »

Great thread, reminds me of one a few years ago when some guy used to think the Our Father was "howeya father who art in heaven, how do you know my name"
Lol, still remember that

Oh God a friends daughter made her communion recently and she says

'Hail Mary, full of scrapes' :rolleyes:

AllyMcFearless

I live by the sea, and when I was younger I used to look across and think that the reason you couldn't see anything was 'cause there was a big waterfall...

Goro

Northclare wrote: »

I am lol sorry bout that :S

It was a thread about hilarious things happening etc

These Android.phones can be too fast sometimes

Thinly veiled "I have an Android" post.

barry711

Reading a porn mag when I was about 11, at the back was section for people to send in sexy photos of their partners and a story about their sexual endeavors they got up to. Some guy wrote in and was talking about this and that, how he was doing this and that with her etc etc. He then said how his girls lips were wet...naturally not knowing much about women anatomy/foreplay at such a young age I thought he meant her actual lips on her mouth! So there I was, pulling me plonker trying to imagine this women getting an aul empty with her soaking wet mouth lips.

Father Damo

People banging on about there being 80 million Irish passports in the world.

There is not. There may be that many people with at least one genetic connection to us from 400 odd years of emigration, but not passports. The vast majority of these people are not even entitled to a passport.

FFS we would win every World Cup at that rate, it would give us a bigger potential player pool than anyone else in Europe :pac:

fasttalkerchat

Father Damo wrote: »

People banging on about there being 80 million Irish passports in the world.

There is not. There may be that many people with at least one genetic connection to us from 400 odd years of emigration, but not passports. The vast majority of these people are not even entitled to a passport.

FFS we would win every World Cup at that rate, it would give us a bigger potential player pool than anyone else in Europe :pac:

I believe the figures to be that 30 million people worldwide have had an Irish passport at some point in their lives. 80 million are entitled to one. About 5 million hold a valid on currently.

When asked about the number of Irish passports in circulation in 2006, the then Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern told Dáil Éireann (the Irish Parliament) that he could not say how many passports were in circulation but pointed out that between 1996 and 2005 some 4,650,000 passports were issued.

garv123

Up until a few weeks ago I used think Nutella was pronounced nu-tella or nut-ella, along those lines.

Oh how I was wrong

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GYwCZnuhMcU/THQZ1nyJ33I/AAAAAAAACDo/LnRXPHyqBhY/s1600/nutella.jpg

mauzo

garv123 wrote: »

Up until a few weeks ago I used think Nutella was pronounced nu-tella or nut-ella, along those lines.

Oh how I was wrong

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GYwCZnuhMcU/THQZ1nyJ33I/AAAAAAAACDo/LnRXPHyqBhY/s1600/nutella.jpg

:eek: Well thats fooked up my Monday!!!!

wilson10

mauzo wrote: »

:eek: Well thats fooked up my Monday!!!!

Oh no ! I've been making the same mistake in the local corner shop for years, they must be really laughing their ass off every time I come in, I can never face them again.

That means I'm going to have to do a 30 mile round trip at least twice a week (I really love Newtelluh) to the nearest supermarket.

Damn and Blast!

Diapason

But that's just ridiculous! I will NEVER call it Newtelluh.

unfortunately

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

I used pronounce Grand Prix as Grand Pricks.

I remember in primary school as an excercise we had to each rewrite a line of the poem "One, two, buckle my shoe; Three, four knock on the door..."

When in got to me I stood up and said "Five, six, I went to see the Grand Pricks!"

The headmaster just had a look of confusion and then quickly moved on.

greenbicycle

When i had just learned to read i remember thinkng about how well serviced dublin was with toilets and now well marked they were, there were so many To Let signs everywhere....

I used to think that everyone was very relieved that mass had ended every sunday when at the end when the priest said, you may go in peace etc and everyone said Thanks be to god... As in "thank be to god that over now lets get the hell out of here...." thats what i meant when i said it anyway!

fasttalkerchat

Diapason wrote: »

But that's just ridiculous! I will NEVER call it Newtelluh.

Probably should be Nütella. I'm not going to change my pronunciation though!

Dolbert

greenbicycle wrote: »

When i had just learned to read i remember thinkng about how well serviced dublin was with toilets and now well marked they were, there were so many To Let signs everywhere....

I used to think that everyone was very relieved that mass had ended every sunday when at the end when the priest said, you may go in peace etc and everyone said Thanks be to god... As in "thank be to god that over now lets get the hell out of here...." thats what i meant when i said it anyway!

I used to think it was 'Thanks bit of God', referring to Jesus as a bit of God

Paddy Cow

Diapason wrote: »

But that's just ridiculous! I will NEVER call it Newtelluh.

Since they came to Ireland, I've been pronouncing Lidl as "Liddle". Heard it on ads recently as "Lee-dahl". I'm sticking with "Liddle" :cool:

Paddy Cow

Not a misconception but when I was younger, the priest was visiting and our cat had recently had kittens. The priest was asking if they were boys or girls and I proudly told him that the way to check was to lift up their tail and if they had two holes they were a girl and if one they were a boy. I then proceeded to pick one up and show him. My mother was mortified.

Knex*

A friend of mine used to think that chocolate milk came from brown cows :pac:

Vinta81

Knex. wrote: »

A friend of mine used to think that chocolate milk came from brown cows :pac:

So did I

wp_rathead

My friend whacked his funny bone and screamed "Ah, my funny elbow". He is 23..

Same guy went one night "Lads there is only one thing that separates us from other animals.. Disposable thumbs"

Smuckie

For years I thought that the KGB were a Russian terrorist group.
In my defence, American films do make them look that way

Brad768

This is the funniest thread in ages

The MiniVan

I once dated a girl who told me when she was 5 years old she found an old condom wrapper in her parents bedroom.Que her taking the wrapper out to her parents in the kitchen and asking them what it was much to their embarrassment!

They told her that it was a secret and something very important and they would tell her when she was older,12 years old to be precise.

Little did they know that she started saving up any other condom wrappers she found in her parents boudoir for the next 7 years until finally presenting them with a shoe box full of durexs finest on her 12th birthday and asking ''what are these for''!!:eek:

She still gets slagged to this day over it!:)


Same girl also thought that everything else started moving when she sat into her parents car and that they remained stationary!:)

IloveConverse

I used to swear that Cher was a man dressed up as a woman

lufties

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

i have no idea honestly, always figured it came out a certian angle so it didnt wet ur arse

im cringing here:o

Thats the dumbest thing I've ever heard, seriously you must be 'taking the piss' with that one, you mustn't know you body very well in that case.

A misconception I had was that being the nicest guy possible will get you the girl :rolleyes:

MarkHitide

I used to think a 'rubber johnny' was a prosthetic penis for people who lost theirs-

AllyMcFearless

I used to think that the music on Top of the Pops was broadcast on all radio stations at the exact same time..

Also thought that musicians were called 'magicians' because they could make noises come out of their instruments...

Julius Seizure

A road = Amazing Quality
B road = Back Road
C road = Country Road...

mauzo

I said A for effort to my friend a few weeks ago, and she said hahaha you idiot, effort starts with an E!

wilson10

Don't know if it really happened or not but I thought it hilarious anyway.

Peter Kay on telly the other night telling how he got Sky plus for his Gran.

He was explaining to her how she could watch her favourites and pause the program while she went to the toilet or to make a cup of tea.

"But", she said, "what about all the other people watching".

When I was about 5 I thought that when one of the horses at the riding school went in for "breeding" it was for their "breathing" and they needed to rest for months to get their breathing right.

Coeurdepirate

NegativeCreep wrote: »

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

What? Are you serious??

Squ

lufties wrote: »

A misconception I had was that being the nicest guy possible will get you the girl

Ouch, friendzoned!

mikemac1

I thought Tracey Chapman was a man

NegativeCreep

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

NegativeCreep wrote: »

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

What? Are you serious??

Yeah

lufties

Squ wrote: »

lufties wrote: »

A misconception I had was that being the nicest guy possible will get you the girl

Ouch, friendzoned!

Yes also known as the 'you ain't getting any' zone lol...although I'd love to meet someone who never visited this place at some point or another.

Canard

I thought it was butt naked too...I ain't changing it now! :P

Blisterman

I had a book as a kid which stated something along the lines of "the sun is about half way through its lifecycle, before it dies it will swell in size, destroying the earth and other planets near it".

I got really worried in case it was an old book and we were approaching that point.

YeahiKnow

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Less than a year ago I learned right here on boards, on a similar thread now I think of it, that the Sugar Loaf Mountain is NOT a volcanic mountain.

I am 37.

I remember climbing that purely because of the name. That and we accidently ended up the wrong side of Dublin during rush hour. Anyways. But seriously?!

Daniel S

Patchy~ wrote: »

I thought it was butt naked too...I ain't changing it now! :P

It is butt naked. It can be either.

norrie rugger

A friend of mine was sure that a pint bottle of Bulmers contained more than a pint, because he got to refill his pint glass after taking a mouthful.

It never dawned on him that the ice in his glass was taking up space, meaning that he always had a bit of cider in the bottle.

LaminatorSGL

When I was young I thought B&B stood for bread and breakfast. I also thought it should be T&B because I always toasted mine.

donalg1

When I was younger I thought the trees blowing were creating the wind.

I also thought that a male dog was called a bast*rd because a female was a b1tch

Balmed Out

My Dad is still convinced that by speaking slowly with a strong foriegn accent people with absolutely no english will be able to understand him