Stupid is, as stupid does

[millidonk]

Complete rip off of Radio 1 this morning, the idea is simple and i personally found it hilarious.

You basically just say things that are common knowledge to most, but you yourself have never known or thought to be something different.

A few personal examples:

Like many others i always thought Orangutan was OrangaTANG.

I had a friend called Emma who i always called Emu and one day she turned around to me and said why have you named me after an imaginary bird...

I genuinely believed my Grandad was a cowboy until the age of 16. sigh.

 My fav this morning from the radio was from a lorry driver, he thought this sign:



meant no motorbikes to jump over cars....wow

Also apparently a lot of people didn't know raisins were dried grapes???

Anyways, surely a few people have little stories like this!? if not i will just keep the rest of mine quiet.

[Cf]

I come out with that sort of thing all the time much to peoples amusement. I can't think of any specific examples at the minute though. Probably because i'm stupid

[AndrewT]

Until relatively recently, I didn't know the Marx Brothers were actual brothers. I assumed that was just the name of their act (like the Walker Brothers) and that they were not actually related.

[boldie]

I once believed in psychics.



OK, actually, I didn't...but that would have been pretty stupid.

[The_nun]

Whilst watching the news  I pointed out to a Angie, my friend, how I found it hard to understand that a small jet didn't just hand down vertically but stayed horizontal whilst being towed by a larger plane. Angie kindly pointed out that it was being refueled.  I was 25 at the time.

[millidonk]

Continuing the plane theme, when i was a kid, I asked my Dad why it was quicker going one way than the other, he told me on the way back it was downhill... obv i thought this to be true for a good decade of my life.

[kinboshi]

I used to believe that there was a big sky fairy who lived in the clouds and his work was accurately documented in a book called the bible.  My teachers at school also taught me this.

[gatso]

I always thought that eritrea and somalia shared a land border. only recently was I introduced to djibouti

[david3103]

 My fav this morning from the radio was from a lorry driver, he thought this sign:



meant no motorbikes to jump over cars....wow

 

[ ] real lorry driver
[X] real lorry driver on a windup

I used to believe that the world would end on May 21 2011, now i think I may be six months out

[ACE2M]

I thought rain water was salt water until i was about 25, i have absolutely no idea why as I'm reasonably sharp and fully aware of the process that creates rain. I'm still reminded of this stupidity occasionally by my lovely friends.

[millidonk]

I thought rain water was salt water until i was about 25, i have absolutely no idea why as I'm reasonably sharp and fully aware of the process that creates rain. I'm still reminded of this stupidity occasionally by my lovely friends.

This is the type of stuff i wanted to see. Haha. Quality.

[Rod Paradise]

I thought oral sex was talking about it.

[X] Enjoyed finding out I was wrong a LOT more than the other misapprehensions.

[TightEnd]

Have told this one before, but still


About 10 years ago I bought my then wife a number plate for her birthday. Bought it through Reg transfers etc

Birthday comes, number plate has not arrived. Wife is ok, but obviously the surprise is spoiled

A few months pass, and I remember the number plate

I ring up Reg transfers asking when the number plate will arrive?

to be told that I have to get them made up at a local garage, and I have merely bought the registration


The marriage ended soon after.

[AndrewT]

D1V 0RC3

[millidonk]

D1V 0RC3

By the time he went to the garage: