I thought in Harry Potter when they “sacked” Professor Dumbledore that they twisted his nutsack AND then fired/expelled him.

Suffice it to say, Chamber was far more dramatic and high-stakes for me than it needed to be.

Let’s go, come clean Lemmingz

  • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    I misunderstood what “war machine” meant.

    I heard phrases on TV like “it cost $1 billion dollars per month to keep the war machine running” and “the US captured 100,000 barrels of oil per day to feed the war machine” and I thought this thing must be some epic beast.

    The terrorists better watch out! We’re sending the war machine! It must have, like, sawblade hands and tank tracks and breathe fire and have machine gun turrets.

    Imagine my disappointment when I learned that THE WAR MACHINE was just a metaphor and not a Mecha Godzilla

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      610·
      1 year ago

      Make y’all 🤠 a deal 📜 :

      1. Answer question❓🔡🔢🫵
      2. Also 🧐🔬📌, I did use my words 🔤, I just happened to supplement 💊with emojis cuz I wanted 👯‍♀️it –> ✅ I’ve satisfied ⚖️☺️ my part of the deal 📜
      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        4·
        1 year ago

        Ok so let me see if I understand:

        1. Answer questionmark questionmark letters numbers pointing
        2. Also monocle microscope pushpin, I did use my words letters, I just happened to supplement pill with emojis cuz I wanted dancing it check I’ve satisfied scales smile my part of deal scroll.
        3. …profit? Moneytongue.
        4. We cool left fist right fist questionmark.

        The deal can only play out if and only if space invader we’re able to get past step one guy with flower.

        Looks like I got it, I can’t possibly see why people think you’re a 4yo.

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
    13·
    1 year ago

    When reading books about Robin Hood: “Robin Hood hated bloodshed”

    I thought it was a literal shed. Where people fought and bled inside.

  • Zahille7@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 year ago

    “Dumbledore, I’m afraid you’ve just put the students in danger one too many times. We’re going to have to sack you; then you’ll be asked to resign.”

  • Drunemeton@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    5th grade. I knew what cloning was, but had never heard the word “Cyclone” until an ill-fated English lesson at school.

    I actually raised my hand and asked the teacher why she was referring to a tornado using a term for genetic replication. She didn’t know, “Genetic Replication”.

    There’s awkward, then there’s that moment. 🤦

  • wuphysics87
    101·
    1 year ago

    This post is one cluster fuck of misunderstanding

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      13·
      1 year ago

      Sorry comrade, Seems like everyone else had no problem, off-topic folks like yourself are the minority here (more alone than not), I’m afraid.

      Maybe try to have a little fun and see if you can remember anything that you misread or misinterpreted as a child. Kinda the whole point of the thread but it takes all kinds I suppose🤣

  • Davel23@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    Trying to read the word “raucous” out loud for the first time. I came up with something like “raw-shus”.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      24·
      1 year ago

      I thought the word initiative was “inna-ty-ay-tive” 🤣

      Edit: that’s a pretty good (less funny) guess, better than Raw-Koose

  • doctorzeromd@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    1 year ago

    I thought the word faucet was both pulled and pronounced flaucet until I was 18. Nobody ever called me on it for some reason.

    I chalk it up to dyslexia and the infrequency of encountering the word.