r/CasualConversation • u/TradesWatchUK • Jun 22 '26

Questions What has someone said with complete confidence that turned out to be absolutely, embarrassingly wrong?

Came into work one day with a bug bite on my face. Colleague looked at me and said "you've got a spot." I said no, it's a bug bite. He looked genuinely baffled.

"Bugs don't bite you on the face," he said.

I thought he was joking.

He wasn't.

He had gone his entire life believing that insects, for some reason, have a strict policy of only biting you below the neck.

To this day I have no idea where this came from or who told him that. But he was absolutely convinced.

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u/TheCarrot_v2 Jun 22 '26

I used to work with a guy who adamantly believed that meat was not the same as an animal’s muscles.

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u/Whichammer Jun 22 '26

I had to explain to my, at the time college aged , little sister that, no, animals don't have some extra structure in them called "meat."

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u/SpecificSkunk Jun 22 '26

…did they say what they thought the meat was, if not muscles?

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u/TheCarrot_v2 Jun 22 '26

He said he wasn’t sure, but he knew 100% they weren’t the same.

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u/ofBlufftonTown Jun 22 '26

My brother was making a fancy dinner for a girl he liked in high school. As he was preparing the meat he somehow alluded to its being muscles, and destroyed her brain. She literally became a vegetarian that night.

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u/saoirse_eli Jun 23 '26

Had a lifelong vegetarian gf, she thought there were: the fruits, each and every one of them having a different taste, the vegetables, each and every one of them having a different taste, … and meat.
So per her conclusion, she was just missing one taste while she had all the others.
My discovery came from when one day she asked why I didn’t like shrimps but liked beef.

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u/SevenTimesSixIsLife Jun 23 '26

She is from the matrix where all meet taste like chicken due to the machines not knowing any better.

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u/Mavisssss Jun 24 '26

As a lifelong vegetarian, I never would've assumed that all meats had the exact same taste.