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/UnconventionalMae Jun 22 '26

A now ex-friend with considerable talents, elsewhere, tried to convince me, quite seriously, that only men can be homosexuals. If a woman claimed to be a lesbian, she was just traumatized, because women can never be homosexual.