Things you can't believe people have never heard of

A friend asked me this week what waffles are.

Do you mean they haven’t read about the stuck shop or they don’t know what the Suez Canal is ?

?The Incredible String Band ?

Old Moore's Almanac.

I was speaking to a friend about my move, and told her I was worried about my fragile Clarice Cliff and Beswick ware china, she'd never heard of either. Or Liberty.

My late husband loved the Incredible String Band, I was forced to sit through an evening with Robin Williams

Williamson!

My GD didn’t know what a census was until last week when I was filling ours in.
I was surprised but shouldn’t have been really, she would have been 12 last time and wouldn’t have been interested.

The term 'budgie smugglers' came up in a light hearted conversation with a friend. I was surprised that he had never heard of them!
I am often surprised that certain things that I thought were common knowledge have escaped the notice of GNetters too, shown by their comments.

A telegram, the younger generation have never heard of them.

I can remember them being read out at weddings, to the happy couple, when a guest was unable to attend in person.

My 93yo mum asked me what budgie smugglers were recently. ? I managed to explain without resorting to crudities.

I thought cottaging was a weekend away.....?

A young chap came to fix our boiler last week and I found myself explaining how we all relied on adverts in Exchange and Mart in the days before the internet.

My very Well educated bloke hadn’t heard “saltire “......

The subject of Scottish independence came up in a zoom chat with three well educated friends a couple of days ago. None of them had heard of the Barnett formula!

I was talking to my 20 year old about when his uncle had his scooter in the back garden he said wasn’t he too old for a scooter I said no a scooter like the mods used to ride Not only had he never heard of a scooter but didn’t know what a mod was ??I showed him a photo and he said oh you mean a ‘ped’ But still had no idea what a mod was

Well I ve never heard of a Barnett formula is it something to do with Ena Sharples ?

Lucca

My very Well educated bloke hadn’t heard “saltire “......

well unless they were in Scotland, i don't think most people would have a clue.

years ago, in London, a woman who had a degree in law and was employed as a consumer advisor, had never heard the word, awning.
i was speaking of a trader, and eventually she said, do you mean the little man in the kiosk.
but there wasn't a kiosk, he just stood under an awning.
she was from Manchester area. is that word not used there ?
she had also never heard of almshouses. or alms. i had to spell both awning and alms, and she looked quite blank.

interesting how the cultural milieu is has changed.
by the time i was 12 i had heard the word census, and gathered the meaning from the context, numerous times in the nativity story.

I was enjoying an afternoon of wine and laughter with a group of ladies last summer. One was a few weeks away from her pearl wedding anniversary. One of the friends suggested it would be lovely if her husband gave her a pearl necklace to mark the occasion. A few of us spluttered into our glasses whilst the friend and two others looked on quite bemused .... the innocents.
??

Good Heavens Urms I had to look that one up, I had a very sheltered upbringing!

Am I being thick! What does a pearl necklace mean?

Google it Lucky, I am not going to tell you!