Things you can't believe people have never heard of

Oh yes, I forgot about those! Epping Forest was also very popular.

joannapiano

When DH was in the Met Police he knew all the local dogging places near Hampstead Heath.

i never noticed any there, too full of cottagers.
or are you making it an all-encompassing term.

I think most probably a lot more on mumsnet would know the term A Pearl necklace, and yes I did know ?

Billybob4491

I thought "dogging" was taking your pet for a walk.

i think originally that was the cover story, hence how it got that name.

I know someone, a woman in her 50s who had never heard of Suffragettes

I also heard someone say once, "so Catholics, they aren't Christians are they?"

Oh dear! I’d tell her, she may say it in front of someone who is shocked.

Another friend,quite Christian,no nonsense type lady,ofter refers to annoying people as 'silly twats'. Should I tell her?

So many of our old words and phrases have double entendre's now that you have to think before you say anything.
I've no idea about the pearls though and haven't dared google.

Bloody ‘doggers’ have ruined a local nature reserve for those of us who want spent the night ( or 2) in our motohomes.

My lovely MIL went on a day trip and came back wearing a baseball cap with writing on it. We had to tell her it wasn’t actually another way of saying, “I love cats”. The teenage grandchildren thought it was really funny ?

Friend was going dogging?.
Another hadn't heard of Line of Duty or Katy Price.

I've only learnt this too. Saltire.

Google must be doing overtime. Ive been completely put off the mug of tea I’ve just made. I wonder who first introduced some of these crackers. They had to come from somewhere after all, teabags aren’t that old, unlike a merkin ?

A member of my family has a “I love dogging mug”.

out in the woods the other day my grandbaby got stuck in the mud and had to be carried . Her mud heavy welly fell off so I stuck a branch in it and walked along singing and doing Jake the Peg . Everyone just stared .............

I was walking down a quiet local lane with Grandpajet recently when I saw a couple ‘taking their dog for a walk’ in a car at the side of the road! ? ?

When DH was in the Met Police he knew all the local dogging places near Hampstead Heath.

I thought "dogging" was taking your pet for a walk.

On Peter Kay's Car Share The passenger told him she was going 'dogging', which she though was taking her dog for a walk

????? cheered me up no end this thread. But google has worked overtime .

Pearl necklace new to me too ! Have definitely talked about it in many situations. Don't remember any sniggering but wouldn't have realised anyway !

I not allowed to refer to my under-stairs cupboard as my ‘glory hole’ either any more.

I googled tea bagging and ok, I get that. But no such luck with string of pearls. All I got was houseplants and Glenn Miller.....

Lucca

DanniRae

Sorry don't get the HSBC banks reference? Am I being dim?

It stands the Hong Kong and Shanghai banking corporation

A friend always refers to it as the Hong Kong and Shang Ri La bank...

Well, Biscuitmuncher, you will be relieved to know that your username just means someone who spends a lot of time in meetings munching biscuits rather than doing anything useful. Nothing mucky at all!