Things you can't believe people have never heard of

Do we have to sit an exam on our newfound knowledge do you think. ?

HannahLoisLuke

Blinko

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.....

You need to search for Pearl necklace not string of pearls. You might prefer not to.
I’ve had to look up a few terms mentioned on this thread. Eye opening!

Thanks, HLL. Whilst I was dithering someone kindly spelled it out.... Kaimoana I think. So now I am in the know!

Just had to Google snowballing .... enough said.

I've known about pearl necklaces for some time. At work one day I was chatting to some younger colleagues, discussing what to get my sister for her 60th. "Some jewellery?" suggested one. "Possibly" I replied as " I know her husband was planning to give her a pearl necklace". Almost immediate collapse of young colleagues who then kindly explained my faux pas.

I asked in Sainsburys if they had any nail brushes and the lad had no idea what they were.

Many years ago my mother had a wooden, rickety ironing board. When she did the ironing she always banged the iron down noisily. My father use to say 'ah, it's bonking time again!' They had no idea why we found it so funny.

Please don’t make this another RF thread, but I’ve just watched 5 ‘celebrities’ who didn’t know that the Duke of Lancaster is the Queen!

I am now going to start wearing my Pearl necklace. If you see me give me a little wave and nod your head 3 times. I’ll know that you are one of the in crowd.
I don’t suppose the young know what an in crowd is....

So funny and enlightening.

That's so unprofessional of your coworkers. I feel
badly for you, mrswoo! They sound like a bunch of emotionally stunted adolescents. What a shame that a lovely thing like a pearl necklace is sniggered at.

In my early twenties, I didn’t realise what “blow job” meant and in my innocence asked my hairdresser for one. He blushed and looked very embarrassed, saying “I think you mean blow dry”. It wasn’t until someone explained the difference to me later that day and I was mortified. Had to change hairdresser, couldn’t face him after that.

happycatholicwife1

That's so unprofessional of your coworkers. I feel
badly for you, mrswoo! They sound like a bunch of emotionally stunted adolescents. What a shame that a lovely thing like a pearl necklace is sniggered at.

agree.

Mollygo

Please don’t make this another RF thread, but I’ve just watched 5 ‘celebrities’ who didn’t know that the Duke of Lancaster is the Queen!

Mollygo, not sure if you are being serious.
i thought this was about things that are/were/ ought to be common currency.
who ever has heard of this, outside the college of heraldry.

A couple of years ago I was talking to a young woman who had no idea what a pound note was.

ewww... just looked a few things up! Thanks for the education (I think I was better off not knowing!)

Getting back to faxes/telefax...
In one of my first office jobs I worked in the photo-copy office of a large engineering company. It was a lot of fun, and not involving much hard work. We occasionally had to fax something to the regional office. It involved phoning the regional office, sliding in the letter, then hit send, and the whole paper went through and came out like a photocopy.

Forward a few years to a different job, and was asked at interview if I knew how to operate a telefax, to which I replied in the positive. Imagine my confusion of my first evening when I had to send reports in on an odd looking typewriter with a paper ribbon and braille-like holes punched onto it. I had no idea, and was embarrassed to have to be shown. I'm sure they no longer exist.

Tea bagging? There’s some dirty molls around,aren’t there? ?
I’d never heard of it,either. Some younger members of our family have absolutely no knowledge of history like World War 2. European history doesn’t seem to be taught anymore here and I think that is quite dangerous because mistakes will be made again and no lessons learned.

I had to open a work colleague’s computer whilst she was at home. She had two degrees, a doctorate and who knows what else. She said her password was 1raspberry. Well, I kept trying it over and over and had to admit defeat. It turned out later that she spelled it as rasberry! She had no idea there was a p in it! What a brilliant password though!

Welbeck, sorry, I didn’t know it was such a specialist area.
I mistakenly thought that at least the older posters in here would know, and if not, it’s now just another thing like teabagging, pearl necklaces, dogging, cottaging, blowjobs etc. that many posters didn’t know before, but now do.
Sorry again, I didn’t mean to offend you.

I discovered today, that some people are unaware that modern man evolved in Africa and spread around the world evolving into different racial types with their different colouration as he went.

Sorry, not modern man, modern humans and 'they' at the end of the last sentence.

The first question in The Times daily quiz today was ‘A twinsets is a matching jumper and .....? At first I was a bit gobsmacked that anyone wouldn’t know it was a cardigan but I guess it’s an age thing. Then DH said ‘ Oh, I thought it meant a jumper and Pearl necklace” I then explained this thread to him!

Tidyskatemum. ?

i have only got as far as page 7 of this thread so don't know if anyone else, apart from previous posters, has posted re HSBC.
i apologise for 'shouting' but it is just an acronym for HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANK, therefore anyone actually living in hong kong should be well aware of the reason for there being so many branches.
there is no dubious connotation

i would have guessed the twinset was perhaps a skirt.

You may be interested in this Podcst
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000t4kh

Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls

Having lived this long without the need to know some of the double entendre mentioned here, think I'll just continue to muddle through in limited ignorance.