Things you can't believe people have never heard of

I learned that dogging his footsteps was not a suitable phrase any more when we went to see Fascinating Aida. Not for the faint hearted!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=6A8WjGP9SQE

I could not believe someone from London got a question wrong on a quizz show the other day.
The question was about cockneys and asked what church bells must someone be born within the sound of to be called a cockney. The answer was St. Mary Le Bow although most of us would say the Bow Bells.
I started laughing when the contestant answered the bells
of St Pauls Cathedral.

Well I thought this would be a fun thread, but it's turned into a thread about mucky filth ?

DanniRae

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

It stands the Hong Kong and Shanghai banking corporation

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

Well, they say you learn something new everyday !

Just proves to me that language is an evolving thing. I do know about the Beatles and the Incredible String hand but then I am getting a bit old for the other activities. Hey ho

I hadn’t heard of either of those terms.

I wonder how many others I don’t know.

Not bothered, all sound revolting.

I didn't know either, cannot say that finding the other meaning was worth the time and effort expended on it.

I’m even starting to wonder about the OP’s username!!?

I’ve had to look up so many of these? Is it a generational thing maybe? My daughter and son in law fell about laughing last week when my husband said he’s going to sort out his wood in the garage!!?

I asked my husband about the pn meaning a few years ago as I hadn't heard of it.

From now on I shall refer to the item in my jewellery box as ‘a string of pearls’ and only use loose leaf tea

I remember an elderly aunt spotting a tampax in my sister’s handbag, picking it up, holding it in the air and asking loudly “What’s this?” My quick thinking sister said “Eye makeup remover” while the rest of us fell about laughing.

I once said to someone, when he asked how things were with one of my family, “ The elephant’s not in the room anymore, but is still peaking through the door!”. He said, “ What elephant?” !!

Urmstongran

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.
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Hahaha! I hadn't heard of that expression either, it puts a very different slant on the expression 'pearl clutching' doesn't it

What would we do without Google! Talk about live and learn ... a friend was telling me recently about a lavender marriage, which I'd never heard of, have you?

Thank you, I’ve just googled pearl necklace and tea bagging. Well, I’ve never heard of any of these things, thank goodness! What next? I DO know what cottaging is.

I am going to Google several things i,ve seen on here ?

Cottaging?

Well Google is working over time here!

Pearl necklace......eew! (I googled it)

A young woman in her 20s told me a while ago she had never heard of The Beatles.

A friend who lived in Hong Kong who couldn’t understand why there were so many HSBC banks??

A necklace made out of pearls Lucklegs.
My G/ma had one and wore it on special occasions.
Very expencive too.

I learnt about tea-bagging when my DGS’s school announced one day that it was having a teabag challenge, then changed the title the next day. My DD explained!