Things you can't believe people have never heard of

happycatholicwife1

Wellbeck, you and me both. Of course, do children get religious education or go to church anymore? Most are sunk by age 10 in cell phones and the cesspool of popular culture, not Bible History, etc., more's the pity.

You don’t sound that happy !!!

When my teenage son and his friend were planning a millennium party at my house (I know...mad) I suggested they could put up some “bunting “. They fell about laughing and went around saying “ooh bunting” for quite a while.

i'm glad you are happy, h.c.w.
that's a cheerful username. waves across the waves.

now little tots send their time having to learn abstruse terms of grammar, which only a linguistic scholar would have heard of in my day.

i think you are in north america ?, h.c.w.
in britain the norm was to have a morning assembly with hymn and prayer, the lord's prayer, and extra events, readings, play etc at christmas.
also religious studies/scripture was compulsory.
i remember a jewish lady asking me, in a rhetorical way when i was about 7, do you know what it is, passover.
i felt mildly offended and said everyone knew about the angel of the lord passed over the children of israel, who fled dry shod through the parting of the red sea, ...etc, blood of the slain lamb marking the doorposts, unleavened bread in a rush.
she was astonished, and said, but how do you know that ?

Wellbeck, you and me both. Of course, do children get religious education or go to church anymore? Most are sunk by age 10 in cell phones and the cesspool of popular culture, not Bible History, etc., more's the pity.

I’ve never heard of it either so I looked it up. Very surprised, dirty birds ! Must be a British speciality, no wonder the population isn’t increasing ..

I didn't realise the sexual connotations of pearl necklace and recently suggested it as a gift for an anniversary!

i guess from what you are saying it must be something indecent. never heard of it. i was thinking maybe a pearl necklace is exorbitantly expensive.
is it perhaps a regional thing.

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

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

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

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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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.