Things you can't believe people have never heard of

Yes I think it was the BCG vaccination for tuberculosis which left the scar FarNorth I seem to remember the polio vaccine being given on a sugar lump.
I use the expression 'once in a Sheffield flood' which was quite usual in Yorkshire but no one seems to have heard of it now. I don't know the origin of the saying.

welbeck

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.

no absolutely NOTHING to do with "from Manchester" cheeky mare! It's do with lack of general knowledge taught either in school or by generations.younger gens dismiss us olds as 'past it' curb your prejudices, heard of that?

welbeck

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.

Oh boy! The sheltered generation,! How ones lack of youthful experience screams out in middle age....?

I wonder where she studied for her degree. There’s a reason a lot of employers just bin cvs mentioning certain places of further education.

I’m not from the sheltered generation, whatever that is, having been a teenager in the 60s, but I had to ask Mr Google what a pearl necklace meant after my experience mentioned earlier, in my late 50s/early 60s. You seem to think it’s funny if our ‘youthful experiences’ didn’t include promiscuity Mummer. I don’t find that funny.

Esspee

….or perhaps it was the smallpox vaccination. It is such a long time ago.

Yes, it's the smallpox vaccination scar.

It may have been the smallpox one although I'm sure I was told it was polio.
Definitely not BCG, which I got in secondary school, as we had the scars while in primary.

I was a bit surprised the nurse had never seen such a scar, anyway.

FarNorth

It may have been the smallpox one although I'm sure I was told it was polio.
Definitely not BCG, which I got in secondary school, as we had the scars while in primary.

Definitely the smallpox scar as I didn't have the polio vaccine until secondary school and the scar was always there as far back as I remember!

I'm surprised as well that the nurse didn't know .