Things you can't believe people have never heard of

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.

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

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 ..

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 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 ?

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

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.

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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 !!!

Well I never (had to look it up too)!

? just googled pearl necklace! ?

Ooh, I loved the Incredible String Band! Goes back to very first days with dh. ‘First Girl I loved’ is my favourite.

I haven't heard of some of the things mentioned above (but I have lived outside the UK for over 40 years.) Who is Clarice Cliff?

There are lots of things that we would talk about quite normally here and you wouldn't have heard of, and it's always amusing trying to explain to youngsters what life was like when the "Iron Curtain" was still up.

I do know what a p..n. is though.

Had to look it up as well but that is the norm for me these days. Who starts these double meanings?

I don't know what a 'pearl necklace' - don't think I want to know either!
I took some women's magazines to a very elderly aunt and when she was reading the problem page she said to me "What is oral sex?" I then had to explain to her what it involved. I don't recall what I said but she must have grasped the facts because she replied "Well I'm glad uncle xxxx didn't expect me to do that!"

An old school friend of mine, who is, I thought, reasonably well educated, had never heard of Stephen Hawking.

Another innocent who had to look it up.

When I was teaching a ten year old was heard talking about tea bagging. Very few of the staff had ever heard of it ( me included). A younger member of staff enlightened us. ??

Well I never.
A thread of enlightenment- that's two new phrases to add to my repertoire to avoid in certain company!!

My mother, bless her innocence, once said she thought that oral sex was only invented in the depraved 1960s.

At the time I was doing a multi-disciplinary OU course on Homer - the materials included images of very graphic paintings on Greek vases.
Once I’d shown her some of those, she no longer imagined that ‘orgies’ were only invented in the 60s, too.

Tea bagging ? There are a couple of things on here that I had never heard of either 75 years in blissful ignorance.
I did have to explain to someone about making tea in pre tea bag days. Having a cup of tea then was more of a ceremony, unlike dunking a bag in hot water.

So what are we supposed to ask for if we want a certain item of jewellery on our 30th anniversary? There’s one in my jewellery box, so I must have mentioned it back in the day - I can only hope my friends were, like me, too innocent to think about the connotations.

I won't be able to look at a photo of Maggie Thatcher in her Pearl necklace without thinking of this.

Off to google tea bagging.

There I was, innocently dipping into this thread...? well, just educated my DH, including what a saltire is, I hope that still means what I think it does, or do I have to consult the urban dictionary?

I was going through a supermarket checkout when a girl (in her very late teens or early twenties) looked at my shopping and said ‘What’s that? Is it an orange? I was speechless, she wasn’t joking either!