Things you can't believe people have never heard of

I just looked it up, LMAO,,, thats hilarious!!!!

I had to google that, and it’s true! ??

Jaxie ???

I heard something relevant on the radio this week. Apparently the power firm Powergen is Italian. Someone had to point out to them the foolishness of choosing as their web site moniker “Genitalia”. Sorry to be rude...

Gagagran

My DH is 78 and all his life has thought the phrase "one fell swoop" was "one fowl swoop". He had to be shown the dictionary definition before he believed me.

Wel it does make sense as it's birds that swoop.

Gagagran

My DH is 78 and all his life has thought the phrase "one fell swoop" was "one fowl swoop". He had to be shown the dictionary definition before he believed me.

It’s Shakespeare, from Macbeth.

Gosh I must be an innocent too!
I haven’t heard of half these things - it’s my sheltered upbringing!

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My DH is 78 and all his life has thought the phrase "one fell swoop" was "one fowl swoop". He had to be shown the dictionary definition before he believed me.

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.

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

Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls

i would have guessed the twinset was perhaps a skirt.

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

Tidyskatemum. ?

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!

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

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.

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 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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.