Things you can't believe people have never heard of

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

I hadn’t heard of either of those terms.

I wonder how many others I don’t know.

Not bothered, all sound revolting.

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

Well, they say you learn something new everyday !

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

DanniRae

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

It stands the Hong Kong and Shanghai banking corporation

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

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.

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

Well, Biscuitmuncher, you will be relieved to know that your username just means someone who spends a lot of time in meetings munching biscuits rather than doing anything useful. Nothing mucky at all!

Lucca

DanniRae

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

It stands the Hong Kong and Shanghai banking corporation

A friend always refers to it as the Hong Kong and Shang Ri La bank...

I googled tea bagging and ok, I get that. But no such luck with string of pearls. All I got was houseplants and Glenn Miller.....

I not allowed to refer to my under-stairs cupboard as my ‘glory hole’ either any more.

Pearl necklace new to me too ! Have definitely talked about it in many situations. Don't remember any sniggering but wouldn't have realised anyway !

????? cheered me up no end this thread. But google has worked overtime .

On Peter Kay's Car Share The passenger told him she was going 'dogging', which she though was taking her dog for a walk

I thought "dogging" was taking your pet for a walk.

When DH was in the Met Police he knew all the local dogging places near Hampstead Heath.

I was walking down a quiet local lane with Grandpajet recently when I saw a couple ‘taking their dog for a walk’ in a car at the side of the road! ? ?

out in the woods the other day my grandbaby got stuck in the mud and had to be carried . Her mud heavy welly fell off so I stuck a branch in it and walked along singing and doing Jake the Peg . Everyone just stared .............

A member of my family has a “I love dogging mug”.

Google must be doing overtime. Ive been completely put off the mug of tea I’ve just made. I wonder who first introduced some of these crackers. They had to come from somewhere after all, teabags aren’t that old, unlike a merkin ?

I've only learnt this too. Saltire.

Friend was going dogging?.
Another hadn't heard of Line of Duty or Katy Price.

My lovely MIL went on a day trip and came back wearing a baseball cap with writing on it. We had to tell her it wasn’t actually another way of saying, “I love cats”. The teenage grandchildren thought it was really funny ?