Things you can't believe people have never heard of

Bloody ‘doggers’ have ruined a local nature reserve for those of us who want spent the night ( or 2) in our motohomes.

So many of our old words and phrases have double entendre's now that you have to think before you say anything.
I've no idea about the pearls though and haven't dared google.

Another friend,quite Christian,no nonsense type lady,ofter refers to annoying people as 'silly twats'. Should I tell her?

Oh dear! I’d tell her, she may say it in front of someone who is shocked.

I know someone, a woman in her 50s who had never heard of Suffragettes

I also heard someone say once, "so Catholics, they aren't Christians are they?"

Billybob4491

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

i think originally that was the cover story, hence how it got that name.

I think most probably a lot more on mumsnet would know the term A Pearl necklace, and yes I did know ?

joannapiano

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

i never noticed any there, too full of cottagers.
or are you making it an all-encompassing term.

Oh yes, I forgot about those! Epping Forest was also very popular.

any chance of getting back on track , away from all this smuttiness.
i wish i'd never heard of some of these. or could guess. it does not add to the beauty of life. i prefer not to look on ugliness.

i still don't understand the HSBC reference. or is that smutty too. in which case i don't want to know.

welbeck

any chance of getting back on track , away from all this smuttiness.
i wish i'd never heard of some of these. or could guess. it does not add to the beauty of life. i prefer not to look on ugliness.

i still don't understand the HSBC reference. or is that smutty too. in which case i don't want to know.

I explained that !

DanniRae

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!"

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I’ve never heard of the Pearl necklace saying. I got one for my Pearl anniversary. ! ?

but Lucca, what was the point, about the Hong Kong person being surprised at so many HSBC banks.
what was it she didn't know ?

When President Clinton was accused of his affair with Miss Lewinsky, the newspapers kept referring to a B J.
I had taken my mother and mother in law for a weeks holiday, we had a broadsheet delivered daily, my MIL said “ darling what’s this B J the journalists are referring to?”
My mother then piped up, I have no idea.
I explained as politely as I could.
My MIL responded with “ do you think they do it in England or just America?”
I’m sure it’s just American said my mother. ??

I had never heard of a "pearl necklace" either.

I've looked it up. I bet I'll hear it soon because I often find, if you learn a new word or expression, you keep hearing it afterwards.

You learn something new every day.

Well I didn't know the term a "pearl necklace" either, I could only think of pearl clutching, that is sometimes referred to on this site, however, I did think if the term is used frequently on MN, then it's bound to have a sexual connotation. After further investigation on line, I see it does! Off to clutch my pearls, or I would if I had some, well I have pearl earrings at least!

Yes indeed Tangerine you do learn something new every day!

My post pretty much hijacked this thread didn’t it?
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Apologies Biscuitmuncher. I bet you’ve given up on it. Mind you, would it have generated so much traffic otherwise?
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I've had such a laugh reading this thread!

I knew about PN from school 50 years ago, but never heard of tea bagging until today! Googled it!

I was very surprised to hear a celebrity, in his 40s, on a quiz show yesterday, admit that he had never heard of Marie Antoinette. ?

I knew tea bagging and dogging but peals necklace is a new one to me.
I asked DS and DIL for one for my 60th birthday, I wonder if they were quietly snickering at me?!

A group of us were sitting at the table in the staff room once, when one of the young married teachers bounced in and announced she and her hubby were going dogging that weekend.

She meant they were going greyhound racing. And wondered why we were all screaming with laughter.

Had to explain what a cheque was to a little girl I was teaching last week.

Hate to think that no-one knows about pounds and ounces. My baking doesn't turn out the same with metric measurements.

But the funniest one was years a go when I was explaining how something had been knocked off the mantlepiece. My daughter's face was a picture when I said it had "gone for a burton".

Good grief, why so coy and at our age too.
Pearl necklace is a euphemism for sperm spilled near the breast and neck area.

I'd never heard of a pearl necklace before either. As they say, you learn something new every day (although I'm not sure I wanted to learn that!).