Things you can't believe people have never heard of

Urms

Here is ‘our bar’ ❤️

Sounds like bliss to me. Just lovely

Sunlover

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. ??

I’ve now looked up tea bagging and shocked about a ten year old talking about it. The joys of the internet!

I hadn’t heard the meaning of Pearl necklace either. Now going to look up the Barnett formula and tea bagging.
I do know what the saltire is and I’m not Scottish.

You’re right there Millie! I ❤️ my “Ladies Who Wine” group so much! A mixed age group. A weekly group of women, sat in a Spanish bar enjoying wine, friendship and laughter!
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Urmstongran
It all happens in the Malaga sunshine ?
This thread has been so amusing

When I was a young woman starting out in the world of hospital lab work, I asked a male doctor what randy meant. His reply was 'you know, like a goat'. I was very embarrassed!

I am often surprised at the ignorance of the celebrities on Richard Osman's House of Games. The other day Rav Wilding said he had never heard of Marie Antoinette. The stand-up comedians usually have the best all round general knowledge - they could teach me a thing or two I am sure!

Sparkling

I can’t see anything wrong with a Pearl necklace. I had one for my 21st birthday and it’s lovely.

There’s nothing wrong with a ‘bought’ pearl necklace Sparkling. Very beautiful and classy.

The ribald humour last summer was when my lady friend suggested her husband ‘give’ her one of them!

That was what set off the laughter. Poor lass was bemused ... then mortified.

Well if nothing else ladies, this has generated 80% of the conversation on here!

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I just had to google it too!

I used to refer to the way Elvis died as rug munching, until I realised it meant something very different.

Pearl Necklace? Well I had to look it up as well. All I can say is "One lives and learns!!!" I'll never look at my pearls again without a smile on my face!

Pearl necklace. I have had and extension today of my knowledge in that area.

www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/advice/a303/pearl-necklace/

Unfortunately I was aware of all of these double entendres....
And I also know what a Lavender marriage is (a marriage of convenience to hide someone's sexuality)
My own dd asked me very loudly on a packed bus what a blow job was..
With everyone looking at me I told her I'd explain when we got home (which I did).
She was thoroughly embarrassed bless her.
My mum told people she didn't know if she was 'Arthur or Martha ' instead of the phrase 'don't know my arse from my elbow ' until I explained she was describing herself as bisexual ?
My dd (24 at the time) didn't know Prince Andrew was the brother of Charles.... she thought Charles was an only child!
Like everything, you only know it once you've learnt it .

So very hilarious and educating indeed. Thank you for that. Sadly my Pearl wedding anniversary has past!!

Someone upthread referred to Leonardo da Vinci's statue of David! Surprised no-one else has told her it was by Michelangelo.

my daughter didnt know this either . asked where the suez canal was . she said cambridge .. i laughed ,and said didnt they teach you anything at school?

Innuendos apart, I'm always struck when contestants in Pointless tv show, say 'It's before my time' in relation to event in fairly recent history. It seems to me that general knowledge is personal to the individual.

I think I know a fair amount of what used to be termed general knowledge, but my knowledge of so called pop culture stops around 1980. That would stop me in my tracks if I was ever to appear on Millionaire. All lifelines burnt in one go.

I used to think 'twat' was a variation on 'twit' and used to call students at school. Until I said it in front of the headmaster one day, and he explained it to me (a really nice guy he was, rare among heads). I was so shocked I said 'Oh sh*t!' within earshot of a group of students. In many schools, I would have been on a written warning for both, but the lovely guy thought it was funny.

Oh dear. So many people on here aren't familiar with euphemisms for rude things but I know 'em all, and more.... My grown up children have enlightened me on all such matters.

Years ago, my DH was mortified when I advised him to stop calling his boss "a wanker" when they were joking together. I explained what it meant, and it turned out that he thought it meant the same as "a wally." He said, "Oh no! I've called him a wanker, lots of times, to his wife!" In his defence, English isn't his first language.

I think that there are very many things that we assume everyone knows about, but younger people don't. I find myself on the verge of referring to some famous person and then realising it was years since they were famous, and my children and grandchildren won't know who they are.

Kaimoana

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

Ah, cheers, Kaimoana. That's why I was getting Glenn Miller with 'string of pearls...doh!

You obviously did not go to school in Scotland!

There in our school-days grammar was most definitely taught and not at the expense of religious instruction either!

BlueBelle

Well I ve never heard of a Barnett formula is it something to do with Ena Sharples ?

The Barnett formula is what gives the Scots more funding per head of population than the English

When my mum heard that my DP had lived in Surbiton she was astonished because she thought it was a made up name only used in “The Good Life”, like Weatherfield was in Coronation St.

Last Thursday, my front crown came out , I remarked to one of my Son's friends (25) that I looked like 'Steptoe!' blank expression ensued