Things you can't believe people have never heard of

Bought a pineapple in a supermarket. On leaving, was asked by incoming customer what it was.
Gently advised work colleague that twat was not an alternative version of twit

We were at lunch with my DDS and his fiancée when we were discussing our wider families. When I said that a cousin of mine had been a shepherd for a while, My son’s fiancé said ‘Are shepherds real, I thought they were made up for the nativity story’

My husband and I both have medical backgrounds and We were chatting with our 25 year old daughter about a patient’s rash on their trunk. Our daughter looked at us in amazement, and we laughed, then explained to her where a human’s trunk is?

runforhome

A friend who lived in Hong Kong who couldn’t understand why there were so many HSBC banks??

Visiting HongKong DH commented to me that ‘HSBC are big here’. Had to explain what the initials stood. He is actually very well educated.

Pre covid I was at a boot fair admiring a toy till a man came along and showed it to his granddaughter and she said what is it?

The things you learn on Gransnet!!

tiredoldwoman

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 .............

This made me LOL! Thank you tiredoldwoman!

I've learnt so many thing today! Now I know why the room full of men dissolved in laughter, when I started work fresh from a convent school and made what I thought were sensible comments.

I didn’t know whether to ask the AC what was tea - bagging or Google, thank goodness I Googled ?

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Years ago when our daughter was a teenager my husband and I were getting ready to go round to some friends for dinner. I innocently asked her what a swingers party was as I had been reading an article in a magazine earlier in the day (pre google). Her face was a picture and she said she didn’t know. But looking back now I can see she did know but didn’t know what to say in reply ?

GrannyGravy13 Sun 28-Mar-21 13:10:55
I didn’t know whether to ask the AC what was tea - bagging or Google, thank goodness I Googled ?

Me too! YUCK!

Obviously the term pearl necklace has been ‘hijaculated’ by younger people!!

I'm 70+ quite broad-minded and I've never heard of a pearl necklace except in the literal.
I have heard of the Suez canal though. Can remember my father getting standby orders from the Navy to go to the troubles in the '50s.

Must look up pearl necklace, also tea bagging, today is obviously a very educational day on GN.

OMG just looked up both of these terms and I am disgusted, I am glad I have been innocent until now.

Getting back on track, I was watching Martin Kemp and his son, Roman, on their DNA journey the other evening. Martin was amazed when he found out that Roman had never heard of Stephenson’s Rocket.

Joesoap

OMG just looked up both of these terms and I am disgusted, I am glad I have been innocent until now.

Yes Joesoap. The worst thing is, you can’t ‘un-know’ them. When I occasionally wear my Wedding Anniversary pearls, I’ll wonder what people might think.

Please could someone write a list of these words and sayings with their meanings. I'm 75 and led a very sheltered life, not knowing a lot of them. I hope I am not alone.

What are budgie smugglers? I told my friend she was a femme fatale, and she said "what's that?"

Oh lord. I've only reached screen 3 so far (short break from other things) and already have a long list of things to Google. And there I was thinking I had a fairly extensive knowledge of naughty phrases and words!

Another who has had a sheltered upbringing?

Just looked up tea bagging!wish I hadn't?

I hadn't heard that one either ?
How innocent am I ?

As a young Girl Guide aged about 11 in the mid 1960’s on a seaside coach trip in our uniforms (and proud of all the badges I had earned and sewn on my uniform)....stumbled across a shop selling huge fluorescent pin on badges. I remember skipping happily through town with “Orgy Organiser” proudly on my chest, had no idea why people were laughing and pointing or why my DD nearly chocked on his false teeth in shock when I got home...

More recently I genuinely, honestly thought that Friend With Benefit (FWB) was a genuine sort of domestic trade exchange thing....chap will do some jobs round my house, in return I do some jobs for him ?. I stopped looking for one and deleted my browsing history after that.