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People or "things" which, implausibly, you or your mate(s) have no knowledge of

Started by gazzyk1ns, February 03, 2004, 01:32:09 AM

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Last night at work someone sent me the 'nudge nudge' python sketch on my mobile phone for some reason. The girl next to me saw it and asked what it was. I told her it was monty python and she remarked that they look like laurel and hardie. It then transpired through the subsequent conversation that she didnt know of Python, Fawlty Towers or even John Cleese. It seemed oddly impressive, to have that much of a gap in your knowledge of popular culture suggests you lead an incredibly busy and productive life I suppose.

gazzyk1ns

Yeah or maybe she just spends her whole life holed up alternately in a call centre and curled up on the sofa watching "Fat Friends"? We just don't know, do we...

Cerys

Friend coming into the room while we were watching 'The Goodies', and noticing Bill Oddie: 'Ooh, is that Kenny Everett?'

I felt so old.

TOCMFIC

hehehe These are all great. I have a friend who has never heard of Chris Morris or any of his work. But I don't consider that to be a big gap in someones brain. I can forgive this lapse as he's pretty good with everything else.

Amusingly, this same friend, in 1989, had NEVER heard any of Frankie goes to Hollywood! I played him the two tracks I had. "Relax" and "Two Tribes". He then went on a major FGTH kick within months had everything they'd ever released, including a load of ltd. edition stuff, bootlegs etc....

Capuchin

Quote from: "23 Daves"I had an American girlfriend ... You'd think she would have noticed there were Socialists In Britain within that time.

There are?

Cerys, I haven't heard of the expression "nine day wonder" either.
Until now, you see.

Cerys

Oh hell, not you as well!  I'm beginning to get a complex here....

Capuchin

I've heard similar phrases I'm sure, but not that specific one.
Is it because you is Welsh?

Bogey


Cerys

Oh, please!   It isn't because I is Welsh <grin>.  It's usually used to mean something that seems good but doesn't last.  Like 'one hit wonder', really.  It's often thought to be derived from Lady Jane Grey's abortive stint as Queen, but I've also heard of it being a reference to the length of time that puppies and kittens have before their eyes open.  Hey ho.

Edit - try here to see what Google thinks of it....

Ambient Sheep

Quote from: "Cerys"Oh hell, not you as well!  I'm beginning to get a complex here....
It's OK, I'd heard of it before, and I was born in Sarf Lahndan and brought up in Essex...

easytarget

Quote from: "Cerys"Friend coming into the room while we were watching 'The Goodies', and noticing Bill Oddie: 'Ooh, is that Kenny Everett?'

I felt so old.

This reminds me of one.

A couple of years ago I worked in an office in Cambridge. A new sandwich shop had just opened up around the corner and by way of promoting it minor celebrity Rory McGrath had been hired to tramp into various workplaces and dispense free buttys.

After he left my mate said "Was that Bill Oddie?". Top man.

Blue Jam

Quote from: "Geej"My Secretary had never heard of Charlie Manson... ...She now looks at me as though I am severely twisted.

Once I was watching a programme with three flatmates, and there was a reference to Charles Manson. One of the flatmates said "who's Charles Manson?" None of them knew, so I told them who he was, and one of them said "trust you to know that!" and looked at me like I was some sort of obsessive serial killer fanatic.

One of my current flatmates had never heard of the Hillsborough disaster, and still doesn't understand why Liverpool FC supporters boycott The Sun, and why they can't just "forgive and forget".

He'd never heard of David Axelrod either, despite being a big fan of DJ Shadow. Some people... ;)

William Hague had never heard of ABBA until recently. I think that says a lot about him ;)

JesusAndYourBush

As a kid when I watched the comedy show "Citizen Smith" I used to think that the classic Che Guevara poster on his wall was a picture of Wolfie Smith himself, and it was few years before I found out the truth.

One kid at school was writing an English essay about how Britain should withdraw from NATO.  I was bored and so leaned over and read what he was writing.  His reasoning was that it was a waste of money sending people into space and then he blathered on about the space shuttle.  He'd only gone and got it confused with NASA.

r smelly

was doing a practice exam paper with a guy at uni when he pointed at a list of 5 things and said "they've got this wrong it says there's several of them, there's only 5"

turns out he thought several ment 7 of something.

how?

smoker

Quote from: "JesusAndYourBush"One kid at school was writing an English essay about how Britain should withdraw from NATO.  I was bored and so leaned over and read what he was writing.  His reasoning was that it was a waste of money sending people into space and then he blathered on about the space shuttle.  He'd only gone and got it confused with NASA.

please tell me you didn't correct him

Someone else mentioned being made to feel old... I recall talking to some 22 year old about 5 years back about music and my own favourite bands... and the bastard had never heard of The Smiths... I mean.. come on.

and then there was this girl I fancied right up to the moment I started talking about politics and she had no idea what the difference between right and left wing was...

Hmmm, maybe I need some new friends.

Krang


smoker

Quote from: "Krang"My mother has/had no idea of who Barry White is/was.

... your resemblance to him is just a coincidence

jutl

Quote from: "Geej"My Secretary had never heard of Charlie Manson.

I sent her the grisliest link I could find, as well as giving rather frighteningly accurate descriptions of his crimes.

She now looks at me as though I am severely twisted.


Hmm... I made the mistake of talking about Manson during a fairly important lunchy-thing I had to attend. I was telling a nice man with spectacles and a clever-looking American woman about how Manson was not as bad as everyone made out, and that the people who had actually committed the Tate-Labianca murders (ie other members of the Manson Family) were treated far better in prison, and nowhere near as vilified in the public consciousness. Manson, I deftly argued, was a kind of sacred monster for the establishment, a man to hate but not to understand. I could see I was getting through to the chap with glasses, but the American woman was clearly horrified and stomped off.

Anyway...

I'm always meeting people who have less knowledge of trivial shit than I do, and I envy them.

hencole

Quote from: "Cerys"Oh, please!   It isn't because I is Welsh <grin>.  It's usually used to mean something that seems good but doesn't last.  Like 'one hit wonder', really.  It's often thought to be derived from Lady Jane Grey's abortive stint as Queen, but I've also heard of it being a reference to the length of time that puppies and kittens have before their eyes open.  Hey ho.

Edit - try here to see what Google thinks of it....

The phrase is 'one week  wonder', not 9 day wonder you crazy welsh person.

ColaCoca

This girl I used to work with (and never shagged) was talking about a British film she'd seen (I forget which one).  I said, 'Oh, Is that a Mike Leigh film?', she looked a bit confused for a moment then said, 'No, there was definitely no kung fu in it.'

A group of us were playing Trivial Pursuit one night and a mate's ex-girlfriend asked the question, 'Who painted the roof of the Sistine Chapel?' to which we answered Michelangelo.  She looked well chuffed and said 'Nope, Mitch-el-en-gay-low.'  What a turnip.

lordaxil

Since this thread is turning confessional...

Along time ago, when I worked on the tills in Sainsbury's, I was serving an old Caribbean woman when along came a piece of root ginger on the conveyor, which in retrospect was clearly chosen to be just the right shape and size. Having never seen anything like this before, I mistook it for a piece of rubbish and threw it into the bin right in front of her eyes. The look of horror was priceless.

Afterwards I was sent on a "fresh produce recognition course" (I jest not), which involved long hours of scanning/weighing obscure vegetables and fruit under the watchful eyes of a senior staff member. Although I noticed she did pronounce mange tout as "mangy towt".

lordaxil

Quote from: "lordaxil"... clearly chosen to be just the right shape and size...

for convenient cutting and eating, before anyone gets any ideas.

JesusAndYourBush

Quote from: "smoker"
Quote from: "JesusAndYourBush"One kid at school was writing an English essay about how Britain should withdraw from NATO.  I was bored and so leaned over and read what he was writing.  His reasoning was that it was a waste of money sending people into space and then he blathered on about the space shuttle.  He'd only gone and got it confused with NASA.

please tell me you didn't correct him

I didn't.  He probably wondered why I was laughing though.

El Unicornio, mang

I knew a girl at college (she was 21 then, will be 25 now) who hadn't heard of Yoko Ono and thought The Beatles were American.

Also, when my wife and I went to see my family last year, my sister asked her if she listened to Metro FM, Newcastle's most popular local radio station. Despite the fact my wife is from Florida.

Oh, and a guy, also at college, who, no matter how hard I tried to explain, couldn't understand why "Cheap at half the price" is an incorrect phrase.

Oh, and another guy I knew who thought it was "Wouldn't say boo to a ghost". When I tried to explain that it was actually "goose" he goes:
"What? What's scary about a goose though?"
"Exactly. That's the point"
"No, but a goose isn't scary, a ghost is"

I know lots of thick people

Sherringford Hovis

Quote from: "hencole"
Quote from: "Cerys"Oh, please!   It isn't because I is Welsh <grin>.  It's usually used to mean something that seems good but doesn't last.  Like 'one hit wonder', really.  It's often thought to be derived from Lady Jane Grey's abortive stint as Queen, but I've also heard of it being a reference to the length of time that puppies and kittens have before their eyes open.  Hey ho.

Edit - try here to see what Google thinks of it....

The phrase is 'one week  wonder', not 9 day wonder you crazy welsh person.

It's in The Hobbit as a nine-day wonder too.

Cerys

Yay!  Take that Hencole!  Thankyou, SH - you're on my Christmas card list....

Alberon

Quote from: "Sherringford Hovis"
Quote from: "hencole"
Quote from: "Cerys"Oh, please!   It isn't because I is Welsh <grin>.  It's usually used to mean something that seems good but doesn't last.  Like 'one hit wonder', really.  It's often thought to be derived from Lady Jane Grey's abortive stint as Queen, but I've also heard of it being a reference to the length of time that puppies and kittens have before their eyes open.  Hey ho.

Edit - try here to see what Google thinks of it....

The phrase is 'one week  wonder', not 9 day wonder you crazy welsh person.

It's in The Hobbit as a nine-day wonder too.

Yeah, I live in Reading and I've heard of Nine Day Wonder as well.

gazzyk1ns

Obviously a very very recent thing but can't you get some kind of driving-related penalty which is known as a "X-day wonder"? It means they're going to let you off but you have to report to the nearest police station within X days and present... I'm not sure, maybe it's your driving license, assuming you never had it with you at the time... or something, I dunno, someone help me out here...

Ambient Sheep

Quote from: "gazzyk1ns"Obviously a very very recent thing but can't you get some kind of driving-related penalty which is known as a "X-day wonder"? It means they're going to let you off but you have to report to the nearest police station within X days and present... I'm not sure, maybe it's your driving license, assuming you never had it with you at the time... or something, I dunno, someone help me out here...
It's simply if you get stopped and can't show any of your driving licence, insurance or MOT.  You have to go to your nearest police station and show them within - I think - 7 days, and yeah, I've heard it referred to as a "nine days wonder" too.