I can't believe people don't know that?

I can understand someone not knowing whether to take a passport to visit other countries within the UK. We like to emphasise how they are countries in their own right so much, it's not unreasonable to think one might need to show ID of some sort to travel between them.

Totally agree

You don’t know unless someone tells you or you have a reason to find out. There was a reality TV show recently where the man in a new couple didn’t know how to cook pasta. Think he was about 30. And his partner was really shitty about it. “How could you not know how to cook pasta”. Probably because he doesn’t ever make pasta

Its 99.9% of the time wankers who just RELISH the opportunity to belittle anyway and tell themselves they’re intelligent

But she was living in the UK at the time?

It is a lighthearted thread, not an in depth discussion on the education system.

Feel free to start your own, more serious one.

@DappledThings

My friend is not from the UK. So to those who are from the Uk it possibly is basic knowledge but not too someone from another country

Maybe so. But I only have your posts here to go by and your post came across as ignorant of the reasons for educational disparities. You claimed you were open to people pointing out a knowledge gap for you.

Very good 😆

My friend took her passport to drive over the Severn bridge to wales as she thought she needed it and she's a bloody vet! She is so damn smart yet didn't know she didn't need a passport
But that really is very basic knowledge. Not knowing that Wales is part of the UK and therefore you don't need your passport is really not reasonable.

Same as a few years ago when one of my friends had just returned from the Isle of Wight and another friend asked her "what side of the road do they drive on over there?"

When I taught rec/y1 we had a girl (5yrs) come to the school party wearing a very sparkly playboy bunny top.
Our HT who wasn't particularly known for standing up to parents, insisted that mum brought her a change of clothing. Mum was angry and when he explained what it represented, she said ' yeah, I know that! So what!!'

Exactly this!

Some people will be smug or rude about someone not knowing something but then lack the comprehension to grasp why someone might not know these things.

It’s ironic that someone can look down their nose at someone for not knowing something, yet they’re going exactly the same thing.

I don't get the smugness of it when people say that either.

My friend took her passport to drive over the Severn bridge to wales as she thought she needed it and she's a bloody vet! She is so damn smart yet didn't know she didn't need a passport

Nobody can know everything

This is one of my most hated sayings!

There will be multiple things that that person knows that they don’t and so I never understand the smugness of it.

We all know different things and we don’t all have the same education experience.

Was the funeral in Canada? Here in the Uk, funerals have to obey the same traffic rules as everyone else.

You have an issue with making assumptions, it seems. So perhaps you should work on that.

many many years ago I was at a chinese takeaway with a mate of mine. They asked "Are the lobster balls balls of lobster or is it a delicacy?" Among the gang at the time it became a running joke.

also that they wouldn't stop at normal stop signs.
Was that in Canada or here? Hearses follow all the usual rules of the road including all signs and traffic lights here.

Jersey is along the same sarky vein

They're actually called the Channel Islands

I think that's the difference between not knowing that the top bit of men's football in the UK is the Premier League (no-one who ever watches the news, sees a newspaper etc can miss that) - current and ubiquitous! I wouldn't voice the thought, but I really would struggle to believe someone who said that.

OTOH, if someone didn't know that before 1992 it was called Division 1, then I'd just assume they were too young to remember the change because even though older people and footie fans would just know, it's no longer ubiquitous

If I'm honest, there have been times over the last few years when I have got a tiny bit muddled over who the current prime minister is. The knowledge is there somewhere, there have just been quite a few prime ministers recently and I have at times had to stop and have a little think before I commit to a name 😳.

Wales has a different system too.

And UK plugs. And astonishment that there aren’t “nuggets and chips type kids meals” at expensive restaurants.

I find that really shocking. My parents were children during WWII and my mother was in occupied Paris. Some of the things that she let slip were horrifying. There's no excuse for not knowing these kinds of things, lest we repeat them.

You have a knowledge gap (as do a lot of people on this thread) around the concept of educational inequalities/disparities, the contributing factors to that and the lasting impact it has, so maybe start learning about that.

Yes exactly. I know that now because I learnt it on here. Prior to that I'd never really thought about it, because I had no need to.

I suppose we all have spheres of interest...I can recognise several different individual mountains from the viewpoint of a plane, but until about 10 years ago, I believed that Robin Hood was an actual person. I care about hiking and skiing passionately, history less so.