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Fanny Gallops

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bumpsadaisy11 · 26/10/2018 12:45

I just had to share this with you all, as it made me cry with laughter!
Sitting eating lunch with my DH & I asked him if he knew what 'Fanny Gallops' are.
He looked at me with a dead straight face & said ' isn't that a place on Dartmoor!!!!!'
Bless his gorgeous lovely heart 
What are some of the stupidest things that your DH has said to you?

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thatmustbenigelwiththebrie · 27/10/2018 05:32

My old boss had an email folder where she put miscellaneous emails. She called it the "glory hole". She would refer to it in meetings as well. I genuinely think she had no idea what a glory hole is and no one ever enlightened her.

CoodleMoodle · 27/10/2018 05:33

When we first met at 16, DH was very fussy with food. He loves pizza, but at the time only ate margarita. I asked him if he found it bland, not even having any vegetables on it. He raised his eyebrows as if I was stupid and said, "But Coodle, it does have vegetables on it. Look at all the cheese!"

He's genuinely the cleverest person I know Grin

BellMcEnd · 27/10/2018 05:56

What's the make equivalent, I wonder

Cock Canter?

LoniceraJaponica · 27/10/2018 08:37

I have learned something new.
Every day is a school day Grin

LoniceraJaponica · 27/10/2018 08:43

"One such shop was the dairy which sold milk, butter, eggs, cheese and possibly one or two other things"

My mum used to buy eggs from the dairy.

BloodyBosch · 27/10/2018 09:59

@Thatmustbenigelwiththebrie was she Welsh? In some areas of Wales older generations referred to the cupboard under the stairs as the glory hole; keeping everything in there that didn't have its own place. Hence you would find everything in the glory hole.

Shockers · 27/10/2018 10:18

Yes- my Welsh Granny had a glory hole!

Bipbopbee · 27/10/2018 10:29

Not a DH one but an ex of SIL asked her after the birth of my DS whether women's bits stay the expanded size after fitting a baby through Confused he didn’t realise that you don’t stay that way! Made me laugh for ages that one. Can you imagine the draughts?! I told SIL that if that was the case women who had babies would never be able to sit on stools again without sliding down them Grin

81Byerley · 27/10/2018 10:56

My mum was visiting her sister in law who had a new baby. The baby was not keen to feed from the right breast, and Mums sister in law explained it by saying "It's because the left one is sweet and the right one is salt".

amusedbush · 27/10/2018 11:09

my Welsh Granny had a glory hole!

My granny has a glory hole - she’s Scottish Grin

Slappinthebass · 27/10/2018 11:41

Every time I see a robin now I snigger, and think of a similar post to this and the mumsnetter's husband who was shocked to discover robins weren't a fictional Christmas character.

morningconstitutional2017 · 27/10/2018 13:19

My sister says 'prostrate trouble' and doesn't realise that it's 'prostate' and of course asked me if women suffered from it. I didn't have the heart, etc ...

TheGoddessFrigg · 27/10/2018 13:30

My ex thought that gay men were sterile. And that the moon was the other side of the sun.
Even more worryingly - he thought historical dramas were filmed at the time they were set Confused. I found this out when I was watching a Dickens adaptation and he started going 'can't we watch a new film?' .

I am surprised I didn't have to water him twice a day.....

chemenger · 27/10/2018 14:39

Glory hole is or probably was commonly used in Scotland for a cupboard.

LaCarmencita · 27/10/2018 15:03

Not mine, so kind of cheating, but overheard in a pub one evening:

Girlfriend: I saw some baby guinea pigs today- they were so sweet

Boyfriend: Do guinea pigs have babies? I thought you just bought them!

CowesTwo · 27/10/2018 15:03

There's a junk shop near me which is run by the local church to raise funds and it's called The Glory Hole - and the name is painted in bold right across the facade.

BikeRunSki · 27/10/2018 15:15

I have an old friend who grew up on a farm. He went from the farm to study Maths and Computing at Cambridge university. He chose a module called “AI” because his dad (farmer) was looking into using Artificial insemination on the farm. He did wonder what this had to do with maths though... (artificial intelligence).

InsomniacAnonymous · 27/10/2018 16:28

Wow! Some people are so hard of thinking I hope they don't vote!

Meet0nTheIedge · 27/10/2018 17:18

I washed my hair at night and then dried and straightened it. DH asked me what the point of straightening it was if I was going to sleep on it, is it not like ironing a shirt and then wearing it to bed?!

If I did this it would be curly again by the morning.

Glory hole = understairs cupboard or general dumping place here too.

I used to snigger at a local radio station which had a slot on the breakfast programme where you could phone in a dedication, they called it "giving your loved ones a morning glory".

Cambalamb · 27/10/2018 18:29

8I washed my hair at night and then dried and straightened it. DH asked me what the point of straightening it was if I was going to sleep on it, is it not like ironing a shirt and then wearing it to bed?!*

Have to agree with him there, mine wouldn't stay straight.

Cambalamb · 27/10/2018 18:30

www.yourdictionary.com/glory-hole

1tisILeClerc · 27/10/2018 18:54

Glory hole is the name of a place in Lincoln where there is a rather nice coffee shop on a bridge over the Brayford.

AlexaAmbidextra · 27/10/2018 21:52

The term glory-hole has been in use for decades to refer to somewhere ie. a cupboard, where you put all your old rubbish. It’s only latterly that it has been appropriated to mean something with a sexual connotation. So those using it in it’s original sense aren’t wrong at all.

Crapbags · 27/10/2018 22:13

whats the male equivalent I wonder?

Willy wobbles? 😂

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bumpsadaisy11 · 27/10/2018 22:21

I just asked my DH if he knew what a Glory Hole was. He said 'Isn't it what they call the hole, when someone gets a hole-in-one in golf!!! Bless ConfusedConfused

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