To not know what a glory hole is at age 40???

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My DH brought this clip to my attention earlier:

(about 3 minutes in)

And was shocked that, at 40 years old, I had no idea what a "glory hole" is. I thought he was BU, but everyone else in the programme had hysterics and all knew what it was, so am I just stupidly naive/ignorant?

CrossCountryRunner having RTFT the Wandsworth council story is on the Stradivarius website, so that might be the site you're thinking of too?

I don't know anyone in RL who uses the phrase to mean anything other than the 'cupboard under the stairs' type of thing. I can't imagine any scenario where the other meaning might be brought up in conversation!

Other than on Mumsnet :o

I thought the cupboard under the stairs is called a "cubby hole"
I don't think I would be able to contain myself if I heard somebody refer too it as a glory hole.

Fluffers are an extra on a porn set. They can help the guy remain happy in between shoots, wipe fluids away from the woman or man, re-apply lube etc.

Where as I literally know nobody who uses it in the cupboard under the stairs way, in fact I didn't know that was a thing. I'd say cupboard under the stairs may be the less used definition now

I asked an ex in front of too many others that found it highly amusing what was a chocolate starfish

When we separated he sent me a Tiffany starfish necklace which is quite sweet for such a prick

Well, every day is a school day here, isnt it??? I clearly need to stop calling the cupboard under my stairs a glory hole then

I have never known a glory hole to be a cupboard under the stairs only the other version.

This is a street in Lincoln, I struggle to walk past without blushing

Omg I just got reminded of why in the run up to my wedding I had to explain what a pearl necklace was to both my mil and dm on separate occasions as they both asked me if I was wearing one/wanted to wear one on the day.

I didn't know what 'fluffer' meant until last year when I dropped a clanger.

A very very senior colleague came to my place of work and I was meant to babysit him. However, I had a meeting arranged so I asked a colleague to take him for coffee for half hour until I was back. When I arrived, I apologise to the very very senior person about not being there to meet him and joked that I'd had to call upon the other colleague to be a 'fluffer'. It went completely silent.

I thought a 'fluffer' was someone who looked after celebrities backstage like got them drinks and made sure their dressing rooms were okay.

I remember being told a joke at school about glory holes and understanding it. Anyone watched programme fresh meat there is a reference to them in in the first episode.

I knew about fluffers, not about glory holes. Well well well.

When I've been doing nothing in particular I say I've been fluffing about - perhaps I should change this

Lol you should be faffing about no time fluffing!

In fairness though I don't think fluffing about brings fluffers to mind

I suppose there are far fewer glory holes in ladies' toilets than gentlemen's.

My granny calls her pantry the glory hole, which makes me snigger. She gives me a hard stare that tells me she knows why I'm laughing but we don't talk about it

"I thought a 'fluffer' was someone who looked after celebrities backstage like got them drinks and made sure their dressing rooms were okay"
They probably do those things too.

Middleclassproblem I cannot fathom why you would need to respond in any way other than "yes" or "no" if someone asked you whether or not you wanted a certain piece of jewellery for your wedding. The ratio of people saying pearl necklace and meaning a sexual practice must be tiny compared to people meaning an actual, well, pearl necklace. Did you just want to make them feel uncomfortable?

I thought a glory hole was a cupboard under the stairs too.

I have no idea what a chocolate starfish is. (God, I'm going to have to google. Do I need private browsing?)

Hmm, I've known about cottaging, glory holes, fluffers, chocolate starfish and pearl necklaces for over 25 years

My mum bought me a lot of Jackie Collins books when I was young. I think she did hope it would do the sex education bit without the embarrassing birds-and-bees talk, but perhaps they were a little more informative than she planned

Oh right. Got it now. (Turns out chocolate starfish is used alot on N threads- who knew? (possibly everybody!) )

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Mum gave me a fake pearl necklace for Christmas once. DH and I were snurking and fnarring for days afterwards. He still offers to help put it on sometimes

I call animals fluffers!! think i might stop now.

I'd like to think some people call their feather duster a fluffer.
Then, fingers crossed, I'd one day get the opportunity to point to the cupboard under the stairs and announce that DH likes to take his fluffer with him to the glory hole.