They cant call their house this?

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I have just been to visit my Aunt and Uncle, both early 80s, very quiet living couple.
They live in a culture de sac of other retired folks.
They have put up a sign on the gatepost at the end of their drive.
They proudly made it themselves.
The house is now named "Belle End"
Do I tell them??

Oh, you sweet innocent! I'm a former WI secretary and treasurer. My best friend is a current WI president. A pair of muckier minded, sweary gin whores you'll not find!

This is so funny. Its cheered me up

Oh that makes sense math, thanks, this was like 20 years ago and I must have made up the BnB people's names bit in my head at some point. They couldn't understand why they got a constant stream of French people laughing and taking pictures of their front gate.

Rumour has it a friend of a friend of a friend named their house ‘Fur-cum-Hall’

There's a NT holiday cottage available to rent in the centre of a very beautiful Cornish village (think flood) called The Clinker

at the thought of that BurneyFanny.

@BustedDreams there actually is a house near me that used to be named "Fir Kew Hall" painted in huge letters above the front door!!

It was recently sold and the new owners painted over it

Ahhhh, this was perfect. I needed the chuckle after the crap day I've had

If they are very straight-laced, I wouldn't tell them. Elderly folks can get quite tuttish about things

None of my older relatives would know. Not that they’re short if a sense of humour, they just don’t use MN or sites like it, so wouldn’t have come across it - that’s all.

I expect to make gaffs like this when I’m
Older because I have no intention of trying to keep up with the latest bellend/twat/cocklodger type lingo...I'm quite happy the ones currently in use.

Belle End. It’s pretty clear why THEY chose it. I think the decent thing to do is tell them. I’d certainly hope my younger family members would tell me!

Oh they must know!

There's a NT holiday cottage available to rent in the centre of a very beautiful Cornish village (think flood) called The Clinker

🙋‍♀️ I don’t get it.

I used to live in a house in Scarborough. It was a short term rental. The road at the top of ours was called Paradise. Our house was half way up the rather steep hill. Our house was called ‘Halfway to Paradise’.
I got fed up with people stopping and pointing so I took the name off.

😂😂😂😂😂😂 please draw and tipex bell end on it

Sorry, I've had two gins! I meant an not and!

Clinker is another word for Klingon..... a bit of poo stuck to a bum after going to the loo.

Never heard clinker to mean that.

I know it to be the hard bits left over after you burn coal and other such stuff. It used to be used to build walls, rather badly.

Likewise. Also 'clinker built' is a method of boat-building, by overlapping planks. Also applies to houses. So either the coal or plank version could be relevant to a cottage.

Where in the country / what demographic does your useage come from Pyongyang ? I found it in the urban dictionary (along with a lot of other meanings) but seriously doubt that it's anywhere as widely known as 'bell end'.

@CanadianJohn, the problem with B'day was that it was a whole ad campaign for Beyonce's album. Who was pictured underneath the logo "It's B'day!", as well as in adverts etc. There was the final, 'it's finally B'day, day'. It was released on her birthday.

She obviously had the piss ripped out of her. She later stated that she didn't get the connection and no one pointed it out to her, because she's Beyoncé.

OP, I think they know. Google cul de sac (I did because I didn't know what it meant). This description came up "a reasonably short street with a bulbous end". I personally prefer Bell's End, but either fits.

Reminds me of telling dad my dh’s favourite bourbon was Knob End. How we all laughed, not! Knob Creek!!

An old colleague lives on "Knob Hill" in Warwickshire.

Things could be worse. The OPs folks could have moved to Bell End properly ...

Where in the country / what demographic does your useage come from Pyongyang ? I found it in the urban dictionary (along with a lot of other meanings) but seriously doubt that it's anywhere as widely known as 'bell end'.

I can't speak for Pyongyang, but the first place I ever heard it used that way was, of all places, on an episode of Jam & Jerusalem on BBC1 prime time! They were talking about it being far from uncommon for a woman to 'have a clinker' as she's giving birth.

I'm not saying that there aren't plenty of other mundanely legitimate reasons for using a word or a name - like you could potentially be innocently talking about the cracked rim of an actual church bell with a "damaged bell end" (maybe....). I just reserve my right to have a little chuckle

They know you don't need to tell them, just enjoy their obvious sense of humour.

Can't get over the idea that anyone older than me might not know.

When I was a kid new building site labourers would be sent out for a long stand, striped paint or similar. They'd be embarrassed. The second time they'd be sent out for a plasterer's bell end. They'd d refuse because they'd assume it was another joke. It's real.

The men playing that joke would be in their 80s and 90s now. And it had been played on them in their youth.

Old is not a synonym for innocent or naive!

Lol love it

My parents are both in their 80s & they wouldn't know.

Hmmm. Everyone old today was once a sniggering teenager. Even the most genteel, well-spoken pensioner wasn't born like that. They must surely have encountered all kinds of coarse language over their lives.

There is a small village in Dorset called “Shitterton”