To be surprised friend never heard of Winnie the pooh?

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She is an adult born and raised in this country. I mentioned the Winnie the pooh anniversary and was very surprised when she had no idea who he is. I am not sure how you can never have picked this information up.

I remember Fungus the Bogeyman but I can understand someone not hearing of him, Winnie the Pooh is far more well known

I meant you as in generally someone might have not read winnie the pooh, not you personally, but everyone knows who Winnie the Pooh is regardless of reading the books/watching tv!

Your friend did know hound of the baskervilles, they just didnt know it was sherlock Holmes which isn't massively unreasonable if you're not into sherlock Holmes. I think a good proportion of people dont know the Sherlock Holmes stories, I really doubt anyone doesnt know Winnie the Pooh

I totally agree @Deadleaves77 that it's incredibly surprising that OP's friend hadn't heard of Winnie the Pooh.

The Queen's first husband, iirc.

Not knowing Winne the Pooh is admittedly quite an achievement. But some people just manage to know what feels like it is the most known thing in the world to many.

I remember a thread on here, where there was a surprising number of posters who had never noticed that rear number plates in the UK are yellow. These were posters from the UK, who as an adult drove their own UK car every day and had seen uK cars pretty much daily their whole life, yet had never spotted these cars all had a white plate on the front and a yellow one on the back! Despite that this is a fact known by people from all over the globe!! Was nuts!!

I met someone who had never heard of Hitler before. Winnie the Pooh is very suprising too

My mum is exactly the same, it drives me mad ! She was doing one of those arrow word puzzles that have a photo of a person for one of the clues the other day and asked me who it was because she reckoned she didn't know. It was Robbie Williams. When I told her the answer, she claimed never to have heard of him. She used to religiously watch the 6 o'clock news until a few years ago - she has definitely heard of and seen Robbie Williams.

This would be my guess too OP - she is trying to appear too cultured and sophisticated to have heard of a children's character.

Had she heard of Pooh bear? You definitely need to show her a photo, can’t imagine anyone doesn’t know him.

Winnie the Pooh wallpaper, pj’s, socks, toys, stationery, mugs, watches, baby clothes, adult clothes, Christmas decorations and home wear, bags, purses, ornaments, films - cartoons, live animation, gifs, memes, hospital walls, buggies and baby equipment, curtains, onesies, slippers, tattoos…….and on and on.
This goes way beyond books, I challenge anyone to go into a big supermarket and not be able to find a product with Winnie on it.
To suggest (pp) your friend may just think it’s a generic nameless bear is ridiculous and I don’t think I could have let this go.

It’s like when an adult says ‘I can’t pronounce biscetti bolognaise’ just give over.

I did too but they grew up in China, apparently he’s not really taught about there as part of the standard curriculum

My mum watches the news several times a day and while she might of seen stories about Robbie Williams at the time of Take That but I can guarantee you that she wouldn't have a clue now who he is

She doesn't have any interest in popular culture and simply wouldnt have retained the information, we're all interested in different things

Sometimes I go to a pub quiz where they do a picture round and I never recognise any famous film actors which I know surprises the friends I go with. I know the names but wouldn't know them if they walked in the pub. Tom Cruise Id recognise but not many more 😀

There was an edition of Pointless where they asked 100 British people about Roman names for British cities, and only 98 or 99 (I remember clearly that it wasn't a clean sweep) either knew or could have a half-decent guess at which British city the Romans referred to as Londinium!

She might not be into Gilbert and Sullivan at all, though.

That's a fair point. He is often just referred to as Pooh or Pooh Bear.

Maybe the "Winnie" bit has passed her by.

I once met an intelligent bloke in his 20s who was studying engineering at university. When I said I had pet degus, he had no idea what they were. To be fair, most people don't, so I told him they looked like big gerbils. He didn't know what gerbils were either. Hamsters then? He didn't know what hamsters were. We didn't have access to the internet at the time, so I gave up trying to explain.

Did she hear you correctly I've said i don't know what something is when I completely misheard what the person said

I railed against the Disneyfication too but one of the Disney versions of the stories became DD1's favourite at one point, (WTP goes to Dr Owl for his "animal checkout" (annual checkup) and has a vaccination against bumps and weasels) Think it actually helped the pre-school jabs and any medical visits pass without a hitch for both DDs! The 1960s film is rather sweet, and the songs are just right.

Still say to my cat and dog that they are going to the vets for their animal checkout and to be vaccinated against bumps and weasels.

It is set on Dartmoor. What's the Scottish connection?

Arthur Conan Doyle was Scottish. The character of Sherlock Holmes was based on a Scottish surgeon Conan Doyle studied under at Edinburgh University Medical School.

Did you never play Pooh sticks as a child or play it with a child?

Ah, of course. Sorry and thanks, I did know that but it was buried in my memory somewhere. 😆I thought someone might be doing with HoB what my brain does with Lorna Doone (Exmoor) and Brigadoon (mysterious village in Scottish Highlands).

I think it’s quite surprising she hasn’t heard of WTP. Every so often it comes round in the Disney merch that’s everywhere, you can barely miss it.
When I was in my early/mid 20s (I’m nearly 50) I went on a date with a man who had apparently not heard of the Sistine Chapel. He was reasonably well educated, middle class etc so I was surprised about that at the time! Now I would be less so if a 20-something didn’t know it.

I definitely have gaps myself, my husband couldn’t believe the number of 80s/90s popular films I’d never seen, but it was just how I grew up. We weren’t really taken to the cinema, we didn’t have a video player for ages and my parents wouldn’t have dreamed of renting a film once we had one!

When we recently had a last minute cheapie in lanzarote... Came across two different groups who thought we were in Mediterranean 😱

I can understand perhaps not knowing where random islands were around the world, but to not show a tiny bit of interest in where you're physically going on holiday does seem to me odd!

I would think many people haven't heard of HotB to be honest. Not to have grown up with darling Winnie is much more surprising, and sad.

I'm very surprised anybody British can not know about WtP. That suggests they may not have played Pooh sticks either, and they won't have read the books with their wonderful EHShepard illustrations. How sad.