to be offended that all my friends and DHs mates are laughing at me...please tell me I am not the only person who did not know this??

[GhostOfPsychomum5]

I went to brighton last weekend. was a fab place, really enjoyed it, met with the fab MN crowd, shopped, generally had a Very Good Time HOWEVER

I seem to have missed the memo telling me that it is the gay capital of the world....didn;t phaze me, I was just completely stunned......never actaully knew there was such a place where people (and I mean everyone in this, it was so relaxing and friendly there) could be so open. and dress how they want...etc.

DH has taken my innocence to mean that everyone can pick on me and laugh at me.............it IS meant in the nicest possible way, and I am laughing too (while feeling a tad silly), but when his best mate ring up this morning, and chortles down the phone at me about it, then yells to his wife and I hear HER laughing............well, I feel a teeny bit sorry for myself now that I am clearly a person to be made fun of just cos I am that innocent.

please tell me I am not the only person tho that really is that dim that I really didn;t know........I think a whole world of knowledge is simply passing me by now simply to give people a giggle

FBG, ....tis the kind of thing I would do....simply not notice.

actually, I think they are laughing so much bacause, TBH, this is the latest in a long line of daft things I do, or rather, dont know.

now, I DO KNOW about the xmas thing, and the feb/march thing, but I never knew about the petrol thing (ie, the pump dings inside the office to let the man know to press a buttong before you can have petrol) - I only found that out last summer, and I have been driving for nearly 20yrs now.

plus other things.........there was a pigeon or seagull thing once......cannot remember it now so clearly not important.

You are the only person in the world to not know that. Sorry.

I did not know that till the THIRD time I visited Brighton so tell your dh and his mates to leave you alone and have a good laugh at a random stranger on the internet instead.

And if that lack of GAYDAR is not funny enough for him I watched all of Four Weddings and a funeral without noticing John Hannah and the bloke who died were a gay couple.

I thought they were just good mates

Last time I went to Brighton I think it was the elderly persons capital of the world. Times change, but I don't keep a book and make notes of favorite gay areas so I didn't know either.

I didn't know about the petrol dings.

im semi near brighton (bout hrs drive) and my gay friends go there for a boogie/hunt for new blood/flesh

def a gay place, but nice to have clubs that you know you can go and pull in

sugar rush on ch4 was made there, and showed many gay clubs

just as you got queer as folk in manchester

gay capital of the world?

I didn't know this either.

and tbh, I don't see what there is to laugh at. A lot of people who are gay choose to go to a particular place. You didn't know this (or care). He is laughing why? Oh snigger snigger something to do with gay people titter titter.

Is he 12?

Actually, strike that.

he's male.

they're ALL 12!!

I'm going to Brighton for a long weekend next month, taking DD and 1 of her friends. Really looking forward to it!!!

I lived there for 10 years, and really miss it.

I never noticed that many gays, but it's a great place for "live and let live".

Anyway, GhostOfPyschomum5, tell DH he's so yesterday to even think it matters.....

oh ......I am gaining more power with the non-knowing admitting themselves

hecate, really, tis not the gay thing (his cousin is gay, really not an issue, altho that kind of makes me even worse with my non-knowledge doesn;t it), it really is about my innocent little head!

oh, and FBG........now you can say that MN is also an educational place

Ikkle bless....

I thought everyone knew.

I have also learnt that you are not allowed to reverse into a petrol station when wanting to fill up.

what, not allowed to reverse...........I do that

I did it a few months ago at Sainsbury's and they came out to tell me I had to face the front.

what a bizarre thing to laugh at - surely your friends and DH's frineds have very odd senses of humour. I wouldn't even bother to feel pissed off by them, they are clearly weirdos. Did he actually phone people up to say this to them? They were probably pretendiing to laugh out of embarassment for him phoning them with such a non-event story.

I knew Brighton had a big gay community. But my dad didn't.

He does now - after we went there for a day out, not realising it was the day of the Gay Pride carnival .

Poor dad - he's not the most enlightened soul and he didn't know where to look!

I didn't know. But then I am a Northener.