what's in a name?
So... where to start?

I was a wee nipper, probably no more than 6 or 7 and had just learnt about pushing the bit of skin on your fingernail back, and how the best way to do it was once it had softened up in the bath or some other activity that involved warm water.
Now not quite the articulate and learn'd person that i am now.. i was just getting to grips with the name of different part's of the body.

Fast forward to one evening when my family had just been out for dinner with another family. At the end of the meal I had pleaded to get a lift home in my friends family car instead of mine... so we could carry on talking about the A Team / M.A.S.K or whatever it is that 6 and 7 yearolds chatted about in the 80s.

No problems there... however somehow the conversation got onto hurting yourself and, thinking i had a good one, i loudly piped up "oh yeah its like when you try and pull your foreskin back when its not wet and hasn't had a chance to get soft!"

I was immediately aware of a change of mood in the car and yet couldn't quite put my finger on what had happened.. Not until i had been dropped off at home and was expalining the strange events to my mum, did it become apparent exactly why there had been a long silence before a rapid chance of topic. I think it is my earliest memory of utter embarrasment.

Forskin and cuticles should never be confused.

Length... dosen't even cover the end
( lucosade is counting down the minutes until, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 14:13, 5 replies)

Clicked for the lulz
Reminds me of the time when I announced to a room full of my mother's friends that "when I think about mermaids my willy feels funny"...
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 15:22, closed)

that's amusing too, although it really depends on whether you were 6 or 7 or 34?
( lucosade is counting down the minutes until, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 16:49, closed)

28 years old I was, erm…
(mark schmark, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 16:56, closed)

When I was 5 or so
I didn't know that gentle and genital were two different words, I thought that it was just two different ways of pronouncing them.

That made for some awkward moments.
(raulduke, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 18:26, closed)

Am I the only one
Who did definitely didn't know the words genital or foreskin or cuticle. . .when I was 5, 6 or 7?
(moosefish, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 19:21, closed)