Gaslighting

[Paigntonian]

is a new term to me. Have I missed it all these years?

[Cloverjo]

I think it’s quite a new term. I hadn’t heard it up until a year ago or so.

[Mamyalynne]

The origins aren't new but the term itself is rekatively recent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

[Mamyalynne]

* Relatively

[Peter Pedant]

well flick yoour fanny - yes you have
we talked about Fanny by Gaslight fifty years ago
you been asleep probably

intentionally making people doubt their sanity. - common dramatic there - in the radio era making ghostly voices come from the radio - without the wait for the valves to warm up
oo-er Mrs!

[Paigntonian]

Thanks guys. It was new to me.

[elliemay1]

It's named after the 1944 film Gaslight so it's not new

[Hopkirk]

I bet you've not heard of teabagging either.

[pastafreak]

It's certainly not new to me either. I'm talking decades.

[Mamyalynne]

Most unsavoury when the Vicar's round for tea Hopkirk.

[bednobs]

or perhaps very savoury mamya, depending on his hygeine?

[Mamyalynne]

True, it would put you off your fondant fancy.