Reply With QuoteYou could add to those:
- I'll swing for you yet, you little bugger
- You'll have me in Mickleover (or insert name of local county lunatic asylum)
- many more involving heads in gas ovens, on railway lines and so on.....
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
You could add to those:
- I'll swing for you yet, you little bugger
- You'll have me in Mickleover (or insert name of local county lunatic asylum)
- many more involving heads in gas ovens, on railway lines and so on.....
and....
- you'll be the death of me one of these days.
- you're not as green as you're cabbage lookin'. Also used as "I'm not as green......".
and many more but which don't spring to mind immediately.
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Almost all of the above.
And...
"Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about"
Usually worked, that one.
All of the above!
Every single one of them,brings back a lot of memorys.
My gran always said everyone has to eat a bit of dirt before they die.
Remember them all. And currently saying most of them to my own kids.
All except No.11
What scares me now is that I often find myself saying most of these at some point or other.
Next time I catch you swearing/fighting/ smoking/bunking off school, you'll get no pocket money!
"What did your last slave die of ?"
Not obeying orders !!!
I remember them all, and use quite a few now with my three, even though two are up and away.
F.T.F.A.
Most of them. Stalwarts of child-rearing in the days when kids showed respect for their parents. Now parents are their kids 'friends'. Yes, right.
Prity much all Eddie. Dad would say.."I'll put the parafin heater on-take the chill off," when we went to bed... no double glazing or central heating and lived within half a mile of the North Sea.... used to scrape the ice off the inside of the windows to see out. Never ailed anything though. Kids today suffering all kinds of stuff..allergies, asthma,..too clean.
others I remember ...
"Get your elbows off the table"
"Put your knife and fork together when you've finished"
"Your not going out till you've finished" (your meal)
Mum, "I'll put some butter on it" for a bruise.
Happy days ....truly!
All good sayings that ring very true with my own girls. This one I say a lot - "If he/she put there head in the oven, would you as well?"
I always remember the elbows on the table one
My Grandma, when asked waht was for tea, siad - wim wams for ducks to swim in. Never understood that one.
"What"s for dinner Mum"
"4 choices"
"great what are they ?"
"Hot, Cold, take it or leave it !"
Cheers
Wayne
interesting kettle terence
21. Stop w*nking, you'll go blind.
Why do you keep your LP record case locked Darling......Originally Posted by stooo
no reason Mum honest......
Cheers
Wayne
interesting kettle terence
You'll sit there until you finish that or you get it for breakfast.
Put that light out!
Turn that bloody noise down!
I'll take my belt off in a minute!
Tidy your room or it all does in the bin.
You won't feel the benefit
Sit and rub it better
Puncture? Walk.
ktmog6uk
marchingontogether!
All very familiar except 20 which I don't recall ever hearing before.
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.'
Socrates 469-399BC
Mum: "If you don't stop messing about I'll knock you into next week"
Me: "Oooh, time travel."
Me: "I'm thirsty."
Mum:"Pleased to meet you – I'm Friday."
Ah, the memories …
About 50% of those come to mind. Plus, never talk to strangers or except sweets from them. I was about 4 or 5 and my sister 3 when a nice lady offered us a sweet. Out comes my little sisters hand as I shouted no and dragged her back to the garden gate crying.
Woman turned out to be a friend of our mum who heard the whole exchange on the other side of our garden fence.
Another one was never ask for more until invited. I must have been a dim kid as I seemed to translate this in never take more. Only got rectified when one of my mates mum asked if I was alright as when offered more of things I like I always said no!
Things changed quickly after that. Cheers
Dad worked early shifts so was usually the tea cooker and had a slightly more industrial response than most to the 'What's for tea?' question. The response was invariably 'Sh*t with sugar on!'
Cheers
Ian
Ha ha, almost all of them, plus promised to give me up for adoption - that worked like a charm
I love you mum!
you will get the back of my hand
why isn't the front as painful?
Ah yes, heard lots of those, plus the old chestnut:
'Don't come running to me if you break your leg on that thing'
jeff
My dad used that expression a lot too; I was initially baffled by this curious mixture as sugar was 'on ration' just after the war.
Yep that was the one that I certainly remember well.
There was also "David, stop doing that", "David I said stop doing that"... we never got to a third one, it was then wallop !
Your not leaving this table till you eat those sprouts. (Me trying not to throw up)
When I was little, if I didn't finish my dinner, my dad would make me eat it for breakfast. (That's good mum, I feel ill)
And then if I didn't eat it, I'd have to have it for lunch or dinner(mum, I'm calling social services)
"Why?".."Z"
Failing to plan is planning to fail!
My nan used to say 'your ears are so dirty you could grow potatoes in them'
I never grasped that concept......
If you don't stop that I will tell your Dad when he gets home.
Go sleep or the Nine o'clock horses will get you (never did see them).
"WELL!! … I never did in all my life!!" … exclamation following surprising news.
"WELL!! … Not since old leather-arse died?? !!" …. ditto …..
"I'll give you "CAN'T"!! … Mr Woo!!" … when we were uncooperative or cheeky.
"Three ha'pence … Three lemons … Tuppence a bunch o' watercress!!" … whenever we ate watercress.
We never found out who 'old leather-arse' was, or what he did to acquire the name, or how he died.
Mr Woo is a mystery … but must have been passed down by my grandmother.
My grandmother and my grandfather (1st Battalion Scots Guards) and the family was billeted in various London barracks including the Tower of London pre WW1 … where they would have learnt lots of London slang expressions.
The third expression came from Strutton Ground market in Westminster in the early 1920s where my mother played as a child - and where she and several of her 7 siblings mimicked the market traders … one of whom was 'Old Mother Fluck' who was ridiculed by the children.
Best wishes
dunk
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"Well they would say that ... wouldn't they!"
All of them plus:
"Never in the creation of crows"
"Stay out of trouble or the polis will get you" (weird northern pronunciation of police)
"Your promises are like pie crust"
"As much use as a chocolate teapot"
"I havent just come over on a banana boat you know" (sorry, not very PC that one)
When I got given my first front door key my old dear used to come to the door as I left and shout down the street 'have you got your key' to the delight of the any of the local scrotes in ear shot, this started when I was about 12 and carried on everytime I left the house until I was about 20, when I have to move back a few years later for a while she was still doing it.
My friends used to take turns doing impressions of her stock phrase in the pub on Friday nights when we hit drinking age.
All of them...plus some of the others mentioned...plus this one which is obviously very un pc these days.
Me - " It's not fair" ( in whining or put out voice)
Dad - " Neither is a darkie's bum"
I remember all of those plus a good sprinkling of cockney talk..
"You're as black as Newgate's knocker", if I was a bit grubby.
"Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire"
"Get in your uncle Ned"...(Bed).
Cheers,
Neil.
"Can not" has a grave in the cemetery, and "will not" lies next to him!
Roughly translated from dutch but you get the picture.
All of the above +
you use this house like a hotel
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
the wifes mum: "i'll throw my hands and face at you in a minute"
ktmog6uk
marchingontogether!
What's t'drink?
Corporation wine.
This was an odd one. If making out you were unwell but not really my nan would comfort me and ask if I would like her to rub my tummy with a brick? Always perked up after that. She never did use the brick.
She had some good home cures! If you had really bad pain in your ear she would bake salt in a sock and when warm put another sock around it and put it on the ear, the salt stayed warm for ages and made the pain feel better and I expect if it was wax in the ear that was the cause it resolved it. Loved her to bits.
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"You'll be laughing the other side of your face in a minute"
At which point you would try to move your mouth 90 degrees to your nose......to be met by a crisp 'back hander' from your old fella
You say "(anything)"
Your Dad replies with " I'll give you (same thing ) in a minute if you don't watch it "
e.g
" Dad, Dad, the house is on fire !"
" i'll give you house on fire, in a minute, if you don't watch it"
all of them - my wife still asks me if i was born in a barn!
These are more from my Grandparents than my parents:
If the wind changes, you'll be stuck with that face.
Luvva duck.
Dup. (I was often called this, I think it was derived from Duck)
Easy is as easy does.
Lord John. (Another thing I was called, despite not being named John)
Up the wooden hills to Bedfordshire.
You won't be able to sit down for a week.
Police and children
The one that i now ponder over is when my folks would say the following!
If you're ever in trouble go to a policeman.
Then
If you don't behave that bad man the policeman over there will take you away!!
WTF!!
no wonder I'm confused :) :)
Sorry folks
Bit black over Will's Mums
I'll go to the foot of my stairs
your hanging around like a bad smell
Defo...
And recently someone in work said "What does she think she's doing"..She is the cats mother says I
What did your last slave die of....Exhaustion
Also, one my my Mams favorites....I'll put that smile on the other side of you face" ???
DT
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