Just a bit of fun but who remembers old saying growing up that you don't really hear anymore.
"I'll give you something to cry for in a minute"
"I'm going to duff you up"
"My Dad is bigger than your Dad"
Just a bit of fun but who remembers old saying growing up that you don't really hear anymore.
"I'll give you something to cry for in a minute"
"I'm going to duff you up"
"My Dad is bigger than your Dad"
"If you fall out of that tree and break your legs, don't come running to me!"
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"Wait till your Father gets home"
Bike, I'll give you bike
Personally, I use as many of them as possible on my kids.
Wearing a coat indoors: "You won't feel the benefit".
If the wind changes, your face will stay like that.
Actually, warming up your coat indoors by wearing it might make you feel a little warmer than just grabbing it off the hook and going outside straight away.
My parents used lots of the above - including hitting you again if you ever cried or complained about being hit in the first place lol
It's just a matter of time...
Scrap! Scrap! Scrap!
They still come round my street once a week, but you don't get a goldfish any more.Originally Posted by GraniteQuarry
I’m wearing mine now- no bloody heating
Jim'll Fix It...if we only knew what he was fixing...
"I'll take my hand off your face"
As Billy Connolly said ,it wasn't the taking off the face but putting it on at high speed which was the issue.
"Eat your carrots, they will make you see in the dark"
*scratches imaginary beard on chin to indicate disbelief*
This was a reference to Jimmy Hill and his big chin. Later in my school it became 'Jimmy Reckon' to signify even more disbelief :)
Round my area it was "chinny chin chin" whilst pulling down on one's chin.
Deacon = joey = spaz
You wombat = idiot
Mallet = pre-pubescent boy
Scramble = the act of throwing spare conkers to the end of the playground full of witing eager kids and therefore an accurate description of what then occurred.
Youuu wazzock.
Yes most of the above
Also -
"Dont sit on cold walls or you will get piles"
"Dont stand in front of the fire it will damage your kidneys"
and even more strangely
"If you eat burnt toast your hair will go curly"
None of these made any sense to me and my family seemed to be continually exasperated by my questioning of everything that seemed illogical to me as a child. They could put forward no evidence to support any of these.
Unbeknown to them (and of course me) was that I was growing up with ASD - something that didn't help at all.
My mother still insists that you'll get a belly ache if you eat warm buns/muffins from the oven.. They are not to be eaten until cooled.
When getting ready for school Mum would shout upstairs
Make sure you have clean underpants on in case you get run over..
WTF
Plus many I couldn’t tell in the PC environment we find ourselves in..
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Look how quick he's going he won't get there any faster 😂
“Where are you going Dad”
To see a man about a dog..
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When you sat moaning at what was for dinner
“There are people starving in africa”
Plus the horological favourite
“What time do you call this?”
I'd rather feed you for a week than a month boy.
Well IF so and so stuck his head in the fire you wouldn't do it too.
Curly Wurlys make your hair grow curly.
'Thank you Sir' what we were obliged to say after the Head administered the cane.
God, I remember that -and for the worst offences slippering by the PE teacher in assembly!
Ah the added humiliation of ritual punishment in front of the whole schoolthose were the days.
I used this one on my normally intelligent 19 year old daughter about a week ago... she genuinely thought I was off out to buy a puppy!!
“ You’ll grow into it “!
“You’ll be laughing on the other side of your face in a minute”
“Too cold to snow”
Said all too frequently by my ex-Mother in Law, which was odd considering she lived up on the Pennines where it snowed a lot. Thus proving my suspicions that a) she was catastrophically stupid and b) it ran in the family.
All I could ever reply was “like in the Arctic?”
A Noddy Tap - punishment dished out in class by a teacher (or fellow student), using a clenched fist with protruding knuckle which was whacked down hard on the top of your head!
Blue Goldfish - a legendary punishment dished out by older kids (bullies), where your head was pushed into the wc pan & the toilet flushed!
Not sure why it was a blue goldfish - yellow or brown would probably have been more appropriate!
was called a bog wash at my school lol
Or.
You better wipe that look off your face.
"Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire".
Plus lots of cockney rhyming slang like;
Want some holy ghost?
Nice bit of currant
A load of pony
You Berk etc etc
Cheers,
Neil.
As a southerner living up north I use this for a laugh.
Last week working with a kitchen fitter I said I was going to have a bit of Yul Bryner.
He said "what's that"
I said dinner, Yul Bryner.
"Eh"
He was in the Magnificent seven.
"What's that".
A film, name the magnificent seven an all that.
That was the end of the conversation.
I remember, sadly, my parents' and grandparents' casual racism, some of the less offensive sayings included -
"Eat your greens or you'll sit there 'til you go black in the face!"
"Some poor starving bugger in Africa would love that!"
"Worked like a Chinaman today" &c.
To be fair to them it was the era of "Love Thy Neighbour", "Til Death Us Do Part" etc., so unthinking, casual racism, sexism and homophobia were near-universal.
HUGE Upsides were the freedom we had, even as very young kids - I was walking to school on my own aged 5, and so long as we were in for tea, and in bed by 9 we could go anywhere and do anything we pleased. Unimaginable nowadays... The only technology we had were our pushbikes, and coming from a very poor family, money was non-existent - but it really is true that what you've never had, you never miss.
Are those two racist?
I always assumed the first was meaning you'd die and the second was more a reflection on the fact that Africa was frequently in the news for famines and that food waste was a bad thing, which some people still seem to believe (maybe more so!)
One of my grandmothers often used to say "Oh damn, and that's swearing!" - I didn't like to point out that it was pretty mild swearing!
Someone mentioned about going to see a man about a dog earlier - We used to often visit my great-uncle's friends in Brighton (he was the only family member with a car, so weekend outings were him, his wife, my grandmother, my mum, dad and I in his Austin 1100 and later Marina coupe!) and one day we stopped at a park on the outskirts of Brighton after leaving there and he wandered off up a hill. I asked where he was going and the reply was 'to see a man about a dog' - I really expected him to return with a new pet!
I heard someone call someone a 'dinlo' recently - An expression I'd not heard since the early 80s! (it means an idiot, if you're not familiar with it).
M
Dinlo isn’t 80s necessarily but a Romany expression along with chavy and mortAre those two racist?
I always assumed the first was meaning you'd die and the second was more a reflection on the fact that Africa was frequently in the news for famines and that food waste was a bad thing, which some people still seem to believe (maybe more so!)
One of my grandmothers often used to say "Oh damn, and that's swearing!" - I didn't like to point out that it was pretty mild swearing!
Someone mentioned about going to see a man about a dog earlier - We used to often visit my great-uncle's friends in Brighton (he was the only family member with a car, so weekend outings were him, his wife, my grandmother, my mum, dad and I in his Austin 1100 and later Marina coupe!) and one day we stopped at a park on the outskirts of Brighton after leaving there and he wandered off up a hill. I asked where he was going and the reply was 'to see a man about a dog' - I really expected him to return with a new pet!
I heard someone call someone a 'dinlo' recently - An expression I'd not heard since the early 80s! (it means an idiot, if you're not familiar with it).
M
If you’re around 50 this’ll make sense: Joey!
You’re right Dinlo was a very common derogatory term back in the 60s although never really looked upon as swearing..the same as Div it was aimed at the Stupid or unfairly a simpleton.
Quite a hurtful word even in those days..
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Open to interpretation I guess, certainly where the Olds in my household were concerned, casual racism was never far away. And they're not expressions I'd use outside of quotes nowadays!
Does anyone remember “ tunnel of boots” as part of someone double touching in one touch football?... it was bloody vicious and played daily at my school in Oxfordshire.
Anyone remember the card game where any royal card equaled a pinch, punch, knuckles etc to the persons hand who had turned that card over?
I also remover puncture wounds in my hands from the game of spreading ones fingers apart on a table and seeing how fast you could tap through them with a compass!!
Yeah, I guess.
We always said 'blue in the face', rather than black, so I guess there's no interpretation there (until we encounter a blue alien race...)
Not sure saying that a starving African would appreciate the food your wasting could ever be construed as racist, though...
A starving Welshman or anyone else would appreciate it just as much!
'Love Thy Neighbour' is an interesting one - People always leap onto the racist slurs which would never be acceptable these days (and rightly so), but the real message in that programme was that the men were ignorant idiots and their wives were the only reasonable people.
Sexism that still seems quite acceptable judging from a lot of TV ads, but would be totally unacceptable if reversed...
M
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
Chinny reckon
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Also Chinny Rub Rub and Recky Spook Eye.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
😂😂
Don’t pick your nose or your brains will fall out through the gap
"Rusty bum, finger and thumb!"
(If you don't know it, go to 54 seconds in the video link!)
https://youtu.be/5rzO696FRXc
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I’ll give you something to cry about
Yes, the blue goldfish, before starting Grammar I was advised by older cousins to definitely say no and to run, in the event the older boys should ask 'do you want to see the blue goldfish.'
Black goldfish at mine, I assume that meant the plug in the bottom of the sink.
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