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Crassus 1:10 Sat Jan 9
Phrases from your childhood

It is of constant amusement to my kids, their pals, now young adults, when I inadvertently drop in a colloquial phrase from my upbringing, even more so at work

Terms seemingly unfamiliar but standard fayre back in the Brampton days

So give me your 'endangered' phrases from a time when we were young and the sun shone - I'll kick off

Face like a smacked arse
Face like a China man's arse
Silly as a sack of arseholes
What a LEMON
About as genuine as a 5 bob note

Oh and referring to %0 new pence as 10 bob always raises a snigger

Ronald_antly 8:12 Sat Jan 16
Re: Phrases from your childhood

"Football is nothing without the fans"

daveyg 11:50 Fri Jan 15
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"You're Nicked"
Jack Regan

Crassus 11:35 Fri Jan 15
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Blimey, 14 years old!
No Lords around my upbringing bar pubs mate

Nurse Ratched 11:13 Fri Jan 15
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These Percys were grown men, Crassus 🥺



Lord Toffingham

Crassus 11:08 Fri Jan 15
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Nurse
But is it true that you selectively held pace for the right 'Percy'?
Common practice among our more athletic fillies engaged in kiss chase

Fab, Mivvy , Zoom, Cola Ice Poles ( non bench versions)

Jubblies ( ate those buggers just for the packet, put them on the floor and stamp air inside and the explosion used to make the old duffers dive for cover - Luftwaffe issues )

Nurse Ratched 10:13 Fri Jan 15
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The best thing about my 1970s childhood - apart from being able to run faster than all the percy perverts - was the huge variety and creativity of ice lollies.

Tomsdad 10:12 Fri Jan 15
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Hands off cocks, pull up socks.

Crassus 10:10 Fri Jan 15
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TMTY
4x a penny in my day
That's a proper big penny, so 2x an halfpenny
1x a farthing I believe, albeit those buggers with the little wren had ceased to exist by the time I did

Proper pennies were half a New Pence
So 12x in you new fan-dangled Pence

And I'll have you know that there was proper uproar when a Mars/Twix/Topic (hazelnut in every bite) rose to the giddy heights of 4x NEW PENCE post decimalization

Hello Mrs. Jones 10:07 Fri Jan 15
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My father would see a group of teens hanging around and refer to them as a..bunch of Herberts.

Mike Oxsaw 7:55 Fri Jan 15
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Common Market

Too Much Too Young 7:54 Fri Jan 15
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Stop showing off.
How many black jacks/Fruit salads can i get for 3p
Get up and turn the telly over.
Are we there yet

New Jersey 7:45 Fri Jan 15
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Who dressed you/Who cut your hair/ Who parked your car - Stevie Wonder?

Poor old Stevie's disability was very versatile when trying to take the piss!

wanstead_hammer 7:43 Fri Jan 15
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SoH.
Haha.

Whassat a basin? Who cut that. I’ll go and put his windas through.
“What you got, sirvitus dance”!
Who’s the new coddy?
“That better not be dogs mess on yer shoes”. (Like you’d done it on purpose!)
‘Hold yer breath and swallow 3 times‘ (a cure for hiccups).
He’s like little Lord Fauntleroy.
“I wanna speak to the organ grinder mate, not the monkey”.
He’s got the right needle. (how appropriate!)
“It’s yer spark plugs mate”. (Every time)
Raspberry (rasbree)
Beam me up scottie.
Johnny fartpants.
“What, you up in the dock?” (if someone ad a new whistle on)
He’s getting in a right pickle.
April showers bring May flowers.
“It’s no good crying over spilt milk”
“Manners, pianas, tables, chairs, they all belong to the man upstairs....................”
“Whass the time, half past nine, hang yer knickers on the line..............”
Sweet as a nut.
Flew off the handle.
Pissed as a puddin.
Sober as a judge.
Dead as a doornail.
White as a sheet/ghost
He’s like a milk bottle.
Keep yer hair on.

Alwaysaniron 6:57 Fri Jan 15
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What a load so old codswallop

Bit of old ‘cagmag’

“Tuppeny halfpenny (hapeny) hambone!

1/4 of pear drops

Mr Logic 6:50 Fri Jan 15
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You can pack that up as quick as you like
Caw she dnarf rabbit/yap
Sit your arse down there and be quiet
Should a seen him he had his arse angin out his trousers, shoes ' angin off 'is feet, he looked like he'd been dragged through 'edge backwards
Tell tale tit
Cry baby bunting
Knickers in a twist
Got any dough
Borrow a cup of sugar
You little swine

Side of Ham 5:27 Fri Jan 15
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wanstead_hammer 5:23 Fri Jan 15

Used to DREAD haircuts in the school years due to the worry of getting a Council Cut!

Block 5:26 Fri Jan 15
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you're mums so thick she got run over by a parked car

wanstead_hammer 5:23 Fri Jan 15
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Who cut your barnet, the council?
He’s got all the bunny.
Fuck off you little shrimp.
Where d’you get that overcoat, Oxfam? (one of me old mans ones).
Couldn’t knock the top off a bottle (another one)
Ip dip thruupney bit, you are not it.
Bun rab, bun rab........
Easy come easy go.
He/she’s up and down like tower bridge/like an whore’s drawers.
In and out like a fiddlers elbow.

chim chim cha boo 3:23 Fri Jan 15
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We had a sign on our estate as a kid that said 'no hawkers'.

'Remember Ibrox' above the stairs on the North Bank exit into Priory Rd.

Kaiser Zoso 3:15 Fri Jan 15
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Parky - the council employee paid to look after a recreation ground.

Alternatively, cold weather.

chim chim cha boo 3:11 Fri Jan 15
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'Thick as two short planks'.

'What's the time? Time you got a new watch'!

'Why don't you take a photo? - It'd last longer'.

'You talking to me or chewing a brick? Either way you're losing your teeth'.

'I believe you mate- thousands wouldn't'.

'What you doing?'
'Nothing, just reading the paper'.
'I'll bleedin' read the paper you in a minute'.

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