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iambeowulf said:
That's not going to get you off for what you said back then!
Those spaz mobiles, are they even legal nowadays?
I know I know. To make matters worse I muttered the 'S' word under my breath the other day when a taxi was blocking the road, boy did I get a bollicking from my wife - too young to remember Joey but old enough to find the term offensive. Those spaz mobiles, are they even legal nowadays?
My defence. This thread. I said I'd been reading it and I had old insulting words fresh in my mind. You can take the boy out of 1980.....
We will be punished come judgement day.
Rural Gloucestershire in the 1980s may be considered a quaint and picturesque backwater, but culturally it was way ahead of its time. The word Chav is not a recent invention; we were using it regularly to describe the sort of lovable rogue, rough diamond promising footballer that failed all their exams, got thrown out of school and was detained at her majesty's pleasure for hitting someone round the head with a tent pole.
Many of the other frequent sayings have already been reminisced in the thread so far, but one of the finest ones, particular to said region and therefore liable to take the literary world by storm in the next few years, is Hairy Bazooka.
Many of the other frequent sayings have already been reminisced in the thread so far, but one of the finest ones, particular to said region and therefore liable to take the literary world by storm in the next few years, is Hairy Bazooka.
East Midlands (Stamford) where I lived for a while from 1979-1982.
Jasper - a wasp.
Goff - a sweet. Giz a goff. . RAF connection? I know Goffa is a navy term for a soft drink.
Mardy - grumpy in a mood.
Old Boy/Girl. Didn't have to mean they were old.
When I lived in Northumberland we didn't at Tig or Tag. We called it Tug ior Tuggy yet my wife who grew up about 10 miles away called it Tig.
If we bought fish and chips where I lived you could ask for extra batter. 10 miles away in another Nortunberland town it was Scramptions. In the East Midlands it was Scraps you asked for.
Jasper - a wasp.
Goff - a sweet. Giz a goff. . RAF connection? I know Goffa is a navy term for a soft drink.
Mardy - grumpy in a mood.
Old Boy/Girl. Didn't have to mean they were old.
When I lived in Northumberland we didn't at Tig or Tag. We called it Tug ior Tuggy yet my wife who grew up about 10 miles away called it Tig.
If we bought fish and chips where I lived you could ask for extra batter. 10 miles away in another Nortunberland town it was Scramptions. In the East Midlands it was Scraps you asked for.
mrtwisty said:
bingybongy said:
mrtwisty said:
A couple from my Grandad:
Snap - food (also snap tin - lunch box)
Tuffies - sweets
Dont think I've ever heard these anywhere else.
Was your Grandad from Nottingham?Snap - food (also snap tin - lunch box)
Tuffies - sweets
Dont think I've ever heard these anywhere else.
I grew up there and still use both of those and bugger lugs for an idiot.
I wondered if he'd made them up himself!marmitemania said:
RobinBanks said:
marmitemania said:
RobinBanks said:
dingg said:
Iron hoof - poof
But they don't even rhyme!He says "Smiff"
First one says "Wot ammersmiff". (Hammersmith)
He says "Na, portsmiff". (Portsmouth)
Twilkes said:
Toltec said:
The title made me think more of Chaucer or even Shakespeare than a couple of decades ago.
Does archaic mean something different in modern slang?
I just used it in the sense of 'words that aren't used any more', e.g. (of a word or a style of language) no longer in everyday use but sometimes used to impart an old-fashioned flavourDoes archaic mean something different in modern slang?
Kecks - trousers
Grid - pushbike
Grockle - holidaymaker, specifically daytrippers.
Vipers said:
wildcat45 said:
I know Goffa is a navy term for a soft drink.
When I were in the Royal Navy, a goffa was a wave breaking over the ship.Never heard it referring to a soft drink.
Liked the reference to Goff being sweets, that's how I spell my surname, so suppose I am a sweetie
Plonka. Which may have been popularised by delboy.
Pants! Used a lot around 2000/2002 to describe something as rubbish.
Your havin a laugh. Don't hear that much now.
Pukka.
Dapper. I am very dapper.
A big old unit. i'm a big old unit.
Wade in with your size 12's
Smokin' as in Hot (looks good)
She's a goer ;-)
Who do you think you are? Stirling Moss.
There's a few although they may have been mentioned
Pants! Used a lot around 2000/2002 to describe something as rubbish.
Your havin a laugh. Don't hear that much now.
Pukka.
Dapper. I am very dapper.
A big old unit. i'm a big old unit.
Wade in with your size 12's
Smokin' as in Hot (looks good)
She's a goer ;-)
Who do you think you are? Stirling Moss.
There's a few although they may have been mentioned
wildcat45 said:
East Midlands (Stamford) where I lived for a while from 1979-1982.
Jasper - a wasp.
Goff - a sweet. Giz a goff. . RAF connection? I know Goffa is a navy term for a soft drink.
Mardy - grumpy in a mood.
Old Boy/Girl. Didn't have to mean they were old.
When I lived in Northumberland we didn't at Tig or Tag. We called it Tug ior Tuggy yet my wife who grew up about 10 miles away called it Tig.
If we bought fish and chips where I lived you could ask for extra batter. 10 miles away in another Nortunberland town it was Scramptions. In the East Midlands it was Scraps you asked for.
Over the border from Stamford into Northamptonshire especially east Northamptonshire The old Boy/Girl bit is still very regularly used and when needed prefixed with young. So it could be like this. What did he look like then? 'I can't remember but he was a young old boy'. We also and I think this may be paticular to Raunds and surrounding villages but we do not call it Yorkshire pudding we call it bake pudding. Also we have such oddities as Dug>Dog, Lung>long, Tek>take, Frezz>Frozen, caut>coat, You could have the sentence 'I'm gunna tek the dug out fur a lung walk i better tek me caut so i dont get frezz.Jasper - a wasp.
Goff - a sweet. Giz a goff. . RAF connection? I know Goffa is a navy term for a soft drink.
Mardy - grumpy in a mood.
Old Boy/Girl. Didn't have to mean they were old.
When I lived in Northumberland we didn't at Tig or Tag. We called it Tug ior Tuggy yet my wife who grew up about 10 miles away called it Tig.
If we bought fish and chips where I lived you could ask for extra batter. 10 miles away in another Nortunberland town it was Scramptions. In the East Midlands it was Scraps you asked for.
Just remembered when I was still at school early nineties we called chewing gum Chud.
Quhet said:
We used to call chavs 'Kevs'. Wrenk meant that something was horrible or disgusting. A stig was someone who was poor and consequently many places became stiggy.
Haha we also had Kev's and carpark Kev's to describe those teenagers who would sit in their cars in the local carpark with their school girl girlfriends and listen to their ' choons'. Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff