Michael Booth 7,364 Posted April 23, 2016 Report Share Posted April 23, 2016 Welcome to Nottstalgia, Tree. I look forward to reading your posts and sharing your memories. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted April 24, 2016 Report Share Posted April 24, 2016 I've mentioned this before but walked into a store ? (shop) in the US with my aunt & asked for a packet of fags, my aunt went up the wall ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted April 25, 2016 Report Share Posted April 25, 2016 Catfan, good job you didn't ask for a rubber; she'd have fainted! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted April 25, 2016 Report Share Posted April 25, 2016 #25 Tree, Firstly, Welcome to Nottstalgia, Join our gang. We will enjoy sharing memories and information with you, and as you will probably have noticed. Plenty of friendly banter. One of the first things I had to drop when leaving Nottingham for far off Wolverhampton; was the expression "Suckers". It took so long to explain what I was on about, it was easier to drop it. So now you see Ay hem vury vury poshe and say "Ice Lollies", ( in public) but "Suckers" at Om! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nippergrant 19 Posted August 4, 2016 Report Share Posted August 4, 2016 We called an ice lolly a sucker when I was young - is that still the same? When I moved to Leicester I went in a shop and asked for a sucker and the shopkeeper had no idea what I was talking about. Amazing how words varied so much between neighbouring towns. I thought at the time that the words 'ice lolly' sounded a bit posh My daughter went to Leeds University and on one visit me and misses called in on a chippy to get chips. So we walked in joined the queue looked at the menu board and couldn’t see what we wanted so when our turn came we stepped up to the counter and said two mixes please the man behind the counter stood and stared then said what’s that. I explained it’s a portion of chips with peas on top. He then said he’s never herd of that and asked where wearer from I said Nottingham he then said he’ll have to put that on the menu then gave us our mixes at half price…..I thought ever body knew what a mix was. How wrong was I 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tim in the North East 200 Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 In 1972 my Austrailan relatives were visiting and went shopping in the Victoria Centre branch of Boots. The sales assistant was startled when they asked if the paper bags containing their purchases could be fastened with some Durex, At that time Durex was a common brand of adhesive tape in Australia - and Durex was the generic used for of all such sticky tape as we might use 'sellotape'. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 In the USA they are called rubbers' No very good for removing pencil marls though Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Ugh! What a subject first thing in a morning, and on an empty stomach too. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,304 Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 #30 They don't have cobs in Yorkshire, they have bread buns! So they probably wouldn't share my confusion the first time I heard the expression "He's got a cob on!" I lived in North Yorkshire for a while, so I'm bilingual, sithee! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 I was in Sheffield last week and they had cobs for sale in the pub Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nippergrant 19 Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 #30 They don't have cobs in Yorkshire, they have bread buns! So they probably wouldn't share my confusion the first time I heard the expression "He's got a cob on!" I lived in North Yorkshire for a while, so I'm bilingual, sithee! My daughter’s partner lived in Leeds all his life calls them bread cakes is that because he comes from a different part of Yorkshire 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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