Brew 5,422 Posted October 30, 2021 Report Share Posted October 30, 2021 1 hour ago, Cliff Ton said: I reckon I'm now at an age where young people can accuse me of being one of those oldies who says strange things which the younger generation think amusing. And the reverse of that is "I'm at the age where young people use words and expressions the meaning of which I have no clue" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,470 Posted October 30, 2021 Report Share Posted October 30, 2021 I discovered quite a few years ago that I could no longer understand much of what teenagers say. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted October 30, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2021 My mother when she had had a rather personal exam at the doctor's, would say 'I think he was looking to see if my hat was on straight'. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,165 Posted October 30, 2021 Report Share Posted October 30, 2021 Here's me head.......me Arse is coming............. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,159 Posted October 30, 2021 Report Share Posted October 30, 2021 "Keep yer mouth shut and gerron with yer dinner !!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 809 Posted October 30, 2021 Report Share Posted October 30, 2021 On picking noses i never did DJ my mum would say give us one if you get two. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 809 Posted October 30, 2021 Report Share Posted October 30, 2021 When scatching my bum my mum would say are you going to the cinema? i would say no why, she would say i can see you are picking your seat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dreamweeaver 0 Posted November 8, 2021 Report Share Posted November 8, 2021 I’m from across the pond. My mum was born in Nottingham and came here when she was 19. She brought her sayings with her and passed them along. I remember many of her sayings, but my favorites were: He’s like a wooden man made of smoke. She looks like she’s been pulled through a hedge backwards. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,145 Posted November 8, 2021 Report Share Posted November 8, 2021 The first one I've never heard in these parts. The second one is still in common use. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted November 8, 2021 Report Share Posted November 8, 2021 Same here. My mother often used the latter expression. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,470 Posted November 8, 2021 Report Share Posted November 8, 2021 3 hours ago, Dreamweeaver said: He’s like a wooden man made of smoke. Likewise, I've never heard that before....and I can't think what it means - or whats it's saying about someone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted November 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2021 My mother said 'he's like a man made of smoke' Not wooden. I think it meant he couldn't make up his mind. A ditherer. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,085 Posted November 9, 2021 Report Share Posted November 9, 2021 Don't think this is a parent saying but good advice, When I first married the master in the year of our lord 1965 my mother in law Gertie said "Never let them know what you have in your purse gal" and to this day master still doe's not know what's in mine. ps it's a secret. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted November 9, 2021 Report Share Posted November 9, 2021 My old Grandad used to say? "You don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire" not sure what that was all about? He did work down Radford pit, we used to get free coal. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,145 Posted November 9, 2021 Report Share Posted November 9, 2021 You know full well what that means! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted November 9, 2021 Report Share Posted November 9, 2021 @mary1947do you know what's in his wallet? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,159 Posted November 9, 2021 Report Share Posted November 9, 2021 She should do Jill. She gives him his pocket money ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,085 Posted November 9, 2021 Report Share Posted November 9, 2021 Now come on B Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Broxtowe John 1 Posted November 19, 2021 Report Share Posted November 19, 2021 When Mam used to put her coat on to go shopping,we would ask "where yer going Mam" she would reply "off me bleddy ead" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted November 20, 2021 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2021 Same question, different answer. My mam's answer was Up Meg's arse to see how far it is. I did wonder who Meg was! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,298 Posted November 20, 2021 Report Share Posted November 20, 2021 Same question, answer - "there and back to see how far it is 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted November 21, 2021 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2021 Yes, we had that one too, also To see a man about a dog. When you think about it, we rarely got a straight answer to any question! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted November 21, 2021 Report Share Posted November 21, 2021 My father's stock reply to my questions about where he was going was always, "Long Eaton!" A slight variation on the man with a dog retort cropped up when I got a bee in my bonnet about possibly being adopted. A girl at school had been adopted and had no idea who her biological parents were. I thought this was wonderful, fascinating and began to wonder if I'd been adopted and my parents just hadn't told me. I must have become rather a nuisance for pestering them to tell me the truth about my origins because my mother advised me to go and look in the mirror (I was the image of my father) and dad quipped, "I'm sorry to disappoint you but you're ours. When you were a baby, I did try to swap you for a dog but the man who owned the dog said he wasn't interested because the dog was better looking!" . Well, I suppose I asked for that one. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,145 Posted November 21, 2021 Report Share Posted November 21, 2021 We always suggested Long Eaton was the place to go for an illicit rendezvous on the basis that seeing anyone there who recognised you was absolutely zilch! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,470 Posted November 21, 2021 Report Share Posted November 21, 2021 If my parents or grandparents wanted to refer to a place which they didn't know about, or didn't want to talk about, they would always say they were going to (or been to) Timbuktu. For years I assumed it was a name they'd made up, and I was surprised to eventually discover it was a real place. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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