Sayings you don't hear anymore

[totoshkin]

I haven't heard the term "Whingeing Pom" for many a year.

You hear it a lot in South Australia!

 

[PalazioVecchio]

She was a young girl who was murdered in the 1860s. Immortalised in a way even if it is as a bowderlised version of Sweet F**k All.

a proto-Madeleine McCann......a tragic child, now seen no more.

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"ah, did you watch that programme on the telly last night ?

 

[Willo]

You hear it a lot in South Australia!

Many years ago I was informed about a car sticker in Australia which read :
"Grow your own dope, plant a Pom".
Whenever I have visited Australia this 'Pom', in the main, has been afforded courtesy and civility.
😀

 

[so many memories]

Flash the ash. Ask for, tell someone to get their cigarettes out.
Tight wad. Cheapskate.
Alright Shag. Saying to a good mate.
Wingnut head. Mostly heard in school to someone with large sticking out ears.
Here comes-look out it's Joe 90. Remark to someone at school with NHS glasses

 

[Willo]

Flash the ash. Ask for, tell someone to get their cigarettes out.
Tight wad. Cheapskate.
Alright Shag. Saying to a good mate.
Wingnut head. Mostly heard in school to someone with large sticking out ears.
Here comes-look out it's Joe 90. Remark to someone at school with NHS glasses

In my formative years it was "Here comes the Milky Bar Kid".

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Flash the ash. Ask for, tell someone to get their cigarettes out.
Tight wad. Cheapskate.
Alright Shag. Saying to a good mate.
Wingnut head. Mostly heard in school to someone with large sticking out ears.
Here comes-look out it's Joe 90. Remark to someone at school with NHS glasses

Often receiving the response "Cheers, Big Ears".
A beginning smoker would be accused of "bumsucking".

 

[Willo]

On a club 'Special Train' (Rail Travellers Club) some supporter who appeared to be in a state of advanced refreshment uttered to me "Have you got any cuts and scratches ?" I discovered he was referring to matches.

 

[Palace Old Geezer]

I don't recall seeing this mentioned before, but for some inexplicable reason this morning, I found myself saying 'Gawd, love a duck'. It was a favourite saying of my old granny.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

"you went on holidays in an airplane ? wow, you must be posh ?"

 

[Willo]

I have not heard "Penny for the guy" for many a year.

 

[kingdowieonthewall]

I have not heard "Penny for the guy" for many a year.

remember the guy fawkes, thick cardboard masks.
green, orange, yellow & natural.

 

[HeathMan]

I have not heard "Penny for the guy" for many a year.

Probably now "Ton for the Guy."

 

[Teddy Eagle]

I have not heard "Penny for the guy" for many a year.

There was an Andy Capp cartoon with him walking along with clothes over his arm and a kid saying to his mum - "He wouldn't give me a penny for the guy but he gave me a ha'penny for his suit".