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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: redbrez on October 31, 2013, 02:18:22 pm
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Start it off with togger
, anyone got any other old words sayings that you don't hear very often, (Yorkshire slang)when I hear a old saying it always puts a grin on mi face .
Some words I take for granted has being understandable in different areas but when on holiday I had to explain the word mardy , didn't think it was a Yorkshire slang word ..?
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Kegs......not the ones that beer comes in
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Causey or corsey. Not sure how it's spelt but never heard it since I left Donny.
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Is that for the pavement, Funk?
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What's kegs and corsey mean ? If u describe there meaning it might refresh my mind but don't seem to recognise those two words
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What's kegs and corsey mean ? If u describe there meaning it might refresh my mind but don't seem to recognise those two words
From what I know, kegs are underwear or shortsand corsey is path.
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Lol yeah kegs , is it underwear or trousers? but not heard of corsey .
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Cogging anyone ???
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Lol yeah kegs , is it underwear or trousers? but not heard of corsey .
Underwear is kecks, not kegs.
To stay on a beer theme though, the phrase 'pulling a pint' has died out as pumps have become electric...
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Causey or corsey. Not sure how it's spelt but never heard it since I left Donny.
I'd never heard it before I moved to Barnsley.
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Lol yeah kegs , is it underwear or trousers? but not heard of corsey .
Underwear is kecks, not kegs.
I'd say kegs and kecks were pretty much interchangeable and equally used for underwear or trousers depending on context - one may be more west yorkshire, but not sure where the dividing line is
To stay on a beer theme though, the phrase 'pulling a pint' has died out as pumps have become electric...
You're obviously drinking in the wrong pubs - more hand pulled beer available now than in the last 30 years
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Hello duck.....
Aye up luv .....
R whites lemmonade
Heath and Smith
Clocking in/out
Afters / earlys
Smack in gob
Slopping out
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Cogging anyone ???
That would be someone riding on your bike while you peddled right?
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Cogging anyone ???
That would be someone riding on your bike while you peddled right?
That was a Croggy wern't it?
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Indeed it was, giving someone a lift on the back of a push iron, ive heard it called other things
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Twagging it
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Ginnel
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I'll go to our house!!
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If tha dunt watch it young un al tw@t thee one
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A saying I don't hear any more is Mrs JD saying she fancies a bit!! :(
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Twagging it
See also legging it , laking it, skiving.
Cogging is riding behind the peddler, a croggy, is a ride on the crossbar.
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I thought that was known as a crossy, as in "give us a crossy"
... Someone must have shouted that at Brentford as, thankfully, Marcello Trota took it too literal :thumbsup:
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Ginnel
Is that ginnel , like a snicket , or sixfoot? Or ginnel like a gennel?
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Causey or corsey. Not sure how it's spelt but never heard it since I left Donny.
Coursey, a shortening of courseway.
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Lol yeah kegs , is it underwear or trousers? but not heard of corsey .
Kegs are trousers, underkegs are underpants.
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Gis a Spice!
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When I was a kid in Balby we called sweets scoffs. :P
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At playtime, going for a swag then having a waz.
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Think Iv used all of these words/phrases in the past I use Iv got monk on..... A lot
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Im gonna pan you,which meant im gonna hit you.
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Most if not all of those expressions are still in common usage. I use most of them and hear all the others used but usually by older folk these days.
Sadly this is probably due to the amount of American television programmes that kids watch noes days :(
Also kids are reluctant to leave there bedrooms after school and play 'kerby' for hours like we used to do.
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Used to play nibs when I was a nipper.
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Used to play nibs when I was a nipper.
Bit of the old marbles for you was it sir?
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You don't hear of many street games these days such as :
Hopscotch (Istill see some areas markd but does anyone play it still ?)
Whip and Top (anybody still do them ?)
Rallyco (remember the name but not exactly how it worked)
Tin can alley
Jack Jack Shine a light (basically Hide and Seek but with a torch)
British Bulldog
Husky Fusky Finger or Thumb (one for Cussy to explore no doubt)
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French cricket
Conkers
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You don't hear of many street games these days such as :
Hopscotch (Istill see some areas markd but does anyone play it still ?)
Whip and Top (anybody still do them ?)
Rallyco (remember the name but not exactly how it worked)
Tin can alley
Jack Jack Shine a light (basically Hide and Seek but with a torch)
British Bulldog
Husky Fusky Finger or Thumb (one for Cussy to explore no doubt)
I had a game of kerby a couple of years back in Oxford. Best stag do ever.
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In my younger days, "spice" meant sweeties.
A leather football was a "casey".
Kegs were trousers.
A chip 'oyle was a fish and chip shop.
"laik" meant to play, as in games.
"Gay" was a posh word for "happy" in old films..
There was a slang word for licorice but I can't recall what that was now...
On a similar theme, sweet "cigarettes", smoking upstairs on buses, 2p bus fairs all around SY, respecting authority because the threat of getting a slap from parents/teachers/police was a proper deterrent.
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Do kids still play cuppys or headers and volleys
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Was Spanish the word you were thinking of for the Licorice ?
And speaking of Spanish we used to use them to dip in Kayli (Rainbow Crystals ?)
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Foggy = first
Seggy = second
Laggy = last
Neg Laggy = next to last
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Was Spanish the word you were thinking of for the Licorice ?
And speaking of Spanish we used to use them to dip in Kayli (Rainbow Crystals ?)
That's the kiddie... "spanish" it was!
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Shagger.....as on yer neck from a bint
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Eccy thump!
BobG
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Laik is a Barnsley word surely?
When we moved back to Donny from Retford Wemblies became Cuppies. And there were subtle rule changes such as the winner getting to go first in the next game. Very important to a 10 year old.
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My Grandma used to live near the railway line and when a train went past you could hear a rumble from her back passage. When I was a kid I used to park my bike in her back passage.
Houses don't have 'back passages' anymore.
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They do in Balby, if they're what I'm thinking of.
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Yitten, Maungy, Segs.
And, as a Donny fan, a term you never hear anymore is "having some f**king balls and not moaning like a babby after a couple of defeats."
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A couple from me grandad.
"Ah s'll mek third man!"
Trans. "You two really must stop fighting now, otherwise I shall be forced to act as the arbiter, which will involve braying the f**king pair of you senseless."
"Tha'd laugh if thi arse were on fire."
Trans. "My dear chap, your humour filter appears to be set at a preternaturally low level."
My grandad on the other side of the family used to sit by the fire saying "All ah want is a quiet life."
Which we found really funny. Until he took an massive overdose, had his stomach pumped and was given ECT to snap him out of his depression.
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Pretty sure back in dark and distant days growing up in Balby - we used to play a game called hot rice
Basically someone wangled a tennis ball at you if it hit you you were on their side, you could hit it away with fist - winner was last man standing
Backsies were ginnels
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Hot rice bounce twice not once but twice, bounce twice
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Reading this got me thinking about how our regional sayings and dialects are disappearing and how sad that is.
This is one of the boy john letters written in Norfolk speak... the thing that makes me smile the most is the last paragraph, something I know BST will appreciate Lol.
http://www.literarynorfolk.co.uk/Poems/the_boy_john_letters.htm
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Rovers played well today
COYR
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Seem to remember classic cars going down Balby road regularly on Sunday mornings don't know if there was a car club or just on route of a meeting
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'Corkie' for a cheapo cricket ball made of cork
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Well a'll gu to foot of our stairs!
Bit black over Bill's Mothers
Nah then young un
Floppin eck
Is that young Bant (usually said to me by miners coming home from day shift - my Dad died down Broddie when I was 10 so all his mates had a bit of a soft spot for me)
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Marra, Blue, Ribs, yucker.....a small child
Even r' lass is disappearing. You don't hear the younger ones referring to their partners in that term.
Scrumping.........Raiding an orchard for fruit.
Tabs, Lugs, Lug'oils...........Ears
Crow...............Bogie
Tide mark..........the line of scum around the neck for the great unwashed
Double ball..........throwing 2 balls against a wall in rotation
Cut.................Canal
On t' bar..............erection
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Round our way (Wheatley Hills/Intake) Kegs were underpants and just about everybody got "kegged" at some point. Usually down at the Boato (Sandall Park).
A lift on someone's bike was called a "cog" (Giz a cog, mate).
Marbles had all sorts of names depending on the size & colouring.
Size:
- Peewees
- Nibs
- Dobbers
- Emperors
- King Emperors
- Super King Emperors
Colours/Types:
- Cats' Eyes
- Pearlies
- Chinkies
- Oilies
- Spotties
- Swirlies
- Steelies (Ball bearings)
- Glassies
Probably a few that I've misse there too. You could also have combinations of the above e.g. Spotty-Oilies. Rules would be set at the start of each match e.g. "I'll have you a game of oily sevens (7 marbles each), no chips (only good, unbroken marbles allowed). When 'bell goes it's either keep what you've got and share what's on 'pitch or more usually "grab what you can""
Cheap-shots were little punches or slaps out of the blue to take the victim by surprise. To which the response was often "I owe yer" menaing retributions would be made at the next opportunity.
Elastic bands were "laggies".
One craze in my youth was chewing up paper until it had the consistency of papier mache and throwing it or shooting samll bits through an empty biro casing. This stuff was called "Boris". I remember a house party getting out of hand with several bog rolls being soaked in the sink and the house next door being rendered with boris.
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One craze in my youth was chewing up paper until it had the consistency of papier mache and throwing it or shooting samll bits through an empty biro casing. This stuff was called "Boris". I remember a house party getting out of hand with several bog rolls being soaked in the sink and the house next door being rendered with boris.
We had that when I was at school, but they were known as "tobegs". Most classrooms had dried out mounds of chewed paper on the ceiling, windows etc. One lad used to make them out of the whole sheet of A4, and would even occasionally flick them at the blackboard (using a ruler) whilst the teacher was writing on it.
There's another word, "blackboard"...
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Her's another one CANE
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Round our way (Wheatley Hills/Intake) Kegs were underpants and just about everybody got "kegged" at some point. Usually down at the Boato (Sandall Park).
A lift on someone's bike was called a "cog" (Giz a cog, mate).
Marbles had all sorts of names depending on the size & colouring.
Size:
- Peewees
- Nibs
- Dobbers
- Emperors
- King Emperors
- Super King Emperors
Colours/Types:
- Cats' Eyes
- Pearlies
- Chinkies
- Oilies
- Spotties
- Swirlies
- Steelies (Ball bearings)
- Glassies
Probably a few that I've misse there too. You could also have combinations of the above e.g. Spotty-Oilies. Rules would be set at the start of each match e.g. "I'll have you a game of oily sevens (7 marbles each), no chips (only good, unbroken marbles allowed). When 'bell goes it's either keep what you've got and share what's on 'pitch or more usually "grab what you can""
Cheap-shots were little punches or slaps out of the blue to take the victim by surprise. To which the response was often "I owe yer" menaing retributions would be made at the next opportunity.
Elastic bands were "laggies".
One craze in my youth was chewing up paper until it had the consistency of papier mache and throwing it or shooting samll bits through an empty biro casing. This stuff was called "Boris". I remember a house party getting out of hand with several bog rolls being soaked in the sink and the house next door being rendered with boris.
Fancy a game Of pog fella?
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Her's another one CANE
Used to Get the cane at school
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AHHHH that well known pre-fix "used to get" ............ exactly my point!
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Onesy twosies (kick ups)
S.P.O.T (two players kicking ball against a wall.
Knock a door run
Grand National or hedge hopping.
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Her's another one CANE
I once got the cane for failing the post dinnertime hand inspection 3 times in a half term :blush:
You never knew when Mr Henry was going to check if you had washed you hands after dinnertime, if he decided you hadn't (even if you had) you went in his book, 3 times in a half term you copped it
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Soz - Sorry
Daan't pit (definitely don't hear that these days)
Rec' - Recreation ground
Dike - similar fate to 'gay' described earlier
Chumpin' - collecting bonfire wood
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Something not heard very often in Doncaster town centre (following this mornings visit) is English
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Her's another one CANE
I once got the cane for failing the post dinnertime hand inspection 3 times in a half term :blush:
You never knew when Mr Henry was going to check if you had washed you hands after dinnertime, if he decided you hadn't (even if you had) you went in his book, 3 times in a half term you copped it
Jesus, Daggers. I grew up in Rosso and we didn't even get that level of child cruelty inflicted upon us.
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Maybe they decided living in Rosso balanced it out Rob.
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We had a teacher with a book of punishments ranging from standing in corner with your arms out doing little circles - (if your arms dropped a board rubber came whiz zing at you) to having your hair wound up in the clip on a pen
He always said No 49 was castration with a hatchet No 50 castration with blunt hatchet
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I got the cane on my first day at secondary school.First lesson after lunch we had Technical Drawing with the dreaded Jock Briggs.We had to draw 2 lines at the top of our paper exactly 1/4 inch apart.Mine was slightly bigger so i got whalloped.That was at Rosso.
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'Nif mags' (I actually found a stash of quality nif mags under a hedge when I was 14 - it's not just an urban myth)
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'Nif mags' (I actually found a stash of quality nif mags under a hedge when I was 14 - it's not just an urban myth)
Snap :lol: and in 1970 that was a find and a half
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Remember finding one under a hedge
Why under a hedge ffs
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Had a discussion recently about kids these days and access to porn on the internet, when all we had was mags under bushes and the odd grainy VHS that some proud lad brought in.
I grew up in Retford so some might not be relevant but we called sweets 'grots' and loved a game of 'Wembley Doubles', 'Wall-ey', 'British Bulldogs' or 'headers and volleys'.
Spitting was 'gozzing', and the worst kind of goz was a 'greenie'.
My grandad from Wath used to say 'strike a light' a lot.
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Great thread btw, bit of light relief after the b*llocks all over the rest of the forum.
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Her's another one CANE
I once got the cane for failing the post dinnertime hand inspection 3 times in a half term :blush:
You never knew when Mr Henry was going to check if you had washed you hands after dinnertime, if he decided you hadn't (even if you had) you went in his book, 3 times in a half term you copped it
Jesus, Daggers. I grew up in Rosso and we didn't even get that level of child cruelty inflicted upon us.
Thats Edlo for ya, get a second trio and the cane with the frayed end came out, now that bugger hurt
and I ain't joking ..late 60's showing my age now!
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Got to agree great thread
Heard someone other day call their mate a Dougie - not heard that for ages
Punishment at Grammar School was fierce and often underhanded
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Used to be 'JOEYYYY' in my day.
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'Nif mags' (I actually found a stash of quality nif mags under a hedge when I was 14 - it's not just an urban myth)
Snap :lol: and in 1970 that was a find and a half
And of course Snap is food.
My Nan couldn't abide things. Abiding seems to have gone by the wayside.
Cob was to chuck summat.
Maungy was to be annoyed and irritated.
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Most if not all of those expressions are still in common usage. I use most of them and hear all the others used but usually by older folk these days.
Sadly this is probably due to the amount of American television programmes that kids watch noes days :(
Also kids are reluctant to leave there bedrooms after school and play 'kerby' for hours like we used to do.
It's not just American TV but British TV too. Kids all over the country are pronouncing words in Estuary English, because of programmes like EastEnders.
I remember my mates girlfriend complaining to us while we were watching Peter Kay, saying that he wasn't funny and then she says "who the f*** talks like that anyway? Where was she from... Bolton.
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Had a discussion recently about kids these days and access to porn on the internet, when all we had was mags under bushes and the odd grainy VHS that some proud lad brought in.
I grew up in Retford so some might not be relevant but we called sweets 'grots' and loved a game of 'Wembley Doubles', 'Wall-ey', 'British Bulldogs' or 'headers and volleys'.
Spitting was 'gozzing', and the worst kind of goz was a 'greenie'.
My grandad from Wath used to say 'strike a light' a lot.
I lived in Retford as well from 1977-1983 and made the move from Wemblies to cuppies when we moved to Doncaster.
Also a JOEY I only heard that in Retford and between me and my brother. The greater insult was to be called an ERNIE. I.E. someone who hung rounds with a JOEY. I cringe as type this to think of the unthinking cruelty of kids...
Not sure if JOEY was a Doncaster insult as well?
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Joey was a good put down then and was used on my manor. Joey was also a name for a crow (bogie)
Fleg - Spit (one assumes it may have derived from Phlegm)
Rush Goalie
Basin cut
Some of the other cruel playground 'put downs' that have been replaced are bif, spino, spazmo, spacker, puff. They are now tool, nerd, dork, dweeb, knobhead, d**khead and retard
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Some of the kids at our school were really cruel with the Joeyyy thing. Sometimes it could be a simple throwaway insult 'you Joey Deacon' sometimes it became an elaborate mocking 'spaz' performance.
It wouldn't be just a Yorkshire thing though, It would be nationwide.
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Indeed, what young lad or lass didn't call somebody a 'Joey' a 'Deacon' or 'Joey Deacon' and exaggerate a spastic walk, head movement and spastic speech to mock the recipient of this name calling.
I certainly did, but I was in the junior school, I was young naive and daft.
Sweet Jesus we had disabled people in our school and on our estate. Innocent cruel bas**rds we were
The kids who went to a special school or were death and dumb also used to cop for it too. What innocent cruel bas**rds we were yo them too.
Kids with glasses (especially the NH'ers with sellotape)
Kids with ginger hair
Kids with freckles
Kids with spots
Kids with greasy hair
Kids with scruffy clothes
f**k sake, I need a shrink and a Vicar to forgive my childhood sins.
Dear Doctor,
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That would have ruled most kids out when I was at school. :)
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Indeed, what young lad or lass didn't call somebody a 'Joey' a 'Deacon' or 'Joey Deacon' and exaggerate a spastic walk, head movement and spastic speech to mock the recipient of this name calling.
I certainly did, but I was in the junior school, I was young naive and daft.
Sweet Jesus we had disabled people in our school and on our estate. Innocent cruel b*****ds we were
The kids who went to a special school or were death and dumb also used to cop for it too. What innocent cruel b*****ds we were yo them too.
Kids with glasses (especially the NH'ers with sellotape)
Kids with ginger hair
Kids with freckles
Kids with spots
Kids with greasy hair
Kids with scruffy clothes
f*** sake, I need a shrink and a Vicar to forgive my childhood sins.
Dear Doctor,
Apart from the glasses that describes me very well when I was a nipper, only one thing to add to make it complete Short-arse! :(
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Had a discussion recently about kids these days and access to porn on the internet, when all we had was mags under bushes and the odd grainy VHS that some proud lad brought in.
I grew up in Retford so some might not be relevant but we called sweets 'grots' and loved a game of 'Wembley Doubles', 'Wall-ey', 'British Bulldogs' or 'headers and volleys'.
Spitting was 'gozzing', and the worst kind of goz was a 'greenie'.
My grandad from Wath used to say 'strike a light' a lot.
The internet has meant that kids will never experience that feeling of joy that is discovering a nif mag in a hedgerow. Months of near misses when you spied the coloured paper only for it to be a catalogue (in itself a decent find) or an advertising leaflet, just made it all the better.
Great thread by the way. My grandma had a little cupboard under the stairs that we all used to call the glory hole as in "Put that box in the glory hole". It seems to have gone out of fashion now, I can't imagine why.
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Packed.
Usually when you were about 13 and one of your girlfriend's (let's call her Lindsey for the sake of this scenario) mates would approach you in the yard and say,
" You've been packed by Lindsey."
To which you quick as a flash, but not truthfully, would retort,
" I'm not bothered. I was gonna pack her anyway."
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Plan B.
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Packed.
Usually when you were about 13 and one of your girlfriend's (let's call her Lindsey for the sake of this scenario) mates would approach you in the yard and say,
" You've been packed by Lindsey."
To which you quick as a flash, but not truthfully, would retort,
" I'm not bothered. I was gonna pack her anyway."
I remember getting a 'your packed' letter and being more disgusted by the grammar than the packing.
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Was Joey something to do with a disabled person on Blue Peter
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Remember finding one under a hedge
Why under a hedge ffs
Tell me now you've never heard of a hedge-chog?
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Class mate nice one