General Chat

Night US....sleep well

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nite
...rosexx............

Hey Colin on p.2 - What's for tea?

"Air pie and wind pudding"

When she didn't like someone:

"All hot air and no trousers" or "All fur coat and no knickers"

Then some Scottish phrase that I can't quite remember (she wasn't Scottish but one of her friends / my aunty was):

"Many a mickle make's a muckle"

Then a rhyme (she had lots of poetry quotes):

"In days of old when knights were bold
And paper had not been invented.
They wiped their arses on blades of grasses
And walked away contented."

Still makes me smile.

Jill

lol two final ones....

"Pull the other one..it's got bells on"

" "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." (William Congreve)

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Jill,

I remember 'fur coat and no knickers' another one of the same ilk being 'shes all kipper and curtains'...

..bearing in mind we are from all over the place its amazing how these little gems have travelled

Brilliant thread, Rose:)

Frankie, where are you from - my mum says that and I've never heard of it elsewhere

lol Uggers :))

btw...I think earrings look really sexy on a good looking man ...such as yourself...whatever the age ;))

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Rose, I'm beaming:))))

was it the "Don't care was made to care..."? I used to hear that one...just googled it and

1959 gives the version of the traditional children's rhyme found at Hackney, London.

To ‘don't-cares’ the traditional saying is: Don't care was made to care, Don't care was hung, Don't care was put in a pot And boiled till he was done.
[1959 I. & P. Opie Lore and Language of Schoolchildren iii. 50]

lol

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pmsl Rose that's it - I'd forgotten the rest of it. You've made me smile again:)) My mum was from Berkshire so I must ask her where she knows it from:)

lol...yes would be interesting to know...

my mum was from Chester, (parents moved there)...but she may have picked it up from her cousins who still lived in London ..

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Hello, can't stop long, but my mum used to say don't care was made to care.....I am in Lancashire x

Hiya Rose
When my Dad went out it was always
to see a man about a horse/dog
I waited blinkin years for my horse and my dog!!!!
Tricia

lol Tricia...

I remember that and also when my mum went out one day.....my brother saying she had " gone to find a soldier"
lol...I remember bursting into tears at that!

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No offence to anyone
another one was
"to find a blackman"
I used to think WHY???? course it meant she was going to run away abroad.
wouldn't have to look far nowadays
Just saying what used to be.

Whirley...my mum never said that...she would have deemed that hypocrisy lol...she could always 'spot them a mile off' anyway..


lol Tricia....a trip abroad sounds nice !

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If ever I said.. what? my Grandfather said 'cold taters arent hot'

When Mum thought someone was loud and rude she'd say 'empty vessels make the most noise'

My Grandmother always said 'he's about as much use as a chocolate tea pot' and when she had a large bill she could pay
'well you can't pluck feathers off a frog'

nudge

lol it does that!

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"Wipe your nose your chins bleeding"



I used to say to my very accident prone son ......"Be careful cos I haven't time to go to casualty today"...and I meant it !! lol