Off Topic Things your parents used to say

When you were a bairn growing up.

My mam had one whenever she had a row with my dad - I'm gonna run away with a blackie.
Of of my dads if we were cheeky - yer impittand fond yer are.
The shop was always called the paki's & the takeaway, the chinky's.

My dad referred to scruffy people as Rodney's, idle folk as Hippy Lazy & long haired men as Clippen Heads.
Of course this was all in the '70's.

Anybody else got any?

 

I have never heard my mam use any of the proper swear words, but one of her curses when she lost her temper always made me laugh...When she was angry she would say " Bloody hell flames how"........ I still don't know to this day what she was on about..

 

If we'd done owt wrong my mam would say, 'When yer da get's in he'll bray yer.'

 

Yup mine said the same. Or im phonin the police to take you away.

 

Yes..I got that as well mate...And sadly my dad never failed to disappoint..

 

You been down the beach playin with fire again havnt ya

Na mam.

Wallop. Ya lying little git, ya stink. Now gan in the bath that'll fettle ya.

 

Hello hinny.

 

No, nor did mine.

 

Cheeky was `the rotten essence`

Grandma always used `mind` for remember and a name which escaped her for the moment became `carry on`. So a sentence beginning `Can you mind carry on up the road?` was baffling but not uncommon.

On the rare occasions I misbehaved I recall being threatened with being clashed right round the room.

A quick wash was a lick and a promise.

 

Memories eh?
I always got a wallop for telling lies.
But if I'd done owt wrong & told the truth, I'd still get a ****ing walloping.
Just couldn't ****ing win, lol.

 

One of my nana's used have loads of crazy sayings...One that springs to mind when she found something surprising was "Well slap my belly with a wet fish"...

 

We used to have a mobile shop come round our way.
Bloke called Tommy Downie.
He advertised Nimble bread on his van & was always known as the nimble man, which he was owt but, the fat ****.
'Gan get us a stone of tatties off the nimble man', lol.

 

I'll give ya a clip rund the lugs mind.

 

Aye, used to get that.
My granda had a phrase if he felt like he'd been ripped off - We've been chun to the fair here like.

 

Ive only ever heard my dad and his mates use the term 'marra'. Yet its used often on here.

 

Im gannin to netty.

 

This is a common term in many of the the ex pit east Durham pit villages/towns such as Murton, Seaham and Ryhope..

 

Can i get away with this?

After gannin to roker park for rhubarb fights me mam always used to say 'look at the kip of you, ya look like one of them little sambo's'.

 

Well as you know he was a miner. Just didnt hear it much elsewhere.

 

And north Durham villages.
Very common in places like Burnopfield, Hobson, Craghead, East Tanfield & Stanley when I was a boy.