Off Topic Things your parents used to say

My old man was always telling me "I'd make a priest swear with a handful of bibles"!!

 

Having to break the ice in the outside netty!

 

Barbary coasters ftom the old Barclay courts?

Now that was rough.

 

Yes, that's right mate..

 

I was petrified of that place as a kid.

 

I got beat up there when I was about 12 walking back from a game at Roker Park. They were trying to get my scarf off me but I managed to hang on to it. I did end up with a bust nose and my clothes covered in mud though after fighting like a cat and rolling about in a muddy puddle where I remember pulling a massive chunk of one of attackers hair out..The sad thing I remember is that there were loads of people about who just walked by without helping and when I did manage to get away and run across to Park Lane, the bus driver wouldn't let me on the bus because of the mud and blood..

 

Whitey, but

 

Can well believe it mate. Ive always maintained that was the roughest part north of the river. It was scary.


Hence when we have 'where did you first drink' threads. I always say The Grapes on Dundas St. In school uniform too.

Anything went. Into the snug. You got money?

Aye.

Well theres ya beers ya little ****s. Now keep quite.

 

When we were kids in the 50's and 60's, in Hendon, if we ever asked for anything, no matter what it was, we got the reply " What do you think this is, Pearsons Fresh Air Fund ?"
I have no idea of the origins of it but it was definitely an old Sunderland saying.

 

'Do you think money grows on trees ?' Well yes . . . . sort of
'What do you think you're on . . . . Ganny's yacht ?' What the **** does that mean *
'Do you think I was born yesterday ?'
My mam used to tell us that it was good for us to wash our faces in cold water in the morning (it wakes us up, parrentlies) . . . . we weren't 'well off' like

* I know really

 

Yes...The Ganny's Yacht term was also used in ours..

 

If ya divven shurrup cryin' I'll gi' ya something to cry for.

I've got something to cry for. That's why I'm ...

 

It was granny's yacht in our house. Seeing as how both granny's died before I was born I suspected I wasn't being told the whole truth

 

Just goes to show, some of these sayings are really really old!

 

Yeah. Wtf. Really wtf.

 

my dad used to say, do as i say not what

used to have an outside toilet and who ever went to go my mam would say, "don't forget the paper" coz it got damp if it was left outside lol.

 

my old man used to say "do as i say not what i do"

 

Does anybody remember playing 'penkers' or 'glass allies'? - both meaning marbles.

Kundy? - the sink in the gutter.

There used to be an old song called 'Geordie's lost his penker' (long before we ever heard of makems) He lost it down the kundy and, as the verses went on, he devised all sorts of ways to get it out. Eventually he brought dynamite, and ended up demolishing the whole street! The last verse revealed that Geordie had found his penker - "It was in his bloody pocket"

 

Marbles aye. What was the game where you hoy a coin. Closest to the wall wins..

 

**** off Billy on another splendid thread. Now suck my farts.