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Is it just me….
…or am I getting old 😥
I did a job for a young bloke recently, and he just keep looking at the job and saying the sign was ‘sick’. I was a little offended until his mum told me that meant he liked it.
Funny thing, when I was a kid, if something was ‘sick’ it was….. um….. sick! if you know what I mean.
My ten year old is going around saying that everything is ‘mad’. I have no idea what these kids are talking about now days. I think tho that ‘mad’ must be a good thing because he is not upset when he says it. In my day, something that was ‘mad’ was accompanied by a frown or something. I know when my dad was in a ‘mad’ mood, it was best if you were doing something else as far from dad as possible.
And kids are given so much more these days. My 10 year old came home and asked me when I was going to get him a mobile phone. I told him he’d get one when he got a full time job, or when he could earn enough to pay his own phone bill 😮 Seems a few kids in his class have been given phones as birthday presents this year.. They are 10 for petes sake!! One of his friends even called in to give me her phone number, incase I wanted to have a chat….. about what I’ll never know. 😮
My son says that the other kids think that I am ‘mad’ for not getting him a phone. Based on the vocabulary these days, is that a good thing or not?
I remember when I was 10, I was lucky if my dad bought me a matchbox toy.
Is this just me?
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Shane, it’s not just you.
“sick” means “cool”.
So did “phat”, thank God that one went by the wayside.
I think both terms just sound stupid.
Nobody says “mad” here but kids do say “bitchin”I am like you, my kids get very few “big”gifts and I like it that way.
I refuse to buy Game Boys & such too.
I’d rather see Justis outside playing.
I just saw on TV yesterday that many parents are giving their daughters boob jobs for graduation gifts.
I got a sewing machine.
Love….Jill -
Hi
No way, Shane. I just have to say that we are both getting old. My daughter, CJ – the one who’s birthday it was in April and was given a very large Tiger print – who’s 16 going on 23 comes out with some of the most wonderful saying……..but she can’t think of any at the mo.
One that gets me – CJ says ‘Look at that fit fella’….can’t stand that.
Oh well, back to my pipe and slippers.
Lee
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Blimey! 😮 It’s Lee Harris! Not seen you in ages mate! How’s that daughter of yours, CJ? Wasn’t it her birthday recently? You could have got her a huge tiger print while you were at SignUK you know, would have made a great gift!
:lol1: Never tires, never gets old :lol1:
Cheers, Dewi
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My Daughter (15 years old) sits at night chatting to all her friends on MSN and texting using her Mobile. I keep telling her she’s got more powerful communications systems at her fingertips than America and British Intelligence had during the second world war. And her phone is more sophisticated than Captain Kirks communicator ever was.
When I was a kid we used to link two tins cans together with a bit of string and talk to each other that way. Mind you, If I got lost I couldn’t just phone my mum and ask for help, so there’s a lot to be said for modern technology
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quote Dewi:Blimey! 😮 It’s Lee Harris! Not seen you in ages mate! How’s that daughter of yours, CJ? Wasn’t it her birthday recently? You could have got her a huge tiger print while you were at SignUK you know, would have made a great gift!:lol1: Never tires, never gets old :lol1:
Cheers, Dewi
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Nige
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You were lucky to have tin cans
We used to have to string two used pottys together using part of our own intestines while our dads beat us with a dead cat……
paul r
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We were so poor, I was born with no clothes on! 😥 The midwife didn’t bother to slap me, she slapped my mum instead 😥 I cried for my mummy, unfortunately so did my father 😥 Luckily I was born a boy or I’d have had nothing to play with 😥 I’ll always remember my first Christmas, our family got a humbug toffee from Father Christmas. It was passed around, one family member to another and I was lucky enough to lick the wrapper. 😥
We had a coin-operated gas meter, the first in our street, but we couldn’t afford to pay for the gas, so my father taped a bit of string to a 10 pence piece, popped it in the meter, then pulled it out again. All was going well til my mum went a little loopy and bought a loaf of bread with the 10 pence… oh how my father cried, it wasn’t Hovis! 😥
Any similarities to real life events of anyone alive, dead or on the dole is purely coincidental. No animals were harmed during this post and all jokey comments were performed by a professional stunt joker, please don’t try this at home.
Cheers, Dewi
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You were lucky, we didn’t have a house, we lived in a gas meter. Someone used to poke fun at us lowering a coin through the hole in the roof and pulling it up again on string before we could reach it. That came to an end when my dad lost his job and we had to move into a couple of disused plastic potties which were fastened together with string, it was ok at first but someone nicked the string and the family was split up during a thunder storm when one of the potties was washed away in a torrent of water from the street gulley, such as it was. Not really a street, more of an encampment really by the local sewage works. Mum said it was water but I wasn’t sure for years. The good old days eh. Who said the 80’s weren’t great.
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You are all Sick and Mad. *hair*
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You were lucky! We lived in a lake, we had a handful of gravel for our suppers then our dad used to beat us to death with a broken bottle and then dance and sing on our graves. etc
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At least it might have been clean water int south ot country, I’m still not sure abart torrent at swept arf mi famly away. It were grrim.
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We were so poor the gypsies complained to the Council against us 😥
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you think yourself real….lucky we lived in a self made house, and our only way of getting food was to spend hours upon hours trying to find a haggis!! 🙄
and when you tried to catch it, the blighter got away (too slippy) :nana:Nik 😉
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Mom used to make us kids sell our blood to the blood bank.
My older sister sold a kidney for grocery money, enuff to buy a stale box of crushed saltines.
Another sister sold her hair to a toupee company.
My brothers got the better end of the deal, having to sell bodily fluids to the sperm bank.
We had no house, we lived in a damp spider-crawling wheelie bin out back of the KFC and had used chicken grease for breakfast every morning.
Then dad would beat us about the face and head with our grandmother.
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I think I am with Marek on this one.
Thanks for the replies Rightsigns, Lee and Jill. I guess it is not just me after all.
Cheers
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quote :You are all Sick and Mad. -Marek
Not at all………………..we’ve just lost the plot
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quote Lee Harris:we’ve just lost the plot
You’re assuming we had one! 😮
I must apologise to Mark for taunting him with the 10 pence on a string, I had no idea you were in there Mark. If I’d known, I would’ve put a slice of bread with jam on it and taunted you with that! 😀
Cheers, Dewi
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It was you? thought I reckognised the dulcid tones of your voice, ever the tease eh? you’ll get yours one day! 😀
Mark -
With you all the way Shane just couldn’t resist the chance to reminisce (?) about life in the great northern regions of England!
Cheers, Mark.
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Im still quite young …. well I think so anyway 😀 Im 27 … so form your own opinions please …. anyway …. I was lost when I heard some teenagers say “I’d Hit It”
:lol1: I was looking around thinking hit what?? …. It was me … hit me 😮 and they werent on about slapping me either if you get my meaning!! :lol1: apparently “hit it” has a whole new meaning?!
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You’ve lost me completely Carrie 😕
Care to explain to an old fogey?
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Let me translate as my 21-year old son says it too.
“I want to knock boots with that chick”
“I’d do the horizontal Cha-Cha with her”
“I want to hit a home run with her”
which equals:
“She turns me on”
etc etc etc
You know what it means, Phil.
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quote Jillbeans:Let me translate as my 21-year old son says it too.
“I want to knock boots with that chick”
“I’d do the horizontal Cha-Cha with her”
“I want to hit a home run with her”
which equals:
“She turns me on”
etc etc etc
You know what it means, Phil.
Love….Jill 😉What about Phat Jill. And the term ‘tubular’. Some american bloke the other day used it in a sentence. All this nonsense came out of his mouth that I couldn’t understand. All I understaood was that Phat did not mean fat. Can you ask your 21yo to translate it. I just want to know if I have been insulted, thats all. 😳
Shane
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Tubular is 80s surfer talk for a cool wave as in
“totally tubular dude!”
which was gradually morphed into a compliment for anything cool.
It was kinda like the male version of Valley Girl
(“gag me with a spoon” etc)
and is usually prefaced with the word “like”.
Nobody sez that here anymore, it’s gone out of fashion.
“phat” means really smokin, not chubby.
That’s more of a gangsta term, like for expensive wheels on a car.
Once when driving with my then 15-yr-old daughter & her friend,
I noticed that “like” was said 37 times in 15 miles.
Y’know what I’m sayin?
Love….Jill
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We don’t say “prat” here, or mingin or glaikit or scunner. 😉 -
😮 You don’t say Prat anymore (oogle) …aw, I’ve only just incorporated that into my lingo 🙁
Over here the phrase ‘buggar’ is pretty common, after a hugely successful Toyota advert on the telly’
Mind you, when I was a kid, a bugger was an illigitimate child. How times change….
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Bugger has a totally different meaning here! Mom would wash my mouth out if I’d said that as a kid.
(a hint that it happens in farm fields and/or prisons)
We weren’t even allowed to say “fart”!
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😳 I lived a very sheltered life Jill, I blush very easily 😳 😳 😳
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So what you’re saying Jill is:- Those kids that called me a Phat B*stard when I chased after them for chucking snowballs at my window were really acknowledging my athletic running ability 😀 ( not, as I had thought, taunting me for not being able to catch them :oops:)
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My level of coolness with young people can be summed up in just a few words, the words I use daily, like ‘smashing’, ‘blimey’, ‘super’ and my personal favourite ‘smart’ :lol1: Kids just look at me as if I’ve stepped out of a time warp, wholly expecting me to say something like ‘Whoopsy Daisy’ when I trip over a well placed cardboard box behind the counter.
So ‘Phat’ is a compliment? What the hell does ‘trick’ mean? I was told the other day that a sticker I made was ‘trick’… I looked over a few times, but I couldn’t see anything magical or mystical about it 😕
Cheers, Dewi
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….maybe they were saying “sick” with a lisp?
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quote rightsigns:You’ve lost me completely Carrie 😕
Care to explain to an old fogey?
:lol1: Im so glad Jill answered you Phil …. I wasnt quite sure where to start apart from saying “umm well you know, ummm” :lol1:
This thread is quite funny…. its making me have a chuckle anyway! 😛
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Just asked my kids what words they use and they came up with “Canes”,
“well shady”, “innit” and “dl”
Translated they mean
“Canes”………..that hurts!
“well shady”……..not fair!
“innit”…………….I agree!
“dl”……………….bl**dy H**l
Theyve just added “Have yer mam on a bap la”……………..that one has completely lost me!!!! 😮 -
I can almost understand ‘dl’ jem, but the rest needs an interpretor 😮
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PHAT = Pretty Hot And Tempting
Maybe??
Iain
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