Words you don't hear anymore

Wazzock

No need for that, mate

Lol, a word commonly used to by my grandfather in the early 80s to describe footballers, jockeys, the grandkids, the dogs and my nan.

pukka

Gadzooks!

"Gadzooks" was an archaic disguised cuss word..."God's hooks" - i.e. the nails used to crucify Christ. Joost sayin', like...

A phrase from the 70s that no-one uses any more...was incredibly hip in the 70s -- "infra-dig".

Infra dig

Most of the people here are nice enough but very non-U.

Duchess of Devonshire would have liked that one...but the rest of yeez is nought but chuffin' PLEBS!

Or puffin chebs!

Gay as it used to mean.

Gay Crusader, Gaye Brief, Gay Lemur, Gay Kelleway - them were the days.

Meltdown

Hello, please, thank you, and goodbye.

You do in Stoke, Mememe.

It might be a dump - but politeness is still found in abundance in Stoke.

Hello Tommy.

Thank you for defending Stoke.

Good bye.

Most kind, Crisp.

Same where I am, it can take half an hour to negotiate the platitudes if two of you go for an oyster pad at the same time.

Tommy & Crisp
I went to Stoke once - got stuck on the link road on (A500 I think). Anyway couldn't get the last mile because of polite drivers saying after you and thank you as they stopped to let each other go first.
Prefer Birmingham ... shoot first, then give way.
Potteries is for pottering, Black country is for ... err.

"After you, Claude."

- Ryan Shawcross 

Oct 7, 2014 -- 4:35PM, mememe wrote:

Tommy & CrispI went to Stoke once - got stuck on the link road on (A500 I think). Anyway couldn't get the last mile because of polite drivers saying after you and thank you as they stopped to let each other go first.Prefer Birmingham ... shoot first, then give way.Potteries is for pottering, Black country is for ... err.

With that story you make Stoke sound a lot more interesting than it actually is.

I went to Stoke once. It was shut.

Frenchiefied

To be infected with venereal disease.


The mort  is Frenchiefied.  The wench is infected