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Dennis Langan 21:02, Sun 24 May
BlueWireMy dad used to say "5 and 20 past" rather than "25 past" (usually as a hurry-up when we were meant to be somewhere by half past)
B_C_F_CBlueWireMy dad used to say "5 and 20 past" rather than "25 past" (usually as a hurry-up when we were meant to be somewhere by half past)
That's just comes from old English doesn't it?
As in "four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie"
"Three score years and ten" (70)
B_C_F_CB_C_F_CBlueWireMy dad used to say "5 and 20 past" rather than "25 past" (usually as a hurry-up when we were meant to be somewhere by half past)
That's just comes from old English doesn't it?
As in "four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie"
"Three score years and ten" (70)
generalBlueWyndcliffgeneralBluePut the wood in the 'ole. - Shut the door
Get out the 'orse road
Chloe you're a funny un , got a face like a pickled onion ( Our mom to my daughter ).
You yampy buggar.
Ta-rah a bit.
Our kid's babby and his wench.
I'm starvin , gunnu have a piece with jam on it.
Goo and play up yer own end or I'll lamp ya
Stop chobblin them rocks.
More or less my list, too. From a 60s / 70s Small Heath childhood. 😌
👍👍👍Small Heath , Sparkhill then Yardley Wood childhood
LondonAndyRicky BlottoEvidently not a Brum thing but this thread made me thinking of my dear old nan yelling "I'll have your guts for garters!" at me. What a horrible saying 😅
In a similar horrible vein, my uncle from the west of Ireland, when hungry, would often say, "I could eat the arm off a scabby child."
Sheev PalpatineNot sure if this is Brummie or Irish as never heard anyone other than my family use it. If something is shit it’s “desperate”.
“The film was shit” - “it was a desperate film”
“XYZ is a shithole” - “it’s a desperate place”
ForeverFrancisAlso how Captain Scott described the South Pole.Sheev PalpatineNot sure if this is Brummie or Irish as never heard anyone other than my family use it. If something is shit it’s “desperate”.
“The film was shit” - “it was a desperate film”
“XYZ is a shithole” - “it’s a desperate place”
Very Irish.
CharcyI’ve heard people say something’s desperate in that sense and the Irish is fairly far back in my family. I thought it was fairly common.
CharcyCharcyI’ve heard people say something’s desperate in that sense and the Irish is fairly far back in my family. I thought it was fairly common.
Just looked it’s common usage that goes back hundreds of years. Not an Irish thing.