Phrases from your childhood/ teenage years you don’t hear anymore (1 Viewer)

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

Both my mum and dad were big smokers (killed them in the end!), but always remember their discussions about which ciggies to smoke. Both Embassy and Kensitas had a gift catalogue which they would pore over to see which were the best coupons to collect. How strange to think now that then you were rewarded to smoke!

I occasionally bought my dad 10 woodbines for his birthday when I couldn't think of anything else. Terrible really.

 

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[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

"I suppose muggins here is going to have to cook your dinner"

 

[westcountry_skyblue]

So did mine. "Yer dad's gone bloody yampee " I'd completely forgotten about that. I bet that's almost completely died out now.

Haven’t heard it for years myself not sure if it was a Cov saying or not?

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

Haven’t heard it for years myself not sure if it was a Cov saying or not?

I've never heard anyone say it ourside of Cov. A bit like going up "the entry" around the back of the houses . Very Cov. I live in Rugby these days and if ever I say it the the locals ask me what I'm talking about.

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

Mum an dad used to live on Chesterton road and I remember being sent to get 20 silk cut for me mum when I was 5 years old.

I used to hate getting fags for my mum and dad as a kid.

 

[dutchman]

Remember when we wore 'pumps' rather than 'trainers'?

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

Remember when we wore 'pumps' rather than 'trainers'?

Yes. I also remember baseball shoes/boots. They're now converses. More expensive and utter crap.

 

[dutchman]

Remember when we wore 'pumps' rather than 'trainers'?

We had this one posh teacher at St Mary's insisted on calling them 'plimsoles' and a raincoat was a 'Mackintosh'.

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

We had this one posh teacher at St Mary's insisted on calling them 'plimsoles' and a raincoat was a 'Mackintosh'.

My wife calls them plimsoles. She's a cockney and says she'd never heard of pumps.
My mum called a certain type of raincoat a kagool (I can't spell it)

 

[dutchman]

My wife calls them plimsoles. She's a cockney and says she'd never heard of pumps.

Has anybody outside of Coventry?

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

I know what you don't hear any more : in our street at least in the 1970's we'd get a peg and a piece of cardboard and attach it to the rear of our bike frame with the card sticking in the spokes and then speed off thinking it sounded like our very own motorbike. We got through a lot of card.

 

[Houchens Head]

Trolleys! I was always making them wiv me mates!

 

[Houchens Head]

"Drawing the fire"
Cov Fortnight
Forecourt attendants
Cinema Usherettes
Sweet cigarettes
Rag & Bone man

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

"Drawing the fire"
Cov Fortnight
Forecourt attendants
Cinema Usherettes
Sweet cigarettes
Rag & Bone man

I used to collect bazooka Joe cards.

 

[Gazolba]

We had this one posh teacher at St Mary's insisted on calling them 'plimsoles' and a raincoat was a 'Mackintosh'.

I think it was plimsoll not plimsole.
Plimsoll shoe - Wikipedia

 

[Gazolba]

I know what you don't hear any more : in our street at least in the 1970's we'd get a peg and a piece of cardboard and attach it to the rear of our bike frame with the card sticking in the spokes and then speed off thinking it sounded like our very own motorbike. We got through a lot of card.

I rememberd kids doing that. Kids use cigarette cards (you used to get different picture cards in packs of cigarettes).

 

[Malaka]

"you're a fucking mong " said by everyone about everyone at Whitley abbey school in the 1970s.
Please tell me that's now died out.......

I left there in 78

 

[Malaka]

That was ACE!

 

[Malaka]

Mum where's me football? 'up Jack's arse in America' never understood why it would be there

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

someone getting a 'booty' messing around down the river.

I was at a match yesterday in Wolverhampton and a bloke had to go in a big puddle to get the ball back. I asked him if he got a booty and he looked at me gone out.

 

[dutchman]

I once asked a girl on the deli counter if she had any pork scratchings and she looked at me like I was from a different planet or something!

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

That was ACE!

You must have gone to Whitley !

 

[Malaka]

You must have gone to Whitley !

LOL I did indeed

 

[Malaka]

Hello, Hello, West End Aggro, West Aggro, Hello, Hello

 

[Malaka]

Stop blartin!

 

[OffenhamSkyBlue]

Pumps is quite common further north too. In the West Country where i grew up (and i think in South Wales), they were "daps"!

 

[Houchens Head]

"Wouldn't it be great if City won the F.A. Cup."

This reminded me of the album "Monty Python - Live at Drury Lane". In the sketch where Eric Idle asks Eastern World Leaders questions (Karl Mark and the like), he asks "Coventry City last won the FA Cup in what year?" Silence. He asks again, "Coventry City last won the FA Cup in what year?" More silence. then, "I'm not at all surprised you didn't get that! It was indeed a trick question! Coventry City have never won the FA Cup!"
I used to get bloody angry at that sketch! And when they did at last win it, I shouted out " In your face, Eric Idle!" People thought I was nuts!

 

[tommydazzle]

I once asked a girl on the deli counter if she had any pork scratchings and she looked at me like I was from a different planet or something!

Scratchings at the chippy - they call them crispy bits here in Norfolk which is a bit twee.

 

[tommydazzle]

The exclamation 'I'll go to Stoke!' Not sure if it was Stoke in Cov or the Potteries?

 

[Houchens Head]

This reminded me of the album "Monty Python - Live at Drury Lane". In the sketch where Eric Idle asks Eastern World Leaders questions (Karl Mark and the like), he asks "Coventry City last won the FA Cup in what year?" Silence. He asks again, "Coventry City last won the FA Cup in what year?" More silence. then, "I'm not at all surprised you didn't get that! It was indeed a trick question! Coventry City have never won the FA Cup!"
I used to get bloody angry at that sketch! And when they did at last win it, I shouted out " In your face, Eric Idle!" People thought I was nuts!

 

[Sbarcher]

Scratchings at the chippy - they call them crispy bits here in Norfolk which is a bit twee.

Where I grew up in the North East I used to have six penorth of chips with salt, vinegar and batter.

 

[Houchens Head]

Where I grew up in the North East I used to have six penorth of chips with salt, vinegar and batter.

Yep! A tanner of chips wrapped in newspaper! Bloody lovely! I used to get mine from Whales on the corner of Howard St and Stoney Stanton Rd, where the Health Centre is now (or it was before I left Cov!)

 

[dutchman]

Yep! A tanner of chips wrapped in newspaper! Bloody lovely! I used to get mine from Whales on the corner of Howard St and Stoney Stanton Rd, where the Health Centre is now (or it was before I left Cov!)

And here it is, opposite the pub...

 

[Gazolba]

Anything to do with Coventry was a standing joke for the Monty Python crew.
There were a few derogatory references to the city in the series.
I used to have a boss whose wife was from somewhere near London and when I told her I was from Coventry, her comment was "There's not much there, is there?"

 

[Gazolba]

And here it is, opposite the pub...

Almost everyone is wearing a hat or a cap, men, women and even the little kids. In those days, you were undressed without one.