Phrases once common you rarely hear today

[Dial M 4 Mercer]

‘Please’ ‘Pardon’ ‘Excuse me’ and Thank you’.

 

[maccieblue]

She's got piss flaps like mud flaps on a Volvo

thats why the Swedish pronounce the car Vulva

 

[Franny 1234]

I still use it.

So does my wife to be honest with you.

 

[Franny 1234]

How wasteful is Doku

 

[city2]

Well I,ll go to the top of the stairs

 

[philfodenswristsock]

Don't eat your apple pips, a tree will grow in you!

Don't swallow your chewing gum. It'll wrap around your intestines!

 

[Bill Walker]

My grandma used to say..

You'll be come a cropper doing that.

 

[SamTheGuru]

This thread is really interesting because it is all about experience and perspective. A lot of the sayings I still hear regularly.

 

[SamTheGuru]

Well I,ll go to the top of the stairs

Well I'll go to the foot of the stairs?

 

[SamTheGuru]

Face like a bulldog licking piss off a thistle, in fact I still use that sometimes.

Face like a bulldog licking piss off a stinging nettle. I use that quite often.

 

[SamTheGuru]

"He has chewed his last cabbage"

 

[City Hobgoblin]

A face like a Sunday School form

 

[city2]

Your a long time dead
A shroud has no pockets

 

[Tuearts right boot]

In reference to a guy being gay.
He's a shirt lifter.
In reference to a lady with stick out ripples.
Nips like dockers rivets.
A guy with a big cock
He's hung like a donkey.

I see your dockers rivet but raise a Scammel wheel nut.....

 

[blumanchu]

Arms like Garth

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

Arms like Garth

I remember that comic strip in the Daily Mirror

 

[Dial M 4 Mercer]

“You need to pull the choke out”.

 

[TJHTNATSOL]

I see your dockers rivet but raise a Scammel wheel nut.....

and blind cobblers thumbs

 

[Tuearts right boot]

“You need to pull the choke out”.

That's brought back some memoeries of my dad..."Dont spare the horses" was another, "Pull your finger out " was also another one he used.

 

[johnny crossan]

I had the radio on recently and caught some of Steptoe & Son. What’s interesting about these radio shows, circa 1972, is that they are re-recordings of the scripts of the original TV shows from the 60s. And all the bad language has been cut out of them. I know this because one of the nostalgia TV channels sometimes shows the original black-and-white Steptoes, swearing and all.
Anyway, what struck me was that most of the swearing, which so offended Mary Whitehouse, now seems old-fashioned and has disappeared from the public vocabulary. Does anyone ever call someone “you silly bleeder” anymore? Or exclaim “sodding hell!”? There is a rich vein here, I think, of once offensive terms that have disappeared from use because more offensive terms have become more acceptable, or at least, more widespread.