Phrases once common you rarely hear today

[lefty goldblatt]

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.

Taken from Steptoe, a non swear word I use daily

 

[Tuearts right boot]

and when it was cold my mum used to get out the ' candlewick bed spreads '

 

[Vienna_70]

It looks like the title is heading for the swamp again.

 

[Sky Blues Thinking]

and when it was cold my mum used to get out the ' candlewick bed spreads '

 

[Sky Blues Thinking]

Did they go under or over the eiderdown or continental quilt.

 

[Barcon]

Her minge looked like she had Gary Coleman in a scissor lock.

 

[mr t]

Did they go under or over the eiderdown or continental quilt.

On top of the eiderdown - continental quilts didn’t exist in the UK back then.

 

[2smokinberyls]

 

[Grassland Blue]

He bats for the other side
He helps them out when they're busy

Uphill gardener springs to mind.

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

When offered a cigarette, my dad would often stick it behind his ear and say...
"I'll save that for Ron" (Later on)

 

[JULES]

read all about it...............have not heard that shouted for decades

 

[Chappie]

I'll have a half.

 

[KS55]

And United go into a 3-0 lead.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Got the right time mate?

Heard at most away games in the 70’s when mobs were sussing out your accent

 

[fanatic1]

I wouldn't touch her with yours!

 

[Really_here]

crash the ash

 

[Lost in space]

I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot bargepole.
Calling dibs

 

[TJHTNATSOL]

I wouldn't touch her with yours!

About 1982 I had a paper open at page 3 at work Linda Lusardi had her fine assets on display an old boy looked over my shoulder and said " eeh I'd fuck her whilst the wife and kids held her down " (yes I was working in Oldham)

 

[lunebleu]

Years ago I worked with a bloke who used to say about an attractive woman… ‘ I’d crawl a mile over broken glass just to stick matchsticks in her shit’. I trust this didn’t generally catch on.

 

[Uwe Already]

Years ago I worked with a bloke who used to say about an attractive woman… ‘ I’d crawl a mile over broken glass just to stick matchsticks in her shit’. I trust this didn’t generally catch on.

Funny you should say - I hear the same but “just to pull pubes from her shit”