Phrases once common you rarely hear today

Not so much a saying but speaking to a young lad in work and he said my nan calls fizzy drinks “mineral”….i said yeah when I was a kid we had a “mineral man” who’d deliver your fizzy drinks and you’d give the empty bottles back for 20p…he looked at me like I was the oldest person he’d ever met…I’m 40 :-(
 
Not so much a saying but speaking to a young lad in work and he said my nan calls fizzy drinks “mineral”….i said yeah when I was a kid we had a “mineral man” who’d deliver your fizzy drinks and you’d give the empty bottles back for 20p…he looked at me like I was the oldest person he’d ever met…I’m 40 :-(
My kids still laugh that my mam called it mineral.
Remember the van coming every week and looking forward to cream Soda which was considered exotic back then!
 
My mum had a few sayings growing up that she wouldnt say now

If you asked her "why?" She would say "y is a crooked letter".
If you asked "what's for dinner?" She would say "sh*t with sugar on"
If you said "that's not fair" she would say "neither is a black man's willy"
The "y" one is bit close to the bone nowadays
 
Not so much a saying but speaking to a young lad in work and he said my nan calls fizzy drinks “mineral”….i said yeah when I was a kid we had a “mineral man” who’d deliver your fizzy drinks and you’d give the empty bottles back for 20p…he looked at me like I was the oldest person he’d ever met…I’m 40 :-(
American cream soda from the Alpine man, happy days.
 
I’ll give you something to cry for. Was one of my Dad’s sayings although he never hit us, his bark was worse than his bite. Actually my teacher said that to me on my first day at school because I wouldn’t stop crying.
My Mum didn’t swear so when asking what’s for tea, it was “a jump at the cupboard and a bite of the knob”.
 
My kids still laugh that my mam called it mineral.
Remember the van coming every week and looking forward to cream Soda which was considered exotic back then!
Very rarely allowed coke off the pop man. My dad viewed it with suspicion for some reason? Could have anything else, loved the cream soda and still buy dandelion and burdock now. Also loved limeade, rasberryade and cherryade. There was a Corona van but we had the cheap unbranded van. :-)
 
Not so much a saying but speaking to a young lad in work and he said my nan calls fizzy drinks “mineral”….i said yeah when I was a kid we had a “mineral man” who’d deliver your fizzy drinks and you’d give the empty bottles back for 20p…he looked at me like I was the oldest person he’d ever met…I’m 40 :-(
Hahaha, our family still call it mineral:)
 
Let's go to "The Outdoor" for some beers
He's mustard that lad
He's daft as a brush
"Where we going dad"? 'There and back to see how far it is"
Off to the park for a sit down on "a form"
The rains coming down like stair rods
She's got a face like: A wet weekend, a joiners thumb, a bastard on father's day,
He's as thick as a brick, a short end, a vicars foreskin
It was always the Outdoor.
Back in the day, some of those forms in the park were wrought iron forms and when they became twisted, they were awful to sit on. In WHP, the group over social housing, Willow Park have recently installed a few wooden forms along footpaths for people to sit on.
 
Very rarely allowed coke off the pop man. My dad viewed it with suspicion for some reason? Could have anything else, loved the cream soda and still buy dandelion and burdock now. Also loved limeade, rasberryade and cherryade. There was a Corona van but we had the cheap unbranded van. :-)
I could not remember whether it was called Corona or not as I thought I was getting mixed up with that beer with the lemon in it.cherryade was my favourite
 

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