Dick Swiveller
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- Sep 9, 2011
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Looking a bit black over our Will's Mother's.
Seems to be Bill in other versions.
Seems to be Bill in other versions.
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[Misc] Sayings your old mum or dad said.
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My father had a long period of saying “you always know what sort of game you’re going to get with a short referee” whenever a short referee ran out at the Goldstone. He was always right as well.
You’ll live was another one, used when I hurt myself.
I came home after school and told my mum I fell over in PE, her answer “you’ll live” without looking at my arm that was swollen and ready hurting. I had actually broken my wrist, but trying to convince her I needed to visit the hospital was a drama.
I suppose she was right as I’m still here.
I came home after school and told my mum I fell over in PE, her answer “you’ll live” without looking at my arm that was swollen and ready hurting. I had actually broken my wrist, but trying to convince her I needed to visit the hospital was a drama.
I suppose she was right as I’m still here.
Icy Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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“You’ll live to want“ whenever I spent every penny I had on some shit
From my father having a G&T in the garden with his friends when I fell out of a tree onto a tent peg “ He’s screaming, he’s fine”
I think that now every time I hear a footballer go down and rolls about screaming
From my father having a G&T in the garden with his friends when I fell out of a tree onto a tent peg “ He’s screaming, he’s fine”
I think that now every time I hear a footballer go down and rolls about screaming
Shropshire Seagull
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Mum (89) & Dad (95) still with us, but mum poorly now in nursing home>
If making a mistake - Mum "You pays for yer learning"
If driving a bit too fast - Mum "Slow down, better to arrive late in this life than early in the next"
When holding the moral high-ground - "Turn the other cheek"
When following a dawdling driver - Dad "Com'on old fruit, chop-chop"
My South African cousins talk about "going for an oil change" when off to take a dump ...
If making a mistake - Mum "You pays for yer learning"
If driving a bit too fast - Mum "Slow down, better to arrive late in this life than early in the next"
When holding the moral high-ground - "Turn the other cheek"
When following a dawdling driver - Dad "Com'on old fruit, chop-chop"
My South African cousins talk about "going for an oil change" when off to take a dump ...
banjo
GOSBTS
Wait till your dad gets home. I often heard my mum say that. 
- Aug 7, 2003
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If someone had farted my nan would say “Someone’s let Charlie out of prison” Neber heard anyone else say that.
Take from whence it comes. I do my best, but rarely succeed, especially when that odious, grotesque, self-righteous, bloated, conscience by-pased, compulsive lying, incompetent, dishevelled, brexit enforcing, item of ridicule opens his mouth. When I get my blue passport, I know where I'd like to shove it............
"David King can stand on his head in the middle of Holmes Avenue..."
wunt be druv
Drat! and double drat!
"What's the time Dad?".."Half past pickaxe quarter to shovel" was the reply..WTF was that all about?
My mum had a similar version, “Half past, quarter past, pick axe, shovel”
nope not one clue why.Dad would say “Just turned septic”
rudolf hucker
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My old man.
“That’ll come in handy even if I never use it”. Or
“You’ve got more chance of being handcuffed to a ghost”
“That’ll come in handy even if I never use it”. Or
“You’ve got more chance of being handcuffed to a ghost”
midnight_rendezvous
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My dad gave me perhaps the most sound advice I’ve ever heard; Never trust a Tory.
In footballing terms it was always “he’s no Peter Ward”
In footballing terms it was always “he’s no Peter Ward”
jakarta
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It's Black over Bills Mothers'...
As it was in RH20 this morning.
As it was in RH20 this morning.
The Clamp
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Quite telling that so many phrases from our childhood are about minding your own business, threatening violence, or denying us things!
My mum’s phrases were things such as;
“Don’t you dare”
“do you want the wooden spoon”?
“I don’t want to hear a peep”
“I want doesn’t get”
“Want into one hand, shit into the other and see which one fills up first”
“If I have to come up there..”
“I’ll have your guts for garters”
“I’m telling your father”
My actual father disappeared to the pub most nights. And I don’t blame him, an evening with my mother as the alternative.
I think she laughed about once a year.
They’re both dead now.
My mum’s phrases were things such as;
“Don’t you dare”
“do you want the wooden spoon”?
“I don’t want to hear a peep”
“I want doesn’t get”
“Want into one hand, shit into the other and see which one fills up first”
“If I have to come up there..”
“I’ll have your guts for garters”
“I’m telling your father”
My actual father disappeared to the pub most nights. And I don’t blame him, an evening with my mother as the alternative.
I think she laughed about once a year.
They’re both dead now.