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Where have all those words and expressions gone ?

Do you have a match?
Giz a fag?

Fags in grammar school! (First years)

I had six of the best, a few times, mainly for stupid things. But we had teachers, who were allowed to use instruments of torture like, rulers with sharp metal edges, chalk dusters, gym pumps(trainers of the time), cold showers, standing outside in your gym kit when it's very cold or raining,snowing, lifting up weights as long as you can. Cross country runs. Etc.

When I think back, I think grammar schools were very cruel, especially to the unfortunate boys, who, were not in the school clique, from the wrong side of the tracks, and especially if the bullying teachers didn't like you!

I'm so glad they changed the system.

Still too many kids are condemned because of the structure in this country, should be on merit, not financial.
I really despise, the jobs for the boys, syndrome, endemic and rife in the system.
 
IanD said:
Or do you mean a joey?

[The 1930s silver 3d my Mum saved to put in the Christmas pudding.]
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I meant the 12 sided copper (yellow) coin but I was also thinking of the silver one. I also remember the half-a-crown and the ten bob note! I even have a wartime 5/- note saved by my Father. 6d too.
 
KateA said:
Ha ha, the soup in a basket never really worked either.
Nowadays in restaurants your food is served up on slate roof tiles, call me old fashioned, but plates really are the best tool for the job.
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Yes, some even serve on a chunk of wood like a bread board. How the heck do they clean those things?
 
I'll go to the foot of our stairs.................what was all that about :confused:
 
As black as Newgate's knocker or "Newgit's" as my nan from Bermondsey would pronounce it. Usually said when there was a dark stormy sky
 
I think the new phrase for looking very spruce these days Pasha is scrubs up well, although I've only heard that said by a northerner
 
Be like Dad -- keep Mum
(WW2 warning to keep shtum lest a fifth columnist might be listening)
(German spy, that is)
German stumm, silent)
 
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