gazzatriumph
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What about covid,
What's Boiling Your Pi$$ Today?
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Steve 998cc
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They want f**king with a rag mans trumpet disgraceful
MartytheMartian
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Now that is a 'curse' that I have never heard in my life before @Steve 998cc I must make a mental note of it for future use!
Steve 998cc
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It's a Nottingham saying it's from the days when the rag and bone man came round on a horse and cart and blew a trumpet so people knew he was there, and not one to use in front of mother
Doc Strange
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Interesting.
I have very early memories of a rag and bone man doing the rounds, but I think the London tradition was that they rung a bell rather than blew a trumpet.
DS
Sarky B’stard
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Certainly Leicester childhood was a bell….. but they didn’t survive long into the 60s as things gentrified. The horse was a hit with the roses! Do I mean ‘hit’?
gazzatriumph
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Where I was in the Black Country he was still using a bugle couple of years ago and guessing still is.
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MartytheMartian
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Back in the seventies when I was a sprog and we had moved to Cumbernauld it was a bugle he would blow.
Tallpaul
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We have a couple of scruffs collecting around kidderminster from the back of a flat bed transit. They have a bugle.
Doc Strange
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I do enjoy little conversations like this where I see how things varied that I'd assume were all just one way because that was the way I experienced them growing up.
For example, I was shocked when I first left home and met people from different parts of the country and learnt that 'tobbler' wasn't the universal term for the slices of bread at the end of the loaf!
DS
For example, I was shocked when I first left home and met people from different parts of the country and learnt that 'tobbler' wasn't the universal term for the slices of bread at the end of the loaf!
DS
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Foxy
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Me too.
When I joined t'Navy in '74, I joined straight from school, and was that naive, I dindn't even realise I'd got an accent!!
BAD LUCK DUCK
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Working until 2035hrs when I got three bottles of whiskey at home with my name on it 
BAD LUCK DUCK
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Oh and I also had enough at work and went in this morning and told the gaffer exactly what I thought of the place and with some extra hours I could save up to do my class two and fuck off in about six months...He agreed that was a good idea but would not pay me off so I can fuck off right now 
Have you?I dindn't even realise I'd got an accent!!
Sarky B’stard
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My favourite local word selection is:
ginnel, snicket, ten-foot, twitten, twitchel or jitty
They all mean the same thing depending on which part of the Country you hail from. In Scotland they might be vennels, a wynd or a pend.
Duck probably calls it a cloaca. It’s a back passage!
ginnel, snicket, ten-foot, twitten, twitchel or jitty
They all mean the same thing depending on which part of the Country you hail from. In Scotland they might be vennels, a wynd or a pend.
Duck probably calls it a cloaca. It’s a back passage!
Eh?Me too.
When I joined t'Navy in '74, I joined straight from school, and was that naive, I dindn't even realise I'd got an accent!!
Please could you type that again, but with the accent turned off
MartytheMartian
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I haven't done it in a while but I used to really enjoy going on American chat rooms with another mate of mine and talk in our dialect and the yanks would go absolutely ape shit and bananas. The weird thing was that, apart from the accent there really wasn't that much that was hard to understand in what we were saying. I always wonder whether yanks are phobic of accents other than American or hispanic ones or were simply a bit on the thick side and unable to process words when they were spoken slightly differently.