Old sayings that younger folk won't get any longer

[MEADOWXI]

21 hours ago, dee_62 said:

Getting annoyed because it always seemed to be you getting told to get up and change the channel on the TV.

Not so much a saying but, if you were lucky enough to have 2 TVs in the house, the second was always a black and white portable with a circular internal aerial stuck in the back.

 

In the distant past when the only regular live football was The Big Match on a Sunday on ITV/UTV, but not STV. Think Jim Farry had a hand in banning the live football broadcast from England into Scotland but can't remember details.

Anyway on a Sunday the wee B&W portable was taken with us in the car from our side of Irvine to an aunts at the other side of Irvine where she lived on a higher area. And with the portable upstairs you could get the UTV (Ulster TV) signal, using the tuning dial and twisting the circular aerial in the right direction to let us watch live football. 

[RiffRaff]

Mary Whitehouse would have an aneurysm if she watched some of the programmes that are beamed directly into your living room these days.

[johnnydun]

1 hour ago, Shandon Par said:

Used to have a building site gaffer who, upon seeing me miss my target with a sledgehammer would say “you wouldnae miss it if it hud hair roond it”. 

Or if something fits perfectly into position "like a fing'r up a dowp". 

[Leith Green]

15 hours ago, Boghead ranter said:

Scaffie.

Scaffies were the guys that went round with those wee barrows picking up fag ends etc from the gutters.

I keep having to explain to my wife (not from round here) that a scaffolder isnt a scaffie.

[tamthebam]

6 hours ago, Fullerene said:

Similarly there were Porn Cinemas that showed nothing else.  Once video shops and the internet came along they had to switch to other films or close down.

You would think that would be the end of the matter but no.  I recall one woman who refused to go see a perfectly ordinary film at the Cameo in Edinburgh because it used to be a cinema like that.  Now that I think about it, the cinema name was probably a clue.

The Classic cinema, a dirty old man's haunt, became a bingo hall patronised by old dears. 

[Raidernation]

6 hours ago, Fullerene said:

Similarly there were Porn Cinemas that showed nothing else.  Once video shops and the internet came along they had to switch to other films or close down.

You would think that would be the end of the matter but no.  I recall one woman who refused to go see a perfectly ordinary film at the Cameo in Edinburgh because it used to be a cinema like that.  Now that I think about it, the cinema name was probably a clue.

The "randy Grandy" in George St Aberdeen.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

"Whos your dad, the milkie?"

[Soapy FFC]

5 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkay said:

"Whos your dad, the milkie?"

Sure it wasn't Two ton Ted from Teddington? 

[Raidernation]

I wonder how many of our younger posters had no idea what the "Kenneth" gifs were all about?

[die hard doonhamer]

“Do you think I came up the Clyde in a banana boat?!”

[Fullerene]

There was also Captain Pugwash on the telly with Master Bates and Seaman Stains.

[Florentine_Pogen]

53 minutes ago, tamthebam said:

The Classic cinema, a dirty old man's haunt, became a bingo hall patronised by old dears. 

The Jacey, on Princes Street, was the place to go for 'gentlemen's entertainment'.

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/23227

Edited January 12, 2023 by Florentine_Pogen

[Boghead ranter]

6 minutes ago, Fullerene said:

There was also Captain Pugwash on the telly with Master Bates and Seaman Stains.

And Roger the cabin boy.

[Loonytoons]

36 minutes ago, Fullerene said:

There was also Captain Pugwash on the telly with Master Bates and Seaman Stains.

 

30 minutes ago, Boghead ranter said:

And Roger the cabin boy.

 

Urban myth I believe.

[Archie McSquackle]

Unfortunately all just urban myths. 

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

1 hour ago, Florentine_Pogen said:

The Jacey, on Princes Street, was the place to go for 'gentlemen's entertainment'.

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/23227

I was told it was 17 Danube Street.

[Florentine_Pogen]

1 minute ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:

I was told it was 17 Danube Street.

Edinburgh has, or had, many venues of dubious repute and Dora's gaff was one of the best.......(so a mate tells me)

[microdave]

I always refer to a new town as "What's it called" and recently had to explain why to my 23yo daughter.

[The Mantis]

5 hours ago, Shandon Par said:

Used to have a building site gaffer who, upon seeing me miss my target with a sledgehammer would say “you wouldnae miss it if it hud hair roond it”. 

"He'd ride a hole in a barber's flair"

[The Mantis]

"Quick, fill in the coupon, the Vernon's man's coming up the path"