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Old 12-08-2011, 22:01   #61
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Not deemed politically correct nowadays.

'Stop pickin' yer nose, ya dirty Arab.'
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Someone brazen.

'More front than Blackpool.'
More cheek than a thousand arseholes.
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Old 12-08-2011, 22:05   #63
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me dad used to say, Pick us a Winner.
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Old 12-08-2011, 22:07   #64
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Someone with excessive ear wax could 'grow taters in them dirty ear oils'.
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Old 12-08-2011, 22:09   #65
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An untidy house would be 'like a midden.'
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Old 12-08-2011, 22:15   #66
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Gansey!



If you had a fancy new one, you'd get teased more than when you'd just had a haircut.


gansey - definition of gansey by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
Id mite bi spelt Gansey in thi book, bud if tha tawks
proper Lanky its sed GanZy.
As ti gedden thi ganzy on.
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Old 12-08-2011, 22:22   #67
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Not deemed politically correct nowadays.

'Stop pickin' yer nose, ya dirty Arab.'
Come down go t' pictures tomorra
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Come down go t' pictures tomorra
You tapping rindy up or what?
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Come down go t' pictures tomorra
Stop doin' that!

Yer 'ead 'll cave in.

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On a cold drizzly night at Peel Park with my grandad, watching Stanley blow another one. Grandad takes his pipe out of his mouth and says, "They're lakin' like owd washerwimmin."
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On a cold drizzly night at Peel Park with my grandad, watching Stanley blow another one. Grandad takes his pipe out of his mouth and says, "They're lakin' like owd washerwimmin."
I was reading that, and expected to see...the'r tekin' a lickin'.

Which when you think about it, is a very odd way to say losing.

Even odder when the sports boxing, and he's...tekin' a reet lickin' in t' ring.

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On a cold drizzly night at Peel Park with my grandad, watching Stanley blow another one. Grandad takes his pipe out of his mouth and says, "They're lakin' like owd washerwimmin."
Aye, lakin abeaut, is acting nowt like they should be.
Gioer laking abeaut an dut job reight.
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Said of a confident person.

'Ee's nay back'ards in comin' fo'wards.'
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My Nan also used 'pan shine' as a term of endearment.

Don't know where that came from.
Ya mean as in come here pan shine and give us an hug
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Gansey!



If you had a fancy new one, you'd get teased more than when you'd just had a haircut.


gansey - definition of gansey by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
When I was serving my time one of the joiners had this very gerrish cardy on we used to call it his Gansey Shroud
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