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Not my Mum who said this but my Grandma

"Finish your food, there's children in Biafra starving who'd love that".

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And did you answer back

''Well they're welcome to it. Shall we parcel it up and send it to them?'' :D

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Yep, didn't everyone :D

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I certainly did.:)

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That must have been after food rationing - there never was enough on my plate

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If someone ate a lot of food ,my mum would say I would rather keep you for a week than a fortnight...:)

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If I stood in front of the Tv my Dad used to say 'you make a better door than a window'.

He also used to say 'do you think we live in a barn' if I didn't shut the door.

I use both of those now myself! :D

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If me mam said I couldn't have something, or is me sister got say so toffees and i didn't, I'd say `thats not fair!' , she'd say `it's not rainning'.

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My fav has to be act your age not your shoe size.

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Aye it's one I still get now at 27yrs old.:D

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What were you thinking of doing when they told you that?

Signing the pledge, and also thinking of stopping smoking?

I went to my mum's for tea yesterday, although I'm loads better, my hand was really shaking badly, so I stuck it in my trouser pocket. Mum said not to do that, as it didn't look 'nice'.:D

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another one when me n me brother were memoing, was " Whisperers Tell Lies" n we did.:D

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Give ya an inch a ya'll tek a mile.
You'll get square eyes watching that.
Little pigs ev big ears.

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Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry for.