Boots, chav, and pushchair....

[emsiee]

does anyone remember sweater shop jumpers?

Lol! yes!

I had one when I was about 13 and thought I was well cool in it! It was awful! lol

Crimson and green stripes.......niiiice

 

[Lellow]

Does anyone remember when Ellesse tracksuits were really 'in'....I had 2

....and Kappa wasn't this early 90's when all the baggy shellsuity rave music was around

Ye....i was Vicky Pollard in the 90's

 

[LesleyP]

lol glc are hilarious, i saw them in pontypridd just when they were getting famous and there were about 25 of them, i remember listening to an album and couldnt speak for laughing the whole way out "your missus is a nutter" glad to hear they went down well up north as well haha!

I remember watching them in Newport at a festival a few years back (when I used to live in Wales) absolutely hilarious!! Love 'em

 

[LesleyP]

I used to wear this when I was at school, I'd always get called Kenny (from South Park) LOL!

https://www.seasonsclothing.co.uk/product-media/6H6/1000/1000/1-Front-21271.jpg

 

[bathbabe]

 

[louandivy]

this thread has made me very curious about the embarassing looks everyone rocked when they were younger. PHOTOS NOW, PEOPLE

 

[Parkep]

I think you ladies have confussed me more! Lol

does anyone remember sweater shop jumpers?

Lol! yes!

I had one when I was about 13 and thought I was well cool in it! It was awful! lol

Crimson and green stripes.......niiiice

What is a sweater shop jumper? Lol

 

[ellie]

Lol I think there are some well dodgy photos of me on FB with my late 80s/early 90s bubble perm - thanks friends i was more of an indie/goth type though so i didnt have the shell suits, but i do remember my mum buying a purple shell suit and being really proud of it at the time, it was that awful swishy material as well that would give you electric shocks

just for you GLC lovers (and those who en't seen them lol) - beware, offensive language for those of a sensitive nature (or whose mother has actually got a penis.... )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAZTLVJSlNw

Tidy! (meaning great )

Oh and back on the subject of dialects etc, a friend from wolverhampton always used to say "Bostin'" all the time, I thought it sounded cute but she admitted she'd say it as a joke as brummie/midlands chavs would say it (and she isn't a chav lol)

Oh I remember girls in school having Sweater Shop and Benetton jumpers and thinking they were "it" lol!

 

[bubbles]

Lol I think there are some well dodgy photos of me on FB with my late 80s/early 90s bubble perm - thanks friends i was more of an indie/goth type though so i didnt have the shell suits, but i do remember my mum buying a purple shell suit and being really proud of it at the time, it was that awful swishy material as well that would give you electric shocks

just for you GLC lovers (and those who en't seen them lol) - beware, offensive language for those of a sensitive nature (or whose mother has actually got a penis.... )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAZTLVJSlNw

Tidy! (meaning great )

Oh and back on the subject of dialects etc, a friend from wolverhampton always used to say "Bostin'" all the time, I thought it sounded cute but she admitted she'd say it as a joke as brummie/midlands chavs would say it (and she isn't a chav lol)

Oh I remember girls in school having Sweater Shop and Benetton jumpers and thinking they were "it" lol!

My FiL says Bostin. DH says wicked safe I'm perfectly normal in sayings though

 

[ellie]

I like "bostin" ! i didnt know if she was joking about the brummie chav thing or not

 

[sjminimac]

my 5 year old neighbour said his bike is 'bare good'

 

[louandivy]

my 5 year old neighbour said his bike is 'bare good'

Ahhhhh so many people I know say bare

 

[Zedfaca]

one of my birmingham friends says let's def it instead of let's not do that!

 

[AlwaysPraying]

So I was a little nervous when I started this thread, but I go to bed, wake up and it's ten pages long!! There's so much that had me laughing out loud and that had me saying, HUH??

I really did think that you guys had these beautiful lush flower gardens with vines and trees and all sorts of flowers for your back yard. I had no idea "boots" was a trunk though??

Some fun Canadian ones:

couch = chesterfield (American's make fun of us for this one a lot!)
college = university (we have both, but apparently college is higher in the states? but university is higher education here).
hat / hood = touque (I had the hardest time explaining this to an American once, it's a knit hat thing with a ball on the top, google it! I had no idea American's didn't know what it was, or maybe it was just the one I was talking with)
pull over sweater with a hood = bunny hug

And I'm sure most people know we are known for saying - EH, a lot! Just at the end of a sentence, eh? Like when others say, hey? Or, do you think? Eh? Get it?

I do have one question....what on earth is cotton wool??? Cotton is from a plant, wool is from a sheep. Is it cotton balls? Or is it a towel? That is one I do not get.

 

[cabaretmum2b]

So I was a little nervous when I started this thread, but I go to bed, wake up and it's ten pages long!! There's so much that had me laughing out loud and that had me saying, HUH??

I really did think that you guys had these beautiful lush flower gardens with vines and trees and all sorts of flowers for your back yard. I had no idea "boots" was a trunk though??

Some fun Canadian ones:

couch = chesterfield (American's make fun of us for this one a lot!)
college = university (we have both, but apparently college is higher in the states? but university is higher education here).
hat / hood = touque (I had the hardest time explaining this to an American once, it's a knit hat thing with a ball on the top, google it! I had no idea American's didn't know what it was, or maybe it was just the one I was talking with)
pull over sweater with a hood = bunny hug

And I'm sure most people know we are known for saying - EH, a lot! Just at the end of a sentence, eh? Like when others say, hey? Or, do you think? Eh? Get it?

I do have one question....what on earth is cotton wool??? Cotton is from a plant, wool is from a sheep. Is it cotton balls? Or is it a towel? That is one I do not get.

It's cotton balls!

Boots is:

boots as in shoes

Boot of a car

Boots the shop

Give them the boot - fire or break up with someone.


Loads of different meanings!

 

[sjminimac]

one of my birmingham friends says let's def it instead of let's not do that!

that doesn't even make sense! (saying that, not much on this thread does!)

 

[Mum2b_Claire]

I had a sweater shop jumper (crimson), wore adidas shiny tracksuits the whole time, I had them in about 6 different colour combinations, lots of football tops, or sometimes I wore a little crop top with them urrrrrrgh! I generally wanted to be 'sporty spice' That look didn't look as disgusting on me back then as it would do now but still, nooooo!

I also wore my hair scraped back with so much gel spray that it was totally rock solid.

 

[iHeartbaby#1]

So I was a little nervous when I started this thread, but I go to bed, wake up and it's ten pages long!! There's so much that had me laughing out loud and that had me saying, HUH??

I really did think that you guys had these beautiful lush flower gardens with vines and trees and all sorts of flowers for your back yard. I had no idea "boots" was a trunk though??

Some fun Canadian ones:

couch = chesterfield (American's make fun of us for this one a lot!)
college = university (we have both, but apparently college is higher in the states? but university is higher education here).
hat / hood = touque (I had the hardest time explaining this to an American once, it's a knit hat thing with a ball on the top, google it! I had no idea American's didn't know what it was, or maybe it was just the one I was talking with)
pull over sweater with a hood = bunny hug

And I'm sure most people know we are known for saying - EH, a lot! Just at the end of a sentence, eh? Like when others say, hey? Or, do you think? Eh? Get it?

I do have one question....what on earth is cotton wool??? Cotton is from a plant, wool is from a sheep. Is it cotton balls? Or is it a towel? That is one I do not get.

Actually, university's are higher with 4+ years of schooling and usually more expensive with dorm rooms, etc. There are technical colleges and community colleges which are usually only 2 years of schooling. There's so many though i can see how it would be confusing

 

[v2007]

Smacked Fanny

V xxx

 

[emsiee]

I also wore my hair scraped back with so much gel spray that it was totally rock solid.

Haha me too and I had a rock solid fringe that leaned over to the side like a fan shape lol.......horrendous