Words that are going out of fashion / usage

Timcito

Litterick said:

Supportact said:

jonnyburgo said:

Wally, as in "Oi Jenkins you Wally, come here!"

I still use 'wally'. Because it sounds quite mild these days, if someone does something really awful or stupid and you refer to them as a wally, it's almost as if the understatement emphasises the fact. Also no one can really take offence (don't think so anyway, although I'm not sure where it comes from). 

 Legend has it that someone at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival was shouting the name, calling for a friend or a dog, and the crowd took it up as a chant. The Wally chant was repeated at almost every large rock concert in Britain in the seventies, including Led Zeppelin at Knebworth in 1979.

I've never considered that the use of 'Wally' as a mild insult was connected to the 'Wally!' that rock audiences used to call out in the 70s. 

Kurtis

Shit, crap, turd.

It's all poo these days. 

Reverend

Kurtis said:

Shit, crap, turd.

It's all poo these days. 

what a load of excrement

Kurtis

Offset said:

Kurtis said:

Fud. 

Elmer?

As in (Scots) Bolt ya wee fud! 

guitars4you

Karsi 

Not sure if it is spelt right - But another word for a toilet - Anyone know where such a word came from 

JohnS37

robgilmo said:

Kittyfrisk said:

robgilmo said:

'The scratcher' meaning 'bed'.

You ex. Navy by any chance?

No, being cooped up on a barge for months on end never really appealed to me.

Was it a large barge, sarge?

Adey

guitars4you said:

Karsi 

Not sure if it is spelt right - But another word for a toilet - Anyone know where such a word came from 

India is my guess.

(Wrong! It is cockney from Italian - casa apparently)

Rob1742

Bosoms 

Rob1742

Girdle 

Kittyfrisk

Rob1742 said:

Bosoms 

As in Bazooms ?

Offset

Adey said:

guitars4you said:

Karsi 

Not sure if it is spelt right - But another word for a toilet - Anyone know where such a word came from 

India is my guess.

(Wrong! It is cockney from Italian - casa apparently)

...and its kharzi, generally.  But fuck knows why!  I too thought it was India.  I fondly used to imagine there was a character in a Carry On film (probably Up The Khyber) called The Khazi Of Benghazi, but there wasn't.  I wish there had been however.

guitars4you

Skedaddle 
as in go away

Kittyfrisk

Offset said:

Adey said:

guitars4you said:

Karsi 

Not sure if it is spelt right - But another word for a toilet - Anyone know where such a word came from 

India is my guess.

(Wrong! It is cockney from Italian - casa apparently)

...and its kharzi, generally.  But fuck knows why!  I too thought it was India.  I fondly used to imagine there was a character in a Carry On film (probably Up The Khyber) called The Khazi Of Benghazi, but there wasn't.  I wish there had been however.

Carry On Up The Khyber... the Khazi/Kharsi of Kalabar :-D
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062782/characters/nm0931054 ;

HAL9000

Offset said:

Adey said:

guitars4you said:

Karsi 

Not sure if it is spelt right - But another word for a toilet - Anyone know where such a word came from 

India is my guess.

(Wrong! It is cockney from Italian - casa apparently)

...and its kharzi, generally.  But fuck knows why!  I too thought it was India.  I fondly used to imagine there was a character in a Carry On film (probably Up The Khyber) called The Khazi Of Benghazi, but there wasn't.  I wish there had been however.

Keneth Williams does play The Khazi of Kalabar in that particular film.

Kittyfrisk

^ Sigh. Doesn't anyone read these threads in order?
And it was Kenneth... 

Nitefly

Nincompoop.

Popinjay.

Sporky

Nitefly said:

Nincompoop.

Popinjay.

Weren't those parts 2 & 3 of The Hunger Games? 

Litterick

Poltroon

Dominic

Kittyfrisk said:

Litterick said:

Supportact said:

jonnyburgo said:

Wally, as in "Oi Jenkins you Wally, come here!"

I still use 'wally'. Because it sounds quite mild these days, if someone does something really awful or stupid and you refer to them as a wally, it's almost as if the understatement emphasises the fact. Also no one can really take offence (don't think so anyway, although I'm not sure where it comes from). 

 Legend has it that someone at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival was shouting the name, calling for a friend or a dog, and the crowd took it up as a chant. The Wally chant was repeated at almost every large rock concert in Britain in the seventies, including Led Zeppelin at Knebworth in 1979.

Was certainly thriving at the Weeley festival in 1971 

I had to live in Weeley (well,v close ).........such an awful ,uneventful nowhere place that the main topic of conversation there is still that bloody festival 50 years ago !
There's a big roundabout ,Mc Donalds and a Petrol Service Station on that site now.

kaypeejay

No one 'Has it off' nowadays. As in: 'Ere, did you know Madge and 'Arry were 'aving it off?