Things your parents used to say

Mister Vain

Get that into ya.

It's well for ya.

That's a lovely rig out.

Are you codding me?

The land of the vine jasus christ tonight.

What other things did your parents say to you when you were a kid?

Bongalongherb

That will put hairs on your chest. I still have no hairs on my chest after all that time.

But ye see.

Mesrine65

Get out & get a job you waster :pac::pac::pac:

Torricelli

Shut your mouth and eat your dinner.

KERSPLAT!

"Do that again and I'll brain ya!!"

No idea what it meant but it didn't sound good!!

Frynge

Get up that yard.

When asking what's for dinner the reply is still "broke up eggs and no milk"

How's she cuttin.

Kovu

Where. Were. You. Until. This. Hour. Of. The. Night.

Look. At. The. State. Of. Your. Good. Clothes.

(Each full stop there is where I'd get a smack)

Mesrine65

Kovu wrote: »

Where. Were. You. Until. This. Hour. Of. The. Night.

Look. At. The. State. Of. Your. Good. Clothes.

(Each full stop there is where I'd get a smack)

What. Did. I. Tell. You. About. Hitting. Other. People?.

Stoolbend

I'll get the wooden spoon!

Malcolm600f

Stoolbend wrote: »

I'll get the wooden spoon!

Say that now a days and the kid will laugh and say i will get you 10 years...lol..

mansize

I don't care who started it, I'll finish it!

Barry Badrinath

"Eat your dinner, don't you know there are starving kids in Leitrim, you don't know how lucky you are!"

MRnotlob606

Mother Ireland is still rearing em

Waste not, want not,

Your eyes are bigger than your belly

Are ya Decent ?

Whitewinged

"If you eat another one of them, you will turn into one."

And later in my teens, "turn that fcuking music down"

Ninjini

If the wind changes your face will stay like that.

crisco10

Horseplay always ends in tears.

They were usually right too!

Rubberlegs

Whissssshhttt!! The news is on!

maudgonner

You'll never guess who's dead...

Mister Vain

Wolf Hanssen wrote: »

"Eat your dinner, don't you know there are starving kids in Leitrim, you don't know how lucky you are!"

Ahh yes, the emotional blackmail to get you to eat more. It was always Africa in my house though. I'm not sure if Leitrim would have had the same effect.

Banjo String

Go outside and sport yourself on a day like that.

And also, "Jim, Paddy, Martin, Brian (eyes rolling in top of her head now) or, Sean, go and ...."**

(I'm from a big family but she'd often recite all the boys names until she had the right one.)

**not real names. :pac:

MilesMorales1

'Do that again and I'll wallop you one'

'you got a face on you like a smacked arse'

'you look like you lost a pound and found a penny'

kfallon

"You're not going anywhere until all that is eaten!"

"Get up them stairs"

"Don't answer me like that"

"Wait til your father gets home"

Medusa22

My mum has several very un-PC phrases that she liked to use when we were kids such as:

''Do you think I came down the river in a banana boat??'' - for when she thought we were lying to her.

''You dirty Arab!!'' - This was usually used when we messed the place up.

''This place looks like a Chinese laundry'' - used when there was washing hanging up all over the place.

My parents also use odd phrases and words that no one else has ever heard of and when I was a child I mimicked what they said, I soon found out that that led to unmerciful bullying and I am careful not to repeat any of their odd phrases now though they amuse my OH endlessly :pac:

Later in my teenage years my mother loved to say to me ''you'd get up on a gust of wind!!'' :P

Oh my Grandparents were fond of telling us to ''go out and play with the traffic'' when we were annoying them and telling me that ''you'd forget your head if it wasn't tied onto you''.

kfallon

Medusa22 wrote: »

My parents also use odd phrases and words that no one else has ever heard of and when I was a child I mimicked what they said, I soon found out that that led to unmerciful bullying and I am careful not to repeat any of their odd phrases now though they amuse my OH endlessly :pac:

Ah go on give us a few......

SweetChaos

Shut up or I'll plant ya

Ya little cur

uch

Stop Cutting holes in yer pyjamas ye little bollix

Speedsie

I'm as dry as a drake in a hay loft.



Trans: make me a cup of tea, I'm parched.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

(When we're late and it's my fault)
You have to be more organised - it;s very rude to make other people wait!

(When we're late and it's their fault)
Ah sure don't worry - these things never start on time.

Ruu

I'll give ya a good clip around the ear! ��

KatW4

"Because I said so, that's why"

"Ya little rip" (when I did something I shouldn't have done.)

the_pen_turner

my grand mother used to call the PlayStation and playboy

on more that one occasion she would shout up the stairs to stop using that playboy you will go blind.
or stop with that playboy and come downs stairs your neighbour is here

if we were older we would have been very embarrassed

Sam Kade

Mister Vain wrote: »

Get that into ya.

It's well for ya.

That's a lovely rig out.

Are you codding me?

The land of the vine jasus christ tonight.

What other things did your parents say to you when you were a kid?

They never referred to us as kids Pity everyone have to copy Americans nowadays.

syklops

The land of the vine jasus christ tonight

Im pretty sure thats meant to be "The land of Divine", not The land of the vine.

Thepoet85

"If you fall off that wall and break both your legs, don't come running to me!!!"

Turtyturd

'Bring that trolley back to Northside...and no you can't keep the money before you ask'.

CJmasgrande

Anytime I ate all my dinner my Ma would say with a stern tone

"Hungers great sauce"

uch

Do what you're Bid ye little Bollix

RayM

"Dad, I can't go to school... my leg is killing me"

"Yeah well, your face is killing me"

DanielODonnell

Mother said not to talk bad about Protestants but then my father slandered the loyalists when watching the news

recylingbin

Brendan Grace would love this thread.

Crumpets

Poor auld craythur

Mister Vain

syklops wrote: »

Im pretty sure thats meant to be "The land of Divine", not The land of the vine.

Yeah I was never quite sure of that one. Most people I heard use it would say "The lant of divine jasus." Or "The lap of divine jasus."

My father would often say to my mother "Be the lap of divine jasus woman."

mansize

The love an honour of Devine Jayzus

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

'I'm not angry, I'm just very disappointed'

Well fcuk off giving out to me so if you're not angry

coolhull

Don't call me Len, ya little bollix

now online

Will you go upstairs and get the watchamacallit
Me: what's the watchamacallit?
Mam:the thingamabob you know what I mean! !!

smash

"You don't have to like it, you just have to eat it!"

I've since used it myself.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

smash wrote: »

"You don't have to like it, you just have to eat it!"

I've since used it myself.

Found myself saying 'Yeah well, life's not fair' to my friend's kid recently. Bleak moment.

SEPT 23 1989

Don't care was made to care

dixiefly

If you do that again you wont do it a third time.

brevity

Whenever I hurt myself I'd run to my Dad complaining and he's just say:

"Do it again, I missed it"