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What are the kids calling it these days?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 343 ✭✭twignme


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Here I must admit to my elder-lemon state. 'Gas' is a word we've used since I was a kiddie in the 50's, so I wouldn't agree that its a new description. Often described someone as 'great gas'! If you've never heard of it before then you must be a child! :D Maybe its a Dublin saying.

    I’m a child of the fifties myself Jellybaby, but thanks, you made my morning!
    Maybe my friends just didn’t have anything to be gas about. You must have been rich:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    garancafan wrote: »
    By my recollections it was more rural than Dublin, but perhaps you're a Jackeen ;) .


    I is! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I would call you a Woollyback JB


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    I would call you a Woollyback JB


    Huh? Wot's dah? Help me to lurn sumfing!


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    the world is divided into two equal parts as you know Liverpudlians and everyone else (aka scousers and woollybacks)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    the world is divided into two equal parts as you know Liverpudlians and everyone else (aka scousers and woollybacks)

    Two parts certainly. But equal????


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I always thought it wuz 'us and them'!:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Two parts certainly. But equal????


    I was being nice to the woollybacks


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭emo72


    Get go. We use to do say start. Start was a much better word.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Yes indeed, 'start' is more eco-friendly using less words and breath, and more efficient than two words.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,587 ✭✭✭DunnoKidz


    venti mochaccino frappe cappuchino latte caffè macchiato..........hells bells, how many inane names can you give coffee and cream?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    DunnoKidz wrote: »
    venti mochaccino frappe cappuchino latte caffè macchiato..........hells bells, how many inane names can you give coffee and cream?

    It's not today or yesterday that Steve Martin ordered "a double decaf, half caf, with a twist of lemon".


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    when I want a coffee that is what I order, if the want to fancy it up I ask for a glass of milk instead


  • Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭campingcarist


    I occasionally like a café au lait or I believe they call it now a latte. But a latte is so strong it will nearly blow my head off - even when I say I just want a hit of coffee in the milk.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,056 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah no, two shot latte is the thing!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    ...I just want a hit of coffee in the milk.

    Is this a clever typo?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,587 ✭✭✭DunnoKidz


    I occasionally like a café au lait or I believe they call it now a latte. But a latte is so strong it will nearly blow my head off - even when I say I just want a hit of coffee in the milk.
    I agree, too strong. A hit of coffee in milk is ideal. My grandad used to call it coffee milk (but the baristas can't grasp the concept without a fancy italiany made-up word for it).


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    ever tried the Camp coffee?


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,056 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Rubecula wrote: »
    ever tried the Camp coffee?

    Blerk


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    looksee wrote: »
    Blerk

    Add a bit of milk to colour it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Soz is the latest one I've heard.


    It seems to mean I'm sorry(not!).


    Doesn't bother me, it just means the one using it cuts the lawn next:pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,056 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I think Soz is English midlands. It is one that would annoy me too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,012 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    I'm not exactly 'auld' but my 11 year old boy makes me feel it sometimes.
    Back in my day, the buzzwords were 'cool' and 'wicked' if something was really good.
    Now all the kids say 'sick'!!

    insert confused emoticon here..

    To thine own self be true



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,587 ✭✭✭DunnoKidz


    ...Doesn't bother me, it just means the one using it cuts the lawn next:pac:

    Had a boss that refused to allow the kids to repeat "awesome!" He made them find some other word in the thesaurus. They chose "sweeeeeeet," which drove him mad :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭campingcarist


    garancafan wrote: »
    Is this a clever typo?


    Yes - should have been "hint" of coffee.

    garancafan wrote: »
    Add a bit of milk to colour it.


    Just a bit of coffee to colour the milk.


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