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What are the kids calling it these days?

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  • #62
    twignme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 359 ✭✭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


  • #63
    Jellybaby1
    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


  • #64
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I would call you a Woollyback JB


  • #65
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    I would call you a Woollyback JB


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


  • #66
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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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  • #67
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    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????


  • #68
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


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


  • #69
    Rubecula
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    Pierce Big Someday wrote: »
    Two parts certainly. But equal????


    I was being nice to the woollybacks


  • #70
    emo72
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,499 ✭✭✭emo72


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


  • #71
    Jellybaby1
    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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  • #72
    DunnoKidz
    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?


  • #73
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    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".


  • #74
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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


  • #75
    campingcarist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • #76
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,572 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah no, two shot latte is the thing!


  • #77
    garancafan
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    campingcarist wrote: »
    ...I just want a hit of coffee in the milk.

    Is this a clever typo?


  • #78
    DunnoKidz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,587 ✭✭✭DunnoKidz


    campingcarist wrote: »
    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).


  • #79
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    ever tried the Camp coffee?


  • #80
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,572 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Rubecula wrote: »
    ever tried the Camp coffee?

    Blerk


  • #81
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    looksee wrote: »
    Blerk

    Add a bit of milk to colour it.


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  • #82
    Buford T. Justice XIX
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    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:


  • #83
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,572 ✭✭✭✭looksee


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


  • #84
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,817 ✭✭✭✭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



  • #85
    DunnoKidz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,587 ✭✭✭DunnoKidz


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    ...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


  • #86
    campingcarist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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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