Is calling someone a Garyboy, G boy etc regional or nationwide?

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And very 90’s/00’s thing to say?

Would you know what ‘going for a Gary round the town in my car’ was?!

Yeh it was a 90's thing.

I’m a bit embarrassed to say I loved riding shotgun to someone doing handbrake turns.

I am from Suffolk too. It wasn't just a Suffolk thing. There was a safe driving campaign that said "Gary is a prat".

“Ar yer orrite bor?”

Northants here and we called them Kevs too, it must be regional

It was Trev’s down my way.

Gary Boys in Sudbury too.... early 90s....

I'm Suffolk. We all know Garyboys as the boy racers with souped up cars who drive round the square a few times before settling in Asda car park with their subwoofers banging out the tunes. It's not a positive term haha

It's only occurred to me reading this that "on the drag" is a Suffolk thing - wonder how many people misunderstood me saying that over the years!

Yup, Garyboys.
Yup, Hollywood's. And we all felt a bit on the huh after leaving there.

but not in a derogatory way. As in it was a bit of a pisstake

You've contradicted yourself there though.

DH says they were Kevs in his bit of Yorkshire but I'd never heard the term in mine.

I'm from London and have never heard it.

I don’t know any of the other sayings, but we called boy racers ‘Gary boys’ too. I’m from Devon!

@reborn I was a Monday night Kartouche girl back in the day.

I still use on the drag and I've now lived outside of Suffolk longer than I lived there!!

It's strange as I don't think I'm that Suffolk (was born and bred there but my parents weren't, which makes us not true locals!). I don't think I ever had an accent (apart from when drunk) but always got mistaken for an Aussie!

Yet I still use plenty of expressions that I never realised were localisms.

And I'm just a couple of years older than most of you I think. Hollywood's and Liberty's were my era a bit more (plus Traders and Butt's Wine Bar). Zest and Kartouche were after I'd left to go to university.

To my late grandmother, a rum do was a scandal or very unforeseen and shocking event. Eg "the vicar left his wife for a parishioner half his age, it was a rum do" (real life example too ). A rum 'un was a rogue or slightly naughty person but more affectionately than serious.

It was definitely used in Norwich back in the 90s/00s!

I grew up in Ipswich and it was definitely a term there.
I now live in the Midlands and DH who grew up here has never heard of it.

Did not realise that I’d already commented on this thread years ago 😂

I think we just called them townies ?
They always had the latest fashions etc ,im in the North West.

Thas a rum owd dew