What words or phrases have you noticed you don't use any more.

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I said i had to go to the ATM at lunch time yesterday.
It occurred to me people used to refer to it as ' the hole in the wall' - well they did where I live.
I've not heard that expression in years!!!
Someone must have decided to stop using it!
I have also realised we don't say a child i with SEN is having a melt down but they are ' in crisis '

I find evolving language fascinating and like how things change and people adapt. It's not like there an announcement on News at 10 with clive Myrie telling us things like we don't use words like hole in the wall anymore! 😆

The word berk.

VDU - who remembers this term, from the 80s or earlier? I remember seeing a leaflet at the optician’s: “your eyes and VDUs”.

For the uninformed: it stands for visual display unit. In other words, a computer screen.

McDonald's is still McDonald's where I live

Baggsy
hovvers (too short trousers)
skinners (too tight trousers)

When I moved from Scotland to the West Country (England) as a child, I had to get used to saying "itchy chin" rather than " chinny chin chin"... The struggle was real

Instead of swearing my mum would say ‘oh blast’. I catch myself using it every now and again but other than that I haven’t heard it for years.

So so so many...you'll be able tell I was 90s 00s teen.

"That's so gay"
"Mental..."
"You're a minge piece"
"He was so hammered" or "out of his tree
"Random'
" mad sick" = extra good
"Can't believe she was dissed like that"
"Yo mama...."
"Can I bum a fag?" Borrow/have a smoke
Slag tag
"He's a PHATTIE alright"
"Pretty fly"
"Chicks before dicks"
May get banned for one of these ones but they were common...
"He's/she's a poser, hoser, sk8ter boi/grl, whigger, emo kid, Loser..."

When I was a kid everything was 'knacky'
Usually referring to a toy or gadget. And if it was easy it was 'cinch'. An attractive man was never hot, he was a 'screw' or a 'hunk.' And of course for emphasis we uses the words 'very' or 'extremely', both which seem to have been replaced with 'super'. I find it super annoying and it makes me feel super old!

Janey Mac!

(Not sure if this was just an Irish thing)

A boyfriend was a lad and a girlfriend was a dame.

You'd get a click or a trap if you got a date at the disco 😂

Or is that your hairy(for a girl friend)
Always hated that one
Or is at yir blonde.. regardless of hair colour.

I still say been, moron and blast it/blasted!

Rubber Johnny.

Bum a fag - borrow a cigarette
First on - the end of a cigarette shared with a friend
Bumchum - good friend
bagging off - snogging
Fag hag - female best friend of gay man
An Empty - parents away so all pile round for a party in the empty house
Press - a cupboard
Ben the room - in the other room

Dodgying someone (ringing and then hanging up before they answer)
Knocking on for (knocking on a friends door to see if they want to play out)
It's only coppers
Keep the change
And this one is disgusting and might be area exclusive, but "poking someone", meaning foreplay

since when were DADS allowed on MUMSnet. This place used to be a safe space for us mums, why?. why? why??
only dad i wanna be round is our starmer

I was 10 in 1998 and remember seeing writing in public toilets and in the social club (another thing of the past!) we used to go to that would say ‘L.M (or any initials) is 100% fit” 😅 and I remember my friend asking me if someone could be 75% fit or even less maybe?

Anyways the word ‘fit’ for a good looking person was THE word until the early 2000’s where I grew up. Apparently it’s ’snack’ now 🤔

Got a right beamer on - blushing.
Booling - rolling something or pushing something on wheels, eg ‘booling a pram.’
Getting off with - having a snog with.

In the TV show Thunderbirds (first on TV long before I was born), the characters often said “for Pete’s sake”; and I got laughed at big time for saying this myself. 😳

My dad says this! He loves an occasional little Kentucky.

My Nan used to say “I need a few messages from the shop”. You don’t really hear people calling them messages anymore.

Also DSE - display screen equipment, the regulations that get you a free eye test.

VDU is still the term used in Computer Science.

Oh I forgot we used to say www. for every site we searched 😅

We say cash machines. ATM is too American for me to use. I have just about stopped saying that I’ve video’d a telly programme, and now try to say recorded.

Just heard some say they were walking like john Wayne! I've not heard that in years!

Tough titty.