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Cultural references the ‘young uns’ don’t get

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Peculiar23 · 22/08/2025 12:05

Called someone at work ‘Victor Meldruw’ and got looked at blankly. God, I’m old
Anyone else ??!!!

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Hmm1234 · 23/08/2025 19:17

Risk it for a chocolate biscuit. Something to do with cadburys I still don’t get it

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TheTeasmaid · 23/08/2025 19:18

DeanStockwelll · 23/08/2025 11:23

I am just going to leave this here and hope I don't derail the thread

there still should of been more seasons for the show

Carpedimum · 23/08/2025 19:22

Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

Any couple of a big woman with a smaller man are Joe & Petunia.

Any metal tea tray has to be banged on the knee and head shouting “Muletrain!”

Ange59 · 23/08/2025 19:32

Have to feel sorry they've missed out on all our amazing culture

Vivianebrooksmatsumoto · 23/08/2025 19:38

"Milky Milky!"

"42?!???!!!" I can quote a lot of where this is from...

"Yeah, Chin On!" / Stroking the Imaginary Beard I remember these were done together at the time.

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 23/08/2025 19:41

Swinging. Dodgy. Elsie Tanner!

exaltedwombat · 23/08/2025 19:53

You don’t have to be THAT old either to not recognise a few of those!

SinnerBoy · 23/08/2025 20:02

Blueuggboots · 22/08/2025 23:25

Hello tosh, got a Toshiba?

Good old Alexi Sayle! Best known as Harry the Bastard and Brian Damage.

Don't forget to tell Sid!

Now then, lovely boys!
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

I've seen a gif of the last one.

AJLOAL · 23/08/2025 20:03

Peculiar23 · 22/08/2025 12:05

Called someone at work ‘Victor Meldruw’ and got looked at blankly. God, I’m old
Anyone else ??!!!

🤣 same!

DoraSpenlow · 23/08/2025 20:10

DH and I still can't go out in the same coloured top for fear of looking like Howard and Hilda.

IamMoodyBlue · 23/08/2025 20:17

Don't tell him, Pike!

MisAb · 23/08/2025 20:21

PocketSand · 22/08/2025 14:53

@Oldandcobwebbylife flies by when you’re the driver of a train, underground and overground to every destination, careful with that spliff Eugene it causes condensation!

Time flies by when your the driver of a train. Speeding out of Trumpton with a cargo of cocaine. I get high when I’m a pilot of a plane, touching down in Camberwick and stoned out of my brain.

Ah love a bit of Half Man Half Biscuit!

I was just sitting there waiting a salmonella sandwich. When a man walked up to me. Do you mind dear sir if I ask you a question “if music be the food of love, are you the indigestion?”

And my fave:

Mention 'the lord of the rings' just once more
and I’ll more than likely kill you
Moorcock Moorcock Michael Moorcock
You fervently moan
Is thisa wok you’ve shoved down my throat
or are you just pleased to see me?
Brian Moore's head looks uncannily like London Planetarium
And all those people who you romantically
like to still believe are alive
are dead
And I’ll wipe my snot on the arm of your chair
as you put another Roger Dean poster on the wall

Completelydonechick · 23/08/2025 20:40

What’s on the end of your stick, Vic?

TwoFastHorses · 23/08/2025 20:56

Don’t mention the war!

Blueuggboots · 23/08/2025 21:02

You’re my wife now….

HonoriaBulstrode · 23/08/2025 21:04

"The Milky Bars are on me!"

Rosscameasdoody · 23/08/2025 21:05

WilfredsPies · 23/08/2025 17:30

Red Dwarf is showing on UK Gold at the moment. Smmmmmmmmeg Heeeeeeeeeeeaaaad 😄

DH is in his mid 40s and only recently discovered that the police officer from Allo Allo was an Englishman with shocking French. He thought he was French with a speech impediment 🤦‍♀️😂

I said Chinny Reckon in a team meeting at work recently (before the meeting started) and only one person knew what I meant.

My favourite episode of Red Dwarf was the one in which Kryten came to life as a human. On discovering his penis he’s horrified and asks Lister “you mean Perry Como sang Magic Moments with one of these stashed in his pants?”

Suzypoo10 · 23/08/2025 21:10

Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

LaMarschallin · 23/08/2025 21:16

Clutching an empty paper cup between your teeth, banging away at the imaginary ivories, singing: "Siddin' at my pi-anna the other day" in a gruff Jimmy Durante voice

Oblongofdreams · 23/08/2025 21:20

Oldandcobwebby · 22/08/2025 13:57

I'm free!
What did Horace say?
Don't call Will on your father!

If you want a whole world of old and obscure cultural references, I'd recommend perusing the full discography of Half Man Half Biscuit. John Peel called them "a national treasure".

@Oldandcobwebby Wholeheartedly agree - I rotate my username every couple of months to include one of their songs or lyrics 🤣

SinnerBoy · 23/08/2025 21:33

Lovely bit o squirrel, Jackie.
Bloody, soo much blood...

"Piss off, Gandalf!" 80s, shouted whilst legging it from bearded old blokes telling you off.

Annierob · 23/08/2025 21:43

I said ‘beam me up Scotty’ to arguing teenagers. They were ‘who?’

Ladymeade · 23/08/2025 21:54

Four candles/fork handles....

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