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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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namechangedforvalidreasons · 24/08/2025 03:19

-‘My wife’s gonna kill me’ & ‘ye can’t give a baby beer!’

-‘we know who done it! The rhino done it!´

-‘I’ll be your dog’ 🎵

-got a new motor (John)?

-‘if you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t EAT YOUR MEAT’

-‘There will be no more sectioning today, you’ve had your fun’

-‘wibble’

-grab an outspan (cos small ones are more juicy naturalleeeeee)’

-‘do you mind… if I smoooooke?’

-‘don’t touch the ravioli, it’s garbage.’

-‘e’s fallen in the waaater.’

-‘do you buy a tit-sling… or a BRASSIERE?’

-‘whoooOOOOooooooAHHHH bodyfommmmm’

-impersonating Billy Connolly impersonating bagpipes whenever something pointedly Scottish occurs

-‘oooh get you, puss, I’ve got your number ducky’

-‘You’re mah wiiiife nah’

-‘I ´ad family on that boat!’

-‘do you wan it pasteurised cos pasteurised is best’

-‘I’ll bloody well walk out of here’

-‘d’ye know who we see a lot of socially?’

-I GOT THE SECRE-E-E-ET’

-‘I love you Clarkie’

-‘from bean to cup, you fuck up.’

Annnnd the other week I started singing the Pepsodent jingle despite having been born in the eighties. Haven’t thought of it since my mum used to sing it when I was little 😂 Anyway this thread has made me realise it’s not a newly arrived menopausal fog, am just finally reaching drivel capacity.

namechangedforvalidreasons · 24/08/2025 03:22

IamMummyhearmeROAR · 23/08/2025 23:05

There’s a voice that keeps on calling’ me…
down the road is where I’ll always be..
every stop I make I make a new friend
Can’t stay for long just turn around and I’m gone again.
maybe tomorrow I’ll wanna settle down
until tomorrow I’ll just keep movin’ on
until tomorrow the whole world is my home

Awwwww this used to get me 🥲

Sharptonguedwoman · 24/08/2025 06:40

CharSiu · 22/08/2025 12:42

Open up it’s the pigs!
Oh Neil Neil orange peel
Dear Mr Echo

Lost me there, I’m either too old or too young.

Rosscameasdoody · 24/08/2025 07:24

namechangedforvalidreasons · 24/08/2025 03:19

-‘My wife’s gonna kill me’ & ‘ye can’t give a baby beer!’

-‘we know who done it! The rhino done it!´

-‘I’ll be your dog’ 🎵

-got a new motor (John)?

-‘if you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t EAT YOUR MEAT’

-‘There will be no more sectioning today, you’ve had your fun’

-‘wibble’

-grab an outspan (cos small ones are more juicy naturalleeeeee)’

-‘do you mind… if I smoooooke?’

-‘don’t touch the ravioli, it’s garbage.’

-‘e’s fallen in the waaater.’

-‘do you buy a tit-sling… or a BRASSIERE?’

-‘whoooOOOOooooooAHHHH bodyfommmmm’

-impersonating Billy Connolly impersonating bagpipes whenever something pointedly Scottish occurs

-‘oooh get you, puss, I’ve got your number ducky’

-‘You’re mah wiiiife nah’

-‘I ´ad family on that boat!’

-‘do you wan it pasteurised cos pasteurised is best’

-‘I’ll bloody well walk out of here’

-‘d’ye know who we see a lot of socially?’

-I GOT THE SECRE-E-E-ET’

-‘I love you Clarkie’

-‘from bean to cup, you fuck up.’

Annnnd the other week I started singing the Pepsodent jingle despite having been born in the eighties. Haven’t thought of it since my mum used to sing it when I was little 😂 Anyway this thread has made me realise it’s not a newly arrived menopausal fog, am just finally reaching drivel capacity.

‘You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent’ !!

Putneydad7 · 24/08/2025 07:39

I’m Spartacus.
We hope it’s chips it’s chips, we hope it’s chips it’s chips.

Rosscameasdoody · 24/08/2025 07:46

TheGirlWhoWantedToBeGod · 22/08/2025 19:43

I work in an academic-related job, and was helping to organise a history conference. I was so disappointed my younger colleagues didn’t get my ‘That’s you, that is’ references.

Newman and Baddiel - “History Today”. Thank you for posting this - just revisited a couple of them on YouTube and they still make me howl. Link to one of them below so others can share the joy.

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEQcsuXnnnc

Witknit · 24/08/2025 07:49

I need a laugh emoji. Ive really enjoyed this thread.
Ive used most of these in our morning (moaning) meeting and at least 50% of the participants look blank- but even that gives the survivors in the know a laugh

Peculiar23 · 24/08/2025 08:20

Sharptonguedwoman · 24/08/2025 06:40

Lost me there, I’m either too old or too young.

The young ones I think

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Sharptonguedwoman · 24/08/2025 08:23

Peculiar23 · 24/08/2025 08:20

The young ones I think

I think you're right. I looked up the orange peel quote. I did watch it at the time but don't remember a huge amount.

Fernticket · 24/08/2025 08:58

I don't BELIEVE it!
It is I,Le Clerk

Peculiar23 · 24/08/2025 09:12

I will say this only once .. (in a French accent)

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JudgeJ · 24/08/2025 09:40

Peculiar23 · 24/08/2025 08:20

The young ones I think

Not sure, I'm Sunset Strip but don't recognise most of the 70s/80s ones but I've just realised that we were out of the country for a lot of that time so TV jingles were lost! I do like the Otto von Titslinger one from Beaches, a much better term for the garment.

Tigergirl80 · 24/08/2025 09:41

My mum used to call my sister the lady of the house in her Hyacinths Bucket voice. 🤣🤣🤣Whenever someone goes to my sisters house for first time she gives them a tour.

Tigergirl80 · 24/08/2025 09:43

My mum used to call my sister the lady of the house in her Hyacinths Bucket voice. 🤣🤣🤣Whenever someone goes to my sisters house for first time she gives them a tour.

Blushingm · 24/08/2025 11:16

tis But a scratch

also (this is bad) when we get someone with an amputation come in our case load, I’ve been known to say ‘it’s just a flesh wound!)

Enigma54 · 24/08/2025 11:18

Four candles
“ Let’s do it “
Two souuuuupppppps

Isittimeformetosleep · 24/08/2025 11:32

Don't mention the war!

We're gona need a bigger boat..

"To me, to you" when moving any furniture

Dabberlocks · 24/08/2025 11:34

Hello, good evening, and welcome.

WestwardHo1 · 24/08/2025 11:48

Allseeingallknowing · 22/08/2025 14:22

Do you mean varnished?

Varnished Lord Percy not vanished.

Oh no, vanished. My uncle had an old oak table and it vanished. Twas a most perplexing mystery

CherryRipe1 · 24/08/2025 11:49

Ooh Ahh could crush a grape.
Bubbles, what do you actually do here in your job? Oooh, don't know, get paid?
Have we got any embrocation, I'm going to cover myself in Deep Heat and sit by the radiator until 12.
Then all my clothes fell off, but it was all done, in the best possible taste. (Crosses legs & shows undercarriage).

UnctuousUnicorns · 24/08/2025 11:58

Sharptonguedwoman · 24/08/2025 06:40

Lost me there, I’m either too old or too young.

The Young Ones. 🙂

UnctuousUnicorns · 24/08/2025 12:02

"To me, to you" when moving any furniture

We had a new bath fitted last week; the men said that to each other while taking the old one out and carrying the new one in!

Peculiar23 · 24/08/2025 12:02

When someone at work comes out with some long winded, nonsense statement I have an irresistible urge to shout ‘parklife’ at the end of it
Fancied Damon so much in that video

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PistachioTiramisu · 24/08/2025 12:11

Cuddly toy, cuddly toy!
Calm down dear, it's just a commercial
Make it so
I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order!

UnctuousUnicorns · 24/08/2025 12:22

Wasn't there some recent(ish) programme or video where some kids were given a ring dial telephone, all functioning and connected, and a phone number, and were left to work out how to dial the number? To think that my lived experience is history to a newer generation; makes me feel absolutely ancient! 😅

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