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Stupid things you used to say at school

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SushiSheep · 12/01/2026 12:59

Don't even know why this popped into my head just now, but did anyone else use to say (I'm turning myself inside out just writing this! 😂)
"Marry it/her/him then!" whenever someone said they loved something.

What other cringey things did you use to say at school, or in your youth that makes you think what the......

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NashEnquirer · 12/01/2026 17:28

Also much talk of dead eyes, as in "Did you SEE that dead eye she just gave me???!" with huge outrage

PuppyMonkey · 12/01/2026 17:36

Made you look, you dirty duck.
Made you pull your knickers up. GrinHmm

Also…
First the worst, second the best, third the golden eagle.

Newstartplease24 · 12/01/2026 17:39

skill. As in “skill on that” or a desirable object was “skill”

difficult tests were “rock”

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Latenightreader · 12/01/2026 17:42

'Go on, you'll be my best friend, you can come to all my parties' said when trying to persuade someone to lend you their rubber, let you have a turn on the swing or pass over the good colouring stuff etc.

Latenightreader · 12/01/2026 17:44

Newstartplease24 · 12/01/2026 17:39

skill. As in “skill on that” or a desirable object was “skill”

difficult tests were “rock”

There was a song, possibly at youth group "oh it's great, great, brill, brill, wicked, wicked, skill, skill, to have a friend like Jesus" which just screams of trying too hard...

tripleginandtonic · 12/01/2026 17:44

Im going to get you done

RaraRachael · 12/01/2026 17:46

We used to pull a hand down the side of our face and say "Mint" or "What a mint" if somebody had made a fool of themselves.

1970s NE Scotland

H202too · 12/01/2026 17:46

We used to say something was 'Hellish! For good but screamed in a really northern elll iisshhhhhh.

H202too · 12/01/2026 17:47

RaraRachael · 12/01/2026 17:46

We used to pull a hand down the side of our face and say "Mint" or "What a mint" if somebody had made a fool of themselves.

1970s NE Scotland

Edited

We used mint to mean good. Miiinttttt that came after Hellish stopped being a cool word.

ThisHazelDog · 12/01/2026 17:47

PuppyMonkey · 12/01/2026 17:36

Made you look, you dirty duck.
Made you pull your knickers up. GrinHmm

Also…
First the worst, second the best, third the golden eagle.

Sorry, but surely it’s zero the hero, first the worst, second the best, third the one with the hairy chest?

ABeerInTheSunshineMakesMeHappy · 12/01/2026 17:49

PuppyMonkey · 12/01/2026 17:36

Made you look, you dirty duck.
Made you pull your knickers up. GrinHmm

Also…
First the worst, second the best, third the golden eagle.

Made you look, made you stare
Made you lose your underwear !

Myfridgeiscool · 12/01/2026 17:50

We had ‘itchy chin’ rather than ‘chinny reckon’….accompanied by chin stroking.
There was a girl in my year with a big chin…her nickname was ‘Chin’ obvs.

Silverbirchleaf · 12/01/2026 17:51

Use to call people a ‘PLP - Public Leaning Post, / 70s South East.

Lolloper · 12/01/2026 17:52

'I know you are, you said you are, but what am I?' if someone called you a name lol 😆

PuppyMonkey · 12/01/2026 17:54

ThisHazelDog · 12/01/2026 17:47

Sorry, but surely it’s zero the hero, first the worst, second the best, third the one with the hairy chest?

Not where I come from. (Nottingham) Grin

Squirrelsnut · 12/01/2026 17:55

Chin
Chinny
Chinny reckon
Itchy beard
They all meant the same thing.

If someone did something naughty we'd say 'Am-urrrr telling of you!'

MagnoliaTreeBlossom · 12/01/2026 17:55

"Oh, wah!" was said when someone did something they shouldn't. Elongating the words for maximum effect was compulsary.
"Oh, wow!" Was said for anything good. "Big wow!" dismissed anything as unremarkable or rubbish.

We also said, "Jackanory, tell me a story" if someone told a (tall) tale, that was highly unlikely to be true.

We also used to shout, "Hey Presto!" and all do a handstand.

Allaboutthecats · 12/01/2026 17:56

'Swivel' as in 'swivel on that' accompanied by giving someone the finger. Charming.

RaraRachael · 12/01/2026 17:56

Made you look
Made you poop
Made you into tattie soup

youalright · 12/01/2026 17:59

Allaboutthecats · 12/01/2026 17:56

'Swivel' as in 'swivel on that' accompanied by giving someone the finger. Charming.

We did that one 🤣

OhFeyreDarling · 12/01/2026 18:00

Squirrelsnut · 12/01/2026 17:55

Chin
Chinny
Chinny reckon
Itchy beard
They all meant the same thing.

If someone did something naughty we'd say 'Am-urrrr telling of you!'

We used to say 'many chins' whilst rubbing your chin

Also went through a faze of everything being 'doody'....no idea where that one came from

columnatedruinsdomino · 12/01/2026 18:13

‘Fainites!’ While crossing your index and middle finger and waving them in someone’s face. Supposed to save you from being ‘it’.

RaraRachael · 12/01/2026 18:30

columnatedruinsdomino · 12/01/2026 18:13

‘Fainites!’ While crossing your index and middle finger and waving them in someone’s face. Supposed to save you from being ‘it’.

We did something similar but said "Parlies"

MopAndBucketLady · 12/01/2026 18:31

Jinx you owe me a can of coke - when someone said the same thing at the same time as you.

HS1990 · 12/01/2026 18:34

Stupid poems that my kids now love:

Ip dip do .. doggy done a poo ...who stepped in it it was you.

Beans beans the magical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot. The more you toot, the more you eat, the more you sit on the toilet seat.

We had joy, we had fun, flicking bogeys at the sun, but the sun was too hot and the bogeys turned to snot.

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