Stupid things you used to say at school

[SushiSheep]

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......

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

We put our thumbs up and said, "Keys".

Love letters dotted with SWALK (pretty harmless) and POLO (pretty rude - especially as this was in primary school!)

See we said third the hairy princess

Ha ha- I'd forgotten about "done"- "you're gonna get done".

Also skill and "casual" which also meant cool. People who were good looking were "horny". "Get off" meant snog which caused confusion when we met some teens from another county where it meant "sex"- they thought we were massive slags.

Instead of "parlies" we had "paxes". I assume parlies came from French from "to talk" as in " we're stopping the game so we can discuss something quickly", whereas paxes came from Latin for peace so we were heavyweight intellectuals without knowing it.

Also, if someone told then teacher everything they were a grassy arse.

We had "chinny reckon" which was interchangeable with "jimmy chin chin", "jimmy hill" or "itchy chin"

We had chin wag or chinny chin chin for people talking billocks.

When we got to 6th form, we entered our "disinterested" phase where it was cool to say "whatever" or "as if" to literally everything. It was practically illegal to get excited about anything for a year.

Made you look you dirty duck
made you sit in cow pat

liar liar pants on fire your hair sticks up like telephone wire.

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

Haha @MagnoliaTreeBlossom I've got the urge to shout that out and see if you still automatically go into handstand 😂

I would actually love to know how chinny chin and jimmy hill came together that way. Like what came first?

Vaynights (instead of jinx)
Itchy beardo
Skill (he/she it is soooo skill)
You talking to me or chewing a brick?
Just say no, Zammo. Usually if a teacher asked a question that had a yes/no answer.
I'm only trying to help you, Ro-land.
Hmmmmmmmm. In classes with supply teachers. For about a month after the Grange Hill episode where they are hummed to drive their teacher mad.

I think Grange Hill accounted for most of our vocabulary.😂

We did itchy be-ard while rubbing our chins.

I was at secondary school in the early 80s. No Internet, obviously. And yet rumours travelled quickly.

Everyone my age heard the rumour about Marc Almond from Soft Cell needing his stomach pumped.

One teacher started a trend she flipped One day and told a student they would have a big black mark by their name and it will FOLLOW THEM WHEREVER THEY WENT the rant was quite epic she took classes occasionally and someone would always sing out "blaaaack maaarkk" i felt sorry for her 11 year old me thought she honestly believed it 😂

Also during puberty some weirdos used to sing "hello hairs" at people

Although not a term that I ever used, there was one very stupid term that I do remember from when I was in secondary school in the late 70s / early 80s.

At the time I didn't really understand what it meant, I was just aware that it was a term of abuse.

It's not a word that I will repeat here. But when I typed it into google the response was:

"The word is a highly offensive and derogatory term of abuse, primarily used in the UK and Commonwealth countries . It is considered hate speech and is rooted in ableism."

We did the ummmm thing, usually followed by "I'm telling" or "I'm telling of you". We used to link arms and walk round the playground saying who wants to play whatever game it was. Anyone who wanted to play would link arms with us and we would go round the playground until we had enough people.

me and dh still do this. one of us will randomly say "uvanu"
and the other automatically reply "eranu"
Yes we are that sad 😆

Uvavu not uvanu

I don't care, I don't care - I can buy another pair!

Ippa-dippa-dation, my operation, how many people at the station? [Someone says a number] The one who lands on number # will surely not be it! 1, 2, 3...

We also used to give each other 'fleas' and then would say SHIELD FOREVER! So that the 'fleas' couldn't be given back to us.

We had faynights or squitsies with your fingers crossed, to mean you couldn't get 'got'.

Chinny reck-on was very popular, too, along with itchy beard and Jimmy Hill, with accompanying long beard strokes!

We used to spend a lot of playtimes playing 'join up for...' (usually either war or kiss chase) where you spend the whole playtime marching round collecting people for the game and chanting 'join up for war' and they'd start walking around with you, arms around shoulders in a big long line of people. Then the bell would go and having spent the whole time 'joining up' for something had taken so long, that you'd run out of time to actually play the thing you were collecting people for!

Ibble, obble, chocolate bobble, ibble, obble, OUT.

I remember kids getting someone to answer “I one the Bible!” with “I two the Bible!”
”I three the Bible!”
”I four the Bible!”
All the way on till the kid said
”I eight the Bible!”
Then everyone would shout “ He hates the Bible!!”

We did the flea thing! Then we used to pretend to spray ourselves with "flea spray", usually with really loud "psssshhhh" noises.

Some of the girls put unbent paperclips in their mouths so it looked like they had braces.

In year 8, lots of the girls bought themselves a cheap ring from argos and pretended to be engaged to one of the year 11 boys.

Yeah - "join on who want's to play tag - no boys" . We were not v inclusive.

Snitches get stitches but only in fun.