To think "smashing" is a thoroughly underused word these days?

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My colleague (fabulous old boy, clearly had a whale of a time in the sixties) used it today and I thought, you just don't hear that enough!

Even better - "smasher", as in he/she's a smasher.

I'd like dp to say 'chin up, old girl' when things go belly-up.

how about spiffing?

Whato, Ticketeyboo!

cheeset ? crikey...haven't seen you in a while.

Well now, if we really want to go down the Wodehouse route there's always 'oojah-cum-spiff.'

No, I hadn't been on for a while bout 3/4 months. In that time, I was so up together with my household duties, came back beginning of the week and it all went downhill at home!

I even posted AIBU re DH's household chores blah blah.

Today, I got my s**t together and the house looks ticketeyboo if I say so myself and I feel dare I say it, cocky
Hows tricks you daft punk

i like scarey biscuits - when something is quite frightful!!!

jeeves and wooster i think!

Tittivate

BBS

DS says 'crikey', 'super', 'golly', 'super' and 'gosh'

He is 5

lol..oh im glad i didn't read that one!
i'm alright, just go on chat really, (the music stuff,) not interested in most of the threads on here as you know...

nice to talk with you cheeset...glad your back.

TsarChasm - what the divvil?

rip-roaring thread. tremendous

And for a change of tone I find "Gertcha" in a Chas n Dave manner works wonders on unruly nippers.

i'm going through a 'fabulous' phase at the moment , with the emphasis on Fab...

i think it's because my son's drama teacher says it an awful lot, and at first we( as in family) used to laugh, but now i'm saying it all the time.

i also say awfully, an awful lot and as a kid (back in the mid 70's), i absolutely loved the famous five and secret seven books, one of my other faves is lashings of ( anything - doesn't have to be ginger beer!)

on a slightly different theme, what are everyone's teenagers saying these days?

my daughter says bare bad, when something's gone wrong; sickle when something's good and 'buff ting aling' if a boy is half way decent looking!!

Right..I love that! I'm going to use 'buff ting aling' at the earliest opportunity. I'm 43 though, does that matter?

not in the slightest TsarChasm - and you must do the flicking hand motion at the same time.

i say 'awfully' 'hideous' 'truly' and 'dreamy' all way to much

Off to practise

I think you've all quite forgotten the over-use of quite to mean a lot (Woosterish) as opposed to DH who gets quite, quite upset despite being quite lovely when I use it because he (being from a Salford council estate) thinks I mean 'not very'...

I had quite forgotten that Wilf

Along with "spiffing" and "splendid!", most definitely.

I say mavellous

Anything that channels Brideshead by way of St Trinian's is fine by me. I wanted to advocate nincompoop as a term of abuse for (say) drivers who cut one up when one has one's offspring in the car, but somebody got there first. I also intend to start calling people 'old sport' in manner of Gatsby.

oh yes madbad. An utter nincompoop. And ninnie!