To ask for words and phrases you no longer say?

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Not really an AIBU, but I wanted a good list! DH and I were talking about words and phrases we used to say frequently as children in the 80s and which now we rarely use or hear. Some of these refer to things that no longer exist, or which have become rare, some have fallen out of fashion, some now seem tasteless or prejudicial. Would love to hear some more! (And doesn’t need to be from the 80s.)

ozone layer
polystyrene
crybaby
wicked (as a term of approval)
teacake
space race
Indian summer
gooseberries

Sorry, haven't RTFT so probably repetitions: wireless for radio and pictures for cinema and courting for going out with someone. Not words I used personally, but older people did when I was a child. Young man for boyfriend. Now I have a middle-aged man, but it doesn't sound as good.

I remember posting here before that it's probably only the over 40s who now understand why the name John Thomas is funny, but you'd probably have to be over 45 now.

Not a word, but whistling as an action/sound seems to be dying out.

I obviously still say teacake for a teacake, but I wonder if in OP's area it's used for any bread roll and that's what's dying out.

Going out with is disappearing? What do people say now then?

Thank you. I’ve tried googling myself before but as you say it’s tricky. They say it on an episode of The Royle Family only Titty Fallal, which is different to what I’ve heard (although we’re South Yorks). I wonder if it has come from that name but different areas have adapted it differently. I even put the subtitles on the episode to see how they had spelt it but they just miss it out.

I don’t think this one has been said but the Green Cross Code. Is there even a modern equivalent?

Wuss , as in ‘you wuss’

awesome
cool
retard
demented
Red Indian
homo milk
hydro (for electricity)
scatterbrained

Heavy petting reminds me of the swimming pool poster. I don't remember it being used apart from that in my youth.

I've never heard homo milk or hydro for electricity.

Yes, but I see it as recent rather than old.

I presumed it’s ‘hydroelectricity’, as in energy generated using a water source.

Homo milk - homogenised milk?

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Oh my god yes! I remember that episode and never used that phrase again.

May I present (full fat or whole milk) aka . . .

Hydro = hydroelectricity (water-generated energy to supply electricity). Used to refer to electricity or utility bill.