ollie989898
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Spazzes is a word in relatively common use with me and in these parts.
Snow storm coming
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Slurry Tanker
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When the days lengthen, the cold strengthen
That wholly is a rum old Suffolk sayin, bor
That wholly is a rum old Suffolk sayin, bor
Northernlights
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Wintering ewe lambs been doing the four legged jumps in the air these last few days too so stormy weather coming. Also huge flocks of geese, pigeons and seagulls inland so again another sign. Small coveys of partridge coming together to look for food and bird feeder in garden being emptied twice as fast as normal in the last few days again all signs of bad weather so nature is saying be aware.
A1an
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I find it strange that country folk can be so ‘in tune’ with the countryside but barely get a say in how it should be run.
holywell farmer
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Doom and misery
panic buying of straw @gone up the hill
I hope you know what it means now if you didn't before?
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- East Sussex
Yes, when I went to school we used to call each other flids when we did something stupid. Never knew what it meant even though my own Mother was affected by it
Comptonfarmer
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Yes, when I went to school we used to call each other flids when we did something stupid. Never knew what it meant even though my own Mother was affected by it
What is a flid? I call my brother it all the time
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I believe it is someone affected by Thalidomide, sort of a barstewardisation of the word.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
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Comptonfarmer
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I was at primary school when he was on Blue Peter.
People go on about 'innocent' children all being good at heart, and it's society that corrupts them. No they're not, kids are born evil, and society controls most of them as they get older!
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My nearly 17 year old son looks at me aghast at times when I describe people with words that were perfectly acceptable when I was growing up and through my time. He is pretty broad minded, he has to be giving that I am mainly responsible for his upbringing, but I do get "You can't call aperson that!" quite often. Society has changed a damn site more in our lifetime than our parents times, my eldest being autistic has had so many different terms in the time he has been around and I was at a meeting with the Education Department, Social Workers and other interested parties in his "Transition" into adulthood and I was picked up on using the term "Learning Difficulties", it's Special Educational Needs that we use here. FFS, not that many years ago we'd have been talking about the Spasso's, Backward Kids, the Dillens, plenty of terms that weren't taken as derogatory but not nowadays.
Don't get me started on what you call people with different coloured skins!
Don't get me started on what you call people with different coloured skins!
Must admit that I had never heard of Joey Deacon until today, but the word in question was in common use when I was at school. Nearly 50 years since I left school and I dont suppose it was us that started using it, so its use goes back far longer than those aged 45 - 50. I thought it was a word that had fallen into disuse, very sad if it hasn't.
michael N123
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Just watched bbc weather it’s gonna be wet with occasional snow all week
76masseyman
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My disability description is often heard in these parts. I think it only became used regularly with it being an extremely rare condition.
Being a younger lad, and 'different' I suppose the name calling would be classed as bullying nowadays. But now well into my forties, I still here the name calling to others, but in a totally different context, so doesn't worry me too much now it's become more generic, and a totally different meaning to my condition that I was born with, and have to live with.
So next time you call someone a 'big cock'....dick....penis....etc
Spare a thought for me
Being a younger lad, and 'different' I suppose the name calling would be classed as bullying nowadays. But now well into my forties, I still here the name calling to others, but in a totally different context, so doesn't worry me too much now it's become more generic, and a totally different meaning to my condition that I was born with, and have to live with.
So next time you call someone a 'big cock'....dick....penis....etc
Spare a thought for me