Miguel Sanchez Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 1 hour ago, DA Baracus said: 'The gable end of a fiver'. What is a 'gable end'? Also give it a few years and folk will be asking what a fiver is. I know you're pretending not to understand something to make a point but your club plays in the same league as a team nicknamed the Gable Endies, it's not that bizarre. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted March 9, 2023 Author Share Posted March 9, 2023 32 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said: I know you're pretending not to understand something to make a point but your club plays in the same league as a team nicknamed the Gable Endies, it's not that bizarre. Never said it was bizarre, and I'm fully aware of Montrose's nickname, but what exactly is a gable end? Certainly younger folk will have no idea. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 12 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: Never said it was bizarre, and I'm fully aware of Montrose's nickname, but what exactly is a gable end? Certainly younger folk will have no idea. I'm pretty sure they still have "buildings" nowadays so this will only be ignorance, not youth. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 "Street cred" My mum mentioned this today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 30 minutes ago, scottsdad said: "Street cred" My mum mentioned this today. Lost it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 “Eighty six” something…meaning we’re out or don’t include that…”eighty six the onions” 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FK1Bairn Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 4 hours ago, BFTD said: I saw phone etiquette/numbers mentioned a while back - did they standardise absolutely everybody's landline number back in the Nineties? I had a relative who lived in a wee cluster of six houses in the middle of nowhere; his phone number was something like 253 with a six-digit area code, back when most areas only had three or four digits. I can't remember the exact year things were "standardised" but it might have been early 90's. I remember my local area code was 0324 and they (don't know who) thought it was a good idea to stick a 1 after the 0. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 I think it was 1994 or 1995 when the changed area codes to have a 1 after the 0, so Inverness became 01463 instead of 0463. I saw a sign the other day with a number to call starting 031. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 1 hour ago, ICTChris said: I think it was 1994 or 1995 when the changed area codes to have a 1 after the 0, so Inverness became 01463 instead of 0463. I saw a sign the other day with a number to call starting 031. There was a wee shop in Alloa town centre that had been the office for a taxi service, and still had their 0259 phone number painted in the window until the mid-Aughts. Must have been empty for more than a decade. I don't know how people can afford to leave property empty for so long, but it seems to happen a lot. One of the last businesses I worked at was turfed out because the owner thought he'd found a tenant who'd pay a higher rent, and it's been empty for about five years now. The owners told me they'd been kicked out of another shop for the same reason about ten years prior, and that unit's never been occupied either. Madness. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 3 hours ago, BFTD said: There was a wee shop in Alloa town centre that had been the office for a taxi service, and still had their 0259 phone number painted in the window until the mid-Aughts. Must have been empty for more than a decade. I don't know how people can afford to leave property empty for so long, but it seems to happen a lot. One of the last businesses I worked at was turfed out because the owner thought he'd found a tenant who'd pay a higher rent, and it's been empty for about five years now. The owners told me they'd been kicked out of another shop for the same reason about ten years prior, and that unit's never been occupied either. Madness. Shop down the road from me has been empty for 30 years. There was talk of the Council taking action but I don't think anything came of it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 On 08/03/2023 at 20:40, BigBo10 said: Drap the weans aff at the swimmies when heading for your mid morning jobby draws many a confused look. Do folk still use "Baths" as a name for a swimming pool? Infirmary Street still had actual baths in the 1980s up the stairs from the pool which you could pay to use. Infirmary Street is now an arts and crafts place but they kept the old "Baths" sign on display inside 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtgilphead Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 20 minutes ago, tamthebam said: Do folk still use "Baths" as a name for a swimming pool? Infirmary Street still had actual baths in the 1980s up the stairs from the pool which you could pay to use. Infirmary Street is now an arts and crafts place but they kept the old "Baths" sign on display inside Both long gone now, bur in the '60's/early 70's in Arbroath the indoor pool on Marketgate was always "the baths" and the outdoor pool on the sea front was always "the pool". And yes, the baths still had actual baths somewhere on the left after the entrance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 13 hours ago, Loonytoons said: Indeed. Dookers is the correct terminology. 10 hours ago, Blue Brazil Forever said: As in Loony ? Loony dookers? Am I missing something here? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mantis Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 Or dookin fir aipples efter ye’ve been oot guisin. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 7 minutes ago, The Mantis said: Or dookin fir aipples efter ye’ve been oot guisin. My grandfather once described a girl my uncle had went out with as someone who "looked like she had been dooking for chips" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mantis Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 On 26/01/2023 at 12:47, Newbornbairn said: Anybody remember coin meters on the telly? Aye we had one in the 70s when I was still at school. The firm was called Telebank and the man came round and emptied the meter, which paid the rental and I think my folks had a savings book with the surplus. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 "Old sayings that younger folk won't get?" It's your round. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Brazil Forever Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 10 hours ago, Loonytoons said: Loony dookers? Am I missing something here? Yes or maybe no 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mantis Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 1 hour ago, scottsdad said: My grandfather once described a girl my uncle had went out with as someone who "looked like she had been dooking for chips" Back in my day "dooking for chips" was the punchline to a racist joke... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 21 hours ago, TxRover said: “Eighty six” something…meaning we’re out or don’t include that…”eighty six the onions” That more an wrong country than age thing, Thought that was a stupid American phrase, Although the fact it an American phrase mostly makes the use of the word stupid redundant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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